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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
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Subject: Re: Inflamatory comparison involving Jews, Nazis, Zundel, Keegstra
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Date: Sun, 12-May-85 00:00:00 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 12 00:00:00 1985
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My point in this Henry is that armed suppression of opposing beliefs is
the greater evil.  Any evil of deed is an order of magnitude worse than
any evil of thought or word.

Should Zundel attack a Jew, jail him.

Consider the logic that jails these people.  For me, communism and socialism
are schools of thought which cannot coexist with my desire for individual
freedom.  Communists state their goal is to deprive me of freedoms and
properties which I feel should be mine.

But to be a McCarthy is to descend to their level - to answer words with
guns.   If they attack with guns, we must defend ourselves in kind, but
if they attack with words, then our defence must be with words, if possible.

Sometimes an attack of words is so immediate that it can not be defended
against in kind.  Shouting "FIRE" to cause panic is such an attempt.
Those who do it are aware that their attack can't be countered with words.
Men like Zundel are not in such a position.

Are we so foolish and irresponsible that we must be protected from the
ideas of others?  Even when we have been conditioned with the "never again"
message since birth?  (Baby boomers all have.)  Is Zundel such a danger
we must lock him up?

As for Keegstra, he was not acting on his own.  He violated the rules about
what he was payed to teach, and misused his public-granted authority as
a teacher.   Such things can be published as they should be, with the
content of the material he tought having no bearing on the case.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473