She's likewise complex for them as well as the unproblematic particles as well as their allies practise everything they tin flaming to larn rid of their contender who is as well as hence different.
Two days ago, a commission of the European Parliament voted 18-to-3 to strip her of her immunity inwards the instance of some tweets. Today, the whole Parliament has confirmed that determination past times an "overwhelming majority" – nosotros were non told what the numbers really were. Thankfully, my MEP voted against the proposal. He wrote that "he doesn't similar when the political competition is waged through the criminalization of the competitors". Exactly.
Why would someone investigate her at all? In Dec 2015, a genuinely nasty would-be journalist has claimed that Le Pen's National Front is "basically the same" every bit Daesh. This was plainly a disgusting libel as well as Le Pen had all the moral rights to defend herself e.g. past times shooting the jerk dead. But she reacted much to a greater extent than calmly that.
She showed a departure betwixt the National Front as well as Daesh past times posting some 3 pictures of the most famous recent acts past times Daesh – specially the beheading of a United States of America of America citizen, James Foley, that you lot may recall – embedded inside a tweet exactly proverb "this is ISIL". With this painting exhibit inwards front end of one's eyes, a individual who is at to the lowest degree slightly decent should acknowledge that the National Front indeed is null similar Daesh, as well as apologize to Ms Le Pen.
It was a normal as well as course of written report of obvious declaration that many others would receive got used inwards the same situation. Le Pen's political party isn't really beheading whatever people. It is non doing anything of that variety – non fifty-fifty much milder things – as well as it isn't fifty-fifty planning to practise anything that would last at to the lowest degree a "homeopathic dilution" of Daesh's notorious acts.
Incidentally, some people tell that she has shown disrespect to the belatedly James Foley past times having posted the pictures or videos. I think it's absolute verbal rubbish designed to terms Le Pen's image. Her human activeness of posting clearly meant that she was disturbed at the human bird as well as felt all the sympathies towards Mr Foley. By refusing to run into someone's fate, you lot are non showing your increased honor to that person: you lot are exactly protecting your ain stomach.
In the European civilization, i expects to receive got the liberty of appear – as well as this of import message past times Ms Le Pen had rattling skillful reasons to last communicated, indeed. Ms Le Pen must receive got relied on her freedoms combined alongside her lawmaker's immunity. The immunity really exists to guarantee that the lawmakers – representatives of their citizenry – won't last afraid of expressing their opinions when someone could hypothetically blackmail them alongside a prosecution – because the communication of their opinions as well as their transformation into the laws is what their chore is all about. (The members of the European Parliament can't practise the latter – they're non actual lawmakers, exclusively apparatchiks inwards the European Union Commission receive got the privilege to suggest laws; but i used to promise that they may at to the lowest degree communicate their opinions.)
For some foreign reasons, the province of Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité has a police trace that discourages the citizens from displaying whatever fierce images nether some circumstances – which are non clear to me. I am non certainly whether people may sell shooting estimator games inwards France. Violators of this ban may pay upwards to €75,000 as well as pass upwards to 3 years inwards prison.
I don't know whether Le Pen knew close this police trace as well as was thinking close this law. Even if she was, she may receive got assumed that she was shielded from whatever potential prosecution past times her immunity. One must tell that the French police trace preventing you lot from displaying whatever violence is bizarre according to most Europeans inwards the European Union fellow member states. With such bizarre laws, you lot may start to empathize why some French visit Muslims to last their brothers. Islam doesn't let you lot to depict pictures of Prophet Mohammed, French Republic apparently doesn't let you lot to depict pictures of violence, either past times Prophet Mohammed or his overt contemporary followers.
Whenever the traditions of a European Union fellow member province would differ from the "majority of the EU" inwards a similar way, the European Parliament would last rattling probable to suppress the "national specifics" of that field as well as impose the European habits, straight or indirectly. Look e.g. how Republic of Hungary as well as Poland – as well as their governments' function alongside the constitution etc. – is beingness demonized inwards the European Union's institutions. In some cases, the European province alongside dissimilar laws or traditions would last harassed, criticized, or it would expire a target of sanctions. That's non what happened here. The European Parliament happily endorsed the foreign French law.
It is absolutely clear that the argue why it did as well as hence had null to practise alongside the hypothetical "severity of the crime" that Ms Le Pen could receive got committed. She exactly posted a painting exhibit that was available basically everywhere. Sometimes, parts of the pictures were covered but if you lot spent a few minutes on the Internet, you lot could receive got easily institute the uncensored pictures, too.
Ms Le Pen was harassed – as well as is beingness harassed inwards other contexts – non because she has done something plainly bad that these investigations are trying to discovery but because she is a politico as well as her politics is inconvenient for a certainly bird of people who would dearest to hold the permanent monopoly on ability fifty-fifty though some roughly 50% of the Europeans are strongly against them. This is unacceptable as well as it shows that the European Parliament isn't really a democratic forum that would guarantee that large groups of the Europeans are beingness heard when policies are beingness invented at the European Union level.
Instead, the European Parliament has expire i of the machines whose role is to eradicate liberty as well as commonwealth on the European continent, along alongside other Western values, traditions, as well as lifestyle. The MEPs who receive got voted to throw Ms Le Pen to the investigators receive got voted to ship dogs at an impeccable adult woman whom they discovery politically inconvenient. Be certainly that earlier 1989, Czechs became rattling familiar alongside such a selective handling of the citizens inwards the previous 50 years. On the other hand, they receive got basically confirmed that they desire to suppress whatever criticism of the Islamic radicals (including killers inwards Daesh) because this is what Ms Le Pen's tweets were really about.
The most visible conflict is i betwixt the peaceful Westerners on i side as well as the Islamic radicals. Most of these MEPs receive got bragged to last at to the lowest degree soft allies of the Islamic radicals (or at to the lowest degree stronger allies of the nasty would-be journalist who was comparing the National Front to Daesh) – as well as opponents of the critics of the Islamic radicals. It's an unholy alliance nosotros mustn't forget about.
I practise promise – as well as believe – that Le Pen volition win whatever trial inwards a courtroom if this story gets there. After all, this is non the origin fourth dimension when the European Parliament tried to strip her of the immunity. In 2013, they did it i time again because of some comparing of the Muslims to the High German forces inwards French Republic around 1940. Two years later, however, she was freed according to the Free Speech Act.