This is an absolutely genius exploration of new forms of critique. We now live in a world in which marching on the streets, political protests, and demonstrations are immediately met with a militarized response sanctioned by the FUD of terrorism. The shift, the first protest in this new era, was likely 1999 WTO protests in Seattle, WA. Since then, the whole enterprise has become a game or dance: people march on the streets, the police crack down and drum up support for new, better military gear. Anonymous, for whatever your stance on their questionable politics, was interesting precisely because it offered an alternative to this dance. A hologram protest is another interesting approach.
A lot of laws in Spain those years seem to be created with the only purpose of either gaining time (for prescription of former crimes for politicians) or to guarantee the creation of a new "damage" that could be claimed (by friends or family of politicians) and billed to spaniards later if the law is repealed (as is expected to be, of course).<p>An example: Spaniards will pay >1400 millions/euro in the next years to a private enterprise for the right to stop hundred of unexpected earthquakes in some heavily populated points of the mediterranean coast. Earthquakes that were linked with the activity of this enterprise, a personal bet of some politicians.<p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/10365300/Spain-faces-1bn-bill-over-gas-plant-linked-to-earthquakes.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/10365...</a><p><a href="https://www.thespainreport.com/6623/hundreds-earthquakes-caused-directly-castor-gas-project-say-spanish-geologists/" rel="nofollow">https://www.thespainreport.com/6623/hundreds-earthquakes-cau...</a><p>We have new laws that grant hunting animals in national parks, cutting down trees, fracking, etc... In the future, when people think about to repeal the law, a miriad of complaints for lost profits will probably be filled by multinationals and major landowners. We'll need to pay someone for the right of repeal those crazy laws. Is, most probably, a business.
The worst one is: For carrying out assemblies <i>or meetings in public spaces</i> – 100 to 600€ fine.<p><a href="http://revolution-news.com/spanish-congress-approves-draconian-laws-essentially-sending-spain-back-to-the-dark-ages/" rel="nofollow">http://revolution-news.com/spanish-congress-approves-draconi...</a><p>How do you define a meeting in a public space?
I was unaware of this law.<p>Sad dark times seem to be ahead.<p>As a Portuguese that still lived the early days of the new democracy, I know quite well what living under Salazar meant. And Franco's ruling wasn't any different, if worse.<p>Laws like these just bring back memories of those days.
It's a pretty good idea imo . I don't share most of the complains about the law, but the one they refer to "protest in front of public buildings" is unbelievable. For instance, according to this, Transferwise could have never lead a naked march on Wall Street
<p><pre><code> ...and in other news, the United States government is
said to be contsructing a new carrier-grade backbone
network in anticipation of the expected petabit scale
traffic preciptated by an emerging new fad referred to
as "hologram flash mobbing."
When consulted, a panel of scientists suggested instead
that it might be more practical to place a very bright
lightbulb in front of the capitol building. This
suggestion preciptated a large spike in hologram traffic
when a spokesperson for the organization, the swift boat
veterans for truth, questioned whether the light bulb
might shine brighter than the eternal flame at the tomb
of the unknown soldier, to which one member of the panel
flippantly replied:
"Well, the inverse square law suggests that if you'd
prefer a brighter flame you could always go stand within
it."</code></pre>