Going to spain in a few days for summer, I'm sending you money YO!
Going to spain in a few days for summer, I'm sending you money YO!
Oh, I agree: it's fantastically ridiculous that this has received so little attention. Was just trying to rationalize it, because it confuses me greatly.
I did mention it on a past thread about hologram protests (which were a response to this, when they were being passes), but people didn't find it particularly interesting /shrug.
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Five things Spain’s ‘gag law’ will stop you doing from today.
Demonstrating near Congress and the Senate.
Then Demonstrate somewhere else. There should be laws about where you can and cannot demonstrate.
Taking photographs of police officers.
Only one I really disagree with. This should still be allowed.
Stopping a home eviction.
No shit this isn't allowed. What's next, you gonna stop an arrest?
Protesting from above.
Again... NO SHIT. Don't climb stuff when prostesting.
Peaceful resistance and sit-ins.
Lie. You can still protest and demonstrate as long as the date and location have been approved. And guess what, Spain isn't some 3rd world country... if you're not morons about it, you will be allowed to protest.
Except for the taking photographs of police officers, I see no problem with this. This isn't losing freedom of speech, this is losing freedom to be a stupid moron, which isn't a freedom you should have in the first place.
What is moronic or not is debatable. In any case, could you elaborate?: why should people not have that freedom?.
Note that many of the points in this new piece were penalized already: before a judge. They are circumventing the judicial system, by replacing them with the relevant authority, high fines and no legal recourse. Which is nice, as long as this "relevant authority" is aligned with your political desires.
This is not about being a moron: it's a government fearing civic, responsible and peaceful dissent.
You all realise we're speaking about Spain, right? Not Iran or Saudi-Arabia...
Responsible and peaceful protests wont be stopped. This law is to stop the not so responsible protests. Like the morons we have in Belgium that think their right to protest includes the right to just block a few random roads and fuck people over.
Aslong as you got permission for your peaceful protest and you don't fuck with people's work, transportation or property you can go right ahead. I can only hope for strickter protest laws here in Belgium.
Last edited by nextormento; 2015-07-02 at 04:48 PM.