(No) Freedom of Expression

There is the ideal of free speech, and then there is reality: censorship, persecution, and prosecution of dissidents.

The Case of Gregory Chelli (alias Ulcan, alias ViolVocal)

Residing, it seems, at times in his native Paris, at other times somewhere in Romania and sometimes in Israel, precisely at Ashdod, right beside the Gaza Strip, the thirty-year-old French-Israeli Gregory Chelli, member of the Jewish Defense League, works, notably by means of the Internet, at making the life of men and women whom he…

British Publisher Simon Sheppard Arrested, His House Searched, His Computers Seized, but He Beats the Rap

This past June the Adelaide Institute reported that British revisionist publisher Simon Sheppard, of North Yorkshire, was woken up by police threatening to break down the door of his house unless he opened it immediately. They refused to allow him to put on some clothes first. Once inside they arrested him on “suspicion of distributing…

John Stuart Mill Calls For Open Debate on The Holocaust

Thanks to the miracle of digital time travel, Legalienate’s editors were able to interview the 19th-century liberal John Stuart Mill on the urgent matter of the suppression of free speech in the modern Holocaust debate. Readers of Mill’s “On Liberty,” which made him famous as a defender of human rights, will recognize what he has…

A Gathering of Galileos

It took the Church a long time to decide Galileo Galilei’s advocacy of heliocentrism (the idea that the earth revolved around the sun, instead of vice-versa) was heretical. Galileo was already 52 when he committed what turned out to be his signature heresy, and 68 when he was sentenced to life imprisonment with a ban…

Still No Laws in Italy against Holocaust “Denial” and None to Come

People may wonder why an otherwise emphatically “politically correct” Italy has no law against “Holocaust denial” or “negationism”. This is indeed still the case, in spite of the European Union’s 2008 “Framework Decision” calling for legislative harmonization in this respect throughout its territory. The EU-wide prohibition of anti-“Holocaust” revisionism by means of the sordid ruse…

Remembering George Orwell (1903 – 1950)

By Richard Widmann- George Orwell was born on this day in 1903 in Motihari, India. George Orwell, the pen name of the English author Eric Arthur Blair was a great influence on Twentieth Century revisionism including revisionist pioneer Harry Elmer Barnes. In his important essay, “How 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' Trends Threaten American Peace, Freedom, and Prosperity,”…

Bishop Williamson Vindicated, then Ousted

“Throughout my life, I have always sought the truth. That is why I converted to Catholicism and became a priest.” …Bishop Williamson to Der Spiegel. “VATICAN CITY, 2009 Jan. 30 – A Holocaust-denying bishop who was readmitted to the Catholic Church apologized Friday to Pope Benedict XVI for the ‘unnecessary distress and problems’ caused by…

Russia and the Holocaust Ideology

In 2009, then-reigning Russian President Dimitry Medvedev and Israeli President Shimon Peres issued a joint statement, clearly demonstrating how important the Holocaust doctrine is to Russia's national patriotic ideology, and in turn, to its foreign policy in Eastern Europe and the surrounding regions. They stated: "We express our deep indignation at attempts to deny the…

Criminalizing Conscience

On 20 October 2013, Joseph Bellinger passed away. The current article was intended to be a chapter in a book that remained unpublished at the time of his death, The Prohibition of “Holocaust Denial.” We are currently in the process of editing various chapters from this work to prepare them for publication in future issues…

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