In last few weeks 5 people got arrested in Croatia because they talk bad stuff about croatian prime minister on fb
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In last few weeks 5 people got arrested in Croatia because they talk bad stuff about croatian prime minister on fb
Wow! Fortunately in America we have freedom of speech laws and criticizing our politicians is a national tradition. So unless you threaten to kill the President then you can say anything you want about them so long as you aren't breaking these laws.
We have freedom of speech in Croatia too (I live there) and those guys were arrested exactly because they were treating openly to kill him among other things how they would like to harm him. So, it wasn't pure criticism or expression of different opinion why they were arrested.
That makes sense.... I don't know anything about Croatian law but threatening to kill a major politician is probably illegal in every country.
Yeah, I think so too, it's probably illegal in every country.
But in Croatia, it's not only threatening to kill a major politician against the law, it's threatening to kill anyone (no matter who that person is or does it work like genitor or it's a president of the country). And it's not only the law it's one of the main constitutional rights, saying: "Every human being has the right to life." Accordingly, there is no death penalty, as well.
It's illegal to threaten anyone's life or any other threats of violence in America too... I actually talk about it in this post. However, it's illegal to even joke about killing the president here.
Jeez that's just dictatorship!
No, it's not! I live in Croatia and it's far from being a dictatorship country. Maybe we have a government that we are not madly in love with, as well as some politicians ordinary person wouldn't be proud of, but which country doesn't have that.
Why I'm telling that? Because those people that were arrested threaten the prime minister to kill him among other threats and bad stuff. So, it's not the question of pure criticism, expression of opposite opinions or even some hate speech, but life threats and that's, I'm sure you would agree with me, totally different category.
I definitely feel you on that.... I doubt there's any politicians worse than American politicians though I'm sure almost every country has equally bad.
Exactly! They are all piece of work of the own kind. Maybe different in performances, but essentially same BS.
I'm sorry but that's just the half of the truth. I'm not some Croatian prime minister fan, but besides bad stuff, they have also have spoken of threats against his life. In other words and to simplify, they were threatening to kill him, which is a completely different category of pure criticism or expression of opposite opinions.