calvin wrote:
So this guy was convicted based on comments he made in 1989, under a law
that wasn't enacted until 1992, by which time his view had changed based
on 'new evidence'.
He may be a moron (and does look like a nazi), but that's not a crime...
so - is he a criminal or victim of politics in a world where people like
Kurt Waldheim could become UN SecGen and President of Austria?
A representative from 'Arabs in America' or some such similarly named
organization was on TV the other day defending the Islamic cartoon riots.
One of his arguments was that the western world uses holocaust denial
laws as legitimate curbs on free speech. Whereas it surprisingly takes
offense and deems unjust the Islamic world's censorship demands based on
religious sentiments.
Cheeni
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