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The sinister attacks now taking place on
freedom of speech in the Western world
are applauded rather than condemned,
thanks mainly to the media and
lickspittle politicians. At the same
time, everyone pays lip service to
freedom. It is what Disraeli called
"organized hypocrisy".
There are two subjects that figure
large on the "verboten" list:
race and the holocaust. You are free to
be "anti-racist", of course,
and you are free back the official
version of the holocaust. But if you
believe that immigration can destroy
your country, or that Jewish deaths
numbered anything less than the six
million, take cover.
Canada ranks high in the kingdom of
such political correctness. Books
frowned on by pressure groups like the Canadian
Jewish Congress and B'Nai
Brith are banned; Ernst Zundel and
his lawyer are denied access to the
Parliament buildings in Ottawa (by
unanimous consent of our MPs!); and
dissidents can be hauled before kangaroo
courts called human rights tribunals for
having "hurt the feelings" of
Jews and immigrants.
Hate laws are anti-free-speech laws,
Which is why they figure in our Criminal
Code. And we now never see them
criticized in the mainstream media,
owing partly to increasing Jewish
control. But they also reflect the
spirit of the times.
For a fascinating account of what is
going on world-wide, read "Return
to the Dark Ages," an article in
the March issue of American Renaissance
magazine (AR). In Germany, France,
Spain, Switzerland, Poland, Austria and
Lithuania the Jewish Holocaust has
become the one historical event on which
people can be compelled to agree,
Prison, exile or massive fines face
those who disagree.
"Today in Europe," it
states, "there are laws as bad as
anything George Orwell could have
imagined." Facts are irrelevant,
and certain things may not be said
whether they are true or false....It is
a tyranny of the left practised by the
very people who professed shock at the
tactics of Joe McCarthy.
Hundreds of people have fallen foul
of that tyranny but, contrary to what
happened when McCarthy was on the loose,
their fate does not much interest our
liberal watchdogs. On the contrary, such
victims are usually denounced as Nazis,
neo-Nazis, Fascists, "white
supremacists", and so on.
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A
prime example is that of Germar Rudolf,
a young German with a doctorate in
chemistry who tested the "gas
chambers" at Birkenau and concluded
that they could not have been used for
mass executions. He was dismissed from
the prestigious Max Planck Institute and
sentenced to 14 months in prison. He
fled to England, where Jewish groups
have sought his extradition to Germany,
and is now seeking political asylum in
the U.S. I recall that news items in the
Conrad Black-owned Telegraph newspapers
in London denounced him as a Nazi in
hiding. With no shred of evidence.
Switzerland has become no better than
Germany. It embraced "holocaust
denial" censorship in 1995 and is
now sending offenders to jail or forcing
them into exile. According to AR, there
have been 200 trials and 100 sentences
in that country since then.
Juergen Graf, a highly qualified
teacher who wrote a revisionist book,
was sentenced to 15 months. His
publisher got a year, even though the
book was published before the law came
into effect. As is the case in Germany,
their lawyers could not defend them
properly without themselves being
prosecuted for "denial". Graf
fled to Iran and is now lecturing in
Iranian universities.
In France, Bridget Bardot has become
a "hate criminal". Not for
anything she said about the Jews, but
because, as an animal lover, she opposes
the ritual slaughter of sheep by French
Muslims. She also complained that France
is being invaded by an
"overpopulation of
foreigners".
Canada gets some attention in the
article. We now have "a nearly
20-year tradition of censorship",
with Ernst Zuendel being our "most
famous thought criminal".
As most of us know, Zuendel has faced
a long drawn-out human rights hearing
involving Jewish complaints about a web
site that bears his name but is run from
the U.S. How's that for stretching
things! But elasticity doesn't worry the
chairman of the tribunal. Nor does the
truth. As he has stated, "The truth
is not an issue before us.The sole issue
is whether such communications are
LIKELY to expose a person or persons to
hatred or contempt."
Censorship is on the march in Europe
and is licking at our own [U.S.]
borders, states AR, and "the real
shame is how so few people are willing
to oppose this clampdown on
freedom".
Quite. They'd rather have another
beer.
AR is available at P.O. Box 527,
Oakton, VA 22124. Tel: 703-716-0900, Fax
703-716-0932. |
