With thanks to the Saker, for posting Jean Ferrat on line, and in memory of Me Vergès.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and all uncleanness.
Matthew 23:27
There is no worse blind man than the one who doesn’t want to see. There is no worse deaf man than the one who doesn’t want to hear.
Wisdom of the Nations
by Théroigne
Does it need to be said how appalling it is, when looking at France from the outside, to see how many people reputed to be intelligent, and even some who truly are, blind themselves so deliberately, so self-destructively? It renders one speechless.
What is it, dear French friends, that you refuse so obstinately to see, by refusing to look at Madame Le Pen in the face? Yourselves?
The candidature of Madame Le Pen is a culmination or, if you like, a symptom. It is not the disease. It is even less the cause. You might think that you have enough curiosity (integrity?) in you to want to identify both one and the other. No? Why not?
Is it permissible to give you a hand?
Without being a psychiatrist or a priest, one can always try to help you give birth to the reality that swells your stomach and that you refuse to acknowledge because the little bastard, once born, will be a disgrace.
You find yourself in the Cornelian situation of having to choose between accepting a monstrous coup d’état or refusing it in the only way possible: by voting for a candidate whom you do not like because you disapprove of her principles — they are not yours.
But her name came out of the hat. The other half-honest candidates had no other choice but to line up behind her, after clearly distinguishing their program from hers, as Mr. Dupont-Aignan did. As she should have done herself if fate had favored someone else.
You are well aware that by refusing to decide, you pronounce yourself in fact for the stronger, for the one onto whose tail you fear stepping; that by refusing the fight — which would be to league with his opponent, no matter how disagreeable it may be — you lie down and you wait to be sodomized dry? Perhaps by both if one day they league together.
You may pretend that they are both puppets of the oligarchy, you know very well that it is false. And besides, what are you waiting for, to face the oligarchy? That it rains little dogs?
You know very well that things have come to a point where there is no third way, that abstention is not an option, that it is only a statement of passivity, that is to say, cowardice, that it is a way of washing your hands as they say Pilate did. (Decidedly, for a disbeliever, I don’t get out of the Bible much).
Let us take things in two stages: first, the forces currently at play, and then, by what maneuvers of the Holy Spirit (damn) we have arrived here, and whose fault.
Well, on the one hand, we have Mrs Le Pen, who has inherited the blunderbuss of a questionable father and who has been much more discussed than many others who should have been (let us pass on it). She sins above through a lack of education (moral, civic, historical and political), a deficiency that she shares with the vast majority of the French, whether they be on board or not. It’s not her fault nor theirs. It is the fault of those who have let the integrity of the nation be attacked by external forces whose aim was to reduce it to impotence by cretinizing it. Mission accomplished.
The inegalitarian choices of candidate Le Pen are not glorious, they are even nasty.
Opposite, you have the “real masters of the world” aka “the oligarchy” in the person of a Pinocchio sitting on the ventriloquist’s knees.
QUESTION: WHAT HAS HITLER DONE THAT THESE PEOPLE HAVE NOT DONE AND ARE NOT DOING – A HUNDRED TIMES WORSE – WITHOUT ANY OF YOU, GOOD APOSTLES, RAISING A FINGER TO PREVENT THEM?
We are talking about actual things, not bleary, even unsavory, intentions from fascists « à la papa ».
We are talking about tens of millions of deaths in Dresden, Stalingrad, Hiroshima, Korea, Vietnam, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Europe. We are talking about children born with two heads or without limbs in Iraq and Belgrade, of those who are starved to death on the five continents; We speak of centers of torture floating on all the seas and on dozens of soils; We speak of “destabilized” countries (burned and bloodied) ruined in every way, physically, materially and morally for decades by so-called colorful revolutions. We are talking about Greece, who, like a lab animal, was asphyxiated “just to see.” We are talking about the masses of heroes, men and women, tortured and murdered, of whom only a few are known, the Allende, Jara, Guevara, Sankara, Lumumba, Arafat, Sands, Gaddafi, Chavez, Manning, Assange, those thrown out of helicopters, burnt alive or boiled, or buried alive. We are talking about the sixty years of suffering of the Palestinians, which never stopped you from going on holiday or digesting your lunches, while the “program” of Mrs. Le Pen nauseates you.
To pretend to compare THIS, Europe, the IMF, the CIA, NATO, the 300 Hiroshimas stored only in Italy with Mrs. Le Pen, is to demonstrate either incurable stupidity or a revolting bad faith. Frankly, there are times when too much is too much and where the will to place on the same level realities that are light-years away from one another appears for what it is: a cowardice and hypocrisy which goes as far as complicity.
But, well, let’s move on.
How did we get there? To the point of having no choice but “between the plague and the cholera”? There must have been other, “prior,” opportunities, roads leading elsewhere and which were not taken…
At the risk of being resented for it, let’s go there—without going as far back as the deluge, or even to the Korean War, which might have nevertheless taken some by surprise.
How is it that your/our LEFTISTS trade unions never had the idea of decreeing a general strike until the Vietnam War stopped? When such a strike would have only affected Europe, at a time when there was plenty of work and that capital needed collaboration to survive. Class solidarity, fraternity among peoples … ever heard of it?
How is it that, while we’re at it, no union has been given a single call for a political strike for centuries, when they are precisely the only ones that could have any power? Because the apparatchiks did not want to compromise their privileges, their wages, their small advantages by risking everything for the whole? But you, unionists, militants, why didn’t you ever ask them to do so? Resisting Nazi Germany during the war and not resisting anything else from then on, how do you explain this? It’s not the fault of Mrs. Le Pen, she wasn’t born yet.
Why was there never a tax strike, when, by depriving the war-hungry men of their means, they could have been reduced to impotence? Whoever would strike alone would have had his furniture confiscated and sent to jail, surely, but why was the question never raised, let alone discussed?
How is it that you have passively accepted all the conquest, colonial, neo-colonial, outrageously interventionist wars, or outright exterminations, even the dismemberment of neighboring Yugoslavia, without blinking, as long as it was not you being attacked, ruined and killed?
How dare you be scandalized by the torture practiced by Jean-Marie Le Pen when the generators used were supplied to him by a government that you elected, when they had been purchased with your taxes, and when the war which allowed these things was decreed by a minister of justice whom you then sent twice to the presidency of your country and whose policies on Africa you have supported for fourteen years (and which continues today thank you) without disapproving nor asking a single question?
How dare you be indignant today about jihadist crimes, when they are only the execution of the orders of those to whom you haven’t ceased to profess your allegiance?
Did you really believe that demonstrating in the streets or altercating with members of the GUD (or National Front) at the farmer’s markets was really going to serve something? We all did it—when one is young, it’s hard to know better, but there comes a time when one is supposed to sit down, look back, add it all up and conclude.
By condemning the FN candidate to the lazaretto, you are only expressing your contempt for the millions of workers, unemployed, petty merchants or ruined farmers who voted for her. All racists, all black shirts, huh? It is true that when the unfortunate applicants for immigration, driven out of their countries devastated by our care (alas, we must support our standard of living), break through the territory, it is not your jobs that they will take, but those of garbage collectors and housekeepers, by agreeing to work cheaper than them because it’s that or death. It is your cardboard boxes and the sidewalks of your unemployed that they will invade, not your apartments with digital access codes. If there is justice somewhere you will be cursed for having condemned them to tear each other apart.
Mrs. Le Pen fights against the unnameable. By ambition, thirst for power or altruism, we do not care. She does it with her defects. You do NOTHING. How can your virtues matter, if they are sterile?
Good people of the right and left, you are all the truth of a single party: that of selfishness.
Have I said Bouvard and Pecuchet? No, Tartufes.
If you are a Christian, call it an examination of conscience, if you are Communists, self-criticism, whatever, but it would be time to get started, before it stinks too much.
What must think of us other peoples?
As for the Marxists champions of the status quo who would not touch Marine Le Pen with a barge pole … fortunately you were not there when Lenin signed the Peace of Brest-Litovsk! What would he have done with you in the way, mounted on your great antifascist horses?
Foutredieu, spare us your jeremiads and your anathemas of hypocrites.
Go dancing at the Bataclan!
From Liège, a quasi-millennial republic which voted 93% of its votes towards its annexation to the France … of Robespierre, before being colonized by its assassins. In Robespierre’s name one would not allow oneself, one does not have the madness of grandeur, but in the name of Robespierre, yes, just like Ferrat.
Théroigne.
Thank you Théroigne for your kind words. I absolutely agree with you.
The above is Not a rant, but a jeremiad and perhaps a screed leaning towards a diatribe. The
times lend these to us perforce.
We lack teachers, we lack the company of the holy ( where are they in urban death star Americana?) One of my teachers said to me when I was in a time of utter despair: “It is not the life you live–it is the courage you bring to it that matters. ” But in the time of crass materialism people just seem so petrified, depressed and wont to lie down to be “sodomized dry” as our author so brutally but succinctly put it.
I am facing a situation in my mobile home park where I could provide a leadership role but with what followers? None of them want to sacrifice in solidarity—they seem incapable of understanding the concept. Divide and rule, I say? Hang together or we hang separately?
The return a look both Scared and blank…blank? And these are people who dutifully go to church every Sunday? And they want me to do it for them. I think they just get stoned when it gets too much for them–legally with antidepressants for sure. After all, who really needs religion when you have drugs legal or otherwise.
Hello?
Do I want martyrdom for nothing? No, I want to know that there are people who are just as determined and willing to continue the good fight after I am taken down or out. Otherwise who is at my back? As one of my friend says, You have to find your “Peeps” these folks are not your peeps.
Bless the Russians and their May 9th celebrations.—-they know who their peeps are and that their sacrifice is both an existential act and a transcendent act. And that they are not alone either on earth or in heaven. ever.
Awesome article. With the added importance of being all true.Will it have an effect,doubtful. Should it ,yes. But how many in today’s World will even see it. And of those, understand the meaning behind it. It sad that today poetic meaningful words aren’t valued as they were in the past.
@UB1
So true, what you said. And I am not saying about this excellent article. Reading it, I was just thinking: How do you make people for example in Greece read this, these people just got “fu$$ed” for the fourth time, and Tsipras is talking about six more years of his lies and abuse.
They are prime example of what author describes as the people who refuse to open their eyes. Kazantzidis (singer, who passed not long ago) has a song where he called his fellow citizens a “living dead”.
Prose as apposed to poetics Bob mon amee…
Ze polls must be awefully close for the little matre lexions fellow to need a boost of such proportions as these unaswerable leaks in the mandated quiet period of two days prior the ballot…
Le Pen will win.
Hollande will claim subterfuge.
Hollande will claim 3 months extension to reballot the election.
Le Pen will be excoriated…then jailed.
Galamorfrey from sun up to down.
War comes.
No stopping it.
Why Théroigne? Which Théroigne is evoked here?
The “one of the first Amazons of liberty”, the “patriots’ whore” and “female war chief” about whom it was said that “every representative [of the National Assembly] may fairly claim to be the father of her child”?
Or,
The one who on September 20, 1794 “was certified insane and put into an asylum in Faugbourg Marceau. She was ultimately sent to La Salpêtrière Hospital in in 1807, where she lived for twenty years, intermittently lucid and speaking constantly about the Revolution, until her death in 1817.
Not the one ‘calumniated’ for lynching to death the royalist pamphleteer François-Louis Suleau on the bloody “journée of the 10 August” when the surrendering Swiss Guards were massacred by the ‘sans-culottes’ (Out of the nine hundred only three hundred survived).
The French are funny.
Entertaining article that could cause change, but too much cynicism and pessimism in the comments. If that was the intent of the author, too much there too!
About ten years ago a friend of mine sold his company to French investors who promptly ruined it, despite his attempts to point out errors they were making.
“But you can’t tell the french anything.”, he concluded.
Yet they’ll try to tell each other contrary axioms and postulates until they are blue in the face from lack of oxygen, each unmoved one millimeter by the other.
Yet when push comes to shove they may more easily lose their heads than many other stubborn peoples, and get really excited by the mass separation of heads from bodies that weren’t going to act in the desired way, in any case.
The problem is, that their existentialist despair, especially in modern times, since the trench warfare mass slaughter of WW I, became extremely popular among diasporas of many nations whose emigres congregated in Paris in the thirties and tried to outdo each other in spreading the virus of cultural pessimism, existentialism and nihilism, infecting the entire world’s art, literature and avant garde coffee house political plotters with the impotent ennui and mystique of it all.
It’s a useless defensive tactic when everything points to the opportunity of an offensive thrust into the heart of the Beast. Even if she only lasts 3 days Marine must be pushed to lead and grow until more French are intolerant of twisted dwarf opportunists like her opponent, that are much too much like their former immoral selves for them to tolerate such moral midgets for even a second more.
But will the level of self-disgust rise to a sufficient intensity before Sunday? Will the French puke in sufficient numbers, in time, or keep it down and stay sick until they die?
The spirit in this fine article, if sentiments like it seethe to the surface in enough other places, like the Deplorable Mass-consciousness November 8th, 2016, can drown the mutant moral midget Macron in a tsunami of puke.
Que Dieu vous écoute!
(May God hear you.MOD)
One of your best comments, Bro 93 ! Years ago I had a French friend ( a woman) living in my neighborhood. She came here because of her sun who married a woman here, then she had many difficulties – first with the language – after which she came to me to ask what to do. I told her but she hasn’t listen to me. I took the phone and called the French embassy and told the case. Gave her address, they contacted her and all ended with happy end. Now she is back in France. But, I can tell in advance, she will vote for Macron anyway…
The thoughts of Bouvard & Peruchet, as recorded in Dictionnaire des idées reçues, by Gustave Flaubert, 2017.
ASSAD: Bloodstained dictator
GHADDAFFI: see Assad
LE PEN: Fascist
HITLER: Who?
ROTHSCHILD: Premier cru
FRENCH ARMS: Victorious abroad
The frustration is understood from the human perspective. But:
Daniel 2:21
“And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:”
Proverbs 29:2
“When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.”
Isaiah 10:1
“Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;”
I assume, I belong to the Passive Coward Crowd…
PS: Show me one example in history, where the bottom-up change/revolution brought any long term general blessing for all. Just one and I will shut up (and don’t bring up the “USA project”, please)
And I share this opportunistic election opinion with Mr. Carlin:
“George Carlin Doesn’t vote”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIraCchPDhk
It helps to keep my conscience clean from choosing the “lesser evil”.
On the other hand, kudos to all who fight the Evil anywhere in the world; whether in private, or public life.
Correction: Bouvard and Pecuchet, not Peruchet of course; the liquid “r” in Peruchet flows too easily, lacks the blockhead hard “c” of the immortal pair of obtuse bourgeoisie.
Le Pen cannot change the system, because she is part of the system.
Just like Trump could not change anything because he plays within the system and is a part of it.
The Western-Zionist godless political economic monetary system is the cause of the misery in the US, Europe and the Middle-East.
Again, these so called protest / grass-roots candidates or whatever they are called operate within this global system.
The situation will only deteriorate until the system collapses, and when that happens, only God knows what will replace it.
Some powerful insights
But really I don’t understand why is Jean Ferrat thrown into the soup. Because we should never forget ‘Nuit et brouillard’? Because Le Pen would bring back ‘it’?
The address is within a few inches of a fine Surrealist manifesto http://racetraitor.org/murderoushumanitarianism.html
The most important question is : what will do Macron as President ?
We know where he belongs to : to the Establishment. What will be the consequences, is not a secret. If we had so many discussions here about the ways and policies of the Establishment, we must conclude that the future will not be rosy. The common EU policy from Bruxelles will be much stronger, getting mush powerful as before. The migrant-policy will enter into a new faze, allowing much more migrants from Africa, Middle-East and Central-Asia, then proceeding with the forced sharing with other EU countries who now oppose it. The Syrian conflict – which now is being agreed upon in Astana with Russia-Syria-Turkey-Iran – will be dealt according to their plans : “Assad must Go ” or else. The relations with Russia will have a negative aspect (Macron is already blaming Russian hackers), Ukraine will get again financial and political help against the “Russian aggressor”. The remaining “protesting” voices within the EU will cease to exist. A prolonged state of emergency will be introduced and extended all over EU. The pretexts will be “found” for that to happen. Now, who will be those young people who will go(according to the polls) in the streets to protest, and, against who ? Among the protesters, there are -or will be – right-wing oriented, left-wing oriented, anarchists, anti-x, or anti-y, of any kind. Will they unite against a common cause, do they have a common cause and will they want to unite anyway ? If not – which seems logical at the moment – they will fight each-other and guess who will be the winner ? exactly, the Establishment. The is a long, long time and effort invested by the Establishment to endorse such behavior, to made the people being mad one against the other, to simplify the oppositions political arena by cornering them is two extremes and naming them “radicals”. Now, their efforts are nearly fructified. The iPhone era has the upper hand.
The French painted themselves in a corner and tied their hands and feet when they voted for and endorsed the law which suppresses the freedom of thought, of expression and objective research: The Law no 90-615 of 13 July 1990 which repress all ‘racist, antisemitic or xenophobic acts’, known as the Gayssot-Fabius Law, the law condemning “Holocaust denial”.
In actual fact this law was a worsening of two previous laws:
Marchandeau Decree (1939):
“At the request of the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism [LICRA], Paul Marchandeau, center-right Justice Minister in the 1938-1939 third and fourth Daladier governments, issued the decree of 21 April 1939 amending the Law on the Freedom of the Press of 29 July 1881 by providing prosecution “when defamation or insult committed against a group of persons, by their origin, race or religion, will have been designed to arouse hatred among citizens or residents” (translated). This decree was repealed by the law of the Vichy collaborationist government of 16 August 1940. The decree came again into force after the Liberation of France in 1944 by an ordinance of 9 August 1944 repealing most of the Vichy legislation”.
Pleven Law (1972):
“René Pleven, center-right Justice Minister in the Chaban-Delmas and Messmer governments in 1969-1973, proposed in 1972 a new law against racism, which was unanimously adopted by the National Assembly, the 72-546 1st July 1972 Law pertaining to the fight against racism. This law came as a requisite after France’s ratification in 1971 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. It differed considerably from the 1939 decree which gave to the sole prosecutor’s office the right to initiate a procedure, whereas the 1972 law allowed ANY representative organization to initiate a legal procedure”.
FN fight is the last stand of dying France. Fight lost already. It’s the time of the ‘Maquereaux’, of the ‘Pédés’ and “Gouines”. The French would say: ‘Bordel de merde!”
Excuse my French.
Q: “As for the Marxist champions of the status quo who would not touch Marine Le Pen with a barge pole … fortunately you were not there when Lenin signed the Peace of Brest-Litovsk! What would he have done with you in the way, mounted on your great antifascist horses?”
A: I think Lenin would have sung merrily and mockingly the following ditty to the tune of ‘O Tannenbaum’ :
O Brest-Litovsk
O Brest-Litovsk
I saw to that we signed it!
Instead of bleeding Russia white
To British, Yank, and French delight
O Brest-Litovsk
O Brest-Litovsk
I was the scum behind it!
As regards Western Marxists, they come chiefly in two varieties. Firstly, the classical, ossified all-out losers with their 100% Eurocentric notions of “progress” and, secondly, the champions of the modern swamp of “Cultural Marxism” eulogizing faggotry and promoting counter-revolutionary romanticism as per George Soros’ instructions. But with regard to “European values” they are one and the same — most notably Russophobia. Marine LePen and Vladimir Putin drive Western Marxists totally bonkers, with very good reason.