If anyone was under the misapprehension that the European Union was some cuddly liberal type thing here’s the proof that it isn’t:
People who question the official history of recent
conflicts in Africa and the Balkans could be jailed for up to three
years for "genocide denial", under proposed EU legislation.
Germany,
current holder of the EU’s rotating presidency, will table new
legislation to outlaw "racism and xenophobia" this spring.
Included in the draft EU directive are plans to outlaw Holocaust denial, creating an offence that does not exist in British law.
But
the proposals, seen by The Daily Telegraph, go much further and would
criminalise those who question the extent of war crimes that have taken
place in the past 20 years.
The legislation will trigger a major row across Europe over free speech and academic freedom.
…
Berlin’s draft EU directive extends the idea of
Holocaust denial to the "gross minimisation of genocide out of racist
and xenophobic motives", to include crimes dealt with by the
International Criminal Court.
The ICC was set up
in 2002 following international outcry about war crimes and alleged
genocides in the former Yugoslavia and in Africa. It was felt that the
courts in those countries were either unable or unwilling to ensure
justice was done.
The draft text states: "Each
member state shall take the measures necessary to ensure that the
following intentional conduct is punishable: ‘publicly condoning,
denying or grossly trivialising of crimes of genocide, crimes against
humanity and war crimes as defined in’… the Statute of the ICC."
They want to take away the right to free speech.
Fuck ’em. Can we leave yet?
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