Monday, November 19, 2007

Wow! Leftist "Hate speech" gets a Fine for Once



We read:

"Two Spanish cartoonists have been found guilty of offending the royal family and fined 3,000 euros ($4,000) each. Their cartoon, on the front page of the weekly satirical magazine El Jueves in July, depicted Crown Prince Felipe and his wife Letizia having sex....

"Do you realise," says the crown prince in the cartoon, "if you get pregnant this will be the closest thing I've done to work in my whole life." That referred to an announcement by the government that it would pay Spanish couples for each new baby they had.

Slandering or defaming the Spanish royal family can carry a sentence of up to two years in prison.

During their short trial, the defendants said they had done nothing wrong and had depicted members of the royal family in cartoons many times before. Trade unions representing journalists have accused the Spanish judiciary of impeding freedom of speech, says the BBC's Steve Kingstone in Madrid.

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Leftists don't like it when their "hate speech" nonsense comes home to roost and hurts them. Leftist speech is always "free speech" in their double-standard world.