Herewith follows Part II of "Truthsayer on the Road" - the trials and travails of the unflappable Brit, David Irving:
At San Francisco international airport on May 18, 2000 I find I am for the second time in my life taken out of the shuffling line of visitors, and given the same run-around as at Dulles. The Immigration service officer peers at the computer screen, taps it, wipes it clean, peers again, calls over a colleague, and I catch the words of one to the other, "... the one we've been told to look out for." I see my passport tucked into a plastic couvert, and I am sent to a desk marked IW4. The new officer studies the file and questions me: "You have been arrested here in the USA several times, haven't you?"
At this I burst out laughing, and exclaim, "Never once!"
Perplexed, he sends for a superior. What has happened is clear. The devil has again given unknown hands work to do on the Tecs II computer files. Quite apart from one stray item on my file referring to a somewhat different and far younger person, a thirty-six year old "David Irving" who has been denied a visa in 1993, and one can't help speculating on why?, (I have a permanent and fully operational US visa) the other entries are of some interest.
Yes, they have been expecting me here today at San Francisco. Virgin Atlantic Airways, like British Airways, Continental, United and all the other airlines I have flown on during my seventy or so crossings of the Atlantic, have telexed advance warning to the INS that I am on my way. On this May 18, 2000, a "one-day lookout" has been posted on the computer, stating:
"Subject arrives 051800 on VS019, please refer to INS secondary. Subject has been arrested in several other countries, therefore, if applying under VWPP [Visa waiver protection program] is ineligible for admission. Visa refusal in 1993. See extensive PAU file."
Just about everything in this entry is terrifyingly wrong, but a handwritten addition reads: "Suggest luggage search!!"
The file is indeed extensive. It goes back to earlier visits I have made to the USA (a handwritten notation reads: "extensive travel since 1992", so perhaps everything prior to 1992 was indeed deleted in 1993).
The White Supremacist
THE same busy hands have been entering spurious material on my INS dossier as early as 1993. The words appear to have been entered by persons unschooled in the privileges bestowed by the First Amendment and the free-speech provisions of the UN Charter of Human Rights.
On October 21, 1993 somebody enters this helpful paragraph:
"October 21, 1993 (DRP/BUN) Subject is a White Supremacist and is known as a revisionist. He believes the Holocaust never happened and gives speeches around the world concerning this subject. Irving has had problems with authorities in Canada, Germany and Australia. He was deported from Canada in 1992 and his deportation was recently upheld by their Federal Courts."
[In fact my illegal deportation was never tested by the Federal Court in Canada; a Judge Rothstein having issued a one-line refusal to permit any appeal, without vouchsafing any reasons].
"Irving was in Niagara Falls, NY on October 13, 1993 where he gave a speech to a large crowd at the Days Inn. In attendance was an individual from Germany (see correlations) who is described as being the new Führer. [This mystery-man is not identified in the file] Irving was refused admission into the US in 1992 but has since been told he is admissible and has filed a FoIA in London. Irving has been seen with Ernst Zündel in Toronto, Ont.
"RIN: 0000380145, updated October 21, 1993 by officer DRP and user Palacios at office BUN."
This rubbishy information is still being quoted in INS reports in March 1996.
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(To be continued tomorrow)
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A little plug to help the David Irving Defense Fund:
The diary excerps reproduced (are) the property of David Irving. Passages have been edited as to tenses, grammar, styles, spelling, and names. The diary's depiction of courtroom exchanges are from memory, and are not intended to replace the official transcripts posted on Mr Irving's website at
www.fpp.co.uk/docs/trial/transcripts.html.
The official transcripts are being corrected for later publication by FPP as a CD-Rom. Mr Irving,s Closing Speech is published in full by FPP, available for $10.00, from P O Box 1707, Key West, FL 33041, USA.
email: focalp@aol.com
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Thought for the Day:
"Nazis are the only people who would creat distinctive uniforms for a secret police."
(Letter to the Zundelsite)
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