Check this story:
In Turkey, a Turkish author is on trial for thought crimes. His crime? For stating that the Turks massacred Armenians in 1915.
And guess who’s condemning the trial in the name of free speech? THE EUROPEAN UNION!!
Now, I’m no fan of Turkey or Turks. I despise them and believe each Turk should be deported from Europe and that Turks need to acknowledge the 1.5 million they slaughtered.
However, for the EU to condemn this in the name of free speech? This is the ULTIMATE JOKE!
Pretty much EVERY member of the EU has jailed someone for thought crime! Be it Holocaust revisionism, singing White power songs, political leaders that oppose what the government thinks, I could go on and on! And they attack another nation for doing the same thing?? Just see the examples I specified above!
On with the story:
The rooms in Istanbul's Sisli courthouse are tiny. There is barely space for a single wooden spectators bench squeezed between battered metal filing cabinets.
But on Friday one of these rooms will be the setting for a test case for Turkey.
Turkey's most internationally-acclaimed novelist will go on trial here charged with "insulting Turkishness".
Now he is back, determined to use his time in court to defend his comments, and his right to make them.
"What happened to the Ottoman Armenians in 1915 was a major thing that was hidden from the Turkish nation; it was a taboo," the writer explains, at an Istanbul cafe overlooking the waterfront.
"If that person is not internationally known they are going to punish him and put him in prison. Article 301 should definitely be changed if Turkey rightfully - and hopefully - is to join the EU."
There are currently more than 60 writers and publishers besides Orhan Pamuk on trial in Turkey for what EU officials call their non-violent expression of opinion.
Ragip Zarakolu is one of them.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4527318.stm