Free Speech

David Irving was sentenced this week for three years in prison for denying the Holocaust in 1989. This along with the Muhammad cartoons raises some interesting points.

When does freedom of speech cross the line?

Robert Scheer comments in an interesting article:

Speech that is not felt by some powerful group to be loathsome is hardly in need of protection.

With regard to how the West has dealt with these incidents:

The lesson has been that the suppression of ideas is valid, as long as the suppressors are convinced that they are in the right.