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| Letter From France: Le Pen's tricky business |
| 2007-01-04 |
| HT to a No Pasaran! commenter. |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #5 CARROL O'CONNOR as The General > "Is that COMMUNITARIANISM, the NEW LIBERALISM, Booker!? Why wasn't I told ... You're the Communications Officer, Booker, you're supposed to be able to communicate". |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-01-04 21:56 |
| #4 In fact it is not even sure Le Pen will be able to run. Problem is: In order to run you have to get 500 mayors of city signing they support you. This law was made because in 1969 or 1974 there was a smart guy who decided to run for President in order to use the tax-payer funded TV time for advertsing his company's products (he also told that in case he was elected he would immediately resign in order to have a new round of free advertising). But now this law is being used for shutting down "unpalatable" candidates or better said THE unpalatable candidate (communist candidate will have no problem to run despite having backstabbed the French Army in 1940). Of course the law is highly undemocratic because it places selection of candidates in the hands of the 30,000 majors of France. A bit like in Iran. Another problem is that Le Pen is toxic and if one mayor signs for hilm you can count on the usual suspects for telling his constituents what he did so a lot of mayors will chicken out. |
| Posted by: JFM 2007-01-04 15:51 |
| #3 A5059: So if Le Pen makes a decent showing it will lead to...what? Does he have any chance at all? What happens if FN puts a large number of representatives in Parliament? Could they sabotage things from there? These relationships are all so confusing -- the only common denominator seems to be anti-semitism and anti-Americanism. |
| Posted by: Jonathan 2007-01-04 13:29 |
| #2 On Radio-Coutoisie, the main and in fact only independent conservative french radio, the FN's passionaria serge de beketch, who had invited dieudonné a short while back, after his allegiance to Le Pen (while the catholic traditionalist SdB normally despises christian-bashers and anti-white racists like dieudonné), denounced sarkozy last week in his talk-show by saying the supposedly atlantist sarko was "the procurator of the US-rael Empire. And the FN's N°2 was invited and present to the final of dieudonné's current show, which is based on a supposed apology the comedian makes to the "chosen people". Love is in the air. They might hate each's others, they're together against the US-rael Empire. Cute. And this time, the FN is clearly vying for the Youths' votes; Le Pen was long satisified by being the Establishment's useful Devil, perhaps this time he thinks he has a shot (he's probably right, the political scene is rotten beyond belief, the Enlightened Elites have come full circle with their dogmas and ineptiness... good thing they greatly enriched themselves, so this was not all in vain). |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2007-01-04 12:46 |
| #1 More on dieudonné. Also, you might want to know that the new speech writer of Pépé Le Pen is alain soral, a commie writer noted for his analysis of the feminization of western societies (I have a couple of his books, interesting), who is also an outspoken ennemy of "communautarism", the communautarism targeted here being the "zionists" (wink, wink). Of course, he's also very anti-american, he wrote how he felt exilerated and triumphant during 9/11, he's a dieudonné pal, and also an associate of thierry meyssan. And Le Pen's new ideological guru (which doesn't mean the two are actually associated in any way) is supposedly emmanuel todd, writer of "Après l'Empire", a book announcing the coming decline of the USA and the return to a much healthier multipolar world he now wishes dominated by an EU-russia-china axis... funny thing is, is a leftie, and he's basically rehashing the "Nouvelle droite"'s talking points from the 80's. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2007-01-04 12:37 |