People sometimes ask me why I keep picking on ex-Nizkorite Jamie McCarthy. The reason is simply utilitarian - every time I pick on him, he goes into a tailspin and doubles my output by "explaining" to others not only what I said but what I ***meant*** when I said such-and-such.
That way I know I have a presence in places where I don't have to bother - he does my work for me.
With that in mind, I take this opportunity to remind my readers once again that just before the cyberwar of Jan/Feb 1996 broke out that flushed out the haughty Wiesenthalers as global Numero Uno Censors, Jamie delivered himself of a classic prediction and announced something to the effect that interest in the Zundelsite, right in the hurricane's eye, would be exactly zippo.
Here we are now, two years since then. Below is a letter from Denmark, a bit grammatically askew:
"The Simon Wiesenthal Center strikes again, this time in Denmark. I am an expatriate Danish national who live in the United States California. I read Danish newspapers to observe how things is going on in my birth country.
"It was very disturbing to read in the mainstream Danish language daily Jyllandsposten (The Juttland Post) that the Jewish Simon Wiesenthal Center is waging a virtual war on the InterNet against political and historical debate.
"In a recent newspaper article in this daily publication Rabbi Abraham Cooper warned Denmark of an increase in the proliferation of extremist material on the InterNet.
"Mr. Cooper alleges that the geographic location of hate material close to Germany plays a role in the uprising of politically incorrectness in that country.
"It was reported on the fight-censorship discussion list that the Danish Parliamentary Judiciary Committee chairman Lissa Mathiasen has asked the Minister of Justice to look into the matter to find out if it's possible to either limit or prevent the circulation of extremist views on the InterNet. The Jews has lost the battle against freedom of speech in the United States having failed to compel or coerce private corporations to deny service to courageous people like Ernst Zundel who express historical and political discourse.
"Because Denmark has no constitutional protection of freedom of opinion we must expect the SWC and the holocaust lobby to succeed in its pressure on the Danish government and Parliament. Denmark has for a long time been considered a safe haven for German dissidents.
"WE MUST ACT NOW! . . . We must make clear that any censorship attempt unevitably will fail.
"To accomplish this goal we have to make sure that the material is widely available from abroad. The mirror campaign for the Zundelsite in 1996 defeated the German goverment's attempt to ban offensive expression on the InterNet.
"The media coverage soourrounding the Zundelsite defeated The Communications Decency Act and will also defeat the Danish goverment if we act now."
To this, I only want to add my two-bit here: I can see the fight-censorship fellows both grin and wince, now that they have just about become politically correct - grin at the Rabbi Cooper's unsophistication to think that a website in Denmark is "closer" to Germany than a website somewhere out in Zululand, and wince because once more they are reminded, to their acute embarassement, that it was your embattled "Nazi" Zundelsite that gave birth to the Blue Ribbons.
Ingrid
"It is not to American nuclear defenses that the Majority must look for deliverance and regeneration but to the defenses of the mind. There will be no end to its dispossession until the Majority learns to reject all, repeat all, the main currents of modern liberal thought, and there can be no such rejection until the true nature of the illiberal forces which engender and direct modern liberalism are clearly understood."
(Wilmot Robertson in "The Dispossessed Majority", p. 551)