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What's the old saying?  If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck.

Heres the new guy who replaced Le pen....



New National Front leader quoted as saying Nazi use of poison gas was 'impossible'
James McAuley, The Washington Post Published 2:38 pm, Thursday, April 27, 2017

PARIS -- Once again, allegations of Holocaust denial have landed on the doorstep of France's far-right National Front.

When Marine Le Pen stepped down on Tuesday as the head of France's far-right extremist party - in what analysts described as a calculated move to broaden her appeal before the final round of France's presidential election - she ultimately left the party under the control of Jean-François Jalkh, now serving as its interim president.
But Jalkh has something of a past.

In a string of on-the-record remarks he made in 2000, he was recorded on tape saying that it was "impossible" that the Nazis used Zyklon B., the infamous poison gas selected to murder millions of Jews and others in concentration camps during World War II.

"Me, I consider that from a technical point of view it's impossible, I say impossible to use it in . . . mass exterminations," he said in the interview, a transcript of which was first unearthed by a journalist with France's La Croix newspaper on Wednesday.

"Why?" Jalkh asked. "Because it takes several days before decontaminating a room . . . where Zyklon B. was used."

According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), the Nazis judged Zyklon B pellets - which became lethal when exposed to air - as the fastest and most efficient means of mass murder. At Auschwitz, for instance, the substance was used to gas as many as 6,000 Jews each day.

Jalkh made these remarks in April 2000, during an interview he granted to Magali Boumaza, a political scientist who wrote a thesis on the history of the National Front and who is now a professor at a university in Istanbul.

Thanks for the insight. Mind-boggling indeed. 

I grew up with posters like this in the streets.

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Things have changed a lot since then (the posters at least), but my generation still remembers. Back in the 80's-90's it was all about kicking out immigrants. Today that sort of talk strikes a different chord obviously with the terrorist threat. She isn't Trump who's showed up out of nowhere with "tough talk". The party, her family for decades have been spewing hate forever.

They are utterly clueless about how to run a country which was made painfully obviously during the debate. Besides saying "we're leaving the EU", she has no clue as to what the next steps would be.

He's not and you can't be responsible for every dickhead who agress with your message or miscontrues it. 

Suicide by ballot box? Mais oui!