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From: clewis@mnetor.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Europe leaves net.politics in disgust.
Message-ID: <451@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23-Apr-85 08:46:29 EST
Article-I.D.: mnetor.451
Posted: Tue Apr 23 08:46:29 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 23-Apr-85 10:21:06 EST
References: <265@turing.UUCP> <531@lll-crg.ARPA>
Reply-To: clewis@mnetor.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Organization: Computer X (CANADA) Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Summary: 

In article <531@lll-crg.ARPA> brooks@lll-crg.ARPA (Eugene D. Brooks III) writes:
>Reading this article has made reflect on the fact that I am CENSORED glad
>to be a American!  It is a privilege to tolerate a little speech that might
>be offensive to myself (or even a whole group of people!) for the sake of
>absolute free speech.  To think that systems in Canada or Europe cut off
>net.politics because they were worried about the possibility of getting
>jailed for the contents send chills up my spine.  I am glad I live here
>and not there as I could not tolerate my political opinions being censored
>by the current government in power.

As far as I am aware our part of Canada has not unsubscribed to net.politics.
Please be careful before you jump to conclusions about the Keegstra and
Zundel trials.  Their prosecutions were not because the Government in
power didn't like what they were saying.  In fact, the material that
they were publishing/uttering was only indirectly related to the
Government.  In one case, the charges were brought by a citizen, not
the Government.  They were prosecuted under two different laws - 
one prohibiting false utterances that are likely to cause a danger 
to society, and the other for willfully uttering statements, 
known to be lies by the utterer, specifically intended to incite 
hatred against some identifiable group.  They were convicted by 
juries of citizens, not Government or judicial officials.
They were publishing claims that the Holocaust didn't
happen, and that it was invented by the Jews to extort billions of
dollars for Israel and as part of their "plan for world domination".

We don't need such crap - and neither do you.  We are a relatively
small country, dominated in many ways by what happens to the south.
One of the least desirable imports is hatred.  We get enough from
your KKK.  

For a country that produced a McCarthy, and executed the Rosenbergs, 
you're being allfully holier-than-thou.
-- 
Chris Lewis, Computer X (CANADA) Ltd.
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