I am postponing a summary of yesterday's CHR Tribunal hearings, which bought Ernst Zundel a ***very*** nice victory, of which more details will be available tomorrow, in order to bring you this newsflash, sent to me by one of the Zundelsite supporters:
"David Irving is on a speaking tour of the western United States. He has been booked to speak at Washington State University. This place is so far out in the toolies that there isn't even a Hillel Foundation.
"Because of this, the rag called a newspaper in Pulman has taken upon itself the job of trying to get the meeting shut down. They do it hammering away in the front page as if he is some kind of terrorist.
"This tactic was used the last time he visited Seattle. For weeks prior to the meeting, the weekly and to some extent the TV stations and daily Newspapers published scare articles about him.
"At the present the U is hanging in and the event is still on. The U is forcing the student promoters to pay hundreds of dollars for the U to provide security for the meeting. In addition to the security costs, the University charges them 450 dollars for the hall.
"Would they charge the Garden Club 450 dollars for security? Of course not.
"It is obvious that this was just a cheap trick to price the meeting out of their range. But it didn't work. Somehow they are getting donations or will accept donations to help defray the cost of the meeting. The meeting should be a big one."
And from the student, {NAME DELETED BY REQUEST] (Net Name L. Pauling), one of the most courageous young Revisionists in the United States who is co-organizing the meeting:
Friends,
"Some of you may already know, but we have made the Front-Page Headline in today's Moscow-Pullman Daily News (the area's largest newspaper)."
"We will be Front-Page Headline in tomorrow's Daily Evergreen, WSU's paper, but I have not yet seen the article."
Here are excerpts from the newspaper article itself, titled "'Mild fascist' booked to speak at WSU; 'Hitler apologist' to visit following week against hate" by Ted McDonough:
"Referred to in the English press as a 'Hitler apologist,' English author David Irving is touring the West Coast. Scheduled to appear Sunday in Seattle, and in Portland on April 19, Irving is squeezing WSU into his schedule under the sponsorship of a WSU senior. (...)
"Called 'the propagandists' poster boy' by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith because some of his books have been published by the mainstream press, Irving has referred to himself as "a mild fascist."
"He is referred to by the ADL as being among a group of Holocaust revisionists, groups and individuals dedicated to rewriting the history of the death of Jews at the hands of Hitler.
"Banned from Canada in 1992 and Australia in 1993, Irving has made frequent appearances before far-right groups. His most famous book is "Hitler's War," which, according to the ADL, argues Hitler did not order the killing of Europe's Jews.
"According to the ADL, Irving was fined by a Munich court in 1992 for violating Germany's hate crime laws by asserting that Auschwitz gas chambers were constructed after the war as a tourist attraction.
"Larry Fox, a member of a recently-formed Pullman anti-hate group, said he had 'mixed emotions' about the scheduled talk by Irving, with whom Fox was not familiar. Fox sees the potential for 'fomenting hatred' in the event, but said he wouldn't want to promote censorship. 'Who censors the censor?' Fox asks.
"Bringing Irving to WSU is {NAME DELETED BY REQUEST], a senior who has spent much of his time at WSU maintaining a site on the university's Web server dedicated to denying the Holocaust.
"A psychology major, {NAME DELETED BY REQUEST] said he has dedicated a large portion of his WSU career to a fringe historical study and spent money from his own pocket to bring Irving to campus in order to fight academic censorship and promote the free flow of ideas.
"But {NAME DELETED BY REQUEST] has another reason for his dedication. 'I've seen Jewish political aims furthered by this tragedy of history that we see, and I don't think that is fair,' he said. {NAME DELETED BY REQUEST] describes himself as fighting a global battle against Jewish political groups while reviving the tarnished reputation of Germans who lived during Hitler's Third Reich.
"Few WSU students openly embrace his cause, {NAME DELETED BY REQUEST] said, but {NAME DELETED BY REQUEST] said he finds a community of like-minded students on the Internet who participate in his 'Student Revisionists' Resource Site' from the University of Washington, the University of Puget Sound and Central Washington University.
"'What kind of stokes the fire in me ... is when I publish on the Web page ... suddenly I get these e-mails from Jewish professors,' said {NAME DELETED BY REQUEST], who contacted the ACLU when WSU faculty attempted to assemble Web-page guidelines following publicity over {NAME DELETED BY REQUEST]'s web page. 'It makes me think this is a much bigger deal than just relying to me and my friends what's going on,' he said.
"It's as though vested national interests here and abroad have a stake in the general population believing a specific version of history. If suddenly it came out that the numbers dead at Auschwitz or at any of the other large camps were too large by 500 percent, there would be tremendous political ramifications. And I see those ramifications as being almost necessary because the benefits that are being reaped by the Jewish state of Israel and other political Jewish interests .....B'nai B'rith or the Simon Wiesenthal Center......are essentially an injustice.'"
added:
"After the article there was a 4"X4" insert which displayed the Internet addresses for CODOH, IHR, SRRS, and Focal Point Publications, as well as that for Nizkor and the ADL.
"Given the tone of the article, which was of course negative, still the URL's of a few key revisionist sites were given, and the advertising is a big plus. We couldn't buy that kind of advertising!"
And in a related letter:
"Friends,
"As you all know, David Irving will be speaking at WSU on Monday April 13th at 6pm in the CUB Auditorium at the heart of WSU's campus.
"The room and security for the event (which I just learned WE have to pay for), are not yet paid for. If this is going to happen, they must be paid for by the end of this week, Friday Afternoon.
"Mr. Irving has agreed to pay for the rental of the Auditorium ($441.00), but we still need to find a way to pay for police security (this is a requirement), which will cost an additional $480.00
"I know we can put this money together!!! What a shame it would be if we could not!
"We are already expecting an audience of 600+ (capacity for the facility) people, and this would provide a SIGNIFICANT breakthrough for Revisionism in the Northwest.
"Everyone, please, contact those you know who can and might be able to contribute.
The enemy has more than they can count. All we have is you guys! Only $480.00!!!!
"Contact me please and let me know what you can do."
If you can, PLEASE help these students out. Send your Revisionist shekls to:
[NAME DELETED BY REQUEST]
I know these students personally, and I know that they have struggled very hard in a sea of hostility to not only hang on to their convictions, but to spread the word that there exists an alternate version to history that isn't ADL/B'nai Brith prescribed.
If you can financially help these youngsters, PLEASE do so today! They need the money by Friday, and we need good speakers on American campuses. David Irving is a dynamo of a speaker. Just as said, this meeting will be a significant breakthrough that will make the enemies of speech do summersaults while gnashing teeth.
If for no other reason, do it because Jamie McCarthy has already made the usual Nizkor stink about a "Naziphilic mailing list" in "fight censorship" - where nobody likes him much either, because he talks of both sides of his mouth.
Ingrid
Thought for the Day:
"50 years after the war - long after people have buried their dead, started new lives, looked to the future - one group has decided to make it a part of their culture, recited in religious ceremony, pushing it into our living rooms, movie theaters, and written news.
They own these mediums. They have forced their cause into our culture, our government.
It has taken deep root, and only an alternative source of information will pull it out."
(Sent to the Zundelsite)