French Consider New Terrorist Laws But "Ridicule" USA Patriot Act Idea N.Y. Times Reports As French Grapple With Threat Of New Laws To Civil Liberties

        Saturday, 17 January 2015, WASHINGTON, D.C. - In the wake of the horrific terrorist slaughters at the Charlie Hebedo satirical newspaper and the Hyper Casher market the French who reportedly have terrorist laws and enforcement that largely have been considered "robust" and met with the approval of U.S. officials are considering what further measures France should take in the fight against terrorism while balancing concerns about civil liberties of French citizens. Nevertheless measures roughly equivalent to the Patriot Act have long been seen by many in France as embodying United States government encroachments on individual rights and civil liberties particularly including domestic surveillance of citizens that cannot be justified by any terrorist threat to date. The consideration of the enactment of laws in France similar to the Patriot Act even in the wake of current events are "ridiculed" by the French as detailed in the New York Times article linked to below. The following Ninth Amendment comment on that article as of this time is pending approval and it is not known whether it will be published in today's New York Times digital edition:

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 waronnothing Pending Approval

The warning voiced by the former French prime minister Dominique de Villepin against the French adoption of "exceptional" measures was a most incisive concise statement of the grave dangers posed by the Patriot Act from the time of its adoption since which it has played out in more and more horrific domestic realities which admonition he reportedly wrote in Le Monde that “[t]he spiral of suspicion created in the United States by the Patriot Act and the enduring legitimization of torture or illegal detention has today caused that country to lose its moral compass.” The editorial board of the Ninth Amendment at www.waronnothing.blogspot.com consistently has warned that that "moral compass" is embodied in the United States Constitution from which our great Nation incrementally has stayed most dangerously further and further. The time for a renewal of a Constitutional faith and concomitant action consistent with that faith based on an honest interpretation of its text and the enduring principles embodied in the U.S. Constitution are our light and our hope for ourselves and our future generations as they have been for nearly two and a half centuries.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/17/world/europe/patriot-act-idea-rises-in-france-and-is-ridiculed.html?ref=todayspaper

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