“In Spain, ‘hate crime’ was invented and is directed at any speech that directly or indirectly refers to discrimination, encouragement of hostility, or inducement to violence,” Ballester told CNA. Previously, he pointed out, the criminal code was directed at whether someone had actually done something.
Asked whether he is prepared to spend three years in prison should he be convicted on the hate crime charges, Ballester said: “It doesn’t seem right to be convicted for something I’ve said, but in Spain anything is possible. But if I am convicted, this will no longer be Spain but Pakistan, where you can be killed for blaspheming the Koran or Mohammed.”
“There is no longer any true right to free speech in Spain,” Ballester said.
Go here to read the rest. And people wonder why the youth of today have no enthusiasm for fighting for the regimes that view them as subjects rather than citizens.
C’mon Don- this isn’t Spain, you know.
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Leftoid regimes impose these laws, and starboard regimes are too otiose to erase them.
What we understand is that politicians and lawyers have imbibed the attitudes of the faculty. The faculty’s attitudes are regulated by a contempt for the rest of the world, by Monovox, and by an inclination to adopt what Thomas Sowell referred to as ‘mascot groups’ as part of their exercise in self-congratulation. Leftish politics ninety years ago was concerned with the interest of wage-earners. Now it’s pure faculty shtick. A ‘hate crime’ is saying something piquant to or about a mascot group.