Month: February 1998

Garaudy fined $40,000 in France

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell A Paris court ordered French philosopher Roger Garaudy to pay 240,000 francs ($40,000) for challenging the existence of homicidal gas chambers in his book, The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics. Garaudy, an 84-year-old convert to Islam, was found guilty of breaking a 1990 law that makes…

Detractors of Pamphlet Don't Offer Concrete Evidence, Says Revisionist Bradley R. Smith

The Phoenix reports that President Bloom (“himself Jewish”) states that I wrote my article “The Holocaust Controversy: The Case for Open Debate” to “express [my] personal prejudices,” and that I have an “anti-Semitic agenda,” a small-minded ad hominum assault that I dismiss out of hand. It's the kind of thing you overhear in your local…

How Fahrenheit 451 Trends Threaten Intellectual Freedom

In 1952, Harry Elmer Barnes wrote a timely article, "How 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' Trends Threaten American Peace, Freedom, and Prosperity" as the final chapter of the classic revisionist anthology, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace. Barnes analyzed George Orwell's classic novel as a work of prophecy and sounded the alarm to reverse the "1984" trends prevalent in…

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