Posted on 05/04/2006 8:06:24 AM PDT by 68skylark
Maybe we could make it even cheaper and send him a digit at a time?
Works for me......
Translation from Babelfish
To send somebody as is very expensive to him. Can we give you half of him this week, and other half the next week?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Split him longwise, we'll send the LEFT half first!
Wasn't it just recently that a handful of terrorists escaped from a French prison? Pound sand is right!
I think we should send him back to France after we hang him.
He is after all a French citizen.
Doesn't matter if he's French or not. He committed a crime here and he pays here. First one to try him, gets to sentence and imprison him first. After he serves all six life sentences, THEN France can have him!
Captain Ed put it very well but I just hope we tell them to pound sand.
MARK TWAIN had the French down pat in the Eighteen Hunderdss
A French married lady cannot enter even a menagerie without bringing the purity of that menagerie under suspicion.
- Mark Twain's Notebooks and Journals, Notebook #19, July 1880-January 1882
The objects of which Paris folks are fond--literature, art, medicine and adultery.
- - speech at the Stanley Club in Paris, ca. April 1879
France has neither winter nor summer nor morals--apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
- Mark Twain's Notebook
I like to look at a Russian or a German or an Italian--I even like to look at a Frenchman if I ever have the luck to catch him engaged in anything that ain't delicate.
- Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
France has usually been governed by prostitutes.
- Notebook #18, Feb.- Sept. 1879
A Frenchman's home is where another man's wife is.
- Notebook #18, Feb.- Sept. 1879
M. de Lamester's new French dictionary just issued in Paris defines virtue as: "A woman who has only one lover and don't steal."
- quoted in A Bibliography of Mark Twain, Merle Johnson
In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
- The Innocents Abroad
There is nothing lower than the human race except the French.
- quoted by Carl Dolmetsch, Our Famous Guest
It is human to like to be praised; one can even notice it in the French.
- "What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us"
In certain public indecencies the difference between a dog & a Frenchman is not perceptible.
- Notebook #17, October 1878 - February 1879
It appears that at last census that every man in France over 16 years of age & under 116, has at least 1 wife to whom he has never been married. French novels, talk, drama & newspaper bring daily & overwhelming proofs that the most of the married ladies have paramours. This makes a good deal of what we call crime, and the French call sociability.
- Notebook #18, Feb.- Sept. 1879
French are the connecting link between man & the monkey.
- Notebook #18, Feb.- Sept. 1879
Trivial Americans go to Paris when they die.
- Notebook #18, Feb.- Sept. 1879
It is the language for lying compliment, for illicit love & for the conveying of exquisitely nice shades of meaning in bright graceful & trivial conversations--the conveying, especially of double-meanings, a decent & indecent one so blended as--nudity thinly veiled, but gauzily & lovelily.
- Notebook #18, Feb.- Sept. 1879
...anywhere is better than Paris. Paris the cold, Paris the drizzly, Paris the rainy, Paris the damnable. More than a hundred years ago somebody asked Quin, "Did you ever see such a winter in all your life before?" "Yes," said he, "Last summer." I judge he spent his summer in Paris. Let us change the proverb; Let us say all bad Americans go to Paris when they die. No, let us not say it for this adds a new horror to Immortality.
- letter to Lucius Fairchild, 28 April 1880, reprinted in Mark Twain, The Letter Writer
An isolated & helpless young girl is perfectly safe from insult by a Frenchman, if he is dead.
- Notebook #20, Jan. 1882 - Feb. 1883
A dead Frenchman has many good qualities, many things to recommend him; many attractions--even innocencies. Why cannot we have more of these?
- Notebook #20, Jan. 1882 - Feb. 1883
"We know he will be released after a few years."
I would release him because he wouldn't make it to the parking lot...
The first thing that is going to happen while this terrorist lives is that some poor soul will be kidnapped, whose life will be threatened unless Moussaoui is released...count on it.
Second the continued cost of keeping this beast incarcerated, appeals etc. is astronomical...the jury has unleashed not only an expense to the taxpayer but one that will be used against us. How I wish they had asked for his death…Political Correctness is a killing disease that is killing America.
There was a mass escape from a prison in Yemen, but no escape from a French prison that I can recall.
Not long ago Germany released a terrorist who killed an American after the bad guy was in prison about 7 years -- the Germans said he fully served his "life" sentence. The same thing would happen in France if we give back Moussaoui.
The French can have him back when he's served out his sentence.
If they want him they better pay the American government for his trial expenses and cost of his maintenance!
French prisons are no day camp. I'm incline to send him back as another way to piss on the french.
If we have signed treaties and agreements then I believe as most other Americans that we should send him back to France.
One pound at a time.
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