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From: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Zundel etc.
Message-ID: <634@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-May-85 23:08:09 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  2 23:08:09 1985
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Reply-To: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura)
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Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: Missed my point


     I think you've missed my point.  As you said, it was an elected
government.  The people who voted them in didn't think they (the voters)
were being 'wacko'.  Some of them obviously thought the Nazi party was
right about the Jews.  It's the opinion/feeling which gives them the
power to do 'bad' things.  Do you know how most of the current politicians
feel about 'muzzling' the public?  How about the Attornies General?
How effective is your much vaunted 'freedom of speech' against true
hate?  Will it keep the Japanese from being thrown in jail and stripped
of their possessions again?  This was the effect of the 'freedom to
incite riots' back before and during the 2nd world war, on *both* sides
of the 49th parallel.  We, the Japanese, would probably have been quite
happy to see the hate mongers of the day thrown in jail instead.  It's
not likely that it would have happened, but it would have been nice.