The European Union is poised to introduce a unified penalty

The European Union is poised to introduce a unified penalty for Holocaust denial.

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The European Union is poised to introduce a unified penalty for Holocaust denial. Justice ministers from the 27 member countries of the EU are to meet on Thursday in Luxembourg and are expected to back a proposal by the German EU presidency that would make Holocaust denial punishable by up to three years in prison if it can be considered as incitement to violence against specific ethnic, religious or national groups. After years of negotiations, the new law is likely to be adopted by ministers, despite proposals by Poland and the Baltic states to include the denial of "Stalinist crimes" into the bill as well. The other EU members are said not to accept that proposal.

The bill would oblige countries to punish "publicly inciting to violence or hatred directed against a group of persons or a member of such a group defined by reference to race, color, religion, descent or national or ethnic origin." That would include encouraging such an act "by public dissemination or distribution of tracts, pictures or other material." Denial of the Shoah is already a crime in Germany and Austria

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UPDATE: Last One Out of Europe, Turn Off the Lights

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In a twisted way, this ludicrous deal stems from a good impulse that itself stems from a huge, deserved sense of guilt: to combat Holocaust denial. But you can be absolutely certain that the first groups to take advantage of these new legal powers will be the highly aggressive Islamists—who are often the same people who deny the Holocaust, and at the same time wish for a new, improved one.

The European Union is the ultimate passive aggressive nanny state, and now they’ve made something a crime that they deliberately do not define in precise terms; it’s Orwell’s 1984, except Big Brother is your dull-eyed pedantic cousin: EU agrees to penalties for racism and xenophobia.

LUXEMBOURG (AFP) - The European Union on Thursday made inciting racism and xenophobia crimes throughout its 27 member states in a landmark decision tempered by caveats to appease free speech concerns.

The new deal specifies one- to three-year prison terms be available for incitement to violence or hatred “against a group of persons or a member of such a group defined by reference to race, colour, religion, descent or national or ethnic origin”.

That could include the sending of “tracts, pictures or other material.”

The deal, reached by EU justice ministers in Luxembourg, display’s “Europe’s ”common moral values", EU Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini told reporters.

In a twisted way, this ludicrous deal stems from a good impulse that itself stems from a huge, deserved sense of guilt: to combat Holocaust denial. But you can be absolutely certain that the first groups to take advantage of these new legal powers will be the highly aggressive Islamists—who are often the same people who deny the Holocaust, and at the same time wish for a new, improved one.

Yes, it’s Orwell Day at LGF. The old crank is spinning like an Iranian centrifuge.


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Psalm22:10-11 I was cast upon You from birth. From My mothers womb You have been My God.