Ségolène’s France


Fetching and not overly bright

Howard Sutherland is on a tear:

I think you read French, and please accept my apologies if you don’t. Here is another sick-making story, from France this time. Ségolène Royal, the fetching but not overly bright Socialist candidate for France’s presidency, has always groveled to the invaders now entrenched in France, but this is over the top even for her.

Royal goes to Clichy-sous-Bois, the now-overrun Paris suburb where the banlieue intifada of late 2005 started. There, she poses with the families of the two juvenile delinquents—the one Berber or Arab, the other West African, both of them Moslem—who were so unwise as to take refuge from the police in an active electric power station where they were, predictably, electrocuted. As you may know, the policemen involved are now being prosecuted for failing to render aid to those who were fleeing from them. That is, for not calling the national utility and demanding that the power be shut off!

Posing with these evocative multicult victim-families, Mlle. Royal (we cannot call her Mme. Hollande; although Ségolène has four children by the head of the Socialist Party, François Hollande, she and their father have never bothered to get married), announces to the assembled unassimilables: “You are not a problem but a part of the solution to our problems!” She then signs a 105-point “Social and Citizens Contract” laundry list of minority-grievance demands for special treatment, presented to her by yet another “anti-racism” group that has sprung up to take advantage of the banlieue intifada.

I agree with VFR’s recent criticisms of Jean-Marie Le Pen, for whom I once held out hope. Now I hope Philippe de Villiers, who really wants to keep France French and knows what France must do to survive, will break out of the pack and be a real contender. Still, if I were a Frenchman with a vote in a Royal v. Le Pen contest, I would vote for Le Pen in a second.

LA replies:

Ségolène has, of course, called for France to become a “mixed-blood” country. I also want to underscore the remarkable fact that one of the two major candidates for the presidency of France is a mother of four who has not married the father of her children. Apparently this is not even a topic of controversy in France. So, unmarried motherhood raised to the highest level of France, and racial diversity and intermarriage raised to the highest level of France, plus the idea that the Muslims in the banlieus are the “solution” to France’s problems. Put the three together, and the essence of Ségolène’s New France is: a country of mixed-race people born out of wedlock living under increasingly Islamo-centric institutions, and presided over an omnicompetent state that will meet all their needs.

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Tiberge from Galliawatch writes:

They are all pandering to the banlieus and Le Pen is now under the influence of a Marxist philosopher Alain Soral. Le Pen’s speech in Lille on Sunday was a wild mix of Marxism, bleeding-heart socialism and everything but the kitchen sink, to the horror of his most traditionalist base.

If I had to choose between Royal and Le Pen, I probably would abstain. If a knife were at my throat I’d vote Le Pen, but Howard Sutherland should be advised that Le Pen is reaching out to the banlieus also, telling them it’s not their fault, it’s the fault of French politicians. He’s not entirely wrong there. Le Pen’s daughter Marine insists this is all “marketing.”

LA replies:

You know that a political party has hit bottom when one of its leading figures publicly states that the positions taken by its standard bearer are nothing but marketing. I dont’t think even the sophists of fifth century Athens told their clients to advertise the fact that the words they were speaking had been put into their mouths by the Athenian equivalent of marketing consultants.

Mr. Sutherland replies:

After reading Tiberge’s post, rather than vote Le Pen, I would write in De Villiers or maybe even Joan of Arc! Is Le Pen taking his orders from his daughter, or is he giving her orders?

Posted by Lawrence Auster at February 27, 2007 01:39 PM | Send