Reporters Without Borders today voiced concern and dismay at open death threats made against blogger Fabrice Arfi, who works for the French blog Mediapart, and said it was the latest sign of an extremely worrying trend among elements tied to the French government. It demanded that such abuses be punished.
Omerta on blogosphere cannot work. Francokleptocrats cannot impose a code of silence. Omerta is a heroic attitude of honor and silence against the omnipotent government. It is common in Sicily, Crete, and certain Italian neighborhoods. Omerta implies the categorical prohibition of cooperation with state authorities, even when one has been victim of a crime. It's based on the premise that government is the #1 enemy of the people and cannot be trusted at all.
The threats were revealed yesterday, as a legal enquiry confirmed that state security officials had spied on journalists of the daily Le Monde in connection with the Bettencourt bribery scandal the paper is investigating.
Claire Thibout, a 52-year-old accountant who helped manage Mrs Bettencourt's fortune revealed that Liliane Bettencourt provided Sarko with manila envelopes stuffed with cash following dinner parties at her mansion house in the upmarket suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine, where Sarko was once mayor and still keeps a home. Everyone in the household knew that Sarko saw the Bettencourts for money. He was a regular visitor. Bribing generally took place in one of the small, ground-floor salons close to the dining room.
That's why Sarko tries to gag French bloggers. Sarko introduced new legislation which abolishes net neutrality. Netizens abhor kleptocracy, Kangaroo Justice, and marilizardism. Net neutrality means the internet has no gatekeeper. It encompasses all the issues related to the circulation of information on the internet, such as free speech, access to knowledge, copyright, or innovation. Everyone retains the freedom to access and produce the information he wants. Nevertheless, kleptocrats threaten net neutrality by seeking to implement filtering techniques in order to re-establish the kind of control they used to have on traditional and unidirectional media.
"Spying on journalists, suspicious burglaries and now death threats are unacceptable practices that look like they are coming to be seen by the authorities as legitimate ways to fight against investigative journalism," the worldwide press freedom organisation said. "This is the first time for many years, to our knowledge, that a journalist in France has complained of death threats."
Arfi filed a complaint with the Paris prosecutor's office on 31 August after death threats were made against him. He is involved in a sensitive investigation into armed attacks in Karachi and began getting vague text-messages on 2 July, just before the appearance of his first article (co-authored by Karl Laske) about arms dealer Ziad Takieddine. The messages came from the mobile phone of Pierre Sellier, founder and chief of the economic intelligence firm Salamandre, which is close to arms and counter-espionage circles and has several contracts with the French president's office.
Francokleptocrats emulate Graecokleptocrats. The impunity of the 300 Graecokleptocrats of the Grand Brothel on Syntagma Square is the most freakish thing on Earth. Even though Graecokleptocrats looted many billion euros in kickbacks and churning, not a single Graecokleptocrat has ever gone to jail! They are protected by the parliamentary immunity, and nobody can touch them, no matter what. Moreover, they have the nerve to jail dissident bloggers. It's a long way from the 300 Spartans of Leonidas! Allons enfants de la Grece! http://venitism.blogspot.com
When Laske rang Sellier on 5 July, Sellier said he would "do Arfi in, I'll smash him, I'll beat him to a pulp, I'll kill him, I'll put three bullets in his head."
Despite these apparently impulsive remarks, Mediapart notes that such behaviour by Sellier is common and that in 2009 he had hounded journalists when they published reports on ties between the Karachi attacks and secret funding of former French prime minister Edouard Balladur`s campaign for the French presidency in 1995.
Reporters Without Borders said it was especially worried about signs of growing and serious intolerance in government circles of investigative journalists, notably in the bribery scandal involving billionairess Liliane Bettencourt and former budget minister Eric Woerth.
Sarko's government emulates October-18 Mafia, the most disgusting predator of internet on Earth! Civil society was shocked by the brutality and stupidity of the October-18 2010 fiasco, initiated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the government of Greece. That's why October-18 Mafia is the new name of the government of Greece! http://venitism.blogspot.com
Governments of many repressed countries, such as Greece, use marilizardist tools to manipulate netizens. Marilizard Libel is accusing dissident bloggers of treason, Marilizard Spaghetti is hurling charges against innocent people, Marilizard Tower is a stack of imaginary charges to scare a blogger, and marilizardism is terrorizing dissident bloggers. October 18 is the international day against marilizardism, and October-18 Mafia is the marilizardist government of Greece.
Interior minister Claude Gueant confirmed on 1 September that the French domestic intelligence service (DCRI) had conducted "surveillance" of phone calls, which he said was quite different from "phone-tapping." Le Monde reported that the current investigation into "violating secrecy of journalistic sources" had unearthed two faxes sent by the DCRI to the mobile phone company Orange asking on 19 July for detailed billing records of journalist Gerard Davet and then two days later for those of David Senat, a justice ministry technical adviser suspected of being the paper's source.
Marilizardists use charge stacking, which is the ability to charge a large number of overlapping crimes for a single course of conduct, building a Marilizard Tower of charges. This is the most disgusting tool used by the freakish October-18 mafia to jail innocent dissident bloggers. Combining crimes enables prosecutors to get convictions in cases where there may be no misconduct at all. By stacking enough charges, freakish marilizardists try to jack up the threat value of a trial and thereby induce a guilty plea, even if the government's case is weak.
Reporters Without Borders said this "confirms our worries that just a few months after the new law to protect secrecy of journalistic sources was adopted it was being deliberately trampled on by the French intelligence services, not for national security reasons but to protect top government officials from embarrassing revelations. Contrary to what their lawyers have said, the authorities have spied on a journalist's phone records to discover his sources in a blatant violation of their confidentiality. "We are glad legal officials are finally making progress in this investigation," it said, "but this makes it all the more urgent to amend the law on secrecy of sources adopted in January 2010 to clearly define exceptions to it and spell out penalties for violations. What is the point of a law that is broken with impunity when a government minister is involved?
"The ability to discuss sensitive issues involving the government and its allies is vital to investigative journalism and the Woerth-Bettencourt scandal and the handling of Arfi's legal complaint are tests of it. We have arrived at a serious juncture and the law must punish these intimidatory practices unworthy of a democracy before they become routine," Reporters Without Borders said.
Global Tax Revolt points out the marilizardist persecution of dissident bloggers is unquestionably a serious attack on freedom of speech, and contrary to Article 2 of Lisbon Treaty, Article 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights, and Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The disgusting October-18 Mafia cannot bully the blogosphere without repercussions and blowbacks. The international civil society got a shock and awe from the brutality of the freakish October-18 Mafia on October 18, 2010. http://venitism.blogspot.com
[clearcutforum] IMPOSING FRENCH OMERTA ON BLOGGERS
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