"silence coerced by law - the argument of force in its worst form."
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis
Protecting The Rights
Of A Holocaust Denier
Ultimately Protects Us All
Free speech, even if it hurts
By Michael Shermer
2-24-6
'More women died in the back seat of Edward Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick than ever died in a gas chamber at Auschwitz."
Is this line more offensive to Jews than an editorial cartoon depicting the prophet Muhammad with a turban bomb is to Muslims?
Apparently it is, because the editorial cartoonists are still free, whereas the man who made this statement - British author David Irving - was sentenced this week to three years in an Austrian jail for violating a law that says it is a crime if a person "denies, grossly trivializes, approves or seeks to justify the National Socialist genocide or other National Socialist crimes against humanity."
freedom of speech isn't free
Protecting The Rights
Of A Holocaust Denier
Ultimately Protects Us All
Free speech, even if it hurts
By Michael Shermer
2-24-6
'More women died in the back seat of Edward Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick than ever died in a gas chamber at Auschwitz."
Is this line more offensive to Jews than an editorial cartoon depicting the prophet Muhammad with a turban bomb is to Muslims?
Apparently it is, because the editorial cartoonists are still free, whereas the man who made this statement - British author David Irving - was sentenced this week to three years in an Austrian jail for violating a law that says it is a crime if a person "denies, grossly trivializes, approves or seeks to justify the National Socialist genocide or other National Socialist crimes against humanity."
freedom of speech isn't free
