would that make me a criminal?

Long thread title eh? I was just thinking this morning that if the press carried on about how 'evil' Irving was and kept trying to enocurage the Austrian authorities into getting him a longer sentence, then surely this is playing into the 'hands' of anyone else who is 'denys' t'Holocaust. I see this man as a discredited historian who no-one gave a tinker's cuss about until recently and who now will technically be a martyr for anyone's right wing causes -well done, wet libs.