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Benjamin Sire: "Taubira, the opportunist Pythia of a dying left"

2021-12-20T13:30:40.939Z


FIGAROVOX / TRIBUNE - The composer and journalist paints a portrait of Christiane Taubira, testifying to the political reversals of the one who sometimes defended the independence of Guyana, opposed the recognition of the Arab-Muslim slave trade, or even advocated retirement by capitalization.


Benjamin Sire is a composer and journalist.

Stop everything, look no further, the presidential election has just been played out on this Friday, December 17, 2021.

The left, this dying ambulance on which no one really wanted to shoot, is saved. The left, what am I saying, France, if it is not Europe, if it is not the world, unless even, as Jacques Chirac once said about the gold medal of the pole vaulter, Jean Galfione, at the 1992 Olympics, be it the intergalactic universe. Queen Christiane (no, not the singer, Christine), has just said "maybe", "if ever, in case", "if you really insist and you all withdraw", "if the conditions of an effortless coronation are offered to me "," if the plagiarism badly assumed, badly transcribed, of some lines of René Char, can be the object of a program ", in short," if I can, in front of Hanouna,grumbling a few banalities drowned in a crowd of idle convolutions, seeing the country kissing me the heels ”,“ then, perhaps, eventually, I want to be your overlord ... ”

Thus advances, certainly seen from the angle of the outrageous caricature, even outraged (I admit it), the half declaration of candidacy of Christiane Taubira. A half measure for a skilful half, who does not have a third of the courage necessary to fully engage in a hard battle without offering the guarantee that it will be gentler for her than for those who have had the experience. 'daring to humiliate oneself beforehand on the pitiless altar of the game of massacre that is the political chessboard in a campaign period, such as Anne Hidalgo, Arnaud Montebourg and, perhaps, at the rate things are going, a Yannick Jadot , just released almost unscathed from the clutches of Sandrine Rousseau. But Christiane Taubira is above these considerations. The wealthy Guyanese, who refuses to urge her brothers toacross the Atlantic to get vaccinated against the Covid, believes that appearing is enough for him to turn the crowds and, if not the votes in his favor, lead his competitors to give in to his position in innocent surveys of an opinion where only the approximate aura is measured, the antipodes of any programmatic ambition.

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If the presence in the panel of the favorite personalities of the French had any impact on the political future, before her, Simone Veil, yet armed with real courage, a real history and some political convictions, should have investigated the mandates of president. Alas Christiane, whose courage varies, although she was well armed when it comes to defending a marriage for all of which she was not at the origin but that she clung to her legend, of which the story is debatable and not very conducive to fitting into the national novel of a country whose customs she has little taste for, whose convictions oscillate with the winds between the contemptuous and vaguely liberal conservatism of Édouard Balladur,the cynically interested couillemollism of François Hollande and the anti-capitalist racialism, nevertheless sponsored by Louboutin, Gucci and Valentino, of Assa Traoré and Rokhaya Diallo ... alas, Christiane, therefore, is only the symbol of all that will have symbolized the sinking of the left in the last 10 years ...

Long before reciting obscure poems capable of hypnotizing beautiful progressive souls, she fought - it is her right - for the independence of Guyana, showing there all her love for this France which was going to ensure her her political future.

Benjamin Sire

So let's see. Long before reciting obscure poems capable of hypnotizing beautiful progressive souls, she fought - it is her right - for the independence of Guyana, showing there all her love for this France which was going to ensure her her political future. She fought - it is much less her right - using all the maneuvers proper to anti-colonialist battles, based on terrorism, the preparation of attacks and violent intimidation. If she escaped prison and took up the bush for a short time, this was not the case with her husband, Roland Delannon, imprisoned for a year and a half at the Health prison, in Paris, for having instigated a failed attack against Guyanese oil complexes. Anticolonialism no longer having the wind in its sails, Christiane Taubira fell into line and,become a wise politician, inaugurated his first mandate as deputy by voting to trust the government of cohabitation of Édouard Balladur, this great figure of the progressive left.

The following year, no doubt seduced by the legendary honesty of the character, she married the party of Bernard Tapie, the PRG, known for the flexibility of its alliances and its convictions, and was able to taste the delights of the multiple mandates in electing MEP. However, she quickly changed benches in the National Assembly and approached the Socialist Party and Lionel Jospin - if he had known - before returning to her first radical love a year before the electoral earthquake of 2002 ... which she took all its part.

Before this psychodrama, she associated her name with the worst memorial law ever passed, on May 10, 2001, known as the law aimed at recognizing trafficking and slavery as a crime against humanity. If this simple statement makes good sense, the text voted, in addition to colliding with the famous Gayssot law, will completely ignore the trafficking that has lasted for centuries in the Arab-Muslim world, on the pretext that "

young Arabs

[should not carry]

on their backs all the weight of the legacy of Arab misdeeds

 ”. However, this omission will have incalculable consequences on the debates which agitate current French society, in addition to opening the doors of France to the cancellation of American import culture and to ambient racialism.

Christiane Taubira hastened to vote against the 2004 law prohibiting in particular the wearing of conspicuous religious symbols at school, allowing her to start a new political life which will see her receive the good graces of the communitarians who began to weave her web.

Benjamin Sire

When 2002 presented itself, undoubtedly finding Lionel Jospin far too far to the left for her liking, she ran for the presidential race against her own camp which, caught between its whims and the candidacy of Jean-Pierre Chevènement (who had his reasons), failed to reach the second round, which benefited Jean-Marie Le Pen and sent Jospin to meditate in Île-de-Ré on cynicism in politics and the consequences of changing tides on sexagenarian moods. In a way, however, the candidacy of Christiane Taubira did not lack meaning. If the program of Jospin, softly social-democrat, had nothing revolutionary, that of Taubira was eyeing much more towards a bland liberalism that would not have denied the UMP of the time.

Thus, as our colleagues from BFM recalled this week, the Pythia of the left advocated retirement by capitalization (which no right-wing government has succeeded in imposing) for the upper middle classes, fiscal temperance for high incomes, and in opposition to the sovereignist, Jean-Pierre Chevènement, the creation of a Federal Europe, an idea which would undoubtedly make the contemporary left leap. In short, ideas that can be perfectly defended, but with difficulty for those who consider themselves the herald of the

damned of the earth

.

Once Jospin on the ground and withdrawn from political life, Christiane was largely re-elected as a deputy.

In this post, she hastened to vote against the law of 2004 prohibiting in particular the wearing of conspicuous religious symbols at school, allowing her to start a new political life which will see her receive the good graces of the communitarians who began to weave. his canvas.

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Unfortunately for her, it was during this same year 2004 that her managerial talents will be called into question for the first time and will see her condemned by the industrial tribunal in favor of her former parliamentary attaché.

The prospect of the 2007 presidential election arrived. Wanting to replay the famous coup of 2002, she tried a new candidacy, quickly nipped in the bud, before joining Ségolène Royale, then once it was beaten, to accomplish a mission for Nicolas Sarkozy, the winner.

Finally, her hour of glory came with the election of François Hollande, whom she had the ingenious idea of ​​not attempting to stumble, and her passage in the Ministry of Justice. There, she displayed her famous sense of management, seeing her collaborators fall one after the other like flies, and ensured the motherhood of some laws which will not remain in the annals of justice. But the text on marriage for all was already looming, a great work of the Dutch five-year term, which she was going to defend before Parliament although she was not the author, despite outrageous and racist attacks that saw us defend it without compromise. Of this law, badly brought about, giving rise, contrary to what happened in many countries where the maneuver was a formality, to incontinent debates,especially in the street, allowing to see the emergence of the Manif for All movement, it will make its letters of nobility and will offer itself at little cost its current status of moral guarantee of a left of which it was however never really.

In the era of the triumph of identities, she is a woman, she is black, she is really very cultured, she is ideally firm, but also sectarian ... anything that can make her the heroine of a left that is has long been lost on the way.

Benjamin Sire

The rest is apparently anecdotal, meaning in depth. Since the Holland years, Christiane Taubira has walked the political field as a sort of status of the commander distributing the good and the bad points of his moral imagination, alongside the seditious Taha Bouhafs, the wish and compromise journalist, proudly teaming up with the anti-Semite with the alleged evil double, Mehdi Meklat, editor of the previous one, weaving laurel wreaths to Assa Traoré and his delinquent and seditious clique led by Youssef Brakhni. All is said. Behind her propensity for amphigouric emphasis, Christiane Taubira is the embodiment of political cynicism, with separatist aims inherited from her first fights. Before the naive and losers of the pre-election bowling gameoffer to it in the perspective of a new humiliation of the left, we wanted to recall the passive that accompanies it.

In the era of the triumph of identities, she is a woman, she is black, she is really very cultured, she is ideally firm, but also sectarian ... anything that can make her the heroine of a left that is has long been lost on the way.

And all the more so since it will always be able to oppose to its contemptors the racism and sexism that it will have really had to face, especially racism.

But ultimately, in these times of the triumph of spectacle politics and of the symbol elevated to the rank of philosophy, it has its place.

If at times the Pythia causes pity, it is no worse than a substantial part of the political class.

But among them, not all of them try to pass themselves off as moral authorities, when they are only banal opportunists.

Source: lefigaro

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