There is the ideal of free speech, and then there is reality: censorship, persecution, and prosecution of dissidents.
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 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 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 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…
By CODOH ∙ April 5, 2000
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Dariusz Ratajczak, a Polish history professor was fired by his university. In addition, he was banned from teaching elsewhere for writing and publishing the book Dangerous Themes. This book asserts that Nazi Germany did not have a comprehensive plan for exterminating Jews. Although this view is…
By CODOH ∙ April 3, 2000
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell The Swiss government is trying a 79 year old man for stating that he no longer believes in the lurid tales of the Nazi gas chambers of the Second World War. Gaston-Armand Amaudruz is charged with racial discrimination. The trial is in progress at the Lausanne…
By George Brewer ∙ April 3, 2000
4/3/2000 To Editor, St. Cloud Student Newspaper Open Letter Since the publication of our insert, “The Revisionist” ignited such a controversy on your campus, I would like to take the opportunity to make a few comments clarifying CODOH's objective as well as our reaction to to the campus response. There are probably two elements of…
By George Brewer ∙ March 1, 2000
Last month, in a typically ethnocentric proclamation, the Anti-Defamation League decreed that the swastika, although a venerable religious symbol to perhaps two billion people, was an anti-Semitic symbol of hate. The Revisionist stands shoulder to shoulder with the ADL in ferreting out all symbols of hate, and therefore, as a result of our own research,…
By George Brewer ∙ March 1, 2000
On February 3rd the Zionist Organization of America announced that it was mobilizing a number of prominent Jews, including Elie Wiesel, to run full page advertisements in American newspapers condemning the Syrian newspaper which had accused Israel of manipulating the Holocaust for political purposes. The Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH) wishes these…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 3, 2000
Dream that I’m shot in the head, then the heart. The hit to the head is accompanied by a tremendous blast of hot air. I see everything blowing apart. The shot to the heart is a little high and to my left. It’s an unnecessary follow up. The dream half wakens me and I lie…
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