the sarkozy effect

the riotous proletariat of france has sure spoken, but it would seem perhaps not loudly enough at the polls. thank you, confounding french electorate, for hoisting sarkozy up into the big chair from where he can now validate and help proliferate the frightening tendencies of the post-911 law and order leadership... that global conglomerate hell bent on clamping down, fencing up, and weeding out. let us brace ourselves for the kind of brazen immigration and 'security' policies that might make bush seem soft.

and as if here in quebec, we weren't already sickened by the rise in cultural protectionist sentiment that is dialing up the backlash, coaxing xenophia out of the shadows so it's almost mainstream as montreal fashion.