The Varoufake thing was only possible due to how damn sloppy our journalists are working, so I say good he exposed that.
Wait, what? They reported on an event of which there was video evidence, and when presented with evidence that suggested it was fake, they reported on that. How is that exposing sloppiness, as opposed to just stright-up lying to get media attention?
It is a tasteless poem. A poem nonetheless. It rhymes, and it has metric (at least the german original version does).
It should fall completely under the freedom of arts. If this guy gets convicted for this, it's a big loss for the german constitutional state.
It's tasteless nonetheless, and infantile. It deserves a lot of criticism. But no legal action.
There is a law against it, and Böhmermann was aware of that. It would be a great loss to the German Rechtsstaat if there was no legal action, because that would mean putting day-to-day politics above the law. Just ask yourself: Would he be getting the same reaction for calling Obama a banana-lving cotton boy?
So apparently a video in which Varoufakis might or might not have been giving the finger to the world was claimed by Bohrman as a fake. Which turned out to be not true. So it was a fake fake fake?
Varoufakis flipped of Germany (not the world, Germany) at some event a couple years back, waaaayyy before he became a minister. This was dug up by some German talkshow, and subsequently overhyped (seriously, go look at the original - it's a triviality). The real kicker is that Varoufakis immediately opted for just straight-up lying to the world, claiming the video was fake and that the events depicted had never happened - and this at the height of German-Greek tension. Böhmermann then faked evidence that showed him/his team faking that middle finger, supposedly exculpating Varoufakis. Said evidence made quite a stir, but was quickly exposed to be false as well.
For some reason this is considered to be a stroke of genius by Böhmermann.
When you persecute literally 2000 people for insulting you, then you deserve to be insulted.
If you kill a lot of people, you deserve to die? Go buy a rifle and hunt down Erdogan, then, because insultng him is not nearly enough.
Flawless logic.
Glad to see you agree with me. Paying back injury with injury is a frightfully primitive impulse.