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Holocaust Denier Gets Three Years
When societies are so afraid of ideas, no matter how innocuous (cartoons) or ridiculous (holocaust denial) that they punish them with death and/or imprisonment, then the people living in those societies are not free.
Hate Speech laws in the United States (plus the McCain Feingold Act which limits a citizen's ability to contribute to political campaigns, effectively blocking successful efforts at launching alternative national parties) are an example of the encroaching regulation of free speech for America's citizens. I don't want to see us end up like Saudi Arabia or Austria where voicing an undesirable opinion about religion, social history or race is a criminal offense -- facing social criticism for public dissent is a natural consequence of shooting off one's big mouth (a consequnce that your garden variety lib continuously confuses with "oppression"), but criminal prosecution is out of the question. Gods and humans are both more than capable of surviving disrespect, and should we criminally prosecute social disagreement or religious dissent, we would be inviting philosophical and intellectual destitution.
And I can't believe I hyper-linked Wonkette . . .