In Italy it is illegal to praise someone who has committed a crime.
I always understood that Europeans have much freedom of speech than we do in the US (and also that we are drifting in that direction with hate speech laws, campus speech codes, McCain-Feingold, etc), but I have to say this really shocked me. Not that I agree with this woman's praise of a murderous thug, but really, shouldn't social opprobrium be enough to handle this sort of idiocy?
(Fair Warning: I have committed a crime [speeding], so praise me in Italy at your own risk.)
This blog began as a description of our life in Al Ain, UAE (United Arab Emirates). Brn worked at the UAE University Libraries Deanship for three years and Bss homeschooled our four children, D, B, P, and O. After returning to the the USA for five years, we are living in Abu Dhabi now.
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