Merkesl's "demoracy and free speech"

Angela Merkel is now silencing German satirists to please Erdogan. This is what the EU has wrought

   Boris Johnson Boris Johnson

17 April 2016 • 11:09pm

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, listens as Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, speaks during a joint press conference after a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, listens as Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, speaks during a joint press conference after a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin Credit: Axel Schmidt/AP

Love is a many splendoured thing. Cupid’s darts find the most unexpected targets. I am not for one minute prepared to exclude the possibility that erotic interest may flower between a man and a goat. The ancient Greeks clearly thought about the possibility: hence their mythologising about Pan and satyrs and other cloven-footed hybrids.

A cursory trawl of the internet reveals – according to the BBC – that in 2006 a Sudanese man called Tombe was surprised in the act of darkness with a female goat, and was obliged by the village elders to pay a dowry of 15,000 Sudanese dinars to its owner, and then to marry the beast. To the best of my knowledge they are still together.

But I don’t think there is anyone of any importance who seriously believes that there has been any kind of romance involving the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and any other non-human mammal, caprine or otherwise.
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So, when a young German comedian called the Turkish leader a “goat –––––––”, in a little-watched broadcast on March 31, you might have thought that the best response – from Turkey’s point of view – was a dignified silence. Yes, I suppose it was puerile. And yes, I accept that it was not in especially good taste. But it was what we call a joke. It is utterly bewildering – and slightly shocking – that the Turkish leader has failed to see this.

The episode has, as they say, got his goat, and he has deployed all Turkey’s diplomatic and political weight in an effort to persecute the satirist, 35-year-old TV host Jan Boehmermann. He and the Turkish government have officially demanded that the presenter should be prosecuted for lèse-majesté – in this case causing offence to the leader of a foreign state – under an all-but defunct statute that dates back to 1871 and the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II.


so much for the EHRA and freedom of speech/opinion
so much for individual feedom....

like I keep saying ....NEVER trust a lefty....

little grey men in little grey boxes

if you dont toe the hive minds line you are fair game for 5 years in gaol...

supression of freedom IS the lefty intent and aim...

LINKY


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/17/angela-merkel-is-now-silencing-german-satirists-to-please-erdoga/

A 'lefty' = 'the enemy within'

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A German comedian       ?!?


Oxymoron of the week...

I've seen the "poem", and it's really quite offensive - it also mentions watching child porn.

I'm not really a fan of comedians or satirists who use "humour" to hide their offensive messages. A clever one can be funny whilst managing not to be abusive, offensive, or pathetic.

Also, why are there two typos in the thread title, and no link?

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as to the typos.....

i can only say .......grammar nazi