French Senate Approves 3 Strikes Law
from the screw-the-eu dept
Despite the fact that the EU Parliament rejected the concept of a "three strikes" law for kicking people off the internet, and warned member countries that such laws interfered with civil rights and privacy rights of individuals, France is moving forward with such a law. The EU Parliament specifically had called on France to reconsider such a law, but the French Senate has approved the law by an overwhelming majority, 297 to 15. The law still needs approval from the lower house of Parliament as well, but it's disappointing that any government body would approve such a law after it's been shown to be both unnecessary and destructive.
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This IS socialism!
Vote McCain 2008 – He freakin hates the French!
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@NeoConIdiot: Is this some kind of reverse psychology to get people to vote for Obama? I have no idea how any remotely intelligent person (at least intelligent enough to look at this kind of site) could take any of these ravings in any way seriously. I know if I had a vote, I'd be tempted to vote Democrat just to spite these people.
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It scares me that you buy into it, because there are conservatives like me that have plenty of reasons to be against stuff like this, but not for the reasons some Internet troll would like to paint on us.
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Thankfully were not all cowards like you. Some of us have the guts to call out Hussien Obama on his ties to radical muslim terrorists who plan to destroy our beloved Isreal. Some of us have the guts to point out that "redistribution of wealth" is "anti-american" and socialist. Lucky for cowardly conservatives like you, some of us are willing to echo publicly what your only brave enough to say in private.
VOTE McCain 2008 - The politics of failure have failed, together we can make them work again.
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Listen guy, I hate to be the bearer of bad news but that quote alone just brought all of our IQs down a notch. The politics of failure have failed, together we can make them work again." So, we're going to make failure work? But they failed, ie failures. Failures by definition don't work....hence the word.
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." I like to substitute the word stupidity for insanity in this quote.
Sorry people, I HAD to respond to the troll.
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Thankfully, we're not all paranoid and racist like you. Some of us have the clear vision to see that Barack Obama's middle name and ties to a respected educator (who made a few unfortunate decisions in college) have no bearing on either the kind of man he is nor the decisions he is likely to make. Some of us realise that changes in the taxation system are necessary, and that the plans laid out (which differ very little from McCain's in any fundamental way) is the best way forward to dig the country out from the hole it's been dug into by the previous administrations. We are free to say this despite the efforts of the current Republican administration to silence critics and paint anyone who disagrees as "terrorists" or "socialist" even though little could be more socialist than the $700bn bailout plan your grandchildren will still be paying for; trends which McCain and Palin would continue, with Palin especially having stated she wants the press to have less freedom if they don't agree with her.
VOTE Obama 2008. The politics of failure have failed, Bush has destroyed many of the great things about America and McCain is unlikely to stop the slide into the abyss.
About right?
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And to the newbs out there, he doesn't support the position he claims to support, he's just going uber extreme to see if we fall for it.
Yes I have fallen for it before, but I figured it out shortly after hitting the reply button and was very embaressed. Don't make my mistake
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Furthermore, the amendment denouncing the law as being against civil rights was written by a member of the french socialist party : Guy Bono.
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Viva!
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To make things clear
Now please stop with your troll about socialism, French fries and please fight so it will not happen again.
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we ARE talking about the French after all.....
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You failed again :)
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