By David Merlin ∙ February 2, 2016
Michael Hoffman posted an interesting blog on All Saints Day regarding the sentencing of Irish artist Dermot Mulqueen. Mr. Mulqueen was sentenced to five months in jail for giving a lunchtime public performance on January 23rd 2015 where he put an axe through a TV at the Daniel O’Connell monument in Ennis town center. No…
By David Merlin ∙ October 21, 2015
German Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection Heiko Maas has announced that Facebook must obey German law even if free speech is curtailed: "Holocaust denial and inciting racial hatred are crimes in Germany, and it doesn't matter if they're posted on Facebook or uttered out in the public on the market square… Germany has…
By David Merlin ∙ November 11, 2015
You would think that a Court of "Human Rights" would defend the right of a comedian to make jokes with a biting social commentary, Right? Cartoons about Mohammed are ok, yes. Mocking Jesus Christ is humorous, of course. All France united to protest the Islamic attacks on the iconoclast magazine Charlie Hebdo. Correct? Well… think again. Europe…
By David Merlin ∙ November 3, 2015
In March 2014 the Smithsonian Institution ran a made-for-television pseudo-documentary called Treblinka-Hitler's Killing Machine. The TV special was ridiculous. One promotional clips was titled: “Excavating a Secret Gas Chamber: The watershed discovery of Star of David tiles confirms the existence of Treblinka’s gas chambers and becomes the key to reconstructing the death camp’s sinister workings.”…
By David Merlin ∙ October 10, 2015
(…continued from SR 216) As Judge Gray wrote: “Although Irving spent hardly any time in his cross-examination of van Pelt on the evidence that gassing took place elsewhere at Auschwitz, it is the Defendants’ case that gassing took place in other gas chambers, notably at crematorium 3.” Irving’s main objections were the Leuchter Report and…
By David Merlin ∙ October 10, 2015
Irving v. Lipstadt Trial for Movie Theaters, Part II2015-10-10David MerlinSmith's Report, no. 216, October 2015, pp. 5-7 (…continued from SR 215) Ms. Alison ThompsonMr. Mark GooderCornerstone Films, c/o Sunray Films12 Sunray Avenue Herne HillLondon, SE24 9PY[email protected]Tel: +44 (0)758 033 758 September 30, 2015 Re: The movie Denial and the historical facts of the Irving Trial…
By David Merlin ∙ September 8, 2015
Alison Thompson and Mark Gooder form Cornerstone Films Ms. Alison ThompsonMr. Mark GooderCornerstone Filmsc/o Sunray Films12 Sunray Avenue Herne HillLondonSE24 9PY[email protected]Tel: +44 (0)758 033 758 Hello Ms. Thompsonand Mr. Gooder I read that your company is handling international sales for a new movie based on Deborah Lipstadt’s book History on Trial: My Day in Court…
By David Merlin ∙ June 11, 2014
David Merlin Addresses the Smithsonian Institution with Regard to Its Program Titled “Treblinka: Hitler’s Killing Machine” Chancellor John G. Roberts Jr.Smithsonian InstitutionPO Box 37012SI Building, Room 153, MRC 010Washington, D.C. 20013-7012To Smithsonian Channel:[email protected] May 21, 2014 Dear Chancellor Roberts: I have long enjoyed Smithsonian magazine and admired the Smithsonian Institution. Therefore I feel constrained to…
By David Merlin ∙ May 14, 2014
Ms. Lori Lowenthal Marcus US CorrespondentThe Jewish Press 4915 16th Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11204NY Telephone Number718.330.1100Out-of-State Telephone 1.800.992.1600 02 April 2014 Dear Ms. Marcus, I am writing to comment on your review of The Jewish Gas Chamber Hoax where you write, "it sounds pretty much like old lies repackaged in a new format." http://tinyurl.com/p8lf5a8 While…
By David Merlin ∙ March 16, 2014
Los Angeles Times 202 W. 1st St.Los Angeles, CA 90012 Letters to the Editor[email protected]. 12 February 2014 I am writing to comment on a February 6th article by Richard Simon, “The Search for the Lost Nazi Diary,” regarding the recovery of the diary of Alfred Rosenberg. http://tinyurl.com/mmmp7oz The pages of the Rosenberg diary have been…
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