Political Quotes

“despite international pleading, protests, and appeals, France resumed nuclear testing in the South Pacific on September 5, 1995, at Morurua Atoll, exploding a nuclear bomb 10 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Sixty miles away, 3 days before, on the island of Tureia, Tahitian children splashed and played in the ocean waves, unaware that a man named Chirac would forever mar their innocent way of life. Chirac's decision to promote nuclear proliferation, at the expense of a peaceful people, is a chilling commentary on man's inhumanity to man. If fact, it is an atrocity, a crime against humanity, not unlike the French Government's earlier decision to forcibly deport 75,000 of its own French citizens to Nazi concentration camps where it is said that only 1,000 of those deported survived. France's resumption of nuclear testing, especially in waters other than its own, is nothing less than a classic example of rancid colonialism; an old world ideology politicized by dominant cultures as a means to marginalize, oppress, and make expendable the lives of some 200,000 Polynesian Tahitians. Every enlightened French citizen should be ashamed that such atrocity reigns in the hands of its current leader, President Chirac.”