(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #237 - Perspective: Freedom of expression ... but still? (fr, pt)

The recent decision of the Council of State to prohibit, very tentatively, shows Dieudonn? 
has raised the question of freedom of expression and freedom in general. Freedom of 
expression is obviously a fundamental freedom for which anarchists have always fought. But 
on condition that define the freedom of expression. ---- The word "freedom" is a very 
ambiguous concept. For example, there is for us an insurmountable contradiction between 
the "free enterprise" of the employer imposing - via subordination - class domination on 
employee-es and the desire for "social freedom "Employee-es. In short, if freedom is our 
absolute, we do not stand for much all about and all acts that disguise themselves under 
the banner of freedom. ---- When Bakunin wrote that "the freedom of others extends mine 
infinitely" , he clearly laid the limits of what freedom is. When a person commits an act 
or words that violate the fundamental rights of others it is not an act of freedom. Nor is 
there any freedom to kill, there is freedom to make comments detrimental to the dignity of 
others ... In short, there is no right or freedom to express about racist.
 
Also, if anarchism is primarily a struggle for "freedom," it is not so far to claim a 
right to do everything and anything. Freedom is inseparable from the struggle for 
political and economic equality of all human beings.
 
Agree to penalize racist
 
To return to Dieudonn?, we obviously can not support the right to freedom of expression of 
its racist. We disagree with him that "right". However, should we applaud the ban on some 
of his shows?
 
Because for us it is not the exercise of a right, it is only necessary to measure the 
consequences of these decisions of "justice": - firstly, whether these prohibitions shows 
focused financial blow to business Dieudonn? - what we like well - they have done nothing 
to detract Semitism propagated by Dieudonn?. Instead, they have reinforced this sense of 
injustice with the "double standard" that would be favorable to the Zionists and they have 
strengthened the support of its public Dieudonn?. It can continue to play the victim of 
the system! - If we condemn racism and its expression, if we do not challenge the 
criminalization of racist, sexist or homophobic, we also know that this penalty is 
primarily a cautery on a wooden leg. Especially when the "reminder of the law" is made by 
Manuel Valls, who made remarks at least as a racist Dieudonn? and practice racism in such 
acts vis-?-vis the Roma. Roma also suffered a genocide during the Second World War, which 
is often forgotten.
 
The challenge is also
 
This is not the ban shows that Dieudonn? problem for us. But that's because it solves 
nothing and it serves as a distraction from the government increasingly rejected its 
policy for employers. And we are worried about this "law" created by the Council of State 
which could be extended to other subjects: justifying a restriction on freedom of 
expression by "attacks on the dignity of the human person" , without specifying what we 
mean, could lead to ban anything.
 
Jacques Dubart (AL Agen)