12 Mar
2006
12 Mar
'06
2:10 p.m.
Hi!
Alle 15:30, domenica 12 marzo 2006, Mark Knecht ha scritto:
Consider a recent conviction of some silly
'historian' convicted in
Europe for writing a book that stated that the Holocaust never
occurred. What's up with that? We need a 'law' that says the Holocaust
happened? We know it did. It's amazingly Orwellian thinking to believe
that we could ever get to a point where the general world population
ever questioned this fact. But the Austrians (I think...) have a law
that says you cannot even say the Holocaust didn't happen and
convicted a silly person who wrote it in a book. I happen to think
this whole affair really make the Austrians, and by association
Europeans that don't speak out about this, look rather silly. But then
again, I'm in California and it's clear everyone here is out of touch
anyway. ;-)
Here in Italy we have laws against "apology of fascism", and I think it's
the
same in Austria: you cannot go out and do eg. the "saluto romano" because
it's an offense to common national feelings, and to the foundations of our
republic. But this does not prevent us speaking about fascism, or discussing
their ideas or valuing the arts of that period etc. So it's not a problem of
being able to say what you want or not: there is something that is offending,
and if you offend a person, he tends to react...:)
The real problem is that there isn't a correspondent "apology of communism",
but that's another question!:)
Byez!
Carotinho
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