Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

• From one of the stellar Censorship Busters, who mans a Global Censorship Buster List for Internet freedom fighters around the world, many of whom are journalists with magnificent credentials and amazing track records in the finest publicatios:
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• (May 17, 1996) "Our censorhappy friends at the Simon Wiesenthal Center are at it again, though this time these self-appointed net.cops are going after a student at Northwestern University. At least the Wiesenthalers are predictable -- they've tried this trick at many other universities before.
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• Here are news bulletins from The Chronicle of Higher Education , for Friday, May 17.
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• THE SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER, a human-rights group based in California, on Thursday asked Northwestern University to remove a World-Wide Web page from its computers because the document promotes the idea that the Holocaust never happened.
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• Actually, although this hasn't yet been verified, it seems that it is not a "student" but Dr. Arthur Butz who wrote The Hoax of the 20th Century! This ought to get extremely interesting because you don't easily touch tenured professors if you know the academic life."
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• An enterprising Austrian wrote this:
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• "You gave me an idea:
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• Maybe I find some sentences in (the Goldhagen book) which smears Austrians as well - generally. Then I will get a court order to get this book banned here in Austria. I guess Germans are an ethnic group and if they are all criminals, the law should work both ways.
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• This order is called "einstweilige Verfügung" and it will stop this book for a few years.
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• (Also), a colleague of mine has written an open letter to 300 judges here, papers and politicians proving that the Zyclon-B gassing was a big swindle. You can guess: Not one answer was sent back-and this man is still free. "
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• From Switzerland, via CODOH International:
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• Doing our best to combat the modern day Omars, CODOH is proud to present: "L'HOLOCAUSTE AU SCANNER" by Jürgen Graf in its entirety. This appears in the CODOH International section in French.
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• By an order of December 19, 1994 taken by the French minister of the Interior, "L'Holocauste au scanner" was banned in France. Considered to be a danger to public order, it can no longer be circulated, distributed or sold in that country.
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• Jürgen Graf, a Swiss author, was born in 1951. He is a teacher of classics. This book, which is a shortened version of a much wider book of the same author, "Der Holocaust Schwindel" ["The Holocaust Fraud"], is a summary of the major revisionist arguments through 1992.
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• The text is well-written and intelligent. It's an excellent course in Revisionism 101. The original German version may be ordered from Guideon Burg Verlag, Postfach 52, CH-4009 Basel (Switzerland). Also available from the same editor, the expanded version called: "Der Holocaust Schwindel."
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• (Sidebar: I met Jürgen Graf two years ago, and was I ever in awe, being multilingual myself! The man speaks some 8 languages with almost perfect control and, I would guess, another half a dozen partially.)
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• From Canada: (from our Reluctant Revisionist, Doug Collins of the North Shore News, a former British soldier fighting in World War II):
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• THE FUEHRER of the Nasty Democratic Party missed an opportunity last Tuesday. He could have promised to have his Human Rights Police do a lot more in suppressing free speech. I see that the German and the French governments have been asking for loose talk in pubs be made a criminal offence. They also want to make "holocaust denial" worth a jail sentence in England, as it is already in Germany and France.
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• The British have refused to go along with this advance in thought control. Pity. It would have been nice to see a man who had won the Victoria Cross fighting against the Nazis sent to jail for saying the wrong thing. . .
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• Nothing much has changed (in Germany) except that the emphasis is now different. Where once it was dangerous to be in opposition to the (Hitler) regime, it is now dangerous to deny what the regime did.
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• Topsy, meet Turvy."
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• From France:
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• 4.5.1996 Le Monde Page 8 (From an interview with Pierre Vidal-Naquet, translated)
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• LM: "Might Abbe Pierre's demand for a symposion of historians (to discuss Revisionist findings) not lead to the result that "Negationism" is carried into the public domain?"
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• Pierre Vidal-Naquet: "Of course, that's why we refuse this demand with all the strength at our command. The day when the gentlemen Revisionists are accepted for an open debate on television or in a symposium of historians, they will have won the game; they will have been accepted as a discipline.
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• And that has to be ruthlessly suppressed."
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• From Germany:
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• Die Welt, ( 3. 5. 1996, page 4, translated)
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• "Within the historical argument, truth or falsehood are less important than good and bad, one of the casualties being that scientific principles lose out."
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• Süddeutsche Zeitung, (4. 5. 1996, page 13, translated)
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• As to the theme Holocaust, you can be sure that it will be around, Goldhagen and Klemperer notwithstanding. It is less a question of morality than money. . .
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• In France, Abbe Pierre is considered a saint. He saved many Jews during World War II. Politicians (and) Jewish organizations used him for decoration. Now that he asks for debate on the Holocaust, he has been cursed.
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• The Revisionists ask for debate. They are eager to put their facts up for public scrutiny. Why do the Holocaust officials have so little confidence in their own facts . . . ?
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Hold that instructive thought! A good guess is it will come up again.

Ingrid

Thought for the Day:

"Sanity is madness put to good use."

George Santayanna

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