Monsieur Lalonde's Candidate (Kerry's Socialist French First Cousin)

World History ^ | August 1, 2004 | World History

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Brice Lalonde is a former socialist and Green Party leader in France, who ran for President of France in 1981. In 1988 he was named Minister of the Environment, and in 1990 founded the Green Party Génération Ecologie.

He was a student leader during the May 1968 student uprisings in France, when riots and upheaval scared the French population away from Revolution and the old Left, but toward an adaptive and calmer socialism.

In 1968, Lalonde was President of the Union Nationale des Etudiants de France (UNEF), the French National Students' Union, which brought France to a standstill with protests and riots. The power of students in Europe and the power of his first cousin there caused Sen. John Kerry to rethink his support of the Vietnam War in the U.S., and caused him to become more agitated and aggressive in his own leadership of young people and demonstrations in the U.S.

Lalonde, with David McTaggart, an activist involved in the Greenpeace protests against French nuclear tests at Mururoa, helped create the confrontational strategies of boarding ships at sea in the 1970s.

In the Summer 1999, Brice Lalonde went to Afghanistan to support the commander Massoud, called by some the Afghan de Gaulle, against the oppression of the Taliban.

He currently is the mayor of a Saint-Briac-sur-Mer, a small French village where the Forbes family keeps an estate. He is the heir to several Forbes family offshore trusts.

Brice Lelonde is the son of Fiona (Forbes) Lalonde, a daughter of James Grant Forbes. He is also a childhood friend of Senator John Kerry's and Kerry's 1st cousin as they share the same grandparents. His mother and father changed their name from Levy when he was a child. His (and Sen. Kerry's) g. grandfather Forbes was a poppy botanist and opium dealer in the China trade during the Opium War, who wrote a book on Chinese plants. Brice lives at the Forbes family estate in Saint-Briac.

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Just as the 2004 remake of the "Manchurian Candidate" portrays a man controlled by an implanted chip, the 2004 nominee for president seems to be greatly influenced by his first cousin from France, Brice Lalonde.

Just as his socialist cousin was a leader in anti-Vietnam protests that were marked by violence, John Kerry mirrored the activities in America and was associated with groups that even contemplated the assassination of political figures.

Just as his socialist cousin took up the cause of radical environmentalists, John Kerry mirrored the position by becoming beholden to far left environmentalists and their causes and ideals.

So it is no surprise that just as his French cousin ran for President of France as the Socialist/Green Party candidate, John Kerry mirrors him by running for President of the United States as the Socialist Democrat candidate. For most of his life, John Kerry has proven himself to be Monsieur Lalonde's candidate.

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Monsieur Lalonde's Candidate

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