* Ever heard of H.r. 4115? President Clinton tells you - in his effort to "cement his legacy":
"I am pleased to sign into law H.R. 4115, which would permanently authorize the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
"One of my earliest acts as President was to dedicate the Museum, and since then almost 15 million people have visited the institution, which serves as a constant and painful reminder that racism, anti-Semitism, and all forms of hatred are ever-present dangers, and that indifference to hatred makes each of us complicit in some way. Each generation must be taught these critical lessons anew, and therefore the Museum's special emphasis on reaching America's young people is vitally important for our country's future.
"The Museum has become a moral compass that must endure, especially as the Holocaust recedes in time. When the survivors are gone, our Nation will have this vital American institution to illuminate humanity's darkest potential and to inspire our eternal vigilance.
"WILLIAM J. CLINTON
"THE WHITE HOUSE,
"October 12, 2000.
* The Daily Telegraph of London of October 10, 2000 had an interesting paragraph in a Letter to the Editor, stressing a point the Zundelsite has made many times:
"The brutal behaviour of the Israelis during the war of independence in 1948 should have drawn a forceful response from the world community. It did not, thanks to three factors: the world's understandably guilty feelings about the Holocaust, pro-Israel influence in the United States, and the absence of prime-time video footage of atrocities and refugee columns."
* Also same date, same source: A headline reads, "Straw wants to rewrite our history - 'British' is a racist word, says report".
First paragraph: BRITAIN should be formally recognised as a multi-cultural society whose history needs to be 'revised, rethought or jettisoned', says a report that has been welcomed by ministers."
This report
". . . defines the UK as 'a community of communities' rather than a nation. It says the description of its inhabitants as British 'will never do on its own', largely because the term has "racist connotations".
* From New Zealand comes word that a PhD student from Germany, Hans Kupka, has withdrawn from his doctoral work after being "accused" of Holocaust denial. The university council wished to order a review of the case, but a law firm opined that it could not do so.
The possibility of an independent inquiry into the case of a Holocaust denier "has angered the Jewish community."
* There is interesting revisionist news from Russia. Revisionist historian Jurgen Graf was recently in Moscow and gave an interview with the Russian weekly Russky Vestnik. This interview was just published, and an English translation can be found at the URL: http://anti-imperialist.webjump.com/reports/graf.html
* America is on the cusp of experiencing what European countries have been through. Insurance companies such as Aetna and New York Life
". . . are set to come under pressure to hand over details of slave insurance policies they sold 150 years ago following a new law passed in California this weekend", according to a Reuters release.
California's governor, Gray Davis,
". . . has given California's Insurance Commissioner, Harry Low, the power to ask all insurers doing business in the state to hand over details of slave policies written in the 1850s and 1860s that paid out money to slave owners rather than the families when a slave died as a basis for reparations."
Now there is a quagmire if ever there was one!
* A somewhat belated item, dated July 15 that appeared in the Turkish Times, tells us
". . . the well-organized and well-financed Armenian-American lobby continues to register big strides in pushing "genocide"-related legislation all across the US and keeping the issues alive in public awareness. The Armenian-American lobby will, in a few years, inaugurate an "Armenian Genocide Museum and Memorial" complex in downtown DC, four blocks from and on the same street as the Holocaust Memorial Museum."
Good luck to the Armenians! Two Holocausts on one street? It'll never do!
* An October 13 Reuters release tells us: "Amid new attacks, German TV revives Holocaust guilt."
Titled "Holokaust'', a new documentary series from German state television, starts screening next week. Its makers claim that
". . . teaching a new generation of civilised Germans about the horrors of the Nazi genocide of Jews is still vital to stem any repetition" - of the Holocaust, in case you didn't guess. The six-series "documentary" is going to focus on what happened to the Soviet Jews after the 1941 invasion. It will show
". . . senior German officials among the occupying forces in the east laughing, drinking and enjoying parties as their troops carried out the bloodiest act of barbarism in human history."
Sounds familiar?
* In Vilnius, Lithuania, another judge ordered that a 93-year-old man be tried in absentia on genocide charges, even though he suffers from Alzheimer's and other debilitating illnesses. The oldster's name is Kazys Gimzauskas, who is accused
". . . of sending scores of Jews to their deaths when he was an officer in the Vilnius security police during the 1941-44 German occupation of Lithuania in World War II."
Lithuania, you might want to know, has a politically correct "in-absentia" law.
* Megan McAuliffe, of ZDNet Australia reports that
". . . the freedom of speech debate is heating up Down Under, with an Australian-based web site being told to take down racist, offensive material relating to the Holocaust. However, Electronic Frontiers Association members believe banning the site is counterproductive.
"The EFA doesn't believe the site should be banned, it just results in the further publication of the views of the Adelaide Institute. It gives them a platform over and above the web site," EFA chairman Irene Graham told ZDNet Australia."
So it has taken almost five years since the Zundelsite struggle - where the Electronic Frontier Foundation folks shamefully wimped out because they feared the Zundel taint - until this issue has finally reached Australia. I remember Irene Graham as one of the more courageous cyber fighters during the Zundelsite Blue Ribbons War, and I wish her and her crew, as well as the Adelaide Institute, every best luck. She is going to sorely need it.
* Federal investigators have nothing better to do than to look into the theft of a tree planted to commemorate victims of the Holocaust. Now who would want to steal that tree? It had been planted in front of the Agriculture Department's headquarters, and USDA spokesman Andy Solomon assures us:
''We're being careful not to jump to any conclusions ... but this is certainly troubling and disturbing.''
* The nascent "Nazis" in Germany are at it again, according to several reports. Nazi culture continues to evoke a strong fascination, and Nazi art is is being revived in Germany in what is described as
". . . a break with the taboo that has prohibited public displays of Third Reich art, films and literature since the Second World War."
Plays, books and films currently hitting the German arts scene are employing techniques once used by the Nazis, while gallery owners have begun to show the works of artists personally sanctioned by Hitler.
"Fifty years after the event, it must be possible to separate aesthetics from politics," said Munich film director Thomas Schüly, who defends the break with convention.
* The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal Hearings against Ernst Zündel for texts posted on the Zundelsite have re-convened. Mark Weber, Director of the Institute for Historical Review, was the expert witness in an historically important October 5-7 round. Telling documents about Holocaust blackmail and Holocaust extortion were made part of the hearing's historical record and transcripts. Not too surprisingly, Mark Weber was severely restricted in his testimony by arbitrarily imposed limitations on what he could say. Get this: He wasn't even allowed to testify about the "Soap from Jewish Fat" article that he himself has written and which is posted on the Zundelsite, the original bone of contention!
* Professor Tony Martin, an embattled Black US educator and author of the controversial book, "The Jewish Onslaught", will be the second expert witness this fall on November 8 when the Tribunal meets next in Toronto, Canada.
* Canada now seizes and confiscates books critical of the Holocaust as "Hate Literature", even though Holocaust Denial is not against the law in that country.
The latest book seized is German chemical expert Germar Rudolf's massive anthology, "Dissecting the Holocaust." This volume is, next to Barbara Kulaszka's compilation of the 1988 Zündel Holocaust Trial, the most fundamental, information-packed, exhaustive study on the Holocaust topic. The publisher intends to appeal these Canadian censorship measures. You may order that book from www.vho.org while the going is good.
* The case of eight Zundelsite texts put on the "Index of Publications" forbidden to minors in Germany is being appealed by the government, after we won the first round. Jürgen Rieger, Zündel attorney for two decades, will fight that case in Germany.
* The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published a large polemical article about dissident websites. The Zundelsite and its content is mentioned in detail. The visitor count keeps soaring!
* Professor Norman Finkelstein continues his one-man intifada against the Holocaust establishment and vigorously attacks the Holocaust profiteers. More than 200 articles commenting on "The Holocaust Industry" have appeared since the publication of that slim but ever-so-feisty volume.
* Revisionist researchers score telling blows! Jewish community leaders have started withdrawing "Holocaust survivors" from lecture circuits to American schools because they were exposed as liars who had largely invented their "tales of horror"! Raul Hilberg, the "Pope of the Holocaust", laments: "There is no quality control when it comes to the Holocaust."
* Harper's Magazine, September 2000 issue, slyly sneaks in revisionist findings by author Leslie Epstein about the fake crematory ovens and chimneys in Auschwitz - pretending they knew all along.
Esquire Magazine is soon to publish John Sack's long-in-the-making article on Revisionism, featuring photographs and interviews of some Revisionists like David Irving, Dr. Robert Countess, Charles Provan, Ingrid Rimland and Ernst Zündel.
Why not Arthur Butz, Mark Weber, Germar Rudolf or Robert Faurisson, the heavyweight of Revisionism? Ernst Zundel turns poetic: "I fear a smear," he says.