Swine flu hype begets 6 months' detention without charge

Breitbart reports that should a swine flu pandemic become worrying, the French government will introduce emergency measures to strip citizens of their rights.

Documents sent to Breitbart by a judges' union state that police could detain a suspect in without charge, without warrant for up to 6 months. They would not be allowed access to a lawyer until they'd spent 24 hours in custody.

Children would be tried in adult courts and more trials held in secret, without a jury.

Well, now we know what our 'leaders' get up to at G20 meetings, with financiers.

The Syndicat de la Magistrature called the measures "revolting" and said that this would amount to "liberticide," and called on Justice Minister Michele Alliot-Marie to abandon the plan.

The judiciary were secretly advised of this plan in July.

According to the WHO, the French have had only 15 swine flu deaths out of just over 2,500, worldwide

To put that in perspective, the US, with a population of approximately 250 million , has an average of 38 million cases (15% of people) of regular flu each year, leading to about 150,000 hospitalisations (0.06%) and about 35,000 deaths (0.014%) each year.

Assuming equal health and health facilities in France and the US, the French, with a population of about 60 million, should have approximately 9 million annual flu cases, 3.6 million of them hospitalised and 840,000 flu deaths - each year.

If these assumptions are correct, then the number of deaths in France from this ridiculously hyped up swine flu is currently 0.01% of the deaths that occur annually in France due to regular flu!

Please can someone pick these figures apart. I sit here scratching my head, convinced that my calculator must have a Micro$not bug or that the French are quite mad and just as dictatorial as their love for corpus juris suggests they are.