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By CODOH ∙ April 3, 2000
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell The Swiss government is trying a 79 year old man for stating that he no longer believes in the lurid tales of the Nazi gas chambers of the Second World War. Gaston-Armand Amaudruz is charged with racial discrimination. The trial is in progress at the Lausanne…
By CODOH ∙ July 25, 1995
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell An overflow crowd packed a July 25 hearing of the British Columbia Press Council to back a North Shore News columnist in a hearing into a complaint by retired Simon Fraser University professor Lionel Kenner about five columns Collins wrote in 1993 and 1994. (It is…
By CODOH ∙ November 16, 1998
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell A professor of history was put on trial for having written a book that calls into question the theory that the Nazis had developed a systematic plan to exterminate the Jews of Europe. Dariusz Ratajczak, 37, argued that he was innocent. He claims that his book…
By Paula Brook ∙ January 11, 1997
For saying 6-million didn't die. How did an extremist B.C. Columnist end up a martyr? “Give me a break.” Peter Speck is pacing briskly between a window and couch in his office at the North Shore News, self-described “Voice of North and West Vancouver since 1969.” The paper that Speck launched and still runs is…
By Douglas Collins ∙ July 12, 1997
I | II | III | IV I. Getting set to slay censorship by Doug Collins [May 12, 1997, North Shore News] Tomorrow, your man Doug and this gutsy newspaper go into the history books as the first in Canada to face a “human rights” tribunal. The first in journalism, that is. And I thought…
By CODOH ∙ December 7, 1996
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Chemical engineer Wolfgang Fröhlich has been jailed and threatened with ten years imprisonment for operating his World War Two revisionist website (once at http://www.c2.net/~bs-org/frohlich/frohlich.htm), according to information The Campaign for Radical Truth in History has received from [email protected]. bs-org writes : “Fröhlich is or rather was…
By The TransCyberian Express ∙ January 8, 1996
Concluding the tenth chapter of his novel Moravagine, the French poet, Blaise Cendrars, describes the social ferment that pervaded Tsarist Russia on the eve of revolution: “Everything was thrown out of kilter: institutions, family traditions, the notion of honor. A frantic loosening of all ties, which was mistaken for mysticism, was at work in every…
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…
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