Trois arrestations pour incitation à l'émeute sur "blog"

Exceedingly good point.

If you can create a song called 'cop killer' and record it, sell it and print the lyrics online - what exactly is the difference?

One thought on the subject: these French web sites may have advocated a specific act or acts at a specific time - as in 'join your [worthless] brethren! rise up, you freedom fighters [street scum]! you must attack the oppressors [hapless Frenchfolk and even more hapless cops - or their cars] tonight!' suggested translations in [brackets].

'Cop Killer' and similar rap songs are usually more general or pseudo anecdotal - 'whipped out my 9, fired up dat slime!' from gangstas, or wannabe gangstas.

So, the problem isn't that it is obviously detrimental to society to advocate rioting or attacking cops at random, it is where you draw the 'free speech' line. Is it when we advocate tarring and feathering Hillariously with confetti made of the papers stuffed in Sandy's pants? What if we say 'righto!' when Humberto Chavez claims Dubya wanted to assasinate him (like somebody did to the guy whose car blew up as he was leading the Chavez opposition - riiiiiiight the CIA did it)?

When courts say panhandling and burning flags is free speech, it is no longer a meaningful term. When such obvious things as outright slander and direct incitement to riot cannot be regulated to some degree, the nut cases come out of the woodwork - even in France.

Want to bet France has allowed - even promoted - Muslim extremists and their publications which continuously advocate anti-US and anti-Israel policies including incitement to violence and support of murderers?

Just another example of their "laissez faire, laissez passer" attitude to immigration and politics in France. All the while, sneering down their purple swollen noses at the rest of us for how 'intolerant' we are.

Well, well. Not only has the worm turned, it has turned on thee, Pierre. That these guys were even arrested is a miracle in and of itself.

In English via FreeTranslation.com (still too French for me to make any sense of it in some places) What's an emeute?:

Three arrests for incentive to the émeute on "blog"

PARIS (Reuters) - A minor and two young major suspected d'avoir launched on internet of the calls to l'émeute and to l'agression against policemen were stopped Monday to Aix-in-Provence and in parisian region, learns one of judicial source.

The three "blogs" used, sites internets personal, were accommodated on the site of the radio Skyrock, that deactivated them during during the weekend.

"The sites incited to participate in the general movements of urban violences and to attack policemen and commissionerships", declared to Reuters a magistrate of the Paris floor.

The floor had to decide in the day of l'éventuelle opening d'une judicial inquiry, an investigation being judged necessary to determine the eventual ones attach politics of the suspicious ones and know if their gait proceeds or non-d'une organized business.

The suspicious ones will incur jusqu'à five years of prison if the sensed qualification for the facts, "incentive to commit aggressions against persons", is kept.

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