On 02/03/2005 6:36 AM, Al Patrick wrote:
You aren't free to express your thoughts - IF they don't meet the
politically correct mold - especially if your thoughts and speech happen
to deny the holocaust!

Hasn't there been one or more folks arrested in Germany for a book they
wrote in the U.S?

Well, Here's one whisked off to Germany, from Canada, so they could face
the charge of denying the holocaust!

Zundel tried and failed to get asylum in Canada as a political refugee.
Canada gave him and his lawyers plenty of opportunity to state his
case. More, in fact, than the average citizen want to give him. It
was determine his case had no merit and was refused, and he was deported
from Canada. He got the same chance to state his case as any innocent
or despot from any other country.

This was after being charged with distributing materials that are
contrary to Canada's new "hate crime" laws. When he couldn't make a go
of it in the U.S., he returned to Canada.

He is not a Canadian citizen, and was asked to leave. Something similar
happened in the U.S. I understand.

Since he is still (AFAIK) a citizen of Germany, it is one of the few
places he is "welcome."

Remember that "freedom" has two parts: there is "freedom to", and then
there is "freedom from." A truly free society has to find a balance
between these two, often opposing, notions. Many countries have decided
that freedom from Zundel's unsubstantiated and specious notions
regarding recent history is more important than a single individual's
freedom to spread hate propaganda.

What does this have to do with shortwave? Colour me guilty of
contributing to an OT posting.