The Judge RANTS!
Date: 20/07/07
Spanish Practices, or F**k Their Royals, Too!
Another censorship thing happening, folks.
The Spanish satirical magazine El Jueves responded to a
recent Spanish government campaign which would mean that Spanish
couples would be paid €2 500 for each child they produce, with a
front-page cartoon showing Crown Prince Felipe fucking his wife, while
saying that sex was the closest he would ever come to working.
The Castilian State, which still retains many of the attitudes of
the bloody forty-year dictatorship of Franco, has now ordered the
seizure of all copies of the magazine, claiming that it "...insults
the royal family".
The judge who granted the order, Juan del Olmo, is a noted
supporter of the Castilian State's repressive attitudes, particularly
when it comes to suppressing the freedom of the Basques to advocate
their national autonomy, however peaceably. Many Basque activists have
found themselves in Spanish prisons for long periods of time (and
facing serious maltreatment) as a result of the biased decisions of del
Olmo and his colleagues. So perhaps we shouldn't be surprised that del
Olmo regards freedom of speech as something which should only apply
when it agrees with his prejudices.
In a small attempt to prevent this act of censorship from
succeeding, I here reproduce the 'offending' cartoon.
Luchen, amigos, por la libertad de expresión!
