There is the ideal of free speech, and then there is reality: censorship, persecution, and prosecution of dissidents.
By Marc Lemire ∙ April 9, 2013
CCLA supports Free Speech and an end to CHRC Censorship The CCLA's Amicus Curiae Brief, first page. Click on it to enlarge. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association has filed an intervention application at the Federal Court of Appeals. They are seeking to rid Canada of Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, which is…
By Mark Weber ∙ August 1, 2000
Werner Pfeifenberger (1941-2000): Death Claims a Victim of Legal Persecution Werner Pfeifenberger, a German professor of political science, took his life in Austria on May 13, 2000, a few weeks before he was to go on trial in Vienna for an allegedly revisionist and “neo-Nazi” essay published five years ago. The 58-year-old scholar was scheduled…
By Robert Faurisson ∙ March 13, 2013
As “Bocage” announced earlier today in French, Douglas (Doug) Christie has died. For its part, the Canadian English-language press has put out the news in terms which, unfortunately, can be easily imagined when one knows that D. Christie had especially made himself known for his uncompromising defense of a major figure of historical revisionism, Ernst…
By Ingrid Rimland ∙ March 13, 2013
Doug Christie was a veritable star in various Canadian court venues – the likes of which the Lobby that plagues us all with all their lies piled up on lies and yet more lies had never yet encountered. Doug Christie was young, brilliant, fearless, smashingly handsome, determined, exceedingly quick on his feet – conventional descriptions…
By Mark Weber ∙ August 1, 2000
A New Zealand university is rejecting demands by Jewish groups to revoke a master’s degree it awarded six years ago for a thesis that disputes Holocaust extermination claims. Citing academic traditions of open scholarship, the University of Canterbury (in Christchurch) has told Jewish community leaders that it will not rescind the degree earned by Joel…
By Mark Weber ∙ August 1, 2000
In a legal decision rich with irony, a jury in a federal court case in Denver, Colorado, has found that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a powerful Jewish special interest group, had defamed a local couple. On April 28, 2000, the jurors awarded $10.5 million in damages to William and Dorothy Quigley. This is the first…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ March 15, 2013
By Michael Hoffman- Though it could have been from an assassin's bullet or a terrorist's bomb so virulent and persistent were the threats against him, Catholic attorney Douglas “Doug” Christie, Canada's premier defender of the damned, the marginalized and the downtrodden, has died at the age of 66 from cancer, which he had been battling…
By Jürgen Graf ∙ June 1, 2000
On April 10, 2000, a Swiss court sentenced 79-year-old publicist and retired teacher Gaston-Armand Amaudruz to one year in prison for “denying” the existence of homicidal gas chambers in World War II German concentration camps. Amaudruz was found guilty of violating Switzerland’s five-year-old “anti-racism” law, which makes it a crime to “deny, grossly minimize or…
By Joseph Sobran ∙ April 1, 2000
The 'Dangerous' David Irving The historian David Irving has lost his libel suit against Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books. Mrs. Lipstadt had called Irving “one of the most dangerous spokesmen for Holocaust denial.” In a devastating ruling, Judge Charles Gray declared Irving a “racist” and “anti-Semite” who distorts historical facts in order to portray Adolf…
By Associated Press, Douglas Davis, et al. ∙ June 1, 2000
Historian Irving Says He’s Been Object of Campaign of Vilification Associated Press, March 15, 2000 LONDON – Historian David Irving, who has outraged survivors of Nazi death camps by saying the Holocaust was exaggerated, told Britain’s High Court on Wednesday that he had been the victim of a 30-year international campaign to destroy his reputation…
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