There is the ideal of free speech, and then there is reality: censorship, persecution, and prosecution of dissidents.
By CODOH ∙ March 1, 1990
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Donald D. Hiner, an assistant professor of history at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI), was dismissed on March 1 for informing his students that here are two sides to the Holocaust story. Hiner, 51, had been suspended on February 14 after a student who had…
By CODOH ∙ May 7, 1982
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell A German court has ordered that all copies of the book, Der Auschwitz-Mythos (The Auschwitz Myth) be seized. In addition, it has been ordered that the type from which it was printed be destroyed. The book was written by Dr. Wilhelm Stäglich, a retired German judge,…
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 Ralph Raico ∙ January 1, 1996
Not long ago a German friend remarked to me, jokingly, that he imagined the only things American college students were apt to associate with Germany nowadays were beer, Lederhosen, and the Nazis. I replied that, basically, there was only one thing that Americans, whether college students or not, associated with Germany. When the Germans are…
By Gary Rosenblatt ∙ April 29, 1994
Show a Jew a silver lining, it's been said, and he'll show you a cloud. Indeed, a case could be made that we Jews thrive on seeing ourselves as victims – the result of centuries of persecution and anti-Semitism – even though, objectively, in the 20th-century America we have become increasingly affluent and accepted. Others…
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 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…
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