Paying the Price

Gates of Vienna Blog
January 23, 2012

https://www.legal-project.org/2079/paying-the-price

Excerpt:

As we reported last month, when Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff appealed her "hate speech" conviction to a higher court in Austria, the earlier verdict was upheld. She stated afterwards that she would not pay the fine. To do so would effectively recognize the legitimacy of an unjust and tyrranical legal decision.

However, it turned out that it was impossible not to pay the fine: the Austrian judicial system has ways of compelling compliance. What happened to Elisabeth is described in the essay below.

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