Right back at ya, pal]
In a brief review of the "Islamist" attacks
on the French satirical mag, I am on the side
of free speech, especially speech which pisses
off whatever government is trying to kill free speech.
That group includes all the countries whose leaders
marched in Paris, as if they already had their bags
packed, waiting for the red-phone call. Hollande:
"Allo, j'ai un vote-getter pour vous"
[Paris-Match maker]
So, guys like Benny arrived with some dead
So, guys like Benny arrived with some dead
Palestinians in his carry-on luggage. But the most
cynical politician was Hollande, the French PM.
France has instituted a number of laws protecting
one "starry" minority group, while allowing any old
pot shots to be taken at Muslims, who are never
allowed to even say "But, I'm insulted."
There's a saying that goes like:
find out whom you're not allowed to insult.
They are your leaders
I have to declare that while I like cartoonists who
pierce any bullshit story, including religious ones,
I have to say that Charlie Hebdo's 68-tards are
also sketching their support for frottage with underage
girls, and are so useless at their work that they
have to piss off 2 billion Muslims to bring a smile
to an Algerian-hating racist audience of
about 30 000 old French men.
Well done, dicks.
You've boosted sales and
cut your pension requirements in
one big bloody mess.
*Title-kid-speak translation, French:
I'm like "Feck you, Charlie"
Checkit: Liberty blitzkrieg
French
Authorities Demonstrate Defense of Free Speech
by Arresting 54 People for Free
Speech
Michael
Krieger | Posted Wednesday Jan 14, 2015 at 10:38 am
While
I’m sure many of the millions of French citizens who marched in solidarity with
the victims of the recent senseless violence and in the name of free speech
came with genuine intentions, the corps of professional authoritarians, I mean
politicians, who tagged along in order to pose for a staged photo op, clearly
had less than noble intentions. Indeed, they likely spent the entire time scheming
as to how the tragedy might be used to strip more rights away from their
citizens.
The
absurdity of well known tyrants standing arm in arm to support freedom of
expression was laughable from the start. Many commentators have covered this
shameless act of hypocrisy, including myself in the post: NOUS SOMME HYPOCRITES
– Authoritarian, Anti-Free Speech Politicians Pose for Staged Photo Op in
Paris.
It
didn’t take long for the apparent hypocrisy to manifest itself in real life.
First, we heard about David Cameron’s absurd call to ban encryption, which is
essentially a call to outlaw private communications. Now we see French
leadership turn into a complete and total caricature of itself by arresting 54
people for speech (including a controversial comedian for Facebook comments),
negating the values the rally on Sunday was ostensibly so passionately
defending. The AP reports that:
PARIS (AP) — France ordered prosecutors
around the country to crack down on hate speech, anti-Semitism and glorifying
terrorism and announced Wednesday it was sending an aircraft carrier to the
Mideast to work more closely with the U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State
militants.
Authorities said 54 people had been
arrested for hate speech and defending terrorism in the last week. The
crackdown came as Charlie Hebdo’s defiant new issue sold out before dawn around
Paris, with scuffles at kiosks over dwindling copies of the satirical weekly
that fronted the Prophet Muhammad anew on its cover.
France has been tightening security and
searching for accomplices since the terror attacks began, but none of the 54
people mentioned Wednesday have been linked to the attacks. That’s raising
questions about whether Hollande’s Socialist government is impinging on the
very freedom of speech that it so vigorously defends when it comes to Charlie
Hebdo.
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