There is the ideal of free speech, and then there is reality: censorship, persecution, and prosecution of dissidents.
By CODOH ∙ April 21, 1995
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell A Karlsruhe court under Judge Eva-Marie Wollentin on April 21 sentenced Guenter Deckert, former school teacher and chairman of the right-wing National Party of Germany (NPD), to two years jail for interpreting at the meeting at which American execution-technology consultant Fred A. Leuchter spoke in Weinheim…
By Hans Schmidt ∙ January 1, 1996
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Travelers to and from Germany are now being arrested at German airports if they have expressed themselves, even in the remote past, in speech or in writing which is construed as “illegal” according to the German Federal Penal Code 130 Article 3 regarding “defamation.” This retroactive…
By CODOH ∙ July 4, 1984
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell The Institute for Historical Review, [once, editor] the leading American publisher of books and other materials questioning the Holocaust extermination story, was devastated by an arson attack on its offices and warehouses on July 4. Damage in the attack, carried out in the early morning hours…
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 ∙ 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 ∙ 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 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 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 Kenneth L. Holaday ∙ October 24, 1962
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By CODOH ∙ October 13, 1994
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell On October 13, at the University of California at Berkeley, the university chancellor cancelled a hall contract for British historian David Irving. It was claimed that the last minute cancellation was due to insufficient security resources. The organizers of Mr. Irving's lecture were forced to move…
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