[lbo-talk] "Freedom" of fascist speech is an absurdity

Charles Brown cbrown at michiganlegal.org
Sun Feb 5 12:16:05 PST 2006


Yoshie quoted:

"Zuroff complained that while Latvia has managed to prosecute several former Soviet functionaries for Communist crimes, not a single Nazi collaborator has been tried since the country became independent. In 2000 Zuroff discovered that at least forty-one Latvian members of the Arajs Kommando, a notorious Latvian security unit implicated in the shootings of thousands of Jews, had just been officially rehabilitated and rewarded with increased pensions . . . Both the Latvian Parliament and President Vaira Vike-Freiberga--whom Zuroff labeled a "metaphor for the whole problem"--at one time considered combining the day of the SS march with the national memorial holiday" [at <http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050523/ames>]; "Remember all the frothy praise of Viktor Yuschenko and what a great democrat he was -- back when he was the leader of the so-called Orange Revolution that toppled the corrupt Ukrainian regime of President Leonid Kuchma (left) -- from George Bush, the neocons, Freedom House, and the Western press in general? Well, this week a little-noticed dispatch from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (the worldwide Jewish news service founded in 1917) related how now-President Yushchenko (above right) has just awarded Ukraine's highest honor -- the "Hero of Ukraine" medal -- to a notorious anti-Semite, Ivan Spodarenko. But not a word of this outrage has appeared in the major U.S. dailies." [<http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2006/02/ ukraines_yusche.html>], etc.).

^^^^^ CB: An example of why the Soviet laws against fascistic racist speech and organization were as correct as the French and German laws...

Fascist "freedom" of speech is "freedom" to advocate the abolition of freedom of speech. Abolition of freedom of speech is inherent to any fascist state, by definition of fascist state. It is absurd to argue for the "freedom" to advocate the end of freedom of speech.



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