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Time to Indict some More Holocaust Deniers |
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by Autonomist
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21 Feb 2006
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Jail them! |
Well, David Irving is going to prison. He was convicted in Austria of being a Holocaust Denier, which is a crime in Austria.
All very well, but why is ONLY David Irving going to prison?
Why is not DePaul "University's" Norman Finkelstein going to Austrian prison, or DePaul's President Dennis Holtschneider for the crime of employing Finkelstein and defending his "scholarship"? The Anti-Defamation League has declared him to be a Holocaust denier. How about Northwestern University's Arthur Butz? How about Jeff Rense, who runs the Holocaust Denial web site Rense.com, and his assorted nazi columnists? How about the University of Ottawa's Michel Chossudovsky?
And then there is the unemployed skinhead and Holocaust Denier, Kurt Nimmo, or the potty poet from New Mexico, as we affectionately like to refer to him. Nimmo's reaction to the conviction of Irving on his little personal web site?
"Now that the “Notorious Holocaust Denier,” as the New York Times characterized David Irving, has pleaded guilty and faces three years in an Austrian prison for the crime of deviating from the official, Zionist-sanctioned and imposed history of the Second World War, we can expect triumphant ballyhoos from the Zionists, a screaming and obnoxious declaration of victory for the small outlaw nation of Israel and its endless blackmailing of millions of people who had nothing to do with Auschwitz and its discredited gas chambers.
“Mr. Irving’s trial came during a period of intense debate in Europe over freedom of expression, after European newspapers printed caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that set off deadly protests worldwide,” notes the New York Times. In other words, straying from the Holocaust orthodoxy is a punishable crime while sacking the Prophet Muhammad is freedom of expression.'
Nimmo, best known for his poems about his own hemorrhoids, used to be a regular columnist for Counterpunch until Alexander Cockburn fired his poetic posterior for his being a conspiracy nut. Nimmo likes to whine to his few readers how unfair it is to call him a nazi or Holocaust Denier. We figure the above citation sets the record straight. |
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