Holocaust® Worship Gone Wild
Sarkozy defends Holocaust proposal amid uproar
Fri Feb 15, 2008 2:28pm EST
By Richard Balmforth
PARIS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy, facing a tide of criticism over his call for schoolchildren to "adopt" Jewish child victims of the Holocaust, hit back on Friday saying France had to raise children "with open eyes".
However, in a move that could sink the project, France's most prominent Holocaust survivor, Simone Veil, came out firmly against the plan, calling it "unimaginable, untenable, appalling and, above all, unjust".
Sarkozy touched off the controversy on Wednesday when he told France's Jewish community that every 10-year-old schoolchild should be "entrusted with the memory of a French child victim of the Holocaust".
The proposal unleashed a storm of protest from teachers, psychologists and his political foes who said it would unfairly burden children with the guilt of previous generations and some could be traumatized by identifying with a Holocaust victim.
More than 11,100 French Jewish children were deported from France to Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps in eastern Europe during the German World War Two occupation.
"The emotional burden can have negative consequences for a child who is developing," Gilles Moindrot, general secretary of the Snuipp-FSU trade union which represents most primary school teachers, said in a statement.
The EMDH children's rights group said: "No educational project should be constructed on death."
KNOWLEDGE
But Sarkozy, speaking in Perigueux in central France, brushed off the uproar.
"It is ignorance that produces abominable situations. It is not knowledge," he said in a speech. "Let us make our children, children with open eyes who are not complacent."
"Believe me, you will not traumatize children by giving them the gift of the memory of a country ... Any psychologist will tell you: you have to tell a child the truth," he said.
But Veil, who supported Sarkozy's presidential bid and who sat next to him at the Wednesday dinner, appeared to disagree.
"One can't inflict this on 10 year olds. You cannot ask a child to identify with a dead child," Veil, who was deported to Auschwitz when she was 16, told L'Express news magazine.
With Sarkozy's popularity ratings already at a low point, the controversy could further hurt his political standing only a month before key local elections when France will deliver its first judgment on his nine months in office.
The clamor gave fresh ammunition to his political foes, who charge him with erratic behavior and say his hyperactivity masks a lack of real policies.
"Really this president is extraordinary! One day he is preaching God to us ... Now he has suddenly become a teacher. He is deciding what's a good and what's a bad way to go about educating young children," fumed left-wing Senator Jean-Luc Melenchon.
But Sarkozy won support from opposition Socialist leader Francois Hollande and the president's conservative UMP party rallied in support.
Education Minister Xaviet Darcos assured people the project would be handled in a practical, low-profile way. "We won't be putting a policeman in each classroom," he told reporters.
(Additional reporting by Elizabeth Pineau in Perigueux and Crispian Balmer; Editing by Michael Winfrey)
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL1528174120080215
to the real news story, I would have sworn it was satire!
this is precisely why the USAID in Euros satire was such a huge hit - because life is stranger than fiction!
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It seems our Jewish President of France has completely lost the plot.
His poll numbers are down, similar to Bushie but then again why would he care as the Zionist owned French Media will back him up.
I've yet to meet or chat with a Frenchie that is happy with the current situation, between his love stories and other nonsense, plans to help attack Iran, what next I ask myself?
Sarkozy's proposal is utter lunacy, and is a very thinly-veiled attempt to keep the Holocaust narrative alive, despite the fact that it has been on life-support for some time now. If French children have to identify with a dead child, wouldn't it be far more appropriate if they were to be asked to identify with child victims of French imperialism? What am I thinking of? Silly me! I forgot that other victims don't count.
why don't they teach these children how to identify WITH THEMSELVES as the victims that they are - of a horrendous worldwide campaign to dehumanize and commodify them?
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"Money" has no value - people do.
It would be a novel idea, but in doing so you would be taking away the possibility of guilt-tripping the children for something they had nothing to do with. We can't possibly have that happening, can we?
And that's what the Zionists are planning to do, inoculate the innocent French schoolchildren with a massive amount of guilt, which will stay with that child for life.
When these brainwashed kids turn into adults, they'll be ripe pickings for that never-ending shakedown racket known as the Holocaust™.
They'll gladly hand over wads of cash to the Khazars, in the hope that it will wash away the guilt first placed in their young minds by the Khazars.
It's similar to the BS that is being taught in American schools concerning the Holocaust™, which is designed to grow a fresh crop of hosts for the Khazars to feed upon.