BullKurtz
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Not that the word "phobic" applies here or anywhere....who's "afraid" of queers or frogs? 
Today we see that tomorrow Charlie Hedbo will once again snidely depict allah in a derisive cartoon. 17 dead and more wounded hasn't gotten the message through. And plans will be made to attack that magazine again. And police tasked to protect this pack of creeps will be asked to die to guard them. Maybe somebody can explain to me why the "right" to hate-speech isn't really a masochistic exercise in self-destruction
I've clearly listed my reasons why france should be despised and is owed extensive payback for their anti-American attitudes and actions over the last century. Seeing them called "America's oldest ally" and reading that John "do you know who I am?" Kerry addressed their embassy in his ketchup french, I about hurled.
What I left out in my litany of grievances against the frogs is that they are the world's leading industrial THIEVES:
On French Espionage
By Jack Goldsmith
Friday, July 5, 2013 at 7:38 AM
The NYT, based on a Le Monde story, reports that “France has its own large program of data collection, which sweeps up nearly all the data transmissions, including telephone calls, e-mails and social media activity, that come in and out of France.” French officials claim there is “a difference between data collection in the name of security and spying on allied nations.” Yes, there is a difference. But France does the latter as well. France is a well-known leader in industrial espionage. Ellen Nakashima reported earlier this year that a recent National Intelligence Estimate named France in the second tier of countries behind China that “engaged in hacking for economic intelligence.” WikiLeaks had earlier revealed American cables indicating that “France is the country that conducts the most industrial espionage on other European countries, even ahead of China and Russia.” And there are many other examples, as Adam Rawnsley at FP details. France might nonetheless claim a difference between (a) its practice or comprehensive surveillance at home and economic surveillance abroad, and (b) espionage against allied governments. But its industrial espionage often targets defense contractors closely tied to governments. And in any event, there is every reason to think that France engages in espionage against foreign governments, including, sometimes, allies. In response to French claims “that they do not spy on the American Embassy in France,” today’s NYT notes that American officials – speaking to reporters in polite diplomatese in order to not reveal what the USG surely knows for certain – “are skeptical of those reassurances, and have pointed out that France has an aggressive and amply financed espionage system of its own.” In this light, I don’t understand France’s over-the-top reaction to reports of USG spying in Europe, which predictably invited close scrutiny of France’s own espionage practices.
Lawfare rsaquo On French Espionage
Today we see that tomorrow Charlie Hedbo will once again snidely depict allah in a derisive cartoon. 17 dead and more wounded hasn't gotten the message through. And plans will be made to attack that magazine again. And police tasked to protect this pack of creeps will be asked to die to guard them. Maybe somebody can explain to me why the "right" to hate-speech isn't really a masochistic exercise in self-destruction
I've clearly listed my reasons why france should be despised and is owed extensive payback for their anti-American attitudes and actions over the last century. Seeing them called "America's oldest ally" and reading that John "do you know who I am?" Kerry addressed their embassy in his ketchup french, I about hurled.
What I left out in my litany of grievances against the frogs is that they are the world's leading industrial THIEVES:
On French Espionage
By Jack Goldsmith
Friday, July 5, 2013 at 7:38 AM
The NYT, based on a Le Monde story, reports that “France has its own large program of data collection, which sweeps up nearly all the data transmissions, including telephone calls, e-mails and social media activity, that come in and out of France.” French officials claim there is “a difference between data collection in the name of security and spying on allied nations.” Yes, there is a difference. But France does the latter as well. France is a well-known leader in industrial espionage. Ellen Nakashima reported earlier this year that a recent National Intelligence Estimate named France in the second tier of countries behind China that “engaged in hacking for economic intelligence.” WikiLeaks had earlier revealed American cables indicating that “France is the country that conducts the most industrial espionage on other European countries, even ahead of China and Russia.” And there are many other examples, as Adam Rawnsley at FP details. France might nonetheless claim a difference between (a) its practice or comprehensive surveillance at home and economic surveillance abroad, and (b) espionage against allied governments. But its industrial espionage often targets defense contractors closely tied to governments. And in any event, there is every reason to think that France engages in espionage against foreign governments, including, sometimes, allies. In response to French claims “that they do not spy on the American Embassy in France,” today’s NYT notes that American officials – speaking to reporters in polite diplomatese in order to not reveal what the USG surely knows for certain – “are skeptical of those reassurances, and have pointed out that France has an aggressive and amply financed espionage system of its own.” In this light, I don’t understand France’s over-the-top reaction to reports of USG spying in Europe, which predictably invited close scrutiny of France’s own espionage practices.
Lawfare rsaquo On French Espionage
Hey Luddly...maybe you can get a job at Charlie Hedbo....they'll be needing replacement gofers in another week or two....don't forget to duck.
