From the anti-free speech files comes this article about the Catholic Church trying to get a website shut down because it insults the new pope:
Rome judicial authorities sought a temporary injunction on Friday against an Internet site which carried doctored photographs of Pope Benedict dressed in a Nazi uniform.
Rome investigating magistrate Salavtore Vitello said in a statement the pictures violated a national law prohibiting defamation of the Catholic Church. Vitello said he was also considering taking action against the owners of the site for insulting the authority and honour of the Pope himself.
Ratzinger served in the Hitler Youth, a Nazi paramilitary organisation, in World War Two when membership was compulsory for young Germans.
It’s illegal to parody the church in Italy? What kind of free speech is that?
who are they to tell us what to do and think … they have run ruff shot over ppl for long enuff …………….NO MORE
sumo227
May 9th, 2005
Hey, I think the phrase is rough shod. You’ve just been grammar-fisted.
johnny
May 19th, 2005
And so then they try to blow a stink over the last South Park episode, in an attempt to censor Comedy Central from ever showing it, or having “Bloody Merry” ever put on DVD. They’re argument, they think the portrayal of the statue of Mother Mary was irreverant, so…
What’s next, falling in line with the Church of Scientology and filing copious law suites against websites that say anything they don’t like to hear? Sort of as CoS was said to have done with the Clambake site and possibly
http://www.xenu.net
If the catholic church was any smaller, and pulled stuff of this sort, they’d be labeled a cult…
Son Goku
December 30th, 2005