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Rod Liddle

It’s fatuous to outlaw an emotion – especially hate

20 August 2016

9:00 AM

20 August 2016

9:00 AM

A man in Austria has been sentenced to three months in prison for posting a picture of his cat on the internet. The photograph showed the cat, which has not been named, raising its right paw in the air in what appears to be a Nazi salute. It also had a side parting in the fur on its head and what we might describe as a distinctive moustache.

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