Winehole23
05-01-2021, 09:34 AM
Claremont Institute teases a coup.
Sixty years ago this month, between April 21 and April 26, 1961, a group of French military officers led the Algiers putsch, a failed coup d'état designed to prevent the decolonization policy of President Charles de Gaulle, then in the process of extricating France from Algeria.
On April 21, 2021, a date obviously picked to echo the events of 1961, a group retired members of the French military released an open letter warning that France was on the verge of civil war and that military should prepare to seize power. The letter was signed by Christian Piquemal, former head of the French foreign Legion, along with 20 retired generals, 80 officers, and roughly 1,000 service members of lower ranks.
The letter warned (https://americanmind.org/salvo/twilight-in-paris/) that “our fatherland” is “crumbling-apart through a certain kind of anti-racism, which has an explicit goal: to sow malaise on our soil, up to and including hate between communities.” The letter warned that, “if nothing is done, heedlessness will continue to spread its poison throughout society, inexorably. In the end, there will be an explosion, and our comrades in active military service will be forced to step in and undertake the perilous mission of protecting our civilizational values and the lives of our fellow citizens.”
National Front leader Marine Le Pen caused an uproar by expressing sympathy for the letter.
https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/the-reactionary-international
Sixty years ago this month, between April 21 and April 26, 1961, a group of French military officers led the Algiers putsch, a failed coup d'état designed to prevent the decolonization policy of President Charles de Gaulle, then in the process of extricating France from Algeria.
On April 21, 2021, a date obviously picked to echo the events of 1961, a group retired members of the French military released an open letter warning that France was on the verge of civil war and that military should prepare to seize power. The letter was signed by Christian Piquemal, former head of the French foreign Legion, along with 20 retired generals, 80 officers, and roughly 1,000 service members of lower ranks.
The letter warned (https://americanmind.org/salvo/twilight-in-paris/) that “our fatherland” is “crumbling-apart through a certain kind of anti-racism, which has an explicit goal: to sow malaise on our soil, up to and including hate between communities.” The letter warned that, “if nothing is done, heedlessness will continue to spread its poison throughout society, inexorably. In the end, there will be an explosion, and our comrades in active military service will be forced to step in and undertake the perilous mission of protecting our civilizational values and the lives of our fellow citizens.”
National Front leader Marine Le Pen caused an uproar by expressing sympathy for the letter.
https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/the-reactionary-international