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their country ... their laws ... their ignorance
Laws prohibiting hate speech are unconstitutional in the United
States, outside of obscenity, defamation, incitement to riot, and
fighting words. The United States federal government and state
governments are broadly forbidden by the First Amendment of the
Constitution from restricting speech.
"The arrest appears to be tied to Duke's expulsion from the Czech
Republic
in 2009,...The Cologne police statement said that Duke 'was not
entitled to stay in
Germany' because of a travel ban against him in another, unspecified
European country.
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On Tuesday, September 29, 2009, speech charges brought against him in
the Czech Republic were dismissed.
According to Novinky News Service in the Czech Republic, the State
Prosecutor has stated that the charges against David Duke are
dismissed because there is absolutely no evidence that David Duke
broke any laws on Holocaust denial or for allegedly supporting "anti-
Democratic" movements. The acknowledgment shows that Duke's arrest
and jailing was based on no substance, and was simply a means of
silencing him and keeping the Czech people from hearing him.
"My exoneration shows that there are still men in the Czech government
who are worthy of their Czech history of fighting for freedom. I am
thankful to the Czech people for the admission that I had not broken
any laws on so-called Holocaust denial. Far from supporting movements
opposed to human rights, I am a staunch advocate of human rights; not
the least of these are the human rights of free speech and free
expression." - DD
On Nov 30, 4:23 am, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Greg Dempsey
> Date: Tuesday, November 29, 2011
> Subject: [DailyKos] *? 2 ALL: DAVID DUKE ARRESTED IN GERMANY, FACES
> DEPORTATION - WHAT ARE YOUR COMMENTS?*
> To: Greg dempsey <gregdemp...@sti.net>
>
> <http://i.huffpost.com/gen/420375/thumbs/r-DAVID-DUKE-ARRESTED-large57...>
>
> Hi Team!
>
> *? 2 ALL:
>
> DAVID DUKE ARRESTED IN GERMANY, FACES DEPORTATION -
>
> <http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSlXlw_Y_FdQ-Y3eZXjJTd_vdnwFY...
>
> John Rudolf reports:
>
> "David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader, white supremacist and
> Louisiana politician, was arrested and taken into custody in Cologne on
> Friday, prior to a planned speech to a right-wing extremist group, German
> police said Monday.
>
> "The statement by the Cologne police department said that Duke, 61, is
> 'obliged to leave German territory without delay.' In a message on his
> website, Duke said he had been released from jail and requested financial
> assistance from his followers to fight the deportation.
>
> "'To fight this case will cost a lot of money, time and effort,' he wrote.
>
> </mail/u/0/s/?view=att&th=133f2452d14b5468&attid=0.1&disp=emb&zw>
>
> "The arrest appears to be tied to Duke's expulsion from the Czech Republic
> in 2009, following his detention there on suspicion of denying the
> Holocaust, a crime in many European countries, including Germany. The
> Cologne police statement said that Duke 'was not entitled to stay in
> Germany' because of a travel ban against him in another, unspecified
> European country.
>
> "Duke, a former neo-Nazi who unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. presidency in
> 1988 and 1992, served a year in prison in 2003 and 2004 after pleading
> guilty to tax fraud and stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in
> donations from supporters to pay gambling debts.
>
> </mail/u/0/s/?view=att&th=133f2452d14b5468&attid=0.2&disp=emb&zw>
> </mail/u/0/s/?view=att&th=133f2452d14b5468&attid=0.3&disp=emb&zw>
>
> "Since his release from prison, Duke has traveled and lectured widely,
> including a 2006 appearance at a Holocaust denial conference in Tehran,
> Iran. The conference featured numerous speeches denouncing the Holocaust as
> a 'myth.' At the conference, Duke voiced support for discredited, fringe
> scholars imprisoned in Europe for denying the use of gas chambers against
> Jews during the Holocaust.
>
> "In the United States, Duke continues to speak regularly at gatherings of
> prominent right-wing groups and writes for Stormfront, a leading
> white-supremacist website."
>
> </mail/u/0/s/?view=att&th=133f2452d14b5468&attid=0.4&disp=emb&zw>
>
> David Duke arrested in Germany, ex-Klan leader faces deportation - what
> are your comments?
>
> Greg Dempseyhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/SECULARHUMANIST/
> Voice of the People
>
> ======
>
> John Rudolf
> huffingtonpost.com
>
> First Posted: 11/29/11 02:21 PM ET Updated: 11/29/11 02:29 PM ET
>
> ...The Cologne prosecutor's office did not respond to a request for comment
> about Duke's arrest. A woman who answered a phone number on Duke's website
> confirmed the arrest but declined to be identified.
>
> In the statement on his website, Duke said that German authorities had
> arrested him in order to silence his "message of heritage and freedom."
>
> Germany has struggled recently with a resurgence of nationalist groups,
> some which have been tied to violence against minorities and immigrants.
> Several days before Duke's arrest, German prosecutors announced a new
> investigation into a neo-Nazi gang tied to eight murders, including six
> Turkish immigrants and a police officer. The group, which had escaped
> detection for over a decade, is also suspected in attacks in Cologne and
> Duesseldorf that injured more than 30 people, mostly immigrants and
> foreigners.
>
> "We all have a responsibility to ensure that extreme-right, nationalistic
> and anti-Semitic groups and networks are not able to again come together,"
> Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, the German justice minister, said in a
> statement, according to the Associated Press.
>
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