FREEDOM OF SPEECH?

Telegraph: Appeal Filed To LengthenIrving's Prison Sentence

Austria's state prosecutor has filed an appeal to increase the jail sentence that the British historian David Irving must serve for denying the Holocaust during a lecture tour of Austria in 1989.

Irving yesterday received a three-year prison sentence for the claims. He immediately filed an appeal to reduce his sentence, arguing that he had changed his mind after further research and now agreed that Nazi Germany had killed millions of Jews.

Guardian: David Irving Jailed For Holocaust Denial

The British revisionist historian and Nazi apologist David Irving was today sentenced to three years in prison after he admitted denying the Holocaust.

An eight-member jury at a court in Vienna convicted Irving, 68, a few hours after it began its deliberations on the first day of his trial.

"To make it clear by no way i agree with David Irvings views. But i don't like the idea that the a nation State issues beliefs about selective Historical Events. Nobody goes to jails because he denies the genocid on 3mio armenians by the Turks.
It should be possible to discuss such things openly. If you dont like his views ignore them. If you don't like cartoons about Mohammed ignore them. The Danger for Democracy does not come from the David Irvings of the World but from Democratic elected Leaders who curb our Freedoms at Home and attack helpless Countries Abroad in the name of fighting Terrorism."