New Law To Make Denial of Holocaust Museum a Crime

museumWASHINGTON – Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania has introduced legislation that would make it a crime to deny the existence of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. 

Specter said he got the idea after he overheard some visitors to Washington, D.C. say they were not aware of the existence of the Museum until the news of the fatal shooting of a security guard on Museum grounds on Wednesday. 

“After I was finished eavesdropping — rather, overhearing – what those visitors were saying, I said to myself, ’You know, Arlen, it’s a real crime that people don’t know about that museum.’  One thing led to another, and that’s how this bill came about.”

But the bill doesn’t stop there.  “About halfway through drafting it, I had the brainstorm that it should also be a felony to deny the existence of any of the letters of the word ‘Holocaust.’” 

Specter said he sponsored the bill because his Jewish faith ”is at the core of who I am,” but added that he “probably will withdraw the legislation” if polling indicates it hurts his chances of being reelected next year.

Jun 12