(No) Freedom of Expression

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

  • The German Court vs. Carlos Porter

    Richter UlrichLandgericht Muenchen IJustizgebaeudeNymphenburger Strasse 16D-800335 Muenchen Spa, 1 July 1997 Landgericht MuenchenAz. 18 Ns 112 Js 11637/96 Fax: (089) 55 97 43 54 BY REGISTERED MAIL AND FAX Judge Ulrich! With regards to your subpoena of 22 May: Without prejudicial admission, waiver, and with all due reserves: I do not recognize your jurisdiction. I…

  • The German Court vs. Carlos Porter

    Richter UlrichLandgericht Muenchen IJustizgebaeudeNymphenburger Strasse 16D-800335 Muenchen Spa, 1 September 1997 Landgericht MuenchenAz. 18 Ns 112 Js 11637/96Fax: (089) 55 97 43 54 BY REGISTERED MAIL AND FAX Judge Ulrich! Without prejudicial admission, waiver, and with all due reserves. With regards to your summons translated into English and dated 22 August 1997:If you really want…

  • The German Court vs. Carlos Porter

    Note: On 3 November, the defendant received a judgement from the State Court of Munich dated 23 October 1997 acknowledging receipt of the defendant's demands for evidence and for clarification of the charges against him, accompanied by his express refusal to appear, but without comment. [Excerpts] …The subpoena was then delivered to the defendant on…

  • The German Court vs. Carlos Porter

    Certified True CopyReference no. 8430 Cs 112 Js 11637/96 Mr. Carlos Whitlock PORTERNiveze Bas, no. 112,B-4845 SART LEZ SPA Belgium [stamp: Effective as of:Munich,Clerk of the Court] Born on 06.03.1947 in Pasadena/United States of America, stateless. Order of Punishment Inquiries of the State Prosecutor's Office have revealed the following: In August 1996, with intent to…

  • 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…

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