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Offline rangerrebew

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France has just proved JD Vance was right
« on: February 23, 2025, 06:39:52 am »

France has just proved JD Vance was right
Story by Gavin Mortimer • 19h

Last week, in a speech at the Security Conference in Munich, American vice-president JD Vance warned Europe about the sanctity of free speech. Evidently the message was lost on the French.

On Wednesday, the Council of State, the Republic’s highest administrative court, confirmed the closure of two television stations. The pair, C8 and NRJ12, had been ordered off-air last year by Arcom, France’s equivalent of Ofcom, the regulator for the communications services in Britain.
 
It is the closure of C8, which has caused uproar among conservatives and the Right. The station is owned by Vincent Bolloré, the media tycoon whose conservatism and Catholicism has long made him a hate figure among the progressive Left; they talk about the “Bollorisation” of the media, conveniently overlooking that the state-run broadcaster (like the BBC) is staffed overwhelmingly by people who lean to the Left.

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The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address

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Re: France has just proved JD Vance was right
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2025, 10:47:38 am »
But...but... It's okay when they do it.
How God must weep at humans' folly! Stand fast! God knows what he is doing!
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

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