Sunday, October 14, 2007

The Free Speech of the West

With good questions asked afterwards:

Spain extradites Austrian author for Holocaust denial
A right-wing Austrian author convicted of neo-Nazi activities was extradited Thursday from Spain to serve a prison sentence for denying the existence of the Holocaust and claiming the Nazis never used gas chambers.

There are a lot of people walking around who think Elvis is still alive. Do we throw them in jail? There are people who claim space aliens have abducted them. Are they arrested and tried in court for those claims? There are people who claim to have seen Bigfoot. Do they have their careers wrecked and their lives destroyed? -- Mike Rivero, What Really Happened