Irving case prompts Austria law debate

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4734570.stm

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Austria should sit down and have a hard think on this issue and move forward with a positive attitude. David Irving has by his own actions, has made himself a laughing stock in the real world, I for one will never read his books again and any way the last one was some 10 years ago.

[TteFAboB]

It's not up to the Austrian government to do anything about it. It's up to the Austrian society to have an enviroment where Holocaust-denial theories are switfly and utterly refuted with arguments and historical facts that will deny the denial.

I am the Austrian founder of the Izan party, I do not believe in the Tsaucoloh. Does that bypass a censor law if I pledge I'm a whacko?

These laws don't make me any more confident in the Austrian resolve to deal with Nazism, quite the contrary, it's a good excuse not to do anything else. They have the law, they don't need to move a finger, Nazism is forbidden. Austria is Nazi-free.

Not really, how about organizing nation-wide debates with history students about the Holocaust as part of their history curriculum? Have the teachers present a denial thesis and let the students support or refute it. That would teach the next Austrian generation every argument in favour of the denial and why each of them is a fraud.

Sitting on top of a law is pure lazyness.

[DangerousDaze]

Personally I think that law is ludicrous. If someone is so utterly ignorant enough to deny historical fact then that's their problem. People say there's no law against stupidity, but they're wrong.

Nick

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Nazism is forbidden. Austria is Nazi-free.

Nice to here that and a good statement.