David Irving arrested Far-right British author David Irving has been arrested for Holocaust denial in Austria and has been in jail in Graz for six days, Austria's interior ministry confirmed today.Mr Irving was arrested last Friday on a warrant issued in 1989 under Austrian laws that make Holocaust denial a crime. The charges stemmed from speeches he delivered that year in Vienna and in the southern town of Leoben.
Here is where I can get myself in trouble: I believe in the right of free speech, even when it means that scum of the earth like David Irving are allowed to publish garbage. However, I would never replace my “Free Leonard Peltier” t shirt with a “Free the Nazi Sympathizer scumbag David Irving” shirt, for any amount of time.
On a somewhat related topic, Pinochet should rot in jail for the rest of his life. I wonder if the current U.S. Administration worries about the Pinochet precedent?
Pinochet says God will forgive rights abuses
Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator, has declared that God will pardon him for human rights abuses committed during his 17-year rule, according to newly released court documents.
Asked by Chilean judge Victor Montiglio about the killing of 3,000 Chilean civilians during the military government, Mr Pinochet, 89, said: “I suffer for these losses, but God does the deeds; he will pardon me if I exceeded in some, which I don't think.”
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Mr Pinochet's interrogation follows court decisions that again open the possibility that he is mentally fit to stand trial. The current investigations focus on alleged money laundering and responsibility for 15 deaths in Operation Colombo, a 1975 massacre of opponents of the military regime.
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