Courtesy of Mish.
Ministry of Truth Gag Law
On July 1, Spain enacted a "gag" law that provides for showing "disrespect to police.
Among the many new repressive stipulations is a €30,000-€600,000 fine for "unauthorized protests," which can be combined for maximum effect with a €600-€300,000 fine for "disrupting public events."
A few days ago, in Police State "Ministry of Truth" Hits Spain I noted a man was fined €600 for Calling police "Slackers" on facebook.
Progression of the Police State
Today a man was fined €300 for calling a police officer "mate" in the presence of others. The actual word in Spanish that resulted in the fine was "colega".
Reader Bran who sent me the story commented, "colega is something like 'mate' in English. Colega is not spoken with a spit of sarcasm like mate is sometimes, at worst it is questioning, overly familiar, or as a light joke."
I looked up the Definition of Colega.
- Colleague, co-worker (United States)
- Counterpart
- Pal, mate (British), buddy (United States)
Crime and Fine
Here is the story pretty much as translated by Google: 300 Euro Fine for Calling an Officer a Colleague.
A neighbor of Malaga this July received a fine for using the word 'colleague' to address the security agents' presence of pedestrians in the area…
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