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This letter, which chastizes the French for their indifference to the plight of the Jews is supposed to have been written by Senator Joe Lieberman.
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OPEN LETTER TO THE FRENCH PEOPLE
FROM SENATOR JOE LIEBERMAN
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
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