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Yes my approach to this is less than tactful but that is a fault of mine.
Well, that acknowledgement is appreciated. I'll try and be more tactful myself.
I am just passionate about personal liberty and even more so these days when all governments can talk about now is why we need to be more afraid, why we need more cameras up are arse, why we need to medicate our children.
While I agree with you that goverments gather power to themselves rather than relinquish it, and that they seem to delight in giving us lots of reasons to be afraid, the point I was trying to make with my parallel above was that David Irving is replicating the behaviour of many governments, in trying to rewrite history for his own purposes.
All governments do this. One might give the examples refusal by the Japanese government to acknowledge ill treatment of British POWs or the Israeli Governments' refusal to acknoweldge its post-68 landgrabs as illegitmate (I'm also sure there's the odd massacre in this conflict which has been explained away or pushed off the history books, but would have to look it up). I believe there have been some recent attempts to get the bomming of Dresden by UK forces reclassified as a war crime also.
In fact, I suspect that part of the reasons that holocaust denial is an offence in Austria is to prevent any future the wing government coming to power and trying to write teh Holocaust off the books or lessen its impact. Can anyone confirm this? I'd also add think this having this as a offence is part of a deliberate attempt to confront and acknowledge past wrongdoing - for which the Austrian establishment should be applauded IMO. If only all our Goverments were this honest. |
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