October 28, 2018 I contacted 4 media figures 2 days ago for their reactions to get their reaction to the European Union Court of Appeals upholding the trial court conviction of an Austrian journalist for blasphemy.

October 28, 2018

I contacted 4 media figures 2 days ago for their reactions to get their reaction to the European Union Court of Appeals upholding the trial court conviction of an Austrian journalist for blasphemy.

Did I just say convicted of blasphemy? Yes, I did.

Since the object of the blasphemy was the prophet Mohammed, and blessed be his name, it is no known whether the convicted perpetrator will be burned like at steak at the stake. The only possible good to come out of this is that she may have the Holy Grail that lexicographers pine for, the Austrian-English dictionary that Barack the Beneficent promised us several years ago, remember?

Since none of the petitioned media figures has responded, the Latin adage of qui tacet consentit - Silence implies consent – applies. Thank God for those crafty old DWEMs for spelling things out for us. This may be, in the immortal words of former Vice President Alpha Gump, a controlling legal authority. [A brief digression is in order: Didn’t Gump’s doppleganger, Al Gore, issue his first “10 years and we will surely die of sunburn or waterboarding” 30 years ago? He graciously renews it every 10 years. And if you see former TV star Paul Ehrlich, PhD, tell him to call his office while he still can.]

Justice Breyer and Justice Ginzberg have gently hectored us for years that we must pay more attention to legal opinions and theories from across the sea. Justice Sotomayor, and I know who paid her high school tuition, said that there is much to be learned from a “wise Latina”.

A group of wise, old men in Strasbourg have Caesar dixit ruled that even if Mohammed was a goat-humping paedophile the right of the journalist to say it is superseded by the right of the descendants of rapists, looters, and pillagers who invaded Europe 14 centuries ago to prove how ironically idyllic they were, not to be offended. Not exactly an Antigone moment, is it? Accordingly, I am using stare decisis to demand, as a septuagenarian R.C. - Retired Catholic – the expunging, the extirpation, and the erasure of “Piss Christ” and “Corpus Cristi”.

The former shows a crucifix suspended in a see-through cylinder, filled with piss, while the latter posits that Christ was crucified because Judas, his finochio “friend” dropped a dime on him. Both are subsidized by unwitting American taxpayers.

Would not Logic dictate that what works legally in Europe must be made to work here? I may not know much about law or art but I sure as Hell know blasphemy when I see it.

Kevin Smith

WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET