Cheney criticized for Auschwitz attire

I interpret his impropriety as neo-com arrogance.

How do you know it was arrogance. Are you clairvoyant?

I know there's a German law prohibiting recalculating these numbers, but other countries aren't so afflicted with prior restraint of their press, so I wondered if anywhere you found any revised statistics for those "6 million Jews" who are said to have been killed by Nazis in camps.

P.S. the bold letters are there because I don't know if the law covers what you, personally, might post on a US website - we don't want you arrested and sent to prison! Thanks.

Strafgesetzbuch does include a law prohibiting questioning how many people were actually killed in prison camps, though I will have to check the exact wording. It's probably a sub-paragraph contained in another law - will look it up this a.m. if still stuck at this airport.

Section 130 Agitation of the People

[...]
(3) Whoever publicly or in a meeting approves of, denies or renders harmless an act committed under the rule of National Socialism of the type indicated in Section 220a subsection (1), in a manner capable of disturbing the public piece shall be punished with imprisonment for not more than five years or a fine.

Section 220a Genocide
(1) Whoever, with the intent of destroying as such, in whole or in part, a national, racial or religious group or one characterized by its folk customs by:

1. killing members of the group;

2. inflicting serious physical or emotional harm, especially of the type indicated in Section 226 on members of the group;

3. placing the group in living conditions capable of leading, in whole or in part, to their physical destruction;

4. imposing measures which are intended to prevent births within the group;

5. forcibly transferring children of the group into another group,

shall be punished with imprisonment for life.

(2) In less serious cases under subsection (1), numbers 2 to 5, the punishment shall be imprisonment for not less than five years.

... if Prince Harry had gone to a party in Germany in that outfit he would have been prosecuted under section 130.

P.S. on section 130 "....approves of, denies or renders harmless...."

The number of the victims are included under "denied" in jurisprudence based on that law - that was the original point I was making, btw.

Ok I aint reading 14 pages about this insignificant piece of news. I don't like cheany or bush, but cmon, pease don't make liberals look bad by making a big deal about this.