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!

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!

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.

Extreme free speech

Source:  The Guardian
by James Ball / November 16, 2007

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.

Lithuania suspects prominent Israeli Holocaust researcher of war crimes during WWII

Source:  http://www.interfax-news.com/3/312115/news.aspx

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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

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