EU Mulling Criminalizing Holocaust Denial & Hate Speech

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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/849561.html

[quote:ad2e1]Under the text being debated, EU countries would set jail terms of at least one to three years for "publicly inciting to violence or hatred... directed against a group of persons or a member of such a group defined by reference to race, color, religion, descent or national or ethnic origin."
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ninty · 04-19-2007, 10:19 AM

Absolutely ridiculous in my opinion.

"The proposed rules would also apply to people "publicly condoning, denying, or grossly trivializing crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes" as defined by international crime courts."

c312 · 04-19-2007, 01:18 PM

Didn't france recently do something about muslim women not being allowed to wear their head garbs or something...

What's next, oh model of human rights that is Europe?

elstatec · 04-19-2007, 03:20 PM

would never be forced into the UK, and its only a discussion that most probaly won't be put through that has been over-highlighted by an Israeli news source.

[quote:2bf67]What's next, oh model of human rights that is Europe?[/quote:2bf67]

well we were going to set up a prison camp in cuba.........oh wait.

c312 · 04-19-2007, 05:06 PM

Hey, if you're going to complain about us, you can't stay silent when places in Europe do it to.

ninty · 04-19-2007, 05:16 PM

But weren't the places in Europe doing that under CIA control?

c312 · 04-19-2007, 05:32 PM

The head scarf thing? I don't think there is any reason to believe so.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2004 ... rves_x.htm
Sounds pretty much like it was the French government to me.

elstatec · 04-19-2007, 05:37 PM

he is referring to the CIA secret prisons in europe i believe

c312 · 04-19-2007, 05:43 PM

Oh, I didn't even mean that. by "it" I meant enact questionable policies regarding human rights.