OFF: Freeedom of Speech

[trev]

paul, i own the real festival music website and i feel solidarity with those
who have published. whats holocaust denial got to do with anything? this is
a crisis which is happening now. its real. people are being killed now and
others will be killed.  the more these cartoons are published, the less each
brave publisher is liable to be attacked.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Mather" <paul at GROMIT.DLIB.VT.EDU>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 8:11 PM
Subject: Re: OFF: Freeedom of Speech


> On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 19:31 +0000, trev wrote:
>> I thought about publishing the cartoons on Real Festival Music to show
>> solidarity with the free press.  I am ashamed to say that I have not done
>> so
>> for fear of the Islamic murderers. I am truly ashamed.
>
> Sorry to hear of your deep shame, Judge Trev.  Maybe you can persuade
> the Real Festival Music Web site to publish some articles denying the
> Holocaust ever happened.  After all, the Germans say you can't do that,
> and they'll arrest you in Germany if you do.  You should stand up for
> free speech and show them what for!  (I know, standing up to Germany is
> not as fashionable as standing up to Iran, but beggars can't be
> choosers.)
>
> But wait, you say, that Holocaust denial stuff has been proven in court
> to be a load of rubbish, so why should I help disseminate such nonsense
> and cause offence to loads of Holocaust survivors into the bargain?
> That's easy, I'm told: because someone says you can't, and when that
> happens you have to "stand up for the principle of free speech" because
> the next thing you know they'll be stopping you from "airing both sides
> of the argument" and teaching Intelligent Design in science classes.
>
> Stupid, isn't it?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
> --
> e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu
>
> "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production
> deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."
>        --- Frank Vincent Zappa
>