Henryk M. Broder, the well-known Jewish publicist, has announced his candidacy for the post of President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany in Berlin Tagesspiegel.
The bulk of his concerns will go through the popular press, and I want it too therefore only comment as sounding reasonable at first.
I am curious, however, the reactions to his claim, the offense of "Holocaust denial" to abolish it, since the law was indeed originally meant well, but now was helping only idiots to present themselves as martyrs.
As the man himself is not an idiot, he will have something thinking: Man it is probably unlikely to ignore it as easy as the ex-judge Constitution Hoffmann-Riem, the same claim some time ago (hushed, as best I could) aufstellte.
Obviously, the result is the question of whether, for example, the world's most condemned all so-called Holocaust deniers, Horst Mahler will be (for almost 13 years total, cumulative convicted of repetition of his unbelief, that a sentence between murderers and assassins), amnesty, Broder should be able to prevail.
Even otherwise those differences, apart from the home front again, significant problematic implications arise: What to do because it should come so far, the French, Belgians and even Austrians with their corresponding relevant paragraphs, if you let doubt the "idiots" in Germany with impunity?
Is the rest of the political caste in Germany willing to cherished paragraph 130 of the Penal Code Adieu to say, no matter how much authority Broder unite as perhaps future Central Council chief on how sensible and welcome his cause might be?
Broder has really taken into account, as many people have doubts about the official version of the Holocaust, but so far only not comment on this because they do not want to be thrown in jail?
Set it to the fact that there are really only a few idiots or that (etc. career, social environment) is also fully meet social exclusion pressure to continue to make mention the doubters?
Or is he really wants to simply endure all those "idiots"?
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