SCUM DISRUPT APPEARANCE BY DAVID IRVING
wis...@yahoo.com
<Hein...@Ruhrgasnet.de> wrote:
>On Tuesday, September 19, the internationally despised Holocaust denier and
>historical revisionist David Irving was scheduled to speak at a secret
>meeting in Chicago regarding "Truth in History." The topic of Irving's
>scheduled appearance is ironic, given that his reputation as a historian
>was thoroughly shredded by a judgement placed against him in a British high
>court earlier this year. In this case, where David Irving's beliefs and
>"evidence" were placed on trial, the judge found that "Irving has for his
>own ideological reasons persistently and deliberately misrepresented and
>manipulated historical evidence; that for the same reasons he has portrayed
>Hitler in an unwarrantedly favourable light, principally in relation to his
>attitude towards, and responsibility for, the treatment of the Jews."
>
>For the past 15 years, David Irving has pushed doctored historical evidence
>exonerating the Nazis from the extermination of Jews during World War II.
>He has peddled his ideas to the extreme right, consistently making
>appearances and speeches on behalf of fascist and right-wing groups in a
>number of countries, including the US, Canada and Germany. According to the
>British courts: "The content of his speeches and interviews often displays
>a distinctly pro-Nazi and anti-Jewish bias." There is no question that
>David Irving is an apologist and proponent of fascism.
>
>A short time before David Irving was scheduled to speak in Chicago, the
>progressive right-wing monitoring group the Center for New Community (CNC)
>learned of the event and put out a call to anti-fascists around Chicago to
>respond and protest. Over 70 people turned out on only a day's notice,
>including a sizable contingent pulled together by Anti-Racist Action (ARA)
>as well as student activists from Depaul University. The activists gathered
>at DePaul University, only a few blocks away from Stefani's, the bourgeois
>restaurant hosting Irving's event. The anti-fascists then marched to the
>restaurant and staged a spirited protest out front. This rowdy protest was
>blocked from getting in the front door, but the highly visible and loud
>presence drew crowds of onlookers from the surrounding neighborhood,
>restaurants and workplaces.
>
>At the same time, a group of masked anti-fascists stormed into the
>restaurant through the rear kitchen entrance. This militant action further
>disrupted Irving's presentation, as tables were knocked over, food was
>thrown and Irving's literature ripped and scattered. Irving himself was
>struck with a chair! The antifas withdrew from the restaurant before police
>arrived, and no arrests were taken. Irving and his audience of 20 or so
>were forced to retreat to the basement of the building.
>
>The protest outside the restaurant continued for 45 minutes, before it left
>the area in the face of a growing police presence and escalated police
>threats. The entire night was undoubtedly a victory, as it showed that
>anti-fascists could organize on extremely short notice to disrupt a
>clandestine fascist affair and hand them a lesson they won't soon forget.
>The anti-fascists themselves were a diverse bunch, including religious
>activists, Jewish students, Latino punks, white anarchists and class war
>skinheads. The action was also successful because it incorporated space
>both for activists who merely wished to make a presence and expose the
>affair as well as militants who wished to take direct action and attempt to
>shut it down. Both played their part, and delivered a message that fascists
>will not be allowed to secretly spread their lies and organize without
>being directly confronted and opposed.
Incidents like this give credence to comments like, "free speech is
only for Jews and organizations they support".
ted
Rich
news:7eirg5pm3kcu7ck6f...@4ax.com:
Whenever censorship in a Western democracy rears its head, they are
behind it. Might as well ship them all to Iran or China.
Jax
prove a negative, and antifascists need to learn the best way to make
kooks like this look bad is to let 'em talk.
Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS
Hey stupid - the jooz know he's not a kook. They know, as most people
do, that the holohoax was just allied propaganda. If germany had won
WW2, the japanese internment camps we had in CA would have gone down
in the history books as death camps.
History is written by the victors.
tomcervo
What--they raised the character level of the assembly and speaker?
Actually this has some TV relevance--there was a pretty good British
TV doc about Irving's libel trial and his absolute capitulation at the
end of same. he has to talk in places like Chicago now, since he's a
joke in the UK.