France and Burkinis

    The French are not brave with glorious exceptions like the valiant men, women, and children who fought in the French Underground during WW ll. The French are not free either if we look at the distaste the French premier has for Mulim women wearing the so-called burkini at the beach. It appears to be simply the regular body bag that Muslim Sharia women are forced to become captives under. Wall Street Journal carried a picture of a woman wearing one in the water off a beach in Marseille yesterday. The French premier supported local bans on the garb, making himself against freedom. Freedom would be allowing women to wear their body bags at the beach and in the water. Premier Walls said it was against the values of France and the Republic [and everything else good in the whole wide world too!] for women to cover themselves entirely. Really? If that's even true, the value of France should be freedom to cover yourself if you want to. Whose business is it anyway? We know it is the business of the dress police, the hooligans who harass people for their dress or lack of it in Sharia states, but does France want to ape Sharia? But then again, maybe it's just as well that the French premier seems to be no friend of freedom, because the French have repeatedly shown they don't have the guts to keep themselves free. Again with glorious exceptions.
    Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
"The measure of a man,
  Is not what he says,
  But what he does,
  And what he allows others,
  To do in his presence."
   - Navy Seal Instructor