There is the ideal of free speech, and then there is reality: censorship, persecution, and prosecution of dissidents.
By The TransCyberian Express ∙ January 1, 1996
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…
By Kevin F. Sherry ∙ February 28, 1991
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…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ June 6, 1994
All my life I have watched Jews lead the struggle to maintain a free press and intellectual freedom in America. In the 1960s, when I was a book dealer on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, I was arrested, jailed, tried and convicted for selling a book then banned by the U.S. Government—Henry Miller's Tropic of…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ April 17, 1991
In his “Plain Talk” perspective Thursday about the Holocaust and Revisionism, Professor Peter Hayes charges me with manipulation, deception, distortion, ignorance, intimidation, nastiness, dishonesty, duplicity, maliciousness, tastelessness, the browbeating of academics like himself, conspiracy mongering, promoting implausibilities and spreading disinformation. Hayes evaded the challenge of addressing content, however, so I suppose you could say he…
By George Brewer ∙ August 1, 2000
The ADL trained their sites on another Holocaust outrage, claiming that a proposed New York art exhibit would trivialize the Holocaust. The offender this time is a German artist who planned to set up an exhibit at the Whitney Art Museum in New York featuring a room bedecked with red walls, on which quotes from…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ August 28, 2000
The BeaconStudent Center, Room 310William Patterson UniversityWayne New Jersey 07470Editor in Chief: Ryan L. CaiazzoNewsroom: 973 720 2248Email: 28 August 2,000 For Publication I run advertisements in student newspapers at college and university campuses around the country encouraging an open debate on the Jewish holocaust story. My ads have run some 300 times. On 17…
By Bradley R. Smith, Christopher Kiggins, Robert W. Greene ∙ January 7, 2000
Twenty years ago Smith discovered revisionist theory regarding the Holocaust story. Nineteen years, eleven months and about 28 days ago he discovered that holocaust revisionism was taboo. After a year or two Smith lost interest in following the ins and outs of revisionist scholarship itself, but he remained fascinated with the ferocity with which the…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 1, 2000
“To refuse a hearing to an opinion because they are sure that it is false is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.”—John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859) “It was naive to believe that the 'light of day' can dispel lies,…
By Steve Dumas ∙ January 1, 2000
Dr. Fredrick Töben of Australia's Adelaide Institute was recently given a 10 month prison sentence in Germany. The Institute rejects the claim that homicidal gas chambers were used at Auschwitz-Birkenau. In April, while in Germany, Töben met with prosecutor Heiko Klein and raised questions about the Holocaust. During the discussion Töben was arrested and sent…
By CODOH ∙ April 10, 2000
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell A Swiss court on Monday gave a one-year prison sentence to a 79 year old Holocaust revisionist for having argued that the Nazis did not use gas chambers for mass murder and for having said that the extermination of 6 million Jews was “impossible.” Although nothing…
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