One of the most high-profile political court cases in, well, the history of the world begins in France today. A list of plaintiffs that includes President Nicholas Sarkozy and the current head of the IMF, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, are pursuing defamation charges against ex-Frech-PM Dominique de Villepin. The base of the case closely remembles the moronic "utegate" scandal; only with far more intense claims of deceipt and corruption, and instead of a rural QLD car dealership at the centre of the story, we have one of the worlds most powerful aerospace engineering companies...
European continental politics make Autralia's scandals seem so quaint and backwards. The best we can do is awkward Kevin from Nambour being set-up, via a bitchy lunch-break fake email, falsely accused with giving a leg up to an old mate's struggling middle-of-nowhere used-car dealership. Who cares? The French have Dominique, born in Morrocco and raised in the French Riveira, accused of framing, amongst others, the future President of France and the future leader of the international organisation that oversees the global financial system. No middle-management email shenanigans in the Paris criminal court either; this character is alleged to be the author of a legal contract that was leaked to the press and later found to be completely fabricated, that includes the names and signatures of Sarkozy and Strauss-Khan, implicating them in a scandal involving massive bribery and corruption in the sale of French naval frigates to Taiwan. They don't fuck around on the Champs-Elysees do they? De Villepin will certainly be aware of that as he takes to the very same court stand in the historic criminal court where Marie Antoinette was sentenced to death by guillotine during the French Revolution 200-odd years ago.
Bonus coverage of the French teaching us how to be suave and sophisticated:
European continental politics make Autralia's scandals seem so quaint and backwards. The best we can do is awkward Kevin from Nambour being set-up, via a bitchy lunch-break fake email, falsely accused with giving a leg up to an old mate's struggling middle-of-nowhere used-car dealership. Who cares? The French have Dominique, born in Morrocco and raised in the French Riveira, accused of framing, amongst others, the future President of France and the future leader of the international organisation that oversees the global financial system. No middle-management email shenanigans in the Paris criminal court either; this character is alleged to be the author of a legal contract that was leaked to the press and later found to be completely fabricated, that includes the names and signatures of Sarkozy and Strauss-Khan, implicating them in a scandal involving massive bribery and corruption in the sale of French naval frigates to Taiwan. They don't fuck around on the Champs-Elysees do they? De Villepin will certainly be aware of that as he takes to the very same court stand in the historic criminal court where Marie Antoinette was sentenced to death by guillotine during the French Revolution 200-odd years ago.
Bonus coverage of the French teaching us how to be suave and sophisticated:
1 comment:
fantastic, really good. Here in Spain not long ago a retired minister and former elder said a great phrase:
Never have so many fools in the world trying to direct it, doing stupid jobs and dreaming that were most prominent in human civilization, from Bush merkell, Zapatero or Queen Elizabeth of England are a bunch of idiots ...
The family has come his way, saying his words were wrong, but the good thing is that all of Spain welcomed his words of wisdom ..
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