Irving in Jail

How ridiculous.

An Austrian court has found the right-wing British historian David Irving guilty of denying the Holocaust and sentenced him to three years in prison.

Isn't the Austrian nation just a little embarrassed by this. "Hey everyone! This guy suggested something preposterous in '89 - let's throw him in the slammer!" I wonder if denying the 1994 genocide in Rwanda draws a similar sentence.

Expect the "suppressed genius" card to be played ad-nauseum from now on by other holocaust deniers the world over. The reasons why this law is a bad idea are so straightforward that it seems a waste of time to even spell it out here. Instead, I'll direct you to Ed Brayton's post on this matter.