Any bad taste joke about the shoa?
Sorry to disagree strongly wiht you.. but it looks like I am living in a different Europe...
Actually in Italy a merely advertisement where a guy promoting video-games was shown in Jesus-Christ prompted condemnation and calls for boycots from the catholic church. Suffice to say that the next week all the billboards were withdrawn.
SO, yes, I think it is much more easy in Europe to defend freedom of speech when it is about muslims than when it is about jews or catholics.
A pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
They occasionally copied the entire edition of, say, La Repubblica, Il Corriere della Sera, Il Messaggero, La Stampa, or the German BILD and the biggest Polish newspaper ( I forgot the name of it) and managed to distribute them at the newspaper sales stands in Italy.
One time they even managed to smuggle thousands of copies into communist Poland.
"Il Male" would report in the hijacked newspaper, following their stile 1:1, a main news headline article, which would slightly exagerate the 'normal' political/ideological core beliefs of the paper. I remember that they did a stunt on the Red Brigades and the Moro assasination in La Repubblic, the Pope's first visit to Poland in the Polish Gazeta, they also announced the sudden, unexpected fall of the Berlin Wall which would lead to German re-unification in BILD as early as in 1982, etc.pp.
Here is a hijacked Italian newspaper, owned by Berlusconi, which opens with the headline:
They want Silvio in Loreto Square
(Mussolini was hung in Loreto Square)
It goes on:
The left already makes preparations for a night of long knives and foments hate exactly like they did in 1945. It suffices to read Giorgio Bocca.
"The USA appears destined by fate to plague America with misery in the name of liberty." Simon Bolivar, Caracas, 1819
