Who, oddly enough, was named Mittens.
He was a loyal kitty.
Posted on 04/23/2017 7:33:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
When she posted jokes on Twitter about a 1973 assassination committed by Spain's Basque separatist group ETA, Cassandra Vera never for one moment thought they would land her a one-year jail sentence. But last month, one of Spain's top criminal courts found the 21-year-old guilty of "justifying terrorism" and humiliating its victims - the latest in a series of such convictions for social media pranks that has the country divided, and partisans of free speech worried.
"They ruined my life," Vera tweeted about the 13 posts about the 1973 murder of Luis Carrero Blanco, the prime minister and heir-apparent of dictator Francisco Franco who was killed in an ETA bomb attack that sent his car hurtling into the air.
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Words have consequences.
She made 2 jokes about a 1973 car bombing where the car flew into the air.
“ETA combined a policy against the use of official vehicles with a space programme,” read one of her posts.
Another said: “Did Carrero Blanco also go back to the future with his car?”
You really saying people need to be -prosecuted- for joking about a murder 44 years ago?
“13 posts”
Sympathizing with ETA publicly in Spain carries the same weight as extolling the virtues of ISIS here. It’s no small thing.
People who beat people up or put people in jail or drive people out of business because someone pretended to be offended offend me. So, those people must be beaten, imprisoned and driven out of business.
No Tolerance For the Intolerant!
Oh well 13. Clearly a felony. But in any case, I’ve heard 9/11 jokes, Challenger jokes, Vietnam jokes, terrorism jokes, Natalie Wood jokes, Helen Keller Jokes, Cold war jokes, Hiroshima jokes, etc.
The woman outs herself as an idiot. Societies are better when hurt feelings aren’t criminalized.
Dumb joke. Not funny.
Still, I don’t feel threatened by a dumb girl. Meanwhile, hordes of military aged men pretending to be ‘refugee kids’ pour into Europe with evil intent...
Too soon?
He was a Franco man...they could have used another 40 years of Francoism...would have done them a world of good!!!
Any sentence of less than 2 years for non violent offences in Spain is always suspended.
gfy
Move to Spain. I hear it's a good place for a Gringo to retire.
Bu we in America have a First Amendment.
Here at FR, I saw a picture of Helen Keller's cat. :-/
Who, oddly enough, was named Mittens.
He was a loyal kitty.
She didn’t expect the Spanish Inquisition.
Under the First Amendment, somebody has the right to proclaim the virtues of ISIS in the US. The statement may produce interest by the FBI and NSA, but you cannot be sent to jail over it.
And General Francisco Franco is still dead ...
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