Czech news is reporting that former KKK leader David Duke has been arrested.
The Czech police arrested David Duke, former leader of the Ku Klux Klan racist movement, in Prague today on suspicion of promotion of movements seeking suppression of human rights, Prague police spokesman told CTK.
Arriving in the Czech Republic at the invitation of local neo-Nazis, Duke was to give lectures in Prague and Brno.
Duke, a U.S. citizen, is suspected of denying or approving of the Nazi genocide and other Nazi crimes. This crime is punishable by up to three years in prison in the Czech Republic.
According to an Internet text signed by Filip Vavra, who is linked to the neo-Nazi National Resistance group, Duke has visited the Czech Republic in order to promote his book My Awakening.
Czech lawyer Klara Kalibova said some passages of the book can be interpreted as an effort at justifying or challenging the Holocaust.
Czech police are reportedly focusing on the book as well.
Duke was to give three lectures in the Czech Republic. The first was to take place at Prague’s Charles University, but the university has banned it.
The other two lectures were to be held in the centre of Prague on Saturday and in Brno, capital of Moravia, on Sunday, according to the website presenting Duke’s visit.
The former Grand Wizard of the KKK is from Louisiana and was convicted of filing a false tax return in 2002. He left the Klan in 1980 and started a white separatist group. He denies he is racist and anti-Semitic and says the holocaust was grossly exaggerated.
Denying or approving the holocaust or Nazi crimes is punishable by up to three years imprisonment in the Czech Republic. Duke can be held by police for 48 hours without charges being laid. He wrote My Awakening:A Path to Racial Understanding in 1998, and was in the country to promote his book. His website and white supremacist groups are calling him a prisoner of conscience and a defender of human rights.
Duke was elected to Louisiana State Representative 1989-1992 and was succeeded by David Vitter. He attended a 2006 Holocaust Revisionist conference in Iran, and has spoken to neo-Nazi groups in Russia and the Ukraine.
“While helping hundreds of thousands of refugees, Red Cross volunteers undoubtedly heard stories of Nazi brutality and rumors of mass gassings and they noted those rumors and kept an eye out for any evidence of them, but they saw nothing to indicate that the rumors were true.”
– My Awakening, p. 430 (1998)
“The official keepers of the Holocaust wage an international campaign to silence the disturbing questions. Most people never even hear the revisionist position because Jewish forces dominate the media and block mainstream access to material that questions Holocaust orthodoxy.”
ÂÂ My Awakening, p. 430 (1998)
via: SPLC
Czech Republic Law Against Support and Dissemination of Movements Oppressing Human Rights and Freedoms (2001)
§ 260 (1) The person who supports or spreads movements oppressing human rights and freedoms or declares national, race, religious or class hatred or hatred against other group of persons will be punished by prison from 1 to 5 years. (2) The person will be imprisoned from 3 to 8 years if: a) he/she commits the crime mentioned in paragraph (1) in print, film, radio, television or other similarly effective manner, b) he/she commits the crime as a member of an organized group c) he/she commits the crime in a state of national emergency or state of war
§ 261 The person who publicly declares sympathies with such a movement mentioned in § 260, will be punished by prison from 6 months to 3 years.
§ 261a The person who publicly denies, puts in doubt, approves or tries to justify nazi or communist genocide or other crimes of nazis or communists will be punished by prison of 6 months to 3 years.
Update: Duke was expelled from the country, charges will not be laid. Czech news says hundreds of neo-Nazi’s demonstrated in the north.
It is a very sick society that arrests and puts people in jail for their opinions, just like Nazis and Communists did.
Bene; where do you find these people!
Mr Vladimir it is a very sick ‘people’/person who will not allow the holocaust to heal.
Hate has no place to spew the contents of its venom across a people who wish for peace. Kindly be aware that if you hate or wrath then so will the Fathers horror at what you profess.
LOVE CONQUERS hate denies and your ‘passions’ need a new direction.
You clearly hate people whom you put in jail. How about you guys giving up hate, forgive those people and let them out? Or is it only a certain category of people who are not allowed to hate, but you guys with your 3,000 years hate experience can legally hate all you want?
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Bene is well informed
He likes to research
He does a good job researching and investigating
John Payzant:
It was merely a rhetorical question John and no reflection on Bene or his modus operandi.
His research is indeed wide ranging and ‘puts mine to shame’