Hi CB: its funny, but after posting my mulling over the subject went more or less along your lines too. Check my PS or PPS on that.
>>Let the lies be told. Let all the lies be told, and the truth be told, and let them fight it out.<< A lot of times the acceptance of the lie is a symptom of something else (Im trying to reflect my impression of unhealthy symptoms in the former DDR): despair, feeling of being useless, worthless, ignored, nobody... When somebody tells you, it's the "others" (mcc: Turks, Vietnamese, Jews, dont forget Jews...) and no, your Wehrmacht father and your SS uncles were honorable men, and that only your discipline, rightousness and selfesteem will be able change your life and the world ("today we own Deutschland and tomorrow the whole world") well, d*n, man, here we go again...
>> better jurists on the United States Supreme Court decided that the time to shut people up was when there was a "clear and present danger" that their speech would lead to criminal acts << I can't say what's the specific reason for criminalizing acts like the so-called Auschwitz-lie etc. Be assured, however, the constitutional substrate of the Federal Republic of Germany is based on pretty much the same foundations as the US' constitution. Maybe - but it's just some DJ's hypothesis out of the air, and probably way off the target - it's like getting somebody off the bottle. Defining the forgotten fruit you're not supposed to touch.
PS: this is all borderline symptoms, anyhow not that important as economic factors, security aka terrorism ... |
