Historian Facing Twenty Years in Austrian Prison...For Speaking

The following is my synopsis of a story published on several sites around the 'Net, most of them based on Associated Press, International Press, and similar releases.

David Irving, a well-known World War II historian and "revisionist" historian faces twenty years in Austrian prison (Mr. Irving is an American, by the way) for violations of Austria's "hate crime law" in 1989.

Mr. Irving visited Austria, not knowing he was "wanted" there, for personal reasons (he had no public speaking dates scheduled). Upon his arrival, he was greeted by police and arrested.

The warrant was issued in 1989 for speaches the historian gave in Vienna and Leoben. Apparently, Mr. Irving's scholarly views of World War II are not liked in Austria.

People with similar views have been arrested in Germany (Ernst Zundel, American Germar Rudolph), Belgium (Siegfried Verbeke, Vincent Reynouard), and others.

Not one of these people has committed anything more than to speak their minds and publish their thoughts and beliefs.

No, they haven't burned houses, blown up cars, shot at people, or beat people in the streets. They've only spoken their minds.

Yet they've been arrested for it.

Worse, at least two of them are Americans.

Funny, since these people don't have a popular viewpoint (i.e., they don't ascribe to the commonly-believed "holocaust" vision of WWII), no one seems adamant about helping them. No news stories in the popular press, no television interviews from prison, no investigative reports on talk radio... nothing.

It's only a matter of time before they stop worrying about whether Americans are here in the U.S. or not when they make these arrests for thought crimes...

I'd better shut up before someone kicks in my door and takes me to the gulag.

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Attending Rupert's Wake

The hemorrhaging circulation of the paleomedia gratifies me better than bubblegum. Lord I love it. The tube worms of the network suites have discovered that lo! Fewer of the citizenry sit nightly before the flickering propaganda modem. The readership of newspapers yet falls. This dereliction they ascribe to declining literacy, the lack of public spirit, and indeed anything but their own uselessness.

Such thunder-buckets as Rupert Murdoch, noting that people go to the web, frantically buy web properties. It is not the abysmal content of the media, see, that turns people away. We just want our sewage through a different pipe. If the media put the same twaddle on the web, thinks Rupert, people sick of it elsewhere will love it.

Any day now. I suggest that the reasons for the loss are otherwise and several. Permit me a few thoughts:

What are the topics of most fascination in the United States? Of most importance? Certainly among them are race, sex in the social sense, crime, and immigration. Now, let’s see whether we can name four subjects about which the media speak with calculated mendacity obvious to everyone one. How about…oh, say…race, sex in the social sense, crime, and immigration?

Race, for example:

A story on the site of ABC News led with the lurid headline, “Young Singers Spread Racist Hate.” Now, if young singers have ABC’s bowels in a racial uproar, you can be sure that the singers are white. We all understand that hate is what white people do. Thus it was. A pair of very young girls, calling themselves Prussian Blue, say that they want to maintain the purity of the white race. (Why this is precisely hate eludes me.) Various authorities are quoted as to the effect that they are shocked, appalled, disappointed, and so on.

At about the same time, I found the account of a black man, one Dr. (of what, I wonder?) Kamau Kambon , who while speaking to a panel at the law school of Howard University (a black school in Washington, DC) said that the white race should be exterminated.

This is not my interpretation but rather his explicit, repeated statement. I quote: white people "have retina scans, they have what they call racial profiling, DNA banks and they're monitoring our people to try to prevent the one person from coming up with the one idea. And the one idea is, how we are going to exterminate white people because that, in my estimation, is the only conclusion I have come to. [sic] We have to exterminate white people off the face of the planet to solve this problem." He wants to kill me, my daughters, and my friends.

This produced from the media…near silence. From Howard University…silence. From professional blacks…silence.

Read the rest at Fred On Everything

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