blasphemy prosecution
2002-03-05 15:12:05+00 by Dan Lyke 4 comments
Via Robot Wisdom, a British TV personality faces possible prison term for "blasphemous libel" after she read a poem on her show.
2002-03-05 15:12:05+00 by Dan Lyke 4 comments
Via Robot Wisdom, a British TV personality faces possible prison term for "blasphemous libel" after she read a poem on her show.
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#Comment made: 2002-03-06 15:58:31+00 by: petronius
As if "blasphemous Libel" weren't resounding enough, how about the term from the link of "thinking man's crumpet"!!!??(insert interobang here)
#Comment made: 2002-03-06 16:48:03+00 by: Shawn
<sigh>... just <sigh>...
Somebody stop the world, I wanna get off. I think maybe I'll go start my own club of homo sapiens out on Mars somewhere...
#Comment made: 2002-03-06 17:48:30+00 by: petronius
If you go to Mars, take the poet with you. I read the poem in question in this court case, and the author should probably be arrested, not for blasphemy but for creating perhasp the worst poem of the 1970s.
#Comment made: 2002-03-06 17:51:14+00 by: petronius
For a look at a more venerable bad poem, I recommend this link: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/3964/mcintyre.html