Brickbat: Tough Crowd

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A Spanish court has sentenced Cassandra Vera to one year in jail for tweeting jokes about the 1973 assassination of prime minister Luis Carrero Blanco. The court said her jokes were "disrespectful" and did not form part of a "healthy humoristic environment."

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[Fist of Etiquette]

#TooSoon

[loveconstitution1789]

Luis Carrero Blanco

He should have checked his blanco privilege!

[Fist of Etiquette]

But Consuelo Ordonez, head of the Covite association for victims of terrorism, said laughing at the expense of Carrero Blanco - a man associated with Franco's iron-fist rule that ended after he died in 1975 - was a big mistake.

"If we had been serious about that fact that nothing justifies violence, we wouldn't be talking about more than 800 ETA deaths," she told AFP, referring to the 829 people killed during the group's four-decade campaign for Basque independence.

You know who else was turned into an internet joke?

[Anomalous]

Rick Astley?

[DanO.]

Who?

[loveconstitution1789]

The Pope?

[Drave Robber]

418 I'm a teapot?

[Princess Trigger]

Howard Dean approved.

[Radioactive]

those ruthless Latin dictators have no discernible sense of humor...just sayin

[Anomalous]

Especially the dead ones.

[Radioactive]

really, aren't they just the worst?

[Libertarian]

Odio speech isn't liberado speech.

[Memory Hole]

Jailing people for jokes, have they no decency?

[Rufus The Monocled]

What's your point; your angle?

[mitgernihc]

Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition 🙂

[DanO.]

No lame woodchipper "jokes" yet?
I haz a sad.
🙁

[Rufus The Monocled]

Aside from lames dopes like Memory Hole and DanO. feigning 'sense of proportion and perspective' masking it with middling sarcasm, this is yet another example of freedom of speech and expression is under direct assault in the West. The United States remains unique with the 1A - for now.

[Rufus The Monocled]

that was supposed to be lame-ass.

[Radioactive]

success is achieved...

[DenverJ]

She looks like a dude

[Radioactive]

her true crime?

[creech]

What's next for us? Making it a crime to ask "Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, did you enjoy the play?"

[creech]

Speaking of, today's the anniversary of J.W. Booth's death in 1865. Conspiracy theorists speculate that Stanton had Booth killed so he couldn't talk. He was shot by Sgt. Boston Corbett who got a large cash reward (more than a year's pay as I recall.) Corbett became a drunk and was put into an insane asylum after he castrated himself with a pair of scissors!

[Radioactive]

ewwww!

[Griffin3]

"healthy humoristic environment."

Someone should make this the law.