France Moves to Make ‘Conspiracy Theories’ Illegal by Government Decree

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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" [1].
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. [2] 

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 "

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"France Moves to Make `Conspiracy Theories' Illegal by Government Decree"

It means that in the era of the Internet, where conspiracy theories can
routinely be proven with hard facts, the French Government suddenly has
realized that certain founding paperwork contains a couple of open
loopholes which weaken its authority. If Joe Six-pack enters the
conspiracy thesis into the search engines, he can read and view the
related evidence, which is most times published in rare and obscured
books which recently became available to the public thanks to a
digitizing service from public libraries.

Any lawmaker who outlaws the reading of such evidence or even the
mentioning of its Title - The Conspiracy Thesis - is doomed to a very
short life.

Robert
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Robert M. Stockmann - RHCE
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