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The greater issue here is that someone can be tried and jailed for an opinion in a so-called democracy. It is disgusting, chilling, and facist.

Hitler would be proud.

I fear there are some here on FR who would like to see this kind of crap happen in the US. Hopefully the guns will stop that from ever becoming a reality.

Right on.

England produced Winston Churchill- and David Irving. Now as to that high seat of sanctimony, Austria, they produced Mozart. Oh, I hear the faint sounds of the Horst Wessel lied. Who can that famous Austrian be?

Why- it is Adolf Hitler

The greater issue here is that someone can be tried and jailed for an opinion in a so-called democracy. It is disgusting, chilling, and facist.

Exactly. Using Nazi-like tactics against a holocaust-denier? I'm amazed that the irony of this situation is lost on so many people.

The greater issue here is that someone can be tried and jailed for an opinion in a so-called democracy.

Listening to his views on the holocaust is amusing. Listening to him being forced to deny what he believes or face jail, is downright terrifying.

Right. Despite the severity of Irving's former claim, historical "fact" is something no one person or group can have a legal claim on beyond copyrighting a specific set of ordered words-- the Holocaust, like the Killing Fields of Cambodia, being a prominent and recent monstrosity of humanity that about 99.9% of the world admits to the realm of fact.

But what's next, will the gov't utilize this precedent of legal history, making illegal any denial relating to The Great Eye's opinion of historically lawful?

Or what if I think the Holocaust happened but disagree with the how's and why's, think that only five million were killed? Can the gov't step in, arrest and threaten with imprisonment because I have a different opinion than they do. I know it's the Holocaust, but it is not, to the horror of humanity, the only event of catastrophic genocide/murder during the 20th Century. Why isn't it a crime to deny the Killing Fields, or Stalin's systematic elimination of supposed enemies and mass starvation of his public?

Not to compare numbers, but it is estimated that Stalin killed 10 mil of his own people, over a longer time (not to mention the exiled or those thrown into labor camps), compared to Hitler's 6.