HOLOCAUST DENIAL: A GLOBAL SURVEY – 2006
Rafael Medoff and Alex Grobman have together a PDF document surveying global Holocaust Deniers.
Much of Europe has made Holocaust Denial a criminal offense. Although I firmly believe that Denying that the Holocaust took place to be a glaring moral travesty, I do not believe it should be criminalized. That is a free speech issue.
To allow Holocaust Denial to occur in a public forum unanswered is also a moral travesty. Six million Jews were murdered in this genocide. I am uncertain of the figure but I know several million other races (e.g. Gypsies) and physically handicapped also were murdered in the Holocaust genocide.
The reason given: To maintain the purity of the Aryan Race as defined by Hitler’s Nazism.
Wherever a conference is held Denying the Holocaust, an equal and substantial expose’ should as well take place to confront the deluded revisionists. Mohammedans have used Holocaust Denial as an exploitation of so-called Mohammedan superiority over non-Mohammedans. This particularly includes Jews, Christians and Americans in vilified as inferior beings.
Thus Holocaust Denial is a set up for another Holocaust.
Comments
Driving a car and parking it on the street are privileges granted and controlled by government. Freedom of speech is a Constitutional right assured to us by the Bill of Rights. It protects us from government.
Your driving privilege may make you feel free; your liberty to speak is a guarantee of freedom.
As Fosdick said, “And liberty is always dangerous—but it is the safest thing we have.” An individual’s freedom is protected from impingement by others; however it does not protect us from ourselves.
As Ciardi said, “The constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of him self.” Only a fool will long suffer another fool when he is free speak his mind or just walk away and leave the fool behind.
A Voice: That is a good explanation. Imagine of Left Wingers or Right Wingers (and all in between) were able to put the breaks on what is said; it would be Thought Police. That is what is happening in Europe at the current time.
A Christian Pastor can go to jail for preaching from the Bible about Homosexuality or the contrariness of Mohammedanism. Yet left leaning governments in Europe do what they can to appease those minorities even if it means denigration or hate speech perpetrated toward the Right or toward Christians (what few are left in Europe).
At base, where it would seem to really matter, we agree on the importance of our freedoms. We just seem to differ in terms of the examples of abuse that we would most readily site.
It would seem that I am more inclined to look at abuses of right-wing regimes; however I must admit that the governments in Europe, that I tend to admire, also do things that I hope we will not so readily tolerate within our own land.
Let us continue to enthusiastically differ on what is said, but not on the right for it to be said.