The Austrian government's belated admission that it has taken British historian David Irving into custody should come as no surprise to those who have been keeping track of the liberal intelligentsia's escalating campaign against thoughtcriminals. Arguments supported by reams of documentary evidence and original research have been expertly countered by making their conclusions (admittedly dubious) illegal.
When voicing an opinion on a matter of history is enough to earn you a jail sentence of up to twenty years (significantly longer than what a majority of rapists and paedophiles would find themselves facing) simply because a government finds it detrimental to their efforts in re-shaping a society one has to wonder how far removed continental Europe's left-leaning governments really are from the communist hell-nations their side of the political coin produced in the 20th century. Already they are remarkably casual in acting with neither the popular support or democratic consent of their people in curbing voices of dissent and introducing legislation nobody wants because they believe they "know what's best".
Irving's books and speeches on the holocaust do not incite or glorify violence (more than can be said for the works of rap "artists" that put things like rape and murdering policemen up on pedestals) but merely put forth a historical viewpoint. Whether the assertions of the man are a million miles off the mark or not is besides the point. Since you don't get arrested for going about saying other things widely considered untrue - that the moon landings were faked or that Genghis Khan was a parakeet, for example - we can only assume that there is a political agenda.
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Hear, hear!!
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