Holocaust denier sent to prison

[MickeyD]

Nuremberg - The German Neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier Gerhard Ittner was sentenced to 18 months in prison by a regional court in Bavaria on Tuesday.

The court in Nuremberg-Fuerth found the 57-year-old guilty of incitement and disparaging the state and its symbols.

Ittner distributed pamphlets denying the Holocaust between 2011 and 2012. Police located him in 2012 in Portugal, where he was distributing propaganda material via the internet.

Ittner caused nationwide protests in 2003 when he organised a right-wing gathering near the former Nazi party rallying grounds in Nuremberg.

He announced at the time that he was planning additional protests in Nuremberg.

Ittner was sentenced to two years and nine months in prison for incitement in 2005 and subsequently went into hiding.

DPA

Source: http://www.news24.com/World/News/holocaust-denier-sent-to-prison-20151117

 

[Patrick_Hockstetter]

To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. Voltaire.

 

[Rusty0]

To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. Voltaire.

+1

 

[supersunbird]

To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. Voltaire.

Thus... The State... big surprise!

 

[Ninja'd]

Ittner distributed pamphlets denying the Holocaust between 2011 and 2012.

There was a Holocaust in 2011-2012?



Please don't throw me in jail.

 

[longboy]

Holocaust denial is a punishable crime. Surely this chap knew that before he started his infernal diatribe?

 

[Compton_effect]

There was a Holocaust in 2011-2012?
Please don't throw me in jail.

Does this mean we can call you a Grammar Nazi?
That was a really badly structured sentence. What do they teach journalists these days?

PS - love that Voltaire quote. I'm saving that one for later.

 

[LazyLion]

They should be sent back to school rather than sent to prison.

 

[lived666]

PS - love that Voltaire quote. I'm saving that one for later.

Then you will look just as stupid as the person who posted it as such.
It is actually a quote from Kevin Strom - but heck, if you want to be associated with right wing white neo nazi nutjobs, meh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Alfred_Strom#Misattributed_quotation

Misattributed and misquoted quotation[edit]
The statement "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize" is often attributed to the writer Voltaire; this misquote is actually Strom's: he made the statement "To determine the true rulers of any society, all you must do is ask yourself this question: Who is it that I am not permitted to criticize?" in his program, "All America Must Know the Terror That is Upon Us" (1993). The misattributed quotation continues to spread across the Internet.[24]

 

[Compton_effect]

Then you will look just as stupid as the person who posted it as such.
It is actually a quote from Kevin Strom - but heck, if you want to be associated with right wing white neo nazi nutjobs, meh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Alfred_Strom#Misattributed_quotation

You must have been saving that one up, holding on to it for the right moment, just waiting for a person to use it, so you could pounce.
Good to know - I had to google Kevin Strom - yep, nutjob.
Next you're going to tell me that quote about ice-cream is also false

 

[Midnight_choir_drunk]

Holocaust denial is a punishable crime. Surely this chap knew that before he started his infernal diatribe?

When people are told they are not allowed to debate an opinion based on history, you're bound to incite them to push even harder to find out what's behind this special "thought crime". Had it not be illegal to have alternative opinions on the topic we'd get to the core of the truth quickly, and if they are indeed loons that would be quickly and easily exposed with facts allowed to be debated openly.

 

[GreGorGy]

There was a Holocaust in 2011-2012?

Nope. Didn't you get the pamphlets?

 

[MickeyD]

When people are told they are not allowed to debate an opinion based on history, you're bound to incite them to push even harder to find out what's behind this special "thought crime". Had it not be illegal to have alternative opinions on the topic we'd get to the core of the truth quickly, and if they are indeed loons that would be quickly and easily exposed with facts allowed to be debated openly.

So there was no Holocaust ?

 

[Patrick_Hockstetter]

So there was no Holocaust ?

If you want to hold that position, then I feel it should be ok, don't you?

To pass a genocide law is just terrible.

 

[LazyLion]

If you want to hold that position, then I feel it should be ok, don't you?

That's fine by me, as long as they give you a nice cotton jacket with long sleeves and put you in a room with padding on the wall so that you don't hurt yourself.

 

[Archer]

So there was no Holocaust ?

Opinion > fact. Come on, get with the program!

Nevermind that he was not arrested for his "opinion" but for incitement.

 

[Patrick_Hockstetter]

That's fine by me, as long as they give you a nice cotton jacket with long sleeves and put you in a room with padding on the wall so that you don't hurt yourself.

Some people do believe there was no Jewish genocide. Read up on alternate sources, not just what the Jewish led media say.

 

[supersunbird]

If you want to hold that position, then I feel it should be ok, don't you?

So its OK to say that god is a made up fairy tale and not expect a quibble from you?

 

[LazyLion]

Some people do believe there was no Jewish genocide. Read up on alternate sources, not just what the Jewish led media say.

I am already aware of what some people believe. I think their doctors should up their medication.

 

[Ninja'd]

Some people do believe there was no Jewish genocide. Read up on alternate sources, not just what the Jewish led media say.

And here we go.