Posted on 11/18/2005 4:15:43 PM PST by cougar_mccxxi
Controversial British historian David Irving, who denies the Holocaust took place, is under arrest in Austria on a 1989 warrant issued over his negationist views, the country’s interior ministry said Thursday.
Irving was detained after a routine check on a highway last Friday.
The November 1989 warrant was issued by a Vienna court against Irving for being an apologist for the Nazi regime, Interior ministry spokesman Rudolf Gollia said, and to stop him taking part in a neo-Nazi meeting.
The offence carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
The right-wing historian was apparently on his way to a students’ club in Vienna when he was stopped, Austria’s APA agency said. Such clubs are often linked to far-right or pan-Germanic movements.
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Coming to a nation near you if we're not careful...
There's something disturbing about foreign nationals being arrested for crime committed outside the country, and a crime of expression at that.
I've expressed conservative libertarian views on various boards that would, no doubt, be considered quite radical and dangerous to certain regimes and even certain socialist hellholes in the EU. Guess I'd better not travel to any of these places, huh?
Austria is kind of crazy abut this stuff. Their whole national persona is built around the idea that it was the Germans, not them, who did all the horrible stuff during WW II. You should see their national exhibit at Auschwitz - "We were victims too!" So they arrest Irving in an attempt to prove that, 60 years ago, they were not really perpetrators.
Are lefty's or muslims arrested for hate (thought) crimes?
This must be the fourth time since yesterday that he's been arrested. Ynuff already!
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