[Graybeard58]

In France they charge dumasses with a crime for idiocy, here we just call them democrats.

[coconutt2000]

Heck, that's not even a crime here... We let newspapers publish national secrets with impunity. We let anybody revise and rewrite history any way they want to, and publish it if they want to and can find someone to publish it for them. We have children's books pretending to be non-fiction that paint Cuba as some kind of cross between paradise and the Emerald City, sans midgets.

I'm all for ridiculing anybody who tries to deny Nazi brutality, but charging them with crimes in a court? That's one way of legitimizing and promoting those ideas.

[Zeon Cowboy]

More European thought control in action...

[Bonaparte]

If he'd defended Stalin's or Mao's atrocities, the french would have left him alone. In france, it's alright to make outrageous statements as long as they're the approved ones. All else is a thought crime.

[Cincinna]

What ever happened to Freedom of Speech?

The French are one of the most anti-Semitic peoples in the Western world. They allow all sorts of racist and anti-semitic ACTS to go unpunished.

[DustyMoment]

French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen has been ordered to stand trial for comments denying the brutality of the Nazi occupation of France during World War II, judicial officials said on Wednesday.

And, the concept of thought control just got a boost. I can hardly wait to see how long it takes the SCOTUS to co-opt this bad idea and attempt to embed it in American law.

[dennisw]

This trial is harassment to keep Le Pen out of the election process. Le Pen is a mixed bag. He's far from the worst fascist. I give him great credit for fighting the Jihadists in the Algerian war

Le Pen is old now. I don't think he's up to that much these days

[The Great RJ]

What LePen should have said was that the Nazis were greatly aided in their occupation of France by many Frenchmen.