There is the ideal of free speech, and then there is reality: censorship, persecution, and prosecution of dissidents.
By Michael Santomauro, Bradley R. Smith ∙ December 1, 2011
Briefly, the offices of a satirical French weekly newspaper, Charlie Hebdo (Charlie Weekly) were firebombed the first week in November http://tinyurl.com/68sq7jy . Charlie, which has a history of publishing cartoons and other materials offensive to many Muslims, was scheduled to publish a special edition of the paper purporting to have Muhammad Himself as guest editor….
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ December 1, 2011
Prof. Dr. Jan-Hendrik Olbertz, PresidentHumboldt UniversityBerlin, Germany[email protected] San Diego, Cal., November 9, 2011 Dear Prof.-Dr. Olbertz: Through its law school, Humboldt University is hosting a conference this month whose purpose is hostile to freedom of expression. Not only is your august institution making its Grimm Auditorium available for the sessions, two members of the Law…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ December 1, 2011
San Diego, Cal., November 7, 2011 Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH) calls attention to the activities of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists (IAJLJ). It is holding a massive promotional event in Berlin entitled “Holocaust Denial and Freedom of Speech in the Internet Era” November 15 to 19, 2011 The…
By David W. Robinson ∙ April 26, 2014
On April 26, 2014, a conference was held at the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University of Illinois. This gathering was rather unusual in the history of such things, since it involved the discussion of a topic that isn’t talked about in American academia: Are there boundaries to academic inquiry? This was the main theme, using…
By Yvonne Schleiter ∙ January 26, 2014
At the big demonstration in Paris last Saturday (January 26, "day of anger") against President Hollande and his government some participants, at least one with a megaphone, were heard chanting a slogan that can be translated "Faurisson is right: the gas chambers are a sham".The demonstration gave rise to clashes between marchers and police: there were 262…
By Guillaume Fabien ∙ April 2, 2012
The CRIF (Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France) is the closest thing France has to the United States Jewish lobby’s flagship organization AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee). Early each year, for example, the CRIF summons – more than it invites – to a solemn ceremonial dinner most of the country’s government, starting with…
By Ken Meyercord ∙ October 3, 2013
I just published an article in which I argue Global Warming "deniers" are likely to be accorded increasing respect in the years to come as the mean global temperature has ceased to rise and is not likely to for a couple of decades (http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/10/the-climate-change-bug/). It occurs to me that, if I'm correct, this new respectability…
By David Merlin ∙ September 12, 2013
Peter Cassells, ChairpersonHolocaust Education Trust IrelandClifton HouseLower Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2Tel: +353 1 6690593Email: [email protected]http://www.hetireland.org 29 August 2013 Dear Chairperson Cassells- First, congratulations on your election as new Chairperson of HETI. In November 2010 the Holocaust Education Trust held a conference entitled International Conference on Anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial. Since I am what you refer…
By Sylvia Stolz ∙ April 26, 2013
“A prison sentence will not force me into believing.”~ Guenter Deckert “When I have doubts I demand the right to express them …They talk about tolerance, but mean the inquisition. … The hunt to find incorrect literature pretending to fight crime. For a short time people can be intimidated by the threat of punishment, but…
By Jett Rucker ∙ July 8, 2013
Yesterday's op ed by Daniel Ellsberg (of 1971 Pentagon Papers fame) provided a stunning retrospective on what Ellsberg calls the "different America" that dealt with him 40 years ago vis-a-vis the America that NSA Leaker Edward Snowden faces today for having committed "crimes" very similar to those committed by Ellsberg. The effect of the comparison…
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