Free-speech deniers stop Irving meeting

'Irving is on a three-month, 50-city speaking tour, but the venue he had booked for today’s 7 p.m., $20-per-ticket event abruptly canceled after activists from the group Anti-Racist Action called to protest Irving’s appearance there. Apparently, the Upper West Side church hall run by the Metropolitan New York Baptist Association had no idea it would be hosting a man widely considered to be the world's most effective and dangerous Holocaust denier.'

You do not have to agree with David Irving to defend his right to express himself because his freedom is everyone else's freedom. If anyone is denied the right to express their views it means that no-one is free to do so. 

Why?

Because it means that the rest of us can only say what is within the bounds of what someone else - in this case self-appointed censors - decides is acceptable. What their child-like minds cannot comprehend is the difference between freedom of expression and the freedom to express what they agree with.

Here is a group called 'Anti-Racist Action' preening themselves over how good and pure they are to have denied another's freedom of speech - click here. They say that 'hate has consequences'. I love it. What do they think they are doing with regard to David Irving? Hurling hate at him and encouraging everyone else to do so.

And they think they're adults, bless 'em.  

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