Le Pen: Send immigrants to camps pending deportation

The Jerusalem Post ^ | 4/26/02 | AP

[kattracks]

Now why do you suppose the word ILLEGAL was omitted from the AP report title?

[HiTech RedNeck]

"What really worries me is that we are being progressively submerged by immense masses from the Third World, and this massive immigration is creating very desocializing conditions," he said on RMC-Info radio.

LePen may be a kook, but in this matter he gets the point. France is careening towards becoming a chapter of Islamistan Worldwide in a few short decades. (We, on the other hand, appear to be headed towards becoming another province of Mexico.)

[dennisw]

Looks to me like LePen is just speaking common sense! Why would France want to be colonized by the Muslims it used to colonize??

MADNESS and Euro wimpyness.

[xm177e2]

Now why do you suppose the word ILLEGAL was omitted from the AP report title?

That was EXACTLY my first thought upon seeing the article. The level of bias is incredible: they could have just as easily said "Send illegals to camps pending deportation," and it would have been much closer to the truth. And why play up the "camps" aspect rather than the fact they'd be deported?

[germanicus]

This is some of the only clear thinking I've heard coming from France in many years.

[grania]

LePen may be a kook, but in this matter he gets the point.

Why start out with "LePen may be a kook?"...that's what the media wants us to do, assume their attitude might be valid.

I would prefer "LePen is obviously not a kook since in this matter (illegals who don't go home on their own) he gets the point!

[moneyrunner]

You may want to hear from Le Pen in his own words.

Spectator Interview

[HiTech RedNeck]

Can someone clarify what LePen thinks about Jews? That's the part that concerns me.

[kattracks]

More from Le Pen:

'The veil? It protects us from ugly women' (Le Pen)

[Jumper]

Anti-immigration is not the same as illegal aliens, which is very different from the headline! There was nothing said by Le Pen about deporting legal immigrants.... The closest this article gets to that is that he doesn't feel immigrants have the same right to jobs as "ethenic" French.

[dennisw]

Can someone clarify what LePen thinks about Jews? That's the part that concerns me.

My guess is that he and his supporters consider Islamic immigration/colonization the prime problem and not the Jews of France. That they long for days of 20 years ago when their "problem" was Jews.

Allegedly 5 million Moslems in France and only half million Jews.

[Comanche]

I visited Paris two years ago and it is a cesspool of african, middle east immigrants. I have never before seen Paris this dirty in the past. The French have lost their minds in the name of Socialism. If ever a Pied Piper was needed LePen is the man for the job.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Past statements leave little room for doubt, though. He referred to the former socialist minister Michel Durafour as "Durafour Crematoire [Gas chamber]," and described the Jewish TV star Anne Sinclair as "a juicy kosher butcher". Asked directly by journalists whether he was an anti-semite, he responded: "I don't like Chagall and my favourite composer is Wagner. Does that make me anti-Jewish?"

If this is the size of it, the situation is ambiguous. Gallows humor in bad taste but no malice? Or a real antipathy? In a way, he seems like kind of a French Pat Buchanan. He won't win, but he will create an immense splash in French politics.

[RippleFire]

Speaking Thursday on LCI television, Le Pen said illegal immigrants should be placed in "relatively comfortable transit camps" and then expelled.

Makes too much sense. Why not try the USA solution: Have no idea where they are until a INS agent trips over them. Then tell them they are expelled but release them on their own recognizance while the legal process takes 5 years to confirm the ruling. At which point they can no longer be found.

Of course there is also the UN solution - take them home and give them your house.

[SR71A]

Can someone clarify what LePen thinks about Jews? That's the part that concerns me.

I read an interview posted on another thread where he shows admiration for the ideal of Israel. In other words, he supports Zionism. He also pointed out their right to self-defense. He didn't sound at all anti-Semitic.

All of this is to mask the virulent anti-Semitism of the French left, IMHO.

[FITZ]

Can someone clarify what LePen thinks about Jews? That's the part that concerns me.

I'm becoming less concerned because it's been a few days now since the election and all I've seen was that he made a comment about the Holocaust being a detail of WWII that made him seem less than sympathetic to the Jews. The liberals have been backing the Muslims against the Jews, they didn't complain about the Muslims attacking the synagogues in France recently, they don't complain about Palestinians suicide bombing innocent Jews, so the liberals really have nothing to say.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Does anyone know more about the context of the "Durafour Crematoire" incident. I found precious little on Google.

[Rodney King]

Can someone clarify what LePen thinks about Jews? That's the part that concerns me

It is concerning, and I don't know the answer for sure. What is don't understand is why nobody is asking what Chirac and his buddies think about the Jews. They are in power now, and look what they are saying about Israel. We know that the French establishment is anti-semetic.

As for LePen, perhaps he is insensitive, but I think he is just a French Nationalist, and therefore is not really sensitive to anyone outside of traditional France.

[wattsmag2]

A tedious read http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/jointsessions/grenoble/papers/ws14/deze.pdf

And take a grain or two of salt while exploring.

[HiTech RedNeck]

I'd think that Chirac is playing the stereotypical role of "surrender monkey." If the Jews were on the winning team he would back them.

Do we have any French Freepers?