You Can't Do This in France

Funny, that creole thing, Walter!

But then, tell me cjsha, how a good food lover as yourself has so much hatred inside?

Brandon9000 wrote:

I am saying that free speech should be permitted except in those special cases.

I'm saying that too and, till now, nobody prevented me from expressing my opinions.

But my moderation and my law abiding orientation did prevent me from uttering racial hatred comments, unlike Mrs Bardot.

You know, you can say than you don't agree with the immigration policy of an European country.

You can even say that the Muslim culture is incompatible with the European values.

But you cannot say (publicly) that people should harm the Muslims because they are Muslims, in violent terms.

The US is a country where any kind of free speech, even the heinous ones, is granted by the constitution.

In France, we have other laws:

- You can not incite, by speech or otherwise, to racial hatred.

Courts, which are independent from the government, tend to sentence toughly when people go overboard.

This was the case in Bardot's trial as she is a recurrent offender.