ianek70
08.03.06, 14:17
Jerzy Urban has lost his appeal.
wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/1,53600,3200680.html
He wrote an article in NIE criticising the cynicism of the Vatican, which
insisted on displaying a clearly very sick old man for the entertainment of
the mindless flag-waving masses of tourists.
Despite what it says in the GW charges were not pressed "po doniesieniach
oburzonych czytelników", because the people who claimed to be offended by the
article had obviously not even read it, as they admitted at the time.
For legal reasons, Urban couldn't be tried for insulting religious beliefs,
so he was charged with offending a foreign head of state. Ha ha. Of course,
no Polish journalist would ever write anything offensive about Łukaszenko,
Bush, or anyone, and they are all heads of foreign states whatever you or I
might think of them.
Before JP 2's pilgrimages to Poland, the cops used to go round all the
foreigners who were zameldowani within a few km of his routes and ask them if
they were terrosrists. Before Benny 16th's visit, be very careful what you
say, because he's also the head of a little foreign state.