Time to Bomb Germany Again. Germany, that bastion of freedom and respect for human rights, has convicted a man of saying unpopular things, and sentenced him to five years in prison. Mind you, he didn't even say them in Germany, but over the Internet. Still, Germany asserts the right to imprison anyone on Earth who says things the German government does not approve.
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The issue is so-called "Holocaust denial", which German law criminalizes. But it could be anything. It's the whole thing (from Germany) about "and then they came for me": you start with one unpopular group, then move on to another, and another, and another, and pretty soon you have effected complete conformity to approved thought. That is not the behavior of a civilized, Western nation. Quite the contrary, it is Nazistic, and thus fitting for Germany.
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What is more appalling is that Canada has co-conspired in the persecution of a harmless old man. Will imprisonment for five years kill a 67-year-old? No matter. Germany has killed so many people for disapproved views — religious, sexual, political — in both its unified and divided condition, what's one more? A dozen more? 10,000 more? Six million more?
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Jews in Canada are praising the persecution of people for the 'crime' of denying that six million Jews were killed by Nazis. But how many non-Jews were killed by Nazis? You never hear figures for Poles, homosexuals, gypsies, common criminals, mental defectives, Communists, Socialists, or any of the many other groups persecuted by the Nazis. We are not to know how many of those people died. That's not important, because non-Jews are not important.
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And how many people have the Jews killed, in Israel, thru Israel, by the international Zionist movement? We are not to know that either. Will we have Jewish genocide deniers hauled before the courts of the world some decades hence, once the power of the Zionist lobby is smashed, as the world reels back from the mass death and destruction that Zionism has unleashed upon the Middle East, Downtown Manhattan, Madrid, London? Will not just the top leadership of "Israel" be disposed of by a new Nuremberg court, but every defender of Zionist mass murder in every country be imprisoned by a world as indignant at Zionist crimes as supposedly-post-Nazi Germany is indignant at the crimes of Germany's one-time heroes, the true sons of the Fatherland who saved Germany from Polish 'aggression', as our heroes have saved us from Iraqi aggression?
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Germany, Canada, and every other country that imprisons people for saying disapproved things is an enemy of civilization. The criminals against freedom of thought and speech should be destroyed. Bomb Ottawa, bomb Mannheim (where the court convicted a harmless old man), bomb Berlin. Why shouldn't we? It's just a question of power. Might makes right. Right?
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Germany has the power to arrest an old man and send him to prison for things he has said. We have the power to bomb Germany for punishing things people say. What's the difference?
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In pretending to renounce Nazism, Germany has embraced Hitlerian absolutism over the mind. Germany doesn't subscribe to the fundament of Western civilization, best remembered in the stance of that old subversive, Voltaire:

I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

That sentiment is best remembered in the 1906 paraphrase by British writer Evelyn Beatrice Hall (under the pseudonym "Stephen G. Tallentyre"):

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

It doesn't matter to Germany, or Canada, or any of a number of other unfree countries, who said it. They don't accept it.
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The very idea that people have the right to say, or think, things the government disapproves is unacceptable to such governments. 'How can a society possibly survive if people are allowed to think and say what they want?'
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There is a society like that. It's called the United States of America. And we must champion that kind of total freedom of the mind. If that requires us to haul Germany and Canada before an international tribunal for crimes against freedom of conscience; if, indeed, we have to create such a tribunal; or if we have to send a few cruise missiles into the Parliament buildings of places like Ottawa, Berlin, and London to make the point that governments have to keep their hands off people's minds, that is little enuf to do in defense of the quintessence of our civilization.
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We will ultimately have spent, according to NBC News and The New York Times, $1.2 trillion on the war in Iraq, for things not remotely central to the survival of our civilization. But we allow our 'friends' to trample the freedom of thought that our civilization is based on, without expending a dime or even an ounce of breath to denounce attacks upon free speech. I'd rather we spend a few billion dollars on cruise missiles and Shock-and-Awe campaigns against the enemies of freedom in what are supposed to be free countries. As Jefferson said:

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Instead of manure that nourishes freedom, we get courts in Germany pouring out toxic manure, assertions that somehow society is harmed in letting people believe whatever they damned well please about the "Holocaust".
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Freedom is not defended by destroying freedom, not in Germany against Nazism, not in Guatanamo against Al-Qaeda (as tho our various wars against Islam have anything whatsoever to do with freedom rather than simply with Zionism).
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You don't fite Nazism with Nazism.
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(The current U.S. military death toll in Iraq, according to the website "Iraq Coalition Casualties", is 3,128 — for Israel.)




- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 11:59 PM