It has been said that in our times it is easier to be a soothsayer than a truthsayer. I am treating you to a four-part ZGram titled "Truthsayer on the Road."
David Irving tells this story:
THE US Immigration service has, it turns out, a computer called Tecs II.
It makes sure that the wrong people do not get into this country, and that only the right people do.
Tecs II. I first saw that acronym in November 1992, when I was held in a Canadian immigration cell, thanks to the machinations of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the other global true friends of Free Speech: a friendly immigration official told me that Tecs II would have recorded automatically the number plate of the car in which I was driven across from British Columbia into the USA at Blaine and back.
Which journey would therefore have complied with the idiotic requirement that I depart Canada by a stipulated time and date: except, mysteriously, that the computer print-out produced to the court by the Crown showed a later crossing that day as the driver returned home to the US side, but it did not show the crossing that mattered. Wonderful what people can do with computer print-outs. But that is another story.
When I tried three days later to cross from Canada to the USA, at the other end of the continent, at the bridge across the thundering Niagara Falls, just before that midnight deadline on November 1, 1992, the US officials were bothered by something on their Tecs II screens, and they told me to "try again the next day": Which meant that I had technically failed to comply with the deadline: Which meant that Canada could now deport me in manacles back to England: Which meant that . . . well, the rest of that is history.
What was on that US computer file? I never found out.
A few months later I found out what data were on its Canadian equivalent: using the Canadian Access to Information Act, I discovered that a Canadian immigration official, Harold Musetescu, -- later dismissed -- had been bribed by officials of the Canadian Jewish Congress (or alternatively by the Toronto arm of the Simon Wiesenthal Center business-empire) to deposit phoney data about me on the Canadian Immigration intelligence files, in a conspiracy to prevent me from making further visits to Canada. I obtained actual print-outs of the data, showing when Musetescu planted the data, and what they were.
Computer print-outs like these are the best evidence, but you can seldom lay hands on them.
EVEN so, luck does occasionally shine on us fighters for Free Speech, and if we drill down deep enough we do bring up to the light of day, dripping with the poisonous sludge which is the natural habitat of these people, fragmentary evidence of how our wealthy and powerful enemies use the immigration services around the world to try to prevent any historical debate which they find "dangerous".
My far-flung legal actions have turned up some surprising data in this connection, including secret letters written in 1991 and 1992 by Mr Neville Nagler, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, to the German security service, the Austrian ambassador, and the like, demanding my arrest, imprisonment, and general harassment as I went about my lawful lecturing engagements. During my recent London action against Lipstadt et al., Judge Gray discouraged me from publicly reading out these documents, holding, no doubt quite properly, that they bore little direct relevance to the Lipstadt libels.
In December 1992, a few days after that Canadian deportation, I flew from London to Miami which is -- Elian Gonzalez and Joe Carollo notwithstanding -- still a part of the USA. This time I entered the country without difficulty, though the INS official at "primary" -- the first line of desks where passports are checked -- seemed to do a bit of a double-take as he viewed the computer screen.
The next time after that was not so easy, and this brings me back to the US Immigration Service's Tecs II computer again: It was April 18, 1993 and I was flying in to Dulles airport at Washington DC. This time I was detained for two or three hours and my baggage was searched in front of me. After two or three hours the senior INS official on duty reappeared and this fortunately very conscientious officer apologised that what had taken so long was that he had had to apply for clearance to check certain facts with the RCMP and Ontario authorities:
"Mr Irving," he revealed, "somebody has planted a yard-and-a-half of garbage about you on our INS computer. They claim that you're wanted for arrest in Canada, and elsewhere.
It's all untrue, we've checked, and that's what took the time. Somebody doesn't like you, and they've put this stuff on our computer. You're going to have trouble every time so long as that file is there. I have marked it as being spurious, but you'd better apply to the US embassy in London to have that garbage removed."
The embassy's legal attaché, Mr Gottlieb, wrote me in June 1993 apologising for the inconvenience and assuring me that I would have no problems in future. I carry that letter with me each time I go through US immigration now. And, just as well.
BEING a curious kind of fellow, I did apply under the US Freedom of Information Act (FoIA) for access to the spurious file to try to identify who had planted the fake data about me on the Tecs II computer, and when he had done it; after a year of persistent trying, which drew just blank written responses of "nothing found" -- perhaps because the INS file had indeed been wiped blank at my request -- I gave up.
I have received and ignored since the Lipstadt trial a number of hate-messages from the more malevolent enemies of free speech, threatening to have me denied entry to the United States. I posted some on this website, ignored the rest. I hear that a Congressman Tom Lantos, a Jewish immigrant who fled from Hungary, no doubt with good reason, in 1956, had tried, but failed, to get Congress to enact a law under the one-minute rule, permanently banning me from the United States, his current homeland. These enemies of free speech never give up, and it is for its First Amendment that we Europeans particularly value this great country. *
Which brings me almost to the present day.
(To be continued tomorrow)
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Thought for the Day:
"It was plain ... that his knowledge of World War Two is unparalleled. His mastery of the detail of the historical documents is remarkable. He is beyond question able and intelligent."
(-- Justice Charles Gray in his summation judgment of recent Irving Lipstadt Trial)
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