Jean-Marie Le Pen
Jean-Marie Le Pen (b. 1928) was the leader of the French proto-fascist party Front National from 1972 till his retirement in 2011. He is a proud Roman Catholic, and among his other socially conservative views, one of his primary goals was to "clean up" France of lazy immigrants, and to put Catholic policy back into French politics.
He is notable for having managed to advance to the second round of the 2002 presidential election, partly due to left-wing division, earning a "democracy defense" victory for his mainstream conservative rival. In 2011, he retired and was replaced as the head of the Front National by his daughter Marine.
Strangely admirated by Ann Coulter and Pat Buchanan notwithstanding his anti-Americanism.
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[edit] Racism
His anti-immigration policies and his being found guilty on a charge of Holocaust denial[1] caused many people to label him as a Nazi. He defended his immigration policies saying that he wants to get rid of only the "lazy" immigrants.
He said that the gas chambers were "a minor point in the history of the Second World War" and proclaimed his belief in the inequality between the races. Le Pen hopes the ebola virus can sort out global overpopulation. [2]
[edit] Other craziness
Le Pen has called for the forced quarantine of people with AIDS,[3] was a torture apologist and praticionner during the Algerian War and thinks the Nazi occupation wasn't really so bad.[4] Lovely guy.