Zundel gets 5
I really hate to stick up for a sleazeball like Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel, but this is a free speech case. And if willful denial of reality were a crime, we'd have to lock up most of the US population. His website (the "crime" for which he was convicted) isn't even hosted in Germany; do they think they have a right to police the Internet?
Canada booted him through a 9/11 law:
In February 2005, a Canadian judge ruled that Zundel's activities were not only a threat to national security, but "the international community of nations" as well.A Canadian law, passed after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States, allows the government to hold terrorism suspects without charge, based on secret evidence that does not have to be disclosed to a suspect or his defense.
Zundel was deported a few days later.
Evidently a terrorist is anyone who you say is one.
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