(No) Freedom of Expression

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

  • Vampire Killers

    March 14, 2001 Folk stories about vampires provide readers with various remedies to the calamity of a ghoulish attack. A fistful of graveyard dirt is favoured, garlic is beneficial, and the cross is most efficient. But these remedies don't always work. In Roman Polanski's hilarious horror comedy, “The Fearless Vampire Killers,” the hero tries to…

  • Don't Tread on Me

    Don't tread on me!” “Give me Liberty or give me Death!” “Live Free or Die!” Platitudes? Lip service to a cause? NO! These were the convictions of people who knew what was just and right and who were willing to die to ensure such justice and rights — who were willing to die for freedom…

  • Police Search!

    Today at 7.45 am four police officers carried out an extensive search of my house. They acted under a warrant issued by the Parisian examining magistrate (juge d'instruction) Jean-Paul Valat. Three of them had come from Paris and the fourth from the local Vichy police station. They found none of the objects for which they…

  • Censorship Ordered Against Adelaide Institute Website

    “Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell An Australian commission ordered that the Adelaide Institute stop publishing Holocaust revisionist material on their Website. The curiously named Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission does not support freedom of speech when it comes to revisionist material. The Commission ordered Dr. Frederick Toben to remove all…

  • Open Letter to John Silber, Chancellor of Boston University

    Bradley R. SmithPO Box 439016San Diego CA 92143T & F [now invalid., ed.]E-mail: [now invalid, ed.]On the Web: (www.codoh.com) 20 September 2000 Chancellor John SilberOffice of the ChancellorBoston University147 Bay State Road Boston, Massachusetts 02215 Dear John: I have your Open Letter to Colleges and Universities in which you address some of the issues raised…

  • Warning: Column may be offensive

    A lot of complaints to The Daily in the past week have not been about misquotes, errors or bad headlines, amazingly enough. Most regarded a full-page advertisement from Bradley R Smith that ran April 4, advocating open debate and free speech on the Holocaust. Others were about Bill Colwell's perspective Monday, which insisted that importing…

  • The Anatomy of a Hoax

    Often, a bogus charge of anti-Semitism (or racism) is made because of values or opinions or beliefs expressed in a public forum. Consider the case of one Thomas Speers of Waterbury, CT, whose expression of free speech, ironically, landed him in court at the behest of the the radio talk show host whose program Speers…

  • Butz fireside canceled after students’ protest

    A fireside featuring controversial electrical engineering Assoc. Prof. Arthur Butz scheduled for last night was canceled because of student outrage and conflicts with the Jewish holiday of Purim. Butz, a “Holocaust revisionist,” denies that the Nazis had a policy of mass killings of Jews during World War II. He was scheduled to speak on “A…

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