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Originally Posted by spunkmister
So if a person says in public that there was no such thing as the holocaust they should be deemed a criminal and put in jail?
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That's correct.
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I agree that these people are idiots and that their actions/words offend the families but do you not consider this a freedom of speech?
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No.
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If everyone who said anything hateful and offensive was held to the same standards then we would prob have more than half the population of the world behind bars. Or is this a case of it's ok to offend as long as you don't offend a certian group.
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It might be possible that some younger people of today just don't fully understand or grasp just how horribly huge that war was, and still is. Like Webby said there are millions of families who to this day show the scars of that war, dead husbands, fathers, uncles, brothers, grandfathers etc. And the loss of life to the Jewish people, staggering.
You think allowing idiots to stand on a soapbox and publicly decry/deny the holocast is something that should be allowed? Sorry, it falls directly under the umbrella of "hate crime" in certain countries, probably for it's potential to incite trouble, more hatred and real violence. A lot of people don't take kindly to that kind of talk.
Not to mention the fact that there are other idiots, large in numbers, who are limited in their thinking enough that they might buy into the foolishness these folks are spouting.
Personally I don't mind a law like this. Individuals who have nothing better to do with their time than peddle outright lies that are so hateful and hurtful to others like this one is really do deserve some reward for their efforts. A little jailtime sounds like just the ticket.