Hugh_Hoy Posted February 16, 2007 Report Share Posted February 16, 2007 Germans a bit sensitive? Politically correct? Or just curtailing freedom of speech? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070215/ap_on_re_eu/germany_incitement_trial Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nervous_Dog Posted February 16, 2007 Report Share Posted February 16, 2007 I dont like this law, a number of other countries have it as well. I think Nazi's still alive today should be punished, as hard as if they would be sentanced in 46, however I also think people have a right to say/believe what they want without going to jail. DOG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffalo_bill Posted February 16, 2007 Report Share Posted February 16, 2007 The maximum penalty for denying the Holocaust is 5 years and if ever somebody deserved it then this arsehole . Probably can only be understood if you understand German past war history where almost everything possible has been done to suppress Nazi propaganda in any form . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChristianTroy Posted February 16, 2007 Report Share Posted February 16, 2007 In response to all, Zuendel definitely deserves to go to jail because he is a very aggressive right wing radical, right wing in Germany is really bad, people who listen to guys like Zuendel are Neo Nazis. However, he is denying the holocaust which is the biggest part of German history, I find it okay that people get jail time for denying it in public! You can basically say everything in Germany you want but this one thing you can't and if radicals like Zuendel mean to provoke then it is just okay that they silence him. In Germany you are made very concious about the holocaust in school already, to be honest, I find it a bad thing but it also happnend 26 years before I was born and it is over for 60 years now! Still some people think it is appropriate to consider Germany a war country, it is especially funny when it comes from GB or the USA . Germany was and is still paying a high price for it's past, a past that I accept to be true but also a part I have nothing to do with, whoever tries to label me as a warlord or a nazi or an antisemitic person has a problem! It is okay not to forget the mistakes but it is also time to give it a rest! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted February 16, 2007 Report Share Posted February 16, 2007 The World Wars are especially puzzling to me, since I had family on both sides in both wars. Then again I had family on both sides in the American Revolution and the War Between the States. No wonder I'm effed up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted February 16, 2007 Report Share Posted February 16, 2007 p.s. I do find this a bit disconcerting though: << because his Holocaust-denying Web site is available in Germany. >> So if you have posted anything on a website that some country's government doesn't like, can you be tried if you ever set foot in that country? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fidel Posted February 16, 2007 Report Share Posted February 16, 2007 It's all getting kind of f**ked up. I mean, if the guy is a nut... and he obviously is, why would anyone other than other nutters listen to him? There was talk not too long ago of making accusations that the US govt. had a hand in 9/11 a "hate crime". For many Americans 9/11 is comparable to the Holocaust. Does this mean that people should be jailed for suggesting the government had a part in it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nervous_Dog Posted February 16, 2007 Report Share Posted February 16, 2007 Yes - Next question please "Who killed Kennedy?" DOG - Still think, while the guy is a arsehole, it's wrong to jail someone for belief as opposed to action Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jitagawn Posted February 16, 2007 Report Share Posted February 16, 2007 I think balance is good!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jitagawn Posted February 16, 2007 Report Share Posted February 16, 2007 Well when the nutters get together and start nutting up they in turn create little flegling nutters and it goes on and on. Look at Bush Sr and his little nutter. Out to be a law- Oh there is but the Patriot :grin: Act has it covered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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