David Duke, Former KKK Leader, Ordered To Leave Czech Republic

PRAGUE — Czech authorities have released former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke from detention and ordered him to leave the country.

Police spokeswoman Katerina Rendlova says Duke must leave the Czech Republic by midnight Saturday after he was detained on suspicion of denying the Holocaust.

Duke was in Prague on an invitation from a neo-Nazi group to promote the Czech translation of his book "My Awakening." Police took him into custody Friday on suspicion of denying the Holocaust, which is a crime in the Czech Republic.

Prague's Charles University also banned Duke from giving a lecture there Friday. He was scheduled to give lectures over the weekend in both Prague and the country's second-largest city of Brno.

Comments

[jacobomorales]

He should be hanged slowly and the show televised all over the world.

[mbrownNY]

Yes! Public executions for saying offensive things is where it's at! Almost as hip as publicly stoning women to death for infidelity.

[hamchunk]

Mmmm.... The tolerance you Obama supporters display is so comforting, sort of like Kristalnacht.

[mbrownNY]

Look who's talking! For 8 years we were all told to "be careful" of what we say in criticizing the Iraq war. It's seems like people (right or left) are only in favor of "free speech" when they agree with what is being said.

[CeeCee]

No. The world is already brutalized enough.

[rabiddog6708]

No hurry. Take your time in sending him back. Put him in a boat off the coast of Africa. If we're lucky, the pirates will capture him and threaten to release him unless we pay them.

[Islandtime]

Republicans will be happy to have him home.

[gino618]

I heard Sen. Byrd is planning a big shindig....

[bikerdude]

Byrd? I hear he's one of Jindall's constituents...

[Cunningham]

Too bad they didn't follow their law and prosecute him.

[sfirx]

I wonder if you feel the same way when these communist countries jail people who they claim are speaking out against the government. This is dangerous, extremely dangerous. Don't see the purpose of jailing someone who is denying history. All you have to do is present the history that proves them wrong.

[mbrownNY]

Or we can just ignore idiots like Duke who deny history. By the standards implied by some people on this board, we should be arresting creationists, 9-11 deniers, climate-change deniers, etc. We typically don't arrest crazy people anymore (or even put them in asylums) just for speaking nonsense. Free speech applies to us all. If you don't like that, we'll have to change the Constitution.

[moonflowerjewelry]

someone should chain him to a chair and make him watch every episode of shoah

[tbrnotb]

Just one more reason why the world thinks we are a country of crackpots!

[Whodunit]

Not crackpots. Moral invertebrates. America is the new France.

[jazzycafe]

This is one of those guys you just really hoped you would never hear about again. The fact that his name has popped up in the news recently is very disturbing. Duke has been around a long time. It's like he's been laying low for quite awhile and now trying to make some sort of comeback. Really sickening to even hear about him.

[Lionsden]

Has former KKK member, Democratic Party, Robert Byrd been ordered to leave the Senate yet?

[GeorgeKaplan]

No... what a sad comparison. But Duke is a Klan member now... today. Your defense of Duke is very heart warming.

"The Bums Lost." Deal with it...

[rowzeer]

"former".....you do know the meaning of the word...right?

[AFAN]

Let David run the GOP!

[SeattlePatriot]

Someone tell Duke. The GOP has been looking for a new leader. Rush, Boehner, and Cheney can share the stage a little with David Duke. Whadda ya think?

[whatthel]

Send him to Somalia.

[Rharte]

LoL! Sending a guy like him to Somalia would certainly be a death sentence. Good idea.

[GeorgeKaplan]

Maybe the CIA wants him... a REAL enemy of the United States. A real enemy of Democracy and human rights everywhere.

[JRsNana]

Couldn't they just keep him? We really don't want him back.

[blaharumph]

wow, they really took a stand there.

[ie]

Noooooooo....they're letting him gooooooooooooo!