Comments on: …on freedom of speech and fundamentals http://www.randomfate.net/MT/2006/02/21/on-freedom-of-speech-and-fundamentals/ One more roll of the dice... Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:55:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: probligo http://www.randomfate.net/MT/2006/02/21/on-freedom-of-speech-and-fundamentals/comment-page-1/#comment-5355 probligo Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:08:08 +0000 http://www.randomfate.net/MT/2006/02/21/on-freedom-of-speech-and-fundamentals/#comment-5355 It is not about freedom of speech either when you are referring to Irving. <b>In that instance</b>, it is more why did so many people hear what he was saying? Why did he get the publicity instead of being ignored? How did such an incompetent become a "major student of history"? <a href="http://probligo.blogspot.com/2006/02/why-is-david-irving-so-hard-to-handle.html" rel="nofollow">I have written...</a> It is not about freedom of speech either when you are referring to Irving.

In that instance, it is more why did so many people hear what he was saying? Why did he get the publicity instead of being ignored? How did such an incompetent become a “major student of history”?

I have written…

]]> By: Josh http://www.randomfate.net/MT/2006/02/21/on-freedom-of-speech-and-fundamentals/comment-page-1/#comment-5329 Josh Wed, 22 Feb 2006 02:04:03 +0000 http://www.randomfate.net/MT/2006/02/21/on-freedom-of-speech-and-fundamentals/#comment-5329 I find laws against Holocaust denial to be disgusting for another reason - it's actually insulting to those who died in the Holocaust, that we are not secure enough to freely admit the full horror of the Nazi genocide that we have to have laws that say it happened. Should we have a law saying that it's illegal to deny that atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Or that Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese? That Rome fell? I find laws against Holocaust denial to be disgusting for another reason - it’s actually insulting to those who died in the Holocaust, that we are not secure enough to freely admit the full horror of the Nazi genocide that we have to have laws that say it happened. Should we have a law saying that it’s illegal to deny that atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Or that Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese? That Rome fell?

]]> By: Zoli's Blog http://www.randomfate.net/MT/2006/02/21/on-freedom-of-speech-and-fundamentals/comment-page-1/#comment-5306 Zoli's Blog Tue, 21 Feb 2006 06:45:29 +0000 http://www.randomfate.net/MT/2006/02/21/on-freedom-of-speech-and-fundamentals/#comment-5306 <strong>Our Freedom of Speech Paradox</strong> No, this is not another post about the cartoons and the violence that followed.   Instead, I’ll  present three unrelated cases of what I consider extremities of Freedom of Speech – going to far, or none. 1.)   Rig... Our Freedom of Speech Paradox

No, this is not another post about the cartoons and the violence that followed.   Instead, I’ll  present three unrelated cases of what I consider extremities of Freedom of Speech – going to far, or none.
1.)   Rig…

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