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Alexander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 10:47 PM
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8. EU does not have our Bill of Rights guaranteeing free speech.
I would be totally opposed to this if it were the United States.

But it's Europe, and if they feel this is the best way to prevent any future Hitlers, more power to them.

Given the recent revival of anti-Semitism in Europe, and the article from the other day reporting German soldiers being trained to visualize "American blacks" when they kill (still sore over Jesse Owens?), I'm for anything that will prevent a future Nazi regime.
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  -EU aims to criminalise Holocaust denial Robson  Apr-17-07 09:34 PM   #0 
  - Disagree.  Matsubara   Apr-17-07 09:36 PM   #1 
  - I think that since it was Europe that suffered the direct impact of the  NCevilDUer   Apr-17-07 09:52 PM   #2 
  - Given their *specific* history, it's not inappropriate.  BlooInBloo   Apr-17-07 09:55 PM   #3 
  - Yet we're SO close to criminalizing non-PC speech in this country. n/t  DCKit   Apr-17-07 10:24 PM   #4 
  - Aaaah.... the clarion-call of racism enablers and defenders.  BlooInBloo   Apr-17-07 10:27 PM   #5 
  - Sorry, I'm just not so far to the left yet that I believe that anyone who doesn't share my opinions  DCKit   Apr-17-07 10:42 PM   #6 
     - Free speech isn't "left vs. right". It's "state control vs. libertarianism".  Alexander   Apr-17-07 10:49 PM   #9 
        - The question is tolerance vs. intolerance  Robson   Apr-18-07 08:00 AM   #11 
  - Don't criminalize thought!  Slyder   Apr-17-07 10:44 PM   #7 
  - EU does not have our Bill of Rights guaranteeing free speech.  Alexander   Apr-17-07 10:47 PM   #8 
  - Parts of Europe have tolerated speech  JustABozoOnThisBus   Apr-18-07 08:18 AM   #12 
  - I agree with Poland  Crunchy Frog   Apr-17-07 11:01 PM   #10 
  - Not quite happening: "only if the effect is incitement to violence or hatred"  muriel_volestrangler   Apr-19-07 11:13 AM   #13 
  - Thanks for update  Robson   Apr-19-07 09:51 PM   #14 
  - The Polish "objection" shows where this leads...  JackRiddler   Apr-19-07 11:05 PM   #15 
 

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