Doug Christie, maybe Canada’s most famous, but certainly her most controversial defense lawyer, has died. He is best known to revisionists for his superb performances as a defense lawyer during the 1985 and 1988 trials against the German-Canadian revisionist Ernst Zündel. Although deemed a case impossible to win, this is exactly what Christie did: In 1992 Canada’s Supreme Court acquitted Ernst Zündel and erased the infamous “false news” act from Canada’s penal code.
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In 2008 Richard Williamson, a bishop of the traditional Catholic Society of St. Pius X, made a side remark about his disbelief in the orthodox Holocaust narrative. The resulting media outrage led to Williamson’s criminal prosecution in Germany for “Holocaust Denial.” The case has been in the courts for three years now with no end in sight. Here is Williamson’s report about the latest court case…
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Germany has released its new numbers of criminal investigation launched against “enemies of the constitution.” The vast majority of these cases concern “thought crimes” committed by political right-wingers. In this post, the bare data of persecution are put into the context of the frightening legal framework Germany has created over the years to allow such an outrage to happen…
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In 2011 the United Nations released Comment #34 as a guideline for governments and NGOs on how to interpret articles 19 & 20 of the U.N.’s Declaration of Human Rights. It says, “Laws that penalise the expression of opinions about historical facts are incompatible” with the spirit of this Declaration. Australian free speech activist Dr. Töben dug deeper into the matter, though, and discovered some ugly ifs and buts, which once more leave revisionists out in the rain…
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Germar Rudolf is back—with a powerful message: resist the oppressors! His new book about his trials and tribulations is now available. In it, he tells more than just his story. It is a beacon of freedom and human dignity, of dissent and civil disobedience against the tyrants who want to force us to believe in fairy tales used to justify past and future wars and mass slaughters…
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When leading French revisionist Dr. Robert Faurisson received an award for “courage” from Iranian president Ahmadinejad, CRIF, France’s most influential Jewish lobby group, spread the lie that Faurisson had also received a large sum of money from Iran. After being threatened with a libel litigation by Faurisson, CRIF now backed down and admitted they had lied to the public…
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