June 22, 1996

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:



It's International Update Day:
England:

A web page of the British National Party gives you excellent news from all over the world. The website is described as

". . . an entirely independent resource for those who support British nationalism. It is independent of any political party, while being willing to publicise groups working for a future for the British people, and for other white Western nations beleaguered by liberalism and internationalism.

It aims to cultivate intelligent nationalist political thought, and to promote a modern nationalism which emphasises the fundamental right of all peoples to maintain their own societies, race and culture, without supremacist intentions towards others living within their own homelands."

Just to give you a taste of their flavor:

". . . Liberal and leftist groups from around the world met recently in Washington to attack free trade, the World Trade Organization, the international banks and globalism. The meeting was blacked out by the plutocratic media."

It seems that at a 3-day long convocation,

". . . speakers from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Friends of the Earth, the Center for Technology Assessment, the Sierra Club, Ralph Nader's Public Citizen, the Polaris Institute, and more than a dozen other generally left-oriented national organizations delivered incisive indictments of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the U.S. Federal Reserve as 'amoral enforcers of the world's worst exploiters.' "

What's going on? Why are the Leftists stealing our thunder?

Austria:

A courageous judge has been labeled as "too sympathetic" and "tainted by his own right-wing views" while presiding in the trial of a teacher accused of having introduced Revisionist ideas to his students.

The defendant, a 53-year-old teacher at a technical college, has been charged with "reviving National Socialism" by denying the Nazis were responsible for the mass extermination of Jews during the World War Two.

Judge Janicke, a self-described "National", has been under severe attack by his own colleagues. Even what seems to be the equivalent of the American PTA, an organization of parents of children in public school, have gotten into the act and have accused the judge of "trivializing the ideology of the extreme Right."(sic) They must have meant the opposite.

Austrian media have reported that the trial has been characterised by "harassment of witnesses, most of them former pupils of the accused."

Willi Fuhrmann, Justice spokesman for the ruling Social Democrats, welcomed the justice ministry's intervention, calling it a necessary act of political hygiene.

Did he mean brain-washing? Under Austrian law it is a crime, punished severely, to claim the Holocaust did not happen.

USA:

Here is a funny twist: Lyle Stuart, a New York publisher who is bringing out the controversial The Turner Diaries (an original National Alliance title) argues in a foreword of this novel that . . . we have a right to know what the enemy is thinking.

I like that argument. Is this a line we could apply to ourselves, giving our predicament a twist by arguing that OUR enemies have surely the right to know what WE are thinking.

Also from Publishers Row:

The London Sunday Times columnist Taki is reported to have said that cancellation by the US St. Martin's Press of plans to publish the British historian David Irving's new biography of Joseph Goebbels was the result of pressure from the Jewish-run New York Times. Now this is not surprising. There aren't many publishers who can afford to antagonize the NYT Sunday Book Review Supplement. It is as simple as that.

Israel:

The source given to me for the item below is: Hate mail., Jerusalem Post, 03-26-1995:

. . . In light of the sensitivities of Holocaust survivors and the prevalence of neo-Nazi activities directed against Israel and Jews worldwide, joking about the Holocaust should be made a punishable offense in Israel.

Where the educators have failed, the legislators should step in to prevent more damage being done in the guise of liberalism and artistic freedom. . .

Italy:

More on Abbé Pierre, 83, of France, whose reputation as a philanthropist helping the homeless was mauled badly for having had the courage to question a taboo subject.

We will not let ourselves be called anti-Jewish or anti-Semite if we say that a Jew sings out of tune, he told the Paris Daily Liberation.

Once the tornado is passed, many average French people will say, 'He [Abbé Pierre] helped us see more clearly.'

Since he said that, he has "fled the Holocaust embroilment issue," according to the Orange County Register, May 30. The old priest is now in a Benedictine monestary in Padua, Northern Italy.

Here is what he now says:

I have suffered a lot. A great deal. The attacks to which I have been subjected have been endless,. . .

A French anti-racist group, the International League against racism and anti-Semitism, said it did not regret its decision expelling AbbéPierre after 20 years on its board for refusing to distance himself from Garaudy (who wrote a Revisionist book).

"We hope that this Italian retreat will make him realize the enormous mistake he made in supporting the revisionist theses of Roger Garaudy," said Pierre Aidenbaum, league president.

"If Abbé Pierre declares that he condemns all forms of revisionism, in particular and unconditionally the Roger Garaudy book, we will be ready to take him back," he added.

Now here is an old man who, according to this same article, has founded a chain of homeless shelters since 1949 which covers 32 countries and takes in 3,500 people in France alone. Is this man not entitled to be politically incorrect if he so chooses on one subject?

My question is this: Does the International League against racism and anti-Semitism in general and Mr. Aidenbaum, have a similarly impressive record of helping human misery? What possible harm can come from one lone 83-year-old priest who sees the light at the end of his life regarding certain historical issues?

To mind comes Mignon McLaughlin who said: If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious. Ingrid


Thought for the Day:

"Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators."

(Olin Miller)



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