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"Let's
get the British bastard!" How
emails from a badly leaking laptop
scuppered the violent plans of the
traditional enemies of Free Speech in
Colorado DENVER Jewess Sara
Salzman (below) was the brain
behind plans for the disruption of Mr
Irving's December 22, 2003 visit to the
city. In doing so, she risked federal
prosecution for conspiring to violate the
civil rights of his audience. As a
Holocaust professional and webmaster (she
has claimed that her Holocaust website
gets Six Million "hits" each month) she
expected to get away with it.  Her
gang laid plans in several directions. All
failed. One of the earlier, less violent
projects was to infiltrate into the
audience her husband, whom she described
as a big -- i.e., obese -- man, and have
him purchase an Irving book; he would then
produce the cancelled check to claim that
the British historian was "violating his
visa status."
Her computer records show that she sent
over fifty emails to Denver Jewish groups
asking for support. Most responded cautiously, asking what
Abe Foxman's Anti-Defamation
League was doing about the visit. The answer was, nothing. The ADL had
burnt its fingers badly when it authorized
illegal wiretaps on a Colorado couple and
publicly smeared them as anti-Semites. A Denver court
ordered the ADL to pay $9.75 million
in libel damages; the organisation's
appeal was dismissed in April 2003. Even
for an organization as wealthy as the ADL
(annual budget, $50 million) that kind of
award hurts. They were not keen to fetch Salzman's
chestnuts out of the fire, if she
deliberately provoked trouble in
Denver. Sara's chief accomplice was a former
New York City cop and jailer, Rich
Miller. She emailed him frequent updates on the
plan, with headings like: "T-minus 13 days
to Irving." The ex-cop would reply to her,
"All is going well at my end."  To
journalist Dani Newsum,
left, who had written a
particularly nasty OpEd piece in the
Denver Post headed "NAZI
SWILL, COMING SOON," Sara also
fed this information:
We've got a minimum of
ninety people who will be demonstrating
in front of the (as-yet-undisclosed)
location. If anyone has any media
contacts, especially with the local TV
stations or Fox, please let me know. I
will be working this week on contacting
various media folks. I'd especially
like to reach Peter
Boyles at KHOW and
Enid Goldstein
at KNRC (radio), and anyone at the TV
stations." As the organised efforts to undermine
Mr Irving's lecture tour -- on the
comparisons between World War II and the
war in Iraq -- began to bite, from Las
Vegas onwards, Salzman gloated: Good news from the front
lines: Irving was supposed to speak in
Seattle on Monday night. He announced
the location, the Pyramid Brewery, and
one of the members of Holocaust Project
wrote a
letter to the
location. Showing where she expected most of her
support to come from, Salzman left stacks
of pamphlets at Denver's Jewish gift
shops. On December 15, with five days to go,
her leaky laptop received this message
from her ex-cop friend, announcing that he
and his squad would be ready for action on
Saturday. They were evidently expecting
violence: Things are warm and
heating up quickly. We are prepared and
ready for the event on Saturday. Our
group of four will be equipped with
cameras, signs, FirstAid supplies,
water, and snacks. 
WORRIED about what she called "a mole in
her ranks," that day the
Holocaust-obsessed Sara had another mole
-- "Michael Wilde" -- send this message to
Mr Irving:
I saw the article in
Westword magazine and I'm real
interested in hearing your talk. We
read about the Holocaust in school, but
I can't believe all the stuff we were
told. Will you be saying anything about
it? Wilde's application failed to make the
genuine guest list for Denver, because it
failed certain criteria. Sara's keyboard
handiwork confirmed this decision.  ("In
cases like these," Mr Irving proposed to
the Denver organizer, "we find the address
of a gay bar and send the suspects to wait
there all evening.")
Mr Irving sent "Wilde" a standard
reply, but added that he was not talking
about the Holocaust, and had never written
about it. No matter. Irving had to be silenced.
Sara hammered out this message on her
keyboard to her conspirators: "We're in
the loop." (She added a surly comment:
"Interesting that Mr. Irving can afford a
tollfree cell phone number in US.") Meanwhile she sent a wad of leaflets to
the Denver TV and radio stations, her
fingers busily typing out more lying
smears on her porous keyboard: David Irving, an
anti-American [sic],
anti-Semitic, Holocaust denier, will be
speaking here, and there will be a
group protesting his visit. Information
about this protest has been reported in
Dani Newsum's Blog 'Nazi Swill is
coming to town'.Unfortunately, Mr. Irving (to
reduce the possibility of press
coverage [sic]) will not
announce the location of his talk until
a day or two before. Risking a final libellous smear,
Salzman added: David Irving's followers
are the same kinds of people as those
who killed Alan Berg. It's vital that
we let him know he is not welcome in
Denver. Sara Salzman 303-617-9412. Meanwhile she had learned from "Michael
Wilde" that he had asked Mr Irving by
email: "Do you have a place yet for your
talk?" To their delight, the author had
answered ("currently on the road in
Wyoming") -- less than frankly, as it
would turn out -- "Yes, north Denver, and
you will be informed later today." That confirmed what they already
"knew," because he had a inserted a fake
line to that effect at the end of the
Moscow Daily News report
posted on his website, namely that he
would be speaking somewhere near the new
Denver International Airport.
IT WAS now D-Day minus 1 -- Friday,
December 19, 2003. Sara Salzman typed this
report at 11:16 a.m.: Irving has posted an
article on his web site. . . The last
sentence says: 'Irving speaks at a
hotel near Denver airport on Saturday.'
If anyone wants to start calling
hotels near the airport and ask if
someone with the initials "A.H." has
booked a conference room for a meal and
lecture, please feel free! Sara."
She received confirmation from a fellow
plotter that the most recent update was
"somewhere near the airport." She congratulated him: "We're getting
closer. My husband is going to call
Irving's cell phone after 3:00 p.m.
today." Mr Irving's phone registered an
incoming "no caller ID" call at 3:10 p.m.
-- but the call did not reach him in
Wyoming. She and her plotters had to rely
on their wits, and on her leaky
laptop. Late on that Friday evening, Mr Irving
sealed the Denver plotters' fate with this
message to their mole "Michael Wilde": Here is tomorrow Saturday's
location by email: please keep it under
your hat. Tell no-one. We have booked a
room at the Denver International
Airport Marriott (the actual address,
if you're coming by taxi, is 16455 East
40th Circle). The Marriott Corp have never let
us down yet (as you know we have just
held our fourth international Real
History weekend at their Cincinnati
airport location) so they don't bow to
pressure. We have asked the hotel to deny
any afternoon function taking place.
The booking is under a less than
obvious name, as you will see when you
arrive. I suggest you come between twelve
and one, when I shall arrive; we'll
have a meal and then I will talk.
Looking forward to seeing y'all
there. At 1:35 a.m. Sara sat at her lap-top
and hammered out a new message to her
gang. She quoted Irving's message to
"Wilde," then finalized their plans: So here's what I suggest:
We all meet in the parking lot of the
Marriott. Since Irving isn't going to
be there until one, we don't want to
clue him in too early. So let's meet
around 11:15-11:30.Our person taking pictures will
have to be in the lobby of the hotel,
since lots of other people will be
coming and going. One of us will go in
and scope it out, figure out which
"room" Irving has rented (my guess is
under a name with the initials A.H.),
and then our photographer can stake out
a place to take pictures that isn't too
obvious . . . otherwise the hotel will
toss us. Referring to the ex-cop Rich Miller,
she suggested: "Rich, I'm sure, can fill
us in on what's 'legal' to do. . . . Let's
get the British bastard!! Sara." She then switched off her laptop, and
turned in for the night, while dreams of
sweet violence danced in her head. At ten on Saturday morning, the big
day, she issued final "legal advice" to
her gang, provided by "our legal advisor
at the Holocaust Project," on what to do
if they fell foul of the law and whether
to comply with the Marriott's order that
they leave: My own answer to a
security guard is 'Call the police and
have them tell me that' and answer that
you are 'Exercising your constitutional
rights.'This puts on record what
happened and what is involved.
Second, it puts it in an area
where the wimps at the Anti-Defamation
League and the nutballs at the American
Civil Liberties Union can, if either
decides to get off their fat asses,
intervene in a meaningful way.
The next day, she and her ("big")
husband got "off their asses." When they
downloaded her emails on Saturday morning,
ex-cop Rich Miller had already sent in his
own take on the forthcoming
confrontation:  Let
us give this racist, Nazi, Hitler
lover, and Jew-hater a big Colorado
unwelcome. The weather will be perfect, the
location is ideal, and our cause is
moral. See you all at The Marriott
Hotel at approximately 11:30 AM today.
The Marriott Hotel is located off
Interstate 70, Exit 285, Airport Blvd.
North. If you need better directions,
please call the Marriott at
303-371-4333. Please do not mention
David Irving. We do not want to give
him a heads up as to what we have
planned.-Rich.
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