Up-front, good news: It looks like the Leuchter film is going to play at the Film Festival in Berlin! (!!!) No further comment on that one!
Below I am sending you a Bradley Smith excerpt from his February Smith's Report. I always love receiving this newsletter because Bradley has such a fine sense of humor. As most of you know, Bradley is the owner and head honcho of CODOH <www.codoh.com> a revisionist website that reports more than 7 million hits since it was first conceived four years ago.
This eight-page "Smith's Report" is well worth your sponsorship and loyalty as well if you are looking for another quality revisionist trooper slugging it out in the trenches. For years now, it has been Bradley vs the ADL, and more and more the former looks a whole lot better than the latter. Visit his website and see for yourself.
Here now is the excerpt - but please keep in mind that this piece was written at least three weeks ago. Nonetheless, it shall enjoy a ZGram ride to gladden hearts worldwide:
The first great revisionist event of the year 200, and perhaps the greatest Holocaust revisionist event ever, is underway. David Irving is challenging the entire Holocaust industry with his libel suit against Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books. The irony of course is that Irving denies that he is a Holocaust revisionist, and in fact has never published so much as a monograph (dealing) specifically with the Holocaust. In short, he is demonstrating with his action that you do not have to be a Holocaust revisionist to be skeptical that there were no homicidal gassing chambers at Auschwitz, or that a million or so Jewish and/or others were murdered there, or that the National Socialist German Workers Party planned an ethnic extermination.
I was rather dismayed, and I don't think I was alone, when I learned that Irving would represent himself before the court. Professor Lipstadt has a herd of twenty (count 'em - twenty!) of the Queen's best lawyers, led by the man who represented Princess Diana and Nikolai Tolstoy - not that he helped either of them in the end. The trial is at the end of the third week, and Irving is doing just fine. He's doing better than we could have hoped, and better than the Lipstadt people could have feared.
I think Irving is in his element. He risks physical exhaustion, but I do not believe he is going to become psychologically exhausted, which would be more dangerous, and he is a man of great energy and physical strength. He will be shown to have made errors of fact and judgment in his books (he's written 30 of them, so how could he not have?), and he will be shoved in a corner with some of his public statements. He will accept claims made by the Lipstadt people that will confound and even anger knowledgeable revisionists. But I think Irving likes the game, he likes the odds, his heart is in it and everything else he has is in it.
And Irving is risking it all. He is risking his standing as an historian, his wealth, and his life. Irving brought the libel complaint, so Lipstadt has to prove she was right in her accusations against him, which may prove to be much more difficult than her twenty lawyers have convinced her it will be. But if Irving loses, he will have to pay Lipstadt's legal costs. Twenty lawyers for three or four months? He'll be finished. Or will he? With Irving, it's difficult to believe that even if he loses everything, that he will be finished. A nice adventure. Very nice. (...)
Letter from London (a brief look at the court scene, excerpted and edited by Bradley)
The trial of Irving vs. Penguin Books and Lipstadt is proceeding with unprecedented, almost fair, world-wide publicity. British papers carry paperback sized photos of Irving nearly every day.
The courtroom is filled up. The sign on the door says "No Standing." Some visitors peer through the double glass doors for a while, then walk away because they hear nothing.
On the bench sits Justice Gray, bedecked in a wig and full length black robe, crimson scarf and white cuffs. Below him sits the court's clerk, frequently a black woman in a short white wig (...)
Below the bench, on the left, is the defence crew of about twenty individuals. Mr. Rampton, 70, the chief barrister, has a silly gray wig and black flowing robe. When he tires, he develops dowager's hump, and he constantly corrects his wig, which falls on his presbiopic eyeglasses. When he gets really tired in the afternoons, after five to six hours on his feet, he lets Irving make speeches and converse with the judge during cross-examination on the witness stand.
By late afternoon, Mr. Rampton has a pronounced dowager's hump. He spends much of his time looking for some pages in voluminous briefs. His barristers, solicitors and secretaries scuttle around pulling at his robe and telling him:
"Stop Irving. Stop Irving now."
I guess in the British law system they are so terrorized by their boss that they do not dare to do it while Irving carries out what would be considered in America a no-no, or "ex parte communication" with the judge.
Half of the gallery is filled up with reporters, mostly from England but also from most of the important countries around the world. The other half of the gallery is filled with visitors, mostly Jews, a mix of very young and very old. Some elderly Jews have their eyes immobilized and fixed on Irving, as if they would like to influence his faculties with a curse.
The gallery is speckled with a sheik's turban, one African face and several Hasidic hats. There are no outbursts of emotion in this court except when barrister Rampton cracks an anti-Nazi joke.
But when Irving answered "None" to the question, "How many Jews were gassed at Auschwitz," put to him by My Lord, one saw many jaws fall and could hear a needle drop.
While a Catholic Briton, assisted by a Slav, is defending the national honor of Germany and the German people, no Germans appear in the court. I wonder if they know that when Irving carries books and briefs to the court, there is no one there to help him. He has no lawyer. (...) From now on, Irving is fighting for his financial future and defending the honor of Germany alone!
During the closing hours of this week's trial, Justice Gray gave Irving a stern warning; while the judge said he would remain open-minded, Irving had better present absolutely watertight arguments that there were no gassings at Birkenau, because there is a mountain of evidence that there were."
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Thought for the Day:
(Letter to the Zundelsite)dell e
"It occurred to me, while scanning the defense argument in the David Irving trial, that the self-appointed reality deniers are against excavating collapsed "gas chambers" to look for square holes - not, as they say, "because it is HOLY GROUND", but because deep down they know it is "UNHOLY GROUND . . ."
(Letter to the Zundelsite)