He said, she said? If she said he said the wrong thing, what he said won’t mean anything.
By Selwyn Duke
We’ve all heard of hate-speech laws. Well, now France will become the first country to enact rudeness-speech laws, making it a crime to commit “psychological violence” within a relationship. In other words, if Pierre and Angelique get into a shouting match and Petey happens to drop a comment about Angie’s weight, the gendarmes could come a knockin’. The Daily Mail reports, writing, “The new law, which would also apply to co-habiting couples, would see people getting criminal records for insulting their loved ones during domestic arguments.”
I’m not sure how thoroughly this will be enforced, but couldn’t such a law place about 95 percent of all couples behind bars?
Read the rest here.
What a ridiculous law. Without some sort of video or recording how could someone PROVE that someone said something?
Just more of the arrogance from the ever growing entity that is government. Pass a law, that will fix EVERYTHING!
Posted by: Dan | January 07, 2010 at 03:42 PM
In lieu of a fundamental moral index (The Bible being one) a culture must make and remake countless laws as man tries to get another man to conform to his model of moral ambiguity. Mature, this is tyranny.
Posted by: Walt | January 07, 2010 at 05:34 PM
Really? Is it 1984 already? Goodthink, goodspeak... no exceptions!
Posted by: W. Tieff | January 08, 2010 at 07:35 PM
It IS far past 1984 and we need to accept this reality.
I wish that W. Tieff (and i "get" the clever disguise of your posting name) would post more often.
Here is the crux of Selwyn's outstanding article:
The white/caucasian heterosexual Christian male is public enemy #1. This is the same WHSCM that built the Trevi Fountain, the Champs Ulysses, the Vatican, Mt. Rushmore, The Empire State Building. The same WHSCM that cured polio, that stormed the beaches of Normandy and spared the West of the fascist horde.
This is Newton and Keppler and Galileo that brought modern science from zero to light years. This is Drs. James Watson and Francis Crick.
The assault on logic is astounding and disturbing. The factions of the amoral and asocial political Left are poking and prodding this gentle giant.
Be careful what you wish for.
Posted by: Philip France | January 08, 2010 at 11:37 PM