Revisionist update

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Sun Nov 18 14:07:21 EST 2007


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Here is a smorgasbord of bits and pieces of Revisionist news, good 
and bad.  Not all of it is referenced - I am simply passing on what 
was sent to my website.  If you need the source, try Google with an 
unusual phrase.  Don't ask me to do it - my own computer crawls!

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Preface:

To put it simply, the freedom of inquiry and freedom of speech  are 
in grave danger throughout the West, in the face of the  enormous 
historical slander that weighs on our societies. With its  gigantic 
political and economic implications, going beyond the  formidable 
racket that it harbours, fosters and constantly  reactivates, this 
slander also threatens to demolish, both  psychologically and 
physically, our peoples and their historic  cultures.  Since July 
1990, the slander has been rigorously protected  in France by a 
specific law which, concocted by chief rabbi Joseph  Sirat and 
Socialist leader Laurent Fabius, was then presented in  parliament by 
Communist member Gayssot.

  Thanks to this law, the horror described by Orwell is now 
everywhere! A striking sign is the monomaniacal self-censorship of 
teachers and professors, politicians, journalists and media people 
in general and of our self-proclaimed historians (academics who  have 
gained their distinction only through baseness and cowardice).  For 
them, in these times, it's better to lie and slander than to 
approach the truth and historical exactitude, which have become the 
great taboo!

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Vincent Reynouard, a well-known French revisionist, and father of six 
children, has been sentenced by the court of Saverne (Alsace) to one 
year of prison and to pay 10,000 Euro fine, 3,000 Euro to the LICRA 
organization, a Jewish outfit, as well as 150 Euro each to two 
individuals. He also has to bear court costs. Reynouard is appealing 
the conviction.

  Reynouard, 38, who lives in Belgium, was convicted for writing a 
16-page pamphlet in 2005 entitled "Holocaust? The Hidden Facts."  The 
work, sent to museums and city halls across France,  described as "an 
old propaganda theme" the death of six million Jews during World War 
II, saying such an extermination was "impossible."

It is the heaviest sentence handed down to date for Holocaust denial in France.

Reynouard is a teacher of physics and mathematics living in exile in 
Belgium, following his exclusion from the state school system in 1996 
and harsh convictions in French courts for his writing.

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Extreme free speech by James Ball / November 16, 2007 - The Guardian

  Oxford University students are a bitterly divided bunch of late. 
Luke Tryl, president of the Oxford Union, has invited BNP leader Nick 
Griffin and "controversial historian" David Irving to speak at a free 
speech event on the November 26. A spirited campaign against the 
invitations has run for several weeks, and has led Tryl to announce a 
referendum of all Oxford Union members on whether to let these 
invitations stand.

  Campaigning is fervent: the student union, Labour club, Jewish 
society, Islamic society and Unite Against Fascism have all united to 
oppose the invitations. They are holding a public rally on Tuesday.

  It's tempting to dismiss the whole furore as typical student 
politics: life and death to the few involved, and totally irrelevant 
to everyone else. On one level, this would be correct. The Oxford 
Union is a student debating society, counting around two-thirds of 
Oxford students as members - though fewer than half of these 
regularly attend events. It certainly has no power to make any kind 
of meaningful decisions. However, its symbolism makes the row rather 
more significant.

  The Oxford Union has long been a bastion of freedom of speech in the 
UK. When the union passed the iconic 1933 motion that "This House 
would under no circumstances fight for its king and country" it 
spread shockwaves through the nation. Though the union no longer 
carries quite so much weight, it remains the most high-profile 
debating chamber in the country after Westminster itself. Allowing 
holders of such extreme views as Griffin and Irving to speak is a 
powerful statement.

  However, defending the invitation to Irving and Griffin is not the 
same as defending their views. Nick Griffin was for many years a 
member of the National Front. An undercover investigation  by the BBC 
recorded him referring to Islam as a "wicked vicious faith" founded 
by "cranky extremists". The inability of police to use incitement to 
racial hatred laws to prosecute Griffin  was given as a reason for 
the government's introduction of incitement to religious hatred laws.

   David Irving is similarly distasteful. In a libel ruling in 2000, 
Mr Justice Gray found Irving "is an active Holocaust denier; that he 
is anti-Semitic and racist and that he associates with right-wing 
extremists who promote neo-Nazism". He spent around 10 months in 2006 
in prison in Austria for "trivialising the Holocaust". He addressed a 
far-right rally in Hungary as recently as March this year.

  It is important that those supporting the right of Griffin and 
Irving to speak do not try to portray the men as anything different 
to what they are.  The university newspaper, Cherwell, said in a news 
article this term that Irving had acknowledged the Holocaust had 
occurred "for over a decade" - and ran this statement unchallenged. 
Given the publicly available rulings and evidence, this is a grave 
oversight. The Cherwell editors are supporting  Griffin and Irving's 
right to speak. This should not lead them to print the views of these 
men unchallenged.

  One of the best reasons for allowing extremists' free speech is that 
isolation risks making them free speech martyrs. The BNP are a 
legitimate political party in the United Kingdom, with 56 
councillors, concentrated largely in several cities in the north of 
England. When no political party will engage publicly with the BNP, 
their views are spread unchallenged, and they continue to win votes 
and seats.

  Denying the BNP the oxygen of publicity is not working. While the 
mainstream ignores their views they gain kudos, a sense that "this is 
what they don't want you to know". Like Tryl, I am from an area in 
which the BNP are active and successful. As the BNP continue to grow 
there will eventually come a point at which they cannot be ignored. 
The sooner their assertions are challenged, ridiculed, and any lies 
are exposed, the sooner their growth will cease.

  The argument is a moral one too. There has been no dictatorship that 
refused to grant free speech to its supporters. Free speech is only a 
challenge when it's being granted to people you disagree with. If we 
deny Griffin and Irving the right to free speech - one of the most 
basic and fundamental human rights - we are wide open to the charge 
of hypocrisy if we ever accuse them of abusing the human rights of 
others.

  Free speech in the UK is not unrestricted. Incitement to terrorism, 
religious or racial hatred can all lead to up to seven years in 
prison. Whatever your views on these laws, they are active and on the 
statute books.

  They do not give anyone the right to censor another's speech "just 
in case" it will incite others to violence. It does give the law the 
chance to bring swift and punitive retribution to anyone who does 
incite such violence.

  If anyone in Oxford believes that Griffin or Irving would use a 
platform like the Oxford Union to incite violence against minorities, 
then they would be best to attend the event with a notebook, or 
better yet a Dictaphone. If they say anything that could incite 
others to violence, then valuable evidence has been obtained against 
them. If they do not, we have no business interfering with their 
right to speak.

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/james_ball/2007/11/extreme_free_speech.html

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  Lithuania suspects prominent Israeli Holocaust researcher of war 
crimes  during WWII

  VILNIUS. Sept 11 (Interfax) - Lithuania has requested that the 
Israeli authorities facilitate the questioning of prominent historian 
and Holocaust researcher Yitzhak Arad regarding his partisan past 
during World War II and his supposed subsequent service for the 
Soviet NKVD security police.

  "The pretrial investigation documents of this criminal case include 
enough data to assume that the suspect Yitzhak Arad might have 
committed criminal deeds in Lithuania," the Lithuanian Prosecutor 
General's Office said in a press release.

  According to the Lithuanian prosecution authorities, Arad joined a 
Soviet partisan squad while Lithuania was occupied by Nazi Germany 
and then served with the NKVD. He is suspected of involvement in 
executions of Lithuanian civilians and members of the anti-Soviet 
resistance movement, the statement says.

  Following WWII, Arad served for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and 
was promoted to brigadier general. After retirement in 1972, he 
became a historian and a Holocaust researcher. He was the director of 
Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Authority, for 21 years 
from 1972 to 1991.

  http://www.interfax-news.com/3/312115/news.aspx

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   Internet Expert Bernard Klatt wins 2007 George Orwell Award

  VICTORIA , Western Canada:  One of Canada 's top Internet experts, 
Bernard Klatt , is the 2007 George Orwell award recipient. This is an 
award from the Canadian Free Speech league.

Bernard Klatt is a lifelong defender of freedom of speech in Canada 
and has been certified as an expert before courts and tribunals in 
Canada .

Most recently, Bernard Klatt testified for three days as an Internet 
Expert in the major Internet censorship case of Marc Lemire in 
Toronto .

Bernard Klatt has also testified in:

The Ernst Zundel human rights case ( Toronto ),
The Glenn Bahr Section 13 case in Edmonton , Alberta
The John Micka case
and the "www.BCWhitePride.Com" case in Pentiction , British Columbia .

Back in 1995 and 1996, Bernard Klatt , was the target of an ongoing 
harassment campaign by Sol Littman and the Simon Wiesenthal Centre 
due to content of websites on his ISP - Fairview Technology Centre - 
FTCnet.com. No one in Canada deserves more to be recognized for his 
accomplishments and dedication to freedom than Bernard Klatt .

The award presented by the Battling Barrister and Victoria Lawyer 
Douglas Christie .  The award read:  "For outstanding courage, 
expertise and integrity, in pursuit of Internet freedom for all."

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  Spanish Court Stands Up to PC Tyranny /   by Ian Mosley / Altermedia

  At a time when our Rights as Americans are being erased one-by-one 
in the name of "fighting terrorism," a court in Spain has stood up 
for free speech.

Most of the news coming out of Europe these days is very bad. Massive 
non-white immigration, declining white birth rates, and terrible Iron 
Heel persecution of anyone who dares to protest against unlimited 
Third World immigration-and above all, merciless suppression of 
anyone who dares to question the 21st century's secular religion, the 
Holocaust myth and the guilt-driven industry that thrives on it.

But now there is a glimmer of light in the European darkness.

Global Fire reports: "On November 7, 2007 Spain's Constitutional 
Court ruled on the case of Pedro Varela, the well known Spanish human 
rights activist and publisher. Pedro Varela was sentenced initially 
(Nov. 16, 1998) to five years in prison by a Barcelona court for 
selling books that were considered to contain articles of race hate 
and Holocaust denial. In fact, they were books that disputed certain 
aspects of the modern holocaust dogma.

  On April 30, 1999, the highest appeal court of Catalonia overturned 
the verdict and denounced the original verdict, as well as the law 
the verdict was based on, (article 607.2 Spanish penal code) as 
illegal. Three judges came to the unanimous conclusion that such a 
law violates human rights by depriving every individual from his or 
her basic human rights (UN-Charter, Article 19)."

  The Spanish government in turn appealed. On November 8th, the 
Spanish daily El Mundo reported that the nation's Constitutional 
Court has struck down Spain's Holocaust Denial law.

In one European country, at least, the nightmare may be over.

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According to a German website, "Junge Freiheit", Günter Bertram, a 
well-known German judge and former chief judge of the Hamburg 
regional court, expressed approval of the recent Spanish 
constitutional court decision overturning Spain's law against 
"Holocaust" denial.

He believes revisionism is entitled to freedom of expression and 
hopes that other countries, instead of expressing indignation, rather 
pause to reflect on this problem using Spain as an example.

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Will the emotional extortion and guilt-tripping never end?

According to Der Spiegel, the citizens of the Federal Republic of 
Germany will be subjected to yet another Holocaust Exhibition.

A 'Train of Commemoration' Sets Off on a 6-Month Journey to 
Auschwitz.  Dedicated to the World War II  deportation of children 
and young people, it will visit 30 cities between Frankfurt and its 
final destination.  It is made up of a vintage 1921 locomotive and 
four train cars holding commemorative items, such as maps, 
chronologies, letters, laws and regulations, and other official 
documents.   It will wind through mostly southern German towns.

The question of how to commemorate the role of the German railway 
system in the Holocaust sparked controversy in October 2006. At the 
time, Germany's Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee wanted to show 
an exhibition organized by well-known anti-Nazi campaigner Beate 
Klarsfeld in the country's railway stations. The exhibition, entitled 
"11,000 Jewish Children: With the Reichsbahn to Death," had already 
been successfully shown in a number of French railway stations.

But the head of Deutsche Bahn, Germany's state-owned national 
railway, Hartmut Mehdorn, refused to allow the exhibit in train 
stations, citing financial, organizational and technical reasons.

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An Appeal from the  GEORGES THEIL Support Committee

  Now under the crushing strain of French court rulings ordering him 
to pay fines and damages totalling more than 100,000 euros (or 
nearly 150,000 US dollars), rulings that may well force, towards  the 
end of November 2007, his actual imprisonment for six months,  our 
friend Georges Theil has earned those judgments merely from  writing 
and circulating a few dozen copies of an autobiographical  work with 
a calling into question of the "truths" imposed by the  victorious 
Allies in their sham of a "trial" at Nuremberg in  1945-1946, and 
from having again questioned the same "truths"  verbally in a local 
television interview broadcast some time  afterwards.

With no personal wealth, he is in need of your support  and the 
support of all who value freedom of expression, historical  truth and 
exactitude.

But some free minds have taken it upon themselves to stand up 
against the enforcers of this law, the courts, which, in France,  now 
set out the "historical truth" - an unbelievable  regression to 
organisations that are accomplices to the slander. In  so doing these 
brave people want to bear witness, at the risk of  being ruined and 
sent to prison. They think the sacrifice may set  off a decisive 
revolt against submission and enslavement. Georges  Theil is among 
them, as are Professor Robert Faurisson, Vincent  Reynouard, Germar 
Rudolf, Ernst Zündel, Fredrick Toben and dozens  of others, 
essentially in Europe. In his autobiographical book,  Georges Theil, 
retired executive of a large public firm, has taken  the risk and 
testified the truth, standing up to his own country's  supine justice 
system.

If you have understood this message and heard this call for help, 
and if you yourself want to take a stand against submission and 
enslavement, then please support Georges Theil by sending financial 
(or other) assistance to his Support Committee. Contact

Georges Theil Support Committee
6, rue Gallice
F-38100 Grenoble
France

e-mail : gmtheva at yahoo.fr

  (cheques to the order of Georges Theil, full discretion assured)

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