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Originally posted by Strange Famous
1, there is only so many times I can say "Stalinism is not communism" before I have to think people just deliberately make this up rather than say it through lack of understanding.
2, Denying the holocaust is a crime in Germany because Germans committed the holocaust - hateful thinking and rabid anti semitism indeed have hurt and killed many people in the past - the point of this law is that they should not be allowed to do so again. It was and is very important for Germans to understand and be educated about this part of their history.
3, It is proposterous arrogance for Canada to judge its only legal system more valid than Germany's. We are not talking about sending someone back to a dictatorship tro face torture and trumped up charges, we are talking about charges made by a democratic and legal country... you do not have the right to withold criminals from other countries because you do not agree with their laws... of course, you understand this when America's laws are broken, but when it's someone else, when the victim is someone else who is not like you, perhaps it all seems rather different? I dont know - i cant speak for you, but thats how you make it sound.
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This is the first time I've ideologically differed from you Strange Famous, so please consider my point.
I don't agree that one nation should always follow the laws of another nation. For example, we still use the death penalty over here in the states. AFAIK, we are the only Western nation that still does. When we convict people of capital cases, the EU refuses to extradite the criminal. I believe this just recently happened to an accused terrorist--a nation is/was refusing to send him over for trial.
I support their position and think it's a moral course of action. I think the tough pill to swallow is that I have to support our position to not extradite someone back to Germany to be punished for an action we protect (and value)--freedom of speech.