<calvin > wrote:
He may be a moron (and does look like a nazi), but that's not a crime...
so - is he a criminal or victim of politics in a world where people like
Kurt Waldheim >>could become UN SecGen and President of Austria?
Is your argument that if Waldheim got away with it, why shouldn't Irving?
The other side of it is that Waldheim shouldn't have got away with it, and
neither should Irving.
There is a difference between the two situations, though: Waldheim, a
politician, had a right to air his dubious opinions in public (though not to
actually lie about his own past); Irving, a historian, does not have the
right to pass his dubious opinions off as fact.
cheers,
Divya
