Hollow cost

I would like to deny Hollioaks exists.
I would like to say that at no point were any 'actors' taken into dark rooms (known as 'Studios') to perform violent or sexual 'acts' whilst being filmed for other people's sick pleasure.

I am entitled to my opinion. No matter how wrong I may be.

Why is it that David Irving has been jailed for expressing an opinion despite the fact that he has since admitted that he was wrong? We all make opinions based on what we know.

In 1989 I would have denied the Holocaust too (Mainly because I was 10 years old and the only time I had heard the term holocaust was from Lorne Green in 'Battlestar Gallactica' when talking about the Cylon's destruction of the 12 colonies)

People state opinions all the time only to admit they were wrong later (Unless they're politicians - in which case they'll blame someone else for it or deny they ever said it at all)

The whole point of freedom of speech is that you should be free to say almost anything you want. There obviously cannot be total freedom as it can only be to the extent of everyone else's personal freedom. So you shouldn't for example be able to say "Behead all who insult Eamon Holmes" as that's inciting a serious criminal act (murder) to which you would then be an accessory. And it effects other peoples freedom to err... be alive.

Just because someone says something you don't agree with, it doesn't mean they shouldn't be allowed to say it.

This was the same here in this country with the chairman of the BNP. He made some statements about ethnic groups (particularly muslims) living in the UK and he nearly went to prison for saying it. I don't agree with what he said but that still doesn't mean he should be imprisoned for saying it.

The facist movement is a laughing stock in this country but if we continue to create right-winged martyrs like the Austrians just have done, that will change quickly.

Before today I doubt many people would have heard of David Irving. Tomorrow he'll be a household name.