NP "Mein Kampf" � Bucarest

[Dave Monroe]

Not that "Freedom of Speech," those much (and rightly)
vaunted First Amendment rights, and, while we're at
it, democracy, is upheld so well in practice as in
theory here in These United States, but, on this side
of the Atlantic, this all sounds downright
UNdemocratric.  Just wanted to note that, is all ...

--- Michel Ryckx <michel.ryckx at freebel.net> wrote:
>
> The concept 'négationnisme' denotes the movement
> that is likely to try to minimize or even deny a
> systematic genocide.  It is forbidden by law in
> France, here in Belgium, in Holland and in other
> countries.  Originally it referred to the Holocaust,
> but is now also used in the context of the
> Ruanda genocide some years ago.
> 
> At the basis of its forbidding lies the conviction
> that there is, sometimes,  a limit to free
> speech.  Denying or minimizing the Holocaust is
> tresspassing a boundary which a democracy cannot
> allow.
> 
> There are similar laws that forbid people to doubt
> the 'Human Rights Declaration' for that
> Declaration is more and more considered to be the
> ultimate basis for a democratic organisation of
> society.

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