Historian Sentenced To Three Years For Free Speech!

February 20-2006:


Man Sentenced To Three Years In Austria For Denying The Holocaust:


Today in Austria a British historian was sentenced to three years in jail for saying in 1983, that the Jewish Holocaust never happened. He was sentenced under a statute law in Austria, that penalizes anyone who makes such claims.

This kind of penalty to my mind mimics those laws and actions one would expect only in totalitarian countries like North Korea, China, and even Cuba. If this is the prevailing attitude in a country that was used to house several Gas Chambers, and Internment camps for Jews, under Hitler's Nazi regime and it's genocidal actions upon Jews.

Then it is imperative to be more aware of the freedom to doubt any established views/claim. Even though it may be internationally accepted as fact. After all, Hitler's Nazi Party used the same methods to silence the German people into submission, with death, concentration, imprisonment, and expulsion, for those that opposed Adolph Hitler's Nazi policies.

What is at stake here to my mind, is the threat of political, and legal sanctions, for those who chose to assert their Right to Free Speech!

Om Shanti.
Derryck S. Griffith.
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