Court: Pelting Gays With Eggs Protected Free Speech

[ccharles000]

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon08/07/070908hun.htm

(Budapest) Four of more than a dozen people arrested for throwing eggs at a gay pride march in Budapest on Saturday received minor fines on Wednesday, while charges against three others were dismissed and charges against the others were dropped.

Those fined were convicted only because they refused to obey a police order to disperse.

In delivering the verdicts in the case the court ruled that simply throwing eggs at a group you disagree with is simply an exercise in free speech Hungarian media reported Wednesday.

The court noted that police on the scene of the parade at first did not want to file charges against the protestors but were ordered to do so by senior officers.

[Trajan]

1. Not even assault ?

GEEEZ .....

[DarienComp]

2. So what is Budapest's policy on throwing stones?

[Newshues]

3. last I checked speech didn't involve

an object hitting the human target of the speech.

While speech takes many forms it does not take the form of objects hitting people....well, in Hungary it does but not here.

[galledgoblin]

4. what's the policy here?

pelting people is one thing, but what about cars and tanks?

[WillParkinson]

5. Well, OK, but...

there'd have to be hashbrowns and toast to go with it.