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Evening Reading

by Maarten Goldstein, Mar 13, 2003 5:11pm PST
Related Topics – Wack News, Peter Molyneux

It's totally crazy Evening Reading time. Devastation multiplayer demo in a week, good times. It should be a lot of fun. But what about tonight? Tonight we have this

- Water on Mars. - People pirate tax software, developer puts in security measures, people mad. - Paper airplanes that are on fire are bad. - Disturbing Oscar campaigns, the horror, the horror! - What happened to the Mayans. - Dead guy gets phone bill, at cemetary. - Finding people on Google.
Lastly, Peter Molyneux asking the UK government to support game developers. Thanks Chris.


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    VIVE La Marseillaise

    The National Assembly has voted to make it a criminal offence to show a lack of respect for the national anthem and the national flag, with penalties of up to E7,500 and six months in prison.

    At the French cup final in the Stade de France last May between Bastia and Lorient, the playing of ‘La Marseillaise’ before the match was accompanied by loud whistling from the many Corsicans among the spectators. President Jacques Chirac was clearly furious, because moments later he left the stand. Recalling this incident, the president of the Football Federation Claude Simonet will not easily forget the words Chirac used at last year’s cup final to express his fury. “It’s inadmissible. I will not tolerate and I will not accept attacks on the essential values of the Republic and on those who express them.”

    But the proposed crime of insulting the flag and ‘La Marseillaise’ was strongly opposed in some quarters. The president of the lawyers’ association, Daniel Joseph, commented “We are astounded by such stupidity. (...) It leads us back to military tribunals. It is totally confusing to apply a penal system to a problem which is essentially moral.” Secretary of the association of magistrates said that the proposed legislation “denotes a society based on moral order, the wish to control everything. (...) What is socially and politically acceptable is being defined by law.”

    The president of the League of Human Rights Michel Tubiana was scathing: “There is only one answer, whether it’s prostitution, begging or insulting the national flag, and that is to punish offenders and put them in prison.” Added a spokesman for one of the police unions “This is not the way to achieve respect for communal values.” M.K.

    http://www.french-news.com/00fs/00fs_nws_1.htm
    Mar 14, 2003 6:26am PST

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