On 18/11/05, Frank Pohlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If my father had been murdered and someone came along > and told me that he had died peacefully in his sleep, > and that person claimed I was a liar, although I had > witnessed my father's murder, I would get a tad upset, > too. > > If someone told you that the deaths and mayhem during > Partition had never happened, what would you say? > > Would you accept it as just another opinion?
You're right -- it's easy to be dispassionate about something that doesn't affect you directly. But these are just the sort of issues that need to be handled dispassionately. It seems to me that there is a difference between getting angry, speaking out and refuting his arguments and prosecuting him. It does seem to be a slippery slope sort of issue to prosecute someone for voicing an opinion -- especially under criminal law. Frankly, people who try to rewrite history disgust me. But if we prosecute people for holding opinions or saying things that offend us then what differentiates us from the very people Mr Irving was defending? -- b
