A Declaration of War
This video with English subtitles has had an unexpectedly explosive success on the Internet, and has been translated into many languages. YouTube registers over sixty-five thousand views for the English subtitled version.
I received the French version four days ago from a French reader, and thought it was interesting, but frankly nothing new, since the Bloc Identitaire has been an active voice for the restoration of French identity, especially the regional identities, for many years. The Bloc Identitaire, with its branches all over France, as well as in other countries, represents the need for an historic identity, the attachment to the soil, to one's ancestors, and the refusal of the tyranny of centralized power in Paris. For this reason, as well as others, more personal perhaps, the Bloc rejected the Front National and its leader Jean-Marie Le Pen with his strong nationalism. When Marine Le Pen took over, the Bloc was very reticent at first, and for a while preferred to look elsewhere - namely the Socialist Party, of all things! - for a suitable candidate to endorse (They endorsed Arnaud Montebourg because of his anti-globalist stand). But the force of the truth was too strong and eventually when the presidential election came around they were, perhaps reluctantly, on the side of the FN.
The Bloc has always been anti-American, and for a while was openly anti-Israel, since in their view Israel is the vassal of the U.S.. They categorically reject "Atlantism" - the policy of accommodation with the U.S. Over time they toned down their antisemitic rhetoric, maybe because they realized it was detrimental to their cause. But you will still sometimes see Jews or those friendly to Jews referred to as "zionists", especially in the comments. The Bloc is Christian, but not oriented toward religious issues except when there is a major issue in the news, and they recognize the primordial role of the Church in the foundation of their country. They come across as toughies, ready for battle, what we might call "red-necks". They have in the past staged nighttime calls of the muezzin, so that the populations of various cities might know what life will sound like when Islam rules. Rather than connecting directly with the Front National, the Bloc has recently found an ally in the secular Riposte Laïque, another website I consult frequently. The Bloc Identitaire has a news agency called Novopress that I have used on countless occasions as a source of information and commentary.
As I said, this video did not blow me away at the time because the Bloc has made many impressive videos with ominous background music and striking unnerving images. But since it has been so overwhelmingly received, I concede I must have had been asleep when I first viewed it.
You can read more about it at Gates of Vienna and Lawrence Auster's VFR.
Note: The reference to Bernard Kouchner's "bag of rice" harks back to 1992 when the founder of Doctors Without Borders ostentatiously marched into war-torn Somalia with a bag of rice on his shoulder to help the starving people. We all know how that ended. Kouchner was always an interventionist, and displayed his "humanitarian" ideals theatrically.
Labels: Anti-White Racism, Bernard Kouchner, Culture, Front National, Identitaires, National Identity, Resistance
posted by tiberge @ 2:40 AM
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I have believed for a long while that it will be France that starts the fight back. I just dont believe that the French are cheese eating surrender monkeys. It was French media that published the Danish Mohammed cartoons while the US media self censored itself. So then, so now – Hebdo.
The French are central to the salvation of the West.
1.They are central to European civilisation.
2. When they start the fight back, Germany will be able to follow without being crippled by its Nazi past. With France and Germany together, the whole of the Europe will start the fight back.
It all depends on France, just as the English speaking world depends on Britain. The US is the physical leader of the Anglo-sphere, but it is Britain that is the spiritual leader.
DP111
"Kouchner was always an interventionist, and displayed his "humanitarian" ideals theatrically. "
The Guignols when making fun of Kouchner and the bag of rice, are always putting in a
- Are you filming now?
so you would think that at the time, he really did the rice bag stunt for the cameras:)
The Egyptian Swiss Tariq Ramadan defends Algeria and gives lessons to La France and the French at Le Petit Journal
http://www.fdesouche.com/327519-grand-journal-c-tarik-ramadan-vs-thierry-mariani
"I just dont believe that the French are cheese eating surrender monkeys"
Not cheese eating, and soon no longer chocolate cake eaters on their way home from school..
UMP's Jean-Francois Copé has been pointing out that during the muslims' fasting period, ramadan, thieves(...) are grabbing chocolate cakes from parents who show up at schools to pick up their children in the afternoon.
- Why? Because "it is forbidden to eat during ramadan". - Swiss rolls, too!
Ramadan, the Egyptian Swiss, makes sure that everyone shall learn that "La France is laughing at this".
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Wife of Morocco's king present at Luxembourg royal wedding this weekend
French Nationalists Occupy Mosque Roof, Demanding Referendum on Muslim Immigration
http://islamversuseurope.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/french-nationalists-occupy-mosque-roof.html
DP111
The French People turned their back on the two institutions that created France; the monarchy and the church. I hope the young people in this video are representative of so many in France. In 496 Clovis was crowned in Reims; that was the beginning of France. Not the republic which was born in lies and continues to deny its past and heritage. God help all the young people of France who wish to reclaim their heritage.
Thank God for the French. I pray that this tiny belated revolt against themselves gains for them the final solution that a minority in the West have been hoping for; another chance to vote. To vote on the continuation of our existence. This could be the beginning of the reversal of the compulsive desire for the suicidal incursion of Islam into the West by the West. Viva la referendum!
Maybe the French can conjure up some sort of legal strategy to stall and possibly prevent the completion of this one symbolic mosque. Though these moderate Muslims could still blanket the place with pray rugs, or continue to attend any one of the other mosques popping up with celebration, the hand writing will be on the wall. After all, stopping one of the hundred and fifty or so new mosques currently under construction in France will have a huge symbolic effect. But, won't even that be counter productive? I hear, from the ruling authority, that it is only the moderate Muslim who operates and attends all of the mosques in the West. I'm told that these moderates are the necessary and the only antidote to Islamic extremism. Are this young Frenchmen dupes? How are the communities and indiginious populations to be properly educated if they are limited to too few moderate mosques? The number of Mosques in France doubled to two thousand during the last ten years. That number is projected to double again over the next ten years, continuing so to when? That fact versus only ten new Catholic churchs in the same period. The big mo is clearly not behind a hundred born-again, civic minded, existentialist neo-Frenchmen.
Continuing to be civil is feckless posturing in the face of certain death. What's the point of a man being stoic in his defiance in the moment that he drowns? To be well thought of and respected by those who forced him from the crowded boat after having repeatedly told him and his elders that this time would certainly come if he ever invited them aboard?
They categorically reject "Atlantism" - the policy of accommodation with the U.S.
That is not surprising.
This whole multicultural melting pot idea was foisted on Europe post WWII. A reasonably good idea, as long as the population mix, even in the USA, was really made up of European Christians.
But now it has proved to be a unmitigated disaster, even in America. In Europe, which never was a continent of immigrants, its leading to a civil war.
In Yugoslavia war, the US ws not really defending Muslims in Europe. I believe the US was defending the concept of the "Melting pot", which has been its main social guiding principle since WWII. They cannot abandon the idea, as that would be to admit that the US constitution is not applicable to all people. That would be to admit that a set of principles, no matter how universal they may appear to be, can have resonance only in those who created it, and have direct kinship to it.
It is therefore understandable that the Bloc Identitaire, rejects Atlantism.
Thanks to all for your comments.
@ Buck
I wasn't aware that the mosques were operated by and used by mostly "moderate" Muslims. The information on mosques that I have indicates they are often built at the behest of extremely radical Islamic leaders with ties to organizations such as the Brotherhood. The people inside the mosque praying may be "average" Muslims, but they are still following the dictates of the their imams who in turn are close to the promoters and financiers in Algeria and Morocco and Saudi Arabia and wherever else the big money comes from. The mayors who gave the Muslims the land for the mosque are themselves Socialists, Communists or what we call RINOS. So everybody involved in the creation of a mosque is in one way or another an extremist and an enemy of the West. I agree that building more mosques with the idea of spreading "moderate Islam" is insane. It's based on the assumption that these moderates will somehow see the light and convert, or reject Islam, or fight for France. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The actions of the Generation Identitaire and the Bloc Identitaire
are completely legitimate, if not always legal. The mosques themselves are illegal, moderate or otherwise. Islam, as a conquering ideology seeking world domination is illegitimate and illegal, and insofar as the duty of any State is to protect its people against invasion, the State itself has become illegitimate, if not illegal.
The young Frenchmen are not dupes. They felt completely within their rights. And you are right that there is no honor in being stoic at the moment of doom if you could have prevented that moment.
@ anonymous 5:01 a.m.
Very good point. We are guilty of selling the ideas of a "melting pot", democracy as a universal desire, and now globalism as a way for all mankind to achieve wealth. We have always been overly boastful of our successes. But most highly successful nations are boastful. The British Empire felt it had the best civilization, and that it was doing its colonies a favor by civilizing them (it was true). The French unquestionably felt that spreading French culture to Africa was a good thing. The greatness of Spain led to explorations of worlds unknown, and the Spanish were rightly proud. Greece, Rome, and the civilization of the Hebrew nation and its religion have all had monumental incalculable effects on our own civilization and are still rivals for the title of the Greatest Civilization.
The difference this time is primordial - the forced mixing of races and the imposition of a religion that seeks to dominate, subjugate and ultimately destroy all the success stories listed above. Whenever Muslims take over a land, they destroy the culture that was there, and impose an inferior culture. This is the OPPOSITE of what was done before when more advanced and more highly differentiated cultures were imposed (or at least offered) to backward nations. So we are in a reversal of progress, a major regression.
This is an interesting summary of the BI but I think your implication of covert anti-Semitism may be incorrect. There’s no question that the French far right has a history of this and remains critical of Israel (not, of course, the same as being anti-Semitic) but the reality of the Islamic threat has caused many to re-think things. (As, for example, Guillaume Faye’s publication of La nouvelle question juive in 2008 showed – although many would still find aspects of that work objectionable.)
Interestingly, the Bloc itself was attacked in 2010/2011 by Terre et Peuple leader (and former GRECEist) Pierre Vial for being a “Zionist tool” and as a group of “useful idiots” serving Israeli interests. The BI’s relationship with Riposte Laique, an organization guilty in Vial’s words of a “permanent and systematic defense of Israel…”, came in for especially harsh criticism, as did the Bloc's supposed “increasingly unconcealed connection” with the Jewish Defense League. (http://tierraypueblo.blogspot.com/2011/01/instrumentalizacion-sionista-del.html)
Regarding the BI and the FN, I had thought that the BI actually took an agnostic position in the elections, refusing to endorse Marine, with only Nissa Rebela breaking ranks to officially endorse the her. (http://www.right-world.net/en/news/1830) Did they finally relent? (I hope so!)
John,
Thank you for your comment which adds considerably to my post. The information I provided was based largely on my impressions after several years of reading Novopress, but there was never a stated policy of antisemitism from the BI. There were many articles over the years in which hostility or contempt for Israel and/or French Jewish intellectuals was obvious, to a greater or lesser degree depending on the article. They unquestionably were anti-American because I remember specifically a cartoon depicting planes flying into buildings. I don't have it, but it was a rather cruel mockery of the event.
I do believe they adjusted their position, out of necessity. They once posted a short article by Pierre Vial, and it appeared at the time that they were not against his "neopagan" philosophy. However, if they cleaned up their act, it is not surprising that he would turn against them and call them "zionists", which as you know is the worst insult one can receive!
They were not at all in favor of Marine Le Pen, but they seemed to have relented at the end. I have no proof. Unfortunately, I am relying mainly on impressions formed over six years. If you say Nissa Rebela alone broke ranks, I accept that because I don't have proof positive that any other branch broke ranks. Some of them may actually have voted for Hollande - they would never vote for Sarkozy. Marine Le Pen has shown no special fondness for them and I believe (though cannot prove) that her strained support for the Poitiers mosque occupation was due to her resentment for their lack of support of her and her father, and also for their regionalism which conflicts with her basic vision of a centralized République.
If you keep up with some of the inner workings of the BI, don't hesitate to let me know what you learn. I will gladly post an additional article on them, since they seem to be the best hope we have right now. Unity (or disunity) among the factions of the patriotic Right is and has been the problem. Some hard-headed Catholics will have nothing to do with the BI or RL or MLP. There is so much internal resentment, which is why I so admire what the GI did in Poitiers. They took the bull by the horns and acted decisively.
I'm afraid that I haven't been very helpful here. I should take the time to research the BI more thoroughly. The GI is holding a convention in Orange in a few days. It promises to be fruitful - among those present will be Renaud Camus, Jacques Bompard (mayor of Orange), Christian Vanneste who was kicked out of the UMP by Sarkozy for his anti-homosexual rights position.
John,
That Spanish-language article is very interesting, but I don't know if I entirely agree that the BI is basically a pro-Israel group. I can't say for sure, as I indicated before, but it is possible that ties were formed with the JDL long ago. Maybe the BI admires the tactics of the JDL and realized that they had in common a certain idea of how to protect one's own nation. It would be surprising if the BI had been in cahoots with the JDL from the start, but anything is possible. Pierre Vial sniffs out "zionists" like a bloodhound and any connection would seem to him treasonous. What does trouble me though is the Leftist matrix out of which Riposte Laïque emerges. This has been their weak point from the start and Christine Tasin never misses an opportunity to show off her feminism, either in words or the revealing clothing she sometimes wears. As for Cassen, he's bright and writes well, but if he lives with Christine he must be at heart a left-winger. These people are the modern equivalent of Communist Resistance fighters of WWII. The BI for some reason found them more congenial than the Front National or any other movement. I don't know if "zionism" is a major motivation of the BI, nor do I agree that the interests of Israel and Europe are not the same (even if Europeans and Israelis don't realize it), nor do I accept the idea that Israel is using the "useful idiots" of the Resistance for their own benefit. Pierre Vial cannot abide any alliance that would adulterate the racial purity he seeks. However, I have to add that I am always impressed by some of Vial's writings and wish there were some way of resolving this endless problem of Jewish influence in Europe. And I agree that many Jewish intellectuals on the Left exert intensive pressures on public opinion. They are attractive, funny, persuasive speakers and writers, and people seem to fall under their spell. They simply have to be put down, countered with opposing arguments, rather than allowed to dominate the media.
That article is a bit clearer (to me ) in French:
http://www.terreetpeuple.com/actualite/chroniques-par-pierre-vial/instrumentalisation-sioniste-du-refus-de-lislamisme.html
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