Le Pen and the Absurd Levels of Hate Speech Control By Richard Miller (London)
Le Pen is being prosecuted for drawing attention to the dangers of the Islamic State. That would seem to imply that the French system supports the Islamic state wouldn’t it?
“We reported on Wednesday that “Le Pen has seen a big change from two years ago, when she was ordered to undergo psychiatric tests by a court simply for posting photos to impress the truth about the dangers of the Islamic State upon the French public.” Now she is on trial for that very “offense.” What are the chances that France will defeat the jihad when it persecutes those who call attention to the atrocities done in its name? About nil.
Meanwhile, what does this “far-right” designation mean? For the establishment media and the political elites, it means, “We don’t like this person, and we don’t want you to like her, either.” That’s about it.
“French far-right leader Le Pen on trial over Islamic State tweets,” by Clara Wright and Joseph Schmid, AFP, February 9, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
PARIS — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen goes on trial Wednesday on charges she broke hate speech laws by tweeting pictures of Islamic State atrocities, a case she has slammed as a violation of free speech.
The trial comes as opinion polls show Le Pen will likely face off again against Emmanuel Macron in next year’s presidential contest, after her National Rally made its strongest showing ever in the 2017 vote.
Le Pen shared the gruesome images in December 2015, a few weeks after Islamic State group jihadists killed 130 people in attacks in Paris, in response to a journalist who drew a comparison between IS and her party.
One of the pictures showed the body of James Foley, an American journalist beheaded by the Islamist militants.
Another showed a man in an orange jumpsuit being run over by a tank, and the third a Jordanian pilot being burned alive in a cage.
“Daesh is this!” Le Pen wrote in a caption, using an Arabic acronym for IS.
Le Pen later deleted the picture of Foley after a request from his family, saying she had been unaware of his identity.
In 2018 a judge charged her as well as Gilbert Collard, a National Rally colleague who also tweeted the pictures, with circulating “violent messages that incite terrorism or pornography or seriously harm human dignity” and that can be viewed by a minor.
A trial was ordered last year but was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic.
The crime is punishable by up to three years in prison and a fine of 75,000 euros ($90,000).
Le Pen, a lawyer by training, has said she is the victim of a political witch-hunt — she refused an order to undergo psychiatric tests as part of the inquiry.
She was also stripped of her parliamentary immunity over the pictures.
“Marine Le Pen had no intention, nor even any awareness, of endangering any minor. She was responding to an attack, a provocation, by a journalist,” her lawyer David Dassa-Le Deist told AFP.
He accused prosecutors of “discrimination” by “deforming the spirit and the letter of the law… to limit Mrs Le Pen’s freedom of speech.”…”
It is all out of control, or at least, out of our control:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng18TU3rf88&feature=emb_title
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