The French Civil War
In case anyone wanted to know what a real civil war looks like:
IN retrospect, it was not a good idea to have left his pistol at home. Called to the scene of a traffic accident in the Paris suburbs last Sunday, Jean-François Illy, a regional police chief, came face to face with a mob of immigrant youths armed with baseball bats, iron bars and shotguns.
What happened next has sickened the nation. As Illy tried to reassure the gang that there would be an investigation into the deaths of two teenagers whose motorbike had just collided with a police car, he heard a voice shouting: “Somebody must pay for this. Some pigs must die tonight!”
The 43-year-old commissaire realised it was time to leave, but that was not possible: they set his car ablaze. He stood as the mob closed in on him, parrying the first few baseball bat blows with his arms. An iron bar in the face knocked him down.
“I tried to roll myself into a ball on the ground,” said Illy from his hospital bed. He was breathing with difficulty because several of his ribs had been broken and one had punctured his lung.
His bruised and bloodied face signalled a worrying new level of barbarity in the mainly Muslim banlieues, where organised gangs of rioters used guns against police in a two-day rampage of looting and burning last week.
Not far from where Illy was lying was a policeman who lost his right eye after being hit by pellets from a shotgun. Another policeman displayed a hole the size of a 10p coin in his shoulder where a bullet had passed through his body armour.
Altogether 130 policemen were injured, dozens by shotgun pellets and shells packed with nails that were fired from a homemade bazooka. It prompted talk of urban “guerrilla warfare” being waged on French streets against the forces of law and order.
Thus a century of official anti-Christianity in French law coupled with half a century of leftwing political correctness as regards immigrants, especially Moslem immigrants. France now has a segment of its population which has de-facto been removed from the day to day rule of French law and this has been allowed to happen because the post-Christian French society has thus far lacked not only the backbone to defend itself, but even the confidence in the good of French civilization which makes a person wish to have it defended. Probably not one in ten Frenchmen adhere to those moral and theological principles which gave birth to French civilization and sustained it through a thousand years of crisis. Right now, about one in ten of the people who live in France adhere to a set of moral and theological principles alien to French civilization, and increasingly under the control of those who are violently hostile to it. The battle is on - and at stake is whether or not France will remain French.
This undigested population contained within France is, as I said, increasingly under the control of those who are violently hostile to French civilization; but this is not the same as saying all those people are hostile. My view is that most of them - perhaps even 90% of them - would very much like to participate fully, as French citizens, in French civilization. The battle, then, will be decided based not upon the actual strength of the French and their opponents, but on who is more willing to fight for their side. The French, if they want to have a France, will have to recover their backbone - have to, that is, recover the basis of their civilization and stride forward confident in the goodness of France and while being welcoming of the stranger, insistent that in France, French civilization will be the norm for the entire population.
As the news story goes on to relate, a strong police presence in the violent areas has enforced calm - but the calm is only on the surface. Until those who instigated the violence and who fuel the fires of hatred are punished - and punished quite severely, as traitors to France - the people who fight France will just bide their time, gather their forces and wait confidently for the French to back down. The French must get in there and insist that French law and French social norms carry the day - and that will only happen if the French believe in themselves, their nation, and the moral and theological principles which created both.
How it will come out will remain to be seen - but the warning is also there for the United States. France, and the rest of Europe, is much further down a road that the American left wishes us to travel. While their intentions might be honorable and generous, the practical effects of leftwing social policy lead precisely to the destruction of the will to live in the host civilizaiton. Break down faith, break down family, break down the inherent honor in all honest work, break down the story of the nation and highlight all sins while ignoring all nobility, and what you get is a post-Christian nation which has tolerated itself into a corner. It has come for the French a time to fight or flee - for the United States, there is still time for us to prevent this descent into sociological madness.
34 comments December 2nd, 2007
