Ex-Klan chief freed after arrest in Prague

[kwame k]

PRAGUE (AFP) – A former US Ku Klux Klan chief arrested here on a speaking tour was freed during the night but will be forced to leave the country later Saturday, Czech police said.

David Duke, the former Grand Wizard of the Louisiana-founded Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, arrived in Prague on Friday at the invitation of a local far-right group, Narodni Odpor (National Resistance).

The 59-year-old US citizen had been due to give three lectures in Prague and Brno in the east of the country and present the Czech translation of his 1998 book "My Awakening."

He was arrested Friday afternoon in the Black Eagle restaurant in Prague's old town and questioned for several hours on suspicion of promoting movements seeking the suppression of human rights, police said.

His book contains passages denying the Holocaust, a crime punishable by up to three years in prison in the Czech republic, police spokesman Jan Mikulovsky said.

Duke's lawyer was quoted by the Czech news agency CTK as saying she would lodge a complaint against Prague police.

The Ku Klux Klan is notorious the world over for terrorising black Americans through lynchings, cross burnings and other hate crimes.

It enjoyed a peak membership of about five million in 1925, but since the late 1970s its membership has dwindled to between 3,000 and 6,000.

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[kwame k]

He was arrested in The Black Eagle restaurant! Oh, the Irony.

[FORD]

I have no sympathy for DuKKKe whatsoever, and denying the Holocaust at this point is just terminally stupid. But is it really worth a three year prison sentence?

[hankster]

I think that that bastard has probably been personally responsible for some very nasty things in his tenure in the KKK, I hope someone does lock up that hate mongering bastard

[GAR]

HAHHAAHA~!!

I know the story and what it says even if I have Kwame's posts blocked.

Czechoblostalkia has a law against "denying the Holocaust ever existed" so he goes over there thinking like the American idiot that he is, he can just freely speak about any provocative subject and collect his appearance fee.

HA! Antisemitism's been rampant in Eastern Europe for over 200 years. They've had enough a that bullshit, and then they get David Duke to come fly over and preach it.. I was ROLLING when I saw that.

However I didn't read enough to see whether he's deported or if they're gonna keep him? Anyone see that? Or is he just arrested at this point..

[GAR]

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[hideyoursheep]

I hope someone does lock up that hate mongering bastard

Alias much?

[Blaze]

[Nickdfresh]

I have no sympathy for DuKKKe whatsoever, and denying the Holocaust at this point is just terminally stupid. But is it really worth a three year prison sentence?

I actually have a problem with this as well. I completely hate Holocaust denial with every fiber of my being - but punitive legal restrictions on it are kind of a repression of free speech at this point....

Much like how, and I do hate him as a lying scum & hack (pseudo) historian, David Irving is spending time in an Austrian prison for his life's work of apologetic for the Nazis as he became essentially their fanboi. However, we can also say that maybe he sort of got what he deserved, as Irving himself (like many hypocrites of the extreme right and left who hide behind the mantra of free speech) was at one time trying to sue all of his critics in an effort to silence them...

[Blaze]

Genocides happen. And various genocides happened under the Third Reich and not only by German Nationals.
One genocide is not better than the another.
I have wondered myself, why forensic studies are not allowed.
To exploit a genocide for publicity is a very bad thing.

[Nickdfresh]

[Blaze]

Is no doubt that the genocides that happened under the Third Reich was a Shoah.
But what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was "holocaust" in the full sense of the word.

This reportedly is the only photograph of Hiroshima taken on the day the city was bombed.