Quote of the Day: On a French Bill

Quote:

"I suppose it'll add some spice to history exams though. Get the wrong answer and you not only fail: you get carted off to jail as well."

Some un-studious undergrads of my acquaintance should be quaking in their books, ha!  The quote refers to a new French bill that, if made law, would criminalize denying that Ottoman Turks committed genocide against Armenians in 1915-6.  (For what it's worth, I think this bill and others like it are a bad idea in principle.)  Anyway, the bill is currently stalled because of questions of constitutionality, and Turkish EU Affairs Minister Egemen Bağış flatly denied the charges of genocide and dared the French to go arrest him. Oh, my.