Your Opinions, Sir...Can Get You Locked Up
British Historian David Irving had a few things to say a few years ago about the validity of the Holocaust, and now he knows a thing or two about being held by authorities as well. He's today's bursiest person for pleading guilty and being sentenced to three years in prison by a court in Austria, where he'd been charged with denying that the Holocaust happened. "History is a constantly growing tree - the more you know, the more documents become available, the more you learn, and I have learned a lot since 1989." And he's now willing to concede that, yes, in fact, million of Jews died during World War II at the hands of the Nazis. The Big Pharoah lists the countries that have laws making it a crime to deny the existence of the Holocaust, and feels such laws are an infringement to freedom of speech. Denial, notes The Cafeteria is Closed, can land you in prison.
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by Sue MacDonald at February 21, 2006 11:54 AM
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