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    Spain issues arrest warrant for rapper convicted over lyrics

    MADRID (AP) — Authorities in Spain issued arrest warrants Thursday for a Spanish rapper sentenced to prison for lyrics that praised terror groups and insulted the royal family.
    Jose Miguel Arenas Beltran, a 24-year-old rap singer and composer from Palma de Mallorca best known as Valtonyc, was being sought, a prosecutor’s statement said.
    The rapper was supposed to turn himself in voluntarily to serve a two-year sentence, the statement said, adding that Spanish, European and international arrest warrants have been issued in his name

    Beltran had announced that he would be disobeying the court summons to go to prison. “Tomorrow they will knock down the door to my house to put me in prison. For a few songs,” the rapper wrote in a tweet on Wednesday.
    “I’m not going to make it so easy. Disobeying is legitimate and a must before this fascist state,” he said, adding that Spain was “once again making a fool of itself.”

    https://apnews.com/cd4e7c1ac17640dbb...mpression=true

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    Quote Originally Posted by roadmaster View Post
    MADRID (AP) — Authorities in Spain issued arrest warrants Thursday for a Spanish rapper sentenced to prison for lyrics that praised terror groups and insulted the royal family.
    Jose Miguel Arenas Beltran, a 24-year-old rap singer and composer from Palma de Mallorca best known as Valtonyc, was being sought, a prosecutor’s statement said.
    The rapper was supposed to turn himself in voluntarily to serve a two-year sentence, the statement said, adding that Spanish, European and international arrest warrants have been issued in his name

    Beltran had announced that he would be disobeying the court summons to go to prison. “Tomorrow they will knock down the door to my house to put me in prison. For a few songs,” the rapper wrote in a tweet on Wednesday.
    “I’m not going to make it so easy. Disobeying is legitimate and a must before this fascist state,” he said, adding that Spain was “once again making a fool of itself.”

    https://apnews.com/cd4e7c1ac17640dbb...mpression=true
    Know the laws of your land. Still it seems Spain is not truly a free state.

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    Europe's idea of free speech is very different from ours.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Europe's idea of free speech is very different from ours.
    Lol, Spain isn't all of Europe, and it's always been a bit Fascist - from the days of the Inquisition to General Franco. I think imprisoning someone for rap lyrics is ridiculous, but freedom of speech can never be total.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Europe's idea of free speech is very different from ours.
    My idea of free speech is very different than what ours is becoming.
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    Quote Originally Posted by William View Post
    Lol, Spain isn't all of Europe, and it's always been a bit Fascist - from the days of the Inquisition to General Franco. I think imprisoning someone for rap lyrics is ridiculous, but freedom of speech can never be total.
    The Inquisition was long before fascism. And its dirty deeds are vastly over-stated. General Franco was a conservative monarchist. Nothing like a fascist, although I understand the term has been pinned to him in an effort to discredit him.
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    I am for free speech. I think if you don't like Christianity you have every right to say so or any other group. Silencing the left or the right is wrong and no one should go to jail for disagreeing. I am against shutting down the KKK speaking, Antifa, Black Nationalist ect or any other group as long as they don't physically attack others and no one should attack them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by roadmaster View Post
    I am for free speech. I think if you don't like Christianity you have every right to say so or any other group. Silencing the left or the right is wrong and no one should go to jail for disagreeing. I am against shutting down the KKK speaking, Antifa, Black Nationalist ect or any other group as long as they don't physically attack others and no one should attack them.
    I agree with you on that - but on a board like this, I guess a lot depends on how you disagree with someone.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Europe's idea of free speech is very different from ours.
    Europe's not. PP's Spain.

    In United Kingdom there are authors that have worse lyrics than him and they are not prosecuted.

    PP's government and authoritarian rule of them is a nightmare for Spain. With the loss of ETA they are needed of terrorists everywhere, so they have started to prosecute even the idiots of twitter or singers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kilgram View Post
    Europe's not. PP's Spain.

    In United Kingdom there are authors that have worse lyrics than him and they are not prosecuted.

    PP's government and authoritarian rule of them is a nightmare for Spain. With the loss of ETA they are needed of terrorists everywhere, so they have started to prosecute even the idiots of twitter or singers.
    Europe's concept of free speech is not similar to the US's view of free speech.
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