If Irving did not want to get arrested for crimes in Austria, he should not have gone to Austria... especially after announcing it on his website. So much of this idiot's self destructive actions stem from his desire to provoke, blissfully unaware that sometime individuals and institutions push back.
So much of this idiot's self destructive actions stem from his desire to provoke, blissfully unaware that sometime individuals and institutions push back.Perhaps even prison was part of his plan to gain notoriety.
It is impossible to resaonably deny the holocaust just as it is to deny WWII. To do so one must either be engaged in a publicity stunt or suffering from mental illness. In each case they should be ignored but the media won't.
When, as in this case, they purposely break the law, the law should accomodate them with arrest, trial, and punishment. Justice served.