Another Reason to Be Thankful You Live in the USA
If you ever wanted another good reason to thank God you’re NOT an expresso-sipping, cheese-eating Metrosexual Euroweenie – here it is.
Recently, a German comedian wrote a satirical and suggestive poem about a public figure. He recited the poem on a German TV show.
Unfortunately, in Europe their concept of freedom of speech (and of freedom in general) isn’t quite the same as ours. The public figure was insulted – and requested a criminal investigation of the comedian be opened.
Why? It seems here that the public figure here was Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan – a foreign head-of-state. And under an obscure provision of German law, that is not legal in Germany. Specifically, insulting a foreign head-of-state violates Article 103 of Germany’s penal code. And that “crime” carries a maximum penalty of 3 years in prison – or up to 5 years if it is deemed a “slanderous insult”.
On Ergodan’s request, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has approved initiation of a criminal investigation into the matter. She’s also indicated she will “move to repeal the controversial and little-used Article 103 of the penal code” by 2018.
Yeah, I’m sure the German comedian in question is just thrilled to hear about the latter.
Logically, this should go over well in Berkeley and similar places. After all, criminalizing free speech helps to create “safe spaces” where people are protected from “disturbing speech and ideas”. But in the rest of the US . . . maybe not so much.
Any American who doesn’t thank God daily that they are an American is a damned fool.
Category: "Teh Stoopid", Crime, WTF?
There are a lot of dammed fools in our country….
Fuckin’ A, I see this as an example of something else that the snot-nosed left wants to shove down our throats.
Coming soon to our country, if not already here in some small measures. Seems that the only absolutely guaranteed speech is of the PC type.
Yep!
“Specifically, insulting a foreign head-of-state violates Article 103 of Germany’s penal code.”
Unless the head-of-state is Buuuuuuushhhhhh
Meh-Bill Nye has said that he wants to lock up those who disagree with him about “climate change”, so we may not be so far off.
Apropos of nothing-there are nekkid picture of )a much younger) Angela Merkel on-line. Can we get a prosecution of her going under the “You Can’t Unsee That” act of 2017?
The special snowflakes in Ann Arbor, Mi, want to have people arrested for chalking “Trump 2016” on sidewalks on the campus of U of M. Strange that these SJW’s never proclaimed that anyone should be arrested for chalking when it was the Occuturds doing it.
Simple, UpNorth. The naive twerps agreed with the “Occupy (whatever)” fools. They don’t agree with Trump supporters. They find it OK to allow speech with which they agree and suppress speech they don’t like.
They’re either too young and naive – or too stupid – to realize that knife cuts both ways.
Yeah, But why does it have to be either/or? They’re too young, naive and stupid. We have a poster that shows up here frequently who’s a prime example.
DITTO with the thumbsucking booger-eating bedwetting snowflakes at Emory University that had no issues with BLM crap being chalked on their turf but shit themselves sideways when the same was done with Trump’s name.
Cheese? What is it you have against cheese? I have enough cheese in my fridge to keep even Fatty Kim da T’ird and Hevvy Chevy happy for an hour or two.
Re: Bill Nye: science guy feels ‘threatened’ whenever someone gets in his face about something, even if he’s wrong.
Well, I see someone didn’t pick up on the intended association with “cheese-eating”. (smile)
Yet another perfect example of why our forefathers left Europe to come here and later created a new country.
I thought comedy in Germany was a crime anyway?
Kermit the Frog got arrested in Berlin that one time…
50% of my DNA is German. Germans (and part-Germans) make up the largest ethnic group in the USA. This is yet another example of why so many ethnic Germans decided not to be German nationals, and chose to be Americans instead. For this I am eternally grateful. One of my Grandmothers’ maiden name was Erhard, the other’s was Ritter. They were both native-born Americans who married native-born American ethnic Irishmen. Their great-grandfathers decided to say “Auf wiedersehen” to the old country long before Germany unified or anybody knew who the hell Otto Von Bismarck was. Nobody in the family tree ever looked back (though Uncle Ollie was proud to send back some explosive ordnance, one B-17 load at a time).
Altogether, I have to agree, my birth country is a beautiful place and the monarchy care about their citizens, I have no desire to relocate to retire there as many families do.
They come to America, work their butts off and retire to their birth place to be cared for in their old age, unlike here, when your put in a old folks home and forgotten.
I’m 100% Americanized, can practice my religion, say what I want, own a weapon and do everything a American born citizen can do. I love my adopted AMERICA and am proud and grateful for being allowed to live here.
Our national anthem brings tears to my eyes as do the Military songs. We’re here to stay and proud to be called American..
After returning from Africa, following a prize fight, the former Cassius Clay remarked, “Thank God my grand-daddy got on that boat.”
His maternal great grandfather, by the way, did get on a boat to come to America. However, the boat sailed not from Africa but from Ireland. The man’s name was Abe Grady of Ennis. He came to America in the 1860s and married a free black woman in Kentucky.
It’s “espresso,” not “expresso.”
According to Miriam-Webster and a number of other dictionary sources, “expresso” is a variant spelling of “espresso”. Both are thus acceptable English-language spellings of the term.
Use whichever you prefer, but don’t be disingenuous and claim that only one is correct.
Tell your people that the following sentence needs rewriting:
“The Bondo® brand offers a complete line of fillers and accessories – putties and glazes, undercoatings, and tools – for many applications including automotive, household, marine, hobby, and many others.”
The sentence is awkward and contains an error in punctuation. Also, a portion of it–the last three words–are redundant.
Grammar Nazi is an easy role to play, but playing it carries risk.
See that? I had a noun/verb disagreement. That’s the risk of playing the role. Besides, it’s quite annoying.