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(KXAN) Strange Austrian man receives two months in jail for having cellphone voicemail greeting of Hitler saying "Sieg Heil"   (kxan.com) divider line 148
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PortWineBoy 2005-12-22 03:37:24 PM  
I'm all in favor of the strict German/Austrian anti-Nazi laws.

I think we can all agree on this one, right?

 
kewbonium 2005-12-22 03:51:34 PM  
The headline doesn't mention that this guy was already a criminal and they just added two months onto the end of his sentence for the Nazi oath voice mail greeting. Shame on submitter for making this seem like more of a big deal than it really is.

 
Juansmith 2005-12-22 05:02:23 PM  
PortWineBoy:

Any country in which you're not free to be an ignorant, racist blowhard is not a free country.

 
Everyone's Collective Imaginary Friend 2005-12-22 05:35:26 PM  
PortWineBoy: I'm all in favor of the strict German/Austrian anti-Nazi laws.

I think we can all agree on this one, right?



Sorry buddy, I support people's freedom to hate other people. I'm going to let natural selection take care of the ignorant Nazi farkheads.

 
Heroic Poser 2005-12-22 05:55:14 PM  
kewbonium: Shame on submitter for making this seem like more of a big deal than it really is.

Welcome to Fark.
This is why you have no greenlights.

 
brap [TotalFark] 2005-12-22 06:17:19 PM  
Ignorant Nazi farktards.

/goes back to having tapped phone conversation, until light-bulb appears over head

Hey, wait just a cotton-picking minute!

 
Fark It [TotalFark] 2005-12-22 06:31:29 PM  
Yay for free-speech.

 
itsjr 2005-12-22 06:34:15 PM  
This has got to have SOMETHING to do with Bush's War on Terrorism, right?????

 
bbcrackmonkey 2005-12-22 06:34:25 PM  
The dude should be thrown in prison on the sole fact that his voicemail greeting was so lame. If I had to hear Hitler chanting "Seig heil!" every time I left someone a voicemail I would start stabbing people.

 
Buffalo77 2005-12-22 06:34:27 PM  
Guess Austria signed the Patriot Act

 
tarvuz 2005-12-22 06:34:59 PM  
Given that this takes place in Austria I can understand their strict laws against anything Nazi. But you punks with a feeble sense of history and location wouldn't understand.

 
TheRoamingGnome 2005-12-22 06:37:02 PM  
Sieg Heil

 
buttsecks 2005-12-22 06:37:03 PM  
>>>>> PortWineBoy [TotalFark]
I'm all in favor of the strict German/Austrian anti-Nazi laws.
I think we can all agree on this one, right? <<<<


Wrong, asshole.

Until he actually does something bad to another person, he should not be punished. Being an asshole is not a crime. You are an asshole but you should not be imprisoned.

Yea, he is already in jail, but that doesn't mean it's good to extend his sentence for any dumbass reason we can possibly find.

The ironical thing is that by imprisoning people for their opinions/thoughts/culture, they are being nazis themselves.

 
Neesie 2005-12-22 06:37:11 PM  
>>I'm all in favor of the strict German/Austrian anti-Nazi laws.

I think we can all agree on this one, right?<<

Not. Everyone should be entitled to their views - as long as they don't feed into actions that harm innocent people. I'd also rather know who the jerks are, I'd not have anything to do with someone like that.

 
Smed 2005-12-22 06:37:49 PM  
tarvuz: Given that this takes place in Austria I can understand their strict laws against anything Nazi. But you punks with a feeble sense of history and location wouldn't understand.

So, should the States have strict laws about voicemails proposing slavery?

 
blink_183 2005-12-22 06:38:02 PM  
My cell phone ring is Michael Bolton singing "When a man loves a woman," and all I got was kicked in the nuts.

/I celebrate his entire collection

 
methodlynx 2005-12-22 06:38:29 PM  
Sieg heil... Arnold?

 
WinterMoth 2005-12-22 06:38:33 PM  
Buffalo77
LOL, haha, I had to wipe tears...
/i musta been in the right mood for that one.

 
TheKidFromDeliverance 2005-12-22 06:38:44 PM  
Juansmith: Any country in which you're not free to be an ignorant, racist blowhard is not a free country.



QFT.

 
Priapulid 2005-12-22 06:38:46 PM  
Now if he had used "Seig heil" ring tone... that would be semi amusing. Even more funny if it was sped up to sound like a chipmunk Hitler.

 
safeinsane 2005-12-22 06:38:54 PM  

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!

 
Mr. Crankypants 2005-12-22 06:39:54 PM  
I'd like to thank PortWineBoy for getting a rather dull thread off to a great start.

 
Fixer 2005-12-22 06:39:59 PM  
Prosecutors say he downloaded the message from the Internet. It includes the repeating of the phrase "Sieg Heil! (seeg hyl)"

And here I've been sayin' 'sig hail' like an idiot....

I feel awful.

 
lomans 2005-12-22 06:40:00 PM  
I hate Nazi shiate as much as the next normal person, but it's not related to his crime, and it is not a crime itself. So punishing him for being connected to it is an abuse of power.

P.S.



/sorry
//not really

 
prjindigo 2005-12-22 06:40:31 PM  
I would be willing to spend $40.00 randomly calling government offices in that area yelling "Seig Heil" when the line is answered.

Any of you all?

 
bbcrackmonkey 2005-12-22 06:41:07 PM  
OH! OHHH!!! The motherfarker is a burglar too! I farking hate burglars and thieves! Last year I had my dorm room broken into the morning of my roommate's 21st birthday when everybody was passed out drunk and they stole $3000 worth of stuff from the passed out birthday boy, including his laptop, iPod, etc.

The burglar also stole one of my textbooks that I needed for Biochemistry, and this was the day before the test and all the example test questions were in that book, so I had to take an incomplete in the class since I couldn't properly study for the exam.

Burglars should be thrown in a pit full of snakes as far as I'm concerned.

 
whitefalcon79 2005-12-22 06:41:09 PM  
Priapulid
Adolf, Simon and Theodore?

 
Dinty Moore's Law 2005-12-22 06:42:28 PM  


This thread makes Hitler Kitty sad.

 
BlueDog 2005-12-22 06:43:46 PM  
I read the healine Australia and got really freaked out.

 
Unknown_Poltroon [recently expired TotalFark] 2005-12-22 06:44:05 PM  
Its gotta be better than that farking frog ringtone.

 
Priapulid 2005-12-22 06:44:10 PM  

 
Hideously Gigantic Smurf 2005-12-22 06:44:31 PM  
Arrogance of the law is no excuse.

 
missmez [TotalFark] 2005-12-22 06:44:36 PM  
2005-12-22 06:31:29 PM Fark It


Yay for free-speech.


What about this not happening in America escaped you, sweetpea?

 
frostyservant 2005-12-22 06:46:02 PM  
Juansmith: Any country in which you're not free to be an ignorant, racist blowhard is not a free country.

I knew "conservatives" were for freedom somehow!

/I keed, I keed

 
Fark It [TotalFark] 2005-12-22 06:46:16 PM  
missmez

Nothing escaped me.

2005-12-22 03:37:24 PM PortWineBoy [TotalFark]

I'm all in favor of the strict German/Austrian anti-Nazi laws.

I think we can all agree on this one, right?


Location: NYC

 
bbcrackmonkey 2005-12-22 06:46:28 PM  
Cause if friends don't dance, and if they don't dance, then they're no friends of mine!


 
Hideously Gigantic Smurf 2005-12-22 06:48:21 PM  
Mein Hund hat keine Nase!

 
bbcrackmonkey 2005-12-22 06:48:48 PM  
Anyone care for some tea?


 
BobtheFascist [recently expired TotalFark] 2005-12-22 06:49:13 PM  
Yep, those anti-Nazi types are taking a page right out of Mein-Kampf on that one.

 
BobtheFascist [recently expired TotalFark] 2005-12-22 06:51:36 PM  
bbcrackmonkey

That is so surreal.

 
plytheman 2005-12-22 06:52:03 PM  
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, no matter how moronic it is. Everyone should be able to vocalize their opinion as well.

Throwing people in jail (or keeping them an extra 2 months in this case) for heiling hitler, denying the holocost, or for saying that they hate _________ (insert any group of people here) is rediculous. Sounds like thought crimes to me.

Just because the Nazis rose to power and farked the world up doesn't justify throwing people in jail for raising their right hand or speaking. Germany and Austria and any other country with these anti-nazi-reference laws should come to terms with their past and what they did, not hide from it.

 
bbcrackmonkey 2005-12-22 06:52:17 PM  
Here is one of the last remaining pieces of Hitler, a fragment of his skull, which is on display in Moscow. Notice the prominent hole.



They also have his lower jaw bone somewhere in the Soviet Archives as well.

 
UrinalPooper 2005-12-22 06:52:46 PM  
lomans ftw

 
Hideously Gigantic Smurf 2005-12-22 06:53:44 PM  
bbcrackmonkey

Alas... He left behind much, much more than that.

 
Fark It [TotalFark] 2005-12-22 06:54:28 PM  
bbcrackmonkey

Who shot him? That looks like the top of a skull.

 
MiscavigeEatsBabies 2005-12-22 06:55:11 PM  
buttsecks: The ironical thing is that by imprisoning people for their opinions/thoughts/culture, they are being nazis themselves.

Is ironical a word? I hope not.

 
technicolor-misfit 2005-12-22 06:55:18 PM  
lomans - I hate Nazi shiate as much as the next normal person, but it's not related to his crime, and it is not a crime itself. So punishing him for being connected to it is an abuse of power.

Actually, I think in Germany and Austria they do have some fairly strict laws pertaining to espousing Nazi rhetoric and displaying Nazi symbols... Once bitten, twice shy I guess.

But, I could be mistaken... Moreover, I agree with your overall point. If I'm right, and those laws do exist, I don't think it's a good thing.

I firmly believe the most abhorrent speech is the speech that needs to be most vigourously defended... It's the chink in the armor where free speech would most likely begin to be curtailed.

"C'mon... you guys don't really want people walking around saying Hitler was swell do you? Unless you're planning to wave a swastika around on the town square, what reason would you have to be afraid of this little old law?"

 
bbcrackmonkey 2005-12-22 06:55:39 PM  
Fark It: Who shot him? That looks like the top of a skull.

It is the top of the skull. The bullet exited through it.

 
MiscavigeEatsBabies 2005-12-22 06:58:32 PM  
Fark It: bbcrackmonkey

Who shot him? That looks like the top of a skull.



Exit wound I presume.

 
MiscavigeEatsBabies 2005-12-22 06:59:15 PM  
Note to self: Hit refresh before coming back to the thread after a pee.

 
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