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  • Jérôme Frenchise
    ROTH ARMY SUPREME
    • Nov 2004
    • 7174

    Bob Dylan hit by racial hatred charge in Paris

    Some obscure Croatian shit stirrers found it relevant to piss Ze Bob off... Whatever...



    Bob Dylan hit with 'racial hatred charge' in France

    Famed US singer Bob Dylan has been hit by charges in France of insulting behaviour and incitement to racial hatred after a complaint was lodged against him, judicial sources told AFP on Monday.

    Bob Dylan has been charged with insulting behaviour and incitement to hatred in France after a Croat group filed a complaint about an interview in Rolling Stone magazine, a judicial source said on Monday.

    The American singer was questioned and charged in mid-November after the group complained about the interview, in which he allegedly compared the relationship between Jews and Nazis to that of Serbs and Croats.

    The Council of Croats in France (CRICCF) had filed the complaint a year ago over an analogy he made in the 2012 interview while discussing slavery in the United States.

    "This country is just too fucked up about colour... People at each other's throats just because they are of a different colour," Dylan told Rolling Stone last year.

    "Blacks know that some whites didn't want to give up slavery - that if they had their way, they would still be under the yoke, and they can't pretend they don't know that.

    "If you got a slave master or Klan in your blood, blacks can sense that. That stuff lingers to this day. Just like Jews can sense Nazi blood and the Serbs can sense Croatian blood."

    Last month, the 72-year-old music legend picked up France's Legion d'Honneur award, which can be granted to any foreigner seen as having served France's interests or upheld its values.

    A representative of Dylan's label said he was not aware of the proceedingsagainst the star, while the CRICCF refused to immediately comment.
    posted by Ellyllions Men say, "I'll never understand women." That's a very lonely place to be if you're a woman because we don't understand half of what we do either.
    posted by ALinChainz Katy, Pipe down, pump off, and fly back to your cave you old bat.
  • Kristy
    DIAMOND STATUS
    • Aug 2004
    • 16338

    #2
    First Lance Armstrong and now Bob Dylan! When will those frogs stop persecuting Americans! Jerry Lewis is old and already half-dead. They are just going to have to learn to deal with that.

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    • Jérôme Frenchise
      ROTH ARMY SUPREME
      • Nov 2004
      • 7174

      #3
      Only blame it on a few Croatians...

      If Dylan had said the same in any other country with them around reading Rolling Stone, the same would have occurred, in Amsterdam, Barcelona or Rome.

      Maybe not in Zaghreb, though.

      It's an indictment anyway, it sounds pretty serious.
      Last edited by Jérôme Frenchise; 12-02-2013, 07:14 PM.
      posted by Ellyllions Men say, "I'll never understand women." That's a very lonely place to be if you're a woman because we don't understand half of what we do either.
      posted by ALinChainz Katy, Pipe down, pump off, and fly back to your cave you old bat.

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      • Kristy
        DIAMOND STATUS
        • Aug 2004
        • 16338

        #4
        "If you got a slave master or Klan in your blood, blacks can sense that. That stuff lingers to this day. Just like Jews can sense Nazi blood and the Serbs can sense Croatian blood."

        Dylan can be an asshole at times but I find it rather difficult he actually said this.

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        • Sensible Shoes
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          • Oct 2009
          • 4648

          #5
          Hope it causes him all sorts of trouble. I hate Bob Dylan.

          Oh dear.

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          • Seshmeister
            ROTH ARMY WEBMASTER

            • Oct 2003
            • 35192

            #6
            Come on... like him or not surely you should be on the side of free speech?

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            • DONNIEP
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              • Mar 2004
              • 13373

              #7
              Black people can smell Klan blood???
              American by birth. Southern by the grace of God.

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              • Sensible Shoes
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                • Oct 2009
                • 4648

                #8
                Originally posted by Seshmeister
                Come on... like him or not surely you should be on the side of free speech?
                yada yada yada. Bring on the Croats.

                Oh dear.

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                • DONNIEP
                  DIAMOND STATUS
                  • Mar 2004
                  • 13373

                  #9
                  Originally posted by Sensible Shoes
                  yada yada yada. Bring on the Croats.
                  Didn't we used to have one of those around here?
                  American by birth. Southern by the grace of God.

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                  • WARF
                    DIAMOND STATUS
                    • Jan 2004
                    • 15320

                    #10
                    Fuck That greasy hippie!

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                    • Seshmeister
                      ROTH ARMY WEBMASTER

                      • Oct 2003
                      • 35192

                      #11
                      I don't think much of what he said one way or the other but if saying that is ever a hate crime then we are in trouble.

                      I have no idea what the law is in France but they are usually very much about the melting pot thing so I suspect this is actually a non story.

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                      • Sensible Shoes
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                        • Oct 2009
                        • 4648

                        #12
                        Yeah. It probably is. Now who else can I get to go after him?

                        Oh dear.

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                        • Seshmeister
                          ROTH ARMY WEBMASTER

                          • Oct 2003
                          • 35192

                          #13
                          Hire Wile E. Coyote to roll a boulder over him.

                          I have a couple of friends who are huge fans of the man, I'm a bit meh but I have to say whoever he got to do this for him recently was very very good...



                          Maybe all he did was just not veto someone else's great idea but he is currently basking in the reflective glory...

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                          • cadaverdog
                            ROTH ARMY SUPREME
                            • Aug 2007
                            • 8955

                            #14
                            Originally posted by Sensible Shoes
                            Hope it causes him all sorts of trouble. I hate Bob Dylan.
                            He wrote a couple good songs but he could never sing worth a damn. Remember when he changed his voice and sang Lay Lady Lay? His new voice was worse than his nasally old voice.
                            Beware of Dog

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                            • cadaverdog
                              ROTH ARMY SUPREME
                              • Aug 2007
                              • 8955

                              #15
                              Originally posted by DONNIEP
                              Black people can smell Klan blood???
                              No but they can smell the odor of burnt cross on them. Dead giveaway. Jews can smelled the odor of burnt Jew on a Nazi from twenty paces on a windy day. If I was a Jew I'd cap every cocksucker I saw with a swastika tattoo or a Nazi flag.
                              Beware of Dog

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