Spain's
repressive Gag Law finally came into effect this week. Proving that
the government has a sense of humour, it's really called The
Citizen Safety Law.
The press has lists of what you can only do now at risk
of a humungous police fine and here's a selection of these:-
- Taking fotos of the police.
- Referring to a demonstration on Twitter or any other social network.
- Consuming drugs in the street, including a reefer. Whatever that is.
- Taking part in a botellón, or a booze-up, in the street. I look forward to seeing how this is applied in August, after our bullfights.
- Abandoning furniture in the street, even next to the rubbish containers.
- Losing your ID thrice in a year. Or if you can't produce it when asked and you haven't reported theft/loss.
- Using laser pointers.
- Demonstrating at the entrance to Congress or the Senate, even if no one's in there.
- Impeding an eviction.
- Occupying empty houses.
- Showing a "lack of respect" to those in uniform or failing to assist security forces in the prevention of public disturbances
Talking of police fines
. . . Up in Ortigueira, here in Galicia, a cyclist was recently fined €1,000 for being over the alcohol limit - the
first person to suffer this expensive indignity since new traffic
laws came in last March. He joins the growing list of people who've
become victims of El Tráfico's revenue collection program. Like the
chap who was fined because one of his back-seat passengers was
'pretending to be superman'.
You
don't read comments like this every day: I confess that only one
third of me is bold-bummed bohemian, the rest is closed-sphinctered
bourgeois. More's the pity.
And this
is an expression of happiness I've never heard before: I'm chuffed to
monkeys.
Finally .
. . Here's a foto of a place near Japan's Mount Fuji - the hills east
of Pontevedra, from my bedroom window.
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