TO THE PEOPLE OF FRANCE - IN REMEMBRANCE
Liberty, equality, fraternity! Does the French nation
recall that
slogan?
The current French tolerance of and indifference to
the wave of attacks
upon French Jews speaks clearly of the decline of the French
national character.
The French have forgotten! Two hundred and some odd
years ago the
suffering French populace erupted in revolution against tyranny. They
cried for and fought for liberty, fraternity, equality for all in every
aspect of French society.
The French have forgotten! But I remember! I still
have in my mind the
heartbreaking image of the Parisian gentleman from whose eyes the tears
fell copiously as he watched the Nazi troops marching triumphantly into
Paris. The face of that Frenchman still lives in my mind sixty years
later. It is the same as the faces of so many French Jews today.
The French have forgotten! But I remember! I remember
the ecstasy, the
flowers, the kisses with which the French people greeted their American
and British liberators from Nazi terror.
The French have forgotten! They have forgotten the
dehumanizing result
of terror upon themselves. They have forgotten the shame of Vichy
France.
Those who watch with indifference the attacks upon their neighbors sink
into degeneracy themselves.
The French have forgotten brotherhood and love of
others than
themselves. They have forgotten equal justice. They have forgotten that
a nation without strength of morality and character is a nation already
in the lower depths of degradation.
So, just as the Swiss were part of the Nazi problem
sixty years ago,
the French are part of the problem of world terrorism today. As the
French casually watch their Jewish citizens attacked let them remember
how
they, the French, acquiesced in cowardice at the rape of Czechoslovakia
by
the Nazis in 1938 only to suffer under the Nazi heel so soon after.
My contempt for present day France is accompanied by
great regret. We
gave the lives of American boys to save them once. They have
forgotten. However, we Americans have not forgotten. All Americans with
integrity of character must boycott France. I hope large numbers of you
will join me in this.
If this e-mail is forwarded by just 1/2 of all
recipients it could
reach 10,000,000 Americans in a matter of days. Let's make the French
remember!
Joe Lieberman
