Well, the German censors and lackeys to the powers-that-be are at it again. Yesterday's CNN ran a brief article against the Zundelsite titled "German official asks U.S. ISPs to block neo-Nazi sites", written by one Rick Perera. As is our custom, the Zundelsite replies:
CNN:
BERLIN (IDG) -- A German state-level official is challenging U.S. ISPs (Internet service providers) to help combat neo-Nazi propaganda on the Internet.
Zundelsite:
Let's get some parameters around this latest. This is the private initiative of a minor bureaucrat of a leftist-Marxist bent, the type which began to infiltrate and insinuate themselves into German political institutions after the "Red riots" of 1968. This is not the official action of the German government, even though the CNN article is slanted that way.
CNN:
Düsseldorf District Government President Jürgen Büssow has sent an open letter to four ISPs and to U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman William Kennard, asking them to block neo-Nazi Web sites on their servers.
Zundelsite:
"District Government President" sounds impressive to people not knowledgeable and versatile in German politics. Düsseldorf is a trading center which has the largest concentration of Japanese businesses and people in Europe with their own shops, schools and cultural institutions. They are not exactly prone to worrying a bone with so-called "neo-nazi" websites. Maybe it is hip in the eyes of Herr Büssow to whip a straw issue a bit in order to raise his own profile?
CNN
The action comes as Büssow is warning German ISPs that they face fines of up to 500,000 marks (US 231,000) for hosting neo-Nazi sites. As authorities have turned up the heat on German neo-Nazis, many have moved their Web sites to U.S. servers.
Zundelsite:
Threats, terror and repression of the Germans have been commonplace since the end of the war. The specter of a Nazi threat is always guaranteed to make headlines - in Germany and elsewhere. Anyone who questions the corrupt, desperate and ever-more-tottering policies of the current German regime is automatically labeled a "new-Nazi" these days. It is fashionable, predictable - and despicable.
CNN:
"If a content provider is based in the United States, I can't get at them," Büssow said in an interview Monday. "But I don't think any Internet provider wants to be known in Germany for spreading Nazi propaganda; that would hurt their business."
Zundelsite:
Webcom in California has hosted the Zundelsite for more than five years. In all that time I have received exactly two complaints: One that was anonymous, and another one that was not taken seriously by Webcom because it was so clearly off the wall.
The Zundelsite is a very responsible website. I understand that a letter has already gone out more than 14 days ago from Mr. Büssow to Webcom and others, indulging in complaint # 3. So far, Webcom has disregarded it. My guess is that it is in the wastebasket, which is exactly where it belongs.
CNN:
Büssow said four U.S.-based ISPs are responsible for three sites that carry anti-Semitic and racist content in German and an English-language site dedicated to Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel, with a German-language subsection. He sent the open letter to those four ISPs.
Zundelsite:
Büssow does not define what he considers 'racist" or "anti-semitic." He flails away hysterically, shrieking "Nazi!" at anything his blinkered, brainwashed mind does not want to confront rationally.
CNN:
A search of a "whois" database shows at least two of the sites in question are registered to fictitious addresses in Berlin. "Thulenet" is registered to "Janus-Kommunikation," named for the two-faced god of Greek mythology. No such company is listed in the German telephone directory.
A spokesman for the FCC did not immediately return phone calls.
Zundelsite:
The FCC is not going to help a self-appointed busybody German bureaucrat. US courts have already settled that issue. But shrieking "Nazi" sounds impressive to the local Marxist cadre when they get together over Schnitzel and beer.
CNN:
Büssow said that, despite the broad interpretation of freedom of speech in the U.S., he feels confident that there is a legal basis in U.S. law for stopping hate speech. He pointed to Article 7 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to which the U.S. is a signatory, guaranteeing protection against discrimination and incitement to discrimination.
Zundelsite:
How little this twirp understands about the US concept of freedom of speech and the First Amendment. If Büssow wants to protect people against incitement and discrimination, he has his work cut out. He ought to pay a visit to the Jewish Defense League website at www.jdl.org or Hatewatch at www.hatewatch.org.
CNN:
"I think there's a limit to freedom of speech when it comes to appeals for violence against third parties," he said.
Zundelsite:
There is no place on the Zundelsite where a single document "appeals for violence against third parties." None. Mr. Büssow is in dire need of deprogramming.
For a start, he should visit Dr. Norman Finkelstein's website at www.normanfinkelstein.com for a dose of reality about what con-men he is defending and trying to shield with his impertinent grandstanding.
Then he is welcome to come back and start taking some lessons from the Zundelsite and other Revisionist websites. (Links conveniently displayed...) Alternately, of course, he can always go to Nizkor and bore himself to sleep.
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