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.

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 will they even 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. Follow him on Facebook and on Twitter.

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27 Reader Comments

Richard Martin • Feb 10, 2017 at 07:12

An extraordinary speech. It reads like a much more literate Donald Trump. Of course you will never see Trump quote Cardinal Richalieu but it is a quite striking quote, applicable to any society at any time.

Trump also has attacked the idea of Globalism, not ideological but purely on business terms. His threats to impose tariffs on NAFTA goods crossing the Mexican/American border into the US, is a repudiation of basic Republican ideology- Free Trade. But again Le Pen is right when she says that traditional political parties have faded and replaced by entirely new ones. The Republican Party had little to do with its victory in 2016. It was Trump's Party that won that election.

Often appeals to one's patriotism is pandering and self serving. But I do not feel that from Le Pen. France for her is under attack and she clearly wants to save it. That she sees the dumping of Muslim migrants in France as part of Globalism is most interesting. Islam is a global conquering ideology. And thanks to the "useful idiots' in Europe and the US it is making real headway. And you will not realize how much until their percentage of the population reaches a certain critical number. in Germany you will see a movement to ban pork from school lunchrooms as it is so harmful to Muslim sensitivities. We already see Muslims demanding that the Holocaust not be taught or the history of the Crusades. They want only a Muslim version of History to be taught in public schools.

Marie Le Pen is correct on so many levels. I hate her father and his Nazi like anti-Semitism and I certainly hope she is who she says she is.

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Simon Morgan • Feb 6, 2017 at 17:46

Extraordinary that with these views she is branded ultra-right by the world's media.

Being sensible is being a bigot. Being patriotic means you have a phobia of some sort.

That's how far the 'termites have spread' as Christopher Hitchens used to say.

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JB Silver

Simon Morgan • Feb 7, 2017 at 18:21

Marine Le Pen is a French Patriot! She is NOT ultra-Right, nor is she anti-Semitic (anti-Jewish).
These are lies spread by the leftwing western media, who have an anti-Nationalist agenda. Although they are only anti-Nationalist against Christian or Jewish Nationalism; they are 'fine' with Islamist Nationalism.

As G-D Blessed Israel with a Rightwing Patriotic government, and Helped the British vote for Brexit, and helped the Americans elect Trump/Pence, and a Republican majority in both the House and the Senate; May HE Bless France to elect Marine Le Pen to save itself, and Wilders to save the Netherlands, and the Sweden's Democrats to save Sweden.

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Maureen Ellis

Simon Morgan • Feb 23, 2017 at 11:16

I live in the French Basque Country near Biarritz. Today we learned that a French amateur soccer player was severely beaten in Cannes while trying to take a shower after a match -- in the locker room of a soccer sports complex where shower facilities exist for that very purpose.

Why was he beaten? Because like so many other French citizens who use swimming pools, gyms and even school locker rooms he had LACKED RESPECT FOR MUSLIMS BY EXHIBITING HIMSELF (under the shower, while scrubbing up).

Given his NON-SUBMISSION to Muslim codes, he was reprimanded for "uncovering himself" in the SHOWER. When he told the gang of Islamist thugs who invaded his shower stall to f-off they broke his nose and several ribs.

This is France today, a totally insane situation. I voted socialist all of my life but THIS TIME around I will be voting Marine.

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Keith Cashman • Feb 6, 2017 at 16:10

This article is precisely correct in its content and Marine La Pen speaks for all countries affected by incursion by Fabians in their ranks and by their organisations such as the UN and EU. She nails it on the head when stating that the populations are becoming nobodies and centralised power gives an elite few control of the world, or so they think.

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Elizabeth • Feb 6, 2017 at 14:03

Pray that Marine Le Pen is victorious! The more countries which reclaim their sovereignty from the EU/globalist/Islamic stranglehold, the better the chance of Western survival. Through ignorance and mind-control the masses have enabled this evil to take hold, already very evident in new barbarian uprising in the US; we need let go of our complacency and be prepared for an uphill battle.

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Pat Walker

Elizabeth • Feb 7, 2017 at 16:28

President Trump of the United States has vowed to take back America. The President has thrown political correctness out the door to the relief of millions of us. In response, thousands have taken to the streets in protest ever since his November 2016 election win. The protests have continued across our nation by liberals disagreeing with his aims and newly written orders. America should be ashamed for having allowed political correctness to rule the land instead of morals and ethics and something that used to be called common sense.

To date, America does not have the massive influx of Muslim refugees as has Europe. Therefore, to date, America has not yet experienced large groups of Muslims roaming the streets, sexually assaulting women and girls, the high numbers of individual assaults as on non-Muslim European citizens, and in general, attempting to impose Muslim law and beliefs on their host country. This is being experienced in Germany, France, Sweden, England and other European nations. Canada will soon experience the same because Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has opened Canadian borders to all. This of course, presents more issues in the U.S. because the U.S. and Canada share unprotected borders. In fact, it is the longest unprotected border in the world.

Many American protestors are very young and I see what may be many undocumented Mexicans protesting as well, oftentimes waving the Mexican flag! It does not matter anymore what the President says or does because the protestors will continue. These people are protesting just to make noise. The protests often become violent, with destruction of property and assaults on people. Many are arrested but I doubt that they are punished. Political correctness, perhaps?

They now protest because the President has issued the temporary closing of borders for people coming in from Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Libya. These countries are known to harbor terrorists and extreme Muslim beliefs. Europe did not close her borders to these countries as well as others. And Europe now has horrific problems which almost seem insurmountable due to the numbers of the refugees. The President is attempting to prevent the same from occurring in America. Frankly, I am frightened for America, my country. I am frightened that she will end up as has Germany, in particular.

Our protestors largely get their news from perhaps Yahoo, the newspapers, including the tabloids, etc. I believe that if any of them were aware of what is happening in Europe right now, they would not be in the streets shouting and baring their tonsils for all to see. I ask that Gatestone and any others who are influential, to make it known to the various news outlets here in America what is happening in Europe. I ask that they find news sources that are not concerned with political correctness, but with the truth. For my part, I repeatedly read the increasingly garbage Yahoo news explicitly for the opportunity and purpose to make comments where necessary. Many times, I reference Gatestone for the others to read to find the truth. If I have been responsible for at least one person reading your news, I will be happy. Occasionally, I encounter comments from people who seem to know the truth. But their numbers are far too few.

The Statue of Liberty in America was a gift to the United States from the people of France. Frederic Bartholdi (the French sculptor of the statue) was inspired by French law professor and politician Edouard Rene de Laboulaye, who is said to have commented in 1865, that any monument raised to American independence would properly be a joint project of the French and American peoples. Let neither the French nor Americans forget that. Let Americans stand behind Marine Le Pen in her campaign for the Presidency which is a campaign for the return of what is right and decent. Let 100% American support be the gift of the American people to France in her new fight to retain and uphold democracy.

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David Emery • Feb 6, 2017 at 13:07

If you really want to know the truth about what is going on in Europe and what Marine Le Pen is up against, Google: "The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan". The invasion of immigrants was planned a very long time ago. Once you understand what the plan is then consider that Angela Merkel was awarded a prize from the Coudenhove-Kalergi Foundation.

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Pat Walker

David Emery • Feb 6, 2017 at 16:24

I read the "Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan" as noted and do not quite agree with its contents. The influx of Muslims to Europe is not a pre-meditated part of that specific plan. These particular refugees were not fleeing to Europe because of a "plan" directing them to do so. For the most part, those Muslims are escaping their own war torn countries and wishing to migrate to free countries. The problem arises with terrorists and those non-terrorist Muslims with extreme beliefs who have arrived alongside of the other refugees.

While they have openly said that they will eventually prevail in taking over the European continent, this is believed largely due to their numbers. They have multiple wives and many children. The Islamic terrorists have blatantly stated that it is their desire to impose Islam on the entire world. Their imposition is not aimed at eliminating specific skin tones, but is in the elimination of all religions and beliefs that are non-Islam.

According to the New Age Encyclopedia, there exist three major races: Caucasoid, Mongoloid and Negroid. In later years, anthropologists accepted Australoid as being a fourth race, referring to peoples who are indigenous to several areas. (From the same encyclopedia source, first copyrighted in 1963, the Australian aborigines were once classified as a sub group of the Caucasoid race, but now are not.) Within these four races are sub groups.

The Iranians, Syrians, Iraqis, Pakistanis, Palestinians, Israelis, Mexicans, Saudis, Turks, Greeks and so forth, all generally belong to the Caucasoid race, just as do the Caucasians with lighter skin tones and blonde or red hair. To be more accurate, the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan speaks of the "browning" of the races; more specifically it means the browning of those Caucasians with light skin. It is not truly an elimination of Caucasians. A German breeding with an Iranian will still produce a Caucasian, perhaps with darker skin. A Swede breeding with a Syrian will also produce a Caucasian, but possibly with darker skin. The "Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan" consistently misuses the terminology of "race".

Angela Merkel received an award for her "part" in this Plan. While she did receive an award, are the reasons true, or was she just weak, being incapable of closing or limiting Germany's borders to the invasion of refugees? Ms. Merkel is herself, blue-eyed and light-skinned, which casts doubt on any credibility in a deliberate role of "white genocide". If it is true, and the aim is to produce a new world order, it just may backfire. Again, the Islamic terrorists plan on Islam vanquishing the entire world. They have repeatedly stated that world-wide Islamic domination is their goal. Religious beliefs are their goals, not the skin tone. And it is happenstance that the Muslim nations are predominantly darker-skinned.

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Pat Walker • Feb 6, 2017 at 12:45

I loved Marine Le Pen's speech to her nation. One sentence hit home when she said, "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." These words have been echoed in America and other European nations. Too often, the host countries capitulate to the demands of refugees and immigrants because they know the weaknesses of any given nation. And they will use this weakness called political correctness to their advantage.

I cannot even imagine settling in France or another country and demanding the government to adopt the laws and culture of my homeland. "When in Rome, do as the Romans do."

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dunce • Feb 6, 2017 at 12:44

She should be a shoo-in if the rest of her manifesto is this sensible. The only way her competitors can campaign is adopt most of her policies or promise more but she leaves little room for them to out flank her.

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Edward Cline • Feb 6, 2017 at 10:49

I only wish President Trump were as articulate as Marine Le Pen when voicing the perils to America, especially those posed by Islam.

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Peter Graham • Feb 6, 2017 at 10:21

Possibly the best worded speech I have read regarding the real problems that Islam has brought to our continent. Where other politicians bumble and bluff their way through the subject, it seems only Le Pen and Wilders have the right mixture of courage and intelligence to be able to tackle the subject.

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David Cameron • Feb 6, 2017 at 10:13

As a Canuck, she's got my vote and I suspect the silent majority of Americans, Brits and a long list of other countries.

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Michael Waugh • Feb 6, 2017 at 09:47

As a UK resident and a lover of France I would like to see the lady win the election. France has suffered under a bunch of useless and dangerous politicians for too long. The antics of Merkel in Germany has ruined the whole of the EU. I would like the French to have their referendum and dump the Euro and the Islamic hordes.

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David Ashton • Feb 6, 2017 at 09:34

And now for someone in England who will say much same!

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Mary Jane Card

David Ashton • Feb 6, 2017 at 11:55

Brilliant speech. We need someone like her in Canada which is quickly going down the same globalist-jihadi path. Our great leader can barely put a sentence together never mind constructing a clear eloquent statement like this. Vive la France.

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Richard Martin

Mary Jane Card • Feb 10, 2017 at 23:24

I am an American who has been to France a number of times. There are many Americans who like to poke fun of the French. I am not one of them. I have never had anything but great vacations each time I went. Driving through the countryside, we remarked on what a beautiful country France is. I had one surly French waiter in Paris and I thanked him for proving that they do exist as all the service we experienced was wonderful. I told him that and gave him a nice tip. His expression afterwards was priceless too.

What Marine Le Pen is trying to do is save the France that everyone loves. I see France as a foreigner but it is clear that Muslims- those that have come in since the 1990's - are distinct from French citizens. Their clothes show it, their faces and looks show it. Imagine wearing a burka in a place known for Fashion. It is near criminal. Like a rapper with his underwear showing and his pants 5 inches below his waist.

I saw the same thing in Italy and Germany (before the mass migration of Merkel). They do not mingle. They do not smile in public. They keep to themselves. They look unhappy and angry. Why? Because they are a Muslim minority in a place they do not understand, have no feelings for nor any respect. No knowledge of. Just that it is not Islamic enough and thus cannot be good.

A nation that looses its culture and its uniqueness - especially when those qualities are so wonderful, is a tragedy. And what replaces them? An ideology / religion that instructs you what to wear, what to think, who to hate, everything in complete opposition to what the French believe in.

And what do those who advocate Muslim migrants into France or anywhere? They have the hope that after a certain period of time, these migrants will "integrate" into French society and adopt many French ways. But if the culture, the legal system, the political system, the belief in tolerance for others, is not emphasized before hand, they will not integrate and accept French thinking and culture. Because Islam does not do that. The role of "dhimmi" is not for Muslims, it is for those non-Muslims. The ideology of Islam is for you to submit, not them. And Islam means "Submission".

I want to return and travel again in France. But in the France I remember and not a "new" France where what made France what it is, has been discarded for a false "diversity" and "openness' to Islam and Muslims ways.

France doesn't need to see women made into second class citizens as Islam has codified them. France and the World has a real and vibrant History which should be taught - the good with the bad - but not erased because Muslims do not like it.

Islam is a sort of fascism and France helped defeat that ideology in 1945. The French should not allow nor welcome a new version of that defeated ideology cloaked under a "religion" into her midst. Islam needs to change what it is today, not France.

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jane • Feb 6, 2017 at 09:24

Vive Madame Le Pen!

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Mike Briggs • Feb 6, 2017 at 09:09

Le Pen should be and needs to be a first ballot winner! If all that the French people have put up with dealing with the European Union and Islamic Fundamentalism has not straightened them out by now, they will deserve the virtual death sentence as a nation they have long since committed to!
Le Pen is offering them a commutation of that death sentence, but this is likely their last chance!

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Hartmut Brocharski • Feb 6, 2017 at 09:07

Her chances in France are much higher than those of the AFD in Germany. Since elections in France are ahead of German ones let's hope she can pull off a good result and thus hand the AFD a boost too.

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Lee Millington • Feb 6, 2017 at 09:06

Sounds like France is finally waking up before it's to late. I wish Le Pen success in her campaign against the globalists, those who are destroying France with mass migration of Muslims, and trying to blend in with everyone else. And please do not call me a bigot or Islamophobic. Who and what you wish to worship is your right, and I do not hate Muslim people, it's their religion of hate and violence I disagree with, as proof just look at France, Germany and other nations where they have gone. If you wish to freely worship Allah, and live under Sharia Law, then go back home.

People who love freedom and their culture such as France, and the U.S., don't want it. And what about France, what has this done to their economy? Their culture? How has this effected tourism, why would I want to travel to France, only to be subjected to such violence? Paris is out of the question. One of the reasons you travel abroad is to experience another country's people, culture and history. And the same would apply to this nation, would I travel from the northeast, to a city such as Dearborn, Michigan under the control of Muslims living under Sharia Law? No.

Each person needs to decide what system of law you wish to live under, the Constitution or Sharia Law? Because Islam is here to take over not get along. That's not Islamophobia, or fear, it's in the Koran/Quran, that's history and fact. One final question no one has asked, is the rich oil money from Arab countries, who are they buying besides the Clinton's, Bush's and the Carter's? To the people of France, I wish them all the best, rise up and take back your beautiful country back. People need to wake up and throw the globalists out!

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Robert D'Andrea • Feb 6, 2017 at 08:54

A very powerful article. I hope she wins and I think President Trump should include Le Pen's concepts in his solutions/platform.

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Solomon Balas • Feb 6, 2017 at 07:43

The lady says Patriots -V- Globalists ; 1st of a kind international revolution. Bon Chance Marine. I am with you

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vivienne • Feb 6, 2017 at 07:42

Long live Lady Liberte.

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Jeff Page • Feb 6, 2017 at 07:26

Magnificent speech by Marine Le Pen and I seriously hope she makes good on her promises. This is telling it how it is. She is so right on all that she has spoken of, particularly the cowardly approach to Muslims. The very same applies to most other countries in Europe. We are expected to live with the threat of Islamic terrorists attacking us whenever they feel like it. We are living under a high threat level simply because authorities across Europe have failed to confront a very real danger within our societies.

I hope that Theresa May has seen this speech or is provided with the draft soon. She could learn a thing or two! As far as the British government is concerned, our multicultural society is working great. Wishful thinking! Recently there was a petition started to stop Donald Trump coming to Britain because of his promises he made to US people. I would really like to see a breakdown of just who signed it and how many were Muslims.

All countries have their liberal lefties, many of whom don't even know what day it is but, will demonstrate in order to have something to do during the day. The worst of them are those who think it is against certain principles without spending any time listening to why some things are of great importance for the security of their country. Some demonstrate in order to feel important and consider themselves to be fighting an injustice. Some are just plain crazy!

Speaking of those who are plain crazy, that can be applied to some governments. I have yet to understand why some governments think that we citizens should have to live under constant threat. Particularly when they have a slight suspicion from which direction the threat comes from!
Why have "communities" been allowed to go on almost as if laws of the land don't apply to that particular "community"? That's asking for trouble. There cannot be any "No Go Areas" in any part of Europe, or the world, come to that.

I hope that the French people take their country back and put a stop to the very real threat they have to their culture and beliefs. If Islam is left to get stronger, then the end will be nigh.

More European countries have to follow this course. Islam belongs in the Middle East and parts of Africa and Asia. It is not compatible in the West, and if it prevails, then people will be forced to convert or be murdered, by "The Religion Of Peace"! Put an end to this globalization and enforced Muslim immigration.

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Diane Drewry • Feb 6, 2017 at 07:02

Marine Le Pen succinctly identifies the failings of globalization, and the dangers of mass immigration of Muslims, with the inherent Islamism it brings in its wake, and thus the two major threats to France -- exactly the problems faced throughout the West. The speech is articulate and sincere, as we know she has been consistent and intelligent in her assessments of France's perilous state, and how to address it.

Humane globalization may be possible in the future, (if the planet lasts long enough to achieve it) in the manner proposed by the eminent Jacques Fresco, Futurist, social and structural engineer, architectural and industrial designer, author, lecturer and mastermind of 'the Venus Project'. Fresco's model is a global socioeconomic system based on a resource-based economy; it is a just, humane system which operates without capitalism so works on the equitable sharing of the World's resources and human endeavour, for the benefit of all mankind. Although Utopian, it is eminently practical; unfortunately, our current civilization is light years away from embracing such a noble concept. The vision of globalization we are subject to, is a money making enterprise for the sole advantage of the elite, as demonstrated by Le Pen.

Those amongst us, and there are many, who fail to recognize the threat of Islamism now present throughout most of Europe and the Anglosphere and its already noticeable results, terrorism being the most obvious, are endangering us all; the realists such as Le Pen should not be summarily dismissed by the virtue signalling neo-liberal class - obviously main stream media will not cover the contents of her speech, but simply use the reference to push their false claim that she is and represents a 'far right' party - this is not far right, but simply good old fashioned common sense, sadly lacking in Western politics today. It's not just a question of common sense though, we know the hegemony of the military and industrial complex run by the elite for the elite, deliberately chose this direction to implement their vision of a New World Order. Let's hope the spirit that propelled the French to rebel against their feudal overlords in the 18th century, will wake up to the fact that they are, like us, still oppressed by the same overlords in different guises.

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