Continuing the discussion of Eric Zemmour’s speech announcing his candidacy for the presidency of France, which we began here, we see that Zemmour appeals in his speech to the “people of France,” whom, he claims, have been ill-served by their “elites.”
Of course, they despised you: the powerful, the elites, the conformists, the journalists, the politicians, the professors, the sociologists, the union bosses, the religious authorities.
They told you it’s all a ploy, it’s all fake, it’s all wrong. But you understood in time that it was they who were a ploy, them who had it all wrong, they who did you wrong.
Zemmour sees the ruling elites as dismissing the fears of ordinary French people. Living in their elegant apartments In the Seizieme or on Avenue Foch, they have little contact with the invaders. They don’t take public transportation. Their children go to private schools, where they have don’t share classrooms with Muslims. The elites don’t live in or near the public housing where Muslims live. For them — the chattering classes, the politicians, the journalists, the professors — life is good. So they declare it must be good, or at least not bad, for everyone. They don’t want to face reality, but to deny it as long as possible, in the hope that something – but what? – will save the situation. They have become oriental fatalists.
The disappearance of our civilization is not the only question that harasses us, although it towers over everything. Immigration is not the cause of all our problems, although it aggravates everything.
Zemmour wants to assure his listeners that he realizes there are problems other than Muslim immigration in France, but he thinks that all of France’s problems those other problems are exacerbated by that massive immigration.
The third-worlding of our country and our people impoverishes as much as it disintegrates, ruins as much as it torments.
A Third-World population is now living in, and damaging economically and intellectually, a First-World country. The Muslims in France are expensive to maintain. They take advantage of every possible benefit. the generous welfare state offers. They live in free or highly subsidized housing. They have free medical care, though they never paid into the health system. They have free education, in schools where the Muslim students have been known to intimidate both their teachers and their French classmates. They make it difficult to teach certain subjects, such as the history of the French kings, the Crusades, and the Holocaust. The murder of Samuel Paty has frightened teachers into silence on the subject of Islam. They receive family allowances, and the more children they have, the more money they receive from the state; Muslim families tend to be very large. Many Muslims are unemployed, finding that they can live almost as well on unemployment as they can on the kind of wages they would be able to earn if employed. When they can, many engage in crime: drug dealing, or crimes of property, including robberies and burglaries. 80% of the inmates in French jails are Muslim, though they are only 10% of the population. As criminals, they cost the state a great deal. They require that the state pay for more police, more detectives, more court-appointed lawyers, more prosecutors and judges. There is the cost, too, of the care and feeding and guarding of prisoners.
It’s why we must preserve our architectural, cultural, and natural heritage. It’s why we must restore our republican education, its excellence and its belief in merit, and stop surrendering our children to the experiments of egalitarians and pedagogists and the Doctor Strangeloves of gender theory and islamo-leftism.
Zemmour is referring here to incipient programs of affirmative action, based on the American model, that no longer use merit as the sole criterion for French school and university admission, but privilege the “underprivileged” Muslims, who take the places of those French who, on merit alone, deserved to be, but were not, admitted. He wants the French schools to avoid the egalitarian madness that has done such damage to American education. Merit alone must prevail.
It’s why we must take back our sovereignty, abandoned to European technocrats and judges, who rob the French people of the ability to control their destiny in the name of a fantasy – a Europe that will never be a nation.
Zemmour keeps reminding us that he is no fan of transnational groups such as the E.U. He does not want decisions about France being made by Eurocrats in the European Parliament in Brussels. He believes in the primacy of the nation-state, in everything from its currency – Zemmour wants France to return to the franc and abandon the euro — to the EU’s laws on food labelling, which have caused a fury in France among those who now call themselves “Frexiteers.”
Yes, we must give power to the people, take it back from the minority that unceasingly tyrannizes the majority and from judges who substitute their judicial rulings for government of the people, for the people, by the people.
For decades, our elected officials of the right and the left have led us down this dire path of decline and decadence. Right and left have lied and concealed the gravity of our diminishment. They have hidden from you the reality of our replacement.
You have known me for many years. You know what I say, what I diagnose, what I proclaim. I have long been content with the role of journalist, writer, Cassandra, whistleblower. Back then, I believed that a politician would take up the flame that I had lit.
I said to myself, to each his own job, to each his own role, to each his own fight. I have lost this illusion. Like you, I have lost confidence. Like you, I have decided to take our destiny in hand.
I saw that no politician had the courage to save our country from the tragic fate that awaits it. I saw that all these supposed professionals were, above all, impotent.
Zemmour presents himself as the “man on the white horse,” a latter-day General Boulanger arriving to rescue the country since no one else has stepped forward to do so. He thinks he will be able, with the help of those who vote for him, to “take our destiny in hand.” Since no “politician had the courage to do so,” because they have turned out to be “impotent,” then he, Eric Zemmour, will take on the monumental task.
That President Macron, who had presented himself as an outsider, was in fact the synthesis of his two predecessors, or worse. That all the parties were contenting themselves with reforms, while time passes them by.
There is no more time to reform France – but there is time to save her. That is why I have decided to run for President.
Zemmour is a tad too anxiety-provoking, I think, with his one-minute-to-midnight rhetoric. More modesty would be welcome. He might have said that others – such as Marine Le Pen – have raised the same issue of Muslim immigration, but had trouble in being heard. “As a television journalist for several decades I allow myself to believe that I will be able to succeed where others failed in getting their message across. I am willing to give it a try. i can’t do it alone. I need your help, the help of all of you.”
I have decided to ask your votes to become your President of the Republic, so that our children and grandchildren do not know barbarism. So that our daughters are not veiled and our sons are not forced to submit.
So that we can bequeath to them the France we have known and that we received from our ancestors. So that we can still preserve our way of life, our traditions, our language, our conversations, our debates about history and fashion, our taste for literature and food.
So that the French remain French, proud of their past and confident in their future. So that the French once again feel at home. So that the newest arrivals assimilate their culture, adapt their history, and are remade as French in France – not foreigners in an unknown land.
We, the French, are a great nation. A great people. Our glorious past pleads for our future. Our soldiers have conquered Europe and the world.
Our writers and artists have aroused universal admiration. Our scientific discoveries and industrial production have stamped their epochs. The charm of our art de vivre excites longing and joy in all who taste it.
We have known great victories, and we have overcome cruel defeats. For a thousand years, we have been one of the powers who have written the history of the world.
We are worthy of our ancestors. We will not allow ourselves to be mastered, vassalized, conquered, colonized. We will not allow ourselves to be replaced.
This is all repeated from the first part of his speech. To wit: “France is a great nation and now let me tell you how, in so many ways, it proves its greatness: our writers, our artists, our scientists, our generals, our unique mastery of the “joie de vivre.”
Repeated several times, as well, are his remarks about ”La France insoumise” – “insubmissive France” — a nation that will not allow itself to become “vassalized” and “colonized” and “conquered” demographically by those who now “occupy” large parts of the country, its ever-increasing number of Muslim neighborhoods that are now No-Go areas, and are determined to make the French, by degrees, submit to their will.
In front of us, a cold and determined monster rises up, who seeks to dishonor us. They will say that you are racist. They will say that you are motivated by contemptible passions, when in fact it is the most lovely passion that animates you – passion for France.
They will say the worst about me. But I will keep going amidst the jeers, and I don’t care if they spit on me. I will never bend the head. For we have a mission to accomplish.
The French people have been intimidated, crippled, indoctrinated, blamed— but they lift up their heads, they drop the masks, they clear the air of lies, they hunt down these evil perjuries.
We are going to carry France on. We are going to pursue the beautiful and noble French adventure. We are going to pass the flame to the coming generations. Join with me. Rise up. We, the French, have always triumphed over all.
Long live the Republic, and above all, long live France!
At this point, with a speech long on rhetoric and short on plans (how would he curb immigration? how would he repatriate people already in France?), Zemmour ends with what is supposed to be a thrilling vision of a France that shakes off its Islamic nightmare, its people no longer worried about being demonized as “racist,” once again on the road to a radiant future worthy of France and its undeniably gifted people, led now by its equally talented leader, Eric Zemmour, a unique blend of Joan of Arc and General De Gaulle.
I have listened to this speech in French. It is stirring. I know there are things about Zemmour that invite criticism. But I think his heart and his mind are in the right place, and he is the only political figure In France at present who is saying what must be said about the Muslim menace and the future of France. That’s enough. That’s more than enough.
mortimer says
The elites, servile minions of the billionaire oligarchs, do their bidding as the billionaires reconfigure the world for their own greedy benefit, all the while removing the culture of freedom that makes life tolerable and pleasant for the little folk.
The oligarchs haven’t the slightest concern for the peons, but would rather annihilate them and replace them with robots.
The elites go along with oligarchs, hoping that they (the elites) will be crushed last.
Rufolino says
Excellent article Hugh. Zemmour to be elected French President would be my dream come true. But it’s unlikely. He is being relentlessly smeared for “racial hatred” by all Left commentators, which frightens people. In opinion polls Zemmour is down and Marine le Pen is up. They will probably split the right-of-centre vote between them and Macron is therefore likely to remain President.
Fred Alan Medforth says
“Household negro”, “Wallah, we will behead you”: Dark-skinned Eric Zemmour activist harassed and threatened
https://medforth.biz/household-negro-wallah-we-will-behead-you-dark-skinned-eric-zemmour-activist-harassed-and-threatened/
gravenimage says
Yes–appalling stuff. Zemmour was assaulted at this last rally.
And while his parents were indeed from Algeria, his family is not Muslim, but Jewish. Another reason for Muslims to hate him. Then, the idea that if are “dark skinned” that you have to reject civilized French values is grotesque.
maria says
Mr Zemmour is excellent. He is really like President Trump in the US, but in Frenchtyle.
I wish and pray that he will be the President of France
Doomer says
The only defect that I see with Zemmour,but I believe he is capable of changing,
is his view that you should get the useless Covid vaccine.
What the hell?
A day or 2 ago ago DR BEN CARSON,one of the most prestigious doctors in the world, who was
the First to Successfully Separate Twins
born with their Heads Joined, has said:
1.That for people with Covid it is far better and cheaper to take AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
a.VITAMIN D supplements ( to Strengthen the Immune system)
b.And the anti-malarial drugs hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin.
INSTEAD of getting a Covid vaccine.
2. Carson pointed out as PROOF that FEW people in AFRICA ( where it is HOT, the BEST temperature for the virus to SPREAD) have died in 2 YEARS of Covid,
and it is because they have had WIDESPREAD Use of…… hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin.
Those are countries Too Poor to buy Very Expensive Covid vaccines.
You will never see this news in Vox,Vice,Salon the NY Times,
Washing Post, Huffington, CNN, BBC, Time, Newsweek and other Leftist rags.
Jim J Fox says
‘useless covid vaccine’ USA is #5 or 6 of countries with a lowest vaccine take up.
It also has approximately 2700 deaths per million of the population.
Australia, with a very high vaccine uptake has 80 Deaths per million.
Preposterous rubbish like your post is killing people. You are incapable of rational thought.
Jim J Fox says
Furthermore, the vaccine is ineffective if you already have covid! Like any vaccine it is designed to prevent infection in the first place.
gravenimage says
Doomer wrote:
Those are countries Too Poor to buy Very Expensive Covid vaccines.
You will never see this news in Vox,Vice,Salon the NY Times,
Washing Post, Huffington, CNN, BBC, Time, Newsweek and other Leftist rags.
………………………
Actually, Doomer, you are mistaken–there have been many articles about the US and other Western nations paying for Covid vaccines for third-world countries, including this one from the BBC:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-55795297
Here’s a similar aticle from CNN:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/22/politics/500-million-pfizer-doses-covid-vaccines-foreign-nations/index.html
And one from Newsweek:
https://www.newsweek.com/pfizer-ceo-says-low-income-nations-will-receive-1bn-covid-vaccine-doses-years-end-1632845
I could go on, but as you see this story has been covered by many of the news sources you cite.
Hank says
“At this point, with a speech long on rhetoric and short on plans (how would he curb immigration? how would he repatriate people already in France?), Zemmour ends with what is supposed to be a thrilling vision of a France that shakes off its Islamic nightmare”
Good inspiring speech to put an end to the Islamic nightmare. He knows what happens to a country that gets a growing 5th column Muslim population, as his ancestors witnessed in Algiers and Tunisia.
It all depends on the electorate. De-Islamization will take a lot of energy.
Firstly, if voters are too incompetent to vote him into majority so that he will have to share power with the Leftist-Green parties – nothing will happen.
Two. If he does get a big majority win, then he probably will have to take back Algiers and Morocco in order to seriously repatriate the millions of Muslims colonizing France. I am sure he understands it does not solve the Islamic Hijra by just sending them to the UK or some other non-Islamic country.
Third. Unfortunately, the foolish Elites and Globalist’s have brought the situation to a flash point were a French Revolution 2 may be required. The last one (1977) on the guillotine was a Muslim pimp who murdered a 22-year-old woman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamida_Djandoubi
“Vive la France!”
PMK says
Hank,
Exactly how does France ‘take back’ Algeria, Morocco and maybe Tunisia (which are the three largest sources of Muslim immigration to France)? They have been independent countries for decades.
I’ve read that France wants to cut off remittances to countries that won’t repatriate their own nationals who entered France illegally. But what do you mean by ‘take back’. Did you mean you want them to take back their immigrants? My first impression was you wanted France to take back those former colonies, possibly by force.
Hank says
“My first impression was you wanted France to take back those former colonies, possibly by force.”
Putting Algeria, Morocco and Tunesia under non-Islamic French administration would open the door to serious repatriation of the Hijra as they support the Hijra by not taking back their own citizens. It will take a lot of energy for Zemmour to de-Islamize France after so many decades of suicidal Leftist-Green policies. I guess he is prepared to do that with a speech like the above while running for President of France (if he means business, not rhetoric when he is in power).
Of course the preferred peaceful, civilized way would be for the source of the Hijra to take responsibility for their own citizens and welcome them back. After all, they entered illegally.
Doomer says
Spain in the past showed itself wise in the sense that it exiled 275,000-300,000 MORISCOS.(according to the records)
They were descended from about 150,000 Muslims who in 1501 converted to Catholicism in order to stay.
It seems the Spaniards were aware of the doctrine of taqiya but calculated that with Time, after 2 generations or more,they would be 100% assimilated.
But from 1609-1614 they were exiled. Now THEY could go ANYWHERE they wanted to, to Italy,France,England,etc. Yet only 40,000 went to France ( about 15%).
The rest went to Muslim lands(85%),Morocco and Algeria,they were secret Muslims all the time,the Spaniards were right.
Now you often hear the LIE that after the Spaniards conquered Granda in 1492, in 1499 Cisneros,the new archbishop of Granada,ordered
the Burning of the 1 MILLION Arabic books of the Granada library.
The truth is it was a few thousand books, and they were Qurans and hadith books.
Cisneros was too religious,but he had a positive side,he created the University of Alcala de Henares ,which,due to Cisneros financing,
published the Complutensian Polyglot Bible, the first printed polyglot of the entire Bible ( Greek, Latin, Aramaic,Hebrew).
Cisneros also was a supporter of Las Casas,the Dominican priest who fought against abuse of the natives in the Caribbean, Mexico, Peru,etc.
Cisneros officially gave Las Casas the title of Protector of Indians and gave him authority to protect them.
The Protector of the Indians (Spanish: Protectoría de los Indios) was an administrative office of the Spanish colonies, that was responsible for attending to the well being of the native populations, including speaking on their behalf in courts and reporting back to the King of Spain.
It existed till 1812.
The Spanish government KNEW the colonists were wanted to Steal All the land of the natives.
1.So it passed a law making Indians MINORS. That sounds very insulting,but it was to make 100% sure that they would Never Lose their lands to the colonists.
NO legal contract ( like sale of Land) between natives and Spaniards was binding and accepted.
2.They also passed a law EXCEMPTING natives from the Inquisition.
LATER,for example, when Mexico and other regions became independent,
that law was eliminated, and rich people bought Indian lands,
and the Indians became landless peasants.
gravenimage says
Hank, I doubt that France wants to have their troops die in more Islamic lands–nor should they.
Hank says
Well, let’s see what happens in France. Powerful speeches like that and actually getting into power could lead to de-Islamization now if he means business. Let’s see what French voters decide. He will also need to buy a lot of Cranes to dismantle all those Petro-dollar financed Mosques that dot the landscape there.
Bella says
I wouldn’t think releasing his plans of getting rid of the muslims would be a good idea.
PMK says
Eric Zemmour has a rough road ahead of him, even if he wins by a landslide. Too many of the rich and powerful have vested interests in the global system and even in survival of the EU. What do they care about French culture and the French people. Most are now ‘citizens of the world’.
His voters are likely to find themselves denounced as ‘deplorables’ by the powers that be. Their interests are irrelevant to most of the rulers. Power and wealth continues to accrue at the top of society. The people don’t matter. (Let them eat cake!) Zemmour will have a hard time fighting the entrenched elites.
gravenimage says
Eric Zemmour Appeals to the People of France, Ill-Served by Their ‘Elites’
……………..
He is *certainly* right about this.
Jacquesthelad says
Le seule espoir pour la France à mon avis On verra bien!
Kepha says
Pauvre France!
classicus says
D’accord!
gravenimage says
Classicus, great to see you posting again. Hope you are well.
john smith says
He is definitely going about it the right way to get the French people behind him. If he does succeed, and I pray he does, it could result in the collapse of the EU, and a turning point in Europe.
Come on Zemmour, all us islamophobes are behind you, every last one of us.
Fitna says
+100
john smith says
Thank you Fitna.
jewdog says
I wrote a posting on the Pipes website about him under the heading “Jeremiah warned, but Judah fell to Babylon”. Here is an excerpt:
Russian historian Mikhail Rostovtsev, summing up his history of Rome, described the process by which all empires and civilizations rise and fall: The original ideas which inspired their rise are lost as the empire or civilization expands quickly, optimistically accepting large numbers of new citizens who fail to absorb the foundational principles. We can see this happening as large numbers of immigrants from non-western lands arrive before they have had a chance to become fully westernized. Behold “The Squad”, the terror attacks, crime, rape gangs, ignorant hate preachers, Hamas rallies with death chants, and other grotesqueries which make up a third world hellhole. Oppose this process and you will be labeled a racist, or, like Zemmour, an antisemitic renegade.
Bella says
I wish for his success.
roberta says
I dont know if any one leader can ever get a government back on track, once it’s bureaucracy is filled with leftist. I can only imagine that France has its own deepstate that is just as bad or worse than ours.
At the this time in history the leftist have a use for islam. I hope he wins, but no long term change will be put into affect.
Fitna says
Great article Hugh, clearly Zemmour gets it about Islam. We need more brave warriors like him. If every western nation had a leader like him, they could free their country again.
Ofc the Left and the traitor-class are going to try their hardest to bring this man down or to steal the election away from him like they did to Trump. I wouldn’t be surprised if they’ll try to assassinate him too like they did to Pim Fortuyn in the Netherlands. So hopefully he has good security, he’s the right person for the job.
Unfortunately it could cause vote splitting between him and Marine Le Pen, it’d be good if they were in the same party, but I guess they both want to be leaders and don’t want to share the limelight and their visions are a little different.
Clearly he’s more strongly opposed to Islam than she is, so I wish him the best. Seeing France defeat Islam will inspire other nations to do the same.
Jim J Fox says
Seems the only way to rid France of Macron is a union of Le Pen & Zemmour.
Tragically this cannot happen; inflated ego is the enemy of common sense!
Brenrod says
“ At this point, with a speech long on rhetoric and short on plans (how would he curb immigration? how would he repatriate people already in France?), “
Right now the problem is not to debate the plans of how to accomplish the goals, right now the problem is that those who have the goals need to take the power, the plans can come later.
IQ al Rassooli says
Eric is appealing to the ordinary, everyday French people to rise up and protect their heritage from being utterly destroyed by Islamic Sharia
From my point of view, his message, if ignored, will result in the complete Islamisation of the Republic and the utter destruction of their state. This is most assuredly, the French people’s last chance to stop and then reverse the tide of Muslim INVASION of not only France, but the whole of Europe.
If he gets a real majority, he must declare Sharia ILLEGAL since Sharia is the NEMESIS of every single article in France’s legal system