At my one and only Revisionist conference the Institute for Historical Review put on in September of 1994, I met an interesting man by the name of Jurgen Graf. I was told he was a teacher in Switzerland. He seemed to be a highly gifted individual who was fluent in some 8 languages, even Slavic ones like Russian - and, wonder of wonders, Japanese and other South East Asian ones!
I later listened to an interview of his that Ernst did for his "Voice of Freedom" TV shows and was even more impressed by Graf's breadth of knowledge.
Somewhere along the line the topic of the potential of a "Holocaust denier" law in Switzerland was raised, and Graf shrugged it off and said that it would ***never*** happen in his country. ( One more proof that even brilliant people can be wrong when it comes to Big H politics. :) )
Well, that was then - and now is now. This exceptional young man has become one of the most prolific, knowledgeable Revisionists of Switzerland. He has authored several books about the Holocaust - exceptionally well written! - and has made himself a target for some of the most vicious persecution moves the Chosenites can think up to torment those who oppose them.
His latest is a little booklet in German titled "Abschied vom Rechtsstaat: Das Antirassismusgesetz einer totalitären Diktatur" ("Good-bye to a State Based on Law: The Anti-Racism Law of a Totalitarian Dictatorship") which is a German language anthology of sorts by various Swiss thinkers and writers - all victims of this law, caught in the spider web of Inquisition-style persecution.
These essays are passionately written, and I have savored them. They give a feel for the extent to which this law has already started to destroy some lives in German-speaking Europe - for merely speaking out against the ones who champion thoughtcrimes laws - and how the Swiss people perceive both laws and champions of those laws.
(The booklet may be ordered through Presseclub Schweiz, Postfach 105, CH-4008 Basel. Switzerland. No price was listed on the booklet, but maybe further information can be gleaned by going to http://www.ruf-ch.org If not, send a generous courtesy donation and hope for the best!)
One passage in that booklet struck me as particularly poignant, and I am translating it here according to meaning but not word for word:
For years and from a safe distance, we Swiss have observed and experienced how our neighbor, Germany, has been humiliated, disenfranchised, dehumanized and extorted via the "Holocaust" - and this with the knowledge and cooperation of its own ruling oligarchy. Most of us didn't care; not a few Swiss people were actually gleeful that the "Swabians" were kept under constant siege.
Now these same Swiss people find themselves in the same boat together with the "Swabians" and are forced to experience with horror that the relatives of a generation that tried so hard under considerable sacrifices to keep their homeland out of the global war, are now being rubber-stamped as "criminals" - exactly like the "Swabians."
"(The vice president of the Jewish World Congress speaks of a quasi criminalization of the Swiss wartime generation and is rendering a sentence of collective guilt.)
"The method is exactly the same as the one used against Germany: the unrelieved repetition of unsubstantiated accusations.
"Since the spring of 1995 our country is experiencing, as Germany already experienced, a situation of total lack of legality. Daily, buckets of filth are poured over the country; Switzerland is being besieged with ever more audacious demands by an enemy who depends on classical methods of gangster syndicates; with few exceptions, its politicians, expected to uphold the interests of the Swiss, are obediently and compliantly offering the other cheek. The only outlet Swiss citizens still have is letter writing to the editor, and for how long the controlled papers will still print these letters, nobody knows; they could be stopped from one day to the next.
"There is no protection from defamation, for the majority does not exist; the anti-racist law is meant for Jews alone. When a group of Swiss citizens under the guidance of a member of the national Parliament, Prof. Martin H. Burckhard, filed a complaint against those responsible for broadcasting the television special "Nazi Gold and Jewish Money", in which many audacious lies about Switzerland were spread, the State Prosecutor's Office of the region of Zurich . . . suspended the investigation of the charge, because 'the Swiss people were not people in legal terms'.
"Our judicial system makes pariahs out of its Swiss in their own land."
I say this much: Tough for the Swiss, but wonderful for our Cause. The more that other countries experience the stifling anti-democratic nature and spirit of these anti-racist laws, the sooner there will come relief.
Ingrid
P.S. USA_Today_, 22 July, p 6A ran a short update:
SWISS REVISIONISTS GET PRISON: A Swiss author who wrote several books denying the existence of Nazi gas chambers was sent to prison along with his publisher by a Swiss court. Writer Juergen Graf, 47, and his publisher, Gerhard Foerster, 78, a former officer in Hitler's army, were convicted of breaking Switzerland's law against racial discrimination. Graf was sentenced to 15 months, and Foerster received one year. They were each fined $5,500 and forced to hand over the $38,000 in proceeds from Graf's books. Judge Andrea Staubli said the pair's lack of remorse contributed to the sentences. Graf has stood by his views claiming that it was an exaggeration to say that 6 million Jews died in the Nazi Holocaust of the 1940s.
Thought for the Day:
"When I came to the United States, one of its genial bureaucrats told me: 'You have come to the freest country on earth. You can run naked at noon through the streets of America; nothing will happen. You can go to a park filled with people and shout: "The president is an old asshole!'; nothing will happen. But heaven help you if you criticize a Jew or Israel. Your career will be at an end before it has even begun.' This I was told in 1968."
(Letter from an old lady, now living in Germany)