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A_Monkey Donating Member (17 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 09:54 PM
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French Brutality

French special forces brutally interrogate an armed protester in West Africa who was protesting French treatment of government socialist troops, she was armed for her own defense.The brutal tactics used by French forces has caused outrage in Europe.


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greatauntoftriplets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 09:55 PM
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1. Can you please post a link to the story???
.

Four paragraphs only, because of copyright restrictions. Thanks.
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Walt Starr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 09:56 PM
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2. Link Please
I don't trust this without a link.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 09:57 PM
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Trajan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 09:57 PM
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4. This looks like it was staged in Fresno ...
Under a bridge near Jimrob's house ...
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A_Monkey Donating Member (17 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 10:05 PM
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5. My cousin owns a lasertag parlour in France..



No link, my cousin sent me this via email...he hosted the pics on his site for me...This is from a very very credible source... sorry for the lack of explanation...My cousin knows his stuff...(and has high-up friends;-))
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Walt Starr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 10:07 PM
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6. Then post a fucking link
or else your just spewing bullshit andd have been called on it.
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A_Monkey Donating Member (17 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 10:11 PM
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7. Walt...calm down....
Edited on Sat Jun-12-04 10:12 PM by A_Monkey
Don't shoot the messanger :-(
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Walt Starr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 10:13 PM
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8. I'd respect a messenger
Edited on Sat Jun-12-04 10:14 PM by Walt Starr
I have no respect for a bullshitter who disrupts these forums.

Now, put up a fucking link or you've been shown as a person who spews bullshit.

Without a link, you are NOT a messenger.
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A_Monkey Donating Member (17 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 10:16 PM
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9. Don't blow a gasket dude...
Edited on Sat Jun-12-04 10:16 PM by A_Monkey
I'm just trying to keep us DU'ers ahead of the curve...news wise


And i already told you, and made it very clear, that there is no link... sorry, But i can assure you this info is very credible...thats all i have...
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 10:17 PM
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Cat Atomic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 11:18 PM
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40. Sorry, people actually expect facts here. This isn't the Hannity show.
Edited on Sat Jun-12-04 11:18 PM by Cat Atomic
Why do you guys have to lie all the time in order to make a point? Ever wake up in the middle of the night and think, "jesus! I'm full of shit"?
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 10:37 PM
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29. Actually, that could be RimJob's younger brother, upper left.
The one who seems to be having a jolly good chuckle!
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graham67 Donating Member (732 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 10:18 PM
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11. This is bullshit
The only protest in the last month in West Africa was against the cocoa trade.
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Walt Starr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 10:19 PM
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12. I know, that's why I called him on it
Total bullshit. Look at the site the picture is hosted on if you want the truth.
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graham67 Donating Member (732 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 10:20 PM
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13. Yep, I looked at it.....
Edited on Sat Jun-12-04 10:21 PM by graham67
Laser tag site. LOL If there was a huge outrage in Europe I think we probably would've heard about it.
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A_Monkey Donating Member (17 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 10:22 PM
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14. I already told you....


He uses it to host his personal stuff
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 10:25 PM
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Bridget Burke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 10:26 PM
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18. Is he really a cousin...
Or is he A_Monkey's uncle?

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tishaLA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 10:35 PM
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28. *bonus points*
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tishaLA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 10:22 PM
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15. And yet no mention in
Edited on Sat Jun-12-04 10:25 PM by tishaLA
Le Monde or Le Figaro. How odd that this has caused "outrage in Europe"

On edit: But you might notice what has captured France's attention: "Le plus haut gradé de l'armée américaine en Irak a approuvé l'utilisation de la torture à Abou Ghraibz" the headline screams. Again, how odd the newspapers lack mention of this.
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graham67 Donating Member (732 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 10:25 PM
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17. I googled and yahoo'd....
all the keywords I could think of. Nothing.
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Snazzy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 10:28 PM
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22. here is le commando


(same guy in top photo, right)
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Walt Starr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 10:30 PM
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23. Yup, all sorts of goodies on that site
not a word of truth in the bullshit of the original post, though.
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LibertyorDeath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 11:29 PM
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42. ROFL OMG Stop I just shot Pepsi thru my nose

You're killing me.
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BigMcLargehuge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 11:31 PM
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43. That damn Frenchie torturing that poor Freedom Fry!!!!!
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Walt Starr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 10:26 PM
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19. He's trying to distract from the REAL story
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A_Monkey Donating Member (17 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 10:28 PM
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20. WTF



Why would you ever accuse me of being just as evil as those animals... I was just showing you what our friends in france are up to
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 10:30 PM
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Trajan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 10:31 PM
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26. Look ..
Edited on Sat Jun-12-04 10:34 PM by Trajan
THIS is a liberal forum ..

French hatred is a trait of the GOP: NOT us ..

We DONT hate the french ...

Why did you post this lie about the french: explain yourself ...

Edit: reworded last question
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tishaLA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 10:32 PM
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27. Our friends in France are discussing Sanchez's criminal behavior
See?

"Le plus haut gradé de l'armée américaine en Irak a approuvé l'utilisation de la torture à Abou Ghraib"
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metasphere Donating Member (22 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 10:30 PM
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25. That picture looks like people horsing around
and I think this is BS
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thebigidea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 10:28 PM
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21. oh shit! he's gonna get shot by a Laser Tag gun - it'll cost him a point!
this may disqualify him from round two of the tournament. Now over to Skip Drithers with the latest badminton news... Skip?
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ElectroPrincess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 10:38 PM
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32. Yah ... ten points off!
Gosh, the next time you wish to push some "gotcha" information, transfer the photo to a Manila host site.

Big tell = "/laserquest34" in the URL. :P
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graham67 Donating Member (732 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 10:37 PM
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30. Seriously, if you went to a protest
armed with a machine gun (for your own defense no less!), wouldn't you expect to get thrown down and have weapons pointed at your head? :eyes:
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stavka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 10:37 PM
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31. What is this stupidity?
I can't even be convinced anybody in this photo is French or has even been to France? looks like a bunch of people screwing around with air-soft guns....what a waste of bandwidth
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 10:52 PM
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33. Like roaches,they're coming out of the woodwork lately
what's that smell?
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lapauvre Donating Member (387 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 10:52 PM
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34. This is why I am persona non grata
to my family. This post must be the result of the absolutely insulting and yahoo attitude of the yahoos (yahooes?) about the French.

I am one half Cajun. I read history and watch the History Channel.If it were not for the French during our revolution, America might not exist.

And to see a bunch of middle aged juvenile delinquents, otherwise known as "yahoos (yahooes?)" dumping French wine and renaming French fries, cuffs and toast (they are too clean and pure to mention "kissing.) was most offensive to me, since France was not the only nation to say NO.

I resent Francophobes as much as I resent homophobes and and all the other phobes that seem to be so popular. Like demophobes. Dissenterphobes, free speechphobes, and give us back Americaphobes.

If you would like to see what I posted and the news max source that sent it out, just ask me.

Be aware, I am usually a most congenial, understanding, accepting, tolerant human being. But, when push comes to shove, I can be absolutely merciless.

Francophobes, beware.
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Norquist Nemesis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 10:53 PM
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35. Is he gone yet? n/t
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markses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 11:11 PM
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36. Point being?
I never understand the point of these things.

So, the French state apparatus is violent? There's a big surprise. Is this supposed to excuse the outright torture and murder committed by American troops - apparently as part of a systematic operation - in our own colonial territories (that is, Iraq)?

What's the point, A-Monkey?

This is the typical problem of people who are too intellectually stunted to see the world with any nuance. That's why the gullible and ignorant right wingers love the imbecile imposter "President." He too sees everything in black and white, masking this essential stupidity and childishness with a pretentious appeal to morality, making a virtue of necessity in Shaw's sense. The French state apparatus can be wrong in certain circumstances, and in fact are wrong and even despicable. The French state apparatus can be right in other circumstances, and even take a moral line - even (gasp!) more moral than the murderous Bushites and their ignorant supporters in the apocalyptical conservative movement. Ditto for the American state apparatus. Nuance, A-Monkey. Complexity. Adulthood. Welcome.
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lapauvre Donating Member (387 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 11:12 PM
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37. Original source
This boycott has been promoted by NewsMax's and has been frequently mentioned by Bill O'Reilly on the O'Reilly Factor.

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immune2irony Donating Member (86 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-04 12:17 AM
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44. Who are we to criticize other countries?
The French have done far more good in Africa than America. Sure as hell more than the United States. Ask the South Africans.
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