Posted on 07/13/2006 12:50:24 AM PDT by HAL9000
PARIS - French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen has been ordered to stand trial for comments denying the brutality of the Nazi occupation of France during World War II, judicial officials said on Wednesday.Le Pen is under investigation for "justifying war crimes" and "complicity in contesting crimes against humanity." He could appeal the two separate rulings ordering him to stand trial, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
In January 2005, the National Front leader gave an interview to the small, extreme-right newspaper, Rivarol. He was quoted as saying: "In France at least, the German occupation was not particularly inhumane, even if there were a few blunders, which is inevitable in a country of 550,000 square kilometers."
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In France they charge dumasses with a crime for idiocy, here we just call them democrats.
Heck, that's not even a crime here... We let newspapers publish national secrets with impunity. We let anybody revise and rewrite history any way they want to, and publish it if they want to and can find someone to publish it for them. We have children's books pretending to be non-fiction that paint Cuba as some kind of cross between paradise and the Emerald City, sans midgets.
I'm all for ridiculing anybody who tries to deny Nazi brutality, but charging them with crimes in a court? That's one way of legitimizing and promoting those ideas.
More European thought control in action...
If he'd defended Stalin's or Mao's atrocities, the french would have left him alone. In france, it's alright to make outrageous statements as long as they're the approved ones. All else is a thought crime.
It's also one way to have the entire sorry episode of french collaborationism and the Vichy sell-out dragged out into the open again. This is exactly what anti-Semitic france doesn't want the world to be reminded of -- the fact that they helped the nazis exterminate the Jews. Many of those collaborators are still alive and Le Pen will be certain to introduce this in a trial.
I'm not sure I want the French reminded of how anti-semitic they still are. The French are hardly rational as a culture. They'll probably do something stupid.
What ever happened to Freedom of Speech?
The French are one of the most anti-Semitic peoples in the Western world. They allow all sorts of racist and anti-semitic ACTS to go unpunished.
In France they charge dumasses with a crime for idiocy, here we just call them democrats.Should be quote of the day.
The question is, when they do will anyone notice?
Unfortunately, when the French do something stupid - a lot of people get killed as a result. We'll notice.
The real question is, will anybody blame the French?
In the case of the fascist (in the formal economic sense) LePen, this is quite impossible.
ALMOST assuredly, though, even the stupid-ass PC Froggies can find a way to convict this Franco wannabee on some sort of charge.
Net-net, though, why fret about this story for any reason? France has already head-butted itself into global irrelevance.
Do you blame a mentally disabled child when he knocks over a lamp or spills the dog water?
How can you blame the French for the death of a few thousand?
After all they are the ones who pushed for the European Union. How can you expect anything from the French?
lol...
Well, if only the French were mentally disabled things would be easier. Unfortunately they're not. They're selfish, megalomaniacs with delusions of grandeur.
Their policies are responsible for a lot of the grief we're having over widespread poverty and hunger. They are the last Western colonial power. And they still subscribe to mercantilism.
Sounds like a willful two year old.
This trial is harassment to keep Le Pen out of the election process. Le Pen is a mixed bag. He's far from the worst fascist. I give him great credit for fighting the Jihadists in the Algerian war
Le Pen is old now. I don't think he's up to that much these days
.......and vote them into office.
No freedom to be stooopid in the pFrench constituton.
What LePen should have said was that the Nazis were greatly aided in their occupation of France by many Frenchmen.
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