There's a saying that goes: 'Just because you can doesn't mean you should.' Freedom of speech and expression is the term most often used to defend insulting, hateful and outright stupid behavior by people who really have nothing constructive to say or an insidious agenda to push. For example:
"A retired farmer who says he served in a branch of a German paramilitary unit in World War II is turning some of his property into a memorial to Adolf Hitler. Ted Junker, 87, plans a grand opening June 25 and says his goal is to clear up what he says are inaccuracies about the war and Hitler’s role in it. “I like the U.S.,” he said. “I can’t understand why people don’t know the truth. This is for understanding, not hate.”
Apparently in the 61 years since the end of the Second World War, countless documentaries, historians and war vets' testimonies have yielded so little information that a former SS soldier feels the need to build a monument on his property to set things right. Exactly what misconceptions are there? What else is left to explain?
"Kathy Heilbronner, assistant director of the Milwaukee Jewish Council for Community Relations, described Junker as a classic Holocaust denier. She said he chooses to ignore the ample evidence of the Holocaust."
Apparently so. He also chooses to ignore the truth:
"Sugar Creek Town Chairman Loren Waite said Junker told local officials he was going to build a tractor shed, not a Hitler memorial."
(Source: MSNBC)
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