The French show no resistance

A reader has translated for us an excerpt from an article by Alain Laurent about the complete surrender of France, posted at the website, Les 4 Vérités. She asks that a single instance of vulgarity be excused, as there was no other translation possible.

But perhaps the worst thing is that in compliance with the State policy of laissez-faire, those who are actually exposed to the violence offer no resistance. Instead of defending themselves (of course, when you do, you run the risk of imprisonment as was the case recently in Soissons—the world has turned upside down!) they resign themselves, submit passively without a word, pity themselves and even feel guilty and “understand” their persecutors. We are in the midst of social-masochisme, of what Ayn Rand so accurately called “the sanction of the victim” in Atlas Shrugged. They are prepared to pay the double debt that will be presented to them: first, for rebuilding what was pillaged, and, second, for public assistance to the neighborhoods (which will only encourage more rioting!). Decades of being exposed to the laxness of the welfare state have transformed the French citizenry into a flock of slaves. The permanent brainwashing by the media has generated a nation without balls.

The reader continues:

Sarkozy has been severely criticized for a long time by the patriotic French who comment at these websites. They began seeing through him long ago. He is all ambition and all flash—he and his ex-wife were a high profile celebrity couple until she took up with a colleague of his. They recently divorced.

I said once that France has been cursed with horrible leaders. But aren’t Bush and Rice very similar? It seems to me they are not far behind. This need to discard one’s heritage and this smugness that they all have may be setting the tone for all future “leaders” of this country.

On Sarkozy, he got lots of press, and lots of criticism from liberals, for his “hardline” statements about “showing no mercy “ to the “rabble.” But he’s done nothing. It’s all a fraud. Sarkozy is just Chirac and de Villepin in a different suit.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at November 09, 2005 01:38 PM | Send