Nazi Christmas, OJ and Holocaust Deniers Get Free Speech?

A Holocaust denial conference in Iran, some Nazi gingerbreadmen, and more raise interesting issues of free speech.

The two short Comedy Central clips used in this video are taken from longer segments available on the Comedy Central website.

The Daily Show segment is available at: http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=114248&title=just-s...

And The Colbert Report segment is available at: http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/index.jhtml?ml_video=79780

I also quote John Stuart Mill's great treatise titled "On Liberty" which is available in its entirety at: http://www.bartleby.com/130/

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[mustang6172]

The pope is a guinna pig! The universe is donught shaped! There are only two dimensions [left and more left]! Time travel was invented in 1974 by George Washington! The most refreshing soda in the world is root beer! Aliens didn't crash in Roswell; they just blew shit up! My other car is your mom! Hellen Keller hid in an attick during World War II, was found by Japanese and thrown into a concentration camp! I don't remember why I'm writing this crap. I had a point and forgot.

[standalonesociety9]

You don't piss people off. And that, at the end of the day, is all that really matters. Sure, let the people don't believe in the holocaust. I mean, we already let people believe that there is a big man in the sky watching our every move and if we don't believe in his son, we'll be sent to hell.

[FuryOfTheSwarm]

@mustang6172 amd i am a purplke flying hippos with my green unicorn buddy we btoh fly and spit out cakes and occasionally eat icecreams while dancing on rainbows, i had a point to htis but i forgot

[TheAndyChandy]

Mahmadinejad never denied the holocaust, just questioned why 6 million jewish lives were more important than the other 34 million that died in WWII. People should be allowed free speech. And I should be allowed to brawl with them if they say something I don't like

[gateshead1000]

some big questions there, cannot be answered in 500 spaces

[roeetsabari]

my grandpernts were killed in thair how much does that sound offensive to you?

to the pit of my stometch and my grandparents were such good persons so i been told cuz i never met them thay killed them remmembr?

i just dont give a fuck about al of your dienyers

you killed my nana nazi fuckers

[eier]

@angrywhenroused ...As opposed to appeasing them, which just shoves them into places of power. I prefer the fringe extremist to the officially appointed one.

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin

[angrywhenroused]

@eier I disagree with you totally. The Islamisation argument is a crutch of the bigot.

Demonising muslims just shoves them into extremism

[eier]

@angrywhenroused I hate the Westboro Baptist Church as much as the next person, but it would make a martyr out of them to shut them up or even censor them. They LOVE the attention; good or bad press--it doesn't matter to them; and if they got shut down by the government, they'd get to play victim. 

[eier]

@angrywhenroused Free speech is practically dead in the water in the UK.  I'd rather let everyone have their say so people make up their minds whether to listen, than run the risk of a silent majority getting cowed into accepting the dictates of an unscrupulous minority. Political correctness run amok is leading to the gradual Islamization of Europe.

[angrywhenroused]

As a Brit where all the examples would probably end up with public order charge, I find the USA's obsession with every repugnant person have their say a bit odd.