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10/26/2006

“Finally, Some European
Leaders are Saying Enough is Enough”

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The First Feeble Voices Demanding Freedom of Speech in
Europe

From Paul Fromm
October 25th, 2006

Dear Free Speech Supporter:

Perhaps, it’s the shame of seeing a French professor severely fined for
giving an interview on Iranian radio. Perhaps it’s the disgrace of seeing a best
selling World War II historian, David Irving, approaching his second year as a
political prisoner in Austria for questioning the new state religion of
holocaust.

Finally, some European thinkers and leaders are saying that enough is enough.
Writers and thinkers shouldn’t be jailed for questioning a particular version of
history. Two recent events are most encouraging:

“Switzerland’s justice minister has called on the Swiss government to
reverse a law which makes historical revisionism illegal.

Minister Christoph Blocher is on a campaign to change the law, according to
the Neue Zuercher Zeitung (NZZ) newspaper – even if it
will impinge upon the sensitivities of minority groups, including the
country’s Jewish communities.

Blocher claims that freedom of expression is more important than protecting
the sensibilities of minority groups, NZZ wrote.

Blocher just returned from a trip to Turkey where a public discussion of
the Armenian genocide is de facto punishable by a court of law. Upon his
return home, Blocher said that he believes that Swiss laws needs to be a
beacon for other nations.

As far as the minister is concerned, a ban on free speech in Turkey has
made an effective public discussion of the Armenian genocide and Kurdish
issues there impossible. In effect, he claims that widening the possibilities
for freedom of speech in Switzerland might entice other countries to do the
same.

The minister, however, is also disgruntled because he claims that such a
law is an impediment on Switzerland’s relationship to other countries. Article
261 of the Swiss criminal code punishes genocide-denial. Currently, anybody is
punishable in Switzerland if they “deny, belittle, or relativise genocide or
crimes against humanity,” NZZ wrote. (European Jewish Press)

And now the left-leaning Manchester Guardian (October 19, 2006) is
demanding an end to holocaust denial laws:

“Today, if we want to defend free speech in our own countries and to
encourage it in places where it is currently denied, we should be calling for
David Irving to be released from his Austrian prison. The Austrian law on
Holocaust denial is far more historically understandable and morally
respectable than the proposed French one - at least the Austrians are facing
up to their own difficult past, rather than pointing the finger at somebody
else’s - but in the larger European interest we should encourage the Austrians
to repeal it. Only when we are prepared to allow our own most sacred cows to
be poked in the eye can we credibly demand that Islamists, Turks and others do
the same. This is a time not for erecting taboos but for dismantling them. We
must practice what we preach. ….

What a magnificent blow for truth, justice and humanity the French national
assembly has struck. Last week it voted for a bill that would make it a crime
to deny that the Turks committed genocide against the Armenians during the
first world war. Bravo! Chapeau bas! Vive la France! But let this be only a
beginning in a brave new chapter of European history. Let the British
parliament now make it a crime to deny that it was Russians who murdered
Polish officers at Katyn in 1940. Let the Turkish parliament make it a crime
to deny that France used torture against insurgents in Algeria.

Let the German parliament pass a bill making it a crime to deny the
existence of the Soviet gulag. Let the Irish parliament criminalize denial of
the horrors of the Spanish Inquisition. Let the Spanish parliament mandate a
minimum of 10 years’ imprisonment for anyone who claims that the Serbs did not
attempt genocide against Albanians in Kosovo. And the European parliament
should immediately pass into European law a bill making it obligatory to
describe as genocide the American colonists’ treatment of Native Americans.
The only pity is that we, in the European Union, can’t impose the death
sentence for these heinous thought crimes. But perhaps, with time, we may
change that too.

Oh brave new Europe! It is entirely beyond me how anyone in their right
mind - apart, of course, from a French-Armenian lobbyist - can regard this
draft bill, which in any case will almost certainly be voted down in the upper
house of the French parliament, as a progressive and enlightened step. What
right has the parliament of France to prescribe by law the correct historical
terminology to characterize what another nation did to a third nation 90 years
ago?”

Paul Fromm
Director
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR FREE
EXPRESSION

Swiss Minister Wants to
Legalise Genocide Deniers

By Oliver Bradley
October 23th, 2006

BERN (EJP)— Switzerland’s justice minister has called on the Swiss government
to reverse a law which makes historical revisionism illegal.

Minister Christoph Blocher (pictured) is on a campaign to change the law,
according to the Neue Zuercher Zeitung (NZZ) newspaper – even if it will impinge
upon the sensitivities of minority groups, including the country’s Jewish
communities.

Blocher claims that freedom of expression is more important than protecting
the sensibilities of minority groups, NZZ wrote. (…. Full Article
Here)

This is the moment for Europe to dismantle taboos, not erect them

Far from criminalising denial of the Armenian
genocide, we should decriminalise denial of the Holocaust

Timothy Garton Ash
Thursday October 19, 2006
The Guardian

What a magnificent blow for truth, justice and humanity the French national
assembly has struck. Last week it voted for a bill that would make it a crime to
deny that the Turks committed genocide against the Armenians during the first
world war. Bravo! Chapeau bas! Vive la France! But let this be only a beginning
in a brave new chapter of European history. Let the British parliament now make
it a crime to deny that it was Russians who murdered Polish officers at Katyn in
1940. Let the Turkish parliament make it a crime to deny that France used
torture against insurgents in Algeria. (…. Full Article Here)

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