As long as you insult them in French…

The French Senate has just repealed the crime of "insulting a foreign head of state." Maybe now the unanimous, fulsome praise for George Bush we've been hearing from the French so far will end…

Comments

[Josh]

I guess this means Jean Bart can stop accessing Hit and Run with that anonymous proxy now.

[Douglas Fletcher]

I think he's swimming in our territorial waters these days, he's not in France.

[Jean Bart]

Douglas Fletcher,

America needs engineers. Perhaps not as exciting as the film "Mars Needs Women." 🙂

[Jean Bart]

Douglas Fletcher,

Sweden also needs engineers; I may be living there in a year. Do they have a version of Reason in Swedish? 🙂

[Douglas Fletcher]

Who knows. Maybe they do in Norway, it might fit in better with their Viking marauder history, I suppose.

[Marie]

Just in time to mince the SOTU. Mais oui, ci c'est tres bien! 🙂

[Todd Fletcher]

"Perhaps not as exciting as the film "Mars Needs Women." :)"

But then, what is? Especially since it's got "the green girl" from Star Trek, only properly colored this time.

[Gary]

Gary needs women.

[rst]

Ah, the French. Always good for a laugh.

[Dennis]

Jean Bart:

Nope, we have to cope with the americans 🙂

[Overlord]

"the green girl" from Star Trek = Batgirl = Yvonne Craig

[Ron Hardin]

ahem.
$ insult 10
You objectionable shell of toxiferous pangolin ends
You plaguey secretary of pestiferous chigoe offscourings
You fetid ashpan of indigestible dogfish hemorrhage
You unpretty carboy of apoplectic aphid survivals
You wearisome pocket of bilious Faverolle expectoration
You pesky teacup of toxicant bass ejection
You dolorous splint basket of venerate saiga disgorgement
You tiresome jar of loose dabchick dribble
You humiliating sitzbath of malignant German coach horse flow
You stinking saccule of chlorotic Hereford flops

Vous coquille r?prehensible de pangolin toxiferous finit.
Vous secr?taire de plaguey des offscourings pestiferous de chigoe.
Vous ashpan f?tide de l'h?morragie non digestible.
Vous tourie unpretty de survies apoplectiques d'aphis.
Vous poche wearisome d'expectoration bilious de Faverolle.
Vous teacup embetant de l'?jection de basse de toxique.
Vous panier douloureux d'attelle de disgorgement de saiga de venerate.
Vous fiole tiresome de ruissellement l?che de dabchick.
Vous sitzbath humiliant d'?coulement allemand malin de cheval d'entra?neur.
Vous saccule puant d'effondrement chlorotic de Hereford.

[AJMB]

Referring back to a previous thread, how many fat-asses in Sweden JB?

[Jean Bart]

Andrew,

Well, none of the Vichy law was retained; indeed every law enacted (largely by fiat) after that fascist government came into being was repudiated by de Gaulle upon liberation. Even if the law was benign.

You are likely aware of the "Napoleonic Code" - a civil code (he also created a criminal code as well) which codified and unified French law (during the days of the monarchy law differed radically from region to region). Since its promulgation, the civil code has been the backbone of the law of every government that has followed. Indeed, it gave France the legal and political stability it would have lacked otherwise, and is a major reason why France was able to stay prosperous despite the political upheavals.

[Jean Bart]

Andrew,

However, the constitutions have changed with each Republic, etc. Thus the Fifth Republic has a far stronger (and effective) executive than the Fourth (the Fourth merely re-instated the Third Republic's constitution).

Finally, the Rights of Man have also followed French governments over time. If you read the Fifth Republic's constitution, you will see that it incorporates in the first section the Rights of Man and of the Citizen; which is our "Bill of Rights".

[Andrew]

I scanned the link on this one, but I don't get it. Maybe JB knows-- what was the point of the law, in the first place?

[AJMB]

To prove that French politicians are just as large a group of dumb-asses as America's politicians

[Jim Walsh]

How did the Dixie Chicks dodge this bullet?

[Jean Bart]

AJMB,

That is the most likely answer. 🙂

I am trying to think of what was happening in the Third Republic in 1881 to prompt such a law.

[Jean Bart]

Oddly enough, the law may spring from insults directed at the Kaiser. By the late 1870s and early 1880s revanchist sentiment was in full flower, and this may have been a law to curb this spirit.

[davidf]

hey JB:

timbro.se
frihandel.nu

liberator.dk is set up kinda like hit and run. if you know swedish, you shouldn't have problems with that, either.

🙂
drf

[Andrew]

During the constitutional changes-- State of France, Fourth Republic, and Fifth Republic-- all of the ordinary legislation was retained? As well as most contracts and deeds?

[Gadfly]

I can't for the life of me think when the French ever insulted the U.S. or George Bush. They disagreed, yes, but never insulted anyone as far as I can find.

Here is an article, though, that typifies the insults the French have taken from everyone else, including the Brits. This is about when the Sun tabloid distributed thousands of copies of their rag in France, with Chirac's head on a worm covering the front page. Under the law at the time they could have been fined 30,000 pounds.

http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,7495,900093,00.html

[Will Spencer]

This reminds me, I need more jokes for my French jokes page. 🙂

http://www.fortliberty.org/humor/french_jokes.shtml

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