"Guess
what: I won!""Guess
what: I won!"
"Britain-- where good people are disarmed and evil people are armed to the teeth-- is today the most dangerous nation in the developed world, declared so by the United Nations." Wayne LaPierre, American Rifleman, October 2002. |
From MCRGO
bulletin board: Ten years after banning most guns and then having crime
rates that have gone through the roof, England has decided that it now
needs to ban civil rights, you know "it's for the children".
What England
has done is:
New (7/24/01): Grêle victoire!
(French for "Sieg Heil!")
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Elizabeth I, Wellington, Nelson, Churchill, and Thatcher: "It looks like we wasted our time."Tony Blair and his accomplices have achieved what the Spanish Armada, Napoleon, Hitler, and Leopoldo Galtieri could not: smashed to bits, in the space of a few years, four and a half centuries of work by England's best leaders.
There is a song from Pink Floyd's "The Wall" in which a British orator begins to speak in English but, by the end, he is ranting in German. "Waiting for the queers and the coons and the Reds and the Jews--- Waiting to follow the worms." It is happening.
Tony Blair: what part of "No Freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed; nor will we pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful Judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the Land. We will sell to no man, we will not deny or defer to any man either Justice or Right" don't you understand?
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A serious invasion of civil rights. The (jackbooted) foot in the door. Germany in the early 1930s. |
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Easily worthy of Benito Mussolini. Germany in late 1938 (after the "Night of the Broken Glass," or Kristallnacht) The domestic government is as much an enemy of its own citizens as criminals, terrorists, and hostile foreign governments. |
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"What would Hitler do?" This qualifies 100 percent. |
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NATO Solidarity (added 9/13/01). This Web page is about heated disagreements with Europeans about matters like gun control. NATO recently declared the September 11 attack on the United States an attack on the entire Alliance. All NATO members deserve America's recognition and gratitude. |
World War II veteran hangs himself
after British
police arrest him for defending himself from a gang.
British constables shooting unarmed civilians with impunityA war veteran charged by police when he used a toy gun to scare off a gang was found hanged on the day of his first court appearance, it emerged yesterday.Second world war soldier Bill Clifford, 77, brandished the pellet gun because the teenagers had been shouting, trying to kick in his door and breaking a window, his brother claimed.It looks like Mr. Clifford wasted his time by serving in the Second World War. The Fascists have taken over anyway.Mr Clifford, who served in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, was charged with possessing an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear.
The Peterloo Massacre: why the British government doesn't want its citizens to have guns!If a man with two guns and 60 rounds of ammunition barges his way into a bedroom in the middle of the night, confronts the naked and defenceless occupant and then shoots him dead, he has surely committed a criminal offence - a murder which must land the gunman in prison for life. However, the uncomfortable reality is that if the man with the gun is a police officer, it is not that simple.
From Colton and Palmer's "A History of the Modern World," 4th ed., page 487. This is why the English government doesn't want private citizens to have firearms.This page was prompted by Twit, I mean Brit, Neil Mackay, "Loaded: The Second Amendment sisters," 1/28/01, in the SundayThe background was the Corn (corn=wheat, maize= what Americans call corn) Laws, which imposed a tariff on imports of grains. This made food very expensive for the working classes.
"At sprawling Manchester 80,000 people staged an enormous demonstration at St. Peter's Fields in 1819; they demanded universal male suffrage, annual election of the House of Commons, and the repeal of the Corn Laws. Although perfectly orderly they were fired upon by soldiers; 11 persons were killed and about 400 wounded, including 113 women. Radicals called this episode the Peterloo massacre in derisive comparison with the battle of Waterloo. The frightened government thanked the soldiers for their brave upholding of the social order. Parliament rushed through the Six Acts (1819), which outlawed 'seditious and blasphemous' literature, put a heavy stamp tax on newspapers, AUTHORIZED THE SEARCH OF PRIVATE HOUSES FOR ARMS, and rigidly restricted the right of public meeting. ...Meanwhile, for publishing the writings of Thomas Paine, Richard Carlisle spent seven years in prison." (emphasis is mine)
So let's see, if you're going to have your police or army murder your own citizens for exercising their right to peacefully assemble and petition for redress of grievances... wait a minute, AMERICANS have that Constitutional right, Britons don't... you obviously don't want them to have weapons with which to resist such violence. So you have to violate their rights by searching their homes without a warrant-- wait a minute, AMERICANS have a right against warrantless searches, Britons don't. And you have to muzzle the press and control what people read, thus violating the First Amendment-- of the AMERICAN Constitution, that is.
The Founding Fathers of the U.S. had meanwhile foreseen these kinds of problems about 30 years previously. Accordingly, it would have been illegal to fire upon citizens for protesting nonviolently, illegal to ban them from possesing firearms, illegal to search their homes for firearms or anything else without a warrant, and illegal to muzzle the press and control what people could read.
After perusing Neil Mackay's antigun tirade ("Loaded: The Second Amendment Sisters"), it is much easier to understand why the nation that once ruled half the world has sunk economically, socially, and militarily almost to the status of a Third World country. It has to do with what Colonel Jeff Cooper, the author of To Ride, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth calls "mindset."King Henry V, Queen Elizabeth I, the Duke of Wellington, Horatio Nelson,and Winston Churchill would spin in their graves if they could see the twits that claim to be their heirs. Yes, a nation of docile subjects who allow their government to wiretap private communications and invade citizens', excuse me, subjects' privacy. They allow the same government to disarm them and refuse to protect them against a tide of firearm violence that seems to be GROWING despite more restrictive gun control laws. The English mindset, such as it is, doesn't understand what's wrong with this.
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| "Take Maria Heil, who is clearly oblivious to the near-perfect irony of her Nazi-esque surname." | Your sorry lot would all be going "Heil!" if we gun-loving Yanks hadn't
pulled your chestnuts out of the fire for the second time in the 20th century.
England began to pass gun laws in the early 20th century. That's why, after that twit Neville Chamberlain gave a good part of Europe to Adolf "Czechoslovakia is my last demand" Hitler, you had to BEG American gun owners to donate their firearms so you could defend your island from "Operation Sea Lion." Yes, that's right, England got on its collective knees and begged American citizens, the same kind of people your writer derides as Nazilike, for firearms with which to fight real Nazis. |
| "But Heil is smart; in between extolling the virtues of motherhood, she's something of an encyclopedia on her country's history and constitution - which also makes her quite frightening." | He is still sore about the War of Independence, and that Constitution thingy that our Founding Fathers signed after we sent the red-coated buffoons packing. WE WON. YOU LOST. GET OVER IT. |
| "When I try to explain that, perhaps, if guns were banned then there
would be lower gun crime..."
"...Heil responds by telling me her country is different to mine: 'We
live in a democracy,' I'm
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...just like there's less gun crime in Great Britian, now
that they've passed new gun laws. Sure. Yuk, yuk, yuk...
Well, that's right, Mr. Mackay wouldn't know what "democracy" and "freedom"
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| "American culture has one underlying theme - murder, shooting and blood. Isn't her country simply brutal, I ask her." | England is the country that gave the world things like:
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| "Maria Heil agrees. To her, the second amendment is a tool that can be used to turn on government. ...I have a strange feeling of deja vu here. Like Waco, I ask her," | No, like our War of Independence. WE WON. YOU
LOST. GET OVER IT.
By the way, those white crossbands in front of that bright red coat made a dandy target, almost like a bullseye. You should have learned that from when the French and Indians ambushed Braddock on the Monongahela, but the problem was that you were stupid back then, too. George Washington warned Braddock, but to no avail. |
I can imagine poor Harry Plantagent standing on the field of Agincourt... "I now think I should have accepted those tennis balls from the Dauphin, for the likes of Tony Blair have been running our island for the past twenty years. Strict longbow control laws have deprived me of my most effective combat arm, so we'd best go out and kiss the Froggies' boots before they hurt us..." With today's English "mindset," Good Queen Bess would have been polishing her Spanish as soon as the Dons put even one troop transport into the Channel. Napoleon would have been serving frogs and snails in Buckingham Palace, and your lot would be learning to like them... By now, of course, you people would be speaking German. And, given today's English government's invasion of its subjects' privacy and freedom, maybe the Tommies and sailors and airmen who fought so bravely to stop Hitler wasted their time, if not their lives.Twits, I mean Brits: Serves you rightThe Brain Drain: Most Britons who had them emigrated to the United States.
I recently finished Warriors of Christendom, which included a chapter on Richard the Lionhearted. There is a statue of him outside the House of Parliament. I can imagine Richard looking at modern Britons and thinking, "Who the hell are these people?"
Sung to the tune of "Rule, Britannia":When Britain first at Labor command
Became a welfare state
This was the charter of the land
And there could be no debate
"Be ruled, Britannia, be ruled by knaves
Britons shall for'er be slaves"
From The Electronic Telegraph
"THE number of armed officers on patrol in Liverpool was doubled yesterday
amid fears that a new breed of criminal is resorting to an almost casual
use of firearms." (9
February 2001)
But how can that be??? Guns are ILLEGAL in Great Britain! It's illegal for people to own most firearms now!Handgun crime soars despite Dunblane ban
"THE number of crimes involving handguns reached its highest level for seven years in 2000, leading the pro-gun lobby to suggest that the ban introduced after the Dunblane massacre of 16 children and a teacher has proved ineffective." (11 January 2001)
We Yanks could have told you it would be ineffective before you enacted it, but, as I said, most Britons who have anything that halfway resembles a brain have already emigrated to our country.Blair plans more jails as England tops crime league
Apart from Australia, [Britons] were also at greater risk of being assaulted, robbed, sexually attacked and having their homes burgled than people in any other major industrialised country. (23 February, 2001)
Which includes the United States and all its gun owners. A thought for Britons with brains (this excludes the Blairites and other twits): you don't even have to learn a new language. Emigrate to the United States. Your standard of living will increase and you will have more freedom. I think you can become an American CITIZEN (that's citizen, not subject) in seven or so years.A second man has died following a shooting at a pub in Leeds where a children's party was taking place. (23 July 2001)
A man has been killed and a teenager is recovering in hospital after a shooting in Leeds. (15 April 2000)
Britons: I'm so glad your strict gun laws are keeping you safe!Gun crime in London is increasing so rapidly that police fear they may not have the resources to cope, the BBC has learned. (3 August 2001)
Why don't you yokels pass even more gun laws? Yuk, yuk, yuk!"Britain-- where good people are disarmed and evil people are armed to the teeth-- is today the most dangerous nation in the developed world, declared so by the United Nations. Britian's permanent, violent criminal underclass has grown into the single most powerful force in British society. According to a UN study reported in the Independent, over half of the citizens in Great Britain have become victims of crime and violence." Wayne LaPierre, American Rifleman, October 2002. Note that the UN, which is strongly for gun control, as opposed to a pro-Second Amendment entity, has provided this information.
England is now "Number One"-- Rule, Britannia!
Britain is now the crime capital of the West By Sophie Goodchild Home Affairs Correspondent 14 July 2002But how can that be??? England has a TOTAL BAN ON HANDGUNS!
from Independent.co.uk
England and Wales now top the Western world's crime league, according to United Nations research.The UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute reveals that people in England and Wales experience more crime per head than people in the 17 other developed countries analysed in the survey.
...And "contact crime", defined as robbery, sexual assault and assault with force, was second highest in England and Wales – 3.6 per cent of those surveyed. This compares with 1.9 per cent in the US.
England has worst crime rate in world By David Bamber, Home Affairs Correspondent (Filed: 1 December 2002) From news.telegraph.co.ukUK Editorial Admits Gun Control In UK Has Been A Horrible Failure!England and Wales have the highest crime rate among the world's leading economies, according to a new report by the United Nations.
...people are more likely to be mugged, burgled, robbed or assaulted here than in America [despite, or more likely because of, the Second Amendment], Germany, Russia, South Africa or any other of the world's 20 largest nations. [Additional comment: mugging, robbery, and assault are all "contact" violent crimes as opposed to mere property crimes, and burglary of an occupied dwelling also is considered a violent felony.]
...An analysis of total recorded crime figures before 1998 also suggests that England and Wales have moved sharply up the league table since Labour [England's equivalent of the Democratic Party's left wing] came to power in 1997.
But handgun crime has not gone down since the ban came into force in 1997. In fact, it has gone up - and very dramatically so. Figures released yesterday, which detail increases in offences ranging from burglary to mugging and sexual attacks, showed that the number of offences in which handguns were used increased by 46 per cent last year alone. Since the ban was introduced, the annual figure has more than doubled, to 5,871.
TONY BLAIR: King Henry V would be proud of your stand
with the United States against Saddam Hussein's murderous government.
| Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead. In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height. On, on, you noblest English. |
Whose blood is fet from
fathers of war-proof!
Fathers that, like so many Alexanders, Have in these parts from morn till even fought And sheathed their swords for lack of argument: Dishonour not your mothers; now attest That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you. Be copy now to men of grosser blood, And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture; let us swear That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not; For there is none of you so mean and base, That hath not noble lustre in your eyes. I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot: Follow your spirit, and upon this charge Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!' |
Dear French: if you don't like Yahoo.com auctioning Nazi
memorabilia where you can see it, why don't you stop acting like Nazis
yourselves??? Or, as Monty Python might put it, "I didn't expect
the Spanish French Inquisition."
"Probe urged on French sect list" by Larry Witham ("Washington Times," May 25, 2001)
The U.S. chairman of the Helsinki Commission, which monitors human rights in Europe, yesterday said France´s anti-sect legislation will have a negative influence on the continent and Asia and should be investigated.
...The legislation, designed "to reinforce the prevention and repression of groups of a sectarian nature," was introduced in 1996. It has been wrapped up in what critics call a new anti-American paranoia promoted by anti-religious Socialists....Before the French Senate passed its version of the legislation on May 3, one popular journal called the growing presence of groups such as Baptists, Adventists and Jehovah´s Witnesses an American "Trojan horse" invading France. [Who was it they massacred in France during the Middle Ages, the Huguenots??? Ah, yes, St. Bartholomew's Day.]
...The French sect list, published in 1996, was followed in 1998 with the creation of a government agency, the Interministerial Mission to Battle Against Sects. The sect lists, which also had arisen in Belgium and Germany, included Catholic charismatics, Hasidic Jews, Baptists, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Quakers, Buddhists and the YWCA. [Well, the Vichy French didn't like Jews either, they helped deport them to concentration camps.]
A Brief History of Religious Tolerance in France:
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
This was shattered when Catherine de Medici, the power behind the French throne, ordered the assassination of the brilliant Huguenot Admiral Coligny. The attempt left him wounded but not dead. Catherine panicked and ordered the massacre of all Huguenots, including Coligny. The slaughter began in Paris on the evening of St. Bartholomew's Day and spread to the countryside on the following days. Between 40,000 and 100,000 Huguenots were butchered in cold blood.Unrestrained Savagery
The religious wars of France, once fought on battlefields, now moved into homes. The government sent dragoons, selected from the basest elements of the army, into Protestant areas with orders not to be gentle to the Huguenots with whom they were quartered. Being soldiers and also bullies, they were only too glad for a little "fun." They bounced old Huguenots in blankets, made the Protestants dance until they collapsed from exhaustion, beat their feet with rods and poured scalding water down their throats. They robbed Huguenots and raped their women. Huguenots had no redress from the law, for they were not permitted to bring cases into court.
You are absolutely right. The United States is a horrible
place and your country is the greatest one in the world.
The chief problems with European history arise when Europeans start making it.Europeans complain about Americans being violent until they get themselves into a situation like the First or Second World War. Then they complain that we don't get violent quickly enough.
A brief overview of earlier European historySomeone advised Hiram Maxim, "If you want to make a lot of money, invent something that will help the Europeans kill each other more efficiently." He did, and they did.
Stupidity, Round II
England and France kiss the United Nations' backside
"Michel Rocard, the former Prime Minister of France, lectured the U.N. that, 'Measures must be devised to limit the access to small arms, to curtail the supply of small arms and to reduce the demand for small arms. The weapons of violence must be brought back into the control of the state.' This from a man [I wouldn't use that term] whose ancestors were saved from slaughter in two world wars by generations of American servicemen!" (Charlton Heston, American Rifleman, April 2001).
I wonder what Mr. Rocard thought of the idea of the Maquis, the French Resistance, having weapons that weren't "under the control of the state." Perhaps he'd have preferred those brave French men and women to have been unarmed... the French Army dropped those rifles that were "under control of the state" quickly enough when the Panzers came rolling. Yes, he'd have gotten along with Petain and Darlan just fine, thank you. Had he lived 550-odd years ago, maybe he'd have collaborated in turning Joan of Arc over to the English, too-- might even have brought the wood and the lighter fluid. And had he lived during Charlemagne's time, it would not have been surprising if he had helped Ganelon turn Roland, Oliver, and Turpin over to the Saracens at Roncesvalles.The Heston article continues, "Robin Cook, England's secretary for foreign and commonwealth affairs, told the U.N. that small arms 'start conflict' and said, 'We need to impound and destroy the firearms that are out there... But destroying firearms is not going to make any difference if they are simply replaced by fresh supplies. That's why the second task is to reduce the flow of firearms.' In other words, the country to which Americans happily donated their personal firearms-- and proudly laid down their lives-- to defend from Nazi tyranny now wants to define freedom for Americans!"Michel Rocard: he's why Prussians were invented, living proof that Helmuth von Moltke, Blucher, Scharnhorst, Carl von Clausewitz (On War contains a hypothetical war plan for attacking France!), Otto von Bismarck, Frederick the Great, and the Kaiser all had the right idea. So did the Russians Aleksandr V. Suvorov and his successor, Mikhail Kutuzov. (Suvorov wanted to invade France via Italy.) England was doing just fine when people like Edward III, the Black Prince, Henry V, the Duke of Wellington, Horatio Nelson, and so on were running the place. (One guess as to the country with which they fought various wars.) Remember when England and Prussia got together to fight the French (Wellington and Blucher vs. Napoleon at Waterloo)? The decline began shortly after England joined the Triple Entente, i.e. allied itself with the French.
Our country's real dilemma was in 1812, when we had to choose between killing British or French. (We unfortunately lacked the military wherewithal to wage war on both countries.) The Brits were admittedly fighting against Naploeonic tyranny, for which purpose they kidnapped American sailors (can anyone say, "Piracy on the high seas?") and press-ganged them into British service. Those Brits sure know how to get people to hate them, even people who had themselves been British less than 40 years earlier. The French, on the other hand, were kind enough to sell us the Louisiana Territory for three million dollars.Australia: Why Crocodile Dundee may stay here instead of returning homeA British officer slashed Andrew Jackson's face when Jackson, who was a prisoner as a boy, didn't shine the Redcoat's boots quickly enough. (They sure know how to win the people's hearts and minds, don't they?) Guess who shot them to bits at New Orleans... did anyone ever tell the Brits that those red coats and white crossbands made outstanding targets??? The British succeeded in burning Washington, perhaps they could come back and do it again ;-)
Oz replaces its flag's Southern Cross with the Crooked Cross (swastika)
Federal Liberal MP Peter LindsayThe Crooked Cross (swastika) replaces the Red Cross in the NetherlandsWas that "Federal Liberal MP" or "Reichsfuhrer?" A similar proposal has, incidentally, been made in Germany-- not much of a surprise there. Germans are very good at following orders. Sometimes they are only following orders.From TheAge.com.au
Per a recent (April 2001) article on the Wall Street Journal's editorial pages, Holland has legalized voluntary euthanasia. The problem is, the country's socialized medical profession is under pressure to cut costs, so elderly patients are often euthanized without their consent. Uh, let's see, "euthanizing someone without their consent" constitutes--- MURDER? Now, I seem to recall someone with a toothbrush mustache who had similar ideas.
An estimated 5,981 people -- an average of 16 a day -- were killed by their doctors without their consent… And these numbers do not measure several other groups that are put to death involuntarily: disabled infants, terminally ill children, and mental patients. [Emphasis is mine, notice that Hitler began his genocidal programs with these groups, not Jews, Gypsies, or other ethnic minorities.]The same article says, by the way, that Holland was the only Nazi-occupied country in which doctors universally refused Nazi orders to perform euthanasia or withhold medical treatment. It looks like socialized medicine achieved what Nazi guns could not. What's Dutch for "Sieg Heil?"
…The path to the death culture began when doctors learned to think like accountants. As the cost of socialized medicine in the Netherlands grew, doctors were lectured about the climbing cost of care. In many hospitals, signs were posted indicating how much old-age treatments cost taxpayers ("The Dutch Way of Death," By Richard Miniter 04/25/2001 The Wall Street Journal Page A20 ).
Holland's murder rate is almost six times greater than the gun-toting United States' homicide (murder plus manslaughter plus justifiable homicide) rate. The Netherlands' population is about 15.5 million, so a murder rate of 5981 per year is 38.6 murders per 100,000, and this does not even include killings with guns, knives, and other weapons. Here is the homicide rate for the United States (1998):
Note that homicide includes not only murder (intentionally killing others) but also manslaughter (unlawful but unintentional killings) plus justifiable homicides. It does not include accidental deaths, e.g. traffic fatalities, or suicides.1998, United States
Homicide Deaths and Rates per 100,000
All Races, Both Sexes, All Ages
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17,893 deaths out of 270,298,524 people = 6.62 deaths per 100,000
A visitor to Holland asked, "Where am I?"
A native answered, "Utrecht."
The visitor said, "I KNOW how I got here, I want to know where I am!"
(from Stephen Jeffrys' The Clink Utrecht sounds like "you
trekked," in case you didn't get it.)
Are you Dutch? Do you long for the days when people like William of Orange and Admiral De Ruyter were running things? If so, this section of this Web page may interest you.
Again, the above is a disagreement between Americans and our
friends in Europe. NATO member Holland is an ally of the United States.
The following is not meant to be taken
too
seriously by our friends in Europe:
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Gun control joke for Americans and Europeans "Go to hell!" the American said. The firing squad's guns failed to fire. "It is the will of Allah, let him go," said the leader. Then it was the Briton's turn. "God save the Queen!" The guns again malfunctioned, so the Briton was released. They put the Frenchman in front of the wall next. "Vive la France!" The rifles didn't go off, so the Frenchman was set free. Then they put the Million Mom Marcher up. "Those three wouldn't tell you this, but you have to remove your trigger locks before you can shoot." |
All about the French France tried to tell U.S.-based Yahoo that it can't auction Nazi memorabilia where French citizens can see it. I can see why France might be a bit touchy about this. The only way the French are going to get a swastika flag, Luger pistol, Mauser rifle, SS helmet, or anything like that is to buy it from an American (or his descendent), or possibly a Russian or a Briton, who captured it during the Second World War. They certainly do not have a domestic supply of such items, unless a Maquis fighter happened to acquire one. The French should, however, be able to get lots of tricolors and similar memoribilia from German veterans or their families: "Hot deal on a Lebel rifle, dropped only once in 1940!" Also, a good part of France (Vichy) collaborated with the Nazis during the war, so I can't see why France is so indignant.
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The latest "Blackadder" episode with Rowan Atkinson ends with Edmund Blackadder III as King of England and Baldrick (the smelly servant whose underpants put a Tyrannosaurus Rex away when their time machine takes them to the Cretaceous era) is Prime Minister. This is better than what they have today: Tony Blair as Prime Minister. However, before changing history to make himself King, Edmund and Baldrick's time machine lands on and kills the Duke of Wellington before the Battle of Waterloo. They return to 1999 to discover the ultimate horror: the British have been FRENCH for almost two hundred years!The Roman emperor Caligula made his horse a Roman senator. England made Tony Blair Prime Minister. At least the Romans got the entire horse.
