Don’t charge us with angelism – fashionable accusation. Without doubt we must destroy Daesh, for the same reason it is necessary to treat the symptoms of a serious illness as the same time we apply a basic treatment. But make no mistake : the elimination of the caliphate won’t bring us more safety than the one of Bin Laden if a serious work is not undertaken to heal the true causes of this tragedy.

Prepare for peace, it means stop encouraging war. Martial posturing of Valls, Sarkozy or any Le Pen exacerbate hatred at the same time they obscure the real issues. For decades, the Western powers – especially France – produce and export huge quantities of military equipment. The engaged armies in the Middle-East or Africa support private interests at far distance from the objectives set for the defense of the human rights and democracy. This must stop. The West, France, should urgently take the path of solidarity, civil construction and distribution of the wealth for the common good.

Prepare for peace, it means support freedom and not try to further reduce it as the system’s players are doing with the same cynism that prevailed in January. Tens of repressive laws voted last years have further demonstrated their ineffectiveness. Rather than abandon itself into a population control fantasy by useless and expensive black boxes, the state would do better focus on more and better trained staff able to act protecting what a democracy has most precious : lives of citizens and their freedoms.

Prepare for peace, it means fight violence. International violence against the most vulnerable people than ours and subjected to post-colonial dictatorship. Violence within our borders, exercised against those excluded of the system, more and more numerous, more and more marginalized. The criminals of November the 13th must be put out of harm’s way. But every citizen must interrogate himself/herself on the missed rendez-vous and geopolitical cowardice of our democracies that have brought this world to the dramatic situation which we see.

Our emotion is huge but more than ever we must keep a cool head. In politics, as in medicine, it does not accomplish anything if we didn’t pose the good diagnosis.

This message is from the Pirate Party of France