Posted on 07/09/2015 12:15:17 PM PDT by Enlightened1
pain Government Goes Full Police State; Enacts Law Forbidding Dissent, 'Unauthorized' Photography Of Law Enforcement from the shut-up-citizen-or-we'll-put-your-money-where-your-mouth-is dept
Well, Spain's officially a police state now. On July 1st, its much-protested "gag" law went into effect, instantly making criminals of those protesting the new law. Among the many new repressive stipulations is a €30,000-€600,000 fine for "unauthorized protests," which can be combined for maximum effect with a €600-€300,000 fine for "disrupting public events."
This horrible set of statutes has arisen from Spain's position as a flashpoint for anti-austerity protests, the European precursor to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Fines, fines and more fines await anyone who refuses to treat authority with the respect it's forcibly requiring citizens to show it.
The law also extends its anti-protest punishments to social media, where users can face similar fines for doing nothing more than encouraging or organizing a protest. Failing to present ID when commanded is another fine. And then there's this:
Showing a "lack of respect" to those in uniform or failing to assist security forces in the prevention of public disturbances could result in an individual fine of between €600 and €30,000.
Spain's legislators thought of everything. To ensure these crackdowns on protests go off with a minimum of public backlash, "respected" police officers are being given a blank check to use as much force as they feel necessary when breaking up "unauthorized protests." The law doesn't directly instruct police to behave badly, but it does provide a very helpful increase in opacity.
A clause in the wide-ranging legislation that critics have dubbed the "gag law" provides for fines of up to 30,000 euros ($33,000) for "unauthorized use" of images of working police that could identify them, endanger their security or hinder them from doing their jobs.
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And meanwhile Madrid is changing street names to take off references to Franco.
wow.. FReedom died there a long time ago.. no surprise.
Coming to a city near you.
Did anyone really think that the descendants of the rapacious Conquistadors were egalitarian adherents of liberal democracy and private property?
Whoa. Hope this doesn’t give our government ideas.
Wow...
Things are moving quickly now.
Spain is OFFICIALLY out of the Renaissance and REENTERING the Dark Ages.
But have they taken down the Rebel flag yet?
I was thinking about visiting Spain on my next Europe trip. No longer. . .
So...this is because the EBT card holders in Spain don't want to sacrifice some of their freebies for the "common good"? They don't want to do their "fair share"?
Socialism always fails. I guess the police state would be the next step once the socialists run out of other peoples money.
Humph. Go figure.
Prepare yourselves. Oboma has broke the bank. This is us tomorrow.
Leftists can live in Madrid - just like always.
The author is in a panic, I just returned 2 weeks ago and a police state it most certainly is not. The USA is a police state run by Leftists/ Marxists. Maybe they don't want to see Spain overrun like us. JMHO
Sorry. Not into Beeg Man governments of either the Right or the Left.
And Francisco Franco is still dead, even if the Guardia doesn't want to believe it.
Some times I think FR is now a leftist site.
People salivate to lefty Pavlovian bell articles like this one.
Your rationality and objective understanding is all to rare nowadays.
(But, having said that, your tagline (”The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever”) is not true at all, in fact it is rather the opposite, but that’s another discussion.)
“We need, IMO, a right wing strongman in the White House to really bust heads and restore a civil society.”
Bullshine,,, that’s the last thing we need. We need someone who lives and breathes the constitution, and demonstrates it daily.
Obola, Ayers, and Valerie are already on this.
The 2012 NDAA allows Indefinite Detention of US Citizen “enemy beligerents”.
Welcome to Camp FEMA.
Don’t be uncooperative, or you’ll make us use some of the Billions of rounds of ammo we’ve been stockpiling within DHS.
Congressional Research paper link:
http://fas.org:8080/sgp/crs/natsec/R42337.pdf
IMHO, the Million patriots that showed up in DC on 09/12/2009 scared and pissed off Obola.
NDAA is a mechanism to thwart the threat of wide scale protests when the SHTF.
Franco = :)’ing
Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Franco are greatly admired by totalitarian bass turds like Obola, Clinton, and fellow like-minded end-justifies-the-means leftists.
The aforementioned tyrants really knew how to get things done, and how to take care of opposition.
Re: Franco is smiling
This is what I took from it.
Seems like they are simply not going to allow anarchist agitators and mob rule go unfetterred anymore. This is something badly needed in lots of our major cities.
However, that said, I do agree that it is a dangerous law that I would not support because in most cases this would be directed at Tea Party, Patriotic demonstrations against leftist regimes.
So, I’d rather deal with their mob scenes than have law state we cannot organize or protest for our good causes.
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