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French Riots Lead to Crackdown on Blogs
Browncoat writes "Wired reports that because of the recent riots in France, authorities have shut down a blog called Hardcore, whose participants have allegedly violating a French law concerning violent speech. Many bloggers fear there will be consequences for them if they are outspoken, even if it is in a nonviolent way. From the article: 'Ahmed Meguinia, a political activist who saw some of the Paris region's hardest-hit areas during the past week, said many bloggers feared prosecution for publishing even nonviolent content. While not condoning blogs that incited violence, he said that there was a lack of media coverage explaining why ethnically segregated inhabitants of some of France's poorest cities have been driven to riot. Instead, the world repeatedly sees CNN images of burning cars and shops, he said.'"
Destroying property, raping, killing people, all of those are bad. But when these radicals go so far as to EXPRESS OPINIONS on the internet. Well, they've gone to far. Let's hope France does the world a favor and puts these radicals to death!
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
Is that so? Some kid called Sherman Austin was prosecuted and recently spent jailtime in a federal prison apparently for publishing bombmaking instructions or something similar on an ostensibly anarchist website called raisethefist.com.
His crime was to "distribute information on explosives with the knowledge that some readers would use such info to commit a federal violent crime."
Hmmm. Given the blatant illegality of the Iraq war, does this mean the webmasters who publish those US Army Field Manuals should be in jail?
Just to point out the obvious, the united states isn't in the middle of domestic upheaval
It's also worth pointing out that the last time it was, Lincoln suspended Habeas Corpus, among other things which he had no legal authority to do.
Back in the 1940's, Roosevelt herded innocent people into concentration camps.
If muslims were rioting in the suburbs of washington, and some bloggers were advocating it, they probably would be in the same boat.
Let's hope we don't find out.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
france is not alone -- america has its own race riots.
the los angeles riots in 1992, fer example...
j
The point is these immigrants are a problem and need to be kicked out of Europe. Europe is historically white people territory; they need to get out of our turf. Just think how they would react if 6 million white people moved into saudi arabia. One need only look at Israel to see how well different civilizations get along.
Do you have any specific examples of representative French figures, like politicians, celebrities, or whatever, saying that their social policies were superior to any other country's? Do you have any survey data showing that average French people think that their social policies are superior to those of other countries? Do you have any examples of films, magazines, or popular culture from France that claim that French social policies are superior to those of other countries?
No, I didn't think so, you're just a jingoistic hick.
No, no no no no. I hope the point didn't muss your hair on it's way over your head. Let us take all of these non-answers one at a time:
That entire movement is focused the re-establishment of, as a start, a pan-Arab caliphate spanning all of the regions once conquered/held by Islam.
And *WHY* do they think this would be a good idea? Do they feel wronged by not having owned it? Is there money to be made? Are they, in fact, rightfully entitled? (I'm talking land deeds and tax records, here. No, actually, I'm asking because I don't know!) Do they have moral issues with the people who own it now? Is their opinion based on faulty information, such as that supplied by a slanted news source?
That would include, of course, places like Spain, and certainly all of the middle east.
Now, Spain, where does that figure? Is this tied in somewhere with a historical grudge? Might they be persueded to let bygones be bygones, were they invited to meet with Spanish foreign leaders?
They want to see those places all ruled by a fundamentalist Islamist theocracy, and they say so on a regular basis - both in word and deed (see their mercifully aborted warm-up act in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan).
Yes, I understand completely. Kind of like wanting a whole country to be ruled by a fundamentalist insert name of any random religion here theocracy. We simply *can't* think of any other religions that are guilty of this charge, at some point in history...
Their aspirations, of course, include the widening of that influence across the globe. Their vision provides for this taking generations, and they're willing to do anything it takes.
Hmmmm....where have I heard this before? Hey! Maybe they think we're all slaves to an evil dictator and they want to invade us so they can free us from our oppressors?
Oh, cheer up, it's all in good fun! Of course, my suggestions are wildest speculation. But it goes to show - examine the enemy close enough, and they'll make more sense than you thought they did. (Note: you can be wrong as wrong...and still make SENSE!...but other people have to see where you're wrong so they can explain it to you in a way you won't reject.)