"The first week in August, 1996 two U.S. Senators, Barbara Boxer of California and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, handed multi-multimillionaire movie mogul Steven Spielberg ("E.T.", "Jurassic Park", and the ugly and ill-willed "Schindler's List") a check for one million dollars, drawn on the U.S. Treasury, to fund one of his Holocaust charities, Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation.
One million dollars may not seem like much money compared to the tens of millions of dollars the U.S. Government is giving the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, or the $5,000,000 the State of California gave the Simon Wiesenthal Center, or to the additional tens of millions in the budgets of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and similar organizations, all of which are dedicated to promoting Holocaust orthodoxy and suppressing revisionist theory.
Why do I mention these things?
Ever since I became convinced that the standard story of the World War II Jewish Holocaust needed an airing in an environment of political liberty and intellectual freedom, that has been the kind of people and the kind of money I have been up against. I have always been willing to talk to them but they have shied away from a real human exchange. They didn't think they needed it. At first they thought ridicule, slander, and guilt by association would work for them. When it didn't I found myself suppressed and censored by the print press and blackballed from radio and TV. When I turned to running essay/advertisements in college and university newspapers the ante was upped again. Special desks were created at the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Anti- Defamation League to defeat my "Campus Project" and then there were the threats of physical violence and even threats to kill my daughters. Then, last year, I turned to the Internet and to the World Wide Web. Now it's a whole new ballgame.
In the morning darkness of July 4th, 1996, as many of you will know, this Website was shut down by ProtoSource Network, a service provider in Fresno. There was no notice, no explanation other than a cryptic reference to "content." We lost our Web address and were not allowed to post a forwarding address. We lost our readership. We were back OnLine within 14 days but it took weeks of time consuming work to get our readership back--and increase it. Meanwhile, the district manager for PSN, Rick Horowitz, has his own homepage with PSN where he promotes Israeli Zionist culture, Jewish history, the Hebrew language and is linked up to major exterminationist sites promoting the orthodox Jewish Holocaust story. Some things never change.
What hurled me into the Jewish holocaust controversy wasn't the argument over how much of the story is wrong and even fraudulent (I'm not an historian), but my unwillingness to accept the fact that a mere historical controversy could become taboo in these United States of America after 200 years of liberty. I was outraged to be told again and again that I either had to believe the gas chamber stories or had to suppress the fact that I did not believe them. For a writer, particularly the kind of writer I am, nothing would have been more base than to keep silent about what I believed and did not believe. If I condemn others who play the role of censor, how could I not condemn myself for self-censorship?
The result was that I found myself squaring off against a modern-day cult which had appropriated to its own uses the catastrophe suffered by the European Jews during the Hitlerian regime. A cult backed by vast financial resources and broad cultural and political influence. In the beginning I had only a typewriter and a little indignation. I was largely ignorant of revisionist research, had never met a revisionist in the flesh, had no connections, no funding, and had never worked with media. But my conviction that I had the right to doubt what I doubted and to shout my doubts from the rooftops--even if I were wrong--was overwhelming and never flagged. And if I have that right you have it too, just as you must have the freedom to believe what I doubt and to shout out your beliefs for all to hear.
Today I am more confident than ever before that neither I nor other revisionists are mere eccentrics with an obscure ax to grind. The Governments of Germany, France, Sweeden, South Africa, Austria, the Netherlands, Australia and Canada do not continue to create repressive laws to effectively bar the investigation, say, of the flat earth theory. But they do that and much more to bar publication and suppress the distribution of revisionist research. And now we have this last, hamfisted attempt to drive me off the Internet because we are providing access--world-wide access-- to information about the Holocaust controversy.
The $1,000,000 that the U.S. Congress presented to megabucks film maker Steven Spielberg (a newspaper photograph shows Senators Boxer and Specter handing a huge blow-up of the check, like the checks given to lottery winners, to the grinning Spielberg) is just the tip of tax-funded Holocaust iceberg. There's the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; the stagy Holocaust Days of Remembrance in which ceremonial U.S. military units "commemorate" (hype) the Holocaust in the U.S. Capitol each year, numerous compulsory Holocaust "education" programs with their psychological warfare ("role playing") techniques as well as their debatable (but not in these courses!) historical facts in high schools and elementary schools across America--and of course there are the tens of billions of dollars the American Government gives to the Israeli Government where the Holocaust cult has become the corner stone of a State religion and has served for half a century as the sole, morally legitimating excuse for the invasion of Palestine by European Jews after World War II.
Other revisionists have accomplished prodigies in research and scholarship, and have (particularly in France, Germany, and Canada) endured tribulations nearly as terrible as those suffered by dissenters in medieval Europe. My work is complementary to theirs--taking this dissident scholarship to ordinary Americans all over the land via the print press, radio and television, to students and professors alike at scores of university communities via essay/advertisements in campus newspapers, to a growing number of dissident intellectuals here and abroad, and now to independent-minded women and men in the cyber community world wide! In America, when I started going public asking for open debate on the Holocaust story, I was the only one doing it. Revisionism was a word seldom, if ever, mentioned by media when I began invading it. Now it's become a household word, and the pot never stops bubbling. For better or worse, I have played a major role in bringing this about.
I am often asked how I make a living and how Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH) is funded. It's no secret. I publish an insider newsletter, Smith's Report, and ask those of you who read it, and who believe the work worthwhile, to contribute financially. The ADL, for example, has had the best part of a century to develop a large constituency of rich and influential individuals and organizations to support it. I have not. This isn't a complaint--it's the way things are. Nevertheless, it helps make my point clear if I mention that this one Zionist propaganda organization has a $30,000,000 annual budget and a special desk set up to "handle" me.
We need your help. Your contribution allows us to maintain this site, bringing freedom, honesty and reason to Americans and to independent men and women in countries where revisionism is proscribed by law and revisionist dissidents are punished by the power of the State. But your help will do much more. It will help fund our campaign, which is already under way, to return to radio and TV, to initiate a new round of revisionist essay/advertisements in student newspapers in top colleges and universities around the country, and to organize a speaking tour for yours truly. Now wouldn't that be fun? I haven't the taxing power of the State behind me, or funding from rich, influential organizations. I can only ask individuals such as yourself who believe this work should continue that you give generously to support it. Our overhead is minimal. Every contribution helps. Freedom, including intellectual freedom, has always depended on the vigilance and willingness of individual men and women who stand by what they believe and help those who are in the trenches and expect to stay there until the last shot is fired."
If you would like to subscribe to "Smith's Report," the annual subscription is $25. The address is: Bradley R. Smith, Post Office Box 3267, Visalia, California 93278. Cyberwise, Mr. Smith resides at http://www.codoh.com/and his e-mail is brsmith@la.tcinet.com
Ingrid
Thought for the Day:
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident."
( Arthur Schopenhauer - 1788 -1860 )