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Thursday, 12 October 2006

Doubleplus Ungood


The French government want to make it illegal to deny that the Turks committed genocide against the Armenians in 1915. To do so would result in a criminal trial and a possible €€45,000 fine and a one-year stretch in prison.

You'll notice that this does not involve any criminal act, but merely expressing a view that flies in the face of official orthodoxy. It is ironic and telling that in the land of libertie, equalitie, fraternitie, that most fundamental of liberties, the right to hold on to any opinion no matter how fatuous or wrong-headed, is denied.

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