[river rat]

Think of Germany as a convicted mass murderer..
That murderer was NOT executed, he was released on parole.
One of the conditions of parole, was that he couldn't deny he was a murderer...or permit his "spokespersons" to deny he was a murderer....

Then you have some idea of why the Germans and the Axis partners are refused the right to lie about their past crimes...

Another way of looking at it -- the loser doesn't get to rewrite history -- the winner has that prerogative.

Semper Fi

[mainepatsfan]

A simple solution would be for him to move to Iran.

[stop_fascism]

The only problem with your analogy is that Irving isn't German. He's from a country that was on the winning side.

[muawiyah]

That's one way to look at it. Another way is to look at Austria, which just imprisoned this Irving character for mouthing off.

They've been doing that for centuries. Hasn't helped them a bit. In fact, they used to be a far larger country ~ a major power even.

Now they float around in a punchbowl.

Eventually even Austria will figure it out, but probably not soon.