Condemnation For Court Decision Against El Jueves Cartoonsts Continues

The London-based on-line magazine spiked in this article re-publishes the satirical magazine cover that recently cost its creators several thousand dollars and touched their careers with a guilty verdict for simply doing their jobs. As dozens of sites including this one have republished that cover multiple times without incident or comment, it's not really a brave stand in the way that even re-publishing the Muhammed caricatures might have seemed in early 2006, and in fact it's that silence that lends an air of the surreal to the affair. That cover carries whatever weight it has and has international currency only because the magazine was seized and the cover's creators brought to court. The legal result is almost too bizarre and obviously dismaying for people to comment on it in an effective way, although sources like this one try and point out the obvious that "no law should turn irreverence into a crime." But articles repeating the sentiment "this is totally stupid" over and over again can only go so far. Perhaps this equally ridiculous related incident will draw further attention to a blow against European free speech in just about the last place anyone expected it.
 
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