I have to say, I’m simply deeply conficted about the David Irving verdict. On the one hand I think civil libertarians are entirely justified in being horrified. And, if such a thing happened in America I would be equally horrified. But, on the other hand, America is not Austria and that is more than a mere geographical observation. In Germany and Austria they have numerous laws regarding Nazism that rub against the grain of civil libertarian sensibilities. I do not think those laws are purely irrational or ill-conceived, given the fairly monumental details of history. That said, I think at the end of the day what Austria is doing is wrong and that we have bigger threats than aging Third Reich nostalgists. But I don’t think it’s as cut-and-dried as some folks do.