(No) Freedom of Expression

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

Theil Prison Sentence Confirmed in France

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Georges Theil has been denied the option of electronic tagging for thoughtcrimes in France. He has had his sentence of imprisonment confirmed. The decision of January 8, 2008 concerning the implementation of the 6-month prison sentence for Georges Theil (author of the book Heresy in 20th…

Zündel Attorney Sentenced to 3 1/2 years in “Democratic” Germany

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Sylvia Stolz, the former attorney for Ernst Zündel, has been convicted for Holocaust denial in the once democratic Germany. Shockingly, Stolz, who was hired to defend Zündel, who has been imprisoned in Germany for Holocaust denial now finds herself sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison….

Going Underground: “Catacomb Revisionists” and Revisionist Repression

Introduction For many, the phrase “going underground” conjures up images of anti-establishment sub-cultures. Oftentimes, we think of groups or individuals “going underground” when their thoughts or ideas have resulted in persecution in mainstream society. Fyodor Dostoevsky utilized the term in his story, Notes from Underground his all-out assault on Enlightenment rationalism. Others may think of…

Georges Theil and barrister Eric Delcroix before the judge

Georges Theil and barrister Eric Delcroix before the judge in charge of implementation of sentences (Juge d'application des peines) in Grenoble on December 18, 2007 Today Georges Theil, accompanied by his barrister, Eric Delcroix, answered the summons of the “Juge d'application des peines” in Grenoble concerning Mr Theil's six month prison sentence handed down by…

France’s LePen on trial for “justification of war crimes”

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Prosecutors have demanded that Jean-Marie Le Pen should be given a five-month suspended prison sentence and a 10,000 euro fine for saying that the Nazi occupation of France was “not particularly inhumane.” LePen is a French right-wing nationalist politician and the founder and president of the…

Tales of the Politically Correct: “Belsen was a Gas” flap

Hardly a day goes by without someone apologizing for something they said or did or someone else demanding that someone issue such an apology. Political correctness has been stepped up to a McCarthy-like level with the “guilty” parties finding themselves ostracized, boycotted, persecuted, and in some once-democratic countries of Europe, even imprisoned. In this brave…

French Justice, Justice on its Back

Three new examples of how “Justice lies down in the conqueror’s bed” In the course of a discussion programme on the ARTE television channel last November, Robert Badinter lied outright in saying that in 1981 he had won a court ruling against me “for being a falsifier of history”. I therefore sued him for libel….

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