BBC
German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schauble has shut down two far-right
organisations, describing them as "reservoirs" of Holocaust deniers.
In a statement, the interior ministry said the authorities had raided
30 sites linked to the groups, which were based in three western
German states.
Mr Schauble said they had been involved in "disseminating anti-Semitic
propaganda" and glorifying the Nazis.
Holocaust denial is a criminal offence under German law.
The interior ministry said both groups had violated Germany's
constitution.
They were named as Collegium Humanum and the Association for the
Rehabilitation of Those Persecuted for Questioning the Holocaust, and
were said to be based in Lower Saxony, Hesse and North
Rhine-Westphalia.
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I guess the far LEFT doesn't want any competition ...
Somehow, castrating democracy and free speech in the
name of democracy and free speech - it just doesn't
seem a good example. If anything it simply makes the
fascists, also anti-democracy & anti-free-speech, seem
like they're nothing special.
The message is - "It's OK for anyone who has power to
silence the opposition".
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