Should Camp of The Saints Be Required Reading For Our "Political Classes"?

NEVER Trust a Man Allows This Much Airbrushing

Hugh Hewitt was appalled by everything Donald Trump didn’t know…

But Hugh Hewitt had never heard of Camp of the Saints:

HH: From Turkey float thousands of people towards Greece. From Libya flow thousands of people towards Italy. This is what the Obama "lead-from-behind" doctrine has brought about. But what ought Europe to do as a united response because it's just massive? 

MS: Yes, and they will be overwhelmed... They are supposed – Continental Europe, I'm excepting the British Isles because they are not part of that – to be a part of this thing called the Schengen Agreement, where basically if you can get into one European country, you can get to all the others. So the idea is get a foothold in relatively poor Southeast Europe and head northwest to where the welfare gravy train is... And this is the "camp of the saints" scenario that a great French novelist laid out forty years coming true. You can basically read that novel, and what's interesting is that not only is the description of the landings spot-on, but the passive reaction of the political class and the intellectual class he also got right, too. 

HH: I don't know the novel, Mark. What is it? 

MS: It's Jean Raspail. It's called The Camp of the Saints, and the saints are the refugees basically from Africa and other parts of the developing world that wash up on the French coast – the Cote d'Azur – on the topless beaches of southern France, and the French intellectual class and political class have no idea what to do about it. They can no longer muster the argument to defend the integrity of French soil, and in the end it ends with the government collapsing and the saints just swarming ashore from the beaches and taking over France. And, when you listen to the way Angela Merkel is talking, she's talking exactly like the feeble politicians did in Monsieur Raspail's novel forty years ago.

Camp of the Saints Author, Jean Raspail, on the Current Refugee Situation:

How can Europe deal with these migrations? 

There are only two solutions. Either we accommodate them and France - its culture, its civilisation - will be erased without even a funeral. In my view, that's what's going to happen. Or we don't accommodate them at all - that means stop sacralising the Other and rediscover your neighbour, that means those next to you. Which means that we stop giving a damn sometime about these "Christian ideas gone mad", as Chesterton said, or these depraved human rights, and that we take the indispensable measures to distance ourselves, without appeal, to avoid the dissolution of our country into a general métissage [literally race-mixing but used as a sort of equivalent of the English diversity]. I don't see any other solution. I travelled a lot in my youth. All peoples are fascinating but when you mix them too much, it is much more animosity that develops than sympathy. Métissage is never peaceful. It is a dangerous utopia. Look at South Africa! At the point where we are now, the measures we would have to take would necessarily be very coercive. I don't believe it will happen and I don't see anyone who has the courage to do it. They would need to put their soul in the balance, but who is ready for that? That said, I don't believe for an instant that the supporters of immigration are more charitable than me: there probably isn't a single one of them who intends to welcome one of these unfortunates into his home. all of that's just an emotional pretence, an irresponsible maelstrom that will engulf us. 

Is there therefore no solution other than submission or coercion? 

There could perhaps be one, but it will only have one chance: isolates where a population that is ethnically and culturally threatened by other communitarianisms could find refuge. Besides, it's already happening: we can see already that the French "de souche" [indigenous] are fleeing the so-called "sensitive" districts. The demonstrations against homosexual marriage are also a form of communitarianism: they testify to the rejection by millions of French people to the "change of civilisations" promised by the Left and by Christiane Taubira. Today, everyone condemns communitarianism, but it could be a solution, at least temporarily. These opposed communitarianisms will reinforce themselves mutually by the animosity they will convey and that will end, finally, in extremely severe confrontations. Even if we don't need to wish that adversity occurs.