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2005-03-26 Europe
Sensitive, Nuanced, Sophisticated EU May Jail Cartoonist for Blasphemy
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Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2005-03-26 2:29:59 AM|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 LOL! If they think this is "unbelievable", they'll have even more fun when Turkey gets in. Methinks some people haven't been keeping their eyes on the integration ball.

"You don't have to read it to know that it's good"
Posted by Bulldog  2005-03-26 7:03:15 AM||   2005-03-26 7:03:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Pathetic. Truly pathetic-- and predictable.
Posted by Dave D. 2005-03-26 7:37:31 AM||   2005-03-26 7:37:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Book banning! Yes! Next up burning.

Wouldn't happen with the New Constitution/Treaty of Equals/Scam
Posted by Shipman 2005-03-26 8:20:27 AM||   2005-03-26 8:20:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Ahhh...The Dean of Art at UC Boulder would seem the next position of employment from such an "L'enfant terrible" of graphics expression.
Posted by Glereger Clugum6222 2005-03-26 8:58:38 AM||   2005-03-26 8:58:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Sheesh!
Blasphemy is against the law in Europe but Euros are convinced that America is a land of Talibanish Bible-thumpers bent on world domination.

As for Hadererer, he is just another courageous iconoclast challenging the all-powerful Christian church and daring to question the universal notions of the conformist masses. NOT!
(at least not since about 1920)
Pop-culture has been stuck in this rut for 80 years. If they have to torch a strawman, they might at least have the imagination to fabricate an up-to-date one.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-03-26 9:33:35 AM||   2005-03-26 9:33:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Irony: Americans, the most religious people in the developed world, have a government that allows PissC%**t while Europeans, heathens about to become Muslims by the sword, have a government that puts people in jail for writing a book. Three strikes and they're irredeemable and out.
Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-03-26 9:46:44 AM||   2005-03-26 9:46:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Yeah... the Comic Book Defense Fund exists for incidents like this in the US, with "Alabama" or "Utah" search-and-replaced for "Greece". The bookburners are a consistent fact of life, especially now that technologies have made it possible for San Francisco sensibilities to be put on trial under the "community standards" of Salt Lake City or Birmingham.

Welcome to federalism, Europa.
Posted by Mitch H.  2005-03-26 11:16:21 AM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]  2005-03-26 11:16:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 How can you write a book, have 100K copies of it sold, and not know it was published? What's up with royalty system there? That's what would "inhibit my artistic style." Even Ward Churchill was paid, wasn't he?
Posted by Armchair in Sin  2005-03-26 11:32:17 AM||   2005-03-26 11:32:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 I think he didn't know it was translated/published in Greece.....and yes, Ward Churchill was paid - for writing words someone else had already written..
Posted by Frank G  2005-03-26 12:02:33 PM||   2005-03-26 12:02:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 A few days I commented on the inconstitutionality of the European Arrest Warrant by showing an "absurd example".

Reality caught up damn quickly.
Posted by True German Ally 2005-03-26 12:09:29 PM||   2005-03-26 12:09:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Lol, TGA. So, um how much do you charge to roll out your crystal ball and conduct a seance? Get any rant tingles on the stock markets? ;-)
Posted by .com 2005-03-26 12:19:10 PM||   2005-03-26 12:19:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Freedom of speech is not a European right, you might offend some protected class. That should come as no surprise at all. Here you are free to speak or not to speak. Unless you incite actual violence or slander and libel, little is likely to happen to you. So please tell us again how much more Europe and the EU are champions of human right and actual freedom.
Posted by Sock Puppet 0’ Doom 2005-03-26 12:20:55 PM|| [http://www.slhess.com]  2005-03-26 12:20:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 I guess I should be a little more clear, Frank: the man is published in 7 countries (including Greece, I assume), so one would figure there is some level of communication between the author and his publisher: "Gerhard, Baby, we're going big-time. Can you see the lights? That's Greece!"
Obviously, who would miss that?

And, I was referring to Chutch's Digi-Draw "renditions."
Posted by Armchair in Sin  2005-03-26 12:26:00 PM||   2005-03-26 12:26:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 clear nuff. :-)
Posted by Frank G  2005-03-26 12:37:00 PM||   2005-03-26 12:37:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 It used to be that some countries were a little, uh, "lax" in enforcing copyright laws for foreign authors. Isaac Asimov frequently bitched about how some of his works had been published in other countries and he never saw a nickel. (Of course, if you're Asimov, it's probably hard to keep up with which book has been published where.) I don't know whether that's still true now that there's one big happy Eurofamily.
Posted by Angie Schultz 2005-03-26 12:42:25 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com]  2005-03-26 12:42:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Whether he knew or just ignored his Greek success is besides the point. Posting a few cartoons on the web would be enough since they could be viewed in Greece.

.com stock market? This is what I ask every broker who has the sure advice:

Why are you still working?
Posted by True German Ally 2005-03-26 1:10:40 PM||   2005-03-26 1:10:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 So True, TGA. I wish they'd quit spamming me, the losers, lol!

I had a distant uncle who had a nice portfolio of nothing but blue chips, which he bought in small lots out of his hard-earned pay. He once told me that behind every financial genius was an insider deal and a prison term. The only luck involved was whether anybody talked, lol.
Posted by .com 2005-03-26 1:31:56 PM||   2005-03-26 1:31:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Get any rant tingles on the stock markets?

The hell with the stock market - how about some lottery numbers??
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-03-26 4:40:50 PM||   2005-03-26 4:40:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 What's the definition of blasphemy in Greece? Is it only WRT Christian defamation?
Say, for example, Muslims believe that Jesus was only a prophet; not the Son of G-d, G-d himself, or even a divine messenger on par with Muhammed ---which is fact, they do believe this, and make it known in many books---can Xtians prosecute Muslims for this kind of blasphemy, or vice versa with Muslims?

Kinda makes one wonder about the possibilities.
Posted by Asedwich  2005-03-26 7:31:30 PM||   2005-03-26 7:31:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 Greece,cant even keep from going broke over the olympics, perhaps its time for them to enter the modern world
Posted by bkskiispow 2005-03-26 8:02:05 PM||   2005-03-26 8:02:05 PM|| Front Page Top

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