Free speech is for pussies

[yavoon]

http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/03/06/franceban/index.php

France bans citizen journalists from reporting violence

The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment of eyewitnesses who film acts of police violence, or operators of Web sites publishing the images, one French civil liberties group warned on Tuesday.

[Bronco Bob]

Where was this law when the cops were beating Rodney King?
Oh, wait, this is in France. Never mind.

[TailgateNut]

Where was this law when the cops were beating Rodney King?
Oh, wait, this is in France. Never mind.

Give it time, I'm sure it's on Bush "to do" list, right after wiping feet on Constitution!

[yavoon]

I was gna post this separate, but then I remembered this. here again is france and its complete disdain for free speech. its amazing how fast a society can throw away a concept like free speech.

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB117444558006143724-lMyQjAxMDE3NzI0MTQyNDE1Wj.html

ARIS -- A French court is tomorrow expected to decide whether I and the newspaper I edit, Charlie Hebdo, committed a crime by publishing cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed. If the court finds me guilty of "publicly abusing a group of people because of their religion," in effect racism, as the organizations of French Muslims that are plaintiffs in this case claim, I could be imprisoned for six months and fined thousands of euros. A great deal is at stake, for free speech in France and Europe, in the outcome of this trial.

[Garcia Bronco]

Wasn't Rodney King on PCP when they tried to pull him over?

[Bronco Bob]

Wasn't Rodney King on PCP when they tried to pull him over?

It's possible. But if we were as courageous as the French and were to
ban cameras of private citizens from filming acts of violence, those police
officers would have never been questioned in the first place and no
one would have ever even heard of Rodney King. He could have been
on PCP, LSD, crack, heroin, magic mushrooms. crystal meth, and
a whole bottle of Jim Beam and no one would have been the wiser.