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PETITION TO INTERFERE WITH CREOLE DOG!

Attentive readers Dog Creole have been surprised not to find the link to the petition that I announced in the following article: http://chien-creole2.blogspot.com/2010/02/petition.html . I develop arguments for signing the petition that I had to write:

" For the regularization of undocumented Haitian

Mr. Sarkozy,
During your short stay in Haiti, you could see the extent of damage that the earthquake has caused. Everyone agrees that it will take years to Haiti is recovering. The distress prevailing there does has no name. In these conditions, you agree that we can not satisfy a suspension of deportations of undocumented Haitians for six months. It is unthinkable to send men, women and children in Haiti in the months and years ahead. This is not only contrary to our most fundamental principles but it would be particularly inhumane. That is why we urge you regularization service without further delay Haitians living illegally in our country today. France will grow to act with generosity and solidarity and respect for human rights which it claims. "

(February 21, 2010)

If you could not read and therefore unable to sign this petition, because the site "mesopinions.com" which I had directed, was purely and simply deleted. I was informed by the message for the less laconic arrived in my mail box:

"Hello,

Your petition has been removed for the ground (s) (s) following (s):

title

Sincerely,

team MesOpinions.com "

(February 23, 2010)

aback, I told them the next day:

"I just received your notification as what you had deleted my petition. I find lamentable casualness with which you dismiss a matter of such importance! I had not read your articles in a petition may be invalidated on the ground of "title." What disrespect for that which has given the trouble to write a petition for a subject he believes that censorship is justifiable only one word: "title" in here. If this is not asking too much, so I know what you criticize my title. It is the word "undocumented" or the word "Haiti" that you are vulgar? Unless this is the word that bothers you regularization? I hope you have the goodness to answer me this time by at least one sentence. I do not greet you ...

Frederick Gircour "

(February 24, 2010)

The answer I finally received four days later, but still not inconceivable that would explain their reaction:

"Hello,

You do not respect you sign a charter, assume" No need, when you are at fault to appear offensive.

team mesopinions.com "

Meanwhile, a friend whom I informed of my misadventure took the initiative to publish on the alternative site at very large diffusion Bellaciao ( www.bellaciao.org ) the exchange of messages that you just read. And lo and behold there not only in their mouth probing, mesopinions.com ventures to issue an ultimatum to Bellaciao for them to withdraw the article in question, threatening to words barely covered the trial for libel!

"Subject: Withdrawal of an article on your site

From:" Contact MesOpinions "
Date: Wed, March 3rd, 2010 10:56
To: bellaciao-paris@bellaciao.org

Hello,

We just heard of this story:
http://bellaciao.org/fr/spip.php?article98850
We ask that you remove it within a week on the grounds that it is not only incomplete but also insulting and defamatory. We did not made of censure on the merits of the petition but on its shape.

The author of this petition is committed to our charter, but did not.

Sincerely,

team mesopinions.com "

Bellaciao's response was not long in coming. Its directors have published, in the day on March 3, a public announcement:

" answers Bellaciao to "the injunction mesopinions.com

of collective Bellaciao

We chose respond publicly to the "injunction" sent by email to the site Bellaciao mesopinions.com about the petition " for the regularization of undocumented Haitian " initiated by "Creole Dog" and published on our site.

The content of our response (...):

"Dear

We read today of your claim.

We do not usually comply with demands that we understand not.

You say that the incriminating document, issued by a user on our forum, is "incomplete and insufficient and defamatory. "

We also have our advice and our lawyers, we consulted quickly, and we do not see very well how, given the information available to us (including your failure to respond to the question of "Dog Creole") and the applicable law here, we should refer to your order without first receiving some sort of explanation.

We thank you kindly tell us how you feel this article is "incomplete and insufficient and defamatory. "

If you decide to write a right of reply argued that explains and develops why you think you allowed to say "incomplete and inadequate defamatory", we will publish it, naturally, and then advise how to behave

Sincerely. The collective

Bellaciao "

Finally, Tuesday, February 23 this year, has again mesopinions.com wanted to remove a petition of Paul Guermonprez:" For Christine Albanel has no right to join France Telecom after his public office "( http://guermonprez.eu/paul/blog/post/2010/02/24/Petition-Albanel-/-France-Telecom-:-MesOpinionscom-censure-apres-LePostfr ) the ground once again that the petition do not respect their charter but without specifying how it violated. After denouncing these methods on the Internet, Paul Guermonprez finally succeeded, since announced yesterday on twitter: " MesOpinions.com waive any discretionary act of censorship on the petition Albanel / FT ( http:// twitter.com/guermonprez/status/9919429509 )

These abuses are of concern and we must redouble our vigilance. If you want to defend the petition in favor of undocumented Haitians and the freedom to express opinions that do not go in the direction of policy Sarkozi, you can leave a comment of support on the link above and (or) send an email to contact@mesopinions.com joining me in the copy. You can also repost this article on a maximum of activist websites. Thank you in advance. Dog does not let anything Creole.

Frederick Gircour ( chien.creole @ gmail.com )