Without security there can be no growth, in any case not legal growth, and
to have security, we must be able to exert authority. Thomas Hobbes was in
fact, the first, to demonstrate that State violence was necessary to allow
the market economy to function by guaranteeing property rights and
contracts, in other words, the social contract is essential to the validity
of private contracts.
Conversely, without legal growth, there can be no security, because growth
alone protects us from the development of illegal economy, criminal economy,
and worse, economic crime.
However, the legal basis for growth is not limited to the implementation of
a security policy, because the threat of sanctions is never dissuasive when
the probability of succeeding honestly to make a living is zero, when the
legal world is less attractive than the criminal world.
Nevertheless that is what is happening today in our beautiful France: when
you come from disadvantaged backgrounds, the probability of success at
school, finding a good job, doing better than one’s parent, making a fortune
is zero. Children in difficult neighborhoods are twice more likely than
others to have two years of delay when entering their 1st year of secondary
school (UK)/6th Grade (USA). The inhabitants of these suburbs are suffering
from much worse than insecurity: they suffer from the certainty that nothing
of what constitutes happiness in life is for them. Gangsterism then becomes
an indirect form of social promotion and a perverted form of revolution.
If we are to ensure security and growth, it is therefore useless to revoke
the citizenship of those who do not care, because this citizenship brings
them nothing, it only creates a feeling of insecurity among the French, of
whom many, have at least one grandfather who was born abroad. It is also of
no use to add thousands of police officers to those who are today
courageously facing the criminals: the resources will never be enough, and
in the end we will, as did other countries, abandon to gangs a large part of
the French territory.
The solution is not a declaration of war on gangs, but in the development of
the talents of those we are allowing to become enemies of the Republic. This
requires creating the conditions for genuine social mobility. It is
possible: what is about to be a success for housing with the ANRU (National
Agency for Urban Regeneration), can succeed for school and employment. This
involves going after and taking each child where he is, showing him the path
to school, giving him the resources he needs, considering each child of
France as an opportunity for the country’s future. As our country has always
done so far.
Still we would need to remember that everything great in this country is in
one way or another, at least in part, from abroad, and that it is even a
foreign tribe that gave its name to “France.”