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From: robinson@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jim Robinson)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Zundel etc.
Message-ID: <1039@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 30-Apr-85 17:08:33 EDT
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Posted: Tue Apr 30 17:08:33 1985
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References: <7197@watdaisy.UUCP> <628@lsuc.UUCP>
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Summary: 

In article <628@lsuc.UUCP> jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) writes:
>
>     The point of prosecuting Zundel (and Keegstra) is to stop
>society from swinging back to the type of environment wherein
>it could happen again.  The fact that everythings nice and anti-
>racist today, doesn't mean it'll stay that way.
> 
>     Reagan's recent comment seems to indicate that he's
>forgotten the lesson.

It was not a bunch of wacko private citizens who committed those crimes
against humanity in WW2 - It was the duly elected *government* of Germany.
Does anyone really think that any group, anywhere, could possibly 
murder 6 million of their country's citizens without the *full* support 
of the government? I don't.

This suggests to me that the real lesson to remember is that when a
people allow themselves to be intimidated and muzzled by their government,
as the German people allowed their government to intimidate and muzzle
them, then that people should not be surprised when the unthinkable
occurs. 

Needless to say, the easiest way to nip that potential problem in the bud
is to *not* allow the government to assume an undue amount of power.

J.B. Robinson