Tyranny gone crazy in Europe

[renard_ruse]

What on earth is wrong this this comment? Its a crime??? TYRANNY GONE BESERK:

The French authorities opened a case against Mrs Le Pen in 2011 after she likened the sight of Muslims praying in the streets to the Nazi occupation of France.

As a European Parliament member (MEP), she enjoyed immunity from prosecution.

However, this protection was removed by a European parliamentary committee in a secret vote this week.

BBC chief political correspondent Gary O'Donoghue says he has been told that the vote to remove her immunity was "overwhelming".

It will need to be ratified by the full parliament, but that's expected to be a formality, our correspondent says.

The move clears the way for the French authorities to pursue a case against the leader, who steered her party to a record 18% showing in the first round of last year's presidential election.

Mrs Le Pen made the remarks at a party rally in 2010 in the southern French town of Lyon.

She said that Muslims using the streets to pray because mosques were overflowing was an "occupation" of French territory.

Praying in the streets was banned in Paris in 2011 in response to growing far right protests.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22739736

 

[renard_ruse]

Its completely valid to make the argument that there could be an conscious or sub-conscious effort to stake a claim to territory in this way. Hey, this is our street, type of thing.

Of all the things to claim is "hate" speech or whatever they are calling this, why this? I'm sure they could find something more obvious than this if they want to persecute and jail Marine to shut her up.

Again, of all possible comments, why make a big deal over this?

 

[renard_ruse]

What kind of "democracy" jails politicians over such innocuous comments? Or any comments for that matter?

What a sad, shameful, pathetic joke. Shame on the EU and shame on France for this pathetic persecution.

 

[renard_ruse]

And why was it banned then by the mainstream parties?

This is not even a veiled (excuse the pun) effort to shut up Marine. This is third world dictatorship type tactics.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

The Frogs need the oil, and the ragheads, to breed their women.

 

[koalabear]

The Frogs need the oil, and the ragheads, to breed their women.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Prolly very popular with the French mens.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

And let's not lose sight of the fact that Le Pen made a statutory protected comment (by virtue of her membership in the EP) whose protection has not just been removed going forward, but has left her criminally liable retroactively.

Here we would call that an ex post facto law. I guess no one speaks Latin in France.

 

[oggbashan]

Its completely valid to make the argument that there could be an conscious or sub-conscious effort to stake a claim to territory in this way. Hey, this is our street, type of thing.

Of all the things to claim is "hate" speech or whatever they are calling this, why this? I'm sure they could find something more obvious than this if they want to persecute and jail Marine to shut her up.

Again, of all possible comments, why make a big deal over this?

There are two worrying aspects of this:

1. The principle of charging someone by a law that didn't exist at the time of the offence.

2. The removal of the protection enjoyed by members of parliaments to express views that are impossible for the man in the street because of a real risk of prosecution. Usually we politicians take advantage of their immunity this takes the form of naming names, criticising multi-nationals, or accusing specific people of corruption. If expressed in a parliament, no action for libel if possible.

While most politicians would distance themselves from many of Marine's views, what she said about Muslims praying in the streets was a real concern to many French people who might not share her politics.

 

[badbabysitter]

What kind of "democracy" jails politicians over such innocuous comments? Or any comments for that matter?

What a sad, shameful, pathetic joke. Shame on the EU and shame on France for this pathetic persecution.

Yet you were thrilled when Pussy Riot went to jail

it constantly amazes me how you are completely obvlivious to how much of a hypocrite you are

 

[BotanyBoy]

Yet you were thrilled when Pussy Riot went to jail

it constantly amazes me how you are completely obvlivious to how much of a hypocrite you are

 

[hobbit.]

There are two worrying aspects of this:

1. The principle of charging someone by a law that didn't exist at the time of the offence.

2. The removal of the protection enjoyed by members of parliaments to express views that are impossible for the man in the street because of a real risk of prosecution. Usually we politicians take advantage of their immunity this takes the form of naming names, criticising multi-nationals, or accusing specific people of corruption. If expressed in a parliament, no action for libel if possible.

While most politicians would distance themselves from many of Marine's views, what she said about Muslims praying in the streets was a real concern to many French people who might not share her politics.

wrong again numb nuts. Its a comment from a none male, hence complete bullshit.