January 3, 1998

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

The mood is palpable to all those who have not yet lost the capacity to sense the nuances of political life unfolding - there is a new breeze blowing in the land of the intellect.

In the affairs of man, and in the life of cultures and movements, changes take place which are at first subtle, and which only the most culturally attuned or politically astute perceive while they are talking place.

That is the way it has been with this movement now known to the world as Historical Revisionism - this disciplined scholarly attempt of a handful of scholars and thinkers, paired with a deeply felt, intense conviction that it behooves a new millennium to replace forgeries with facts.

It used to be that the proponents of the idea to rewrite history - based on facts and not self-serving, stale war propaganda - were pilloried, shouted down, silenced and ridiculed at every turn. Revisionists were the new witches of this Age of the Cunning Book Burners and Inquisitors of the Intellect.

No more.

Not that it doesn't happen now and then to individuals who choose to make themselves known as the vanguards, but even those who still believe the old formula of sanctimonious terror still applies now find themselves at a loss as to reconcile their censorship attempts under the old, tattered flag of liberal pretensions.

The Internet saw the first battles, when Revisionist websites were abruptly canceled, service providers were leaned on, pressured and blackmailed by large customers and self-appointed censors to refuse service to politically incorrect sites, and people like Ernst Zundel, Marc Lemire, Bradley Smith and some lesser known freedom fighters were blocked, canceled, sabotaged, e-mail-bombed and ultimately put on government indexes and dragged into courts and before the newest predatory industry, these so-called "Human Rights Tribunals."

Except for special cases still meant as precedents where vindictiveness runs rampant in the face of every legal maxim, and where websites such as mine are in danger of being bullied off the net, in general these turbulent days seem to be over. High-quality Revisionist websites have proliferated like magic mushrooms after a warm spring rain. The enemies of intellectual freedom and unfettered inquiries, such as the ADL and the Simon Wiesenthal Center, now wail and ring their hands at the rapidly expanding number of nationalist websites all over the world, with links upon links upon links.

Of special interest to us at the cusp of this heady time is the Belgian website ( http://www.vho.org/) which focuses the movement of greatest relevance to Europe. We submit this URL to you with the usual proviso that we neither endorse nor promote each and every word or item posted on this site, or on the sites linked to this newest multi-language flagship - and that we simply say: "Look, read, and judge the content for yourself!"

Meanwhile, the Simon Wiesenthal Center is sending around thousands of CDs, which they claim show the major "hate sites" - translated, sites they have chosen to hate! - because many of them spill the beans on the activities of these self-appointed rabbinical censors and their entrenched ghetto mentality.

Courtesy of those who would take the world back to the confines of the dark days of the Inquisition, this means free advertising for dissident sites, all grouped for convenience of surfing!

The mood has changed. A breezy wind is blowing. It seems so simple to state this, and yet it is profound.

Those of us in the forefront of Revisionism find thirsting minds and never-ending questions spread before us like a carpet, all ready to burst into bloom. People are beginning to grasp what it ***means*** that they and their parent generation have been deceived, lied to, stifled, and taken unfair advantage of by clever spin doctors and media information managers in the employ of the ruling orthodoxy and political oligarchy, and they now look at their chains of yesterday with clear and often angry eyes.

Those on the inside ***know*** that the so-called Holocaust is now as stale as yesterday's news, and they are focusing on the intellectual ferment, even the righteous anger, of people who know they have been deliberately exploited for the basest of motives by mainstream writers and academics. The once seemingly solid, impenetrable walls of ignorance and suspicion are crumbling before the steady erosion of wave after wave of facts after facts, washing away the foundations of quicksand upon which the propaganda lies of yesterday were built.

The Rabbi Hiers, the Abe Foxmans, the Mike Wallaces, the Deborah Lipstadts are like the proverbial Dutch, trying to plug the ever-increasing numbers of holes and leaks in the dike, with only ten fingers to their hands. They may as well try to sweep back the inrushing tide with their worn-out brooms of censorship!

The heady scent of Liberation through Information can be perceived everywhere. - for a new dawn in human history is rising.

The marvel and near-magic of the "people's medium", the Internet, is liberating millions who only yesterday lived in the shackles of the mind and blinked in confusion at a dimly perceived reality. The Age of Truth is about to break like a mighty cloudburst - and wash away the last remnants of misperceptions of the Age of Lies in mighty torrents for the millions of minds set free at last by clarity.

The battle cry of 1998 is going to be "Truth to the People!", for there is truly nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has finally come.

Ingrid

Thought for the Day:

"What we are experiencing are the birth pangs of a new age."

(Rudolf Hess, written to his wife from Spandau Prison)

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