[lit-ideas] Re: Ernst Zuendel sentenced
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:44:14 EST
Calling all scientists who speak plain English....
Reading Ursula's post, I was curious to know what -39 C was in Fahrenheit.
I went to my standard little conversion page and it told me that -39 C is -38
F. Knowing that couldn't possibly be correct, I used another converter, and
then looked at a few different temperature scales. All of them indicated
that below 0 C, the temp designations for C & F are nearly identical. So, I
thought to meself, I thought, I will go learn about this odd phenomenon.
Googled. Wikid (is that a verb yet? it surely will be). Read pages about
the
history of and the math of C & F. Nowhere was I able to discern why the two
temps are different above zero Centigrade but not below. Anyone?!
Julie Krueger
at -8 F here. I still don't know what that means, though....
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This whole hate crime business leaves a bad taste in the mouth though.
Why should it be a crime to say that the holocaust did not happen?
Why not just ignore it? Why not just ridicule it?
How is a law against holocaust denial any different than a law against
denying Mohammed?
What would we say if Muslim countries had laws against crusade denial?
Unless someone is also inciting to crime, which I don't think was proved
in Zuendel's Canadian case (but going by memory here), I don't see that
the denial itself should be a criminal matter at all.
Ursula
basking in the sun
(through double-glazed windows -- baby it's cold outside --39 C w/wind
chill)
Chris Bruce wrote:
>
>
> Members of this list will be undoubtedly interested (I deliberately
> use a rather 'neutral' term here - the reader may substitute others as
> s/he wishes) to learn that Ernst Zuendel has just been sentenced by a
> German court to a 5-year prison term (the stiifest possible sentence
> under current German law) for Holocaust denial.
>
> For several years Zuendel spread the poison of his anti-Semitism and
> Holocaust denial in my native Canada and in the U.S. He was finally
> extradited from Canada to Germany in the Spring of 2005.
>
> (Zuendel also co-authored a book which put forth the theory that
> supposed UFO's which people reported sighting were in fact secret nazi
> weapons emerging from a hollow earth through a hole somewhere in the
> Antarctic - perhaps the best illustration of the seriousness with
> which material put forth by supporters of Holocaust denial and
> revisionism should be taken. It is comforting to note that the
> ridiculous of the claims is in no way seen as mitigating the
> seriousness of the crime.)
>
> Chris Bruce
> Kiel, Germany
>
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