"State controlled truth? Get over yourself. Your emotionally charged rhetoric is way over the top and exactly what the Hitlers and the Gobbels used to advance their version of what is truth about those evil joos."
Hey, it isn't MY country that threatens to put a person in jail for over twenty years for merely stating his personal idiotic opinions.
It is Austrians who are "overblown" with not only their rhetoric but also theirs actions.
Making a martyr out of this fool just falls into the hands of the extremists who LOVE this sort of overreaction.
"Now, likely out of societal guilt for what DID happen, the Austrians have laws to see that the holocaust doesn't happen again"
No they're just laying the groundwork for the next one. Repression only breeds discontemptment and now they've just given another weapon in their cause(The Jews control everything)
I'm a First Amendment(Constitionalist) Defender and I don't "pick and choose" who opinion is "political correct".
For an American I'd think you above all would understand that but I guess I'm wrong.
In America we just ignore these fools and not give them a national platform to scream "Repression"
They just go on Jerry Springer and let them be known for the fools they are.
Can't
The time to stand up and save the Jews and millions more is long since past.
Fighting the last war with old outdated tactics never works. The new Fascists always come under the guise of saving us from the horrors of the past while using the same repressive tactics of the enemy.
Just a couple of things. So you don't sound like one of the "extremists who LOVE this sort of overreaction", the article said 1 -10 years, not "over 20 years" as you seem to have read.
Second. Please hear me clearly now, if this had happened here, I would be outraged that someone had been jailed and threatened with prison for writing his twisted version of history. However, the Austrians, with a different culture and historical perspective than we have, especially about WWII and the holocaust, have a right to do what they believe about this issue. , up to a point.
He went there, to their country and this is what they feel is appropriate. If the Austrians want to line him up and shoot him or turn him into soap or some other Nazi atrocity, I'd most definitely be outraged, but the mere threat of 1-10 years (not a sentence at this time) hasn't risen to my threshold for outrage yet. If they cut off his head and showed the video on tv? That would more than do it, but detaining him and a possible threat of Austrian prison? Not there yet.
Again, it's their country. But: If our government tried that here, I'll stand with you.