Thursday, February 23, 2006

Stupidity And Mental Instability Illegal In Europe


I realize that Austria has a particularly vital interest in accounting for it's past but this is not OK, ja? Denial of free speech is how stupidity and ignorance is maintained, not prevented.

Prosecutors say Irving jail term should be longerBy Philippe Naughton and agencies

Austrian prosecutors have filed an appeal against the three-year prison sentence handed to the British historian David Irving, arguing that he escaped too lightly for the crime of Holocaust denial.

Irving was left stunned and open-mouthed when the sentence was handed down after a one-day trial in a Vienna court yesterday.

After entering a guilty plea and publicly accepting that he had made a mistake when denying existence of gas chambers at Auschwitz, Irving had clearly expected a more lenient punishment over two speeches made to Austrian neo-Nazis in 1989.


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