React! Freedom of Speech and Expression under threat in France - Could threaten the whole of Europe
Freedom of speech for French pro-life websites under attack - we must all respond!
Freedom of speech for French pro-life websites under attack - we must all respond!
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Censorship of pro-life websites has no place in a "free society"
For the Kind Attention of:
- The French Minister for Families, Childhood and Women's Rights - Mme Rossignol
Also Cc'ed on this correspondence:
- President of the French Senate - M Gérard Larcher
- Members of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly's Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy
The French National Assembly recently voted to pass your amendment to the Equality and Citizenship Bill, which makes it an offence for pro-life websites to display so-called "biased" information about abortion because such information might "hinder abortion".
Your proposal aims to silence all dissenting opinions on the Internet, and it is now going to the French Senate for their approval.
Thus, anyone who wants to disseminate information, for example, on aid for women who wish to keep their babies, or about the suffering that many women experience after an abortion, could be accused of deceiving women and threatened with a summons to court.
Not only that, but this new "offence" could potentially expose the defendant to a two-year prison sentence and a fine of 30,000 Euro.
This is an unprecedented attack on freedom of expression and information, the primary basis of any democratic society.
For this reason - even though I am not French - I feel compelled to write to you!
With international institutions being influenced by one another, should this Bill pass the French Senate, it might gain traction in other European countries...And, that is something which no freedom-loving European would ever want to see.
Around Europe in 2016, the citizens of different countries have freely expressed themselves, mostly against the establishment.
Now, you want to muzzle any word on abortion?? And, tomorrow, what will you seek to muzzle us on?
Who will shelter the citizens of Europe from pure arbitrariness?
Therefore, we must react collectively and firmly today, so that our politicians will clearly understand that it is not they who are the masters of the people, but the other way round.
By imposing on all citizens the adherence to a compulsory ideology, you seek to interfere in the inner sanctum of an individual's thoughts.
This legislative effort reflects a serious drift towards totalitarianism in three ways: 1) Control of consciences (your lies become the Truth); 2) Imposition by force (fines and prison sentences); and, 3) Attempt at genocide through state-sponsored eugenics (96% of children with Down Syndrome are aborted in France).
By signing this petiton, we, the undersigned, not only stand with our fellow, freedom-loving French men and women, but we also firmly reject the totalitarian ideas of censorship and eugenics.
We now call on the French Senate to emphatically reject this dangerous piece of legislation.
Before you leave...
Censorship of pro-life websites has no place in a "free society"
For the Kind Attention of:
- The French Minister for Families, Childhood and Women's Rights - Mme Rossignol
Also Cc'ed on this correspondence:
- President of the French Senate - M Gérard Larcher
- Members of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly's Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy
The French National Assembly recently voted to pass your amendment to the Equality and Citizenship Bill, which makes it an offence for pro-life websites to display so-called "biased" information about abortion because such information might "hinder abortion".
Your proposal aims to silence all dissenting opinions on the Internet, and it is now going to the French Senate for their approval.
Thus, anyone who wants to disseminate information, for example, on aid for women who wish to keep their babies, or about the suffering that many women experience after an abortion, could be accused of deceiving women and threatened with a summons to court.
Not only that, but this new "offence" could potentially expose the defendant to a two-year prison sentence and a fine of 30,000 Euro.
This is an unprecedented attack on freedom of expression and information, the primary basis of any democratic society.
For this reason - even though I am not French - I feel compelled to write to you!
With international institutions being influenced by one another, should this Bill pass the French Senate, it might gain traction in other European countries...And, that is something which no freedom-loving European would ever want to see.
Around Europe in 2016, the citizens of different countries have freely expressed themselves, mostly against the establishment.
Now, you want to muzzle any word on abortion?? And, tomorrow, what will you seek to muzzle us on?
Who will shelter the citizens of Europe from pure arbitrariness?
Therefore, we must react collectively and firmly today, so that our politicians will clearly understand that it is not they who are the masters of the people, but the other way round.
By imposing on all citizens the adherence to a compulsory ideology, you seek to interfere in the inner sanctum of an individual's thoughts.
This legislative effort reflects a serious drift towards totalitarianism in three ways: 1) Control of consciences (your lies become the Truth); 2) Imposition by force (fines and prison sentences); and, 3) Attempt at genocide through state-sponsored eugenics (96% of children with Down Syndrome are aborted in France).
By signing this petiton, we, the undersigned, not only stand with our fellow, freedom-loving French men and women, but we also firmly reject the totalitarian ideas of censorship and eugenics.
We now call on the French Senate to emphatically reject this dangerous piece of legislation.
