{"id":2263,"date":"2017-02-11T07:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/?p=2263"},"modified":"2017-02-10T23:14:09","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T04:14:09","slug":"erdogan-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2017\/02\/erdogan-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"The poem Erdo\u011fan doesn’t want you to share"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

The Erdogan poem meets the Streisand effect<\/a>!<\/p>\n

About a year ago, a German tv show aired a video<\/a> criticizing Turkey’s Human Rights record \u2014 Turkish dictator, Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan<\/strong>, responded demanding the German government to intervene<\/a> and delete the video.<\/p>\n

Two weeks later, German satirist and television presenter Jan B\u00f6hmermann<\/strong> made another<\/em> video, reciting a poem that was deliberately offensive to Erdo\u011fan, who chose to sue B\u00f6hmermann.<\/p>\n

Although the criminal charges were dropped by the prosecutors, a civil court ruled yesterday<\/a>, forbidding B\u00f6hmermann to repeat most of the poem.<\/p>\n

So today, I am reposting Defamation Poem<\/a> \u2014 because I am for free speech, and an important part of free speech is the freedom to criticize, mock and even insult authorities<\/strong>; as it so happens, I am also not subject to or bound by German law, since I have never been to the country \u2014and that wouldn’t even matter, for I would repost it anyway\u2014:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Stupid as fuck, cowardly and uptight,
\nIs Erdogan, the president,
\nHis gob smells of bad d\u00f6ner,
\nEven a pig\u2019s fart smells better,
\nHe\u2019s the man who hits girls,
\nWhile wearing a rubber mask,
\nBut goat-fucking he likes the best,
\nAnd having minorities repressed,<\/p>\n

Kicking Kurds,
\nBeating Christians,
\nWhile watching kiddie porn,
\nAnd even at night, instead of sleep,
\nIt\u2019s time for fellatio with a hundred sheep,<\/p>\n

Yep, Erdogan is definitely
\nThe president with a tiny dick,
\nEvery Turk will tell you all,
\nThe stupid fool has wrinkly balls,
\nFrom Ankara to Istanbul,
\nThey all know the man is gay,
\nPerverted, louse-infested, a zoophile,
\nRecep Fritzl Priklopil<\/p>\n

Head as empty as his balls,
\nOf every gang-bang party he\u2019s the star,
\nTill his cock burns when he has a piss,
\nThat\u2019s Recep Erdogan,
\nThe Turkish president.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, you know… whatever you do, do not share the Erdogan poem!<\/p>\n

(image: Wikimedia Commons<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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