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I have sailed the oceans and stared at an infinitesimal part of the billions and billions of stars in the heavens. My beliefs are simple ones. I believe in the nation and the family. Together with the nation, the family is the crucible for what little possibilities there are for human happiness. Society must have certain fundamental values or else there can be no personal development.

The quote of the decade!

"‘You must realise,’ he tells me, ‘that my victory was won by someone who does not have one hundredth of the means at the disposal of my adversaries. I would be 10 per cent ahead of them if I did. But nothing is lost,’ he says, referring to the second round on 5 May. ‘I have a 10 per cent chance of winning. The gaggle of media sycophants’ — whenever he insults anyone, which is often, each rude word is savoured slowly in a crescendo — ‘which, by the way, is totally dominated by Marxists and which is a nauseating world I hold in utter contempt, immediately rushed to support Chirac. It means that Chirac has now been formally crowned as the uncontested leader of the French Left. The Communist party, the Trotskyites, the Socialists, the Freemasons, the Unions — they have all acclaimed him as the godfather of their Mafia. But I am the candidate of France — against euro-globalisation!

.... emphasis mine.

", ‘A vision of France as it used to be’, and this is the point: Le Pen is a man gripped by an apocalyptic vision of France’s national, political, social and moral decline but through whose deep pessimism there constantly erupts a desire to laugh, and a sharp urge to provoke or even to shock. The various attempts on his life have done nothing to deter him. ‘It’s not me who has become extreme Right,’ he says. ‘It’s the whole of society which has become extreme Left. They put me in jackboots and a helmet and say I am Hitler. But they have been doing that for 50 years now. That’s the only way they can try to get me because I haven’t had my hands in the till."

Based only on this article ... I like this guy. About time for a turn around there.

My beliefs are simple ones. I believe in the nation and the family. Together with the nation, the family is the crucible for what little possibilities there are for human happiness. Society must have certain fundamental values or else there can be no personal development. I see all this in constant decline.

Compare that credo with those of the EU! He will almost certainly lose to the immense array being recruited against him; but the larger the vote that he does get, the better. One can actually postulate much of the American Conservative value system on the traditional semi-autonomous family. (See The Semi-Autonomous Family.)

As I have posted repeatedly since last Sunday: It is not our business whom France elects; but we need to recognize and understand that Le Pen is hated by the same types who hate American Conservatives, and for the same reasons. The Right in France does not have the same values or issues as the Right in America. Their traditions are their traditions; as our traditions are our traditions. But our common foe are those who pursue an undifferentiated humanity, in which anyone who acknowledges traditional preferences and patterns of identification must be smeared and intimidated; where the only patterns of personal identification that are acceptable are those with groups held together by a sense of grievance that serves the purpose of those trying to organize the new Collectivized humanity; that Conservatives are to be reduced to minorities of one, without any basis to rally those whose traditional identities are being stripped away.

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site