There is the ideal of free speech, and then there is reality: censorship, persecution, and prosecution of dissidents.
By CODOH ∙ October 2, 1992
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell The latest effort by revisionists to foster open debate on the holocaust issue over a computer network “bulletin board system” (BBS) has been closed down by network censors after just three weeks. On September 9, 1992, the GE-nie computer network permitted the creation of a new…
By John Perry Barlow ∙ January 1, 1996
Governments of the industrial world, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather. We have no elected government, nor…
By CODOH ∙ February 10, 1988
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Terrorists set German historian Ernst Nolte's automobile on fire during the night of 10 February. The car was parked at the Free University in West Berlin, where Nolte is a professor. An anonymous letter, signed with a five-pointed star, which was sent to a Berlin news…
By CODOH ∙ February 12, 1994
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell A professor of sociology is facing a bias charge for taking issue with a work of fiction. Clyde Magarelli, a professor at William Patterson College disagreed with the premise of Steven Spielberg's film, Schindler's List. Professor Magarelli told his class that more Jews were killed in…
By CODOH ∙ October 22, 1992
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell A German court has sentenced Otto-Ernst Remer, an 80-year-old retired army general, to 22 months imprisonment for publishing articles disputing wartime mass killings at Auschwitz in gas chambers. On October 22, 1992, a criminal court in Schweinfurt found Remer guilty of “popular incitement” and “incitement to…
By CODOH ∙ May 5, 1992
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell British historian David Irving was fined 10,000 marks ($6,000) by a German court May 5 for public statements denouncing stories of mass exterminations of Jews in gas chambers at Auschwitz as a myth. Munich district court judge Thomas Stelzner ruled that Irving was guilty of “disparaging…
By CODOH ∙ January 22, 1992
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Thugs violently broke up a panel discussion at the University of California at Los Angeles, January 22, which had been called to debate the refusal of the student paper to publish Bradley Smith's advertisement on the Holocaust issue. A young Revisionist activist, David Cole, was assaulted…
By CODOH ∙ May 5, 1992
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Austrian Revisionist publisher Gerd Honsik has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for 14 breaches of a law against “neo-Nazi” activities that makes it a crime to deny crimes allegedly committed by the Hitler regime. Honsik, 51, had written in his magazine “Halt!” that hydrocyanic gas…
By CODOH ∙ May 9, 1995
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Because she helped translate three reference articles published in The Journal of Historical Review, a long-time executive of the German National Tourist Office in New York has been dismissed. Michael Kranefeld, Regional Manager of the Office, announced on May 9 the immediate dismissal of its manager…
By CODOH ∙ March 27, 1995
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell In a March 27 raid of the Grabert publishing firm in Tuebingen, Germany, criminal police seized all available copies of a new book of Holocaust revisionist scholarship. The banned work is a 400-page large-format anthology entitled Grundlagen zur Zeitgeschichte: Ein Handbuch über strittige Fragen des 20….
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