Irving: 'Nobody will silence me' (David Irving)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/02/22/uirving.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/02/22/ixportaltop.html ^ | 2-22-06 | anon

[rcocean]

David Irving, the controversial historian, has confirmed he is to appeal against his three-year sentence for denying the Holocaust.

Irving admits to 'refining' his Holocaust thinking In a television interview given from his jail in Austria, Irving, 67, said "I come from a free country, I am not going to let anybody silence me.

"They are not going to succeed, I don't think."

During his day-long trial in Vienna on Monday, he pleaded guilty to denying the Holocaust, but insisted that he now acknowledged the Nazis' slaughter of six million Jews during the Second World War.

[rcocean]

FYI

[westmichman]

He should have made his speeches over here and he would have been ignored or glorified in the press.

[isthisnickcool]

I am not going to let anybody silence me.

Hey David Irving, I don't know about anyone else but I for one am not listening to you in the first place,

[dhs12345]

He's an idiot. But he isn't breaking any law (IMHO).

Let the public and others scrutinize what he said publically. He will be proven the fool that he is.

[dfwgator]

Yes, thank God, freedom of speech doesn't mean you have the right to be heard.

[winner3000]

Funny thing is that he didn't care about the millions who were ACTUALLY silenced.

[Revolting cat!]

Amusement continues. If David Irving didn't exist he'd have to be invented, he's serving so many needs here. Go Irving, Go!

[Paradox]

I completely support this guys freedom to espouse whatever nonsense he wants too. Fact is, Europia has less of those freedoms than we do, even with the evihl Patriot Act.

[Gator101]

I love to watch when Irving is discussed over in DUmmie land. The hidden communist tendancies come through every time when half of them start demanding that this guy needed to be jailed and shut up for his opinion.

Their "freedom of speech" only extends to the speech they approve and it's interesting that most of them can't see why that's wrong.

[wardaddy]

I agree...sure glad we have some semblence of free speech here

now if we only viewed rkba that way

[Revolting cat!]

I deny that I ever denied anything!

(I think that was Irving's line of defense in Vienna, by the way.)

[ASH71]

my problem with this is that he did the speeches in 89, and now recants what he stated back then. Why bother with the jail term they should have made him go on tour.

[dhs12345]

Agreed.

It isn't perfect, too.

Even though Ward Churchill is still employed by CU, his life hasn't been easy. Lots of scrutiny and accusations of plagiarism. Most people, including some liberals, think he is an idiot. He has been discredited.

RKBA: a person cannot agree with the first amendment and then exclude the second or any other amendments. And visa-versa. They will try. And hope that we don't notice. But there will always be someone to point out they flaws in their logic. Crossing my fingers...

[rcocean]

More from the article:

You get wiser, it is not so much a change of heart as a refining of your position," he said.

"Every historian should do this, a lot of them don't, particularly in Germany and Austria, the historians are so frightened of being locked up in jail like me now."

Asked if he regretted the offence his views had caused, the historian replied:

"In my view freedom of speech means freedom to say to other people what they do not want to hear.

"If that causes offence, then that is partly their problem and partly mine. Freedom of speech is the right to be wrong basically. Sometimes I am wrong."

[massgopguy]

I have an idea for a better sentence. He should have to go to Yad Vishem and go upstairs to the records room. This is where the files that the NAZI's kept are stored so that relatives can find each other or find out where their loved ones died. He should have to read every file and write the name down.

[butternut_squash_bisque]

"They are not going to succeed, I don't think."

Good, positive attitude, Irving moron.

[Revolting cat!]

We're all seem to be missing the point, or the gist of the matter, if you prefer!

[<1/1,000,000th%]

He's already changed his mind.

What's he saying? That he won't change it again?