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   BEN 2012-7-28

   De Gaulle in relation to France is unquestionably a very good reference point.

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   Anonymous 2012-7-25

   [2] Continuation – Please ! Open your mind ! Humanity, including the Africans, possesses an infinity of talents, brains and potential, which the empire continues to siphon along with our resources, which themselves offer humanity upright worthy reference points. Kowtowing to this degree and taking themselves for a model is the height of blindness, vanity and indignity. De Gaulle will never-ever be a reference point for any respectable African!

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   Anonymous 2012-7-25

   The references some people are making are disconcerting and revealing. De Gaulle is not the father of decolonisation, which was the culmination of a universal historical process of the awareness of the colonised peoples as encouraged by a favourable international balance of power, in which the Algerian revolution played an important and even determinant role, which contributed to freeing Africa. De Gaulle was the father of imperialist "Françafrique" policy, which persists regardless of the governments in power. He used (including by force) the Africans in the front lines (as canon fodder) against fascism, but did not hesitate to savagely and bloodily repress them when victory came and the oppressed people’s legitimate demands even though they were the heroes of a ferocious fight against Nazi barbarism. Focard’s policy, which de Gaulle implements, is but the confiscation of independence by unconscionable, one-sided and unfair accords, which were the product of the empire’s manifest abuse of its dominant position. Today, Africa is maintained under tutelage, destabilised, pillaged, humiliated and so on. "The Africans still have not entered into history"!?! The new emerging powers in Asia, which were formerly colonised, have found their path, but Africa, while full of wealth, has not managed to stabilise, eliminate malnutrition and illiteracy or make use of its considerable human resources. People whose reference point is still de Gaulle are not only out of line, but insult the strong African forces, which are many and brilliant and resist with all their might the imperialist steamroller, which has deceptively and euphemistically been named “globalisation”. Please ! Open your mind ! … To be continued.

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   Démocrate 2012-7-24

   The ballots are the latest “sesame” door-opener of the moment, blown in by the wind – or should I say hurricane – from the glacial and perfidious North. They are the "politically correct" of the 2011 era – a very bad vintage many say, and for good reason, indeed!!! But what does the ballot circus mean when the democratic fundamentals are not rigorously enforced? Financing in particular is the foremost principle and surely the most important! Otherwise, we are deliberately putting ourselves in the workings of foreign interference and manipulations for the profit of hidden foreign interests that are hostile to the people and the state and put national sovereignty in jeopardy. Democracy is assassinated. So, the question is fundamental. Certainly, the “African suitcases” are a practice for some so-called models, but nothing can impose this on us! Be it the Arab spring or Papuan spring, it does not matter! Everyone has their own spring! We have our spring, and it is beautiful like an aurora borealis. And we have our conception of democracy, which is closer to our ancestral djemma (assemblies) than to Western plutocracy and hegemonic tyranny of power and money. It is not written in the Holy Book that we must suffer all the ill winds from the North. Ben is preaching in the desert.

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   BEN 2012-7-21

   De Gaulle said, roughly, “There is no friendship between states. There are only interests.” France needs men and women who will defend its economic and strategic interests in the region, and that is completely normal. Provided there are no rotten and subservient political parties, the only problem is in the people’s ability to figure out and objectively assess if there are reciprocal advantages or inconveniences that these relations lead to. There is only one way left to sufficiently win the fight for this goal, and we know it: ballots and the freedom of expression!

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   Benzarti 2012-7-19

   It was on July 18th, 2012 before the French Parliament that it would have been better to shut up! He thanked France with such insistence that he was humiliating for the Tunisians and even disturbing for France’s true leftist movement. This man, his career, his government, his majority, his rhetoric and his programme are not credible.

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   El Gafsi 2012-7-19

   Regarding Moncef Merzouki’s speech before the French Parliament on July 18th, 2012 at the invitation of French President François Hollande, the articles from the French media, which are known for their “independence”, could be mistaken for a copy-pasting from the Ben Ali regime. The Ben Ali regime belonged to the Socialist Internationale, which was presented as a model for its neighbours and the Arab states using financial aid as blackmail in order to protect France’s interests and so on. Moncef adds another layer to the rubric with a little polish and some thank you’s. The truth is that for ten years, France generously hosted him and made him who he is. But, in all these exchanges and “good dealings” if Moncef owes everything to France, how does this concern the people of Tunisia??? The true people on the bottom, in the south; from the left (the real left, not the bobos and the Social party – the Caviar Left of France); the people in the unions and civil society organisations; the farmers; the women; the young people without jobs; the patriots; the loyal children of Tunisia. These courageous people, who succeeded with their uprising in overthrowing Ben Ali’s regime, which was based on foreign manipulation, were deprived of their victory by the Islamists, who arrived (?) thanks to a warped definition of democracy and stole the scene with the congratulations of their sponsors. Like the Parisians’ Revolution of 1789, the revolution of the Tunisian people was stolen by the Islamists and the interests that command them and, alas, have nothing in common with the interests of the Tunisian people, who are today at the starting blocks with a sharp decline in the social, security and economic climate and in women’s rights. Merzouki and his accomplices in Ennahda are playing the Tunisian people.

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   Anonymous 2012-7-14

   President Marzouki missed another historic opportunity to shut up. He who just caused a scandal with Mahmoudi’s extradition by making believe that this extradition caused a serious and irreparable crisis within the government coalition. Though we were expecting a heated debate in the Constituent Assembly, the President sheepishly repeated himself. The mountain was only a molehill. As if this were not enough, he also took advantage of the absence of the Prime Minister, who was on an official visit to France, and of the President of the Constituent Assembly, who was visiting the European Parliament in Strasbourg, to launch another scandal by dismissing on a whim the governor of the Central Bank. Before doing that, though, this former human rights activist thought it good to publicly on the national TV retake up the language of the former Tunisian dictator, Bourguiba, who called his opposition “microbes” that need to be “exterminated”. Of course, the next day he made his apologies, but the damage was already done. We can only hope that this turpitude at the top of the Tunisian state will serve as a warning to Libya’s new democracy and that it will be able to avoid such pitfalls so as to not make itself look ridiculous to the public. It suffices to look at the Tunisian media now to figure out how much the President has devalued himself.

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   muslem 2012-7-12

   It is better to hear this than to be deaf! God Almighty does not abandon his creatures.

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    Hafedh 2012-7-12

    What democracy is Tunisia going to offer. Here in Tunisia, true democracy has not yet been established.

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