McCarthy was right too.
Posted on 11/10/2005 12:36:03 PM PST by jb6
Support to Le Pen´s National Front Party increases as riots still go on
In an AP intrerview, Le Pen said people with immigrant backgrounds who commit crimes should be sent "back to their country of origin." If they are French, they should be stripped of their nationality, he added.
Once the flames, if not the anger, recede in France's riot-hit suburbs, a next big challenge for the weakened middle ground of French politics will be beating back far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, for whom the violence could prove an electoral gift.
Already, the anti-immigration zealot who gave France and Europe a fright by making it through to the second and final round of presidential elections in 2002 thinks that the rioting has revived his hopes for the next polls in 2007.
Because many of the youths lobbing gasoline bombs and rocks come from immigrant families, Le Pen said in an interview Wednesday with The Associated Press that his warnings that "massive immigration" has been disastrous for France have been vindicated.
He claimed that his National Front party has been "submerged" by e-mails of support and is signing up "thousands of new members," although the party's national secretary for new memberships said the figure was closer to 1,000, and that they were requests to join over the past week.
"Le Pen was right"
Voters "are saying to themselves 'Le Pen was right,'" Le Pen said. "We were told that Le Pen is an extremist because he said that immigration problems would lead to disorder. The facts have shown that he was right."
Leading French politics expert Pascal Perrineau agreed that France's worst unrest since the May 1968 student riots have played into Le Pen's hands. While many French voters reject his xenophobic policies, some may be more tempted than ever to vote for the veteran former paratrooper and Foreign Legionnaire to punish mainstream politicians they regard as incompetent and unable to keep the peace or bring down France's nearly 10 percent unemployment rate.
"Le Pen back in the second round of a presidential election is totally possible. Le Pen winning a majority is totally impossible," said Perrineau, director of the Center for Political Research at Paris' esteemed Sciences Po university.
For his part, Le Pen said he is "more than ever" determined in the wake of riots to stand again in 2007. "If there were presidential elections now, my chances would be increased tenfold," he said.
"Just the start"
In the AP interview, Le Pen described the 13 nights of violence as "just the start" of conflicts caused by "massive immigration from countries of the Third World that is threatening not just France but the whole continent."
He said people with immigrant backgrounds who commit crimes should be sent "back to their country of origin." If they are French, they should be stripped of their nationality, he added.
Reminded that the vast majority of youths taking part in the arson and rioting are French, born in France to immigrant parents, he said: "What does that mean? Are they French because they have a French identity card?"
He wants to kick the immigrants who commit crimes. Jews behave themselves much better than Mooses do.
McCarthy was right too.
3 out of 4 voters agree with him on the deportation issue. You are correct to sense a massive shift. More important is the Big Mo in his favor. He predicts even more bad news. His prediction is very, very likely to come true.
Where do they come from, the non-Muslim immigrants to Europe?
I understand some to Spain are from Latin America...
" understand some to Spain are from Latin America..."
Many immigrants come as you say Spain.South America, China, Vietnam, Eastern Europe, Africa.......
You never see those people going on a rampage to claim anything
except if they happen to be Muslims.
Most of the imigrants Non_muslims are grateful and thankful to be living in Free-Europe. They realise not everything is perfect, but, they try hard to integrate, work.
It is true to say that Chinese and Vietnamese tend to have their own way of life, but, they work terribly hard and demand nothing.
Were you to look at the queues for social security check in Europe, 90% of them are Arab muslims.
Europe is entering a Intifada, the start of it was in France.
Kristopher.
The problem is that France's situation is so bad the Le Pen doesn't go far enough
Guess what? The Muzzies are even more anti-Semite. Allowing them to stay and become dominant will be worse for French Jews than anything LePen could do
Zealots are bad. Le Pen is a zealot. Le Pen is bad.
Awaiting further MSM instructions...
J. Edgar Hoover
Right, I agree, but I figured there was little non-Muslim immigration to Europe.
I didn't think a lot of Orientals (Chinese and Viets) went to Europe.
A lot of Cubans and South Africans in Germany. Vietnamese in Czech. Chinese in Russia. Indonesians also in Czech. Gypsies in Sweden. Etc.
Hoover? The man who testified in front of Congress that there is no such thing as a Mafia in America? Of course the fact that the Mafia had a tape of him and a little boy did absolutely nothing to sway Hoover's opinions.
"Da*n, we're in a tight spot.
The Muslims have caught on to our racism.""They've realized that we said it was okay to have American troops free us twice, but we said it was bad for the Americans to free Muslims in Iraq."
"Since the Iraqi constitution passed, the Muslims have finally realized they'd have more hope in Iraq than in Paris."
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