UPDATED: Terrorists Prevail As French Parliament Overwhelmingly Dumps Major Civil Liberties Adopts Unlimited Mass Surveillance In Fear From Attacks

     Wednesday, 6 October 2015, PARIS - Seemingly oblivious to the debate raging in the United States over post-9/11 attacks U.S government Bush Administration, N.S.A., C.I.A., F.B.I. defense intelligence and other agencies' continuing widespread profound civil liberties' abuses in the wake of the United States hysterical reaction to those attacks which government abuses still haunt Americans seriously threatening foundational principles of the U.S. Constitution to this day nevertheless the so-called "socialist" French Government today in a shameful Parliamentary vote in which ruling socialists joined with French right-wingers but for the Front National (apparently leaving that far right group as the last elected bastion of French civil liberties) overwhelmingly voted to give French intelligence agencies mass surveillance powers giving the French Government the "right to gather potentially unlimited Internet data from Internet communications, and to tap cellphones and capture text messages" of anyone at all.
     France's capitulation to terrorist fears in sacrificing French fundamental foundational liberties existing since the French Revolution long a singularly vital inspiration to the free world which liberties largely define French society to this day not even sacrificed in the face of two world wars is a profound tragedy perhaps especially sadly ironic given that in the wake of the horrific Charlie Hebdo attack the former French Prime Minister Dominque de Villepin emphatically implored on or about 17 January 2015 in Le Monde that the French not adopt comparable "exceptional" measures such as the so-called disastrous "Patriot Act" which legislation Mr. Villepin in condemning further asserted specifically started a "downward spiral" in the United States leading directly to a result which "has caused that country today to lose of its moral compass".
     The editorial board of the Ninth Amendment observes that the French unhappily now may assess the consequences on the "moral compass" of France itself of legislation which according to the description of at least one civil liberties group there sounds as bad or worse even than United States post-9/11 legislation and its aftermath. Considering the acknowledged failure of the United States secretive adoption of huge mass surveillance and myriad other unconstitutional practices acknowledged to have yielded virtually no valuable information preventing significant homeland terrorist threats should France find it has with virtually no debate sweepingly sacrificed such fundamental liberties itself to purchase but "a little temporary safety" and God forbid still face some worse attack, how much liberty will France have left to sacrifice? The action of the French is a dangerous harbinger for Europe arguably as bad or if possible worse even than Great Britain's vast GCHQ surveillance described by Edward J. Snowden as "worse than the N.S.A." with the French further setting an example that should neither be followed elsewhere in Europe nor anywhere else in the free world lest the free world as known cease to exist.
     Readers interested in more information about the above can go to either or both of the first two links below. [UPDATE] Those readers interested in further details about the new French mass surveillance law as well on the response of other European countries to terrorism fears can go to the third link below.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/06/world/europe/french-legislators-approve-sweeping-intelligence-bill.html?gwh=AB55DCBC38750DA2545732F9F6FEB3E6&gwt=pay&assetType=nyt_now

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32587377

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/07/world/europe/france-expanded-surveillance-charlie-hebdo.html?_r=0

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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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