24 November 2005 Blog Home : November 2005 : Permalink
I perused your developed matters on your blog relating to the crisis that crossed several of our suburbs. Beyond your grotesque and provocative arrows of which I am the target, I was anxious to reply you personally for I believe the virtues of the debate and exchange, notably with those who are not in agreement to my ideas or my acts.
The first point that hit me while reading your blog, this is that it strongly leaves the impression that the current crisis suddenly arose, as by an unfortunate chance. You attach it in a manner réductrice and Manichean to my person and to some words pronounced by myself… These words, I assume their direct and frank tone for they are based on the reality of a daily one lived by a majority of our fellow-countrymen in the cities. Furthermore, I consider that the "politically correct" jargon that has prevailed for decades is not unrelated to the climbed extremist vote of which I fight since always the ideas and the leaders.
You know, does it seem, sufficiently "the neighborhoods" to know, at the far end of yourself, that the position is stretched since of long years and that the malaise is deep. Your film, "hate", that dates back to 1995, already evoked this malaise that of the governments, right as left, had to manage with more or less than successes. Limit this crisis to the facts and gestures of the Minister of the interior, this is, in a way and once again, pass next to the true problems. I put that on the account of a blow of poorly placed cœur.
The second point is that you appear to be done, without shades, the spokesperson for the minority that is the demonstrators rather than the interpreter of a majority of families and of young ones that also live in the cities and that in has enough to note as the culture of the violence and power struggles imposed on the one of the right state. Why have no word for those of whichwhose car were burned, the depriving thus of a liberty tool and of work harshly obtain? Why not to evoke these young ones of which the gymnases were reduced in ashes and these children of which the school is destroyed? Why, besides, not no to have thought for the 110 injured policemen, the firemen caillassés and the insulted doctors?
Your emotional proximity with regard to the young ones of the citys is understandable and estimable, but I feel that she drives you to accept this that is not acceptable. This is not to return service to the suburbs that to take does and causes for a minority of which the reprehensible acts and deadly sometimes very. I believe even the opposite. Live in a popular neighborhood or be the son of parents or immigrated grandparents does not authorize at all to launch cocktails molotov on the police and rocks on the firemen. To give to understand the opposite, this is, according to me, insult all the one and all those that, in conditions of identical existences, behave in responsible citizen.
I do not be unaware of at all the fact that behind this crisis there is factors more economical, more social and more cultural. I some measured extent and this is the reason I defend, notably, the principle of positive discrimination or again votes it foreigners to the municipal elections. It is times to break facade equality of which our country is customary since too a long time! It is times to give all its luck to plural France of which I consider that she is a trump and no a handicap! In this respect, I want to say you that the Police doubtless the public service the most representative one of this plural France than I call of my vows.
This new impulse of which the neighborhoods have so need, cannot be engaged in the absence of a restoration of the republican rules. The development of the traffics, violences, of the "turning", clandestine immigration, mine all the efforts that we can undertake. In these no-go zones the republican order is not the opponent of the progress, but well his ally.
We are in the presence of one of the urban crises the more complexes and the more aiguës than we had to confront. She demands firmness and a lot of cold bloods. These are these precise instructions that I gave to the police forces and of french police force. They act with a mastery and a professionalism that be a credit to our democracy. During the four last weeks, certain of our unities faced, in the calm and the discipline, to a violence of which I ask you of not under to estimate brutality.
Here the some reflections that inspires me the reading of your blog. I know that you are, with your trains and your convictions, to the research of a taken one of conscience of the authorities lives to lives suburbs. Since so many years, a lot of monies was engaged, a lot of efforts were undertaken by the services of the state as by the land actors. The results are not at the height of the expectations. We there have all our responsibility party. How do better and otherwise? This question, it is necessary now to resolve it.
Remaining available to follow, if you judge it useful, our exchange of lively voice, I you taken to believe, Mister, to the assurance of my feelings the better ones.
I do not know if this response is truly by Sarko or not, but it sounds authentic and it is precisely the defense he needs to make and has made in part on other occasions. Assuming it is authentic it is I believe a global first. No other leading minister of any major world government has ever blogged or posted responses to blog posts. While I disagree with part of the Sarko manifesto, in so far as it is known, I think that he is the first politician to really understand the modern world and the internet which means that he is likely to do far more good than harm. The fact that he is also the first mainstream politician to clearly reject slimy tranzi political correctness which blights political discourse in the western world and call a spade a spade not an earth-moving device can only make things better. No he is not perfect and yes he is frequently a media whore but while he may love to parade in front of the cameras he also does things instead of remaining aloof and he does actually visit problem spots and talk to residents as well as the policemen on the beat. His notorious "racaille" remark was essentially a response to an inhabitant of one of the troubled suburbs and was not objected to by those listening nearby. It only became a problem when it was beautifully taken out of context by the French media which generally speaking prefers the current order to his threatened changes.