The New November 11

The two principal architects of the European Union, as everyone knows, are France and Germany. Not too long ago I posted an historical retrospective on the creation and evolution of the EU, from its beginnings during the Second World War, when it was a seemingly necessary measure to end the bloodshed that was decimating Europe, through its current incarnation as a nation-destroying, multi-ethnic, open-borders, anti-Christian behemoth, run by deeply entrenched ideologues who have no intention of giving up their sinecures, just because some unenlightened European philistines don't want Brussels interfering in their lives.

Today, Providence has brought together two leaders, Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy, who are themselves the incarnation of the EU's ideals. Snug as two bugs in a rug, they join in holy matrimony to lead their subjects into some "brave new world" that isn't brave, isn't new, and isn't a world in any cultural or coherent sense. Neither country has as one of its strengths a political party dedicated to tradition, to the work ethic, to the Christian moral order, to national pride, to preserving the uniqueness of the ancient cultures that comprise the French or German identities. This, despite the names "conservative", "right-wing", "Christian-Democrat", etc... and other misleading labels that often adorn the letterheads of political groups.

Now, true to his vow to re-make France in his own image, Sarkozy will, by presidential fiat (there is no evidence yet that France's Parliament has been consulted on this, even less evidence that France's Parliament counts for anything anymore) denature November 11, Armistice Day, by turning it into a day honoring Franco-German friendship. A gesture of pure theatrics? A gesture of arrogance? A congenital indifference to the past?

These and similar questions come up every time Nicolas Sarkozy decides to re-program the mindset of the people, either through admonitions and threats, or through measures that aggrandize Europe at the expense of France.

But, at this point, does it really matter? How many really care about WWI any more? Many believe that WWI was a total waste of blood and treasure, resulting only in the collapse of Austro-Hungarian Empire, the depletion of young healthy males, the rise of the Soviet Union, and the pretext for the rise of Adolph Hitler. Better to forget it than commemorate it. At any rate, it was not a war to end all wars, au contraire, it was the start of the disintegration of nationhood. Better to forget it. The men who went off to fight were saps, those who deserted were smart. Better to forget it.

Whatever one's feelings about WWI, the Armistice will no longer be commemorated. Will it even be taught in schools? The following is an article, dated October 28, from the pen of Jean Quatremer, a pro-Europe journalist whose blog appears at the left-wing publication Libération:

For a longtime Nicolas Sarkozy has been hoping to make a grand gesture to Germany, equivalent to the one made by his predecessor, François Mitterrand, when he took chancellor Helmut Kohl by the hand during the commemoration of the Battle of Verdun in 1984. Now it's a done deal. Today on the eve of the European Council set for Thursday night and Friday in Brussels, and just before the dinner for the French leader and the German chancellor who was recently re-elected, Elysée Palace has announced that November 11 will remain a holiday, but it will no longer celebrate the Armistice of 1918:



"After the death of the last 'poilu', Lazare Ponticelli who died at the age of 110 on March 12, 2008, Nicolas Sarkozy wishes that November 11 become a day of Franco-German reconciliation, in order to build a shared future."

November 11 is not celebrated in Germany and it is not a holiday for the institutions of the EU, any more than May 8 (the date of the 1945 German surrender). Germany has never understood why this anniversary continues to be celebrated, since it marks the end of a European civil war that set the stage for another, that of 1939-1945. May 8 ought to be abolished and replaced by May 9, the date of Robert Schuman's declaration launching the construction of the European Community, and the date that has become the European holiday (EU institutions are closed on May 9).

For French readers, Quatremer has more on the Franco-German pre-nuptials here.

At Le Salon Beige they remind us that November 11 has religious significance as well:

November 11 is, above all, the feast of Saint Martin, the apostle of the Gauls. More than 3600 churches are dedicated to Saint Martin. And there are all the places, hamlets, abbeys, fountains, and bridges named after this very popular saint. Throughout the world, a considerable number of places make reference to Saint Martin of Tours.

There follows a lovely description in French of the life of Saint Martin, but I'm settling for this short passage from Wikipedia:

St. Martin's Day (or Martinstag or Martinmas) is November 11, the feast day of Martin of Tours, who started out as a Roman soldier. He was baptized as an adult and became a monk. It is understood that he was a kind man who led a quiet and simple life. The most famous legend of his life is that he once cut his cloak in half to share with a beggar during a snowstorm, to save the beggar from dying of the cold. That night he dreamed that Jesus was wearing the half-cloak Martin had given away. Martin heard Jesus say to the angels: "Here is Martin, the Roman soldier who is not baptised; he has clothed me." (Sulpicius)

In 2007 François Desouche posted this fascinating albeit upsetting video of battle scenes of WWI. The singer is Marc Ogeret. The author of the anti-war lyrics is unknown. They were set to a waltz entitled Bonsoir m'amour, and the French military authorities at the time offered a small fortune for information on the author. Here is just the refrain that is repeated three times:

Farewell to life, farewell to love,
Farewell to all women.
This infamous war is over for us, forever
Here at Craonne on the plateau
We leave our bodies
For we are all doomed
We are the sacrificed ones!

The rest of the song is a cry of despair on the inhuman conditions, the hopes betrayed and the luxury in which the rich live, while the men lie dying.

The lyrics are posted at a website called Du Temps des Cerises aux Feuilles Mortes, devoted to songs of the period from the end of the Second Empire to the 1950's. Some French readers may find it of interest.

Chanson de Craonne
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The WWI battles that took place in Craonne, more specifically on the road called Le Chemin des Dames, in northern France, are discussed at Wikipedia. The Second Battle of the Aisne, April 16 and April 25, 1917, commemorated in this video, culminated in 270,000 French deaths and 163,000 German deaths. General Nivelle had to be replaced by General Philippe Pétain, later infamous for his supposed collaboration with the Nazis - another controversial accusation. Pétain managed to bring about improved conditions for the men.

Watching the video confirms the brutality of the war, and makes Nicolas Sarkozy's gesture of obliterating November 11 as a French national holiday all the more disloyal, even if it is true that the Germans suffered as well, even if it was brother against brother, as so many have claimed. Let the Germans commemorate in their own way and the French in theirs.

I wrote about this topic last November, when Sarkozy used November 11 to honor and exonerate the deserters of the war. Click the labels below for more posts on WWI and the "poilus" (French soldiers).

A Tale of Two... Three... Four Cities

Violence in Fréjus: Fire and Blood

There have been two nights of violence in the southern city of Fréjus (photo above). Numerous sources give accounts of the outbreak. First, Novopress:

For forty-eight hours, Fréjus has seen fire and blood after the death in an accident last Sunday of Mohamed el-Matari, a motorcyclist who was trying to avoid a police check (he was riding a 250 cm3 without a license plate). Very soon riots broke out in Fréjus and Saint-Raphaël. Some one hundred forty police, riot police and gendarmes were mobilized.

Multiethnic gangs repeatedly threw stones and Molotov cocktails at the police and firemen in the Gabelle ghetto in Fréjus. The deceased man's family challenges the official version of an accident. Regarding Mohamed el-Matari's attempted flight, one Abdelhaoui is quoted by Le Parisien on October 27 as saying: "You must understand. If Mohamed ran off like that, it is because with everything we've seen in the ghettos, ever since we were children, we're afraid of the police."

Burnt cars, beatings, drug trafficking... Is it the police who create fear in the explosive ghettos?

Regarding the second night of violence, Le Point reports:

Monday night into Tuesday was once again shaken by violence in Fréjus and Saint-Raphaël. (...) Groups of youths were dispersed by tear gas and by the arrival of a helicopter from the Gendarmerie equipped with an anti-riot projector and an infrared thermal camera capable of guiding the actions of the troops on the ground, according to the prefecture. Three cars were burned in the Gabelle ghetto and two others in Agachon (Saint-Raphaël). Two youths in possession of white spirit were arrested around 10:30 p.m.

Below, a photo of a sympathy march in Fréjus. "May God bless Mohamed" says the second line of the banner.


H/T: François Desouche


Violence in Le Havre: "Nothing Stops Them"

Here is an article from the local publication Paris-Normandie, dated October 26:

"You have to see them tear down the street at 100 km/hour, at the wheel of cars or at the handlebars of quads and motorcycles, honking to violate all rules of the road. You wonder why there aren't more accidents. They drive like madmen."

"They" refers to the young people that the inhabitants of the triangle formed by the neighborhoods of Aplemont, Frileuse and Sainte-Cécile can no longer put up with. The residents have had enough and want everyone to know it. But there is no way that they can say it openly, for fear of reprisals. Pretty houses, impeccable gardens, most have lived in this residential area for ten, even twenty years. They know how to preserve the village spirit. And yet behind this outwardly calm atmosphere lies a real malaise. The neighborhood has lost its quality of life. "We no longer feel safe in our homes. Their behavior on the roads is not the worst thing. Break-ins are on the rise as well as uncivil conduct. The deterioration began about two years ago, but it worsened this summer. We often hear about the bad neighborhoods of Le Havre, but no one can imagine what we put up with here."

Among themselves the residents paint a somber portait of the situation. "Every week we see the list of burglaries get longer." Some have lived through the trauma four times. "We quickly returned from our vacation only a week after we had left to find our house had been invaded." Fear eventually gripped the neighborhood. Almost all the houses have alarms, and iron bars protect garage doors. Residents keep their keys on them to ensure all entryways are locked. "We aren't at ease when we leave for work in the morning. Our front door could be broken into when we return. Even during the day, nothing stops them."

Note: This is all too familiar to Americans. We went through this long ago, throughout the 60s and 70's in the big cities, and then in the suburbs and rural areas. The French are now paying the price for decades of immigration.

In France, as here, the authorities make light of the situation, as the last part of the article illustrates:

The city authorities are not unaware of the problem. "We mustn't minimize the problem, but what is happening is not comparable to other more sensitive neighborhoods. It is normal, for those who have lived in greater peace, to become emotionally agitated by new phenomena," acknowledges Bertrand Binctin, the city official in charge of security. But he warns of the danger of irresponsible judgments. "The latest newcomers have become a scapegoat. These families are not necessarily responsible for the reported crimes", he says to tone down the effect, and he points to the efforts of the neighborhood police.

But will this police presence be enough to reassure the residents? Even though they would hate to do it, some are considering moving out.

Note: As we know here, this is how neighborhoods and entire cities go "down the tubes." People, justifiably afraid, leave. More and more thugs move in. And in short order, a once civilized existence is gone.

H/T: Le Salon Beige


60 Gangs in Paris

The following article from Novopress does not give information that is really new, but it is still worth repeating:

The Paris prefecture has created a law-enforcement section whose purpose is to fight the multiethnic gangs that proliferate in the capital. These gangs are responsible for assaults, murders (at least three, and ten wounded in 2009), drug trafficking and anti-white racism, as was the case during the latest Techno Parade.

The result of an inquiry shows that 60 gangs operate within the boundaries of Paris. René Bailly, head of intelligence for the Paris prefecture, estimates that the "primary motivation (of the gangs) is confrontation for the sake of confrontation". Around 1300 persons, accused of being gang members, have been arrested since the beginning of 2009. More than fifty percent of the time, a weapon is used by these multicultural groups. Three quarters of the gang members implicated in these crimes were minors. Notable also is the emergence of gangs of girls. When the uprooted populations become transformed into enraged gangs, it is the French who pay.


Tours - Being Blond Is Not Good

A post at François Desouche reveals the disintegration of tranquility in the city of Tours. Tours, as you may know, is (was?) a lovely city in the heart of the château country along the Loire River. How long before the châteaux themselves become the target of vandals? The post is a condensation of a series of articles at La Nouvelle République where readers send in their complaints:

First Marie-Claire writes: "I've been living here since 1973, and yes, it was much better before. The situation has been deteriorating for twenty years. (...) Come here after 6:00 p.m., come here over the week-end when you have to listen to the racket made by small motorcycles or quads. It's not for us to play at being gendarmes, or so we're told whenever we complain. It isn't yet Chicago, but it will be soon..."

Another reader who calls herself "a mother afraid for her son" narrates for us the daily life of an 18-year-old: "He cannot go out with his girlfriend without being hit by a volley of stones, insults, kicks in the back that make him fall of his motor bike. His motor bike was stolen from its parking place one Sunday afternoon (it's how he gets to work)...

We asked for a surveillance camera and some lighting because the entryway is deserted and dark, but nothing has been done as of now.

When he walks his dog at 11:00 p.m., the youths who squat in the entryway block the doors in such a way that he cannot get back in! These youths use the lobby of the building as a garbage dump and nonchalantly smoke their reefers. Many people watch, but no one dares say anything for fear of finding their car burnt! The police intervened. They began making rounds, so the youths changed their schedule and squat later.

It's a cosmopolitan group, of course, but they don't accept 'the Gauls or blonds'. It is no longer good to be a Frenchman in this neighborhood. I myself have been insulted. They are on 'their territory' as they say. Even some pizza shops in Tours are no longer willing to deliver." (...)

The mayor's assistant Gérard Gernot has said that the need for security in Tours "makes the prefect, who comes from the Parisian region, smile." To which a resident, Joël Guillemain retorts: "The voters who are victims of insults will certainly appreciate the sense of relativity of their elected official. Of course, things are always worse somewhere else, but that is precisely why we must look at what has happened to those big cities to learn how to proceed so that it doesn't happen here.

"Moreover, to say repeatedly that these problems are the work of a minority, and then to be incapable of neutralizing that minority, says a lot about the impotence of our society. Without demonizing an entire neighborhood, it's really too easy for these politicians who live in comfort in their peaceful neighborhoods to minimize these incidents."

Note: Several readers at François Desouche point out that these residents who complain elected a Socialist mayor, and therefore should not be surprised at the outcome. But an UMP mayor would be no better. As for a Front National mayor, there is little chance of that happening.

In the cartoon below, as her bag is stolen, the woman shouts: "Help! Help!" To which her husband replies: "Be quiet, you're playing into the hands of the Right!"

More On AREVA

Update: November 1 - If you cannot view this video, please see explanation here. The French version is viewable at François Desouche, linked below.

The preceding post dealt with the remarks of Anne Lauvergeon, chairman of the board of AREVA. The brief video (above) shows her making the remarks that have caused such a stir at the French websites. AREVA issued a communiqué, posted at François Desouche, stating that her words had been taken out of context, and attempted to explain the reasons for the hiring practices:

(...) AREVA recruited 15,500 persons in 2008, and is recruiting about 10,000 in 2009. The conviction of the company is that it must reflect, through its diversity, the society of which it is a part. This policy does not exclude any category of individuals.

In 2006, the company signed an agreement in favor of equal opportunity with the European Metallurgy Foundation. This agreement prioritizes professional equality as a right and professional ethnic intermingling ("mixité") as a factor of collective enrichment, social cohesion and economic efficiency.

In France, even though young women only represent, on average, 17% of the totality of engineers, at AREVA they represent around 35% of those hired. Moreover, the company has decided, as one of its objectives, that at least 20% of its executive committees will consist of women.

Note: AREVA's explanation leaves no doubt that the EU's policies dictate the hiring practices. Furthermore, the totalitarian nature of the EU's policies are clear. Professional equality is a "right", ethnic mixtures are a factor of "collective enrichment", etc... Having enjoyed several decades of freedom, the West is back in the world of KGB-style human engineering. They do say that nature hates a void...

Not surprisingly, Le Figaro labels the groups rising in protest against AREVA as "extreme Right-wing":

The extreme Right has targeted the president of AREVA, Anne Lauvergeon, for having condoned the fact that those hired are not limited to "white males". At the same time, the nuclear giant denounces the "rush to judgment".

The Bloc Identitaire, a group of 2000 members, intends to file a lawsuit as a result of Lauvergeon's remarks. (...) Fabrice Robert, president of the Bloc Identitaire, denounces the "anti-white remarks" and affirms that Lauvergeon's declaration "casts doubts over all those hired by AREVA". He has promised to sue. He is joined in his protest by the Parti de la France, founded by Carl Lang, formerly of the Front National.

"This is a rush to judgment. The company's policies, on the contrary, are to see to it that the company reflects the diversity of society," said an indignant Jacques-Emmanuel Saulnier, spokesman for AREVA. He justified Madame Lauvergeon's position by pointing out that 80% of the salaried employees at AREVA were men.

Note: A reminder that the Bloc Identitaire is a youth movement dedicated at once to regional loyalties and a federated Europe. The movement stands in opposition to "métissage" (miscegenation), to the Islamization of France and to American "imperialism". It has branches throughout France, and has recently declared itself a political party.

For its part, the Bloc Identitaire is launching a white male movement. Novopress reports:

(...) To be frank, her remarks are disgusting. Anne Lauvergeon who earns more than half a million euro a year is willing to send to the ranks of the unemployed thousands of individuals whose only defect is that they are men, white men! (...)

The Bloc Identitaire is now calling for the launching of a "White Male Collective" (...) It urges all "white males" in this country to call AREVA and demand an explanation for the president's irresponsible slip-up.

From this point on, the article gives phone numbers and e-mail addresses of those highly placed white men who work at AREVA. The purpose is to learn if these men fear for their jobs (Of course, they do not precisely because they are prominent figures in the company.) Some French readers may be interested in contacting AREVA, though I doubt you will get much satisfaction.

The Bloc Identitaire is calling for an unprecedented mobilization for this operation. We cannot accept the very rich and the very powerful walking all over the backs of the people.

Note: The Bloc has modified somewhat the nature of the problem in the above sentence. It has turned it into a class issue where the rich exploit the poor. I don't think this is quite accurate. The issue is the attempt to destroy an entire culture through coercive racist and sexist policies that are churned out by Brussels and channeled into the various countries at ALL levels.

At least the article closes with an accurate cri de coeur:

We are fed up to here with anti-white racism!

Anything But White Males

Here is the story of another very influential and wealthy Frenchwoman, who is working against the traditional white society. The article by Louis Chagnon is posted at Bernard Antony's blog. (Areva is a major nuclear and mining industry):

Anne Lauvergeon, president of Areva, distinguished herself during the Women's Forum Global Meeting on October 15 - 17 in Deauville. For the occasion, 1200 women from the world of business and politics gathered for a few days of "discussions and reflections" around the theme: "Tomorrow!" Judge for yourselves the level of thinking of Madame Lauvergeon, who said of the hiring process: "All things being equal, well, sorry, we would choose, uh, the woman, or we would choose the person who, uh, is anything but a white male, to speak frankly."

So tomorrow holds no future for white males, according to Anne Lauvergeon. Those are sexist and racist remarks from the mouth of a "great French industry leader", remarks that should be condemned by the Rocard-Gayssot law (against racist speech, holocaust denial, etc...)! And so, according to her, no "white male" would ever again be hired by Areva! Through her words, she brings discredit to her own company. We would advise all "white males" who work for Areva, or who hope to work for Areva to take their case to HALDE at the slightest hint of sexist or racist discrimination that emerges from the hiring policies of Madame Lauvergeon.

It is sad, but also fascinating, to examine the suicidal tendencies that are cropping up in our society nowadays. We assume that Madame Lauvergeon reproaches her father for being a "white male". As for her son, another horrible "white male", she has just doomed him to unemployment, unless her words only apply to lackeys, from whom she excludes herself and her relatives! We should like to point out that racism and sexism are perfectly acceptable when they are used in a context of anti-white racism, since no so-called anti-racist lobby has ever raised the slightest word of protest against such remarks.

When racism and imbecility, which go well together, come out of the mouth of a "great female executive" it is serious enough, but when this executive is at the head of such a sensitive enterprise as nuclear energy, it becomes unquestionably a problem of national and international security. This is why Anne Lauvergeon must no longer exercise her function as head of Areva, and as a further precaution, we demand the nationalization of Areva, considering that the chairmanship of the French nuclear enterprise must not fall into the hands of just anybody.

In a sequel to the above, Bernard Antony, as head of the anti-anti-white racism organization AGRIF, announces his intent to file a lawsuit against Madame Anne Lauvergeon for her "astounding sexist and racist remarks" relevant to her hiring policy at Areva.

Don't hold your breath...

We all wish him a resounding success, of course. If he fails, or if the case is thrown out of court, it will be very interesting to hear the court's reasoning on the issue, since Lauvergeon has made explicit remarks that are theoretically illegal by French law. But the court will very likely do what it has done before.

Some of you may remember a similar case at l'Oréal in 2008, when the CEO of the cosmetics giant, Jean-Paul Agon, admitted that a job seeker with a foreign name had more of a chance of being hired than a person with a French-sounding name. Then, as now, AGRIF sued. The case against l'Oréal was thrown out of court on grounds that, by showing favoritism towards those who are ordinarily victims of illegal discrimination, Agon was merely attempting to re-establish a balance that was compromised.

Shortly before the judgment was rendered by the court, Yves Daoudal expressed the opinion that it would probably fail simply because affirmative action (what the French call "positive discrimination") is the OFFICIAL IDEOLOGY, by way of Brussels' directives, which in turn, dictate French laws. Therefore, to condemn l'Oréal is to condemn French (i.e., European) law.

After the judgment, Daoudal wrote:

(...) This judgment, that is radically opposed to the rule of law, presages the next European directive on the subject, and is in accordance with what has already come to be called "balancing", most notably with regard to facilitating the building of mosques in order to "balance" the Muslim religion with the Catholic religion.

And this anti-French and anti-Christian ideology encounters no opposition. Not only is AGRIF kicked out, but it must pay a fine of 2500 euro in damages and interest to the CEO of l'Oréal for frivolous lawsuits...

The mosaic below is from the Wikipedia article on Rule of Law, which also provides this food for thought:

Generally speaking, law is a body of rules prescribed by the state subject to sanctions or consequences. The predominant view is that the concept of "rule of law" per se says nothing about the "justness" of the laws themselves, but simply how the legal system operates. As a consequence of this, a very undemocratic nation or one without respect for human rights can exist with a "rule of law" — a situation which may be occurring in several modern dictatorships. The "rule of law" or Rechtsstaat may be a necessary condition for democracy, but it is not a sufficient condition.

"We Are Transforming France..."

In December 2006, I posted an article on Houria Bouteldja, a young Algerian woman who regularly goes on verbal rampages against the French people, French civilization and white European culture in general. These rampages are frequently seen on television where her appearances are an occasion for national collective self-flagellation while seated in front of the tube. She is currently spokesperson for Les Indigènes de la République, an association of activist North Africans, blacks and Muslims who fight against racial inequality (actually, they fight against white culture). In 2006 she said:

"I believe it is necessary to denationalize the history of France...French identity is built around Christianity and Europeanism, that is, the fact of having white skin...French identity is being white and Christian... We Arabs, blacks and Muslims will always be outsiders...this Franco-centric identity must burst and bring into it everything that isn't white or Christian..."

In a subsequent post dated August 2007 I spoke of another television appearance during which she coined the term "souchien" to designate an ethnic Frenchman, with "souche" being the French word for "root". However her term had a double meaning: "souchien" also means "sub dog", i.e. lower than a dog (where "sous" means "sub" and "chien" means dog). This was the true intent of the insulting term which is now often used ironically or sarcastically at the French websites.

I was sure I would not be writing about her again, as I considered her to be psychotic. In the videos available of Ms. Bouteldja, she speaks like one possessed, her words spewing forth from her raging over-wrought mind like so many bullets aimed at the helpless, compliant whites sitting opposite her.

Despite my vow to avoid this woman, I came upon the following diatribe at the website Les Indigènes de la République. Addressed to Elisabeth Badinter (1), it is another Bouteldja rant, except, as one French blogger, Gérard Pince, has pointed out, her words, vindictive though they may be, are also unhappily all too true. She begins with cutting remarks about Badinter's belief in the notion that France is a melting pot, that Badinter's desire to ban the burka is a joke, that whether or not Badinter likes it she is slowly metamorphosing into an Afro-Arab, that Badinter's demand that those who do not love France should leave is also a joke, etc... In other words, for Bouteldja, it is not just an issue of integrating blacks and North Africans into France, but more significantly of integrating Frenchmen into the immigrant culture. Here are some excerpts:

(...) Not to mention the specific laws passed to stop us from anchoring ourselves here, and special ministers just for us. Little by little Elisabeth is metamorphosing from within. Sure, she resists. Her immune system is working well, sometimes it really works overtime. Her weapons? Words. Words that wage war on us. Words that label us, pigeonhole us, freeze us. Words to stifle us, prevent us from breathing: diversity, integration, visible minorities, black, beurs, moderate Islam, lost territories of the Republic... And yet we breathe and our breath is ARABIC, AFRICAN, MUSLIM. It is from the BANLIEUE (2).

As she learned at school, Elisabeth is convinced that France is a melting pot of integration and that France, knowing how to integrate, is integrating us as surely as Monsieur Jourdain (3) made prose without knowing it.

And the gal is right! The boa has swallowed us up. Those who, at least once in their life, have been ashamed of their parents, their accent, their manners will have no trouble understanding me. (...)

But fortunately, the reverse is also true. As painful as it may be to those who are super-sensitive about the French flag and those who sing the praises of eternal Gallic France: WE ARE TRANSFORMING FRANCE. In other words, France too, is integrating INTO US. Yes, it takes time, but there is no need for a conspiracy fomented by the Arab-Negroid-Berber masses, or for a plot hatched by bearded men with knives between their teeth. France will never again be as she was in the films of Fernandel. Our mere existence, combined with a relative demographic weight (1 for 6), is Africanizing, Arabizing, Berberizing, Creolizing, Islamizing, and darkening the eldest daughter of the Church, formerly immaculately white, as surely as the wash and backwash of the waves polishes and re-polishes blocks of granite claimed to be eternal. (4)

However, there is a limit we have not yet dared to go beyond: that of assuming this situation to be an irreversible fact and to have the audacity to demand the right to actively participate in the future of this country and in the construction of its identity. Worse still, we have not dared to go after Power. Or at least to take the part of power that is due us and to render homage to those who teach us that "to exist, is to exist politically." (5) (...)

Notes:
(1) Elisabeth Badinter (left) is a Socialist author of numerous works of history and the condition of women. She is the wife of French attorney Robert Badinter, who served as Minister of Justice under Mitterrand, and who was responsible for the law against capital punishment. Elisabeth Badinter is the daughter of the late Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, one of France's most prominent businessmen, and founder of Publicis, a giant advertising and communications company. She is also heiress to the company's fortune, owns about 10% of the stock and is chairman of the board of directors. A very rich Socialist indeed. Like the company she inherited, she is a multiculturalist and promoter of "diversity". She did say that Muslim women who wear the burka might consider going to Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan where they would feel more at home, but she has not advocated the closing of borders or any form of repatriation (that I know of).

(2) "Beur" refers to a North African. "Banlieue" refers to the suburbs. I preferred to retain the French terms in this article.

(3) Monsieur Jourdain is the main character in Molière's Bourgeois Gentilhomme. An arriviste without culture, he learns to his surprise that when he speaks it is "prose". Thus, according to Bouteldja, Elisabeth Badinter will one day learn to her surprise that she is an Arab without knowing it. (Those who dislike her would say she already is one, since her Socialist policies were responsible for the opening of the borders in the first place).

(4) The total population of France (including overseas departments) is given as 65,073,482. Is Bouteldja saying that there is one non-European for every 6 Europeans, or that one in six inhabitants of France is non-European? In the latter case, it means that one sixth of the population is Arab-African-Maghrebin, or very roughly, 10,845,000 persons.

(5) The author of the quote is one Abdelmalek Sayed, of whom I know nothing. The quote apparently comes from a book in which he insists that immigrants must be placed in positions of political power.

As I indicated above, Gérard Pince, an economist and founder of the Free World Academy has written his opinion of Houria Bouteldja's diatribe. He starts with an ironic description of the comforts of home:

I hope you are doing as I am doing. Cozily wrapped in a robe with a big woolen bonnet and warm slippers, I refuse to turn on the heat before November 15. They can always increase the price of gas. My lamb stew is simmering on the wood fire. With a great bottle of Juliénas, a delicious dinner awaits me!

He then tells how he managed to obtain a bottle of Corton, vintage 1955, for only 17 euro because the label was damaged. He hopes we all had the pleasure of hearing the unspeakable Bernard-Henri Lévy rage against the justice system for daring to pursue a rapist-pedophile. (Well, I DID report on Polanski, but omitted the profound words of BHL, feeling certain that we are all better off for not having to listen to that bloviator). He notes that rather than vaccinate the people against a flu of no importance, the government is instead giving booster shots on Nazism, and wonders why other genocides (Armenian, Ukrainian, Cambodian, or Rwandan ) are never mentioned.

He moves on to the situation in France:

Meanwhile the ship of the majority party is sinking inexorably. All the polls prove it, at least for those who still know how to count. If the presidential elections were to take place today, Nicolas Sarkozy would be roundly defeated. It's perfectly clear: he is under the evil influence of Madame Veto (i.e., Carla Bruni-Sarkozy). Everybody knows it, nobody dares say anything. So, we have to prepare for a return to power of the Left, since there is no other alternative. (If you still have doubts, review the astounding interview with Le Pen).

Note: He provides a link to the most recent Le Pen interview in which the leader of the Front National claims Islam is not incompatible with the principles of the French Republic. See my post.

Anyway, the way we're going, it won't change a thing. We will crash into the wall a little sooner, but with our eyes open.

Leaving the last word to Houria Bouteldja, he then closes with these words of thanks:

Thank you, Houria. This wonderful frankness does you honor, and above all thank you for confirming my demographic figures. I have more respect for an enemy that advances in full view than for all the phony idiots who pretend to fight Islamism and who spend the better part of their time stabbing us in the back.

You can review Gérard Pince's demographic predictions here.

Taking Over Paris Streets

Riposte Laïque posted the photos (above) of a Paris in the process of being colonized. The process may be slow, but it is steady, relentless. They were taken in the neighborhood of Barbès and rue des Poinssonniers. Barbès has been a type of black ghetto for a long time; now it is a Muslim enclave to boot. They show the streets gradually filling up with people as the carpets are laid down:

The next photo is of rue Léon - what a sight! More photos here. You can view the video version of this scene below.



Another page from Riposte Laïque relates the words and images picked up by author Maxime Lépante in various parts of the Barbès quarter, on Friday October 16:

The sidewalk on the right side of rue des Poissonniers is totally covered with Muslims kneeling on prayer rugs. The left sidewalk also begins to fill up. At that moment, a black Muslim wearing a djellaba and an orange arm band with the word "security", calls to the people who are standing around on the sidewalk watching the prayer: "Please get off the sidewalk. People will be praying there!"

In the Middle Ages they called that "being in charge of the street". It meant that those in a superior social position had reserved for their own use the part of the street closest to the houses, which was higher than the center of the street where the filthy waters flowed, while those in an inferior social position had to walk in those waters.

Closer to our own time, in North Africa until the 19th century, the Muslims forbade the Jews to walk in the clean part of the street, forcing them to use instead the part where the garbage was thrown.

And here we are today, in the middle of Paris, with Muslims reintroducing this barbaric practice, forcing non-Muslims to walk in the sewer, while the Muslims occupy the sidewalks! (...)

The prayer is over (...) The Muslims put their shoes back on, fold their rugs and take off in their cars. The visitor automatically looks at the license plates of the cars and notices with surprise that they come for the most part from the suburbs. We are informed that many Muslims who pray here do not live in the neighborhood. (...) It is not rare, we learn, to find cars with their doors wide open on rue Léon, as the owners rush to arrive before the end of the prayer.

So it isn't out of lack of space in the mosque that they pray in the open air every Friday, blocking the streets, but because so many of them come from the suburbs to pray in public, to occupy these Parisian streets that the French authorities turned over to them long ago!

What is this if not a deliberate Islamist strategy to take control of public spaces and impose their law on non-Muslims? (...)

This 3'40" video (without words) shows rue des Poissonniers as it fills up, and the non-Muslims walking in the middle of the street. Not much happens in the video, but it is a document testifying to the Islamization of the city. I found it repellent. Rue des Poissonniers was never "chic", but it was nothing like this.



Here is another one, about two minutes long, also wordless, of rue Léon, a narrower street. I found it thoroughly disgusting. I was surprised, however, to see some women without headscarves walking about. They appear to be European types. Are they in danger? Or are they perhaps used to making their way in this alien world? You'll see a red car that appears to be blocked by the kneeling Muslims.

Humanistic Values

Five days ago Nicolas Sarkozy granted an interview with Le Figaro in which he spoke of many topics. Here are the passages from that interview dealing with Frédéric Mitterrand:

- In your opinion, is the Frédéric Mitterrand affair now closed?

- I am President of the French Republic. I must defend certain values. I will not allow anyone to assimilate homosexuality with pedophilia. That would be returning to the Middle Ages, and those who use such an argument bring shame upon themselves. When I see the spokesman for the Socialist Party follow in the footsteps of Marine Le Pen and with such enthusiasm! I wonder where the humanistic values of this great republican party have gone. Frédéric Mitterrand never condoned sexual tourism - he even condemned it in very strong language. You mustn't confuse intimate confessions with proselytizing. His book was entitled The Bad Life, it's clear enough.

- But didn't Frédéric Mitterrand go too far?

- Frédéric Mitterrand admitted that his statement (about Roman Polanski) was an error and said he regretted it. What can I add to that? I can understand that people are shocked by the seriousness of the accusations against Roman Polanski. But I would add that judging a person 32 years after the fact, when he is 76 years old, is not a good way to administer justice.

Note: In the above statements Sarkozy admits openly his political preference for the values of the Socialist Party, when he expresses shock that a Socialist would agree with Marine Le Pen. He calls the Socialist Party "this great republican party" - an admission, as if it were needed, of his admiration for the Left. And he wonders where the party's "humanistic" values have gone??? When a person criticizes a minister's degenerate conduct, that person is no longer a humanist? It appears that France's "conservative" president is too leftist even for the Left.

Here is a strong reaction from a reader at Le Salon Beige:

- Sickening ruses of Sarkozy, displaying once again his abject lack of culture and his inability to analyze... He attains pomposity when he speaks of the Polanski affair, as if American justice had waited 32 years to decide... when in fact Polanski had been sought after for 32 years, ever since he fled, to be exact. As for confusing "homosexuality with pedophilia", going to Thailand to purchase "kids", "ephebes", and "very exciting young boys" is what for Sarkozy? A movie on Pink TV? This guy, who some claim is bisexual, is the most disgusting president France has ever had. He'll end up as he has sinned...

In the same interview Nicolas Sarkozy made some comments about the European Union:

- How do you regard the refusal of Czech President Vaclav Klaus to sign the Lisbon Treaty?

- This refusal is especially inadmissible because the Czech Parliament voted for the Treaty and the Czech government favors ratification. But the Czech president cannot play both sides. The time will come when he has to make a choice, and it will not be inconsequential. In any event, the question will be resolved by the year's end.

Note: Is that a prediction or a threat?

- Once the Lisbon Treaty is ratified, would Tony Blair be a good candidate for the presidency of the European Union?

- It is too soon to say. The issued will be debated. We have before us two possibilities: do we need a strong and charismatic president or a president who facilitates the search for consensus and who knows how to organize the work to be done? Personally, I believe in a politically strong Europe, with a president who personifies its values. But the fact that Great Britain is not in the euro zone remains a problem.

Note: If not Tony Blair, then who? Who, indeed!

Turkey - Resisting the Occupation

Several weeks ago I posted a photo of the Eiffel Tower dressed up in the Turkish flag, similar to the photo at left. Some readers wanted to know if this was a an official preview photo or a photoshop production. Its purpose was to announce to the people of France that their country was welcoming La Saison de la Turquie - a 10-month celebration of Turkish culture - by lighting up the Tower in red and white, with the Turkish flag superimposed.

I still don't know exactly where that photo came from, but the Eiffel Tower was indeed lit up from October 6 to October 11, in red and white lights, BUT without the flag superimposed (see photo below). This reduced considerably the shock of seeing the flag of a Muslim country superimposed on the French monument, but in no way reduced the reality that the French government, despite protests to the contrary from Sarkozy, favors Turkish accession. (Some objected to the absence of the flag on grounds that red and white could refer to other countries such as Poland.)



There is much material on Turkey - almost as much as on Frédéric Mitterrand! Here is a sampling. First, a video from the Bloc Identitaire, an identitarian movement with branches all over France. The video shows the action taken by the Bloc on the occasion of the lighting of the Eiffel Tower. Translation is not necessary. You will see that the protestors projected onto the wall of the Palais de Chaillot the message, "Turkey, no thank you". Others across the way chanted "Turkey, no thank you" and "Turkey, out of Europe!"



Civitas, an association of young Catholics who promote their faith and oppose Turkey posted this account of a small-scale protest on October 9. The low attendance was disappointing:

Civitas-Paris led a protest against the lighting of the Eiffel Tower in the colors of the Turkish flag. Around the Tower, a banner was unfurled: "No to Christianophobic Turkey." Five French flags bearing the symbol of the Sacred Heart were flying in the wind. Only about 50 persons answered our call to rally. Passers-by stopped to watch. A young activist speaking through a megaphone explained the reasons for our protest.

Soon, "young people" appeared on the scene. The defenders of the Turkish cause tried to intimidate us. As for the police, an officer in civilian clothes said, without batting an eyelash, that nothing could be done to ensure our safety, despite the fact that we had been authorized to demonstrate. Too bad. A few determined young men promised to protect our gathering. The police officer showed mild appreciation, thinking he was dealing with gentle impressionable Catholics. Such was not the case.

After speaking through the megaphone, the participants began the rosary in remembrance of the victory at Lepanto. Tourists filmed the scene. Passers-by encouraged and congratulated us. We stayed for one hour. Our protest was symbolic. An expression by Catholics who refuse to resign themselves. An expression by Catholics who will not abandon the terrain.

The rest of the article is devoted to facts about Turkey and why it should not be allowed to join the EU. This item is important:

Turkey has seventy million inhabitants (ninety-five million in 2020), plus two hundred million Turkish-speaking peoples as far as Sakhalin Island. For Turkey, any Turkophone is considered to be a Turk. According to an official study, one third of the Turks would emigrate immediately, were Turkey admitted into Europe. (...)

It is often overlooked that Turkey is not confined to Turkey proper, but includes several other Turkish-speaking lands, who have easy and rapid access to Turkish nationality. Yves Daoudal mentions this in a recent post, dated October 9. The perma link is not working properly, so I have instead provided a link to his search result page on Turkey. This article focuses on the recent visit to Paris by Turkish president Abdullah Gül:

Nicolas Sarkozy and Abdullah Gül agreed that the European question could not be resolved in the near future and that, consequently, it "should not envenom all relations between the two countries," reports Elysée. They want "to avoid having this issue weigh like lead on everything else and thus block relations between the two on other topics."

According to Elysée, France proposed "a Franco-Turkish cooperation on nuclear issues, not only in Turkey, but also in the countries of Central Asia": an official acknowledgment that the Turkish Empire extends into Central Asia, and that these countries will be part of the European Union when Turkey joins (in accordance with the agenda now being carried out, despite Sarkozy's façade of opposition.)

Among those Central Asian countries are Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Those interested can consult this Wikipedia page on Turkish languages.

Another post from the same Yves Daoudal web page cited above quotes an Armenian website, Pan Armenian:

(...) The Turkish prime minister Recep Tayip Erdogan declared to the daily Milliyet that the design of Turkey is to live in peace with all countries and to restore the power of the Ottoman Empire...

"I believe that each family must have at least three children. We believe in the future of Turkey and we wish everyone to believe in it."

He also described Turkish-Russian relations as "strategic": "Russia is our partner. Commerce between our two countries has reached forty billion dollars." (...)

An article in Le Figaro illustrates the degree to which Turkey has implanted itself on German soil:

The leaders of the Turkish community in Germany believe they have found a solution to help the integration of Muslims: the adoption of Islamic holidays for all German students, whatever their religion. The proposal has set off a fierce debate in Germany, where the authorities are attempting to help the integration of immigrants, with the hope of compensating in part for a rapidly declining birth rate. (...)

The article quotes Kenan Kolat, president of the Turkish Community in Germany:

"It would be nice if they would grant a day off to all German children for the end of Ramadan (...) It would be a sign of tolerance (...) German society ought to extend its hand to help integration." He added that many Turks agree to have a Christmas tree, even though theoretically they are opposed to it, "out of love for their children."

The figure below, showing the number of Muslims in Germany, comes from the Figaro article.


I'll close this article with a quote from the paper publication Minute featured atLe Salon Beige:


Gustave Eiffel could not have imagined that in June 1940 after the invasion of France by Germany, Adolph Hitler would immortalize himself by standing on the Trocadéro, with the Eiffel Tower in the background, creating the most symbolic image possible of the conquest of France. Nor could he have imagined that in October 2009, his edifice would be lighted in the colors of a country which (...) has become a demographic and religious threat.

This comment from Le Salon Beige informs me of something I never knew. (I knew about the coffee, but not the croissants):

- As a sign of resistance, let's eat croissants. In 1683, this Viennese confection was created by the bakers of Vienna who were happy to have given the alert during a nocturnal attack by the Turks, who then fled, leaving behind them 500 bags of coffee... It's this crucial Western victory that we commemorate every morning at breakfast... Bon appétit, and thanks to the Austrians.

There's much more to come on Turkey.

Note: As I post, the most recent item on Daoudal's web page (link above) says that Angela Merkel has agreed NOT to oppose negotiations on Turkey, and will agree to a "privileged partnership" should the negotiations fail. To put it differently, she is a carbon copy of Sarkozy.

Rioting In Marseilles

On October 12, in the Algerian city of Blida, the Algerian soccer team won a match against Rwanda. The victory signaled the eruption of violence in many French cities where Algerians are a large minority (I won't say "majority", since I have no evidence that is the case. A group does not have to be "majority" to cause trouble or to disable and terrorize into submission an existing political or social structure.) Here is the first of two articles from Novopress:

The victory of Algeria over Rwanda in the World Cup qualifying match unleashed scenes of celebration in various French cities, scenes that were particularly striking examples of the progressive colonization of France. The celebrations in Marseilles soon turned into riots: store-fronts smashed, bus stops smashed, trash cans set on fire...

Seven persons were taken into custody for "damage, insults, rebellion, and causing injuries to authorized police". Six policemen were injured.

The riots prompted the mayor of Orange, Jacques Bompard, to demand a ban on such demonstrations. Bompard, who has been closely connected to Philippe de Villiers and the MPF party, now heads a splinter group called Ligue du Sud (Southern League). He formed the group shortly after Villiers joined Nicolas Sarkozy's government. The article from Novopress is dated October 12:

Algeria's victory in the qualifying match for the next World Cup has once again allowed us to measure the grave consequences of immigration in our region. All the local papers have similar stories this morning about the demonstrations and violent eruptions that occurred during the night. In Marseilles, according to La Provence, it was a "human tidal wave" of 3000 Algerians who "flooded the Old Port". In Nice and Toulon, similar crowds blocked traffic and attacked passers-by, often without the police intervening for fear of stirring up more violence. In Marseilles, confronted with incidents of such magnitude, the riot police finally succeeded in rushing the troublemakers.

The Ligue du Sud demands a ban on such gatherings, that are completely predictable, and that provide, on the pretext of sports, a certain segment of the population with an opportunity to show its disdain for the laws of France and its hatred of her inhabitants. We would like to remind the foreigners living on our soil that there is a very simple way to fully express their exacerbated nationalism: they have only to return to their homeland.

The photo at the top, the only one I could find, is from Viviane Ricard, and seems to be showing a fan defying the police.

Vandalism In Poitiers

Downtown Poitiers was the scene of an eruption of violence of major proportions on Saturday October 10. This article from Slate was linked by Le Salon Beige:

Nearly 300 people claiming to belong to an anti-imprisonment collective entered downtown Poitiers on Saturday October 10 and unleashed a series of acts of destruction and vandalism. Eighteen persons, including "ultra-left-wing" activists, were arrested by police in the wake of exceptionally violent incidents.

The demonstrators broke twenty store-front windows, bus stops, and phone booths, and covered religious monuments such as the Saint-John Baptistery, one of the oldest (fourth century) Christian monuments in France, with hate-filled anarchistic messages.

The rally, announced at several anarchist blogs, was supposed to be a protest against the October 11 transfer of prisoners from the old city prison to the new one. But the prefecture was overwhelmed by the scope of the action. "We were taken by surprise by the violence and the organization," confided Anne Frackowiack, the prefect's chief of staff. "We had a commando operation from the ultra-Left that turned out to be bigger than expected, with activists coming in from other departments," she stressed.

"There were lots of people in town. Suddenly they took out their masks in the middle of the crowd and left in the direction of the prison," throwing projectiles at the police and destroying urban property. A police commissioner was slightly injured in the hand as was an officer from the anti-criminal brigade when a hammer hit his helmet. A salesman from the Bouygues store who tried to intervene was also slightly injured, added Anne Frackowiack. Bouygues was targeted above all since it is the builder of the new prison.

This commando operation was very well planned; as far as the police are concerned the goal of the participants was to "smash" everything. They discovered, in a parking lot, a cache of weapons containing Molotov cocktails, clubs and smoke bombs.

Saturday night concerts were cancelled out of security concerns. The night finally calmed down and the first transfer of prisoners was carried out.

According to Le Salon Beige, government sources did not mention the vandalism of the church.

Those interested can consult my recent posts on Poitiers: on the building of two mosques, and on the beautiful and historic old churches.

The photos are of the Saint-John Baptistery. The one above, of the façade, is from Trivago.