nourishing obscurity

In the past few days, in my lucid moments, I’ve been looking at this and that and one topic which was most interesting, for two distinct reasons, was Jehanne la Pucelle, otherwise known as Jeanne d’Arc or Joan Darc or Joan of Arc.

The first aspect will be a post tomorrow morning, if I can.  The second is how history repeats itself.  Already that’s been touched on in the current global push, of which the EU is the latest aspect.

Just to repeat – it’s not the concept itself of a special trading relationship and relatively easy visiting rights which is at issue – it’s the people in charge of it because they are the same people who were in charge in WW2 and it is showing in the very structure they’ve now set up.

No, what I was looking at was how Jehanne represented “the resistance” in the country of Charles VII, how he failed to appreciate her efforts until she was publicly murdered on a pretext and how that pretext would be oh so familiar today and the gruesome nature of the retribution really makes one wonder.

In later years, the highest crimes saw a woman burned and a man hung, drawn and quartered – even Anne Boleyn was hanging between those two extremes for some time.

Why?

Why the most gruesome penalties for what was, after all, another murder but was labelled Treason or speaking about it which was called Sedition?  Why not just hang the person who bumped off a ruler?

Part of that is that it must be an effective deterrent, a public deterrent to anyone to try it?  And what’s so wrong about bumping off a ruler?  Our rulers right now deserve every bit of it and either this or next year will probably get theirs.

The answer is simple and in four parts:

#  the attempt at self-preservation of the individual ruler

#  the preservation of the bloodline

#  the preservation of the whole gameplan and all its agents

#  the sure knowledge that if the people ever got to find out how they were being swindled and sold down the drain, kept in penury and culled in pointless wars whilst the ruling elite enjoyed their pheasant and fine wine, there’d be some headhunting going on.

Jehanne was not officially recognized by the church she gave her life for until 1909!  Why not?  Even Napoleon cited her and every French leader has invoked her along the way.  So why no official recognition?

Simple – she was both a dissident and that more heinous crime – a true believer.  Everything from her childhood onwards pointed to the world having a remarkable sort of Mother Mary on its hands.

The resistance in WW2

With attention shifted to the French resistance through the ages, some sentences I read hit me like a smackeroo blurby right between the eyes – firstly, over the death of Andree Peel, aged 105, heroine of the resistance.

A former hairdresser from Brittany, Mrs Peel began her involvement with the resistance modestly, by handing out underground newspapers.  Later she tracked troop movements and went on to head an under-section of the movement.

Her network allowed Allied pilots to escape German captivity, hiding them and – where possible – smuggling them away from France in submarines and on small boats.  Dr Liam Fox, Conservative MP for Woodspring, said:

“Mrs Peel was an iconic figure who showed phenomenal courage in the most difficult circumstances.  “Her selfless bravery saved many lives and she stands as a monument to the triumph of the human spirit, which will set an example for many generations to come.”

Now isn’t that interesting?  A member of the [next] government praises a dissident subversive and lauds her.  Well of course – she’s far enough away from our own situation to be able to praise fulsomely.

I’d like to see if the Bruges Group or Hannan/Carswell or the Albion Alliance get such fulsome praise from the powers at the helm, for equally digging in and refusing to accept the rule of a foreign potentate [Rumpy Pumpy] in this land.

No, it’s more likely to go along the lines indicated in this very good article on the WW2 French resistance.  For a start, the beginnings were quite humble and while the active were caught between collaboration and resistance, most people simply wanted it all to go away.  They had families and their own self-preservation to think about, so they kept their heads down and didn’t want to know.

Other reasons have also been given :

# a feeling of resignation after the defeat of June – H.R. Kedward claims that `the arguments of common sense and practicality … buttressed inaction.  Few people saw any way in which the French could continue a war which had been so comprehensively lost’ (Kedward: 1985 p.47);

# the division of France into six separate zones, and the difficulty of moving and communicating between them;

# the massive Germany military presence in the North and, in the Unoccupied zone, the presence of a legitimate government;

# the belief, held by many, that Pétain was playing un double jeu, stringing the Nazis along whilst secretly planning his revenge.

Let’s look at that again – the presence of a legitimate government.

In legalistic terms, the EU is legitimate – our head of government signed the country over to them and in world affairs, what the head of government does is what the country does.  How many of you have spoken of America’s presence in Afghanistan or Britain’s presence somewhere?  Just what do you mean by those terms “American” or “British”?

As the constitutional peasant said in the Python sketch, “Well, I didn’t vote for you.”

And those words again:

the arguments of common sense and practicality … buttressed inaction

LPUK leadership?

Oh, do grow up, James.  And I am still anti-EU—as I have been for at least the last twenty years—but it is because of that stance that I do not want a referendum now … This is called practical politics.

Practical politics – buttressed inaction – practical politics – buttressed  ……  let’s leave that and move on.

the belief, held by many, that Pétain was playing un double jeu, stringing the Nazis along whilst secretly planning his revenge

The belief, held by many that the Five Yearists, the leaderships of the Tories and LPUK, are playing un double jeu, stringing the EU along whilst secretly planning their revenge.  Time will tell, won’t it and meanwhile the final control by the EU takes place in 2010/11, with the leaders doing or saying nothing.

From these small beginnings, here and there, sporadically:

… one witnesses the emergence of small, spontaneous and individual acts of resistance. Turning one’s back on a German victory parade or giving incorrect directions were minor but significant acts of resistance to the occupying power.

Pundits started writing:

Jean Texier produced a clandestine tract called Conseils à l’occupé (`advice to the occupied’) which included 33 ways ways of expressing personal resistance.

We, of course, have the internet for now, until it is taken over. Gradually, in reaction to the utter demoralized lethargy of the people [cf. the UK today]:

Small, individual acts of resistance gradually became larger, more organized and more militarily significant as the war dragged on. More importantly, hitherto separate resistance groups began to learn of one another’s existence and began to link up.

The types of activities these early organized resistance movements were engaged in fell into three categories:

# the production of propaganda or, rather, counter- propaganda (leaflets, pamphlets, newspapers, defacing `official’ propaganda etc.);

# intelligence/information gathering for the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in London – some movements were known as les réseaux Buckmaster, after Colonel Buckmaster, the British head of the SOE, or, later in the war, for la France Libre, the Free French in London;

# escape networks, les filières d’évasion, facilitating the escape of Allied servicemen, resisters and, later in the war, Jews.

The second presupposed that there was a large, powerful, friendly force out there who would assist if they could. In our case, no one will lift a finger to help us against the EU, not outside the country, not inside because the people in charge in the U.S. and anywhere else are already under the control of the global socialist.

Certain groups stuck their necks out, admired from a distance by the people or at least any people who got to hear of them:

They wrote resistance tracts and magazines (e.g. Résistance) and set up links with the British. The publications were important in developing the network and disseminating information to other networks and to more and more French people.

The arrest and deaths of key members of the group in March and April 1941 led to its demise but not before they had passed on to the British information that was to prove useful in their attack on the German naval base in Saint Nazaire in March 1942.

At least the British existed to get information out to but in our case, today, it is the British who are the traitors – our Vichy leadership, that is. It’s a Vichy sympathiser in charge in Westminster today, not a de Gaulle.

And did you note the words, “The arrest and deaths of key members of the group in March and April?” Obviously, we’re not far enough down the path yet for that to occur – that’s more likely around 2012/13 but I suspect we’ll be shut down long before then.

Another divergence from the historical record was “de Gaulle’s famous radio speech to the French, broadcast from London on the 18th June 1940″.

Very true. Where is anyone of that calibre making such a speech somewhere in the world today? Where does any world leader decry the takeover of the UK by the forces of darkness? Have you heard one speech?

Not even the people recognize that there is a war on at all. Leonard Cohen touched on this in his song:

There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t. You cannot stand what I’ve become, you much prefer the gentleman I was before; I was so easy to defeat, I was so easy to control, I didn’t even know there was a war.

Legitimacy

One of the challenges de Gaulle and the other Français de Londres faced was how to assert their legitimacy over the nascent and growing resistance movements in France and how to unify them behind a shared purpose led, of course, by de Gaulle.

This was a difficult task given the fragmented nature of the resistance movements in France and the suspicion, particularly strong amongst movements dominated by Communists, Socialists and Left-leaning Republicans, of de Gaulle’s political intentions.

Sovereignty, legitimacy – this is the whole question. And all those leftists in our society – would they accept the leadership of Dan Hannan or Nigel Farage? There are many of us who want a change but we want it on our own political terms so we can’t even agree on that.

After the author of the article I’m quoting from mentioned groups who were directly working for the Free French, based in London and supported by the government, something we do not have the luxury of as the traitors in London are in the ascendancy, he went on to write:

Many of these groups were working directly for either the Free French (la France libre) based in London or for the SOE and were therefore part of a much larger struggle to wage war against the Nazi domination of Europe.

“Part of a much larger struggle”  Y-e-e-e-s-s.  Not unlike the Witanagemot saying the Resistance, of which Albion Alliance is a part, is not fighting for England because we’re fighting on a much broader front.

As you can see from the number of different movements in operation throughout France, the resistance was far from unified. This was recognised by de Gaulle who sought to unify the diverse movements by ensuring their adherence to his own France Libre movement.

De Gaulle – Dan Hannan? Nigel Farage?

As we have discussed in earlier lectures (Vichy 1940-42 and Vichy 1942-44), as Hitler embarked upon a `total war’, repression increased and living standards dropped, thus spurring many hitherto indifferent French men and women into action.

Ah – once the hip pocket is hit, resistance will begin.  Hence the Euro millions pouring into the regions at the very same time the UK billions go to the EU.

The sociological characteristics of resisters varied enormously according to the nature of the resistance movement or network to which they belonged:

# sex – most active resisters were men, young men, although there are a number of significant exceptions (e.g. Lucie Aubrac in Lyon). Women played a key subsidiary role in supporting the resistance although this contribution is frequently overlooked.

# urban – although resistance in the countryside becomes central later on in the war, early resistance movements grew out of large towns and cities with their complex economies (e.g. printing presses) and social networks (e.g. trade unions).

# race/ethnicity – France’s immigrant population formed a significant percentage of the resistance, and were far more numerous proportionately than the native French population.

This latter is probably a key difference from our Resistance and the immigrant population might even see us as the enemy or at the very least, not supporting their goals.

Sometimes, immigrants formed their own autonomous resistance groups with their own political – i.e. anti-fascist – agenda.

It’s a point we might well have to look at. Many immigrants to this country are, to borrow a quote from Maugham: “More English than the English,” and would hardly like to see themselves back in an impecunious state in a totalitarian regime.

Key factors

Those identified as subversives, insurgents, seditionists and the like by the usurpers and traitors in high places will be amongst the first mopped up. Why do you think the petitions to Number 10 were encouraged?

“Come on in to my parlour,” said the spider to the fly.

Hannan, Carswell and Farage will be blocked and marginalized – be serious, will the multi-billion euro power which represents the people who caused WW2 meekly sit back and let these three overturn decades of hard work and subversion in all walks of life?

And as long as they are allowed to continue and groups such as the Albion Alliance are allowed to continue, people might just wonder why – it’s a good tactic in itself to allow the rabbits to keep chattering or perhaps they see us as elderly Anglican clergymen muttering in the corner to ourselves.

Either way, we will be ignored by our own people, to be forgotten when the PTB shut us down and it will be the second wave who get off their butts when the true horror of the EU comes upon them, brave freedom fighters who will then stand up and be counted.

Always remember though that this second wave could have stood up now and prevented the horror from ever occurring.  All it takes is for every person to vote only for a PPC who supports the putting of a vote to the people.  Very easy to find out in your own local constituency.

Will you find out?

Will you vote accordingly?

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