The ideal and limits of free speech and expression, and also the free access to information, as well as the various legal and extra-legal attempts at limiting that civil right. Censorship includes not only government actions against any media, published or not, but also the active suppression of such media by mainstream outlets. Unless a report is on free speech and/or censorship in general, it has been categorized in the subcategory of the country discussed.
By Carlos Whitlock Porter ∙ January 5, 1998
Certified True CopyReference no. 8430 Cs 112 Js 11637/96 Mr. Carlos Whitlock PORTERNiveze Bas, no. 112,B-4845 SART LEZ SPA Belgium [stamp: Effective as of:Munich,Clerk of the Court] Born on 06.03.1947 in Pasadena/United States of America, stateless. Order of Punishment Inquiries of the State Prosecutor's Office have revealed the following: In August 1996, with intent to…
By Carlos Whitlock Porter ∙ January 5, 1998
What would happen in an American criminal court if you asked for a new trial date on the grounds that you had previously been unable to appear due to radiation burns suffered while experimenting with an atomic bomb? If you were on trial for murder, a psychiatric examination would most certainly be ordered. In any…
By CODOH ∙ April 27, 1998
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell On April 27, 1998, Mayor Vandreike of the City of Frankfurt am Main (Germany), applied for the indexing, i.e. censoring of the entire Website www.vho.org of Germar Rudolf's British publishing outlet Castle Hill Publishers (which also host material from the Belgian revisionist organization Vrij Historisch Onderzoek,…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ February 14, 1998
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…
By Kenneth Lasson ∙ January 6, 1998
The recent debate at Johns Hopkins University over whether the student newspaper should have published an advertisement denying the existence of Nazi death camps is more than just an academic flap. At stake are profound questions of how a free society learns the lessons of history and, unique to America, the effect of constitutionally protecting…
By American-Statesman, Austin,18. Dec. 1997 ∙ December 18, 1997
HOUSTON — A Holocaust museum has rejected the donation of an advertising fee from Rice University's student newspaper after it printed an ad from a group that doubts the Holocaust occurred. “This money is tainted and its purpose is to deny the murder of millions of human beings, Jews and non-Jews alike, and aims to…
By Fredric U. Dicker, Gregg Birnbaum ∙ November 30, 1997
On Sunday, November 23, 1997, The New York Post printed an article concerning the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH). This libelous and misleading article was immediately responded to by CODOH. Our response which has been sent to The New York Post can be found below. Reponse to the New York Post, November…
By Paula Brook ∙ January 11, 1997
For saying 6-million didn't die. How did an extremist B.C. Columnist end up a martyr? “Give me a break.” Peter Speck is pacing briskly between a window and couch in his office at the North Shore News, self-described “Voice of North and West Vancouver since 1969.” The paper that Speck launched and still runs is…
By aaargh ∙ September 21, 1997
Everybody knows revisionism is an abomination. But it exists and it persists. Moral and penal condemnations, vigilance committees, even the laws of the State, nothing works: for the last twenty years, revisionism has not stopped growing. A recent poll shows that 30% of the people in France are ready to accept its basic tenets. They…
By Grant Buckler ∙ September 9, 1997
How big a danger are neo-Nazis and deniers of the holocaust, whether they spread their messages online as they increasingly do, or by more traditional means? They are not “a clear and present danger,” according to the author of a book on holocaust denial, but they are “a clear and future danger” and the time…
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