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- From: geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks)
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- Subject: Re: Revisionist Convicted AGAIN!
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- Date: 22 Jul 92 15:51:05 GMT
- References: <1992Jul19.225535.11915@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul19.225535.11915@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> friedenb@egr.msu.edu ( Gedaliah Friedenberg ) writes:
- >town of Eckville, Alberta, has been convicted for the second time of
- >wilfully promoting hatred against Jews.
- > Jusitce Arthur Lutz of the Court of Queen's Bench in nearby
- >Red Deer fined James Keegstra $3,000 (Canadian) a few hours after a
- >jury of eight women and four men found him guilty.
- > The verdict was the culmination of a four-month retrial in
- >which 17 former students of Keegstra's testified that from 1978 to
- >1982, he taught them that an evil worldwide Jewish conspiracy bent on
- >destroying Christianity existed and that the Holocaust was a hoax.
- >
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- While I think that a person teaching such hateful things should
- be dismissed from their teaching position, I don't think the
- government should jail people for "willfully promoting hatred".
- Such governmental powers to regulate speech are far more dangerous
- than private citizens expressing their opinions, regardless of
- how loathesome. Those who burn crosses on lawns or deface
- synagogues can be prosecuted under other laws such as criminal
- tresspass and perhaps additions to these laws can be made to
- stiffen the penalties if such hate acts are involved.
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- Gordon Banks N3JXP | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and
- geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon."
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