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acroyearAustria doesn't have freedom of speech as we do. Yesterday, they jailed David Irving, for openly denying that the holocaust ever happened.
This is wrong. Liars should be exposed as liars, emperors without clothes revealed, so that they have no credibility and can just spout their crap in the corner where no-one would want to listen to them. Liars should not be jailed just for lying.
Now, if they committed fraud (meaning, to me, they made money on their lies outside of publishing fees and public speaking, which are both part of freedom of speech), that would be different. But just publishing a work or making a statement and getting jailed for it puts that European country as not much better than the extreme Islamic world that condemns Denmark.
This is wrong. Liars should be exposed as liars, emperors without clothes revealed, so that they have no credibility and can just spout their crap in the corner where no-one would want to listen to them. Liars should not be jailed just for lying.
Now, if they committed fraud (meaning, to me, they made money on their lies outside of publishing fees and public speaking, which are both part of freedom of speech), that would be different. But just publishing a work or making a statement and getting jailed for it puts that European country as not much better than the extreme Islamic world that condemns Denmark.
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Date: 2006-02-21 08:58 pm (UTC)There are people who have no problem with "proving" their point of view by shouting epithets (racial or otherwise) at an crowd until they get lynched and then claiming that the fact the crowd reacted to their words proves that the words are true.
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