Outsourced Memory and Topical Fulminations for the Money-Got Mechanic Age
PZ Myers – noted atheist, cracker perforator and squid fancier – was in Dublin tonight to lend his support to Atheist Ireland (AI) and their campaign against the Dermot Ahern blasphemy law and for a secular constitution and education system in Ireland.
And I got to meet him! (And a gracious, soft-spoken gent he was – [...]
First post of 2010 and under the Dermot Ahern blasphemy law. RTE’s PrimeTime had a feature of the law, which is drawing admiring noises from such bastions of individual liberty as Egypt, Iran and Pakistan.
On the panel was Ali Salim from the Irish Council of Imams who wanted to draw the line between “freedom [...]
The Defamation Bill, 2006 – including the definition and new penalties for blasphemous libel – was passed by the Dail yesterday. It only needs to pass the Seanad today and it will be law.
The only effect of the committee discussions of the bill was to reduce the fine for the offence from €100,000 to, as [...]
The record industry is at it again – trying to erode the rights of Irish internet users by trying to enforce their arguably unconstitutional “three strikes” scheme for summarily disconnecting people they accuse of copyright infringement. Just to remind you – under the scheme – record companies are not required to present evidence nor [...]
Justice Minister Dermot Ahern appeared before the Oireachtas Justice and Law Reform Committee yesterday, and rather than engage meaningfully with critics of his amendment, decided to play the (straw)man rather than the ball.
The Irish Times:
Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern today accused conspiracy theorists of whipping up hysteria around his plans to modernise laws on [...]
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