Is there anyone on the forums from Ireland?
01-07-2010, 03:21 AM (This post was last modified: 11-17-2017, 01:56 PM by Bob Schroeck.)
01-07-2010, 03:21 AM (This post was last modified: 11-17-2017, 01:56 PM by Bob Schroeck.)
If so, I feel deeply sorry for you, as your country appears to have abandoned free speech as a principle.
For those who don't know what I'm talking about, well, to summarize a digest of a brief, a good-intentioned attempt to wipe an antique law punishing blasphemy off the books backfired spectacularly, and now they have a brand-new modern blasphemy law which pretty much makes it a crime punishable by a $35,000 fine to say anything insulting about anyone's religion.
Yes, I'm serious.
NPR article here.
Opinion column in The Guardian on it here.
Irish atheists defy new blasphemy law.
More attempts to break the law as a protest.
25 quotes from such troublemakers as Richard Dawkins, Frank Zappa, Salman Rushdie, Jesus Christ, Mohammed and Pope Benedict XVI which are blasphemous under the new law.
The actual text of the law.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
For those who don't know what I'm talking about, well, to summarize a digest of a brief, a good-intentioned attempt to wipe an antique law punishing blasphemy off the books backfired spectacularly, and now they have a brand-new modern blasphemy law which pretty much makes it a crime punishable by a $35,000 fine to say anything insulting about anyone's religion.
Yes, I'm serious.
NPR article here.
Opinion column in The Guardian on it here.
Irish atheists defy new blasphemy law.
More attempts to break the law as a protest.
25 quotes from such troublemakers as Richard Dawkins, Frank Zappa, Salman Rushdie, Jesus Christ, Mohammed and Pope Benedict XVI which are blasphemous under the new law.
The actual text of the law.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.