November 12, 1975

Morocco Tries New Blackmail Technique

The ingenuity and determination of those trying to rip off the world is astonishing.

The newest gimmick in the arsenal of blackmail - mass invasion by unarmed civilians - is particularly frightening in its potential.

The first test of this technique was launched last week by King Hassan of Morocco who sent tens of thousands of his subjects into the Spanish Sahara on a "March of Conquest."

The column advanced some six miles toward the Sahara capital of El-Aaiún, but drew up short before a 15-mile-long mine field posted and marked by barbed wire.  The Spanish lobbed over a few artillery rounds to emphasize their determination to resist with military force.

After shouting a bit and running up a red flag over an abandoned Spanish fort the Moroccans began trekking home, claiming a "symbolic victory."

Thus, the test was somewhat of a stand-off.  The Moroccan fanatics got world-wide attention, established the precedent of unarmed invasion by sheer numbers, and thumbed their noses successfully at the United Nations.  The Spanish authorities, on the other hand, demonstrated that nations with a will to resist despite maudlin public opinion can thwart criminality.

This newest wrinkle in modern banditry is disturbing because it was taken straight out of a French novel just recently translated and published in the United States.

The book is titled "The Camp Of The Saints" (by Jean Raspail, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York) and deals with a fictitious invasion of France by a million Ganges Indians.

The premise is that hordes of Indians attending a rally in their own country are whipped into a frenzy by Western social activists.  They are told that the affluent western nations have exploited them and owe them a new nation.

With this the mob swarms down to the docks, commandeers all the ships there and sets sail for a new home land.

The rest of the novel describes the conflict between the pacificist nations which rush food and assistance to the oncoming ships and the tough nations which resist the invasion.

In the end, France gives in to "compassion" and allows the fleet of Indians to land.  The first whites to be killed are those "liberal thinkers" who rush to the ports to welcome the invaders.  Then all whites in Europe are overcome and wiped out systematically.  The dark skinned races triumph.

The plot may seem far fetched in synopsis but Raspail's development of the theme is all too plausible.  While India takes over Europe, the Chinese prepare to take over Russia by the same means.  The book is a chilling novel about the end of the white world.

The West gave in without opposition as the Ganges horde neared European shores, paralyzed with pity for the poor and miserable creatures starving on the rotting ships.  Not until the refugees had landed and began killing off Europeans did the latter become alarmed.  But by then it was too late.

Raspail takes to task all the institutions that lately have taken the lead in preaching a doctrine of white-guilt and Third World "rights" to the earned wealth of the Western nations.

The Pope sold off all the Vatican assets to help the "emerging" nations, but it was instantly spent and proved only how rich the Pope had been.  The Third World was the first to condemn the Church.  The Pope, the last of his line, died alone and penniless in an iron bed in an empty castle.

The mass media - television and newspapers - espoused all left-wing causes because the leaders had made it popular by a constant barrage of propaganda.  Right-wing dissent had been stifled as "fascist", and a constant fare of violence had dimmed the ability of the populous to tell right from wrong.

The do-gooders in all walks of life had worked for years to bring down the institutions of the West so a "new world" could be built from the wreckage.

When the blood bath began, the Western nations tried to resist with their armies.  "The West thinks it has great, powerful armies, wrote Raspail's commentator.  "Well, it hasn't.

"For years now, our people have been taught to despise their armies...We gave way to one huge masochistic frenzy, dragged from nightmare to nightmare.  We never said no.  We wanted to show how permissive we could be, despite the foolish risk that, one day, we would have to face everything, all at once, and all alone.

"You remember those clever campaigns worked out with such devilish skill to demoralize the nation and break down its spirit.  No more colonial wars.  Vietnam and all that.  The people despise their army.  They've heard it accused of genocide too often.

"Enlistees or not, career men or not, they can't stomach themselves.  So don't count on the army, monsieur.  Not if you've got more genocide in mind."

So there was no resistance except by a few labeled fanatics.

King Hassan of Morocco used Raspail's formula of conquest by sheer numbers of helpless civilians.  However, in real life it worked only to a point.  In the novel, Australia and South Africa turned the Ganges refugees from their shores by a threat to sink the ships.

Spain's acting chief of state while Franco lies gravely ill - Prince Carlos - turned back the Moroccans with the same show of determination to shoot.

Raspail's novel is controversial, but thought provoking.

Author: Lindsey Williams