Xref: utzoo misc.legal:4791 soc.culture.jewish:5735 can.politics:1537 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!looking!brad From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) Newsgroups: misc.legal,soc.culture.jewish,can.politics Subject: Re: Zundel found guilty for lies on Holocaust Message-ID: <1640@looking.UUCP> Date: 13 May 88 06:58:11 GMT References: <1988May12.093956.13333@lsuc.uucp> Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd. Lines: 24 I have a few more questions about the case: 1) How did the prosecution prove that Zundel's book would cause mischief or harm? What are the criteria for deciding this? Does the law outlaw any sort of hoax, even if it isn't done for material gain (in which case it would be fraud.)? While it would obviously weaken the defence case to assert that nobody would be swayed in their opinion by such poppycock, it's an interesting thing to consider. 2) Can one get a copy of "Did 6 Million Really Die?" to judge for one's self? I would guess not. I have heard it is actually mostly quotes from other books with the same assertion. Who publishes these books? It shames me to be a citizen of a country that has jailed somebody for publishing lies. If you libel, you don't go to jail, you stop publishing, print disclaimers and/or pay a remedy. You don't get a criminal record. This goes far beyond any concept of "group libel." Telling lies without intent to defraud should be a tort, not a crime. -- Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473