Bloody French!

By Nathalie Blythe – The Community Press Group -

From French comedians, to French footballers in England… Free speech and freedom of expression are under attack.

Over the Christmas holidays we went to Brittany, France.

Something happened there that might also affect us here in the UK and you’ll have to hang on right to the end to find out what it could be. Nothing could have prepared us for what happened over those 2 weeks. A crime seemingly of the worse sort… humour.

Humour on the sick and the heathy, the smoker, the alcoholic, the poor, the rich (watch out), the blacks, whites, yellows, males, females, kids, young, old, fat, thin, rural folks and city dwellers, French, Brits, Arabs, Spanish, Jews… silence!

What did I just say? Ooops, sorry, have I gone that little bit too far?

Well, it would appear that Mr Dieudonné, a 50% Breton French, 50% Cameroonian comedian, had just done that. Before I go any further, prior to this debacle worthy of a high national security alert, I had never heard any of his shows or gigs. I had only seen his name in passing on the Youtube Channel of the great Laurent Louis, Member of the Belgium Chamber of Representatives (interestingly enough this man is against illegal wars and political corruption in the parliament; an all round really decent guy. I encourage anyone who has given up on politicians to check him out just to see that there is a decent one and he is in Belgium! I would also encourage you check the video link below, it has english subtitles).

We have established that I had not heard of the guy, and there is a really good reason for that.

He has been censored from the French media for the last ten years or so

You’d think he had raped an entire nunnery. The main stream media in France, which are probably equally as bad as the media in the UK, were on a roll with the Dieudonné Scandal. What an over reaction of epic proportion!

Then, as if that wasn’t enough, Anelka does the celebratory ‘Quenelle’, or so my son tells me. It is confirmed by the ‘Journal de 20 Heures’ (evening news), that Nicolas Anelka, the West Bromwich Albion striker, made a hand signal on the pitch, which is believed by some to be an anti-semitic gesture or an ‘inverted nazi salute’, whatever that means. This too was news to me. I thought Anelka had retired back to France years ago and this was how I found out that he lives only just down the road.

For clarification, according to Dieudonné, the ‘Quenelle’ is nothing more than an anti-establishment gesture which he has been employing for the last 10 years.

So why is it a big deal now? Perhaps they were holding on to it until the right opportunity?

I also wonder who it was who suddenly decided that this gesture is an inverted Nazi salute? Is it any more so than the standard military salute? Or waving good-bye from your front porch?

Anyway, it was Anelka’s ‘quenelle’ that triggered it for me. Unlike most of the material I have since read from the UK press, I did some research on this and it was far from being a mammoth task; they should all try it sometimes!

I started to investigate the ‘offending’ videos further on Youtube.

Don’t get me wrong, my investigation didn’t spring up with swastikas and fake moustaches; with all that fuss I was almost expecting that.

To this day, and this is my opinion, I have yet to find anything that anyone could find deliberately offensive. Of course, as far as humour is concerned, if anything, I found Dieudonné quite funny, very touching too, but most of all he has a serious message, very serious. Dare I say that he is not keen on the New World Order B*** S***? He believes the governments of France, Europe and United States are not working for the good of the people, and that corruption is widespread. He blames the Zionists to a large extent and the bankers. He talks about the falsification of history. He is an Anti-ZIONIST.

We know of course, Anti-Zionism has nothing to do with Anti-Semitism

Incidentally, a Semite is a member of any of the peoples who speak or spoke a Semitic language, including, and in particular, Jews and Arabs. Interesting no? Thanks wiki!

Dieudonné has a great sketch where he tackles the cancer issue. It is funny, but also very true. He describes very accurately the money making machine that the modern health system has become, and he does it brilliantly.

Hunting for further evidence I stumbled upon a comment he had made about Patrick Cohen “…you see when I hear Patrick Cohen, I say to myself, you see, about the gas chambers… Pity”. OK, so that is controversial at best. DEFCON 1 it is not!

Who is Patrick Cohen?

I checked some Youtube videos where he was invited to join a debate on the panel of Frederic Taddeï’s French television show. There, I learn that Cohen has insulted Dieudonné and called him a psychiatric case and a sick brain. He was also very aggressive toward the host Frederic Taddeï (1), who is a fervent advocate for free speech and quite brilliant. For the last decade, he has been the only one brave enough to give Dieudonné a voice on his late night show. In the episode which is linked below, Cohen was not even slightly embarrassed to say a clear and loud ‘NON! ’when one of the panellists asked him if he thought people should have the choice to think as they wished. Patrick Cohen made me feel nauseous.

It took me a few days to go through more videos of Dieudonné and my verdict is that there was nothing anti-semitic or intentionally racist, no material designed to hurt anyone inparticular or in general in his work.

Despite the lack of evidence the LICRA, (League Against Racism and Anti- Semitism) which is the equivalent of the Anti-Defamation League, is pressing charges against Dieudonné for Anti-Semitic remarks, and of course this has now escalated so much so that Manuel Valls, the current French Minister of Interior has how become involved. According to him, Dieudonné’s ‘hate speech’ has gone on for too long and gone too far. He must be shut down; his theatre, bank accounts, tour venues, travelling freedom, the whole lot.

They are trying to stop this guy from working

Up until 10 years ago he was complying, and an active member of the French Anti-Racist group ‘SOS Racisme’, but then he ‘woke up’. He realised the depth of the corruption and deception and so he started to spread the truth.

Here lies the real issue.

The French people know that and the censorship is backfiring. Dieunonné’s popularity is skyrocketing amongst all creeds and cultures, and that includes amongst the Jewsish community.

Funnily enough, and with a fair amount of hypocrisy, in September 2012, when the French satirical magazine ‘Charlie Hebdo’ published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, in defiance of the recent worldwide Muslim protests, French Muslim leaders called for calm after a meeting with Interior Minister Manuel Valls over the publication of pictures. “We expressed to the Minister the indignation and the anger of Muslims following a series of provocations. We have also told the minister of our quiet and serene spirit. They will not respond to provocation {and} they won’t give in to provocation.”

Mr Valls then took the opportunity to explain that “Freedom of speech is a fundamental freedom and that the freedom to caricature is part of that fundamental right. That can shock some people. That is the case. And the courts are there for those who want to use them.” (IBTime UK)

So lets be clear, freedom of speech is not permitted in humour about Jewish people but when the joke is directed at the Muslim people it’s just tough luck for them

If I may, I would like to add, just in passing, that a Criminal trial involving senior public figures, involved in violent peadophile acts, snuff movies, etc. was due to start in Draguignan, France, on the 9th January 2014. Key members of the French government ignored the warnings and files sent by the family of some of the victims, protecting in essence the perpetrators. For those key members of the government, the Dieudonné ‘scandal’ would have been the perfect gift.

What a brilliant distraction and not dissimilar to the distraction of the unfortunate, but unusually ultra mediatised disappearance of Madeleine McCann whilst the UK’s Prime Minister was possibly surrendering his country’s sovereignty to the EU with his signature on the Lisbon treaty.

Distraction can manifest in many shapes and sizes

Imagine for one moment that the moon landing was organised to distract the world from the terrible mess which the US found itself in over in Vietnam? I can think of so many of those distractions over the years… But I am digressing slightly.

Now, moving back to this fair and green land. Today I saw several people posting on Facebook about Katie Hopkins. Some were moaning and raging, but some were also joking and laughing.

For my own wellbeing and general sanity I don’t watch or read any celebrity material but I think I get the gist of the matter, and according to the good people ofFacebook Katie Hopkins is a vile individual who spits spiteful comments from her evil yobbish mouth. I am sure that is fair enough. I would even say that it is insane that such drivel further pollutes the media airwaves, enticing tension, resentment and hatred.

But all this considered, the anger didn’t stop there. I believe what happened next was an over reaction, in the shape of a petition to ‘Not allow anymore airtime or column writing of the abuse she speaks’ on (ironically) www.change.org.

The petition claims:-

“It’s important, because she causes so much anger, resentment, hate and vulgarity in people and its offensive and should be chargeable as an offence to the criminal court system. SHE SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO GET AWAY WITH IT. Her disgusting attitude towards we the people is appalling and it’s not right she can get away with so much abuse. It’s beyond a joke and something has to be done.”

Astounding, is it not?

Here’s a quote:-

“Hypocrites get offended by the truth.”

By Jess C. Scott. I don’t know this person but it sounds about right.

After seeing what has been happening in France, the country of the ‘Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen’, surrouding the blatant assault on the freed speech of a comedian, who merely decided to speak the truth, then seeing it is cross pollinating like some crazed GMO crop to the UK to contaminate Nicolas Anelka’s freedom of expression, I am starting to wonder if we are not seeing a much more sinister agenda, aimed at the suppression of our freedom of expression and free thought, being engineered by our government.

What if the government sponsored media were using Katie Hopkins as their mouthpiece in order to provoke so much anger and indignation, ensuring that it was widely spread, so that it would lead to the public demanding a limitation on everyone’s freedom of speech? Government would just love that!

Our MPs have only just recently voted in favour a new gagging law (2). Don’t you think we have been gagged enough?

In France, the government seem to take exception if the people want to go to shows they have paid for to have a laugh for a couple of hours. In the UK a footballer is no longer allowed to show a sign of support to his friend with a rebellious gesture. However, should we be prepared to willingly fall into the trap of giving up our rights because of this? This is serious and we won’t miss these rights until we don’t have them any more.

As Orwell allegedly said “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

So long as they don’t have to listen, I don’t see what the problem is.

WAKE UP and Quenelle!

References:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQJ73vtakkM – Laurent Louis subtitled

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Laurent-LOUIS-MLD-Page-officielle/152223684849938

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyS459QkUEo Dieudonne subtitle

1.Frederic Taddeï’s position on public tv is now compromised.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az-KjW5u41c Clash entre

Frédéric Taddeï et Patrick Cohen sur le plateau de “C à vous” – 12 Mars 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kAvBV4z_gc -France Closes Embassies in Muslim Countries

2.What is the Gagging Law? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDtFoPWBoLc