The hard-hitting Geert Wilder film "Fitna" is a classic example of the kind of opinionated advocacy which Americans take for granted as protected free speech. Agree with Wilder's point of view or not, the ability to see it is what the First Amendment guarantees.

Right?

So what's the big deal about letting people see it?

For anyone who's Internet-savvy, it's not all that big of a deal to find. Michelle Malkin has posted it here, it's on YouTube in multiple segments, and it can be downloaded in .wmv format here. Or you can download a burnable iso file here.

Being a collector of important cultural artifacts (as well as a somewhat lazy person), it occurred to me that I might be able to buy it online.

No such luck.

Amazon does not list any such DVD for sale.

As to Ebay, while you might think of it as a place where anything is sold, you can't even search for it.

No seriously. Unless I am crazy or my computer has some sort of Ebay-search-infecting virus, every time I enter the word "fitna" the Ebay machine changes it to "fiona." Same with "Fitna DVD."

Anyone know what's up with that?

I've been using Ebay for a decade, and I've never seen this. It's one thing not to allow people to sell what they call "forbidden items," but changing search words is ridiculous. Why not just tell me "your search revealed 0 items" as it does when I search for "liberal assclown" or "puppyblender"?

Beyond that, even if we assume "Fitna" is little more than anti-Islamic propaganda (and therefore "hate speech"), why is Ebay allowing Hitler's "Mein Kampf" to be sold?

Or that infamous Czarist forgery, "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion." Or of course, another Mideast best-seller, Henry Ford's "The International Jew."

You'd almost think someone is against competition.