The new gag laws are starting to gain
revenue as people are fined for photographing the Police.
A woman posted a photograph on facebook
of a police car parked in a disable person parking place and was
tracked down and fined €800.
How do you stop people filming cops
beating up the innocent and the not so innocent? Do what Spain have
done with their latest gag laws. Anyone taking a picture of a cop or
videoing them will be fined up to €30,000. Their justification,
they say you are putting the lives of the police and their families
in danger from reprisals by revealing their identity.
When you see them laying into your
friend or family member, even when guilty of — DWF —
Drunken-While-Foreign. It's instinctive to press record, if only to
note the crimes against humanity these cops are committing. The
Spanish police usually have their faces covered up when they are
about to kick off. So if they do approach you wearing turtle-necks
pulled up over their noses, it ain’t no fashion statement, drop to
the floor, do a hedgehog and wait for the smiling, lusty-violence -
hidden by their paramilitary masks - to abate.
Is this get out of jail free card going
to course onlookers to take action as the camera was starting to make
the police realise they can't be judge and executioner and think
twice before they react as fast as a petulant child on hearing it's
bedtime.
Does this mean that the press are not
allowed to record disturbances where the police are called in to
control – yes because any gathering of people in protest is against
the law unless organised with permission. Which means the press will
be controlled, only those that show favour to the government will be
allowed passes. If this doesn’t work, because some rouge journalist
showed a cop sticking in his size twelves, then eventually cameramen
will be wearing special police uniforms with their own unique
insignia, complete with jack-boots and flamboyant style of saluting.
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