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Originally Posted by theking
You keep saying this...so please make a list of all of the Americans that have been jailed for merely investigating a historical event. Also...please make a list of all of the foreigners that have been jailed for merely investigating a historical event.
With appropriate proof of their arrest...conviction and sentence to jail...of course.
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Zundel and David Irving are 2 that come to mind. In many countries in the EU you cannot speak of this. In the US you just get called names, but they are trying to pass the same "Hate Crime" legislation here.
On February 5, 2003, Ernst Zündel was detained by U.S. local police and deported to Canada, where he was detained for two years on a Security Certificate for being a foreign national alleged to be a threat to national security pending a court decision on the validity of the certificate. Once the certificate was upheld and Zündel was determined to be a national security risk he was deported to Germany and tried in the state court of Mannheim on outstanding charges of incitement for Holocaust denial dating from the early 1990s. On February 15, 2007, he was convicted and sentenced to the maximum term of five years in prison.[8] He was released on March 1, 2010[9].
David John Cawdell Irving (born 24 March 1938) is an English writer specializing in the military history of World War II.[1] He is the author of 30 books on the subject, including The Destruction of Dresden (1963), Hitler's War (1977), Uprising! (1981), Churchill's War (1987), and Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich (1996).
Irving was arrested during a visit to Austria and convicted of "glorifying and identifying with the German Nazi Party", a crime in that country under the Verbotsgesetz law. He served a prison sentence there from February to December 2006.