ThoughtCrime: 07/04/96
Bradley Smith's Website is Shut Down
As the first seconds of July 4, 1996 ticked away, the Bradley R. Smith
/ CODOH (Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust) website was shutdown
from the World Wide Web. The Bradley R. Smith Website was dedicated to the
cause of Free Speech and especially encouraged open debate on the topic
of the Holocaust.
Bradley R. Smith had received uninterrupted service from Valleynet Communications,
his web provider. Valleynet was recently purchased by a larger company,
ProtoSource Corporation. For various reasons the Valleynet name was being
dropped and changed to ProtoSource Network. On the morning of July 4th,
ProtoSource Network shut down the Bradley Smith Website and discontinued
Smith's email account without notice or explanation. ProtoSource Network's
homepage can be accessed at http://www.psnw.com.
The Bradley R. Smith website had been instrumental in battling censorship
of politically incorrect ideas. The website ran a large Censorship page
which featured numerous articles on the topic of Internet Censorship. The
website was part of the Internet's Blue Ribbon Free Speech Campaign. The
website also featured the unique ThoughtCrimes Archive which documented
persecution and hate crimes directed against historical revisionists.
The Website received national attention recently by combatting censorship
in the United States by posting the introduction to British historian, David
Irving's controversial volume, Goebbels:
Mastermind of the Third Reich. The publication of this volume was
cancelled by St. Martin's Press after having received numerous threats.
Bradley Smith was also instrumental in making Roger Garaudy's maligned
volume, The Founding Myths of Israeli
Politics available for all to read in its original
French and the first English translation.
The Bradley R. Smith website had just begun the posting of this important
work in English, the only place in the world where this translation was
available. Garaudy is currently under investigation in France for having
written this volume.
The latest project to combat international censorship was the posting
of Grundlagen zur Zeitgeschichte.
Grundlagen is a collaboration by the world's leading revisionists
featuring scientific documentation which casts doubt on the traditional
holocaust story. The editor of this volume was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment
in Germany and a judge recently ruled (June 6, 1996) that all copies of
this book be burned.
Bradley Smith has been a long time advocate of free speech. In 1960-61
he was arrested and convicted for selling Henry Miller's Topic of Cancer.
"Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death."
George Orwell
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