Posted on 02/20/2006 12:58:55 PM PST by aculeus
Now if only we could jail a certain Iranian leader for saying the same thing.
Hmmm kind of mixed feelings. Guy is scum but being sent to jail cause he is an idiot? Litte over reaching? What are the powers that be NEXT going to decide is "hate speech"? being critical of the Govt.?
Hard for Europe to stand-up to the Muslims who are calling for the Allah cartoonists to be jailed when they are locking people up for expressing an idea. When the Muslims complain of double standards, I hate to say it, but they would seem to have a point.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2049852,00.html
The man sounds creepy, but there is something profoundly disturbing about being extradited from your home country and tried for an offense that was committed in your home country, that is not illegal there.
Putting people in jail for what they say or think...
it ain't right.
> He's been a crank for a long time.
So are these guys...
http://www.loosechange911.com/
Should we lock them up, too?
Crank or not, he'll get lots of support from people who detest his views. Hitchens, for example, will be outraged.
Historian?
Right winger?
So, is Farakan a right winger too?
This hateful little man, David Irving, cannot possibly be deemed a historian, when facts are cast aside and substituted for his own terribly hateful and twisted opinion.
And yet, he found a willing publisher for his unconscionable writings. HURL.
Being a crank might sometimes call for institutionalization [and even that would have an extremely emetic soviet taste to it], but jail time?
I am really not familiar with this fellow, but this is a bit weird.
A British man gave a speech in Austria, and is going to jail for violating a reactionary law more than 15 years ago?
Gosh would it still have been a crime if he gave the speech in his own country?
Wow! Just imagine if he denied that the earth was round.
Or he believed that the Earth was the center of the Universe. The EU is nothing but tyranny.
I was just thinking the same thing.
Jailing someone for his thoughts is an abomination. What jerks. This greases the skids for all manner of Orwellian laws.
LOL!! Good point!
Though, something wrong with imprisoning a man for expressing a opinion, even if he is a Nazi.
"This hateful little man, David Irving, cannot possibly be deemed a historian, when facts are cast aside and substituted for his own terribly hateful and twisted opinion."
But, twisted though he may be, he is being jailed for an opinion he expressed more than 15 years ago, and has since recanted. Which is more dangerous, the ravings of a crank or state authority to detain and imprison anyone with whom the state takes issue? The state has far more coercive power and is therefore a far greater danger. This is wrong.
Does this disqualify him for the cartoon contest?
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