David Irving will appeal
World-renowned historian and Second World War expert David Irving has received a draconian sentence of three years in prison from an Austrian court for speaking. "I'm very shocked," said Irving as he was led from the courtroom. Irving, who looks like he has aged considerably since his arrest and incarceration in November of 2005, was expecting a suspended sentence in exchange for his plea of guilty to charges that he had "denied the holocaust" in statements made in Austria in 1989.
In Austria, as in most nations in Europe, questioning the accepted dogma of the holocaust -- that the Germans systematically murdered six million Jews as part of state policy -- is illegal. Irving, who does not consider himself to be an expert on the "holocaust" told the court that he believes, as do most revisionists, that the Germans killed many Jews in the war, but reports do not indicate that he elaborated this view to include an acceptance of the complete "holocaust" orthodoxy package. In any case, his plea was made under extreme duress, in keeping with similar persecutions of dissidents throughout the history of Europe. As such, his "recantation" is meaningless.
Irving and his lawyer have vowed to pursue an appeal, which has already been filed.
The Irving verdict and sentence are a grotesque shame for Austria, which pretends to be a modern, progressive Western nation. In fact, David Irving stood no chance, as he and his lawyer said. This is because Austria is under intense Jewish pressure, including demands for WWII-related handouts, based on the alleged Austrian role in the supposed "holocaust."
The corrupt "liberal" elite of Austria is also threatened by a strong and growing patriotic movement of Austrians angry about Third World immigration. Zionists and "liberals" continually attempt to link such demands for sane immigration controls to the "holocaust." Various commentators admitted that David Irving had to be imprisoned in order to send a message.
However, the over-reaction to historical questions poses an extreme danger to the status quo. By persecuting dissidents the system gives them free publicity, makes them into victimized heroes, and forces the "liberal" system to show its true face. So dangerous is the overuse of the "holocaust" and persecution of dissidents that even David Irving's "arch-nemesis" Deborah Lipstadt called for his release. The Jewish newsweekly The Forward also bemoaned the rhetorical overreach of the over-use of the "holocaust" by Jews for political ends.
Another side-effect of the persecution of "revisionists" is to give Iran and other nations in the Muslim world freedom to point out the abuse of human rights by "Western" nations who criticize them for their own records. The double standard shown in the recent Cartoon Jihad, which rightfully justified anti-Muslim cartoons as acceptable in the name of free speech even as scholarly investigations of the supposed historically factual "holocaust" are banned, is also painfully obvious and a living indictment of the hypocrisy of "liberal" and Zionist elites.
Most important is the fact that the jailing of revisionists is proof positive to growing numbers of people that the "holocaust" as we "know it" is a sham that is so shaky that its partisans are forced to actually imprison people who dare to question it.
Had Irving chosen to fight the case, evidence was to be given by a journalist to whom he gave an interview in 1989. This is the second recent case of Western "journalists" providing evidence against dissidents that was used by prosecutors. Nick Griffin, Chairman of the British National Party, was tried along with activist Mark Collett after a man working as an "undercover mole" for the government's British Broadcasting Corporation secretly videotaped speeches by the pair. The tapes were used to disrupt the electoral campaign of the BNP and as evidence for a "speech crimes" trial. The Free Speech Two beat some of the charges, but a hung jury on others means they will be retried in May (2006).
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