Part 2 -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jnD4Mc3VUw

"anybody who disagrees with this can pick a number, get on the line, and kiss my ass."

lol

shroom? just so there's no doubt.

i detest what you've revealed of yourself here, so far.

but i would still defend, to the siftdeath, your ability to say it.

Was definitely on the sift before, but must have died.

Anything that might inspire someone to read On Liberty (available online for free here) gets a big upvote from me.

Great post!

Nice to see this one getting some love thanks to my15minutes... This is one of Hitchens (whom I admire greatly) best speeches. The importance of it's content cannot be overstated.

I'd say the release of "Fitna" by Geert Wilders might make this eligible for a promote.

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If i remember correctly, it was this talk:
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3Hg-Y7MugU
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq1e4cfvUKE

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Very troubling speech..

Got me thinking if he might not be a holocaust denier himself..

And no Irving was arrested because there already was a warrant out there since 1989 ...
for speeches of him denying the holocaust (in Austria), which he knew was and still is illegal.

And the Verbotsgesetz was and still is a very important tool in a country that never was denazified, unlike germany. This wasnt about free speech, its more about protecting democratic values in a country in wich many nazis still held high places in the newly formed government after world war 2..

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