[Maybe Spam] British Nazi jailed by Austrian court.

[Charles Albert]

Perhaps I missed a comment to this effect, but I see it as kind of delicious
irony. Irving charged a couple of scholars with libel. If one wants to get
really huffy about it, I think libel laws coud be considered a stain on the
concept of "absolute" free speech....

He could have done this in pretty much any country outside Germany and
Austria - even the US...


love,
cfa




On 2/20/06, kent mueller <artkm at execpc.com> wrote:
>
> Seems to be Austria taking a collective guilt-dump.  It's just bizarre;
> censorship masquerading as intolerance of intolerance.  Compare this with
> Iran and its laughable attempt to get a rise out of the west by
> holocaust-denying cartoon contests.  Right in time for the unfortunate rise
> of Nationalism in Europe.  Another little unwelcome to the 21st Century, Big
> Brother wearing a 60s Smiley Face, while the Islamic extremists are trying
> to drag us back to the 13th Century with them.  It seems at times that
> Orwell didn't portray the absurdities of the future with a broad enough
> brush.
>
> Kent Mueller
>
> Visit KM art's web site at http://my.execpc.com/~artkm/<http://my.execpc.com/%7Eartkm/>
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>
> *From: *Tim Honey <tim.honey at asic.gov.au>
> *Date: *Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:00:23 +1100
> *To: *"richard baillie" <richbaillie at fastmail.fm>
> *Cc: *pynchon-l at waste.org
> *Subject: *Re: [Maybe Spam] British Nazi jailed by Austrian court.
>
>
>
> It does seem to be an over-correction, doesn't it.  Lucky he admitted the
> error of his ways or he might have been really punished.
>
> I suggest they call in celebrity mediator Arnold S to find some middle
> ground...you know, a little love and understanding.
>
>
>
>
> ***
>
> It's not a proud day for anyone, although a red letter day for holocaust
> deniers perhaps.
>
> that said, holocaust denying must be one of the most stupid crimes
> going...
>
> ...while Irving has a long history of this kind of thing, surely his
> greatest "crime" is to be a bad historian.
>
> Reading an Irving book is not compulsory and few people choose to...
>
> ...contrast that with Japanese high school history textbooks which are
> compulsory for millions and yet seek to whitewash the history of the
> 1930s and 1940s
>
> Also seems a little weird to me that the country that spawned Adolf
> Hitler (not to mention Jorg Haider in more recent times ) should be so
> keen to prosecute foreigners for denying racist crimes
>
>
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