December 27, 1997

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

When we first started flushing out the Holocaust Promotion Lobby as the major censorship villain against the free-speech movement, derision and lampooning from the liberal hecklers were the stock replies.

One fellow on the fight-censorship group called our claim - that is, that the attempted Internet censorship meant targeting Revisionists - a "trivial, crack-pot matter."

So it may well have seemed, a mere two years ago when someone like Ernst Zundel insisted that **any** comment against the entrenched version of the so-called Holocaust that found its way into the media did two things simultaneously with lightning speed: unleash the wrath of traditional, lobby-driven government against a dissident's point of view, and line the pockets of the Holocaust Promotion Lobby with government handouts and grants to "fight racism" because of the "compassion factor."

Two years ago, it seemed the "people" spoke.

Not true. The Mighty Lobby spoke. The knee jerk in those years was instantaneous. There was no opposition. Out came the mob. Out came the fines. Out came the media character assassins.

Now it is different when leaders like French Nationalist leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, whose party commanded a hefty 14 % of the French vote, "misspeaks" himself in the Revisionist mode - not once; not twice; repeatedly!

Now the real claws come out!

Here is the latest version, according to Nandonet, December 27, 1997:

A day after Christmas, a court in a suburb of Paris fined Le Pen a total of 1.5 million francs (about $250,000) for saying, as he has said before, that the Nazi "gas chambers" were "but a footnote" to the history of the Second World War.

As if the fine is not enough, here are eleven (count 'em!) Jewish organizations who claim the "compensation" for "pain and suffering".

This punishment breaks down as follows: 1.2 million franks to those who took him to court to enrich themselves on a French political leader's political opinion, and 300,000 to force him to take the wood shed walk: to publish as advertisement, and pay for, the court's judgment in various journals of the French press.

What does that signal to the world? Not fairness, surely! The exercise of raw power against a view the ruling elite does not like.

Will it be noticed as such? How can it **not** be noticed! A tidal wave of intense, if yet unarticulated resentment against those who have the power to bludgeon dissidents into submission cannot be far away.

Why do such a foolish thing? It has long been known that to forcibly silence one's opposition meant to invite a reaction. If you have such enormous power to silence and to cow a Holocaust doubter, can an intellectual intifada be far behind?

Don't these people learn from their mistaken policies? Obviously not!

Now this latest, outrageous Le Pen verdict itself is news that will spread far and wide in the Internet.

But then you add the mob, as happens every time, it seems, when someone dares to be politically incorrect. And what is the result? More copy yet that spreads the word that here is a taboo that the Jews and their Lobby want not to be discussed, and that they will do anything to enforce collective silence with brute force.

The mob was waiting for Le Pen. He and his traveling companions were physically attacked the same day the French court decision was rendered and as he was trying to change planes.

Blows and insults were exchanged in an airport lounge as police tried to separate the group of supporters of independence for the French Caribbean island of Martinique, as Le Pen and four others, including his wife, tried to get on with their travel.

Before being hustled away to his next flight, Le Pen called his attackers "bandits" and "fanatics," and accused them of being cowards. And then he put the snake right on the table and said, Le Pen-style:

"I note the totally (farcical) police presence, which could even make one think this is an ambush."

He warned that, as a member of a European parliament, he would make sure that in future debates, this incident would be mentioned in talks of independence. Result? Yet more Revisionism.

Look at the situation analytically:

"The Holocaust, a mere footnote of history" = 7 words, according to Le Pen. The price tag in France for 7 Revisionist words? In our currency, a hefty $35,714 per word.

Can anybody say today that Revisionism is a "trivial, crack-pot matter"?

Ingrid

Thought for the Day:

"Sites like (the Zundelsite), easily accessible to keen surfers, are particularly
disturbing to European governments, whose strict anti-Nazi legislation is being circumvented by groups publishing hate diatribes on the Internet from providers in the United States and Australia."

(A comment sent to the Zundelsite)

Comments? E-Mail: irimland@cts.com

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