Jean-Marie Le Pen Accuses Norwegian Government

Jean-Marie Le Pen, former head of the Front National, father of Marine, and veteran provocateur, made some comments about the Norway killings that have aroused a new storm of controversy, prompting many leftists to demand that Marine respond to her father's indiscretions. What did he say? He called the killings an "accident", he chided the Norwegian government for its naïveté, for closing its eyes to the dangers of mass immigration, and he referred to Norway as a "likable little country." Nothing to blow a fuse over. But when he speaks, he detonates. Now Marine will have to deal with this new embarrassment (she may not perceive it as such, but the media are hounding her), just a few days after she suspended Jacques Coutela from the Front National. Coutela, who was a candidate in the cantonal elections, published a text at his blog extolling Anders Breivik as a "defender of the West" and a "new Charles Martel". Coutela immediately deleted the text, insisting he was not its author and that he did not share the author's views.

Jean-Marie Le Pen's remarks on Norway begin at about 3'11" into the video and end at about 6'.


Le Journal de Bord de Jean-Marie Le Pen n°239 by polecom

Here is a translation of what he said about Norway:

The inquiry will tell us more, but apparently he's a man not in possession of his intellectual faculties, he's sick, I think, but the situation is grave, it seems to me, not because of the accident of an individual who, in the throes of madness, however temporary, goes about murdering his fellow countrymen. What is more grave, what this affair demonstrates, is the naïveté and even the inaction of the Norwegian government. You know the police in Norway are not armed. Obviously when an individual goes about murdering his fellow countrymen it's not easy for the police to act, and I think the guard who was at the meeting of the Labor Party (on the island) was among the first to be shot down.

So the heaviest responsibility I think belongs to the Norwegian government and the Norwegian society that had fallen asleep in the comfort that comes - it has to be said - from hydrocarbons, an oil-producing and oil-exporting country, a likable little country at that, but it did not grasp the scope of the world-wide dangers, first from massive immigration - the main cause it seems in the mind of this murderous madman - and terrorism, which is a world-wide phenomenon that does not belong to any one particular country.

I think therefore that there was a weakness on the part of the government authorities who are now probably going to react brutally… It reminds me of Holland, a country known for its social laxness. The deaths of Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh were enough to provoke an extremely brutal reaction of Dutch society, that suddenly realized the dangers threatening it. And I think it will be the same thing for any country that moves forward with its eyes shut to the major phenomenon of our time.

Jean-Marie Le Pen separates the two issues - the demented killer and massive immigration. This is what most right-wing bloggers, writers, commentators, and politicians have tried to do. But at the same time, Le Pen cannot avoid the connection between immigration and the dangers hovering over the lands of Europe. It is primarily because of this association - between immigration and crime - that the media are at his throat.

In the world of the "good people" ("les bien pensants", as the French say) it is forbidden to imply that immigration is a major cause of crime.