Direct Democracy

Among those scheduled to speak at the International Conference on Islamization, December 18 in Paris, is Oskar Freysinger, the Swiss deputy responsible for the vote banning minarets in Switzerland and the more recent vote to expel foreign criminals. Here are some excerpts from a long interview with Riposte Laïque:

- RL: What do you say to those, situated on the left of the political chess board, who blame your movement for fostering identitarianism, the bringer of the worst xenophobic excesses.

- OF: That they are firemen who set fires. In the name of multiculturalism and openness, they import crime and insecurity. Then, they want smaller police forces to face the situation. They are the ones responsible for the slippery slope of crime and racism. The truth is that having a large foreign criminal population creates a climate of guilt by association ("amalgames"), xenophobia, and racism. (...)

- RL: How do you explain the fact that the European parties of the Left leave these issues to you? Would they not gain a great electoral advantage from them?

- OF: Their intent is to destroy identities, roots and nation-states. Uncontrolled immigration is the best way to destroy national coherence and to create the the new man, cut off from his cultural roots and "open to everything", indeed to anything.

- RL: What conditions are needed, in your opinion, for Europe to emerge the victor in the war that the most fanatical Muslims have declared?

- OF: The reintroduction of institutional mechanisms similar to those of Swiss direct democracy.

- RL: Recently, in an interview with Jean Robin, you explained that France was washed up, unless a new Charles Martel could be found as quickly as possible. Can you be more specific?

- OF: A nation is like the human body. It has its antibodies and its threatening viruses. I perceive that France has destroyed a good part of her antibodies and that the viruses (violence, uncivil behavior, crime, scorn for the host country and for republican values, parallel laws and practices incompatible with the Rule of Law, etc...) are progressing very rapidly.

- RL: You will be in Paris, on December 18, at the invitation of Riposte Laïque and a collective of twenty-seven associations, for the international secular conference against the Islamization of our countries. Resistance fighters from more than ten European countries, secularists, feminists, unionists, will also be present. What will your state of mind be? (1)

- OF: First, I will demonstrate the incompatibility between two political-juridical concepts that are totally antinomic (democracy and Islamic law). Then, I'm going to sketch out the only solution possible to combat the Islamist threat: direct democracy. That will allow me to explain how institutions function in Switzerland, the last truly free country on the European continent.

(1) Riposte Laïque's question is revealing. First they refer to the conference as the "secular conference" (in French "assises laïques"), which is not its official name; then they point to the presence of feminists, unionists, etc... who will be there, proof that the conference is not geared at all to traditional France. No wonder Catholics are hesitant to attend...

However, they are not forbidden to attend, and possibly it would be a show of strength for them to go and make their presence felt. France would not exist without the Monarchy and the Church, and the sooner the Left realizes and acknowledges this, the sooner they can work together, if not happily, at least out of necessity.