Three good pieces of news:
First, from the David Irving site:
April 26, 2001
OXFORD UNION debate latest: Cherwell, the Oxford University newspaper, confirms that Richard Rampton QC has chickened out of the Union debate with David Irving, on the pretext that he cannot discuss the trial. We recall that his client Lipstadt also refused to enter the witness box, and both of them feared exposing Auschwitz "survivors" to cross- examination by Mr Irving, as Lipstadt admits to author D.D. Guttenplan.
British newspapers and magazines like The New Statesman are clamouring for the right to cover the historic debate; university officials are refusing to waive the "no press" rule.
Oxford Union officials are worried by Anti-Nazi League (ANAL) threats of criminal violence and the boast that they will prevent Mr Irving from entering the building on May 10; the city police are in two minds, the University Marshal has spoken out against the debate, and the National Union of Students is encouraging violence on its website. Mr Irving told two student reporters yesterday afternoon that it will be a bad day for university traditions if the Oxford Union bows to intimidation. "I am not frightend of ANAL," he said, "or anybody else for that matter." The London appeal against the perverse Lipstadt Judgment begins on June 20.
The Big One
THE FIGHTING FUND:
David Irving reports: Yesterday's mail brought a whopping total of $4,130, with contributions from Australia, Thailand, North America and Germany. Everybody is personally thanked by myself, but this message is just to say once again, before you get that letter --- a big Thank You.
WE have now passed the one-third mark on the way to our quarter-million dollar target for the legal Fighting Fund against Deborah Lipstadt and her cronies.
Second item:
The Hungarian parliament refused to discuss measures which would make Holocaust denial a punishable offense, with officials stressing that such a move threatened freedom of speech.
Do you agree? do you disagree? There is a poll being taken, and when I went there to check, it was 71.9% in favor of no punishable offense, and 23.3 feeling censorship would be okay. Almost 5% had no opinion.
Go and put your vote on record at http:// www.europeaninternet.com/poll.php3
Final item:
After the Internet was abuzz with the story that the Iranian leader had voiced his own opinion about the Holocaust as a political weapon, one of my scouts reported that there seemed to be a blackout of this news on TV and in the mainstream papers. This morning I learned that Le Monde in France, the most important paper, ran the following headline, to the joy of French Revisionists:
"Iranian President adopts Revisionist Line"
This is almost as good as seeing the headline that supposedly ran a few days ago - "...the Follies of Foxman"! If anyone has the reference for that one, I'd appreciate receiving it for later display in the Zündel Museum... :)
Thought for the Day:
"Just an observation: When the Polish government changed the plaque at Auschwitz from 4 million killed to 1.5 million - did the jews celebrate that a "miracle" had occurred? For in an instant 2.5 million "victims" were spared from the krema! (And apparently lived on to file for reparations from Germany!)"
(Letter to the Zundelsite)