Michael Ejercito
2017-02-06 14:05:08 UTC
France: Le Pen Launches Presidential Campaign
"This election is a choice of civilization."
by Soeren Kern
February 6, 2017 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9900/le-pen-speech
"The question is simple and cruel: will our children live in a free,
independent, democratic country?" — Marine Le Pen, leader of France's
National Front party.
"Economic globalization, which rejects any limits, has weakened the immune
system of the nation by dispossessing it of its constituent elements:
borders, national currency, the authority of its laws in conducting economic
affairs, and thus allowing another world to be born and grow: Islamic
fundamentalism." — Marine Le Pen.
"Islamic fundamentalism instrumentalizes the principle of religious freedom
in an attempt to impose patterns of thought that are clearly the opposite of
ours. We do not want to live under the yoke or threat of Islamic
fundamentalism." — Marine Le Pen.
"Globalism is based, as we see, on the negation of the values on which
France was built and on the principles in which the immense majority of
French people still recognize themselves: the pre-eminence of the person and
therefore its sacred character, individual freedom and therefore individual
consent, national feeling and therefore national solidarity, equality of
persons and therefore the refusal of situations of submission." — Marine Le
Pen.
"Those who come to France are to accept France, not to transform it to the
image of their country of origin. If they want to live at home, they should
have stayed at home." — Marine Le Pen.
"In terms of terrorism, we do not intend to ask the French to get used to
living with this horror. We will eradicate it here and abroad." — Marine Le
Pen.
"Everyone agrees that the European Union is a failure. It did not deliver on
any of its promises, particularly on prosperity and security.... That is
why, if elected, I will announce a referendum within six months on remaining
or exiting the European Union..." — Marine Le Pen.
"The old left-right debates have outlived their usefulness.... This divide
is no longer between the left and the right, but between patriots and
globalists." — Marine Le Pen.
Marine Le Pen, the leader of the anti-establishment National Front party,
has officially launched her campaign to become the next president of France.
Speaking at a rally attended by thousands of her supporters in Lyon on
February 5, Le Pen launched a two-pronged attack on globalization and
radical Islam. She promised French voters a referendum on remaining in the
European Union, and also to deport Muslims who are deemed a security risk to
France.
National Front party leader Marine Le Pen, speaking at a rally in Lyon,
France on February 5, 2016. (Image source: Public Senat video screenshot)
Le Pen's political platform is contained in a manifesto of 144 promises
regarding immigration and global trade.
Polls show that Le Pen — who said the election of U.S. President Donald J.
Trump "shows that people are taking their future back" — is one of the most
popular politicians in France.
A February 2 Ifop-Fiducial poll for Paris Match, iTELE and Sud-Radio showed
Le Pen with 24.5% of the vote, compared to 20% for François Fillon of the
center-right Republicans party. In December 2016, Fillon, who has become
engulfed in a corruption scandal, held a three-point lead over Le Pen.
The poll also showed the independent centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron with
20% of the vote, the Socialist Party candidate Benoît Hamon with 17%, and
the far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon with 9.5%.
The first round of the election will be held April 23. If no candidate gets
more than 50% of the vote, a runoff will be held on May 7.
Following is an abridged translation of key parts of Le Pen's speech:
In all respects, this presidential election is unlike previous ones. Its
outcome will determine the future of France as a free nation and our
existence as a people.
After decades of errors and cowardice, we are at a crossroads. I say it with
gravity: the choice we will have to make in this election is a choice of
civilization.
The question is simple and cruel: will our children live in a free,
independent, democratic country? Will they still be able to refer to our
system of values? Will they have the same way of life as we did and our
parents before us?
Will our children, and the children of our children, still have a job, a
decent wage, the possibility of building up a patrimony, becoming an owner,
starting a family in a safe environment, being properly cared for, to grow
old with dignity?
Will our children have the same rights as us?
Will they live according to our cultural references, our values of
civilization, our style of living, and even they will speak our French
language, which is disintegrating under the blows of political leaders who
squander this national treasure — for example, by choosing a slogan in
English to promote the candidacy of Paris to host the 2024 Olympic Games?
Will they have the right to claim French culture when certain candidates for
the presidential election, puffed up by their own empty-headedness, explain
that it does not exist?
I ask this important question because, unlike our adversaries, I am
interested not only in the material heritage of the French, but I also want
to defend our immaterial capital. This immaterial capital is priceless
because this heritage is irreplaceable. In fact, I am defending the
load-bearing walls of our society.
Our leaders have chosen deregulated globalization. They wanted a happy
outcome, but the result is frightful.
Globalization develops at two levels: from below with massive immigration
and global social dumping; and from above with the financialization of the
economy.
Globalization, which became a fact with the multiplication of exchanges, has
become an ideology. Economic globalization, which rejects any limits, has
weakened the immune system of the nation by dispossessing it of its
constituent elements: borders, national currency, the authority of its laws
in conducting economic affairs, and thus allowing another world to be born
and grow: Islamic fundamentalism.
The latter has grown up within a deleterious communitarianism, itself a
child of mass immigration, suffered year after year by our country.
We have thus fulfilled our first political act, which is to name the enemy.
These two globalisms, today, give a leg up to:
Economic and financial globalism, of which the European Union, the
financiers and the domesticated political class are its zealous servants;
Jihadist globalism, which undermines our vital interests abroad, but which
also takes root in our national territory, in certain neighborhoods, in
certain places, in certain weak minds.
Both work towards the disappearance of our nation, that is to say, of France
as we live it, as we love it, which is why the French have a feeling of
dispossession.
These two ideologies want to subjugate our country.
One in the name of globalized finance, that is to say, the ideology of all
commerce, the other in the name of a radicalized Islam, that is to say, the
ideology of the whole of religion.
Faced with these two totalitarianisms that threaten our liberties and our
country, we must demonstrate lucidity, determination and unity.
Economic globalism kills by asphyxia — slow, progressive, but certain.
Islamic fundamentalism attacks us by the calculated harassment of republican
resistance, by incessant demands, by demands for accommodation, none of
which, for us, can be reasonable and therefore conceivable.
Nor let us forget that Islamic fundamentalism is barbaric, that it manifests
itself every day in the world by killing, massacring, using in particular
the vile and cowardly weapon of terrorism or mass murder.
As in all ideological wars, we find useful idiots and more or less conscious
accomplices who, through cowardice, blindness or greed, facilitate these
undertakings for the establishment of this barbarous ideology, the enemy of
France.
To advance, the advocates of these two globalist ideologies give the
illusion of relying on our principles; in reality, they falsely invoke
freedom to set up their totalitarianism: it is the freedom of the fox in the
chicken coop.
The first, economic and financial globalism, invokes freedom of trade,
freedom of movement, freedom of establishment; all those who venture to
reveal their failures are accused of ignorance, accused of some ideological
drift, and are struck down with moral reproach.
Economic and financial globalism is based on a pseudo economic expertise
that never yields, not even to the evidence of its economic failure and the
social devastation that it provokes. The objective is to reduce man to his
role as consumer or producer.
Countries are no longer nations united by matters of the heart, but by
markets, spaces where the commodification of everything and every human
being is conceivable, possible, accepted and even organized.
People are no more than populations. Borders are erased, as with Schengen,
to make of our countries station concourses where everyone is free to come
and stay and to participate in the leveling of the social protections, the
reduction of wages and the dilution of culture into the smallest common
denominator.
With the globalists, cultures of peoples, that is, what makes the world's
diversity, are destined to be erased in order to facilitate the
commercialization of standard products and to facilitate hyper profits at
the cost of ecological depletion of the planet or child labor of the Third
World.
This world where economics is an end in itself and man, a simple tool in its
service, plunges us into an ephemeral era, in short, an artificial and
deeply dehumanized world.
The rights of people, their social situation, their well-being, the
environment in which they live, become the variable of adjustment of the
interests of large groups and castes.
For them, the nation is a non-tariff barrier. In their eyes, the country is
an open geographical space where the only requirement is to "live together,"
that is to say, not to interfere with each other.
I want to denounce this powerful alliance between the promotion of savage
globalization on the one hand, and the culpable inaction, even in the face
of uncontrolled immigration and its direct consequence, the establishment of
Islamic fundamentalism.
If economic globalism advances with the shield of free trade, the second of
these globalisms, Islamic fundamentalism, instrumentalizes the principle of
religious freedom in an attempt to impose patterns of thought that are
clearly the opposite of ours.
The carelessness and weakness of our leaders have been a growth hormone to
this ideology that tried to sow death in the Louvre two days ago.
We do not want to live under the yoke or threat of Islamic fundamentalism.
It tries to impose upon us pell-mell:
The prohibition of mixing in public places,
The integral veil or not,
Prayer halls in companies, street prayers, cathedral mosques,
The submission of woman by prohibiting the skirt, work or bistro.
No Frenchman, no Republican, no woman attached to dignity and liberty can
accept it.
Behind these two ideologies is inexorably the enslavement of people: An
enslavement, at first mental, which is effected by disaffiliation, by
isolation, by dissolution of traditional bonds.
Economic globalism professes individualism, and radical Islamism
communitarianism.
Globalism is based, as we see, on the negation of the values on which
France was built and on the principles in which the immense majority of
French people still recognize themselves: the pre-eminence of the person and
therefore its sacred character, individual freedom and therefore individual
consent, national feeling and therefore national solidarity, equality of
persons and therefore the refusal of situations of submission.
These principles for which we are fighting are affirmed in our national
motto "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," which itself proceeds from a
secularization of principles stemming from our Christian heritage.
But these two globalist ideologies do not only attack our nation. Both of
them attack our Republic by questioning its indivisibility.
The answer is not technical but regal, which is why we call for the moral
rearmament of the country and a surge of national energy. We call for
resistance and reconquest.
There is nothing for us more beautiful than France. There is nothing for us
greater than France. There is nothing for us more useful to the world than
France!
I say to the French who are watching or listening to us: the fate of France
is in your hands!
The Revolution of Patriotism
France is a millennial country with a history and a culture. France is an
act of love. This love has a name: patriotism. It is what makes our hearts
beat in unison when the Marseillaise sounds or when our national colors beat
the wind of history.
It is what unites the French left and right, from the cradle to the cane,
from the factory to the office. It is what pits our vision against that of
the globalists.
We believe it is time to revitalize national sentiment, to live it on a
daily basis, to teach our children all that makes and has made their
country, to teach them to love their compatriots, to be proud of their
history, to be confident in the forces of France.
When one aspires to settle in a country, one does not begin by violating its
laws. We do not begin by claiming rights. To all, and especially to people
of all origins and all faiths that we have welcomed into our country, I
repeat: there are no and there will be no other laws and values in France
than those that are French.
On this subject there will be no retreat and no compromise.
Those who come to France are to accept France, not to transform it to the
image of their country of origin. If they want to live at home, they should
have stayed at home.
We will strictly apply the rules of secularism in a country whose tragic
history has learned to guard against the wars of religion. We will extend
the rules of secularism to public spaces and we will inscribe them in labor
laws. We will respond to those who see with concern the rise of religious
demands and the rise of conflicts in the workplace.
We no longer want the state to allow the spread of the hatred of France. We
want a France that transmits and a France that is transmitted!
The Revolution of Liberty
The first liberty is security. You may ask how to improve security when for
thirty years all governments have failed? Our method is simple: we will
apply the law!
As Cardinal de Richelieu said, "to make a law and not enforce it is to
authorize the thing that one wishes to defend against."
We will re-establish the rule of law, that is, enforce Republican law in
those places where it has been lost, where our rulers obviously lack the
courage and willpower. We are going to put an end to the impunity of
criminals, the no-go zones, the dictatorships of kingpins in certain
districts, drug and weapons trafficking, burglaries, burned cars.
We will stress the certainty of prosecution, the certainty of sanction, the
certainty of punishment, the certainty that delinquent aliens are
automatically deported.
I say to the mothers who listen to me, support me: Do not accept that our
children live in fear, in this daily violence of which they are the first
victims, sometimes at the cost of their young lives.
In order to fulfill their mission, so important to this country, we will
give back to our security forces the human and material resources as well as
the necessary support and instructions.
We shall rearm them, including morally, with the establishment of the
presumption of self-defense.
We will open suitable prison places, conclude agreements with countries of
origin so that foreign offenders will serve their prison sentences in their
country of origin, increase the means of justice and organize a response to
criminals that can be summarized in two words: zero tolerance.
In terms of terrorism, we do not intend to ask the French to get used to
living with this horror. We will eradicate it here and abroad.
Since we are at war with Islamic fundamentalism, we will apply to the
enemies of France the legal devices of the state of war.
We will give ourselves the necessary technical and human means and will
create the conditions and cooperation necessary for intelligence on the
national territory as well as outside.
Foreigners with an "S" file [Fiche "S" or Sûreté de l'État (state security)]
will be deported. Binationals with "S" files will be deprived of their
French nationality and sent back to their country of origin. Frenchmen with
"S" files will be prosecuted for aiding the enemy.
Places of Islamic preaching will be closed and the sowers of hatred
condemned and expelled. The legal windows of Islamism, especially on the
Internet, will be extinguished.
Finally, this revolution of liberty is that of our collective liberties, for
state sovereignty, that is to say, for a free people to decide for
themselves. This struggle for sovereignty is first, principal, essential,
cardinal — it conditions everything else.
Without sovereignty, no protection is possible, no action is possible.
Without sovereignty, a promise becomes a false promise.
My political opponents claim to control borders, to prevent immigration, to
fight against unfair competition. They are lying to you. By refusing to free
themselves from the straitjacket of the European Union, which is the
decision-maker on these subjects, they refrain from any even minor
inflection.
Worse, by staying in the euro, they are plaguing our economy, maintaining
mass unemployment and giving the European Union the means of pressure to
impose its inept views, its millions of migrants.
Everyone agrees that the European Union is a failure. It did not deliver on
any of its promises, particularly on prosperity and security and, worse, it
has put us under guardianship and kept us on a short leash.
Who could be satisfied with doing nothing against a system which enchains
us, which does not work, and worse, whose dysfunctions ruins us?
That is why, if elected, I will announce a referendum within six months on
remaining or exiting the European Union, and I will immediately engage with
our European partners — many of whom aspire as we do to sovereignty — a
renegotiation with this tyrannical Europeanist system which is no longer a
project, but a parenthesis in history and I hope one day a bad memory.
The objective will be to find within six months a compromise that will allow
us to recover our four sovereignties: monetary, economic, legislative and
territorial.
If the European Union does not submit, then I will ask the French to vote in
the referendum to resign from this nightmare and become free again.
In the same spirit, because we believe that France is great only when it
makes its voice heard in favor of independence and world balance, we will
leave the integrated command of NATO. We will re-examine our diplomacy with
regard to our national interests and will give the means of our internal and
foreign policy by the reconstruction of our military potential.
My commitment is to put France back in order in five years. In practice this
concerns all sectors of our lives:
Putting our economy back in order
Putting our schools back in order
Putting our justice back in order
Putting our diplomacy back in order
Putting our security back in order
Putting our solidarity back in order
We open our arms to all those who share with us the love of France and wish
to engage our country on the path of national recovery.
The old left-right debates have outlived their usefulness. Primaries have
shown that debates about secularism or immigration, as well as globalization
or generalized deregulation, constitute a fundamental and transversal
divide. This divide is no longer between the left and the right, but between
patriots and globalists.
The collapse of traditional parties and the systematic disappearance of
almost all of their leaders shows that a great political re-composition has
begun.
Other peoples have shown the way.
The British have chosen freedom with the Brexit. The Italians have shown
their disapproval in the referendum on the Constitution. The Greeks are
thinking about leaving the Euro. The Americans have chosen their national
interest.
This awakening of the peoples is historical. It marks the end of a cycle.
The wind of history has turned. It will bring us to the top and, with us,
our country: France. Long live the people! Long live the Republic! Long live
France!
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"This election is a choice of civilization."
by Soeren Kern
February 6, 2017 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9900/le-pen-speech
"The question is simple and cruel: will our children live in a free,
independent, democratic country?" — Marine Le Pen, leader of France's
National Front party.
"Economic globalization, which rejects any limits, has weakened the immune
system of the nation by dispossessing it of its constituent elements:
borders, national currency, the authority of its laws in conducting economic
affairs, and thus allowing another world to be born and grow: Islamic
fundamentalism." — Marine Le Pen.
"Islamic fundamentalism instrumentalizes the principle of religious freedom
in an attempt to impose patterns of thought that are clearly the opposite of
ours. We do not want to live under the yoke or threat of Islamic
fundamentalism." — Marine Le Pen.
"Globalism is based, as we see, on the negation of the values on which
France was built and on the principles in which the immense majority of
French people still recognize themselves: the pre-eminence of the person and
therefore its sacred character, individual freedom and therefore individual
consent, national feeling and therefore national solidarity, equality of
persons and therefore the refusal of situations of submission." — Marine Le
Pen.
"Those who come to France are to accept France, not to transform it to the
image of their country of origin. If they want to live at home, they should
have stayed at home." — Marine Le Pen.
"In terms of terrorism, we do not intend to ask the French to get used to
living with this horror. We will eradicate it here and abroad." — Marine Le
Pen.
"Everyone agrees that the European Union is a failure. It did not deliver on
any of its promises, particularly on prosperity and security.... That is
why, if elected, I will announce a referendum within six months on remaining
or exiting the European Union..." — Marine Le Pen.
"The old left-right debates have outlived their usefulness.... This divide
is no longer between the left and the right, but between patriots and
globalists." — Marine Le Pen.
Marine Le Pen, the leader of the anti-establishment National Front party,
has officially launched her campaign to become the next president of France.
Speaking at a rally attended by thousands of her supporters in Lyon on
February 5, Le Pen launched a two-pronged attack on globalization and
radical Islam. She promised French voters a referendum on remaining in the
European Union, and also to deport Muslims who are deemed a security risk to
France.
National Front party leader Marine Le Pen, speaking at a rally in Lyon,
France on February 5, 2016. (Image source: Public Senat video screenshot)
Le Pen's political platform is contained in a manifesto of 144 promises
regarding immigration and global trade.
Polls show that Le Pen — who said the election of U.S. President Donald J.
Trump "shows that people are taking their future back" — is one of the most
popular politicians in France.
A February 2 Ifop-Fiducial poll for Paris Match, iTELE and Sud-Radio showed
Le Pen with 24.5% of the vote, compared to 20% for François Fillon of the
center-right Republicans party. In December 2016, Fillon, who has become
engulfed in a corruption scandal, held a three-point lead over Le Pen.
The poll also showed the independent centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron with
20% of the vote, the Socialist Party candidate Benoît Hamon with 17%, and
the far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon with 9.5%.
The first round of the election will be held April 23. If no candidate gets
more than 50% of the vote, a runoff will be held on May 7.
Following is an abridged translation of key parts of Le Pen's speech:
In all respects, this presidential election is unlike previous ones. Its
outcome will determine the future of France as a free nation and our
existence as a people.
After decades of errors and cowardice, we are at a crossroads. I say it with
gravity: the choice we will have to make in this election is a choice of
civilization.
The question is simple and cruel: will our children live in a free,
independent, democratic country? Will they still be able to refer to our
system of values? Will they have the same way of life as we did and our
parents before us?
Will our children, and the children of our children, still have a job, a
decent wage, the possibility of building up a patrimony, becoming an owner,
starting a family in a safe environment, being properly cared for, to grow
old with dignity?
Will our children have the same rights as us?
Will they live according to our cultural references, our values of
civilization, our style of living, and even they will speak our French
language, which is disintegrating under the blows of political leaders who
squander this national treasure — for example, by choosing a slogan in
English to promote the candidacy of Paris to host the 2024 Olympic Games?
Will they have the right to claim French culture when certain candidates for
the presidential election, puffed up by their own empty-headedness, explain
that it does not exist?
I ask this important question because, unlike our adversaries, I am
interested not only in the material heritage of the French, but I also want
to defend our immaterial capital. This immaterial capital is priceless
because this heritage is irreplaceable. In fact, I am defending the
load-bearing walls of our society.
Our leaders have chosen deregulated globalization. They wanted a happy
outcome, but the result is frightful.
Globalization develops at two levels: from below with massive immigration
and global social dumping; and from above with the financialization of the
economy.
Globalization, which became a fact with the multiplication of exchanges, has
become an ideology. Economic globalization, which rejects any limits, has
weakened the immune system of the nation by dispossessing it of its
constituent elements: borders, national currency, the authority of its laws
in conducting economic affairs, and thus allowing another world to be born
and grow: Islamic fundamentalism.
The latter has grown up within a deleterious communitarianism, itself a
child of mass immigration, suffered year after year by our country.
We have thus fulfilled our first political act, which is to name the enemy.
These two globalisms, today, give a leg up to:
Economic and financial globalism, of which the European Union, the
financiers and the domesticated political class are its zealous servants;
Jihadist globalism, which undermines our vital interests abroad, but which
also takes root in our national territory, in certain neighborhoods, in
certain places, in certain weak minds.
Both work towards the disappearance of our nation, that is to say, of France
as we live it, as we love it, which is why the French have a feeling of
dispossession.
These two ideologies want to subjugate our country.
One in the name of globalized finance, that is to say, the ideology of all
commerce, the other in the name of a radicalized Islam, that is to say, the
ideology of the whole of religion.
Faced with these two totalitarianisms that threaten our liberties and our
country, we must demonstrate lucidity, determination and unity.
Economic globalism kills by asphyxia — slow, progressive, but certain.
Islamic fundamentalism attacks us by the calculated harassment of republican
resistance, by incessant demands, by demands for accommodation, none of
which, for us, can be reasonable and therefore conceivable.
Nor let us forget that Islamic fundamentalism is barbaric, that it manifests
itself every day in the world by killing, massacring, using in particular
the vile and cowardly weapon of terrorism or mass murder.
As in all ideological wars, we find useful idiots and more or less conscious
accomplices who, through cowardice, blindness or greed, facilitate these
undertakings for the establishment of this barbarous ideology, the enemy of
France.
To advance, the advocates of these two globalist ideologies give the
illusion of relying on our principles; in reality, they falsely invoke
freedom to set up their totalitarianism: it is the freedom of the fox in the
chicken coop.
The first, economic and financial globalism, invokes freedom of trade,
freedom of movement, freedom of establishment; all those who venture to
reveal their failures are accused of ignorance, accused of some ideological
drift, and are struck down with moral reproach.
Economic and financial globalism is based on a pseudo economic expertise
that never yields, not even to the evidence of its economic failure and the
social devastation that it provokes. The objective is to reduce man to his
role as consumer or producer.
Countries are no longer nations united by matters of the heart, but by
markets, spaces where the commodification of everything and every human
being is conceivable, possible, accepted and even organized.
People are no more than populations. Borders are erased, as with Schengen,
to make of our countries station concourses where everyone is free to come
and stay and to participate in the leveling of the social protections, the
reduction of wages and the dilution of culture into the smallest common
denominator.
With the globalists, cultures of peoples, that is, what makes the world's
diversity, are destined to be erased in order to facilitate the
commercialization of standard products and to facilitate hyper profits at
the cost of ecological depletion of the planet or child labor of the Third
World.
This world where economics is an end in itself and man, a simple tool in its
service, plunges us into an ephemeral era, in short, an artificial and
deeply dehumanized world.
The rights of people, their social situation, their well-being, the
environment in which they live, become the variable of adjustment of the
interests of large groups and castes.
For them, the nation is a non-tariff barrier. In their eyes, the country is
an open geographical space where the only requirement is to "live together,"
that is to say, not to interfere with each other.
I want to denounce this powerful alliance between the promotion of savage
globalization on the one hand, and the culpable inaction, even in the face
of uncontrolled immigration and its direct consequence, the establishment of
Islamic fundamentalism.
If economic globalism advances with the shield of free trade, the second of
these globalisms, Islamic fundamentalism, instrumentalizes the principle of
religious freedom in an attempt to impose patterns of thought that are
clearly the opposite of ours.
The carelessness and weakness of our leaders have been a growth hormone to
this ideology that tried to sow death in the Louvre two days ago.
We do not want to live under the yoke or threat of Islamic fundamentalism.
It tries to impose upon us pell-mell:
The prohibition of mixing in public places,
The integral veil or not,
Prayer halls in companies, street prayers, cathedral mosques,
The submission of woman by prohibiting the skirt, work or bistro.
No Frenchman, no Republican, no woman attached to dignity and liberty can
accept it.
Behind these two ideologies is inexorably the enslavement of people: An
enslavement, at first mental, which is effected by disaffiliation, by
isolation, by dissolution of traditional bonds.
Economic globalism professes individualism, and radical Islamism
communitarianism.
Globalism is based, as we see, on the negation of the values on which
France was built and on the principles in which the immense majority of
French people still recognize themselves: the pre-eminence of the person and
therefore its sacred character, individual freedom and therefore individual
consent, national feeling and therefore national solidarity, equality of
persons and therefore the refusal of situations of submission.
These principles for which we are fighting are affirmed in our national
motto "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," which itself proceeds from a
secularization of principles stemming from our Christian heritage.
But these two globalist ideologies do not only attack our nation. Both of
them attack our Republic by questioning its indivisibility.
The answer is not technical but regal, which is why we call for the moral
rearmament of the country and a surge of national energy. We call for
resistance and reconquest.
There is nothing for us more beautiful than France. There is nothing for us
greater than France. There is nothing for us more useful to the world than
France!
I say to the French who are watching or listening to us: the fate of France
is in your hands!
The Revolution of Patriotism
France is a millennial country with a history and a culture. France is an
act of love. This love has a name: patriotism. It is what makes our hearts
beat in unison when the Marseillaise sounds or when our national colors beat
the wind of history.
It is what unites the French left and right, from the cradle to the cane,
from the factory to the office. It is what pits our vision against that of
the globalists.
We believe it is time to revitalize national sentiment, to live it on a
daily basis, to teach our children all that makes and has made their
country, to teach them to love their compatriots, to be proud of their
history, to be confident in the forces of France.
When one aspires to settle in a country, one does not begin by violating its
laws. We do not begin by claiming rights. To all, and especially to people
of all origins and all faiths that we have welcomed into our country, I
repeat: there are no and there will be no other laws and values in France
than those that are French.
On this subject there will be no retreat and no compromise.
Those who come to France are to accept France, not to transform it to the
image of their country of origin. If they want to live at home, they should
have stayed at home.
We will strictly apply the rules of secularism in a country whose tragic
history has learned to guard against the wars of religion. We will extend
the rules of secularism to public spaces and we will inscribe them in labor
laws. We will respond to those who see with concern the rise of religious
demands and the rise of conflicts in the workplace.
We no longer want the state to allow the spread of the hatred of France. We
want a France that transmits and a France that is transmitted!
The Revolution of Liberty
The first liberty is security. You may ask how to improve security when for
thirty years all governments have failed? Our method is simple: we will
apply the law!
As Cardinal de Richelieu said, "to make a law and not enforce it is to
authorize the thing that one wishes to defend against."
We will re-establish the rule of law, that is, enforce Republican law in
those places where it has been lost, where our rulers obviously lack the
courage and willpower. We are going to put an end to the impunity of
criminals, the no-go zones, the dictatorships of kingpins in certain
districts, drug and weapons trafficking, burglaries, burned cars.
We will stress the certainty of prosecution, the certainty of sanction, the
certainty of punishment, the certainty that delinquent aliens are
automatically deported.
I say to the mothers who listen to me, support me: Do not accept that our
children live in fear, in this daily violence of which they are the first
victims, sometimes at the cost of their young lives.
In order to fulfill their mission, so important to this country, we will
give back to our security forces the human and material resources as well as
the necessary support and instructions.
We shall rearm them, including morally, with the establishment of the
presumption of self-defense.
We will open suitable prison places, conclude agreements with countries of
origin so that foreign offenders will serve their prison sentences in their
country of origin, increase the means of justice and organize a response to
criminals that can be summarized in two words: zero tolerance.
In terms of terrorism, we do not intend to ask the French to get used to
living with this horror. We will eradicate it here and abroad.
Since we are at war with Islamic fundamentalism, we will apply to the
enemies of France the legal devices of the state of war.
We will give ourselves the necessary technical and human means and will
create the conditions and cooperation necessary for intelligence on the
national territory as well as outside.
Foreigners with an "S" file [Fiche "S" or Sûreté de l'État (state security)]
will be deported. Binationals with "S" files will be deprived of their
French nationality and sent back to their country of origin. Frenchmen with
"S" files will be prosecuted for aiding the enemy.
Places of Islamic preaching will be closed and the sowers of hatred
condemned and expelled. The legal windows of Islamism, especially on the
Internet, will be extinguished.
Finally, this revolution of liberty is that of our collective liberties, for
state sovereignty, that is to say, for a free people to decide for
themselves. This struggle for sovereignty is first, principal, essential,
cardinal — it conditions everything else.
Without sovereignty, no protection is possible, no action is possible.
Without sovereignty, a promise becomes a false promise.
My political opponents claim to control borders, to prevent immigration, to
fight against unfair competition. They are lying to you. By refusing to free
themselves from the straitjacket of the European Union, which is the
decision-maker on these subjects, they refrain from any even minor
inflection.
Worse, by staying in the euro, they are plaguing our economy, maintaining
mass unemployment and giving the European Union the means of pressure to
impose its inept views, its millions of migrants.
Everyone agrees that the European Union is a failure. It did not deliver on
any of its promises, particularly on prosperity and security and, worse, it
has put us under guardianship and kept us on a short leash.
Who could be satisfied with doing nothing against a system which enchains
us, which does not work, and worse, whose dysfunctions ruins us?
That is why, if elected, I will announce a referendum within six months on
remaining or exiting the European Union, and I will immediately engage with
our European partners — many of whom aspire as we do to sovereignty — a
renegotiation with this tyrannical Europeanist system which is no longer a
project, but a parenthesis in history and I hope one day a bad memory.
The objective will be to find within six months a compromise that will allow
us to recover our four sovereignties: monetary, economic, legislative and
territorial.
If the European Union does not submit, then I will ask the French to vote in
the referendum to resign from this nightmare and become free again.
In the same spirit, because we believe that France is great only when it
makes its voice heard in favor of independence and world balance, we will
leave the integrated command of NATO. We will re-examine our diplomacy with
regard to our national interests and will give the means of our internal and
foreign policy by the reconstruction of our military potential.
My commitment is to put France back in order in five years. In practice this
concerns all sectors of our lives:
Putting our economy back in order
Putting our schools back in order
Putting our justice back in order
Putting our diplomacy back in order
Putting our security back in order
Putting our solidarity back in order
We open our arms to all those who share with us the love of France and wish
to engage our country on the path of national recovery.
The old left-right debates have outlived their usefulness. Primaries have
shown that debates about secularism or immigration, as well as globalization
or generalized deregulation, constitute a fundamental and transversal
divide. This divide is no longer between the left and the right, but between
patriots and globalists.
The collapse of traditional parties and the systematic disappearance of
almost all of their leaders shows that a great political re-composition has
begun.
Other peoples have shown the way.
The British have chosen freedom with the Brexit. The Italians have shown
their disapproval in the referendum on the Constitution. The Greeks are
thinking about leaving the Euro. The Americans have chosen their national
interest.
This awakening of the peoples is historical. It marks the end of a cycle.
The wind of history has turned. It will bring us to the top and, with us,
our country: France. Long live the people! Long live the Republic! Long live
France!
Soeren Kern is a Senior Fellow at the New York-based Gatestone Institute.
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