scott wrote:
> have the laws to give the police power to really stop anything like that 
> ever happening again.

So, no matter how much the population might want that, they can't have 
it. Welcome to lack of democracy.

> It's not so much the arresting them, but the seriousness of the 
> situation that it instills on everyone else.  

So, we don't really want to arrest you. We want you to just understand 
we really, really mean it.

 > It's like saying "look
> this is a really important part of history that we must never forget, 
> there's no way anyone is allowed to try and mess it up by spreading 
> false information and beliefs".

And I'm sure there are large numbers of people in the USA that would say 
*exactly* the same thing about the Bible, and large numbers of people in 
the middle east who would say *exactly* the same thing about the Koran.

>> The problem comes when you start arresting people next for not 
>> believing that men are superior and that God exists and should be obeyed.
> 
> I think the holocaust is a just exception to normal beliefs.

Why?  Isn't it better to show people they're wrong than to arrest the 
people who hold unpopular opinions? And don't think they don't get 
arrested - that's what laws are for.

> I think with that one they just don't want to define a line to divide 
> what is ok and what's not ok regarding the nazi symbol, far easier to 
> just say nothing is ok.

And that's the other half of the problem. Censorship isn't OK just 
because you're censoring an unpopular opinion. Indeed, that's kind of 
the point.

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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