Dec 14, 2006, 12:23 AM
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There is a western law precedent that you can limit free speech, where doing so protects the ability of others to speak freely. i.e. you can limit horribly racist demonstrations, so that minorities do not feel so set-upon by the majority that they are afraid to speak their mind.
Therefore, a Holocaust-discussion bill might have made sense decades ago, where the temptation still existed to blame the Jews for every damn thing. It doesn't really matter much anymore. If Iran wants to play tit-for-tat for some newspaper cartoons like a little baby, and invite some number-crunchers from Mel Gibson's phonebook, whatever. I think* in the countries that are democratic enough to consider an anti-holocaust bill, anti-semitism is so dead that you don't need it anymore.
I still agree with putting anti-holocaust gradeschool history teachers in jail, though.
*feel free to correct if I'm wrong
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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