(No) Freedom of Expression

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

VHO Website Censored by German Authorities

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell On April 27, 1998, Mayor Vandreike of the City of Frankfurt am Main (Germany), applied for the indexing, i.e. censoring of the entire Website www.vho.org of Germar Rudolf's British publishing outlet Castle Hill Publishers (which also host material from the Belgian revisionist organization Vrij Historisch Onderzoek,…

Garaudy fined $40,000 in France

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell A Paris court ordered French philosopher Roger Garaudy to pay 240,000 francs ($40,000) for challenging the existence of homicidal gas chambers in his book, The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics. Garaudy, an 84-year-old convert to Islam, was found guilty of breaking a 1990 law that makes…

How Fahrenheit 451 Trends Threaten Intellectual Freedom

In 1952, Harry Elmer Barnes wrote a timely article, "How 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' Trends Threaten American Peace, Freedom, and Prosperity" as the final chapter of the classic revisionist anthology, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace. Barnes analyzed George Orwell's classic novel as a work of prophecy and sounded the alarm to reverse the "1984" trends prevalent in…

Flemish Police Raid Revisionist Publisher

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell On January 7, 1998, Flemish police raided several addresses of a publisher of revisionist materials in Belgium. The publisher, Foundation for Free Historical Research, or Vrij Historisch Onderzoek (VHO) was also raided on the 21st and 27th of November 1997. It is reported that the reason…

Is rewriting history in academia a free speech right?

The recent debate at Johns Hopkins University over whether the student newspaper should have published an advertisement denying the existence of Nazi death camps is more than just an academic flap. At stake are profound questions of how a free society learns the lessons of history and, unique to America, the effect of constitutionally protecting…

Silence Too is an Answer

There's a threat on the Internet. “We must get rid of this monster” the internet page reads, who is a “cancerous sore” and “must be eliminated altogether.” He is “an abominable psychopath” who, if stopped will “remove a dangerous parasitic, disease-ridden bacteria from infecting society.” Just so no one misses the point, the article ends…

Museum director upset by ad disputing Holocaust

HOUSTON — A Holocaust museum has rejected the donation of an advertising fee from Rice University's student newspaper after it printed an ad from a group that doubts the Holocaust occurred. “This money is tainted and its purpose is to deny the murder of millions of human beings, Jews and non-Jews alike, and aims to…

Tribunal to deny Zündel his Human Rights

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Ernst Zündel, a Canadian publisher, has been brought before a “Human Rights tribunal” today after a complaint was filed by Metropolitan Toronto Mayor Barbara Hall. Hall's complaint was based on revisionist materials that were posted to the Zündelsite, a website established and maintained in the United…

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