As an antidote to the lunacy of French Prime Minister Manuel Valls (see the previous post), listen to the words of Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, a leader of the Front National and the niece of Marine Le Pen.

Ms. Le Pen spoke recently at a rally in the department of Vaucluse, in Provence. Her speech followed that of the local Front National leader Hervé de Lépinau, whose subtitled talk is here.

Many thanks to Ava Lon for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Transcript:

00:12 Marine for president!

00:16 Marine for president!

00:20 Thank you, my friends, for coming out in force.

00:24 Let me reassure you, their boos are inversely proportional

00:28 to what they represent in the voting booth.

00:32 And unlike them, we have respect,

00:36 we manifest respect for free speech, the right

00:40 of protest against this crazy policy of spreading the migrants

00:44 from Calais into our borough and everywhere in France,

00:48 because here, through this politics, it’s the very principle of sovereignty

00:53 that is severely violated. This sovereignty, that should

01:00 be used by and for the people,

01:04 and which is disappearing under the weight of cynicism, of electoralism,

01:08 and of the incompetency of the prime minister, of the president of the Republic.

01:12 A president of the Republic who himself admits,

01:16 in a book composed of interviews, and I quote: “I think that there are

01:20 too many arriving immigrants who shouldn’t be here.”

01:24 An incredible president, who becomes

01:28 a commentator on his own stable and his own failure!

01:32 No, we no longer accept being ignored and loathed

01:36 by this government, which doesn’t represent anything and anyone anymore;

01:40 it’s intolerable that even the local representatives aren’t informed,

01:45 and are excluded from talks. One example:

01:49 our Mayor from the National Front, Joris Hébrard from Pontet, found out —

01:53 bravo, yes, you can applaud him! —

01:57 He found out through the media,

02:01 through the newspapers, the installation of migrants in his county,

02:05 and the population was supposed to accept them,

02:09 or risk being sentenced for racism in the court of do-gooders.

02:13 But we aren’t stupid. If they refuse to ask for our opinion,

02:17 if prefects threaten mayors against organizing local referendums,

02:21 it’s because they already know our answer: a big NO!.

02:25 All the polls show that the majority

02:29 of French are opposed to this massive welcome of illegals,

02:33 and Manuel Valls [PM], in his classical authoritarian way, declared yesterday

02:41 that all those who oppose the arrival of migrants

02:45 will be blocked by the government.

02:49 We would like to see this much resolve

02:53 from the PM when it’s about fighting those who burn our police officers,

02:57 those who attack them, insult them or slice their throats in their own house,

03:01 in front of their three-year-old son. We would like to see

03:05 this level of command when dealing with the oil monarchies

03:09 of the Persian Gulf, Qatar or Saudi Arabia,

03:13 in order to demand that they accept migrants from Syria and Iraq.

03:17 But there, strangely, crickets.

03:21 It’s the silence of submission; and it’s even worse:

03:25 it’s the silence of corruption by money

03:29 We won’t accept

03:33 any more of their lies and shaming,

03:38 because all of the propaganda around this migrant question

03:42 is an incredible lie. The government is lying to us

03:46 when they say that the migrants from Calais are refugees,

03:50 families who fled the Syrian war. The aim of this lie

03:54 is obviously to make you feel guilty.

03:58 The reality is that Syrians represent barely 1% of migrants from Calais,

04:02 and Iraqis 0.7%.

04:06 The overwhelming majority of those illegals came from Africa,

04:10 and arrive for economic reasons.

04:14 The overwhelming majority of those illegals are men,

04:18 and not families with children. We are talking about

04:22 migrants who broke French law in order to enter our territory illegally.

04:26 Most of them are taking advantage of the passivity of the government

04:30 to arrive in Europe, like some of the Guineans in Avignon, who pretended to be minors

04:34 even though they were adults, taking advantage of welfare for children.

04:38 The economic migrants who are breaking the law with the complicity of those associations

04:43 of leftists and socialists. Those illegals

04:50 shouldn’t be distributed throughout the country in order to be fed and sheltered,

04:54 but immediately deported to their home countries.

04:58 And concerning the others: the asylum seekers

05:02 who are mostly forced to take this status

05:06 by the left-wing associations, well,

05:10 we have to say it: in reality, the overwhelming majority,

05:14 around 70%, will be dismissed after going through the procedure

05:18 on the status of the asylum seeker. In other words,

05:22 70% of them aren’t true refugees; except,

05:26 that in the meantime, well, they may take advantage of the generosity

05:30 of French state, by being sheltered, fed and receiving

05:34 pocket money for almost two years. Even worse, worse:

05:39 you need to know that fewer than 5% of those faux refugees

05:43 are truly deported after their status of

05:47 asylum isn’t granted to them. This right of asylum

05:51 is today totally misused,

05:55 it has become the new way of trafficking illegals.

05:59 Yes, I can imagine that you don’t like it, but it is true.

06:03 [boos from the counter-rally]

06:07 And in this way, in the first eight months of 2016,

06:11 we have already had a19.3% increase in the number asylum seekers,

06:15 compared to the same period in 2015.

06:19 The government is lying to us again, when they declare that

06:23 there’s no security risk. I’ll give you

06:27 a unfinished list of a number of sordid dramas/tragedies

06:31 that happened in different French camps.

06:35 Calais Jungle, November 2014: migrants implicated in an attempted

06:39 rape of young girls 15-17 years old.

06:43 Rennes, on the night of 6/7 August 2016: eleven migrants arrested

06:47 for armed robbery. Calais Jungle:

06:51 on the night of 17/18 October 2016, an Afghan interpreter

06:55 who was accompanying a journalist was raped

06:59 with the silent complicity of the media. Pas-de-Calais,

07:03 2 October 2016: a Lithuanian truck driver was wounded in the abdomen with a box cutter;

07:06 a migrant originally from Afghanistan was sentenced to 4 months in prison.

07:12 Camp de La Lignère, Grande-Synthe in the North of France, 8 October 2016: an Iraqi migrant,

07:19 27 years old, already known to the police and convicted,

07:23 attacks an employee of the charity that is managing the camp, and ransacks the bungalows.

07:32 On the night of 17/18 October, a deadly brawl

07:36 between migrants from Sudan and Eritrea. Four Eritreans are under arrest,

07:40 and a Sudanese succumbed to his wounds. And finally, the case of

07:44 Christians who are martyred by the Muslim migrants,

07:48 in those camps, in an absolute [media] silence; in Germany, but also in France,

07:52 in Grande-Synthe, near Dunkirk, where an official

07:56 of a police union testified about this situation.

08:00 Finally, let’s not forget UNICEF, which is worried about the well-being of

08:04 the children in the Calais Jungle, where cases of prostitution and

08:08 slave labor are revealed. Voilà, the reality of what’s happening today in France!

08:12 In the camps they want to import here in the Vaucluse.

08:16 And let’s not forget, that there were no fewer than

08:20 17 members of terrorist organizations who penetrated into France,

08:24 pretending being refugees. One of the terrorists

08:28 of Bataclan traveled with a migrant group! Therefore, how many

08:32 potential terrorists are there among the migrants spread on the territory?

08:36 We have right to ask the question.

08:40 While we’ve been the only ones alerting about the danger,

08:44 when the entire political-media system

08:48 was outraged, when we were denouncing and alerting

08:52 about those risks. Finally, the government

08:56 is lying to us, when it explains that welcoming those people

09:00 will definitively solve the problem of the Calais Jungle.

09:04 We might be spreading — in vain — dozens,

09:08 hundreds, thousands of migrants though the French countryside,

09:12 and the Calais Jungle will inevitably refill itself,

09:16 for one and simple reason: that France no longer has any borders,

09:20 because of Schengen, and therefore

09:24 any illegal who managed to penetrate this area,

09:28 Which is composed of 26 European countries, can circulate freely

09:33 into France. Several countries understood this, and they

09:37 refuse to trust their future and their immigration policies

09:41 to Angela Merkel and the Turkish Islamist Erdogan.

09:45 Hungary, Denmark, Macedonia,

09:49 re-established controls at their national borders.

09:53 Finally, let’s dare say it: it’s about a true

09:57 preference for foreigners. A preference

10:01 that is totally indecent towards the 20% of Vauclusians who live

10:05 below the poverty line, often in unsanitary conditions.

10:09 Where have we seen so much energy and money spent

10:13 for our pensioner and his misery pension? For a farmer

10:17 in recovery, or for a single mother who is working

10:21 several jobs. Meanwhile, migrants are beneficiaries of free accommodation,

10:25 of free transportation, free health care, free help.

10:29 Their children’s meals are being paid for in the school cafeteria by the municipality.

10:33 They are being offered entertainment, circuses

10:37 painting and skiing classes,

10:41 not even mentioning the exorbitant cost of their transfer,

10:45 about €15,000 Euro per capita, according to a lawyer who specializes

10:49 foreigners’ rights. Vaucluse already has to

10:53 face serious problems related

10:57 to immigration: growing unemployment,

11:01 problems with assimilation, the communitarianism, the proselytizing cells

11:05 of radical Islam. How can we hope

11:09 to be able to integrate those populations when they don’t speak French,

11:13 have little or no education, and more often than not,

11:17 they are import with them a culture radically different from ours.

11:22 What are all those do-gooders, those lesson-givers, waiting for?

11:26 And they who address the people of Provence, what are THEY waiting for

11:29 in order to open their doors, to open the doors of their residential neighborhoods?

11:34 For example, what is Monsieur Chabert, the president of the UMP, waiting for?

11:38 He, who voted for this welcome? What are the Greens waiting for?

11:42 The communists, or even the representatives UMP, who didn’t vote against it,

11:46 what are they all waiting for in order to open wide the doors of THEIR houses,

11:50 and thus lead by example, and give an example to those

11:54 on whom they are imposing those policies?

11:58 All those people who praise multiculturalism,

12:02 but are watching it from their balconies,

12:06 and above all, are doing all they can

12:10 to be exempt from it: I’m announcing to you,

12:14 despite the noisy opposition,

12:18 that those associations that represent nothing are only surviving

12:22 on public money that is handed to them by the taxpayers;

12:26 Money that we are paying. Well, we won’t let go,

12:30 and if they don’t want to hear it today, everywhere in France,

12:34 at the rallies organized by the National Front, well,