France Moves to Make ‘Conspiracy Theories’ Illegal by Government Decree
MARCH 19, 2015 BY
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Political elites and super-bureaucrats are
worried. It’s becoming harder to control consensus reality.
A history stitched together by lies and
cover-ups, political assassinations,
slight-of-hand false flag deceptions, secret
societies, dual loyalties and stolen fortunes –
these have been the privilege of ruling elites for centuries.
Putting aside history’s ‘big ticket’ items
though, the real reason for this authoritarian
trend is much more fundamental. By knocking out
their intellectual competition, political elites
and their media moguls hope to minimalize, and
thus eliminate any alternative analysis and
opinion by applying the completely open-ended and
arbitrary label of “extremist” to speech. They
want to wind back the clock, where a
pre-internet, monolithic corporate media cartel held a monopoly on ideas.
Although France has taken the lead in this
inter-governmental effort (see below), the
preliminary assault began this past fall with
British Prime Minster David Cameron publicly
announcing on two separate occasions, that all of
these so-called ‘conspiracy theories’ (anything
which challenges the official orthodoxy) should
be deemed as “extremist” and equivalent to
“terrorist” and should be purged from society on
the grounds of ‘national security’. The first
came
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warped speech at the UN, and afterwards, a
similar charge was made by the UK leader
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anyone who dares press the issue of institutional paedophilia and child abuse.
Watch this UN speech by Cameron where he clearly
claims that ‘conspiracy theorists’ are the ‘root
cause’ and indeed, an equal threat to national
security as ISIS terrorists currently running
amok in Syria and Iraq (start 4:26)…
As yet, few are aware of how in the wake of the
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Hebdo shootings, French Prime Minster,Francois
Hollande delivered an official declaration (see
full report and text from his speech below).
However, Hollande takes it beyond the usual
hyperbole and focuses on giving the state an
administrative and legal foothold for policing
both speech and thought crimes in France. If this
is can be accomplished in France, then a European roll-out would soon follow.
Ironically, in order to achieve this fascist leap
forward, Hollande has equated “conspiracy
theories” to Nazism, and is calling for
government regulations to prevent any sharing or
publishing of any views deemed as ‘dangerous
thought’ by the state. Specifically, Hollande is
citing “Anti-Semitism” and also anything which
could inspire ‘acts terrorism’ – as the chief
vehicles for what the state will be designating
as ‘dangerous thoughts’. With the thumb of Hebdo
still pressing down, this may just sound like
politics writ large by the French leader, but in
reality it’s full-blown fascism.
Worse yet, with all of the
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leaders gathered togther in Paris in January
supposedly marching solidarity for ‘free speech’
and proudly chanting “Je Suis Charlie” (image
above), that Hollande would use this as political
cover to restrict free speech in Europe should shock even.
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reports how the new censorship regime has already been implemented this week:
“Earlier this week, the Interior Minister of
France with no court review or adversarial
process
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five websites to not only be blocked in France,
but that anyone who visits any of the sites get
redirected to a scary looking government website, saying:
While it could be argued that the four websites
initially listed by the government for ‘blocking’
were exclusively for ISIS/ISIL-related activity
and thus, should be kept hidden, the
governmenthas made no caveat in its reams of
policy literature, other than some vague language
as to what it defines as ‘extremist’, as to where
this growing list will stop, or indeed, if it has
any limits at all. Because this process is
extrajudicial, then there will be no warning to
gov’t targets of this new regime. In fact, as
RINF reports, this has already happened:
“In that first batch was a site called
“islamic-news.info.” The owner of that site not
only notes that he was never first contacted to
“remove” whatever material was deemed terrorist
supporting (as required by the law), but that
nothing in what he had posted was supporting terrorism.”
Will French gov’t censors also block this website
– because it is challenging the government’s new
public filtering program? Are we entering a new
intolerant, Chinese-style policing culture in
Europe, and throughout the west? Certainly they
have the ability and the legal clearance to do just that right now.
Fear of losing control over manipulative
narratives has always been a primary obsession
with those in power, and clearly, based on what
we’ve seen here – governments are making an
aggressive move on free speech now. Skeptics will
no doubt argue that this 21WIRE article itself
constitutes a conspiracy theory. If that was the
case, then why have western governments,
particularly those in the US and Britain, already
spent millions, if not billions in state funds in
order to
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disrupt, and occupy forum websites, and social
networking groups of so-called ‘conspiracy
theorist and even creating entirely new groups
just to contradict them? Does that not already
prove what the government modus operandi is?
As if that wasn’t enough already, now France
wants to take it to a whole new authoritarian
level. It may sound ridiculous, but this is
exactly what is taking place in government as we speak.
History shows that once this new regime is in
place, they will not relinquish any new powers of
censorship, and so a long, intellectual dark age is certain to follow…
Thierry Meyssan
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Network
At the request of President François Hollande,
the French Socialist Party has published a note
on the international “conspiracy theorist“
movement. His goal: to prepare new legislation
prohibiting it to express itself.
In the US, the September 11, 2001 coup
established a “permanent state of
emergency“(Patriot Act), launching a series of
imperial wars. Gradually, the European elites
have aligned with their counterparts across the
Atlantic. Everywhere, people are worried about
being abandoned by their States and they question
their institutions. Seeking to retain power, the
elites are now ready to use force to gag their opposition.
The President of the French Republic, François
Hollande, has assimilated what he calls
“conspiracy theories” to Nazism and called to
prevent their dissemination on the Internet and social networks.
Thus he declared, on January 27, 2015 at the Shoah Memorial:
“[Anti-Semitism] maintains conspiracy theories
that spread without limits. Conspiracy theories
that have, in the past, led to the worst “(…)”
[The] answer is to realize that conspiracy
theories are disseminated through the Internet
and social networks. Moreover, we must remember
that it is words that have in the past prepared
extermination. We need to act at the European
level, and even internationally, so that a legal
framework can be defined, and so that Internet
platforms that manage social networks are held to
account and that sanctions be imposed for failure
to enforce”
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Several ministers also decried what they called
conspiracy theorists as so many “fermenters of
hate and disintegrators of society.”
Knowing that President Hollande calls “conspiracy
theory” the idea that States, whatever their
regimes – including democracies – have a
spontaneous tendency to act in their own
interests and not in that of their constituents,
we can conclude that he presented this confused
amalgam to justify a possible censure of his opponents.
This interpretation is confirmed by the
publication of a note entitled “Conspiracy
theories, current status” by the Jean-Jaurès
Foundation, a Socialist Party think tank of which
Mr. Holland was the first secretary.
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Let’s leave aside the political relations of
François Hollande, the Socialist Party, the
Fondation Jean-Jaurès, its political radicalism
Observatory and the author of the note and let’s
focus on its message and its ideological content.
Definition of “conspiracy theories“
The terms “conspiracy theories” and “conspiracy
theorism” have developed in France in the wake of
the publication of my book on US imperialism
post-September 11, titled The Big Lie
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At the time, we had trouble understanding what
the terms meant because they referred to American
political history. In the United States, are
commonly called “conspiracy theorists” those
according to whom President Kennedy had not been
assassinated by one man but by many, forming a
conspiracy (in the judicial sense). Over time,
these expressions entered in the French language
and have overlapped with memories of the 30s and
the Second World War, those of the denunciation
of the “Jewish conspiracy“. These are therefore
now polysemous, sometimes evoking the law of the
state-Stator silence and, at other times, European anti-Semitism.
In its note, the Jean-Jaurès Foundation gives its
own definition of conspiracy theorism. It is…
“an ’alternative’ narrative that claims to
significantly upset the knowledge we have of an
event and therefore competes with the “version”
which is commonly accepted, stigmatized as “official”” (p. 2).
Observe that this definition does not apply
solely to the delusions of the mentally ill.
Thus, Socrates, through the myth of the cave,
affirmed his challenge to the certainties of his
time; Galileo with his heliocentric theory
challenged the prevailing interpretation of the Bible of his time; etc.
For my part, and since they see me as the “pope
of conspiracy theorists” or rather the “heretic”
in the words of Italian philosopher Roberto
Quaglia, I reaffirm my radical political
commitment, in keeping with the French republican
radicalism of Leon Bourgeois
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of Georges Clemenceau,
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of Alain
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and of Jean Moulin.
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For me, as for them, the state is a
Leviathanwhich by nature abuses those it governs.
As a radical Republican, I am aware that the
state is the enemy of the common good, of the Res
Publica; which is why I wish not to abrogate it,
but to tame it. The republican ideal is
compatible with various political
regimes-including monarchies, as was enacted by
the authors of theDeclaration of 1789.
This opposition, which the current Socialist
Party disputes, has so shaped our history as
Philippe Pétain repealed the Republic to proclaim
the “French State“. Immediately after his
assuming presidential office, I denounced
Hollande’s Petainism
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Today, Mr. Hollande claims to be of the Republic
to better fight it and this inversion of values
plunges the country into confusion.
Who are the “conspiracy theorists“?
The “conspiracy theorists” are thus citizens who
oppose the omnipotence of the State and who wish
to place it under surveillance.
The Jean-Jaurès Foundation describes them as follows:
“[It’s] a heterogeneous movement, heavily
entangled with the Holocaust denial movement, and
which combines admirers of Hugo Chavez and fans
of Vladimir Putin. An underworld that consist of
former left-wing activists or extreme leftists,
former “malcontents”, sovereignists,
revolutionary nationalists, ultra-nationalists,
nostalgists of the Third Reich, anti-vaccination
activists, supporters of drawing straws,
September 11th revisionists, anti-Zionists,
Afrocentricists, survivalists, followers of
“alternative medicine”, agents of influence of
the Iranian regime, Bacharists, Catholic or Islamic fundamentalists “(p. 8).
One will note the amalgams and abuse of this
description aiming to discredit those it designates.
Myths of the “conspiracy theorists“
The Jean-Jaurès Foundation continues its
vilification by accusing “conspiracy theorists”
of ignoring the realities of the world and
naively believing hackneyed myths. Thus, they
would believe in the “World Zionist plot“, the
“illuminati conspiracy” and the “Rothschild myth”
(p. 4). And to credit these three statements, it
cites an example solely on the “Rothschild myth“:
blogger Etienne Chouard – whose work is not
simply about the Republic, but goes beyond to
treat Democracy
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– says the Pompidou-Rothschild 1973 law is the
source of the debt of France. And the Foundation
goes on to refute this assertion by quoting an article published byLibération…
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this story at Voltaire Network
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