New Harvard book attacks First Amendment freedom

The Harm in Hate Speech

By Jeremy Waldron 

Hardcover, 304 pages

Harvard University Press (June, 2012)

"In this elegantly written, fair minded, and carefully reasoned book, Jeremy Waldron raises important issues about the real harm caused by certain kinds of speech. His argument is certain to give even free speech absolutists pause.” --Louis Michael Seidman, Georgetown University

An Extraordinarily Biased and Obtuse Attack on the First Amendment

Reviewed by Michael Hoffman at Amazon

Mr. Waldron proceeds from the premise that "hate speech" consists in stereotypical redneck bigotry and assorted "anti-semitic" attacks. He ignores the deluge of Talmudic hate speech that has poured forth in recent years from Orthodox rabbis execrating Arabs and gentiles.

Here is one example of his obtuse approach to the subject, from p. 195:

"Suppose someone puts up posters conveying the opinion that people from Africa are nonhuman primates.... Maybe there was a time when social policy generally ... could not adequately be debated without raising the whole issue of race in this sense. But that is not our situation today.... In fact, the fundamental debate about race is over - won, finished. There are outlying dissenters, a few crazies who say they believe that people of African descent are an inferior form of animal; but for half a century or more, we have moved forward as a society on the premise that this is no longer a matter of serious contestation."

What Waldron forgets (or doesn't wish to mention) is that the source for the disgusting charge that Africans are non-human is the "Rambam," the illustrious Rabbi Moses Maimonides who, in the uncensored edition of The Guide of the Perplexed (cf. Shlomo Pines), rules that Black people are midway between apes and humans. What does Waldron make of the fact that the most eminent rabbi in Judaic tradition is one of the hate speech "crazies" whose malevolent racist influence over western society is incalculable? He doesn't deign to say from the Mount Olympus by which he judges what is and is not "hate speech.” One gets the sense that even to mention Maimonides in the same breath as some white bigot from the deep South is beyond Waldron's tightly circumscribed mentality. He's representative of the Zionists-are-always victims syndrome, permanently in denial concerning racist rabbis and Judaic gentile-haters.

Another major flaw in his argument is the fact that the USA has existed for many decades without the kind of regulation of expression that Waldron espouses, and our society did not sacrifice civility or decency because we safeguarded speech from the Old World fiat that "error has no rights." Americans have always asked to the contrary, who decides what is error? This book does not exhibit any doubts. It is certain of its mission -- to determine what constitutes hate speech, who are the hateful speakers and how they are to be punished. You'll find similar rationales in tattered Bolshevik CHEKA handbooks.

The hidden agenda in this volume is the use of laws against hate speech to suppress speech that is hateful to Zionist commissars, Israeli chauvinists and bigoted adherents of hateful religious texts such as the "Mishneh Torah" (Hilchot Melachim 11:4); "Tanya;" "Torat Hamelech"; "Baruch Hagever;""Romemut Yisrael Ufarashat Hagalut;" Kitzur Shulchan Aruch (167:15); and the Gemara itself in tractates such as BT Sanhedrin 57a . Waldron might have taken the time to parse the infamous rabbinic hate speech acronym for gentile women: NSHGZ (Niddah, Shifcah, Goyyah and Zonah) which is too filthy to explicate here.

The Harm in Hate Speech introduces, under a pretense of human rights for all, a means to gain legal advantage over one's political rivals and opponents -- stigmatized as haters, they will be prosecuted and silenced, while rabbinic and Zionist haters will be portrayed as victims and gain relative immunity. It's one thing for the author to put forth this unspoken double-standard; it's quite another for him to fail to even anticipate questions about the fairness of his criteria for what constitutes hate speech.

Reading this book one gets the distinct impression that Talmudic megalomania is at work and that no amount of Arab-hating West Bank settler racism, or Crown Heights, Brooklyn goyim-bashing, is ever going to qualify as "hate speech." Rather, what will be outlawed is the body of thought that forms the traditional consensus patrum of American society. The truth behind the facade is that the "intolerable" hurt feelings which candid speech by the American yeoman and populist supposedly generates, is reason enough to overthrow the First Amendment, although Waldron has sufficient wit not to frame his revolution in those terms. He seeks “regulation" not abolition of the First Amendment.

There is a gulag being prepared in these United States by people like Mr. Waldron for those who challenge Talmudic racism, Zionist war crimes and the imperial personalities who justify them.

The First Amendment of the Bill of Rights is one of our nation's most blessed gifts to the world, let us uphold it to our last full measure of devotion.

Michael Hoffman is the author of Judaism's Strange Gods and the editor of Revisionist History newsletter.

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Great Holocaust Trial Defense Attorney Doug Christie is Ailing

By Michael Hoffman

www.revisionisthistory.org

Battling Barrister: Canada’s Doug Christie

According to his wife, Keltie writing in her June, 2011 Friends of Freedom newsletter, 65-year-old Canadian Attorney Douglas Christie, the fearless barrister who so ably defended Ernst Zundel in two historic thought crime trials in Toronto in 1985 and 1988, has “prostate cancer of an aggressive grade that has already spread locally outside the prostate.”

Doug is one of the finest men and purest souls it has been my privilege to know. He went far beyond being Ernst’s attorney. He became his friend and a defender of the German people as a whole. In the course of the two trials he had to absorb thousands of facts, hundreds of books and dozens of maps, models and diagrams in order to defend Ernst to the best of his ability. He spent hours in court and then hours at night and on weekends studying with the Zundel defense team, led by Dr. Robert Faurisson of France. A lesser man would have been broken by the stress and the media libel. Doug relished the challenge and stepped into history’s spotlight chasing destiny.

With the brilliant and thorough organization so typical of Mr. Zundel, Doug’s daily after-court briefings in the basement of Zundelhaus were preserved on video. I have included highlights of those briefings in my documentary film, “The Great Holocaust Trial,” (not to be confused with the book of the same name).

After the Zundel trials, Doug continued his career as “the Clarence Darrow of Canada,” although he stands head-and-shoulders above Darrow, who in some respects was an opportunist (Darrow’s finest hour was his defense of Bill Heywood and the IWW in Idaho in 1907; his nadir was the 1924 Leopold-Loeb case).

Mr. Christie went on to represent dissidents, the marginal and the nearly defenseless. Among his most spectacular victories was the 1990 acquittal of Hungarian-Canadian restauranteur Imre Finta, who had been arrested on trumped-up war crimes’ charges. This was a huge setback for the same “Never Forgive” gang that on July 20, 2011, under color of law, desecrated the grave of Rudolf Hess in Germany (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14232768). Talmudic vengeance knows no bounds! Doug was ably assisted in the Finta case by the equally courageous attorney Barbara Kulaszka.

Christie defended newspaperman Doug Collins, a heroic British-Canadian soldier who escaped ten times from German POW camps in World War II. Mr. Collins testified for and wrote columns on behalf of Mr. Zundel. Those columns led to his prosecution. Christie has also defended high school history teacher Paul Fromm, English anti-Talmud campaigner Lady Jane Birdwood, Internet activist Bernard Klatt, Marc Lemire, and dozens of other indigent and media-libeled victims of the new inquisition.

The Zionist lobby has had Mr. Christie in its sights for more than a quarter-century, but his record for probity was so impeccable they could find no pretext by which they could disbar or financially cripple him until 2007, when they were able to exploit a minor procedural technicality related to a law pertaining to “subpoena for documents.” The Law Society of masonic Canada ruled that this most honorable of all Canadian lawyers, in “improperly” processing the documents had been “dishonorable.” He was fined $20,000. He could not be disbarred on that basis alone however, and he continued his law practice.

Doug has given his life to the nearly thankless task of fighting for the free speech rights of everyone from Native Canadian David Ahenakew to a coterie of Christians, Germans, East Europeans, revisionists, skeptics and individualists who refused to be commissared. He has continued to press for justice in the case of Jeff Hughes, a confused and possibly mentally ill unarmed skinhead who was shot to death in 2009 by Canada’s “Mounties” for no discernible reason other than his politics. A case like this does nothing to burnish Christie’s career or fill his wallet. At the risk of sounding maudlin, Doug did it out of love for the memory of this young man who he met once and only briefly at the George Orwell Awards Dinner, which he and his wife host annually in British Columbia. Doug Christie is a traditional Catholic who cares more about living the Gospel than talking about it. The cause of justice for Jeff Hughes is but one example of his Christ-like conduct.

While I do not speak for or represent Ernst Zundel, I will venture to say that if he were not under a de facto gag order in Germany and barred from traveling in the US and Canada, he would use that organizational genius of his to put together an international testimonial dinner for Doug which would be attended by hundreds. There is no one like Ernst on the scene today, but that is no excuse for us to fail to express our gratitude to Mr. Christie for his life of sacrifice and idealism.

Send him a get well card of encouragement and appreciation:

Mr. Douglas Christie
Box 101
255 Menzies Street
Victoria, BC V8V 2G6
Canada

Doug’s wife, Keltie, is a cancer survivor. They have two beautiful children. Let us storm heaven with prayers for his complete recovery.

Copyright©2011. All Rights Reserved

(Hoffman is the author of The Great Holocaust Trial: The Landmark Battle for the Right to Doubt the West’s Most Sacred Relic).

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Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government Tracks “Deniers"

"Measuring Holocaust Denial in the United States”

(online here)

by Scott Darnell, Master's Degree Thesis, Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government

This thesis is written like a CIA action report, with calls for more surveillance and even a "rapid response team." There is a surfeit of graphs and statistics.

Mr. Darnell's thesis (submitted to Aleisa Fishman, PhD. and Rebekah Sobel, PhD.) appears to be a prelude to a groundwork for criminalizing heretics in America who doubt the holy Auschwitz homicidal gas chamber relic.

Of course, the author would not describe his inquisition in those terms. Rather he frames it in the pseudo-scientific taxonomy of “antisemitism," along with lurid references to skinheads, klansmen and vandalism.

The heroes of Darnell's master's thesis are the Stalinist thought police of the Zionist ADL, and the spies employed by Zionist Morris Dees' Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), who, in 2003, had Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore expelled from the court for advocating the Ten Commandments.

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Zionist lobby stifles free speech at Hastings College of the Law

ANNALS OF THE NEW INQUISITION 

Pressure on Law Conference Threatens Free Speech

by Cecilie Surasky / April 23rd, 2011 • Dissident Voice

The Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee and the Bay Area’s Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) interfered in an academic conference last month called “Litigating Palestine: Can Courts Secure Palestinian Rights?” at the UC Hastings College of the Law.

They pressured the Hastings Board of Directors into an emergency meeting in which the board decided to “take all steps necessary to remove the UC Hastings name and brand” from the conference. Frank Wu, dean and chancellor, was barred from giving a welcoming talk; a major foundation withdrew funding.

Professors dislike academic intimidation, and this case is no exception. Nearly all of UC Hastings’ tenured professors signed a letter warning that the board’s capitulation to outside pressure on academic freedom risked “great damage to Hastings’ reputation.”

The elected student government, joined by 30 student organizations, charged the board with “stifling their academic freedom” and “prospectively chilling free speech” at future academic conferences. They are right, of course. But there are bigger issues at stake.

Why were these mainstream Jewish organizations so troubled by the academic pursuit of legal approaches to securing Palestinian rights and freedom?

Perhaps for the first time in U.S. history, there is an aggressive challenge to a one-sided narrative that covers up or justifies ongoing Israeli repression of Palestinians, and U.S. culpability for that repression. The center of that challenge is on campuses, which is why those who have traditionally adopted knee-jerk defenses of Israeli policies are attempting to stigmatize or shut down alternative viewpoints.

In this case, the conference in question was about the legal rights of Palestinians. Its lead convener was former San Francisco public defender and Hastings law professor George Bisharat. He was joined by numerous legal scholars and human rights lawyers, including many Jews, from the United States and Israel.

Yet JCRC head Doug Kahn dubbed the conference, which was focused on nonviolent legal strategies to address the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, “anti-Israel.” He’s right, however, only if you regard Thurgood Marshall’s efforts on behalf of the civil rights movement to be “anti-American.”

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, a lecturer at UC Santa Cruz, indicated in a letter of complaint that UC Hastings could lose federal funds if the conference proceeded.

Rossman-Benjamin, who has long tried to silence speakers and academics who are critical of Israeli policies, many of them Jewish and even Israeli, recently filed a complaint about alleged anti-Semitism at UC Santa Cruz focusing on educational programming related to Israel and Palestine.

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, the target of a multi-year campaign to criminalize pro-Palestinian student activism led by the Zionist Organization of America, began an investigation. Ominously, such moves suggest that legitimate criticism of Israeli policy is being conflated with anti-Semitism.

If this is allowed to happen, then serious debate on Israel’s illegal actions in the Palestinian territories will be shut down. That is a threat not just to academic freedom but to American free speech and our ability to help secure the rights of everyone in Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

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"Censure anti-Semitic teacher, Italian Jewish leaders say"

ANNALS OF THE NEW INQUISITION

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LICEO LINGUISTICO MANZONI, UN BLOG SUSCITA LA POLEMICA 

«Quell'insegnante è negazionista e antisemita». Ispettori dal ministero

Avrebbe definito, tra le altre cose, la Giornata della memoria «una forzatura» e l'Olocausto «un mito»

http://tinyurl.com/5rfeqbg

MILANO - Respinge ogni accusa. Proprio non ne vuole sapere di passare per «negazionista e antisemita». Perché sono addebiti «campati per aria che non credo neppure di dover prendere in considerazione». Scoppia la polemica su Barbara Albertoni, una professoressa del liceo linguistico Manzoni che nel suo blog «cloro al clero» avrebbe definito, tra le altre cose, la Giornata della memoria «una forzatura» e «l'Olocausto un mito». Poi ancora altri «post» ritenuti «offensivi». Il mondo politico, da destra a sinistra, condanna la vicenda. E intanto il ministero dell'Istruzione vuole inviare un'ispezione per fare chiarezza.

L'assessore comunale alla Scuola, Mariolina Moioli, ha chiesto «una relazione sui comportamenti dell'insegnante e sulla base di quanto emergerà verranno presi gli opportuni provvedimenti». E difende l'istituto dove «è ben salda e convinta l'adesione ai principi e ai valori costituzionali». Ma la docente trova la situazione «assurda». E le accuse sono «parole grosse di una persona che nell'ambito professionale violerebbe la Costituzione in modo grossolano perché significherebbe che vede la vita in modo razzista, quindi discrimina e discriminare vorrebbe dire violare la Costituzione, appunto».

Inoltre, sempre dalle colonne del suo blog, promette battaglia: «Ho 30 anni di carriera nella scuola come insegnante di storia e fior di testimoni che mi aiuteranno». E afferma anche che «la lobby sionista ha campo libero, evidentemente anche sui giornali, al fine di stroncare le voci di dissenso soprattutto sulla questione palestinese».

Redazione Cronaca di Milano
15 aprile 2011

Censure anti-Semitic teacher, Italian Jewish leaders say

April 17, 2011 • http://tinyurl.com/3qhbvj7

ROME (JTA) -- Italian Jewish leaders have called on Italy's education minister to take action against a Milan high school teacher accused of Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism.

A statement by the president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, Renzo Gattegna, and the president of the Milan Jewish community, Roberto Jarach, said the teacher in question, Barbara Albertoni, had "spread historical falsehoods, also on the Internet, which insult the memory of the millions of innocent victims of barbarism and savagery of the Nazis and fascists, and also illicitly carries out an action aimed at distilling prejudice, racism and hatred." 

Controversy over Albertoni erupted after an article in the La Repubblica newspaper described her as a Holocaust denier and anti-Semite. The newspaper based its description on her posts on her anarchist and pro-Palestinian blog that made "repeated attacks on Jews and Israel," and pictures and cartoons showing the Israeli flag with a swastika. It quoted her in one post as calling the Holocaust "the founding myth of Zionism."

Albertoni rejected the accusations. Some of her words were taken out of context, she said, but she added that the "Zionist lobby" was behind efforts "to cut off the voices of dissent, above all on the Palestinian question." (End quote from JTA)

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“Con quale paura!Perduto tra due milioni di pazzi,eroici e scatenati e armati sino ai denti (…) cacciati sotterra come in un manicomio, per distruggere tutto (…) tutto cio’ che respira,più arrabbiati che cani,adorando la loro rabbia(…)"  -L.F. Celine    

(From the blog, cloro al clero)

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Marco Pasqua: un cretino qualsiasi,che solo in un contesto come il nostro puo’ essere pagato per scrivere

http://networkedblogs.com/gDtxO

Cioè…sono assurta alle cronache di “milano-Repubblica”  NIENTEPOPO’DIMENO che come professoressa “negazionista”" e “antisemita”. Parole grosse, di una persona che nell’ambito professionale violerebbe la costituzione in modo grossolano perchè significherebbe che vede la vita in modo razzista, quindi discrimina e discriminare vorrebbe dire violare la costituzione, appunto. Quello che Repubblica ha lasciato scrivere è la prova evidente del suo essere un giornale guerrafondaio e carta veramente da culo atta ad impacchettare solo la merda.

Con questo articolo di questo Pasqua ,che in parte estrapola frasi dal mio blog senza dimostrare neppure di saperle leggere (su Faurisson scrissi che era vile avergli alzato le mani e che al negazionismo bisogna opporre  argomenti  di portata scientifica e non botte) e in parte s’inventa periodi che non ho mai scritto. In quanto al mio negazionismo (avrei scritto che l’Olocausto è “un mito”) è un’accusa così campata per aria che non credo neppure di doverla prendere in considerazione: ho 30 anni di carriera nella scuola come insegnante di storia e fior di testimoni che mi aiuteranno a far ricacciare in gola al Pasqua i suoi insulti a suon di migliaia di euri .

In realtà si sa che la lobby sionista ha campo libero (vedi Giorgio Israel, patron didattico della gelmini), evidentemente anche su giornali come Repubblica, al fine di stroncare le voci di dissenso soprattutto sulla questione palestinese. L’ultimo diverbio che ho avuto coi sionisti pochi giorni fa è stato su Facebook, a proposito di Vittorio Arrigoni, un amico continuamente dileggiato e calunniato perchè “osa” mandare informazioni di prima mano agli italiani sul lager di Gaza, che negli ultimi giorni ha subito bombardamenti assassini la cui conta è di circa 10 persone la settimana.

 Per il resto che altro dire? Che credo sia un onore trovarmi nelle fila dei Finkelstein, dei Pappe’, dei Caracciolo e di tutti coloro che sono stati perseguitati ingiustamente per le loro opinioni. Infamie che trovano fondamento nell’ingiustizia strutturale del presente. Un periodo storico nel quale pochi potenti decidono di buttare uranio impoverito sul popolo libico mentre la gente muore in Palestina nel silenzio complice di politici e media. Tra le varie inquisizioni del nostro tempo c’è questa: l’intento è intimidatorio, ma come scrissi tempo fa ad un’altra persona che mi diffamò, sono figlia di un valoroso italiano che servì nella seconda guerra mondiale come artificiere ad El Alamein e che s’è fatto le sue “belle” prigionie e torture da parte degli “amici” inglesi. Il conflitto mi carica. Se poi mi porta soldi, ancora di piu’. Certo non vinceranno, per quel che mi riguarda, dal lato della paura e della persecuzione perchè, nonostante possa sembrare un target di semplice esecuzione (madre single, prof di liceo ecc…) l’ho sempre spuntata contro chi voleva farmi del male e sarà così anche questa volta. Come filosofa temo solo la morte che, come si sa, puo’ sopravvenire in ogni momento, nessuno ne è immune. C’è gente che soffre per molto meno (per esempio Pasqua quando fa le figure di merda) ma io non faccio parte di quella categoria.

ps quasi tutti i link sono roba mia, cosicchè chi passa di qui possa farsi un’idea del mio “antisemitismo” nonchè “negazionismo”. Se si dicono robe del genere bisogna dimostrarle con una certa puntualità, non con l’astio vendicativo di un articolo a suo carico, mal digerito, covato per piu’ di un anno, poi uscito per essere stato maltrattato nel facebook di arrigoni. E chi ha orecchie per intendere intenda, chi no, in roulotte. Perchè la casa l’ha persa….

so che il paragone è forte, ma…lo schema è il medesimo di quello rappresentato…uno schema che si è fermato lì, ancora oggi nel 2011. E forse con piu’ crudeltà di quanto facessero allora. L’illuminismo per ‘sta gente, non è mai esistito…

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This information is courtesy of Michael Hoffman • www.revisionisthistory.org

"Against all odds"

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