Lux Film Prize 2009 : an UnWelcome award
Jean-Marie 3L
"The objective of the LUX Prize (light) is to illuminate the public
debate on European integration and to facilitate the diffusion of
European films in the European Union. The LUX Prize will finance the
subtitling and the kinescope recording of the winning film in the 23
official EU languages. The original language recording will be adapted
for sub-titling for hard of hearing and deaf people."
This year, the prize has been awarded to a French film which
celebrates the activities of the pro-immigration lobby in the country
to hamper any legal limitation to immigration in Europe. It is a sorry
choice which condones lawbreaking and invites to more immigration.
Last June, I voted for candidates affiliated to the center-right
European Popular Party. Where is my vote ?
In this film ("Welcome") an actor called Lindon performs a swimming
instructor who trains a Kurd who hopes to swim his way to Britain
through the English Channel. Mr Lindon is a political activist in the
MoDem, a degenerate offspring of the once great Christian Democracy in
France. Another telling figure of this party is Mr Azouz Begag, a
Lyons-based French passport bearer Algerian who, when a minister in
the Villepin cabinet, urged his fellow immigrants from the Paris
suburbs to cross the circular highway around the capital to compete
with the descendants of Vercingetorix (Azouz Begag interview in
Respect Magazine). Among the Lindons (formerly Lindenbaum) the was
more than sixty years ago a much-feared state prosecutor who called
for merciless repression against those who had chosen the losing side
in WW2. The film is not "moving" at all, but frankly disgusting. It
praises a false, wrong generosity; it is subversion with a
humanitarian face. The compassionate swimming instructor is generous
with...what is not "his", with what he does not own. Illegal residents
who stay in Europe are eligible to benefits related to integration
policies, and the burden of these policies is borne by the public at
large and not just the political activists who hamper the enforcement
of the laws which tend to control immigration.
The choice of the Lux Film Prize jury will contribute to further
erosion of support for the cause of European integration, because it
signals that a major institution of the European Union is sympathetic
to illegal immigration, to lawbreaking and, indirectly, to more
immigration from the "souths" of the world; this sorry choice signals
to the European public that a European Parliament, even with a center-
right majority, is not at all inclined to protect them from a massive
settlement of immigrants on European soil, but rather to induce them
through brainwashing to like immigration, more and more and further
immigration. Immigration, massive settlement in Europe from the "warm
climate" countries is not the problem to the Lux jury : to them the
problem is resistance to this trend by the European public.
I am much sorry for this choice by a European Parliament sponsored
film jury, because I am not a Eurosceptic (in France, they call this a
Souverainiste), but a Natiosceptic (I don't believe in the relevancy
of nation-states in Europe : they use to oppose each other and were
historically designed to do so long time ago). Actually, I am a
European nationalist and federalist.
Jean-Marie 3L, natus ex Calnaco