WTF ? Austria bans jokes about blondes because it could lead to terrorism

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No offense Tender, but Austria is by far the most ridiculous country in Europe. I actually thought it could go no lower after changing the national anthem to appease a small group of radical feminists, but I was proved wrong.

Also this is clearly a violation of Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights that ensure people Freedom of Expression and would be struk down by the courts if anyone's ever silly enough to attemt to enforce this Law.

Ironicly it wouldn't be the first time Austria gets spanked by the European Court for violating the Freedom of Expression. 

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There's also a big difference between discriminating against a group of people and joking about stereo-types about those groups. Banning black jokes or gay jokes would be just as stupid.

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Well that's just another good reason we should behead the union, burn the Lisbon treaty, and throw the remains in the sea.

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BTW: One of the last remaining countries to consistantly oppose the new terror law was Sweden, but in 2011 the EU also warned Sweden that they rather implement it or be punished.

Any word if the parliament up there passed the data storage thing now or if it's still blocked ?

Maybe the Swedes have the guts to not pass this law and pay the fine instead ...

It's not going to get passed as long as there is no majority in the parliament obviously. The Commies and Sweden Democrats are against the European Union and oppose everything from Brusseles out of principle. The Greens are no big fans of things called anti-terror. The Social Democrats would of course have supported it were they in government, but they're smart enough to realise crossing the floor to pass vastly unpopular directives when in opposition makes no sense what so ever. Even if the government actually had a majority it'd take an astonishing hard whip-effort to get all Alliance MPs behind the legislation.

So interestling having 20 or so facists holding the balance of power in some ways actually helps in stopping facist legislation from being implemented.