She's been to court a number of times over this 
topic, this is the only one I know anything about, this is what happened:

----
MRAP filed a suit last year over a letter Bardot, 
73, sent to then-Interior Minister Nicolas 
Sarkozy. In the letter to Sarkozy, now France’s 
president, Bardot said France is “tired of being 
led by the nose by this population that is 
destroying us, destroying our country by imposing 
its acts.” Bardot, an animal rights activist, was 
reportedly referring to the Muslim feast of Aid 
el-Kebir, celebrated by slaughtering sheep.
----

This is a serious offense in France?  She has her 
opinion and stated it.  You ever see what PETA 
does and says in the US in the name of "animal 
rights"?  This is positively tame.  She's against 
the killing of animals, she doesn't care what race you are.

Michelle Obama didn't get blasted at all on that 
rumor, she's been fairly blasted for the other 
nutty things she's said though.  Clinton 
operatives started floating a rumor that she said 
"whitey" at some function and it was on tape, the 
tape never surfaced, no one ran with it, there 
was some discussion as to whether it was real, 
but everyone was suspicious because the source is 
widely known for being full of s**t.

Look at Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton and all 
their anti-Semitic rants, they never got thrown 
in jail for it.  Americans are just more tolerant 
of people with dissenting views than the French I guess.

At 12:41 PM 6/19/2008, Christian Lheureux wrote:
>I finally took a moment to enquire about what Mrs Brigitte Bardot has, or
>has not, done. In fact, she got taken to court and tried for a quite serious
>offense : incitation to racial hatred. Nothing to do with free speech per
>se. Just a practical limitation to irresponsible speech.
>
>Bottom line : even if you're famous, you can't incite to racial hatred. Ask
>Michelle Obama how she got blasted for some racial slur that she may or may
>not have uttered.
>
>Even the United States of America has to strike a balance between the First
>Amendment (IIRC, that's the one about free speech) and incitation to racial
>hatred.
>
>Christian
>
>
>
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De : HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] De la part
> > de Denys Beauchemin
> > Envoyé : jeudi 19 juin 2008 01:19
> > À : [log in to unmask]
> > Objet : Re: [HP3000-L] RE : [HP3000-L] RE : [HP3000-L] Carly in the news
> >
> >
> > Christian wrote in part:
> >
> > As I see it, President Sarkozy is already planning the after-Bush period.
> > I
> > think that's a wise move, if not especially shrewd, because everyone knows
> > that Bush won't stay on after Jan. 20th. So better plan what comes next
> > right now. Especially since Sarkozy will hold the rotating EU Presidency
> > for
> > 6 months starting July 1st, which happens to include Nov. 4th, US Election
> > Day.
> >
> >
> > To which I answer:  It's not wise or shrewd; it's a no-brainer.  The day
> > of
> > the election to his or her second term, everyone on the planet knows the
> > date certain when (s)he will step down.  So plans are immediately adjusted
> > with that date in mind.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > If France really repressed free speech, there's a lot of things I wrote,
> > including a few on this list, that would have landed me in court, if not
> > outright in jail. It never happened. And I can assure you I don't fear a
> > knock on my door, like it happened at darker times in our history.
> >
> > Speaking of Brigitte Bardot (I guess that's the one you're referring to,
> > most likely not my former boss at HP, nor my second-degree cousin, who
> > both
> > go by that same first name), I admit that, since I'm absolutely not
> > interested in that person, I did not bother to gather specific
> > information.
> > So, in a nutshell, I don't know what happened to her, if anything. The
> > only
> > thing I'm aware of is that she recently got some limited media attention,
> > but I just did not bother to ask why.
> >
> >
> > You are right, I don't know of your second cousin and your erstwhile boss;
> > I
> > was indeed referring to Brigitte Bardot.  I don't give a hoot about her,
> > but
> > I found it disturbing that she got censored and fined, several times, for
> > what she said.  I am further disturbed that you did not know or care about
> > that.  I would think that as someone who cares about freedom of speech,
> > you
> > would be horrified by that and would want to do something about it.  This
> > attack on the freedom of speech is happening all over Europe and in Canada
> > quite a bit.  The world is changing and in some ways, not for the better.
> >
> > I happen to strongly believe in the freedom of speech and pity the people
> > who do not have that, and I find it depressing that people who do have it
> > and perfectly happy with, or oblivious to the fact it is being eroded.
> >
> > Denys...
> >
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