(No) Freedom of Expression

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

Manfred Roeder Sentenced for Holocaust Comment

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell An outspoken German Nationalist was sentenced Thursday to two years in prison without parole for “denying” the Holocaust. Manfred Roeder, 70, was sentenced for having referred to the Holocaust as “humbug” during an August 1998 election rally in the eastern German city of Stralsund. With no…

The Active Revisionism of Jean-Gabriel Cohn-Bendit (12 November 1999)

Noël Mamre, a Green MP, finds himself steadily rebuked, on radio as on television, for his acquaintance with another Green, Jean-Gabriel Cohn-Bendit, the elder brother of “Danny the Red”. He is censured for “Gaby” Cohn-Bendit's compromising relations, twenty years ago, with revisionists such as Pierre Guillaume, head of La Vieille Taupe (“The Old Mole”), Serge…

Dr. Fredrick Töben imprisoned in “Democratic” Germany

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Dr. Fredrick Töben, Director of the Adelaide Institute was arrested and imprisoned in Mannheim, Germany on Thursday, April 8, 1999 on the charge of “defaming the memory of the dead.” Current German law allows for the suppression of freedom of speech. Dr. Töben was arrested after…

Dr . Fredrick Töben of Adelaide, Australia, arrested in Germany

Dr. Fredrick Töben, Director of Australia's Adelaide Institute, who organized the successful 1998 revisionist conference there, was arrested in Germany on 8 April 1999, on a charge of “defaming the memory of the dead”. He was sent to Mannheim Prison. Töben was on a research visit, mainly in Eastern Europe. His activities are described at…

Free Speech Advocate Takes on Self-Styled Net Nazi Hunter

Date: Thursday, November 26, 1998 4:51:18 AMDate: Wednesday, November 25, 1998 12:58:14 PMFrom: [email protected]Subj: U-Group: Re: Zundel my hero! Or a nut???In article , [email protected] wrote:> In , on Sun, 22 Nov 1998 09:10:03 +0000,> ASMarques pretending to be Gunilla> Sigurdsdottir wrote:> > >Why is everybody talking about coups and nazis? Could > >anyone tell…

New U.S. copyright laws ban Webcasts of many TV, radio programs

10.30.98 The two-day-old U.S. copyright law, originally presented as an anti-piracy measure, is imposing unanticipated new restrictions on journalists, broadcasters and librarians. President Clinton signed the new Copyright Act into law Wednesday. It was the culmination of months of hard lobbying by the major Hollywood studios to increase charges for use of copyrighted material online….

California Institute of Technology Won't Run CODOH Ad – Yet ran It

Lexi Baugher, ad manager for The California Tech at California Institute of Technology, called to say The Tech would run the ad. On the 14th we discussed the layout of the ad by telephone and it was set to go on the 18th. I then received an e-mail message from their business manager: Dear Mr….

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