Posted on 02/20/2006 12:58:55 PM PST by aculeus
You gotta remember that Europe fears, above all else, the resurrection of fascism. Holocaust denial is in their minds tantamount to neo-Nazism. (Probably not without cause.) In order to prevent fascism in general, and Nazism specifically, from taking root again, Europe has outlawed anything that cold conceivably aid it. Including Holocaust denial.
It's funny how lefties don't get imprisoned for also making up stuff!!
Eesh. "cold" = "could."
"It's funny how lefties don't get imprisoned for also making up stuff!!"
Case In Point: Noam Chomsky
Yes, I saw that idiot in an interview on Irish TV recently, what a moonbat!!
I could not agree more,this idea is just plain damm stupid
Intelligent of them to create martyrs for the neo-Nazis... Not to mention there is something just a little problematic about acting fascist to prevent fascism...
Mere cranks don't get this kind of treatment. People who swear on a stack of Bibles they've seen Elvis or Bigfoot, or have been abducted by aliens, or have proof that the U.S. government have been lying about UFOs get IGNORED. I'm not sure this is a good move on the part of the authorities.
Mere cranks don't get this kind of treatment. People who swear on a stack of Bibles they've seen Elvis or Bigfoot, or have been abducted by aliens, or have proof that the U.S. government have been lying about UFOs get IGNORED. I'm not sure this is a good move on the part of the authorities.
The guy had obviously not read "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by William Shirer either.
EXACTLY! This man and his ludicrous views are no more dangerous than the pathetic band of Nazis that cause so much fuss with their silly marches.
Making them criminals for stupid ideas only raises their status to martyrs, and gives them the legitimacy of at least being taken seriously by the legal system.
This action was wrong.
I find it very hard to believe that in 2006, someone could go to jail for denying the Holocaust happened.
Freedom of speech remains an ideal only. Europe, a continent of hypocrites, has determined by law what a person can think and say about the holocaust. How dare they now cry out for freedom of speech for their cartoons?
It's about knowledgeable public personnae proclaiming things which have long been proven irrefutably false, having been attested to by millions of brutally massacred victims, who can no longer speak on their own behalf.
Such deniers are reasonably analogized to someone falsely shouting, "Fire!" in a crowded theater just to witness the stampede, mayhem and near-certain human injury.
Don't bother telling the police you "honestly thought" there was a fire when the evidence for fire is nowhere to be found.
HF
Agreed. The man may be despicable, but no government should be arresting someone for having a wrong opinion like this. Until his opinions result in an action that harms another person, he should be free to think and say whatever he wants. But this is communist Europe and we all know what they are about.
Totally unacceptable. I wonder if the State Department will include this wrongful imprisonment in its Human Rights Report for Austria. It will be interesting to see what the MSM has to say about it, if anything. It certainly should be a free speech issue.
Our hate crime laws come to mind.
I was just thinking..... a great effort that I will concede. It was not Irving who rounded up the Austrian Jews and who loaded them into trucks for the concentration camps. Oh me, oh my- who could have done such a thing?
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