mahoney@bach.DEC (Be verwy verwy quiet I am hunting wabbits) (10/25/85)
I am not going to repost all the articles that have been posted about the
Zundel trail and The Hate Literature Laws in Canada. It would just get to
long. But that is what this article will deal with.
First I feel that the Hate Literature Laws are a definite infringement on
Freedom of Speech. I feel confident that the US Supreme Court would find the
law highly unconstitutional. If someone feels a certain way about a person or
persons they have the right to tell others about. I do not like the Klu Klux
Klan or the Nazi Party or any of the other hate organizations. I also don't
agree with the Communist or Socialist parties but I believe that they have the
right to say and write about how they feel. They do not have the right to act
upon these ideas but the do have the right to express them. I feel that this
is an undeniable human right that no government has the right to take away.
When you start removing someone right of expression there is always the danger
that it will go further. The argument is that common sense will be able to
dictate but unfortunately we are human beings and common sense does not always
rule our actions.
I realize that the Holocaust seems like an undeniable fact but to many the
feelings of conspiracy are greater then their sense of reality. Many people
see conspiracy in everything that happens in the world whether it is the
"International Jewish Conspiracy" or the "One Nation World Conspiracy" or the
"Communist Conspiracy". That is there view of the world and all that they see
is tainted by that. They have the right to see the world this way and to tell
others about no one has the right to stop them.
If Mr Zundel believed what he said was true he shouldn't have been tried but
if he knowingly lied for whatever purpose then that would be slander. I do not
know what the evidence was so I can not make a decision one way or the other.
I do feel though it would be very difficult to prove that he knowingly lied.
[This is a side note: Not all DEC employees are Anti-Semite. I am a DEC
employee and do not feel that I am Anti-Semite.]
Brian Mahoney
"Hate is only as strong as the reaction to it"