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03/26/2008: "Germany persecutes NPD for bad free speech"

The Berlin public prosecutor's office said on Tuesday it was charging [NPD leader] Voigt with incitement for publishing a leaflet in 2006 opposing the selection of a black player for the German national soccer team.

The NPD has called the charges absurd. "The charge document makes one thing clear: any criticism of over-immigration in Germany and of multi-cultural society is being turned into a crime. The trial has major
political significance," Schwerdt said in a statement posted on the NPD's Web site.

[ No one -- and I mean no one -- really believes in free speech. We're all intolerant of anything we see as destructive or subversive. In the West, right now, we indulge the pretense that we have free speech. Really what we have is free inconsequential speech and everything else is censored. ]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,543462,00.html