Europe has a sincere problem with right wing groups. I realize this is based in freedom of speech, but, there is a limit. There are published editions of these text, however, this is flying in the face of civilization. Publishing a text that is already available is symbolic. It is not necessary. It reaches as a symbol extends to every right wing hate group on the planet, including the KKK in the USA. No one needs such an event.
There will be a great deal of propaganda surrounding such an event. One of the propaganda statements about Ukraine the current government proves a rise of a right wing extremists. The simple act of publishing a text such as this when there is no need for it, carries with it real life implications hate groups will use as elevation of their ideology.
On the other hand if governments maintain their position stating this is hate speech and intended to cause harm to others it will prove these groups have no standing.
The text caused a war. A global war. I think hate speech such as Hitler's words needs to be contained.
I want to know how US Representative Steve Scalise feels about the publication of this words. Is it Freedom of Speech or hate speech that should be suppressed?
February 24,2015
By Anthony Faiola
MUNICH — Old copies of the offending tome (click here) are kept in a secure “poison cabinet,” a literary danger zone in the dark recesses of the vast Bavarian State Library. A team of experts vets every request to see one, keeping the toxic text away from the prying eyes of the idly curious or those who might seek to exalt it.
“This book is too dangerous for the general public,” library historian Florian Sepp warned as he carefully laid a first edition of “Mein Kampf” — Adolf Hitler’s autobiographical manifesto of hate — on a table in a restricted reading room.
Nevertheless, the book that once served as a kind of Nazi bible, banned from domestic reprints since the end of World War II, will soon be returning to German bookstores from the Alps to the Baltic Sea....
There will be a great deal of propaganda surrounding such an event. One of the propaganda statements about Ukraine the current government proves a rise of a right wing extremists. The simple act of publishing a text such as this when there is no need for it, carries with it real life implications hate groups will use as elevation of their ideology.
On the other hand if governments maintain their position stating this is hate speech and intended to cause harm to others it will prove these groups have no standing.
The text caused a war. A global war. I think hate speech such as Hitler's words needs to be contained.
I want to know how US Representative Steve Scalise feels about the publication of this words. Is it Freedom of Speech or hate speech that should be suppressed?
February 24,2015
By Anthony Faiola
MUNICH — Old copies of the offending tome (click here) are kept in a secure “poison cabinet,” a literary danger zone in the dark recesses of the vast Bavarian State Library. A team of experts vets every request to see one, keeping the toxic text away from the prying eyes of the idly curious or those who might seek to exalt it.
“This book is too dangerous for the general public,” library historian Florian Sepp warned as he carefully laid a first edition of “Mein Kampf” — Adolf Hitler’s autobiographical manifesto of hate — on a table in a restricted reading room.
Nevertheless, the book that once served as a kind of Nazi bible, banned from domestic reprints since the end of World War II, will soon be returning to German bookstores from the Alps to the Baltic Sea....
