A State of Emergency or An Emergency of State?

"You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple: to force the public to turn to the state to ask for greater security."

Vincenzo Vinciguerra

Neo-Fascist,

Convicted Terrorist,

Murderer,

Agent of NATO Intelligence

On the only prior occasion in history which resulted in the Declaration of a State of Emergency, formally invoking Article 16 of the Constitution of the Fifth Republic in France, a junta of mutinous  army officers in Algeria staged a Coup d'etats, called for the troops loyal to them in France to overthrow President DeGaulle and the lawfully elected constitutional government in Paris, and had all-but secured possession of a captured nuclear weapon.

The French underground testing range and nuclear enrichment facility actually detonated the entire French nuclear stockpile then in existence to prevent its capture by the Junta in Algiers and nuclear blackmail of the world. DeGaulle ordered that his nation's proudly treasured and hard won status as declared nuclear power and providing the leverage from which to propose it's standing as a third force in Cold War politics be temporarily recinded and rolled back as a sacrifice to ensure the guaranteed  protection of the State's survival as an expression of Constitutional Government.

THAT'S a National Emergency.

Article 16 was invoked last night in response to a few loud bangs in the street and people running about in the streets of Paris, waving a few guns around....

You Sir, Mr. Hollande - you're no Charles DeGaulle.