Revisionist Presentations at the 22nd Porcfest

At the recommendation of my friend Jorge Besada, we both attended the 22nd Porcfest at Lancaster, NH, from June 16th to June 22, 2025. Porcfest is short for “Porcupine Freedom Festival”, which is a yearly event organized by the “Free State Project” (FSP). This project is run by libertarians from all over the world. On their website, they state:

“By concentrating our efforts in one small state with a pre-existing pro-liberty culture, we are turning the tide against big government, and we’re experiencing the benefits of expanded personal and economic freedoms.”

Sounds pretty good to me, but would it pass the HST Test, the Holocaust-Skeptics Tolerance Test? A couple months earlier, Jorge suggested finding out, by not just attending Porcfest, but by giving presentations on what matters to us: free speech where it is most threatened.

I hesitated at first. Going camping for an entire week would take that week out of my work schedule, which I desperately needed for the various projects I am involved in (various translations of my Holocaust Encyclopedia, finishing Holocaust Handbook Vol. 54, and preparing instruction material for our new Holocaust Academy). Giving presentations and selling some books would compensate for the time lost, but the question was on how we would be received. Would we present in front of empty chairs? Would people leave when hearing our take on things? Would they become hostile, aggressive, even violent? Would the organizers ban us from speaking, or even boot us out of the festival? With these thoughts in mind, I hesitatingly prepared two presentations, without believing too much in me wanting to present them, or them letting me do it…

We arrived at the campsite in upstate New Hampshire already a couple days earlier, late on Saturday, and helped the lady running the venue where we both would speak (RV site #13) erecting her tents. My first presentation was on Wednesday, enough time to socialize and settle in. In fact, my severely traumatized puppy Max, who was afraid of anything that moved when we arrived – unknown people, bicycles, golf carts – went through the most amazing transformation. By Wednesday, he was cruising the large campsite – off leash – in search of play dates with other dogs, food scraps thrown to him or found on the ground, and in general to read the doggy newspaper (meaning sniffing all the scents this amazing world had to offer anywhere and everywhere). When we arrived, he ran into the woods, away from people, and wasn’t seen for two hours. When we left, he didn’t want to leave. That alone was worth it!

Then came Wednesday, my first presentation at 6pm at the FireSteel.com tent:
“Censorship Leads to War and Genocide. Only Open Debate Can Bring Peace.” Watch it on Rumble or right here:

As you can see, I didn’t get lynched. Nobody fled the scene. There was no protest, no hostility, no aggression, no violence, and we didn’t get banned either. Quite to the contrary, there was applause at the end, as well as constructive discussion afterwards.

The same attitude was encountered the next day, same time and place, when I gave my second presentation titled “Censorship in the Western World: Threat to the Free Marketplace of Ideas,” which again you can watch on Rumble or right here:

The core of this presentation on the highly problematic nature of Germany’s legal system is based on a very theoretical documentary I produced back in 2017, titled “Germany, Country under the Rule of Law: Role Model or Illusion?“, which is also posted on CODOH.com: