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.
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I get so tired of the movie theatre dribble.
That has nothing to do with free speech.
It's reckless endangerment.
What's next? Freedom of speech for holocaust victims only?
Do we also arrest members of "The Flat Earth Society?"
> 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.
How so? No-one stampeded when they heard Irving's nonsence; no-one has been injured by his communicating his ideas. And before you say, well, he encourages Neo-Nazis, remember that shouting fire in a theatre will produce injury by virtue of people's automatic reactions; anyone who injures someone after hearing Irving is doing so with full moral responsbilty for a premeditated action.
All that happens here is, as so many have said, the state creates a martyr for these Nazi b*sta*rds and brings us nearer the day when the Islamofascists will take over Western Europe and we will have to nuke them back to the stoneage to save ourselves.
So, it's a really serious issue to shut these guys up.
Better that this nonsense is out in the open, where it can be countered, than that it be forced underground where they can grieve their martyrs and grow in size.