Sunday, June 10, 2012

It's Sunday

Please. Make it stop!
[One] of Spain’s best known underground artists is facing a year in jail for a 54-second film that he did in 1978 that a Catholic group charges is insulting to them and their faith.

  Jonathan Turley
You can sue for being insulted in Spain? And I thought we were bad here.  And why now if the insult was in 1978?
Krahe has spent his life exposing the crimes and hypocrisy of the establishment.

[...]

Javier Krahe’s “how to cook Jesus Christ” was a brief satire based on a cooking show.

The Catholic legal association, the Centro Juridico Tomas Moro, has demanded that the artist be sent to prison for the crime of “offending religious feelings” with the brief movie.

[...]

President Obama and Hillary Clinton have been facilitating this trend by working with Muslim nations to develop an international standard allowing for the prosecution of those who insult religion. The Administration has drawn a dangerous line with Muslim countries in first supporting the concept of an international blasphemy standard. As I have mentioned before, the efforts of the Obama Administration to work with countries like Egypt on an international blasphemy standard is a threat to free speech around the world.
So, I guess we're not far behind.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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