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dogbert
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Big_Bird
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 Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 12:31 am Post subject: Re: Free Irving Movement Succeeds -- Austria Springs Histori |
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He's a rather ugly character, but I don't believe he should have been jailed. Free speech also means having to listen to crap you don't like, and anyone is free to discredit his 'work.' |
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dogbert
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| Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 12:39 am Post subject: Re: Free Irving Movement Succeeds -- Austria Springs Histori |
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| Big_Bird wrote: |
| dogbert wrote: |
| http://www.guardian.co.uk/austria/article/0,,1976594,00.html |
He's a rather ugly character, but I don't believe he should have been jailed. Free speech also means having to listen to crap you don't like, and anyone is free to discredit his 'work.' |
Quite true. Jailed, he becomes a martyr - free he remains a laughingstock. |
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mindmetoo
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| Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 5:36 am Post subject: Re: Free Irving Movement Succeeds -- Austria Springs Histori |
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| dogbert wrote: |
| Big_Bird wrote: |
| dogbert wrote: |
| http://www.guardian.co.uk/austria/article/0,,1976594,00.html |
He's a rather ugly character, but I don't believe he should have been jailed. Free speech also means having to listen to crap you don't like, and anyone is free to discredit his 'work.' |
Quite true. Jailed, he becomes a martyr - free he remains a laughingstock. |
Well said. However, I can't help but have a bit of sympathy for such laws in the home of Nazism. If your nation has few movie theaters and little in the way of a culture of movie going, yelling fire in a theater might seem more to you like a matter of free speech and up for debate. However where a glorification of a Nazi past is a real threat, I can't help but feel in those limited places holocaust denial is tantamount to yelling fire in a theater. |
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happeningthang
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| Good point. Didn't Austria recently elect a nazi apologist, who was promising to protect the country from immigrants? |
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