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1. Frances Le Pen Says Torture Can Be Useful to Fight Terrorism
The leader of Frances anti-immigrant, anti-European Union National Front, Marine Le Pen, said that torture can be sometimes useful to fight terrorism, in response the U.S. Senate report on the CIA.
There can be cases -- when there is a bomb ticking, that can explode in an hour or two and kill 200 or 300 civilians -- where it can be useful to have to make someone talk with the means available, Le Pen told RMC radio and BFM Television today.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-10/france-s-le-pen-says-torture-can-be-useful-to-fight-terrorism.html
2. Marine Le Pen: Muslims in France 'like Nazi occupation'
Marine Le Pen, the leader of the French far-Right, drew heavy criticism after she said Muslims praying outside were like Nazi occupiers.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/8197895/Marine-Le-Pen-Muslims-in-France-like-Nazi-occupation.html
3. The Attack on Charlie Hebdo Plays Right Into Marine Le Pen's Hands
An additional dimension to this tragedy (attack on Charlie Hebdo) is that it plays directly into the hands of those public figures and politicians who would like to see France regress into an organic national community of blood ties, rather than of citizens. The Islamic extremists who executed the attack on Charlie Hebdo may have murdered journalists and artists, but surely their crime is also against other Muslims in France, who are now likely to be viewed as enemy aliens hostile to the essence of the Republic itself, regardless of their own beliefs. Michel Houellebecq, for instance, who often paints Muslims as a dangerous fifth column, might now perhaps be vindicated in the eyes of unreflective readers; and, in the words of one Lebanese blogger, today might very well be the day that Marine Le Pen became President of France. Le Pen, by the way, has compared the Muslim presence in France to the German occupation of the 1940s. After today, we can only hope that others will not start doing the same.
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120712/charlie-hebdo-attacks-religious-violence-europe
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)it isn't just France.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)by DU members asking why conservatives in our country all of a sudden are embracing the French after years of bashing them for having questioned Bush's claims about WMD and opposing the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)nt
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)nt
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)(part of the reason I created this thread ... spread awareness)
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)hay rick
(7,634 posts)Then we'll see a (shudder) GOP orgasm.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)if Marine Le Pen wins the next French presidential election
spanone
(135,858 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)much like ...
napkinz
(17,199 posts)nt
Cha
(297,503 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)and she could become France's next president ... it would be like Ted Cruz becoming president of the United States
(And the Tea Party in this country is falling in love with her, the way they did with Putin.)
napkinz
(17,199 posts)Pierre Bienaimé
Jan. 9, 2015
France's rising right-wing National Front party thinks it might stand to gain in popularity after the armed attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine and continuing hostage crises that have killed more than a dozen people in and around Paris since Wednesday.
Earlier today Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder and onetime face of the party, tweeted a black-and-white photo of his daughter, presumed 2017 presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen, with the words "Keep Calm and Vote Le Pen."
The messaging suggests that putting the National Front in power would help address what the party believes to be the root cause of the attacks: Muslim immigration to France. In a statement following the attacks, Marine Le Pen herself was less direct, though she spoke of a "war" that extremists had declared on the country.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/frances-right-wing-national-front-is-positioning-itself-to-take-advantage-of-this-weeks-attacks-2015-1
Cha
(297,503 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)that's what the far-right does
Be afraid! And vote for us!
underpants
(182,865 posts)Frightening times
napkinz
(17,199 posts)By Jonathan Laurence
For the first seven hours after the attack on the Paris office of Charlie Hebdo, the National Front, Frances far right political party, kept an old feature about the influx of Roma and gypsies into French cities on its website. Then, shortly after 6 p.m. Paris time, Marine Le Pen, the leader of the increasingly popular party with the slogan The French Come First, appeared in front of three French flags and hammered out her demandsand a selfless offer.*
It is time for frank and clear responses against inaction and denial, she declared. In other words: The countrys two main political parties have failed to stem the Islamist tide, and you the voters now have all the evidence you need that France requires new leadership. I intend to assume this vital responsibility so France can defend itself in the war that has been declared upon her, she continued.
read more: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2015/01/marine_le_pen_and_the_national_front_on_the_rise_france_s_far_right_party.html
napkinz
(17,199 posts)see http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026068794
posted by kpete
Takket
(21,610 posts)Can ANYONE site a situation, outside of a cheesy action movie, where that has actually happened?
napkinz
(17,199 posts)a scenario played out.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)so there is that.