There is the ideal of free speech, and then there is reality: censorship, persecution, and prosecution of dissidents.
By Coalition of Online Civil Liberties Organisations ∙ August 7, 1996
7 AUGUST 1996 Summary On July 30th the G7 group of nations met in Paris to discuss terrorism. Among other responses the G7 have endorsed a number of restrictions and controls on the Internet. These include the prohibition or censorship of sources that may contain “dangerous” information, restrictions on the electronic speech of unpopular political…
By David E Stannard ∙ August 2, 1996
Last year at about this time, while much of the world was commemorating the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, a young man named Bela Ewald Althans was sentenced by a Berlin court to three and a half years in jail for telling tourists at Auschwitz that the Holocaust was “a giant…
By Robert W Mcgee ∙ January 7, 1996
Speaking the truth about the human rights abuses taking place in Palestine can get you fired in the United States. Three editors for The Freeman, a monthly magazine published by the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) in suburban New York found that out when they published two items that infuriated American zionists. In the November…
By CODOH ∙ July 4, 1996
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell As the first seconds of July 4, 1996 ticked away, the Bradley R. Smith / CODOH (Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust) website was shut down from the World Wide Web. The Bradley R. Smith Website was dedicated to the cause of Free Speech and…
By Roger Garaudy ∙ January 6, 1996
No “Right to Reply” (yet written in our law) was granted to me by the media when they discharged the worst lies against my book The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics. I was walled up in silence. Only Abbé Pierre dared raise his great voice. By enacting laws that limit freedom of expression, the French…
By CODOH ∙ March 22, 1991
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell On March 22, Ernst Zündel, who had traveled to Germany to help organize an international conference on The Leuchter Report, was arrested at the home of Institute for Historical Review author Ingrid Weckert. Zündel, who is currently appealing his conviction on the obscurantist charge of “spreading…
By CODOH ∙ February 24, 1988
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell The latest victim of a series of witchhunts against school teachers accused of questioning the “Holocaust” is Giovanni Pinto, a forty-two-year-old high school teacher from Montville, New Jersey. Pinto was suspended by school authorities last February 24, nineteen days after he is alleged to have challenged…
By CODOH ∙ April 10, 1992
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell On April 10, the appeals court in Caen (Normandy) upheld convictions against Vincent Reynouard, a 23-year-old chemical engineer, and Remi Pontier, an information engineer, for distributing leaflets and stickers that question the existence of extermination gas chambers in Third Reich concentration camps. The two defendants were…
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…
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