Killers out on Bail; Writers Stay in Jail
By Paul Fromm
The following letter by Paul Fromm illustrates the incredible oppression of human rights of free speech, thought, and opinion in Canada. In truth, a widespread attack against free speech is going on across the European-American world. In addition to the imprisonment of Brad Love and Ernst Zundel, there are many others around the world who suffer the same fate, including one of the most famous historians in the world, David Irving, who languishes in an Austrian Jail for uttering a politically incorrect historical opinion about an event that happened over 60 years ago!
For exercising his opinion in a speech, Irving faces charges that carry a maximum sentence of 20 years! This in a country that routinely releases murderers in under ten years. One must be forced to admit that Irving’s ideas must be pretty compelling and convincing if they seek to use such brutality to suppress them! If he is wrong, for God’s sake, argument and debate should be enough.
The fight against freedom has gone to incredible extremes in France, where University Professor and member of the EU Parliament, Bruno Gollnisch, has been stripped of his Parliamentary immunity so he can face a trial and possible prison for simply saying that historians and experts should be allowed to debate freely all aspects of the Second World War and any other historical issue. He didn’t defend any of the politically incorrect historians or their opinions, he only stated that they should be allowed freedom of speech, thought and conscience. For that he faces being stripped of his elected Parliamentary position and put in prison!
One of the biggest questions in all of this is where is the news coverage of this naked suppression of free speech. Remember the tsunami of news coverage for Soviet dissidents such as the Jewish Extremist Sharansky (a man who advocates ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians in Israel today). Where is Amnesty International and all the supposed defenders of freedom of Speech and human rights?
In an Amnesty International statement they said they don’t defend the human rights of people who “deny the Holocaust.” In the first place, none of the men in question “deny the Holocaust.” They have simply raised legitimate historical questions about certain aspects of the prevailing story. But regardless of their opinion, Amnesty International therefore admits it only defends the human rights of those who have an opinion it agrees with. In other words, it is not freedom of speech, thought, conscience and expression that Amnesty International defends, but only those who think and speak as they want! In my book, that makes AI just about as bad as the governments that attempt to make criminals of those utter politically incorrect thought and speech. For freedom of speech has nothing to do with ideas government agrees with, it is all about not persecuting ideas that it disagrees with. You might send an email to Amnesty International on this issue. Be sure to address your emails to the officials of the organization (not in general) and be courteous in your tone.
— David Duke
Dear Defenders of Free Speech:
The Canadian justice system is a disgrace and a FARCE. The politicians holler about violence. We need gun confiscation, onerous rules for law-abiding owners, ban on handguns to prevent violence, they Tell us. Judges impose Stalinist prison sentences, like the 18 months Brad Love got in 2003 for having written letters critical of immigration and immigrant crimes to MPs, MPPs, and police chiefs. The sentencing judge worried about unrest such views could cause in the community, even though the letters were private communications. In sentencing him, Mr. Justice Gorewich lectured Mr. Love and charged that he had engaged in a “prolonged campaign that could inflame racial tensions. ‘You used your intellect in a way that was as negative as possible and could well have a ripple effect that could be catastrophic in many communities.’” (more…)