MESSAGE
| DATE | 2004-10-12 |
| FROM | Michael Richardson
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| SUBJECT | RE: [hangout] Poor French are upset we discovered their corruptio
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Remember Emiel Zola.
--
"In The Business World
An Executive Knows Something About Everything,
A Technician Knows Everything About Something,
And the Switchboard Operator Knows Everything."
No one person is smarter than their team!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Guerin [mailto:ron-at-vnetworx.net]
> Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 6:32 PM
> To: Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS
> Cc: NYLXS
> Subject: Re: [hangout] Poor French are upset we discovered their
> corruption
>
>
> On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 04:48, Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS wrote:
> >
> > The anger of France and others is focused on the assertions in the
> > report by Charles A. Duelfer, the top American arms inspector in Iraq,
> > that French companies and individuals, some with close ties to the
> > government, enriched themselves through Iraq's efforts to gain
> > influence around the world in the years before the war.
>
> Keep in mind, the Jacques Chirac himself would probably be on his way to
> jail if not for the immunity from prosecution the President of France
> enjoys.
>
> Excessively immune syndrome
> Feb 5th 2004
> From The Economist print edition
>
> Nobody should be above the law-not even Jacques Chirac
>
> ANOTHER week, another French politician convicted of corruption.
> Only this time the politician, Alain Juppé, was not just a
> former prime minister, serving mayor of Bordeaux and president
> of the ruling UMP political party. More tellingly, he was the
> protégé, closest associate and preferred successor of the French
> president, Jacques Chirac. And the party-financing chicanery for
> which he was convicted took place when he was working for Mr
> Chirac, then mayor of Paris, in the mid-1990s. Indeed, the
> judges hinted strongly that Mr Chirac was really responsible.
>
> Mr Juppé is appealing against his conviction (see article). But
> the case raises an obvious question: why is the president not in
> the dock as well? The answer is that, under the constitution, he
> enjoys sweeping immunity from prosecution for any offence short
> of high treason, even one committed before he assumed office. In
> 1999 Mr Chirac obtained a ruling from France's constitutional
> council that this immunity allowed him to refuse to answer
> questions put by an investigating magistrate. Mr Chirac insists
> that the immunity is meant not to protect him, but to uphold the
> dignity of the presidency-although he has conceded that the
> constitution should have a mechanism for presidential
> impeachment.
>
> Dignity of the presidency. *cough*
>
> - Ron
>
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