Update from David Irving
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Sat Apr 21 17:01:18 EDT 2007
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David Irving in his old Irving style:
April 7, 2007 (Saturday)
London (England)
I AM TOLD that in today's Times (April 7) the poo-obsessed Times
columnist Giles Coren has revealed that his doctor has told him that
he produces an excess of bile. His writings about me of late suggest
that he had no real need to seek medical expertise to learn this.
MORE seriously, the German Government has quietly admitted that over
the last twelve months it prosecuted over 18,000 Germans for offences
of "right-wing extremism," of which only a few hundred involved
actual violence: i.e. they prosecuted over seventeen thousand
thought-crimes -- people unwitting displaying the old swastika
emblem, or even worse, National Socialist ideas, and perhaps even
"denying the H."
As the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung recently pointed out in a
courageous editorial, most of these new criminal records have been
sprung on ordinary citizens blissfully unaware of the criminality of
their actions and thoughts, because the tame German media are too
cowardly to report any of these cases -- even the major trials like
those involving the revisionists Ernst Zündel and Germar Rudolf.
These absurd laws themselves are protected by fresh layers of other,
even more absurd, laws making it impossible even for court-appointed
attorneys to provide an adequate and conscientious defence to those
accused under the thought-crime laws. Any German or Austrian lawyer
who does, can be -- and frequently is -- himself ordered arrested by
the judge, for having associated himself with these criminal thoughts
and deeds. Zündel's court-appointed defence attorney Sylvia Stolz
(right) made herself unpopular with the prosecutor for "hampering the
prosecution," and is now to be prosecuted for so hampering. Go
figure, as the Americans say.
More than once my chosen Austrian lawyer, Dr Herbert Schaller, left,
arrived in the Vienna prison with fresh horror tales from Zündel's
Mannheim courtroom -- the judge Meinerzhagen had warned him that if
he asked certain questions of the court, or made certain defence
motions, he too would be arrested.
I remember that in January 1993, when I was tried in Munich under
Germany's laws for the suppression of free speech, one of my three
lawyers turned up apologetically on the morning of the hearing
apologizing that he could not continue to act for me, as the Munich
Bar Association had threatened him with dismissal -- i.e. the end of
his career -- if he did. He showed me their actual letter. I was
fined thirty thousand deutschmarks, around twenty thousand dollars,
for uttering a single sentence which the Polish authorities now
belatedly admit was true.
I NOTICED when I was in Viennese prison that the jailhouse, built to
hold eight hundred malfeasors, currently held 1,400 inmates, a
quarter of them Blacks. It was a tight fit but it was possible,
provided we did not all breathe at the same time.
This morning I have received a letter from Frau K., an elderly
Viennese lady in her nineties. Exercising what is the constitutional
right of every citizen in most other countries, on September 27 of
last year she had written a personal letter to the President of
Austria, one Herbert Fischer -- a small, straw-haired gentleman of
even smaller character and endowed with all the intellect and bearing
of Lady Chatterley's gardener -- to protest against my arrest, trial,
and imprisonment. "What D. I. said was right," she wrote in one
passage of this incriminating letter.
She received no presidential reply? Right. -- She heard no more? Wrong.
On March 8 the Austrian criminal authorities sent her a letter fining
her the sum of 200 euros under penalty of jail for having written
these seditious words to their august president. No trial, no
hearing, no defence -- no lawyer would have dared to defend her
anyway.
This is the new Europe, coming soon to a jailhouse near us. I for one
shall do my damndest to prevent it.
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