Super Sarko & the missing kids

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Thursday November 08, 2007 15:20

by scorchio

One of the most serious issues of European exploitation, corrupt Charity activity & international relations Monday last saw Sarkozy play his "Super Sarko" role in a headline grabbing stunt the reaction to which has already bolstered calls for November 30th to be declared "No Sarko in Media Day". The government of Chad (in Africa) has started taking against so-called "charity" agencies who are accused of trafficking in children by arranging their adoption by European parents without the consent of their natural parents or surviving family or wards. This is a very big story which touches many other very important issues. In the last week both French & Spanish citizens were held in Chad under charges of "child-trafficking". The Spaniards included pilot, co-pilot and cabin crew of the jet on which the children would have been flown out of the state by the "Zoe's Ark" charity.

Quite obviously this was a moment for diplomacy accompanied by photos of nationals languishing far from home scared shitless they'd never see their families again. Par for the course. & so too it was.

Then superSarko flew out to Chad on Monday aboard the French equivalent of "Air force one", had a chat with the president of that state & brought the Spanish air hostesses to Madrid on the same plane where naturally his impromtu visit dragged Zapatero out of the office to shake his hand whilst looking suitably grateful, institutional & of course inept or incapable. Super Sarko took off again without even stopping for a milky coffee & amidst whatever fighter jets they scramble to protect these kind of unannounced visits prepared himself to address the US Congress.

The child adoption story did not begin nor end with the arrest of 16 Europeans (nine French and seven Spanish) facing charges for trying to fly 103 African children to Europe.http://allafrica.com/stories/200711060185.html Indeed both Spanish & French foreign ministries, ministers and civil servants you never notice & hard-working diplomats are still trying to sort out the mess.

Chad is reported today to be investigating at least 74 cases.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breaking-news/world/a...9.ece
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/08/africa/AF-GEN...n.php
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1762452007

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No Sarko day :-
Maybe it began as a joke, or perhaps it started out as a groaning sigh of utter exasperation. But as with all such stifled cries, sentimental of other times & another France - there's something in it.
I reckon most Irish people have little idea of how much Sarko there is in the French & European media these days. Not a day goes by without a Sarko story, spin, adventure or gurgle. Accordingly commercial newspapers on the left have already devoted their "multimedia" sections to reflecting an increasing frustration felt by many at the style of Nicolas Sarkozy. He appears to have absorbed all the worst media management tactics of the Blairs' built on the ignoble foundations of JFK (his first Elysee photo showed him with the now estranged first lady & one of the first brats playing under the table - a panifully obvious visual reference to JFK's "camelot" photo of the early 60's). But nicknames don't go far enough. Berlusconi's media empire and status as communication & entertainment industry mogul offered him often unconstitutional access to the "fourth estate" but somehow the ludicrous depths to which he plunged never got as far up the nose as the SuperSarko show. ( I'd remind readers of the collected Berlusconi insults book his own press published c/f http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=71091 )

Not one story, not one scandal, not one retouched photo, not one adventure, not one revelation, not one rumour, not one denial, not one mention of the man on the 30th of November please.

video in French of for Sarko day
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x365p6_journee-sans-sa...itics
Liberation have opted for calling Sarko "Zorro" after his Chad adventure but are stilling using the Superman costume
http://www.libelabo.fr/2007/11/07/sarko-zorro-mix/