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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