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Freedom of Speech
gets a fiendish French Twist

What are you building Obelix?
It's a Capital 'A' monument...
to the Arrogance of the French Parliament.
Asterix and Obelix -- building a monument to the French Parliament's arrogance

Asterix and Obelix -- building a monument to the French Parliament's arrogance

Thanks to Hinkelstein
via
Janek Jonas

Where are Asterix and Obelix when we really need them?

The French Parliament voted yesterday to make it a crime [punishable by one year in prison and a fine of up to 45,000 euros (57,000 dollars] to deny the so-called Armenian genocide, in speech or print.
So... before the language-gendarmes start capping free speech and burning books in your locale, you may want to obtain copies of any or all of the following:
1) Death and Exile: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ottoman Muslims,
1821-1922
by Justin McCarthy
Amazon.com (North America)
Waterstones (UK)
2) History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey
(Volume II -- 1808 and 1975)
by Stanford J. Shaw
Amazon.com (North America)
Amazon.com (UK)
3) A Myth of Terror -- Armenian Extremism
by Erich Feigl
Amazon.com (North America)
AbeBooks (UK)

And don't be surprised or intimidated by the strident brickbats that some critics have hurled at these earnest, rational historians. Just consider the source.

Freedom of Speech gets a fiendish French Twist

Freedom of Speech
gets a fiendish French Twist