I beg to differ. I think that, out there, it is Panicsville. I see a shifting of enemy tactics from heckling and baiting, which used to do fine in the past, to serious censorship sorties.
It isn't all that long ago where personal character assassination and individual demonization sufficed. For decades, that is how Ernst Zndel was forced to exist - largely due to court-imposed gag orders issued to calm the tantrums of the Forever Persecuted. While media smears were massive, it was almost impossible for him to struggle up from under and keep his message genuine.
No more. Thanks to the Zundelsite, his public persona has radically changed. Thanks to the Zundelsite, it is the rare reporter now who will approach Ernst Zndel with a sneer. World-wide, his opinion is given respect. The Canadian media is slower to change, but it is changing, tooÑin no small measure due to upcoming libel suits which are long overdue.
Amazing what the Internet can do! When, less than a year ago, the Zundelsite was starting to shoot ideological dynamite, Zundel-style, into the global cyberspace, taunts, twits and childish references to UFOs were still the rage. Those days are almost gone. (The Nizkorites still need to catch the drift . . . ) Ernst's website has now become the most-watched, most-feared website targeted for electronic crackdown.
And it is not just us, of course. (I know, I know, my grammar . . . ) It is, according to a Simon Wiesenthal Center of Tolerance (sic) count, more than a hundred websites, all posing question marks and raising doubt about the so-called "Holocaust". A bushel-full of question marks - and more and more to come!
Now you get items like the ones below slipped to you with your orange juice for breakfast:
". . . German officials are calling for the United Nations to help create international standards for acceptable content on the Web, a plea that comes just as Hamburg prosecutors accuse America Online's German service of being used for transmitting child pornography through email.
Claudia Nolte, German's minister for family affairs, appeared Tuesday before the United Nations to discuss how the international body could play a role in developing standards to protect women and children from violence and sexual exploitation online. Nolte said that international standards will be necessary to prevent pornographers and neo-Nazis from operating outside national jurisdictions . . ."
You see how "Neo-Nazis" are once again slipped in with the old bugaboo, pornography? Transparent is the word.
Or ponder the symbolic, surreptitious genuflecting indulged in by the World's Most Fearless Leader, as seen in sunny gestures such as the one below:
"Clinton Gives $6 Million to Prevent Fires."
In an effort to continue the attack against "racism and religious bigotry," President Clinton designated $6 million yesterday (7/2/96) to fight church arsons and pledged more money and manpower "to make sure the struggle is won."
Clinton said the money will come from an emergency transfer of funds from the Justice Department and will allow police to "patrol the back roads, to visit the churches, to keep watch for signs of trouble," install flood lights, hire security guards and pay overtime to police.
He also announced a bill, which was approved by Congress last week, that would double the maximum prison sentence for church attacks to twenty years and designated July a "national month of unity" for religious leaders to stress healing and tolerance.
In Chicago he said "We need to change the atmosphere in the country. We dare not allow this to continue without every American of conscience -- without regard to their race, their religion or their political party -- speaking up against it."
When he returned to Washington he said "This is a struggle against racism and religious bigotry. We will escalate that struggle as necessary with enough people-power and willpower to make sure the struggle is won."
Or this one, where America, just oozing at the very seams with resentment, even malice, at influential special interest lobbies and how their drawing power rides on taxes, is asked to underwrite the following:
"Spielberg Gets Federal Grant For New Documentary."
The US government gave Steven Spielberg a $1 million grant today (7/23/96) to make a documentary about the "holocaust."
Spielberg said this grant will now allow him to approach the governments of Germany, Austria and other countries so he can "create a living history of the holocaust through interviews with more than 50,000 survivors."
Spielberg said "This single gift will open the floodgates to get all the funding necessary to complete this project."
He also said photographs and other material will be preserved electronically and information will be available for museums and schools "to teach teachers to teach tolerance."
Two Jewish senators pushed for the federal funding -- Arlen Spector and Barbara Boxer. Spector said he pushed for the funding because too many people discount the "holocaust" as a hoax. He said the grant will lend credibility to the "plight of Jews during World War II."
Somewhere I read that the Simon Wiesenthal Center now spends 80% of its damage control efforts to stop the spread of doubt about the Holocaust on the Internet. Why would they bother doing that - unless Revisionism is a threat?
There is no question whatsoever that Revisionism has become a very serious threat to very entrenched interests. It's very simple, really: You don't shoot a mosquito with a cannon. You move your cannons in where kingdoms are at stake.
Ingrid
Thought for the Day:
"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river."
Nikita Khrushchev.