Germans have no right to lecture on free speech
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Re: "EU visitors push for press freedom", April 10
I read in the April 10 edition of The Nation that an EU delegation, mainly from Germany, is hassling the Myanmar government over freedom of speech.
Yet, in the EU, if I speak of, write of, or broadcast anything about the Holocaust that implies anything except that 6 million is the correct number of victims, or that it did happen, I will be tried in a German court and jailed for 3-5 years. This happened to Germar Rudolf and Ernst Zundel, and even Zundel’s lawyer for defending him.
Maybe one of the EU delegates, on returning through Thailand for a few days, on a trip courtesy of European taxpayers, would explain what right the EU has to tell a sovereign state how to set its free speech laws, while the EU itself sets laws against free speech, and with a 3-5-year jail term. Either there is free speech or there is not.
In the US there is free speech: one can document any evidence one has, so as to revise the numbers, or to cast doubt on the Holocaust having taken place. Having said that, Zundal was extradited from the US, placed in solitary in Canada, and whisked to court in Germany, and there jailed, being German born.
Free-speech seeker
Bangkok
