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European Union leader in Nazi style politics, Nicolas Sarkozy, is getting fed up with the "critics" his country is quickly collecting. France has been deporting and allowing the stigmatizing of Roma citizens for months now. Under orders of ole' saint Nic himself, the French police have crushed Roma homes and dismantled the Roma camps.
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Pierre Lellouche claims that France is the one being discriminated against now that both the UN and the EU have claimed France is exercising unjust policies. And yet he is the one who flat out lied to the EU about the very policies that France may now be punished for.
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At first, the EU strongly urged France to stop its deportations at once. Paris however decided to turn its nose up to this demand as it has now deported well over a thousand Roma citizens. France has demolished nearly all the Roma camps to date and are on schedule to have all Roma camps destroyed by the end of September.
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"I am personally sick and tired of this kind of argument," Pierre Lellouche in response to the UN's Navi Pillay, High Commissioner for Human Rights.
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But what is the argument?
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France willingly entered into a pact with all other member states under the European Union's Constitution. Under the yoke of this Union France can not discriminate in part or in whole against any ethnic group, race, religion, or creed. So how is France's deportations (clearly aimed at all Romas) not considered "discrimination"?
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"Three hundred camps or illegal settlements must be cleared within three months, Roma camps are a priority," circular released by the French Government.
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It looks to me, and most reasonable people, that France is targeting one ethnic group over all others. You don't use the word "priority" unless you want that target taken care of first or more so than all others.
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"It is therefore up to prefects in every part of the country to undertake... a systematic approach of dismantling illicit camps, as a priority those of the Roma," the French circular mentions once again.
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And yet French Immigration Minister Eric Besson claimed before the EU that France has not nor will not discriminate against anyone... especially the Roma. He claims that the French are simply taking all 1,000 (plus) cases one case at a time. Yet the French government has deported each and every one of the "cases" in less than two weeks (19 "cases" on just Friday alone).
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It is also important to note that Eric Besson claimed he "was not aware" of the circular when the EU brought it to his attention. And yet he was the one who had written it up and he was the one who posted a second circular with the emphasis on the Roma removed.
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To us here at Alder's Ledge it is clear what is happening in France. It happened in Germany back in the 1920's. It happened in Turkey back in World War One. The lure of fascism is a tragic thing in the aspect that it seems to repeat itself without impediment. The same groups that fell to its siren song seem to be drawn to its flames every so often. And yet Europe seems to ignore the rise of fascism in their own country while they focus on its steady march elsewhere in the world.
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