& mon., 2 sept., 2011, a very french & german & finnish labor day: give us This Day our Daily Curse

[NOTE: these terms are weaponized language, & meant to give offense. Which is the whole & compleat point of insult & invective, obscenity & blasphemy, & other political speech.]

FRENCH: “Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité” ‡

FRENCH: “T. F. P. / Travail, Famille, Patrie” ‡‡

FRENCH: “T. F. P. / Travaux forcés à perpetuité” ‡‡‡

GERMAN: “Arbeit macht frei.”  ‡‡‡‡

FINNISH: “Kasta lippu heroiinaiin, ja mä sitten imen sitä.”   ‡‡‡‡‡

       ‡)   “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”  —  French Nat’l motto, dating fr. the French Revolution ;   

     ‡‡)   “Work, Family, Fatherland”  —  Nat’l motto of the Vichy Regime, the puppet govt. of the Nazi occupation ;

    ‡‡‡)   “Forced labor in perpetuity”  —  i.e. & e.g., “life sentence without parole,” fr. the French penal code ;

  ‡‡‡‡)   “Work shall make you free.”  —  inscribed above the gates of Nazi death camps, most infamously, Auschwitz  

‡‡‡‡‡)    “Immerse the flag in heroin & I'll suck on it!”   / “Soak the flag in heroin & I'll suck on it!” — attrib. to a famous former Commisssioner of Sewers  

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