Frère Jacques,
Frère Jacques,
Dormez vous?
Dormez vous?
Sonnez les matines,
Sonnez les matines.
Ding Ding Dong,Ding Ding Dong.
As many of you know, that's a lovely French ditty children all over the world learn to sing. The words ask "Brother John" if he's sleeping. Morning bells are ringing, morning bells are ringing....
...Time to wake up, country of France. Men described as "Islamic militants" by the Kansas City Star have been arrested in your midst, plotting to blow up the Eiffel Tower--sacre bleu! This story even appeared in Le Parisien, a daily French newspaper. We didn't see much of this story in L'Etats-Unis, but what else is new? Our MSM isn't interested in corroborating the worldwide dangers of militant Islam; they might risk appearing to support our president during a war. Such a faux pas that would be for the Fourth Estate in the elitist global village!
But ecoutez moi, good citizens of France. Listen up. You may want to consider taking this whole terrorism thing a tad more seriously. You are, after all, part of "Western civilization," a member of the "infidel" population. Like it or not, you're at risk for an attack--no matter how many francs and Euros Saddam Hussein sucked up from you.
France has the most stirring national anthem I've ever heard. Did you ever watch "Casablanca," with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman? That scene where Paul Henreid leads the orchestra in playing La Marseillaise to drown out the singing Nazis--well, if you can watch that without getting goosebumps, you have no soul. The song starts out:
Allons enfants de la Patrie,
Le jour de gloire est arrivé !
Which means:
Arise, children of the fatherland
The day of glory has arrived.
Are you sleeping, citizens of France? Time to wake up, time to arise. With the news of the plot against the Eiffel Tower, those morning bells are definitely ringing. And they sound very much like an alarm.
