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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Could D. Black have legal problems?
Message-ID: <843@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 11-Oct-85 12:56:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: lsuc.843
Posted: Fri Oct 11 12:56:23 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 11-Oct-85 14:48:57 EDT
References: <305@ihnet.UUCP> <645@hou2g.UUCP>
Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: Holocaust believability

In article <645@hou2g.UUCP> scott@hou2g.UUCP (Scott Berry) writes:
> 
> > Remember the famous "shouting fire in the theater" case, where the abuse
> > of free speech might be harmful to society.
> > Similarly, if not more so, denying the existence
> > of the holocaust is (I believe) *very* dangerous in the long run.
> 
> Do you really equate such nonsense as denying the holocaust
> with yelling "fire" in a crowded theatre?  The believability
> of the two (especially given the circumstances) differs by 
> quite a wide margin.

Unfortunately, there are many people in North America who are
not familiar with the facts of the Holocaust, and who may be
willing to swallow the venom which Black, Zundel and others
spew forth. Central to Zundel's publications is the allegation
that the Holocaust was invented by Jews to gain reparations
from Germany. It is not hard to see the implications of someone
reading and believing this claim. If all Jews are liars (as
they must be), how can one trust Jews?

See my posting "Hate literature law no violation of freedom of speech",
cross-posted to net.politics and net.legal, Message-ID: 842@lsuc.UUCP>.

David Sherman
Toronto
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