In Belgium there lives an American exile, Carlos W. Porter, who is to be sentenced by a German Court in absentia for publishing truthful but ludicrous excerpts of the Nuremberg Trial transcripts as they were reproduced by the Allies after the trials were over. Some of the transcripts reproduced by Carlos Porter are on the Zundelsite in five languages.
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Here is Carlos Porter's final statement to the German Court, sent on March 17, 1998 by fax twice to the Landesgericht, and twice to the Oberlandesgericht, to make sure that they cannot claim that his statement is not conveniently "lost".
"May It Please the Court:
In civilized countries it is the custom to allow a defendant to make a final statement to the court prior to sentencing.
The Nuremberg Trial transcript is 14,638 pages long in German alone, much of it in small print. I have read this material, and evidently you have not.
I have provided approximately 1,000 exact references to both the American and German transcripts. The pagination and format are not the same; it can be almost impossible to find certain things in the German, even if you know where it is in the English, and vice versa.
I have also read the British transcript, which is much shorter. There are many discrepancies.
All references were completely revised and corrected prior to printing; all page numbers are given twice, according to the German and American transcripts.
I defy you, or anyone else, to find one single error in any of the references quoted in NICHT SCHULDIG IN NUERNBE RG. I refuse to be dictated to by people who have not read this material, and who have no idea what it contains.
I refuse to be deprived of a basic right which belongs to everyone else in the world as a matter of course: the right to freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
I retract nothing; I regret nothing. I fear nothing. I stand by the contents of my letters to the court dated 7 January, 10 March, 1 July, 1 September, 5 September, and 7 November 1997. I stand by the contents of my letter to Christian Ude.
If you fine me, I will not pay it; if you put me in prison, I will go on hunger strike like Bobby Sands.
I defy your authority and I refuse to comply with any order to do anything.
I am not afraid of you; I fear the future if I do nothing. That is all.
Faithfully,
CARLOS W. PORTER
Thought for the Day:
". . . there is a new brand of Jew alive today that believes that G-d gave the Jew power, and that power needs to be used and exercised...there will be no changes unless we decide to take history into our own hands."
((Dr. Israel Singer, Secretary General of the World Jewish Congress, The Jewish Press, February 20, 1998)