Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 18:44:26 +0000
From: Iain McKay <iain.mckay-AT-zetnet.co.uk>
Subject: Helpless Britons appeal to France for "regime change" (fwd)




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> Subject: Helpless Britons appeal to France for "regime change"
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> Helpless Britons appeal to France for "regime change"
> Hermé Gaspin, Paris correspondent, BNN, 28 February 2003
> 
> A group of British dissidents has appealed to France to invade the United
> Kingdom and bring about regime change. According to a spokeswoman at the Elysee
> Palace, French President Jacques Chirac received the request in a letter from a
> group of British exiles and "pro-democracy activists" calling themselves the
> "Free United Kingdom Movement" or FUKM, for short. BNN obtained a copy of the
> appeal in full:
> 
>   "Dear President Chirac, On behalf of the people of the United Kingdom, we
> appeal to you to help our suffering and once proud nation rid itself of a leader
> who defies the wishes of his people and is trying to drag our country into a
> bloody and senseless war of conquest against a distant nation that has done
> nothing to us.
> 
>   We have evidence that this leader has made a strategic alliance with the
> leader of a fanatical foreign cult that is bent on world domination. This cult
> is commonly known as "The Superpower." For years, The Superpower has been
> building bases all over our country, where it trains men in fighting, including
> how to drop bombs on civilians in distant nations from far above them. It is
> also stockpiling weapons of mass destruction in our country, including nuclear
> missiles. We are afraid that our leader and The Superpower he serves will drag
> us into a holy war.
> 
>   The international community and the United Nations Security Council are trying
> to stop this war, but our leader and The Superpower say they will simply
> disregard international law and do whatever they want. They disdain the will of
> the world, as well as our own will.
> 
>   Our desperate efforts to change this leader's course have come to naught.
> Millions of people came into the streets, and all our leader said was that if
> they did not go along with his war plans they would have blood on their hands.
> Our brave religious leaders, including the heads of the Anglican and Catholic
> Churches have appealed to our leader, and told him his path is immoral. He is
> defying them too, although he claims to be a religious man. Yesterday in our
> largely rubber-stamp parliament, more than one hundred and twenty members of the
> leader's ruling party dared to vote against him, and yet still he carries on
> pushing us to war.
> 
>   President Chirac, we are a small nation with many needs. Although we once
> tried to rule the world, we realized it wasn't for us. Today we have the highest
> rate of child poverty in the European Union. We can't even run our trains on
> time, and too often they fall off the tracks killing many people. Why is our
> leader spending billions of pounds on the folly of war?
> 
>   We desperately need democracy. Above our leader is an unelected "monarch" who
> spends billions of pounds on palaces all over the country, money that should be
> used on the needs of the people. Instead of moving democracy forward, our leader
> wants to roll it back. He has rejected calls for free elections for something we
> call the "House of Lords" and he insists on filling it with his appointed
> cronies. We no longer have the cherished right to remain silent in criminal
> proceedings. Almost every move we make is watched by closed circuit television
> cameras. President Chirac, we have many other problems as well. For example, our
> police have been found to be "institutionally racist" by human rights
> organizations. We have more people in prison per capita than any country in
> Europe (though not as many as The Superpower which imprisons millions of its
> people, mostly the poor and the non-white, in vast work camps.)
> 
>   With this grim situation before us, we feel we have no choice. We must appeal
> to the people of Old Europe, to immediately assemble a coalition of the willing
> to disarm our leader, expel the foreign cult and its horrible weapons, and to
> help us put in place a truly democratic republic. Please, President Chirac, act
> at once, before it is too late!
> 
>   Signed,
> 
>   "Free United Kingdom Movement" (FUKM)