Should Such a Threat Be Prohibited Public Utterance?

     Writing about swastikas and Nazi salutes yesterday reminded me that gestures, symbols, words can be predictive forerunnrs of violent acts.

     And that in turn reminded me of what Stephen Smith, the executive director of the USC Shoah Foundation, wrote in the Jewish Journal of November 2-8, 2018, something that shocked me.  Speaking of those who proclaim publicly that the Holocaust never happened, Smith said:

                       "[S]peech denying the Holocaust carries with it
                        the inherent threat of the original crime itself."