> > If someone told you that the deaths and mayhem
> during
> > Partition had never happened, what would you say?
> >
> > Would you accept it as just another opinion?
>
> You're right -- it's easy to be dispassionate about
> something that
> doesn't affect you directly. But these are just the
> sort of issues
> that need to be handled dispassionately.
Err, he is prosecuted in a court of law....not being
hounded to destruction by millions of people with
guns. Big difference.
>
> It seems to me that there is a difference between
> getting angry,
> speaking out and refuting his arguments and
> prosecuting him.
Indeed. But I dont remember anyone getting angry? He
is having to answer for his crimes. We might disagree
about the law and its appropriateness, though. (Anyone
has the Austrian Civil Code to hand?)
>
> It does seem to be a slippery slope sort of issue to
> prosecute someone
> for voicing an opinion -- especially under criminal
> law.
It isnt as simple as that. he doesnt just have an
opinion, he is plainly lying, which is a slightly
different matter. It is called libel. I have no idea
idea what it is being called in Austria, though.
>
> Frankly, people who try to rewrite history disgust
> me.
Yes, but it isnt really what we are arguing about.
But if we
> prosecute people for holding opinions or saying
> things that offend us
> then what differentiates us from the very people Mr
> Irving was
> defending?
The fact that we put them in front of a court and give
them suspended sentences. And he supports people who
suggest killing everyone who disagree with them?
And at some stage, they did precisely that.
Btw, David Irving used to be a fairly good popular
historian. His views were somewhat to the right of
Attila the Hun, but he was personally quite sane for a
while. I am not sure what possessed him to start
arguing about the arithmetic and then the existence of
the holocaust. Personally, I regard him as fairly
deluded.
-Frank
>
> -- b
>
>
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