Brickbat: Crime of Fashion

Charles Oliver | 3.1.2016 4:00 AM

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Dutch police detained Edwin Wagensveld, of the anti-immigrant Pegida group, for "provocative behavior" during a protest of a refugee center in Ede. Wagensveld put on a hat shaped like a pig's head after cops ordered another protestor to take it off.

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MC Guru 10 years ago

Europe is done. It's a matter of time before a new Dark Ages sets in.
1. Adans smith 10 years ago
  
  Now what do you mean by 'dark' ages?
  1. cavalier973 10 years ago
    
    It's obviously a racist reference to the immigrants' elevated melanin levels.
Adans smith 10 years ago

What the hell is 'provocative behavior"? Is it because the pig offends muslims? Bring back the Dutch East indies company.
1. Mr Lizard 10 years ago
  
  I was actually wondering if their cops finally caught on and we're getting butt hurt
  1. Adans smith 10 years ago
    
    Maybe they are. What's up with names for these 'crimes'.The just just put a couple 'trigger' words together and presto,your under arrest?
    1. Suthenboy 10 years ago
      
      Now you are catching on.
      1. Adans smith 10 years ago
        
        I'm a quick study,I started drinking stouts and porters when I was 19 while my friends drank,well,swill.
cavalier973 10 years ago

How pig-headed of him.
1. The Hyperbole 10 years ago
  
  You're such a boor.
  1. Steve G 10 years ago
    
    I never sausage a bad spelling of boar
    1. The Hyperbole 10 years ago
      
      Dammit, well at least I didn't say "tow the loin"
      1. Radioactive 10 years ago
        
        swine
2. Suthenboy 10 years ago
  
  Dammit. I was sipping my coffee on the porch when it hit me...no one had made a 'pig headed' joke yet. I sit back down and pull the page up... *sigh*
  1. Adans smith 10 years ago
    
    Living high on the hog are you?
3. Mr Lizard 10 years ago
  
  Yes but it was a ham fisted response
4. Steve G 10 years ago
  
  Sow what are you saying?
5. sloopyinTEXAS 10 years ago
  
  ::squeals with delight::
  1. Libertarian 10 years ago
    
    Oh knock it off. It could be wurst.
    1. Radioactive 10 years ago
      
      he's just being a brat
Fist of Etiquette 10 years ago

On one hand, the lack of speech rights is appalling. On the other, at least their coppers didn't shoot him for violating their ubiquitous safe space.
1. Suthenboy 10 years ago
  
  I have been assured over and over by aussies, limeys, krauts, canuckistanis, etc that they absolutely do have free speech rights, but that hate speech isnt free speech...or free speech isnt hate speech. I forget which way it goes.
  
  Before you waste your time noting the cognitive dissonance keep in mind that you can't unscramble an egg.
  1. Adans smith 10 years ago
    
    They just don't get our 1st and 2ed amendments.
    1. Tom Bombadil 10 years ago
      
      literally.
2. Radioactive 10 years ago
  
  yeah cause they only have dum-dum bullets...ha
Steve G 10 years ago

A man is driving around the desert in his four wheel drive jeep. It has bull bars on the front for protection if it hits and animal. Suddenly he hits something, so he gets out and sees there is a pig wedged in his bull bar.

He tries to get it out but it's stuck tight, so he gets on his CB radio and asks for advice. "Breaker, Breaker.

I've got a pig stuck in my bull bars, how can I get it out?

A reply comes back, "Just slice open the pig and let the guts spill out. The pig will then fall out!"So the guy does this and as predicted the pig falls straight out. "OK, I have cut open the pig and it's out, but now I have another problem."

He shouts into the radio."What is it now?" the voice replies."What do I do with the motorcycle and helmet?"
Jerryskids 10 years ago

I've often seen PEGIDA described as a far right-wing nativist group which might lead one to believe they're a bunch of skinheads - except from looking up stuff about them they're somewhat less right-wing extremist than the GOP. They're not anti-immigrant, they're opposed to the current German immigration policy. Fewer immigrants, limited to true non-criminal refugees, spread them around to encourage them to assimilate rather than sticking them in enclaves where they'll re-create their own society, more spending on police and social workers for the immigrants. They're also rather critical of Muslim societies because the Muslims don't believe in equality for women and gays and other religions and don't want the Muslims bringing that sort of crap to Europe. Now if that's the far right in Germany, it's no wonder they're doomed - but PEGIDA is also very critical of the lying press who twist the truth and cover up how bad the immigration policy is and call anybody who criticizes it a bunch of right-wing extremists. That all sounds kinda familiar.
1. Adans smith 10 years ago
  
  But,it's Europe.Right wing there would be center left here for the most part.
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Rich 10 years ago

Think a European can wear one of these?
1. Libertarian 10 years ago
  
  They can't. It's FORBIDDEN!
  1. Charles Easterly 10 years ago
    
    Verboten?
    1. Radioactive 10 years ago
      
      are their papers in order?
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