Another release NOT released by UKIP ....
We have been warning people about the "Thought Police" for years and have been considered nutters and conspiracy theorists for so doing.
Today we are vindicated.
The new inquisition has its latest victim in its hungry maw, in the form of dissident historian David Irving, sentenced in Vienna to three years in prison for blaspheming the sacred icon of Holocaustianity, those Auschwitz execution gas chambers.
"More women died in the back seat of Edward Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick than ever died in a gas chamber at Auschwitz."
Is this line more offensive to Jews than an editorial cartoon depicting the prophet Muhammad with a turban bomb is to Muslims?
Apparently it is, because the editorial cartoonists are still free, whereas the man who made this statement - British author David Irving - was sentenced this week to three years in an Austrian jail for violating a law that says it is a crime if a person "denies, grossly trivializes, approves or seeks to justify the National Socialist genocide or other National Socialist crimes against humanity."
Mr. Irving should be free to write whatever he chooses and express whatever views he holds about any topic he likes the same as all of us.
Freedom is a principle that must be applied indiscriminately. We have to defend Irving in order to defend ourselves. Once the laws are in place to jail dissidents of Holocaust history, what's to stop such laws from being applied to dissenters of religious or political histories, or to skepticism of any sort that deviates from the accepted canon?
UKIP will always fight to retain our right to freedom of expression for this is not a right which is given or awarded - it is a birthright which can be taken away.
NOT a UKIP press release.
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