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Article posted Dec 02 2008, 6:23 AM

Category: Tyranny/Police State

Source: The Telegraph

How free is the French press?

By Henry Samuel

While Britain arrests shadow politicians, France, it would appear, prefers to lock up its journalists.

Already languishing in 35th position on the world press freedom rankings - just below Mali (according to Reporters Sans Frontières) - France could well slide past South Africa and Bosnia-Herzegovina in the New Year given recent events. (Britain is joint 23rd).

Last Friday Vittorio de Filippis, former publisher of the left-wing Libération newspaper, was - according to press reports - seized at his home before dawn, handcuffed in front of two young boys and whisked off for interrogation by an investigating magistrate. Police told him he was "worse than scum" and kept him for five hours in a cell with no access to a lawyer. Oh, and he was strip-searched twice and subjected to "body cavity" examinations.

Damian Green, the UK's Conservative immigration spokesman who was held for nine hours last Thursday should count himself lucky: his cavities were off limits.

Mr de Filippis had the misfortune to be cited in a complaint lodged two years ago by the disgruntled head of an Internet service provider for libel. Xavier Niel, head of Free Internet, was unhappy about a commentary posted on Liberation's website in response to an article on his legal problems.

As directeur de la rédaction at the time, de Filippis was in theory legally responsible for the paper's entire contents, even if he did not write the contentious text – it was a comment by an online reader.

The French press - Libération in particular - is apoplectic about the "interpellation musclé" (literally the muscle-bound arrest) of one of its own.

"Democracy means that if the doorbell rings at 6am, it is likely to be the milkman," wrote Libération's editor Laurent Joffrin, paraphrasing Sir Winston Churchill. The police rang at 6.40am, but you get the point.

Condemnation has been swift from most quarters but the government response has been strangely muffled.

Over the weekend the culture minister, Christine Albanel, issued a weak statement that "full light" should be shed on the arrest. But today, interior minister Michèle Alliot-Marie, said the police had done nothing wrong – they were simply obeying orders. "The police officers followed procedures" and were acting on the orders of the investigating judge handling the case," she said.

The case has highlighted some disturbing issues.

Firstly, journalists need better protection in France – European champions for the number of reporters arrested doing their job. There has been a rash of cases in recent months of journalists being arrested and quizzed over their sources. Last December, Guillaume Dasquié, an intelligence expert, was placed under official investigation for providing Le Monde with a classified document on a failed plane terrorist plot prior to September 11. He was grilled for 27 hours non-stop first. In July, a reporter working for car magazine Auto Plus was placed under investigation after spending 48 hours in jail for publishing previously unseen photos of a new Renault car. Last year, satirical weekly successfully barred police from searching its files for a source.

President Nicolas Sarkozy has promised to add a clause to the French constitution guaranteeing journalist's sources, as required by European law. However, even if passed, a draft bill on the subject stipulates that a judge can ignore this if searching a newspaper is "indispensable in revealing the truth."

Sarko's detractors point out that press freedom has already taken a massive hit since his election last year, as practically all major press organs are owned by the President's friends. The most recent example of self-censorship was when conservative Le Figaro airbrushed out a huge diamond ring from the finger of justice minister Rachida Dati – in keeping with the President's recent request to tone down bling. Today Dati said that the arrest was "completely normal" given the journalist had ignored three previous summons.

There is also concern about a new law which will give Sarko the Berlusconian power to hire or fire the head of the country's state broadcaster and offer various perks to his private channel boss friends. Le Monde yesterday called the bill "democratic regression."

The second disturbing issue is the habit of French investigating magistrates, whose inquisitorial powers were defined by Napoleon, to arrest people and remand them in custody for long periods often for flimsy reasons. The numbers of such arrests have exploded from 336,000 in 2001 to 560,000 in 2007.

In a mild rebuke, Serge Portelli, a senior judge from the left-leaning magistrate's union, said that at least de Fillippis' arrest had woken the press up to a problem that countless low-profile detainees face every day.

"We are faced with an uncontrolled...use of the means of coercion that are at the disposal of the state," he said.

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Dave

Posted: Dec 02 2008, 9:21 AM

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France has a seperate feed hub for news than much of the world. I was there and the national and local media is controlled with an iron fist as the Telegraph (a disinformation initiation point) of all companies would know.

friendstacy

Posted: Dec 02 2008, 9:50 AM

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so now it's official. government has control of the press (oh, way over there in france, yeah right). i suppose there is no need to try to hide that anymore.

Dave

Posted: Dec 02 2008, 3:14 PM

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Tavistock public brainwashing unit Wellington House officially described. (officially = requires translation and inside knowledge)

the French connection
<At an early date, however, it had assumed a more extensive scope, and had now been organised in departments dealing respectively with the United States and various foreign language speaking countries arranged in linguistic groups. The work carried on in Wellington House, although its existence was now well known to many persons in England and to the editors of all the principal London papers, had been fortunate enough to escape public notice, but letters from those who received its literature all over the world testified to the excellent effect which it had produced. It was possible indefinitely to extend the work of the distribution, but any large extension would result in the loss of secrecy which was deemed essential to success.>
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<On 20 February, 1917 the War Cabinet approved proposals in regard to the organisation of a Propaganda Department, outlined in a memoranda of 3 February, 1917 prepared by Mr. John Buchan (afterwards Lord Tweedsmuir); but decided that the new Department should be termed "Department of Information".>
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<In March, 1918, the Department of Information was reconstituted as the Ministry of Information, with Lord Beaverbrook as Minister. The Ministry was abolished at the end of that year, most of its functions being transferred to the Foreign Office (News Department).>
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<The records of Wellington House do not appear to have survived.>
http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Wellington_House

"All propaganda is a lie even when its telling the truth." - 'George Orwell' (Eric Arthur Blair).

He should know, his intelligence cover was as a journalist, as was Churchill, Hitler as are so many now. Journalists, like the red cross, don't have to explain their travels, free press meaning freedom to travel without asking questions. All press registrations in Britain are issued by the freemason's Scotland Yard, many of these spooks hidden in plain view as Eric Blair was at the BBC.

Dave

Posted: Dec 02 2008, 3:32 PM

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The footer of that official documentation of Tavistock's history has an occultist signature, the equivalent mark on historying being visible in the form of human sacrifice, sometimes on mass.

When I requested a translation I was told in the Golden Dawn coven language 11 is master of self, 22 is master of us (NWO). 22/11/1963 is also the date for the start of the plot to the film Odessa File, Odessa being behind the Windsors.

I save such pages before I post, history is continuously re-written (revision), sometimes because somebody notices.

<This memorandum was originally written 22nd October 1974.>
http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Wellington_House

On 22/11/1963 by official account JFK, Aldous Huxley, CS Lewis died and Tavistock/MI6's Beatles band released 'With The Beatles'.

Dave

Posted: Dec 02 2008, 4:16 PM

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<The world-wide Modern State shone bright upon the living imaginations of our race within a decade of the Great War, absurdly near, fantastically out of reach. For a century of passionate confusion and disorder, that modern state was not to be released from potentiality into actuality. - HG Wells>

Prophet of the odessa race HG Wells, global dictatorship through war. The French media flat out selling terrorism and the EU to the public, all wars real or faked include information wars, as American and Brits with memories would notice, the information war starting in advance.

"A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war. This — although the vast majority of Party members understand it only in a shallower sense — is the inner meaning of the Party slogan: War is Peace. - George Orwell"

Their war, their peace, the order stays the same. 1984 lays it bare, the means, the objectives and why. Everyone forced to read it at school so they don't like it and don't care. Dissociation through child abuse, the Windsorland favourite.

<The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy; they are deliberate exercises in doublethink. For it is only by reconciling contradictions that power can be retained indefinitely. In no other way could the ancient cycle be broken. If human equality is to be for ever averted — if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently — then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.>

Dave

Posted: Dec 02 2008, 6:13 PM

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Pulled back from the memory hole; Guardian newspaper 12/06/2000:

<Has Fleet Street been over-run by the intelligence agencies? David Leigh unravels the hidden network of spooks at the heart of the British press.>

<British journalists - and British journals - are being manipulated by the secret intelligence agencies, and I think we ought to try and put a stop to it.

The manipulation takes three forms. The first is the attempt to recruit journalists to spy on other people, or to go themselves under journalistic "cover". This occurs today and it has gone on for years. It is dangerous, not only for the journalist concerned, but for other journalists who get tarred with the espionage brush. Farzad Bazoft was a colleague of mine on the Observer when he was executed by Saddam Hussein for espionage. In a sense it didn't matter whether he was really a spy or not. Either way, he ended up dead.

The second form of manipulation that worries me is when intelligence officers are allowed to pose as journalists in order to write tendentious articles under false names. Evidence of this only rarely comes to light, but two examples have surfaced recently, mainly because of the whistleblowing activities of a couple of renegade officers - David Shayler from MI5 and Richard Tomlinson from MI6.

The third sort of manipulation is the most insidious - when intelligence agency propaganda stories are planted on willing journalists, who disguise their origin from their readers. There is - or has been until recently - a very active programme by the secret agencies to colour what appears in the British press, called, if publications by various defectors can be believed, information operations, or "I/Ops". I am - unusually - in a position to provide some information about its operations. >
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4028313,00.html

Dave

Posted: Dec 02 2008, 6:24 PM

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The real voice of the public is often found here on the net. Governments are terrified of it, so much so they try to terrify people about it. Big brother is watching screamed 1984.

"If you're are doing something even remotely mysterious, somewhere in the bowels of Washington there is a government acronym that wants to know about it." - Bruce Schneier

"Within Europe all email, telephone and fax communications are routinely intercepted by the United States National Security Agency ... via the crucial hub at Menwith Hill." - European Parliament report

With the Internet there has been quite a turnaround, the official media often the story as proved here and the public is watching brother which is in their interest.

Project Humanbeingsf

Posted: Dec 07 2008, 3:47 PM

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[comment is cross-posted from wariscrime.com/2008/12/04/news/press-freedom-in-france-shut-up-or-lock-up/#comment-278
where I read the article originally ]

Hi,

Every morning I come to this site to see what else I should be depressed about - and today it is this:

“Mr de Filippis had the misfortune to be cited in a complaint lodged two years ago by the disgruntled head of an Internet service provider for libel. Xavier Niel, head of Free Internet, was unhappy about a commentary posted on Liberation’s website in response to an article on his legal problems.”

For that misfortune, he endured this:

“Last Friday Vittorio de Filippis, former publisher of the [formerly] left-wing Libération newspaper, was — according to press reports — seized at his home before dawn, handcuffed in front of two young boys and whisked off for interrogation by an investigating magistrate. Police told him he was “worse than scum” and kept him for five hours in a cell with no access to a lawyer. Oh, and he was strip-searched twice and subjected to “body cavity” examinations.”

“worse than scum” sounds awefully close to:

“you are a completely stupid fool, a disgrace to humanity”

See: Rebuttal to Paul Craig Roberts’: ‘Washington Arrogance has Fomented a Muslim Revolution’

print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2008/12/letter-paul-craig-roberts-rebuttal.html

Why do the handful of [real] journalists persist in this profession? Indeed, it would be a lot easier [and safer] to be part of the ‘network’:

‘The real value of Tragedy and Hope … [is the] bold and boastful admission by Dr. Quigley that there actually exists a relatively small but powerful group which has succeeded in acquiring a choke-hold on the affairs of practically the entire human race. Of course we should be quick to recognize that no small group could wield such gigantic power unless millions of people in all walks of life were “in on the take” and were willing to knuckle down to the iron-clad regimentation of the ruthless bosses behind the scenes. As we shall see, the network has succeeded in building its power structure by using tremendous quantities of money (together with the vast influence it buys) to manipulate, intimidate, or corrupt millions of men and women and their institutions on a world-wide basis.’ (W. Cleon Skousen, The Naked Capitalist, pg. 6)

print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2008/10/monetary-reform-bibliography.html

Zahir Ebrahim
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org

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