David Irving
Rod Liddle worries that David Irving has been made a 'martyr to free speech' by his imprisonment in Austria. I don't really buy this - a martyr to who? Just the normal Nazis and racists, and perhaps Iranian crackpots. Big deal. He also adds:But then, this. He was a British subject, arrested abroad and imprisoned for what we might reasonably call a crime of conscience. During his incarceration, his seriously ill wife — she is bed-ridden 90% of the time — and 12-year-old daughter were left to fend for themselves with no income. Irving has been, as he puts it, financially ruined. The British government encouraged prosecution. The campaigning groups — Amnesty, et al — refused to get involved.
As unfortunate as his wife and daughter's situation is, this is not normally seen as the fault of the imprisoning authorities, and given Irving must have known his arrest was possible, seems nothing but his fault.
posted by Matthew @ 12/24/2006 10:48:00 AM
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