Reply #226: Nonsense.

[Spinoza]

You are misusing the word. Look up any definition of 'fraud' and you will find that fraud, obviously must include the knowing attempt to deceive. Usually for personal gain. A Holocaust Denier, who sincerely believes his or her bullshit, is NOT committing fraud by any normal or legal usage of the word. And there is not NECESSARILY a "swindle" of any kind. The definition of swindle is: "intransitive verb : to obtain money or property by fraud or deceit
transitive verb : to take money or property from by fraud or deceit"
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/swindle

And of course the Holocaust Denier is expressing an opinion. Granted a totally false opinion, perhaps an evil opinion, but still an opinion. If some idiots (and there are some) sincerely believe the earth is flat, the fact that they are totally wrong doesn't mean they are not expressing their personal OPINIONS. In exactly the same sense the fact that a Holocaust Denier is, without question, denying a historical reality, doesn't mean that the denial is not an expression of OPINION.

As the son of father who survived Treblinka and a mother who survived Dachau, I repeat criminalizing opinions is always morally abhorrent. Even when those opinions are the Anti-Semitic bullshit of Holocaust Deniers.