It's completely stupid that this guy should have been imprisoned for three years for freedom of speech:
If instead he'd been allowed to wonder around expressing his views, someone may have shot him in the head by now, putting him out of his deranged misery and doing society a huge favor.
I think only the United States has a guaranteed right of free speech.
I agree. For one thing it casts the deniers as courageous dissidents.
If instead he'd been allowed to wonder around expressing his views, someone may have shot him in the head by now, putting him out of his deranged misery and doing society a huge favor.
Freedom of speech means the right to say things others find objectionable. Shooting an A-hole just makes him a martyr, and sets a bad precedent.
Nazis and Commies and Islamofascists do that. We have a higher standard.
If instead he'd been allowed to wonder around expressing his views, someone may have shot him in the head by now, putting him out of his deranged misery and doing society a huge favor.
You are joking, but here is a great truth in that. When government minds its own business, stupidity is one of the most readily self-correcting societal ills. ;)
Freedom of Speech as we know it doesn't exist in Germany and Austria. Our first Amendment doesn't apply in Europe or anywhere else.