France Appears Ready to Join the United States — as another Example of Quavering Poodle People

© 2015 Peter Free

 

06 May 2015

 

 

The many who suffer from it do not recognize the illness that Yellow-Bellied-Ness is

 

The French are about to succumb to the same anti-terrorist illness that turned the United States into Quavering Poodle People:

 

 

French lawmakers approved a bill on Tuesday to let intelligence services deploy fly-on-the-wall spying devices more easily against suspected terrorists after Islamist militant attacks killed 17 people in January.

 

The bill, opposed by civil rights groups, some leftists and some members of President Francois Hollande's ruling Socialists, waives the need for judicial warrants to deploy phone taps, hidden microphones, cameras and other devices such as keypad communications readers.

 

Despite vocal opposition from critics who fear it will lead to mass-scale surveillance, the bill was approved by the lower house of parliament by a wide margin, with 438 votes in favor and 86 against.

 

Under the new law, instead of requiring a judge's approval, security officials can order surveillance after advice by a newly created supervisory body specifically dedicated to this.

 

Prime Minister Manuel Valls has defended the law as vital to counter-terrorism activities and denied it was a French variant of the U.S. Patriot Act passed in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.

 

The upper house of parliament will vote on the bill in June.

 

© 2015 Brian Love, French lawmakers back easy-spying bill in counterterror move, Reuters (05 May 2015)

 

 

The moral? — Yellow-Bellied-Ness is everywhere

 

True liberty, it appears, is on its way to extinction. And not because of the actions of its vowed enemies. Public cowardice has executed freedom.