http://news.yahoo.com Top story on Yahoo News right now. Full URL is too long to post here.
Here's a guy who's been arrested for "denying the Holocaust" as per the news article headline. If you read a few paragraphs down from the sensational title, we find that he "challenges the extent of the Holocaust", not that he literally denied it happened. I guess maybe he means that only a few million perished, rather than 12-20 million?
My grandmother was Jewish, BTW.
For all I know, three trillion Jews and 20 bazillion dissidents were killed by Hitler. Hey, those number sound just fine to me. Like I said, my grandmother was Jewish, God rest her soul.
But for challenging the number actually exterminated, he faces up to 20 years in prison. 20 years. You know that Germany only allows 14 years max for murder so in neighboring Austria, you can be sure that 20 years is seen as a pretty severe sentence.
Hey, for all I know, the guy in question is Hitler's child that he spawned through black magic while communing with the Devil ... that he is the most racist, hate mongering person on the planet next to say ... GWB.
But that's not the issue: The issue is the amount of freedom of speech in Europe. I keep hearing about how Euro Laws are so much morally superior to our laws ... how
really it is the rest of the world that is free and in America we are just Trogladytes living underground, unaware of and unaffected by civilization.
Did I mention that my Grandmother was Jewish?
You socailists want redistribution of the wealth? You want to be heard? You want to dissent from the party line? Just try it under
those circumstances! Just look and see how much
real freedom of speech exists in these Socialist utopias.