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Category: News and Politics
 "...within twenty years the Pope will be where he ought to be, in Hell, tormented by great big poofter devils — and very active ones, not passive ones."
Hello Freedomphiles! Are those words shocking to you? They were to one prosecutor in Italy, and now the comedian that spoke them, Sabina Guzzanti, is facing five years in prison for "offending the honour of the sacred and inviolable person" of Pope Benedict XVI.
She is being tried under the 1929 Lateran Treaty - signed by Benito Mussolini - which gives the same punishment for insulting the Pope as for insulting the Italian President. Christian Democrat Luca Volonte applauded the decision, saying "gratuitous insults must be punished," and presumably went home and jacked off to pictures of Big Brother.
Others are less happy about this turn of events, having felt the chill of memories of Fascism creep up their spine. Antonio Di Pietro responded that the comedian had "exercised her constitutional right to freedom of thought. You can agree or not agree with what she said — and personally I didn't — but to put people in prison for that they think is reminiscent of a time when those who thought differently had castor oil poured down their throats."
Guzzanti's father naturally agreed, saying that this was "a return to the Middle Ages." He added, "Perhaps my daughter should be be submitted to the judgement of God by being made to walk on hot coals."
Giovanni Ferrara, the Rome prosecutor, has asked for permission to indict her for her thought crimes, but with all the outcry, it is improbable that the Ministry of Justice will give the go-ahead.
Thanks to Sam in the South for the tip.
10:53 PM
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