Comments on: The French Concept of Dignity Is Elusive http://www.popehat.com/2008/12/01/the-french-concept-of-dignity-is-elusive/ A Group Complaint about Law, Liberty, and Leisure Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:39:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David http://www.popehat.com/2008/12/01/the-french-concept-of-dignity-is-elusive/comment-page-1/#comment-16312 David Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:05:24 +0000 http://www.popehat.com/?p=2149#comment-16312 Recognizing that it's wrong to single out this one fellow for a libel-related stripsearch, the French government, in a spirit of equality and fraternity, has mandated that all without exception who stand accused of libel must bend to the will of the state. From time to time, the French over-reach (so to speak). Renaud <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RQHsn2ilfA" rel="nofollow">captured the sentiment well</a>: <blockquote>La France est un pays de flics, À tous les coins d'rue y'en a 100, Pour faire règner l'ordre public Ils assassinent impunément.</blockquote> Recognizing that it's wrong to single out this one fellow for a libel-related stripsearch, the French government, in a spirit of equality and fraternity, has mandated that all without exception who stand accused of libel must bend to the will of the state.

From time to time, the French over-reach (so to speak). Renaud captured the sentiment well:

La France est un pays de flics,
À tous les coins d'rue y'en a 100,
Pour faire règner l'ordre public
Ils assassinent impunément.

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