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

[Charles Brown]

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.