Brickbat: Going to the Dogs
A Tunisian court sentenced rapper Ala Yaacoub, also known as Weld El 15, to two years in prison for insulting the police after he recorded a song that called police dogs and criticized them for being violent. An appellate court reduced that to a six-month suspended sentence.
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We can't let someone go around calling the police dogs. They might have to start shooting one another.
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Everybody knows the police are pigs, not dogs.
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Baha Men were unindicted co-conspirators.
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Although Weld El 15 was not a particularly well-known performer in Tunisia
Well he is now. The only upside to this sorry tale is that bone-headed repression is so damn counter-productive
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Streisand effect? What's that?
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nothing, just some misty water-coloured memories
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Comeon man, rol lthat beautiful bean footage
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From the sea in the north to the desert in the South
I'm a dope rapper and you won't shut my mouth
I ain't gonna make your life any easier
When I become the most famous man in all of Tunisia -
Who let the pigs out?
Oink! oink!(repeat 100,000 times)
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also known as Weld El 15
I'm glad to see someone like Man of Steel.
