Holocaust denial and freedom of speech

I'm totally against making Holocaust denial a criminal offence anywhere in the world. It's totally counterproductive and undermines the concept of freedom of speech.

Furthermore, it makes martyr's out of the deniers and gives them completely undeserved publicity to spout their nonsense (there's no such thing as bad publicity)

Secondly I believe that freedom of speech should be enshrined in law - if that means Holocaust denial, plays claiming Jesus to be gay, the drawing of Mohammed cartoons etc then so be it.



Just for good measure here's a picture of the arrested Holocaust denier, Gerald Toben, pictured with Mel "all wars are started by Jews" Gibson's father, Hutton Gibson.