Thread: Holocaust denier jailed in Germany
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Old 02-15-2007, 02:58 PM   #2
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You'll remember Ernst Zundel from his days in Canada . . . . today he was jailed in Germany for five years for denying the Holocaust.

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/eu....ap/index.html

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Denying the Holocaust is absolute folly. Zundel is an idiot of the first order.

But he ought to have the right to express any opinion -- no matter how demonstrably wrong -- without the fear of prosecution. Free speech laws don't exist to protect popular speech (which needs no protection).

Cue the famous Voltaire quotation.
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