David Duke, Former KKK Leader, Detained In Prague For Denying Holocaust

[KittyWampus]

David Duke, Former KKK Leader, Detained In Prague


PRAGUE — Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke was detained by police in the Czech Republic on Friday on suspicion of denying the Holocaust.

Police spokesman Jan Mikulovsky said the action was taken because Duke does that in his book "My Awakening," which is punishable by up to three years in Czech prisons.

Duke traveled to the republic to promote the book's Czech translation of the book at the invitation of neo-Nazis.

Mikulovsky declined to give any further details, citing an ongoing investigation.

Prague's Charles University also banned a Duke lecture scheduled there Friday for students taking a course on extremism.

Duke, a resident of Louisiana and a former Republican state legislator there, also was to have given lectures over the weekend in Prague and the country's second-largest city, Brno.

The KKK is a white supremacist group in the U.S. famous for its oppression of blacks, Jews and other minorities.

[grantcart]

1. after he serves his prison term repatriate him via Israel - lol

[Hekate]

2. Sweet. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. nt

[Maru Kitteh]

3. We don't have much, but I'm willing to chip in if they promise to keep him forever.

Awesome news.

[gratuitous]

5. You'll send cash to the Czechs to cache this dimwit?

I'm in for a dollar.

[jamesbolton]

4. Must be nice to have no 1st amendment...

so morons like this can be shut-up! We've had to listen to him for decades, and no one here could put a stop to his hate speech. Fortunately other countries aren't as ass-backwards.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. You know where that denial of the holocaust is a crime don't you?

it became a small industry by former nazis after the war

So both Austria and Germany came to the sad conclusion that they had to make that a crime in order to prevent the holocaust, or anything similar from ever happening again

[walldude]

11. It's not a free speech issue for them

it's a criminal issue. The horrors of the holocaust aren't just a memory of something that happened for them. It's a memory of something they lived through and don't intend to live through again.

[geckosfeet]

6. What do you know. He finally found somplace that wants him.

[stubtoe]

15. Hah! Well said.

Maybe they'll keep him for a while.

[HughMoran]

7. lol

No sympathy here.

[ColbertWatcher]

9. Do you have a link? n/t

[cliffordu]

10. His racist anti-semitic ass is in the deep kimchee now.....

Those people don't play that shit.

I hope he goes to prison with a bunch of nice white people.

[firedupdem]

12. Keep his ass over there. n/t

[aquart]

13. Will Jon make this our moment of Zen?

Because it truly fills me with inner peace.

[david13]

14. Detained. Has he been charged and held?