Remember when David Irving was imprisoned for Holocaust Denial?
I was absolutely stunned when that happened. Whatever happened to letting the arguments speak for themselves? I understand how the Holocaust is a delicate topic in Austria and that neo-Nazism is a real threat both there and in Germany, but jailed in 2006 for the crime of giving a speech in 1989?? There's something worringly Orwellian about that.
Remember when David Irving was imprisoned for Holocaust Denial?
I was absolutely stunned when that happened. Whatever happened to letting the arguments speak for themselves?
Same here. At that point, I decided that one could no longer count Austria completely part of the "Free World." Ironically, the imprisonment of Irving was a truly fascist thing to do.
While I was in law school, I did a summer abroad in Austria and I was amazed at how nonchalant they were on this issue. They way the Austrians see it, they have freedom of speech, just not on certain sensitive topics.
They way the Austrians see it, they have freedom of speech, just not on certain sensitive topics.
Then they don't have freedom of speech. Just amazing how some people can rationalize anything.
The scope of the "sensistive topics" have already begun creeping. We have already seen the Europeans forbid criticism of Islam, much to the delight of the Islamists. I will admit that I expect to feel a certain schadenfreude when the reaction gets underway; the laws against "hate speech" in Europe recoil upon the Muslims, and they discover (too late) that the laws which they have used in concert with the pro-immigration bureaucrats can also be used, in the hands of a furious anti-immigration electorate, to strip them of their right to worship freely. But I wouldn't want to be a European.
I was absolutely stunned when that happened. Whatever happened to letting the arguments speak for themselves? I understand how the Holocaust is a delicate topic in Austria and that neo-Nazism is a real threat both there and in Germany, but jailed in 2006 for the crime of giving a speech in 1989?? There's something worringly Orwellian about that.
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I was absolutely stunned when that happened. Whatever happened to letting the arguments speak for themselves?
Same here. At that point, I decided that one could no longer count Austria completely part of the "Free World." Ironically, the imprisonment of Irving was a truly fascist thing to do.
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Then they don't have freedom of speech. Just amazing how some people can rationalize anything.
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Then they don't have freedom of speech. Just amazing how some people can rationalize anything.
The scope of the "sensistive topics" have already begun creeping. We have already seen the Europeans forbid criticism of Islam, much to the delight of the Islamists. I will admit that I expect to feel a certain schadenfreude when the reaction gets underway; the laws against "hate speech" in Europe recoil upon the Muslims, and they discover (too late) that the laws which they have used in concert with the pro-immigration bureaucrats can also be used, in the hands of a furious anti-immigration electorate, to strip them of their right to worship freely. But I wouldn't want to be a European.
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Well said.
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That's even worse! Jesus. Is this what we're fighting for? ISAF has to intervene on this, surely. :(
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