And Now… ‘Sarkozy: Jail Those Who Browse Terror Websites’
March 23rd, 2012Via: AP:
France’s president proposed a sweeping new law Thursday that would jail those who visit extremist web sites — one of several tough new measures floated in the wake of a murderous shooting spree.
The proposed rules, unveiled by Nicolas Sarkozy after the death of an Islamist fanatic wanted for a horrifying series of execution-style murders, have alarmed journalists and legal experts, who say they risk pulling the plug on free expression.
Sarkozy argued that it was time to treat those who browse extremist websites the same way as those who consume child pornography.
“Anyone who regularly consults Internet sites which promote terror or hatred or violence will be sentenced to prison,” he told a campaign rally in Strasbourg, in eastern France. “What is possible for pedophiles should be possible for trainee terrorists and their supporters, too.”
How the proposed rules would work isn’t clear. When asked, Sarkozy’s office directed the query for details to the Ministry of Justice, which didn’t immediately offer clarification.
Journalists and lawyers are concerned.
“Trying to criminalize a visit — a simple visit — to a website, that’s something that seems disproportionate,” said Lucie Morillon, who runs the new media bureau of journalists’ watchdog group Reporters Without Borders.
“What’s especially worrying for us is how you are going to know who’s looking at what site. Does this announcement mean the installation of a global Internet surveillance system in France?”
It just beggars belief.
I live in Toulouse and a lot of folks are buying this bullshit, with the exception of some of the arabs in the city. Most of the morroccan and algerians I know knew that it was theatre from the start as soon as they heard Al-Qaeda then they knew where it was heading…
Coming hot on the heels of this attack it is obvious to anyone with even a cursory knowledge of State-sponsored terrorism that this is a text book false flag operation of the most obvious kind. Sure enough as we all predicted here come the new laws while Sarkozy sails into another five years of power.
France is just the same as the United States only differing in focus just like one differs in personality from another.
Killing children for multiple power benefits. Only a essential psychopath could do such a thing.