There is the ideal of free speech, and then there is reality: censorship, persecution, and prosecution of dissidents.
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…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ March 1, 1997
Publication of David Irving’s Goebbels by Lyle Stuart’s Barricade Press set for August, according to the 10 February issue of Publisher’s Weekly, bible of the book industry. Despite Stuart’s record of publishing outre books (such as Dr. William Pierce’s sanguinary Turner Diaries), we’ll believe it when we see it. Latest from the Northwestern front: a…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ March 1, 1997
Few things have been more disappointing to libertarian-minded revisionists than the persistent silence of free-speech organizations in the face of the worldwide persecution of Holocaust revisionists for their historical opinions. The same groups which have made a cause celebre out of every small-town effort to refuse to carry the latest New York celebration of adolescent…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ February 1, 1997
In another testament to their loss in the intellectual battle against revisionism, the German government has turned to denial of basic human rights. The government in Bonn has approved legislation designed to curtail freedom of speech on the Internet. This latest attack on the freedom of Germans is known as the “German Multimedia Legislation.” The…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ February 1, 1997
The great scandal continues to roil. Arthur Butz, author of The Hoax of the Twentieth Century, as well as professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at Northwestern University, is now able to present his views on the “Holocaust” cheaply and effectively by means of his own page on the university’s Website. Last month the…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ February 1, 1997
The previous issue of SR reported on the current legal ordeals of Robert Faurisson and Ernst Zuendel. There are these further developments: In Paris, the justices of France's Supreme Court of Appeals have responded to Professor Faurisson's petition that they consider whether the Loi Gayssot, which decrees that challenging the factuality of the “Holocaust” is…
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