There is the ideal of free speech, and then there is reality: censorship, persecution, and prosecution of dissidents.
By CODOH ∙ December 7, 1995
December 7, 1995 Members of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre requested that Italian Prime Minister Lamberto Dini back their initiatives to ban “racists” and “extremists” from the Internet. Italy has been specifically targeted to support the Orwellian-ban because Italy takes over the European Union presidency on January 1, 1996. The Wiesenthal Centre would like the enforcement…
By CODOH ∙ November 26, 1995
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Thies Christophersen, a writer and journalist has been ordered to leave Switzerland, according to Swiss newspapers. The aging Christophersen, now 77 years old, was a member of the German army and served in an agricultural research department at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. He is…
By CODOH ∙ November 22, 1995
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell In a seemingly politically motivated move, the Government of Austria convicted Edwin Neuwirth for claiming to have no knowledge of Nazi gas chambers. Mr. Neuwirth, was a respected industrialist and former Waffen SS soldier. He won notoriety recently when he invited Russian nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky to…
By CODOH ∙ November 9, 1995
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Günter Deckert who has recently been convicted for racism was placed under arrest on Thursday on fresh allegations of inciting racial hatred and denying the orthodox Holocaust story. Deckert, the former leader of the right-wing National Democratic Party, was detained as he arrived at Frankfurt airport…
By Hans Schmidt ∙ January 10, 1995
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell People are asking how could it happen in the Heartland? Here where Americans feel safe and remote from the oppressive governments under which so many of the world's people suffer. How is it possible that your First Amendment freedoms can be swept aside—right here at home-…
By CODOH ∙ August 30, 1995
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell A masked gang of thugs attacked a lawyer with baseball bats on Wednesday. The lawyer was beaten outside the Hamburg courthouse where he was defending a German man who called Auschwitz a “myth.'' Attorney Jürgen Rieger was hospitalized with a head injury, bruising and grazes but…
By CODOH ∙ August 29, 1995
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell A Berlin court sentenced Bela Ewald Althans to 3 1/2 years in jail for denying that six million Jews were killed by the Third Reich. The court said Althans, who is only 29 years old, had spread racial hatred and denigrated the state by telling tourists…
By CODOH ∙ August 8, 1995
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell On August 8th, the thought-police arrested a German-American human rights activist for thoughtcrime. Hans Schmidt was arrested at the Frankfurt/Main airport enroute to his home in Florida. Schmidt's crime – having written something in his newsletter, USA-Bericht / GANPAC Brief, which offended certain individuals. Hans Schmidt…
By Bradley R. Smith, Michael Hoy ∙ January 1, 1990
At the time of this interview, Michael Hoy was publisher of Loompanics Catalog Loompanics. What exactly is your book, Confessions of a Holocaust Revisionist, about? Bradey R. Smith. Exactly? Why don't you ask something difficult? I don't know what it's about. If I did I probably wouldn't be working on Part II. I thought it…
By Douglas Collins ∙ January 1, 1995
There may have been other writers who have been hounded as much as historian David Irving but I can't think of any. A fascinating book could be written on the subject — if it could find a publisher. That would not be easy. A lot of powerful people don't want to hear what he has…
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