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Mr President, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Government, Ladies and Gentlemen, Members of Parliament,
The hour is serious, France is in danger, several mortal dangers threaten it. We who, even in retirement, remain soldiers of France, cannot, in the current circumstances, remain indifferent to the fate of our beautiful country.
Our tricolor flags are not just a piece of cloth, they symbolize the tradition, through the ages, of those who, whatever their skin color or their faith, have served France and given their lives for it. On these flags, we find in gold letters the words “Honor and Fatherland”. However, our honor today lies in the denunciation of the disintegration which strikes our homeland
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The hour is serious, France is in danger, several mortal dangers threaten it. We who, even in retirement, remain soldiers of France, cannot, in the current circumstances, remain indifferent to the fate of our beautiful country.
Our tricolor flags are not just a piece of cloth, they symbolize the tradition, through the ages, of those who, whatever their skin color or their faith, have served France and given their lives for it. On these flags, we find in gold letters the words “Honor and Fatherland”. However, our honor today lies in the denunciation of the disintegration which strikes our homeland.
- Discrimination which, through a certain anti-racism, is displayed with a single goal: to create on our soil a malaise, even a hatred between the communities. Today, some speak of racialism, indigenism and decolonial theories, but through these terms it is the racial war that these hateful and fanatic supporters want. They despise our country, its traditions, its culture, and want to see it dissolve by taking away its past and its history. Thus they attack, through statues, ancient military and civilian glories by analyzing words that are centuries old.
- Discrimination which, with Islamism and the suburban hordes, leads to the detachment of multiple plots of the nation to transform them into territories subject to dogmas contrary to our constitution. However, each Frenchman, whatever his belief or his non-belief, is everywhere at home in France; there cannot and must not exist any city, any district where the laws of the Republic do not apply.
- Discrimination, because hatred takes precedence over fraternity during demonstrations where the power uses the police as auxiliary agents and scapegoats in the face of French people in yellow vests expressing their despair. This while infiltrated and hooded individuals ransack businesses and threaten these same police forces. However, the latter only apply the directives, sometimes contradictory, given by you, the rulers.
Perils are mounting, violence is increasing day by day. Who would have predicted ten years ago that a professor would one day be beheaded when he left college? However, we, servants of the Nation, who have always been ready to put our skin at the end of our engagement - as required by our military state, cannot be in front of such acts of the passive spectators.
Also, those who lead our country must imperatively find the courage necessary to eradicate these dangers. To do this, it is often sufficient to apply existing laws without weakness. Do not forget that, like us, a large majority of our fellow citizens are overwhelmed by your shifts and your guilty silences.
As Cardinal Mercier, Primate of Belgium, said: “When prudence is everywhere, courage is nowhere. " So, ladies and gentlemen, enough stalling, the situation is serious, work is enormous; do not waste time and know that we are ready to support policies which will take into consideration the safeguard of the nation.
On the other hand, if nothing is done, laxity will continue to spread inexorably in society, ultimately causing an explosion and the intervention of our active comrades in a perilous mission of protecting our civilizational values and safeguarding our compatriots on the national territory.
As we can see, it is no longer time to procrastinate, otherwise, tomorrow the civil war will put an end to this growing chaos, and the deaths, for which you will bear the responsibility, will number in the thousands.
The signatory generals:
General de Corps d'Armée (ER) Christian PIQUEMAL (Foreign Legion), General de Corps d'Armée (2S) Gilles BARRIE (Infantry), General of Division (2S) François GAUBERT former Military Governor of Lille, General of Division ( 2S) Emmanuel de RICHOUFFTZ (Infantry), General of Division (2S) Michel JOSLIN DE NORAY (Marine Troops), General of Brigade (2S) André COUSTOU (Infantry), General of Brigade (2S) Philippe DESROUSSEAUX of MEDRANO ( Train), Air Brigade General (2S) Antoine MARTINEZ (Air Force), Air Brigade General (2S) Daniel GROSMAIRE (Air Force), Brigade General (2S) Robert JEANNEROD (Cavalry), g eneral Brigade (2S) Pierre Dominique AIGUEPERSE (infantry) g eneral Brigade (2S) Roland DUBOIS (Transmissions), gBrigadier General (2S) Dominique DELAWARDE (Infantry), Brigadier General (2S) Jean Claude GROLIER (Artillery), Brigadier General (2S) Norbert de CACQUERAY (Directorate General of Armament), Brigadier General (2S) Roger PRIGENT (ALAT), Brigadier General (2S) Alfred LEBRETON (CAT), General Doctor (2S) Guy DURAND (Army Health Service), Rear Admiral (2S) Gérard BALASTRE (Navy).
Google translated. Predicts a civil war. Some are retired/reserve.
Are some active?
The only color the French know is the color white for surrender. /spit.
That I don’t know.
They’re calling on the wrong guy for that.
August 08, 2003
All Things French - Blackfive’s Encounter with a French Army General
Original Blogspot Posting - June 18, 2003
Back in 1992, I was a First Lieutenant (1LT) in the US Army. I was an Executive Officer - 2nd in Command of a Company - in the 3rd Infantry Division (3rd ID) and was headquartered in Wurzburg, Germany, which was nestled in the hills of the northern tip of Bavaria. It was the end of June, and I was getting ready to head back to the states.
Now, normally, when you are leaving one post for another, you receive about ten days administrative leave (read vacation or time off) in order to put your things in order - things like shipping your car back to the states, packing and shipping your belongings, and ensuring that you have properly filled out about ten reams of paperwork properly. It is during this standard, ten day period that you are considered untouchable for additional duty assignments. For all intents and purposes, you are supposed to be considered already gone...
Well, over the Fourth of July weekend, the 3rd ID was going to celebrate it’s 75th Anniversary. Major General (MG) Keller, the Division Commander, was going to bring every living 3rd ID Medal of Honor (MOH) recipient to Germany. This meant that each MOH winner would need a junior officer as an escort. You guessed it, MG Keller caught me in his net for junior officers even though I was supposed to be left alone.
Please understand that is was a great duty to escort a MOH winner - so I didn’t complain - hell, I wanted to meet the heroes and I ended up as escort officer for Ola Mize. He was a Sergeant when he received the MOH and ended his career in the Army as a Colonel. He was a great guy, very easy going and funny. I really liked being around him. I even had the Division Staff Duty Officer - charged with knowing everything that was going on at night and had keys to open every building - open the bowling alley on base for Colonel Mize at midnight so we could bowl and have a beer. After bowling, I dropped the colonel off at his VIP suite. I caught up with the other junior officers who escorted MOH winners that day, and the consensus was that every single one of them were great guys. All of us had been treated with enormous respect. Hell, I bowled and drank beers with an amazing American hero that I would have willingly carried on my back around the base.
After the initial night, Colonel Mize received a higher ranking officer to escort him around by daylight. So, I said my goodbyes, shook the colonel’s hand, and went to find out if I was still needed for escort duty. Colonel Mize’s last words to me were, “Someday, Matt, you will have the honor of being led around by a lieutenant. When that day comes, don’t be a jackass.”
My next duty was to escort a French general who was being treated with Dignitary status. His name was General Jannier (pronounced Jza-nay), and he was one of the French Commando Brigade commanders. Since I had served in the American Special Forces, it was thought by the officer making the assignment roster that we would have something in common. I was disappointed that I didn’t get another MOH winner, and, quite frankly, would rather be packing up my belongings rather than escorting a French General around. Actually, I would rather have had a colonscopy than spend time with a French General.
I took General Jannier on a tour around the base, to an orchestra concert, and various other festivities culminating with a walk down a static display of equipment. What is a static display? It is where you put stationary equipment (like tanks, helicopters, hum-vees, weapon systems, etc.) on display for guests to view. Usually, you have a Sergeant stationed at each piece of equipment, and the Sergeant, in a docent-like role, will describe the equipment in great detail. Almost always, it is the Sergeant’s actual equipment - meaning, the Sergeant is the subject-matter expert on the equipment.
General Jannier did not speak English. He had an American Army Captain as an interpreter. As I walked with the General, the Army Captain interpreter stopped each Sergeant from talking about his equipment - instead, he insisted that I describe what we were looking at and then he would translate it for the General. When I asked why, the Captain just said, “Lieutenant, just do as the General asks.”
As we moved along, it became more and more apparent to me that General Jannier did not think very highly of enlisted soldiers. This thought began to grind on my nerves because I was a “mustang” - meaning that I had been a Sergeant before becoming an Officer. Sergeants (Non-Commissioned Officers) in the American military were more educated, motivated and dedicated than ever before - and they served for a pitiance and most could qualify for welfare/food stamps. Couple this with the fact that the General would mutter things in French while I was describing the equipment and you can probably tell why I was getting a little irritated. I kept getting the impression that he was criticizing the US Army with American Sergeants looking on.
So we walked through the static display as I described various personnel carriers, hum-vees, radio equipment, etc. with the Sergeants just looking on with an “WTF” expression on their faces. The Captain would tell the General everything I said in French. After an excruciating hour of this, we reached the M1A1 Abrams main battle tank - it was immaculate and magnificent. The M1A1 is 60 tons of homogenous steel that can move over 30-55 mph over rough terrain and blast an enemy’s army right out of its path. The M1A1 was the darling of the Persian Gulf War in 1991. Standing in front of the impressive tank was a Sergeant that could have posed for a recruiting poster. To me, the M1A1 display was a work of art.
Holding up my hand to stop the Sergeant from describing his M1A1, I began describing the tank in great detail. It has an impressive array of weapons, and roles of the crew are interesting. While I was talking, General Jannier made some comments in French under his breath. The Sergeant assigned to discuss the tank’s attributes gave me a confused look.
I thought, That’s it! I can’t take any more of this arrogant bullsh#t!
But, because I had a lingering doubt that the General might actually be sincere, what I politely asked was, “Captain, what did the General just say?”
The Army Captain interpreter replied, “Lieutenant, don’t worry about it.”
I grew more insistent, “Captain, what did the General just say.”
The Captain, exasperated as well, just mumbled, “He says that it is inferior to the Leclerc (French) tank. That’s all.”
My incredulous voice went up a few decibels, “Inferior?!”, a few more decibels, “Why?!! Because it doesn’t have three gears for REVERSE?”
The smile on the M1A1’s Sergeant’s face was priceless. However, the Captain turned white as a ghost. I could read the “Oh SH#T!!!” look on his face. General Jannier looked stunned, then you could see his eyes narrowed on me, his smirk faded into a sneer.
The Army Captain’s face tightened up. He turned to me to address me directly, “Lieutenant, General Jannier can speak English. HE...JUST...CHOOSES...NOT...TO!”
Oh SH#T!!!!
I was replaced by another escort officer (faster than you can say “Your career is OVER!”), told to stay in my quarters, received a General Letter of Reprimand for pissing off an allied General Officer (conduct unbecoming), and ordered to stay away from all French nationals on base.
For awhile, this story was told at the Officer’s Club or at a poker game - more often than not to poke fun at me. Now, it seems to be a badge of honor. I couldn’t have done more to piss off the French Army - even if I had been wearing this shirt.
Source:https://www.blackfive.net/main/2003/08/all_things_fren_1.html
Getting the OAS back into business?
I have a friend in France who is retired military. He served in French North Africa. His pension has been reduced to give more “benefits” to immigrants.
They moved out of Marseilles because of the aggressive “immigrants” (invaders).
He once told me that the entire Middle East should be nuked and start over.
The French can be arrogant. But their reputation as “surrender monkeys” is largely undeserved. For example, in 1940 the British were able to evacuate at Dunkirk only because of the heroic delaying action of the French First Army.
Most of the British soldiers escaped. The French First Army covered them, and got cut to pieces.
Algeria didn’t end well for the French.
Sounds like the French Generals have balls and US Generals have NONE.
We are being run by demonrats with dementia and an American- hating cabal!
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Neat, a terse letter. If he doesn’t respond, they will send a second.
............I’m not a big fan of socialist/marxist France either. But, I’m also a realist and therefore I note in light of your comment that 2,112 Frenchmen died (per Wiki) fighting for America in the Revolutionary War.
And, without the French Navy blocking his escape, Cornwallis most likely would have not surrendered at Yorktown either.
—”The only color the French know is the color white for surrender.”
Is that so?
After the British failure at Dunkirk and the Brits returned home for some tea...
Tell us about the rearguard that allowed the British retreat?
...Answer?...
About 40,000 mostly French and a few British paid the ultimate price, very few survivors.
Dien Bien Phu, totally surrounded and French troops were volunteering to reinforce their trapped brothers.
Some not even airborne qualified!
A night drop into a surrounded LZ.
Jumping into the depths of hell would be no different.
Vive la France!
Not French, but wish I had learned the language.
The Algerian War didn’t end well especially for the Algerians.
Note that the piece suggests that France's military may have to intervene, i.e., pull a coup d'etat. No wonder the corrupt political elite is having a fit.
Many bodies at Verdun may disagree.
Didn’t that get started when the French refused to go along with Bush’s misadventure in Afghanistan? If that is the case, they were smart, not cowardly.
The surviving generals eventually rejoined the army. It looks like they’ve passed along some of their views. And perhaps some of the lessons learned. And the Algerians are a bigger threat now than they were at the Oran massacre.
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