Submitted by Desira Plummer, Sep 24, 2007 21:54

I agree with the authors that free speech applies to all as long as it doesn't incite violence. Unfortunately, Holocaust denial does bring out and unite the anti-semites. Especially those who believe they are not anti-semites. Although my father was a Jew, it would still be repulsive to hear those who say the Jews were responsible, even if he was not a Jew.

Recently I have been confronted personally with this hateful type of thinking. I have close ties to someone involved in the 9/11 Truth Movement (they believe that the 9/11 disaster should be more fully investigated and that it is possible that our own government may be in some way responsible). I believe that they have the right to that investigation. But the interesting thing is that, with some people, if you get past the 9/11 Truth message, the real underlying agenda for some is that rich Jews are trying to take over the world and that the Holocaust was an by those Jews. I am told, by the 9/11 Truth Movement leaders that they do not espouse this doctrine and remove these people from their "membership" list, as they compromise the movement. I hope so.

Again, I believe in the freedom to say or do research on anything one wants. But it makes a knot in my gut to allow it. The alternative is, as Hillel Halkin says, is to let them think there is something to hide.

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