Re: NP "Mein Kampf" à Bucarest

[JBFRAME at aol.com]

In a message dated 06/03/2001 1:42:53 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
michel.ryckx at freebel.net writes:


> 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.
> 
> 

This would not fly in the USA, possibly because there are too many nazis 
here.  Or it could have something to do with the anarcho-individualist social 
milieu.  

jbf
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