As Spiegel online [de] reports today, Avatars in Second Life stood up to demonstrate against the Extreme Right Political Party “National Front”, which moved into Second Life somewhene in December 2006 (Second Life Herald reports). This is one more hint…

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Noch vor Weihnachten wird die virtuelle Welt, Second Life, erstmals über …

Noch vor Weihnachten wird die virtuelle Welt, Second Life, erstmals über 2 Millionen Bewohner zählen. Laut Betreiber Linden sind es derzeit 1,950,245 Menschen, die auf 254 Quadratkilometern monatlich 7,5 Millionen Stunden verbringen, sich mit Freunde…

We honestly never knew about your Little Deauville Project before you mentioned it here. Besides, your project is designed to have a humoristic tone and is not an official office of the Parti Socialiste (Segolene’s party, yes there are still Socialists in France… ) in Second Life, unlike the FN Second Life which has been officially launched by the FNJ and has real SL adherents. Therefore, we are indeed the first political party in France and Europe to open an office in Second Life, as we first stated.

To people referring to the Front National as “fascists” or “Nazis”, I’d like to bring to your attention that all such defamations against the FN have been punished in front of French court during the last 20 years, as well as all accusations of racism against Jean-Marie Le Pen. The FN is a democratic political party which has experienced a steadily growing confidence among French electors for the last 25 years, attracting 17 % of the votes during the 2002 previous presidential election and aiming for much more in 2007.

Fair and constructive criticism of the FN and its candidate should be allowed and even encouraged in the democratic debate but defamation and calls to censure show where the real intolerants are.

People who know the FN otherwise than through mainstream media hysteria will tell you that Jean-Marie Le Pen was the first to present Black and Muslim candidates to the French regional elections back in 1957 and 1962. Many members of the FN are from immigrant and multiethnic background, as well as a growing part of its voters. The Front National’s vision of nationalism is based on merit and patriotism, not race.

Please feel to ask me any questions.

Best regards,

Wolfram Hayek

Front National Second Life
Next to Matrix Mall, Porcupine

A number of real world political parties and politicians have in the past couple of months started exploring Second Life as a new medium for spreading their messages and garnering real world press. Most recently, the youth arm of the

No Racist, Live together !!!

“Little Deauville” was created three weeks ago (mid-November). Having attracted some media attention in France (42,000 visits on a related 2D internet website), it has probably inspired some fans of Mr. Le Pen (…who “forget” to mention they are not the first with the idea).

We already knew the far right was intolerant; we now know that ey can also be dishonest).

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Hopefully their SL stay will be shortlived :p. Unless LL gave them permission to use their logo in which case you get a far more interesting story.