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| Subject: Brazen Rights Violation: Blogger “Mish” is Fined 8,000 Euros by France for Freedom of Speech Fri Nov 22, 2013 5:05 am | |
| Well if this isn’t one of the more ridiculous things I have read in a while, I don’t know what is. Many of my readers are probably familiar with Mike “Mish” Shedlock, who writes a very popular economics/finance blog. He has a habit of doing what I like best, challenging propaganda, engaging in critical thought and a fearlessness when it comes to saying what he believes. It appears that such behavior is frowned upon by French banksters and their minions in government.
Incredibly, Mish was fined 8,000 euros for quoting a French blogger’s analysis of Societe Generale’s leverage ratio. He was also summoned to appear in front of a tribunal in France.
Expect more of this sort of thing as the status quo loses more and more credibility and struggles to censor alternative narratives of what is actually happening. We have even seen similar calls here in the U.S., such as when Eric Posner, a Professor at the University of Chicago Law School, bashed the First Amendment in a Slate article. For more on the Mish story, here are some excerpts from his blog:
Here: http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2013/11/21/blogger-mish-is-fined-8000-euros-by-france-for-freedom-of-speech/ |
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