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That was an additional charge, like evading the cops but getting a charge for not wearing a seatbelt. But everybody acts like he _went to jail for disrespecting
by ricardobayes 5y ago
That was an additional charge, like evading the cops but getting a charge for not wearing a seatbelt. But everybody acts like he _went to jail for disrespecting the king_. It's a law in Spain. There is a similar law in the UK as well, but it's not enforced that much. Theoretically you can go to jail for defacing money or other stuff in the UK too. (Like drawing a beard on the queen)
- int_19h 5y agoFWIW I don't really have a problem with him "glorifying" ETA, either (and wouldn't have a problem with somebody in Texas doing the same for a similarly minded local organization). I was merely pointing out that it's not just that. And yes, of course, it's a law in Spain - that's the point of this conversation, that such laws exist (or can be introduced), and then selectively enforced against those the government wants to target for whatever reason, even in an ostensibly-liberal democracy. Let me give you another example. In Russia, there was an "anti-extremism" law passed a few years ago that made it a crime to make public statements that "foment hatred or enmity against identifiable social groups". I can think of quite a few Western progressives who would probably cheer something like that as written. Only it turns out that e.g. police is an "identifiable social group", too, and so are members of the parliament!