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Meanwhile, Bardot kept talking. Each conviction made her more defiant. She never recanted. Never apologized. Just kept saying what she thought while the French state kept fining her.
The prosecutions revealed a stark truth: France doesn't have free speech. It has permitted speech. Step outside permitted parameters on immigration or Islam, expect criminal charges.
It didn't matter if you were nobody or Brigitte Bardot. Actually, prosecuting Bardot made the point stronger. If even she isn't protected, nobody is.
She lived 91 years, won international acclaim, and became a cultural phenomenon. Then she spent her final decades being prosecuted by her own government for opinions.
That's her obituary: movie star, icon, criminal - for speech. France cannot claim to value free expression while criminalizing its most famous citizens for exercising it.
Bardot died knowing France chose prosecuting her over defending her right to speak. That is the legacy France earned.
Source: French court records, @visegrad24
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2005267490234904762
Mark Parisi @OffTheMarkComic - A Star is Born
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Mark Penn @Mark_Penn - Journalists
So the Wall Street Journal has a story that in Iran some women are now not wearing the hajib — wow that’s a development and the headline fawns over Iran with “Iran eases social rules.” But then the article says they have not actually eased the rules, people are just doing it and enforcement has lapsed.
To be fair the headline adds “but crushes dissent.” And what exactly is that “crushing” of dissent — turning off the internet? No it’s wholesale executions.
Only in the middle of the story is the doubling of the public hanging of dissidents to nearly 1900 executions or basically 5 or 6 every day with nearly 500 last month or 15 a day. So the real story that’s soft pedaled is that they are executing dissidents and protestors every day, not the photo of a girl smiling without a hijab.
A fair headline might have been “While hijabs come off, the gallows swing in Iran” or “Repressive regime in Iran hangs 15 dissidents every day”
Check this paragraph out buried in the story and call the rewrite desk:
The number of executions carried out in Iran has surged to levels not seen in decades. Over 1,870 people have been executed in Iran so far this year, around twice as many as last year, according to data collected by the Washington-based Abdorrahman Boroumand Center, an advocacy group that documents human rights violations in Iran. More than 490 people have been executed since the start of November alone, surpassing the total for all of 2021.
This is obviously the real story of the world’s worst regime and the hijab picture should not be allowed to mask the real truth of what’s happening there.
https://x.com/Mark_Penn/status/2005031932707340295
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