There is the ideal of free speech, and then there is reality: censorship, persecution, and prosecution of dissidents.
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ July 1, 1997
It looks as if the eternally embattled Ernst Zuendel has scored a partial victory by eliminating the Canadian Human Rights Commission as a co-prosecutor in the Canadian “human rights” hearing to deprive him of free speech via his American-based Website. Meanwhile, an even bigger bombshell, if you’ll pardon the expression, is shaping up around the…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ July 1, 1997
[We received David Irving's Der Spiegel brochure (see below) just before we were to go to print with this issue of SR. He sent along a disk version, so it will go on CODOHWeb very shortly. We think the brochure will create a great scandal behind the scenes. “Meanwhile,” Irving writes, “I am spending the…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ July 1, 1997
I recently had occasion to read an article sent me from the Hoboken Record (2 February 97) titled “House of Stuart.” It gave the background to the publishing history of Lyle Stuart, who is perhaps the most independent and controversial mainstream book publisher in the United States. He specializes in publishing books that challenge orthodox…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ July 1, 1997
In a recent interview, super-survivor, Nobel laureate and selfproclaimed human cannonball (see SR 42, “Elie Wiesel: Sometimes the Truth Is an Accident”) Wiesel unbosomed himself to The Jerusalem Post on the “deniers” (that’s us, folks). As paraphrased by the Post, Elie said this regarding the chief avenue of attack along which revisionism is storming against…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ July 1, 1997
It was a pre-Fourth of July gift for Americans, and for Holocaust revisionism-hungry folks around the world. On June 26, the Supreme Court of the United States struck down President Bill Clinton’s and the Republican-controlled Congress’s Communications Decency Act (CDA). In its landmark decision, the nation’s highest court ruled that the law violated Americans’ First…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ June 1, 1997
High-school teacher and former head of the German National Democratic Party (NPD) Guenter Deckert, currently in a German prison after a series of judicial travesties that would have fazed Kafka and driven Orwell to distraction, writes in good English to tell us that on April 27 he was sentenced to an additional 27 months for…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ June 1, 1997
Ernst Zuendel’s hearing before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal opened on May 28th, and closed the next day. As reported in SR #39 (January 1997), the misnamed tribunal is attempting to close down the US-based Zuendel Website by holding Ernst responsible under Canadian law pertaining to hate (!) messages over the telephone (!!). While a…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ June 1, 1997
Outspoken, revisionist-friendly Canadian journalist Doug Collins is currently being tried before a so-called human rights tribunal in Vancouver, British Columbia. His crime? In the eyes of BC authorities, publishing something “likely to expose a person or a group or a class of persons to hatred or contempt,” but actually for his lack of reverence for…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ May 1, 1997
Hans Schmidt has just published a memoir of his 1995 incarceration by the German thought-police, Jailed in 'Democratic' Germany: The Ordeal of an American Writer. As many SR readers will remember, Schmidt was grabbed by German thought police while returning home from Germany in the summer of 1995. The 68-year-old writer was arrested and imprisoned…
By Bradley R. Smith, Richard A. Widmann ∙ April 1, 1997
More on the last days of Thies Christophersen, who died in February (SR41). He died in a home for the elderly of kidney cancer at the age of 79, shortly following his release by German authorities, who had arrested him in January. The former agronomist and puncturer of what he named “the Auschwitz Lie” liked…
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