Penniless:
that has a chilling affect on most
relation- ships. I later heard she had
come to a very sticky end in the
Ayatollah's Iran.
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September
8, 2004 (Wednesday)
Chicago
(Illinois) - Denver (Colorado) TAXI from Denver airport to
downtown, $65, as I can't rent a car. Phoned
Professor S., he will collect me at 12:15 pm.
tomorrow for the first lunchtime talk on Adolf
Hitler at the University. An admirer writes: "You are speaking on the
campus of the State University, a public building,
you Nazi sack of sh*t. So even though you don't
have the balls to post how to get in on here, you
can't keep a free, tax paying citizen of Boulder,
Colorado, out -- you Nazi bastard. I have first
amendment rights too. -- Doug
Pearl." Since I am sure he mean s his views to be
broadcast, I post his message with his email and
postal addresses. I am sure other admirers will
want to write encouraging letters to him. September
9, 2004 (Thursday)
Denver
(Colorado) I slip into a deep, restful sleep. Alas,
Benté phones from London at five-twenty
a.m., having got her time zones mixed up. Up at 7:10 a.m.. The Jewish Hater Douglas
Pearl has already got his belly full now, as
many have responded to him for his hatred-filled
message to me yesterday. He pleads: "As I have
received enough hate mail in less than 12 hours, I
am asking that you remove my other email from your
site." He adds, more menacingly, "I will be there
in Boulder, right in front of the building to
debate anyone. Unlike your Führer, I'm not
hiding." I reply: "I am always glad to debate anyone who
observes the normal decencies, which includes
eschewing the use of profanities; hate-mail, alas,
begets hate-mail, and eventually" -- at this point
I am going to type "begets Holocausts" when,
perhaps fortunately, the
"SEND" key is inadvertently
pressed. 8:09 a.m. a phone call from Douglas Pearl,
expressing hollow regrets for his bad language, and
asking how he can "get in". I explain it is a
public meeting. He then starts haranguing me, and I
hang up on him. I now add this new phone number,
from Caller-ID, to his details temporarily posted
on the website. At midday, S. comes to drive me over to local
campus, University of Colorado at Devner (UCD). The
students look very good, though their dress is
casual in the extreme; after one young lady in a
tight tank-top and skirt teeters past us on high
heels, I say jokingly to the professor, "I see that
UCD now allows hookers on the campus." He replies in seriousness that, Yes, there are a
few. I speak until 2:15 to a packed class of his
students, around forty-five in all, on problems of
writing about Adolf Hitler, and the need to
be on guard about sources, and skeptical at all
times, and then I chat with a select handful of
them until three pm.  Nobody
dies, though a couple of who have evidently had a
more liquid than solid lunch look, uh, sleepy. The
goodlooking young female sitting straight in front
of me, in hot-pants and a tight top, fingers the
"Birdie Spoon" attentively when I hand it around,
and smiles and winks appreciately as they file out
at the end. I don't remember the young ladies at Imperial
College in London being so attractive, or perhaps I
was just inert then. Three thousand students of
engineering, mining, and physics, and only thirty
ladies, most, though by no means all, of them dogs:
an exception was Avid Kazemi, from Persia;
she was stunningly beautiful, and we went out once
-- just once, because she found that I was
penniless, and paying my way through university by
working in the mornings on its reconstruction in
the John Laing concrete-gang (right). Penniless: That has a chilling affect on most
relationships. Poor thing, I later heard she had
come to a very sticky end in the Ayatollah's
Iran. Image
below: Mr Irving with organiser Joshua
McNair  September
10, 2004 (Friday)
Denver
(Colorado)
AT four pm Joshua McNair (right)
comes to collect me, and drives me the
twenty-five miles down to Boulder, at the foot of
the Rocky Mountains; we carry some books over to
the Hellems building at the University of Colorado
and upstairs to the lecture theater. Heavy boxes,
fifty-five pounds each, and nearly half a mile from
car to hall. I am told that a small hostile mob of
about two dozen people, mostly Jewish, has gathered
outside but they are too late. The audience trickles in slowly at first,
fifteen by six-thirty pm (I joke that this is
already three times the number I spoke to in
Albuquerque in December), but by the time the talk
is due to start at seven the auditorium is packed,
with every seat taken and people young and old
standing along the side walls too. Others are being
turned away at the doors -- they wait outside in
the hope that a seat becomes vacant. Spectacular
atmosphere, and in my estimate the speech I then
deliver is the best for ten years.  Doug Pearle, the hate-mail writer, arrives and
again pleads for the (abusive and obscene) hate
letter which he wrote to be removed from the
website; I take pity on him and say I will do it on
my return to Denver [and I do so at 10:51
pm]. Several Jews are dotted around the hall,
complete with skullcaps and silver stars of David,
though heavily outnumbered by the rest of us; and
there is a small gaggle of them lining the back
wall wearing identical orange (or are they Brown?)
shirts; they carry an Israeli flag, I fail to see
why. I defuse their plan, whatever it is, by calling
upon them, in front of the audience, at around 6:55
pm, five minutes before we begin, to make whatever
demonstration they are planning now, at my
invitation, rather than to wait until the rest of
the audience is listening to me. This appears to
have disconcerted them, and they shut up -- they
file quietly out after about half an hour, seeing
there is going to be no huntin' and fishin' for
them here today. Two demure Palestinian girls, one with a
headscarf, sit in the front row, a couple of seats
away from a glowering young Jew dressed in black
with a yarmulke and a Star of David at his
neck.  
UNIVERSITIES -- these are the very best of
audiences: lively, diverse, and alert. Half the
audience have entered clutching the ADL's
latest smear
backgrounder on me, printed on yellow paper. I
advise them twice that they need not take the
document home -- they can already find it on
my website, complete with hyperlinks to the
items referred to in it. Since I have their
attention, I then fill them in with a few facts
about the ADL and its unsavoury boss Abe "The
Grasp" Foxman, and its $65m annual budget to smear
literary folks like Noam Chomsky and
myself.
 THE
rest of their troublesome community completely
fails to heckle, as I have very shortly built the
vital "bridge" to the audience, and I am able to
walk my Gedankengut across it to them; the
listeners are, I venture to say, wholly or largely
on my side by the time we finish an hour later;
forty-five minutes of questions follow, most of
them thoughtful, astute, and positive.
The Nick
Berg anomalies particularly fascinate the
audience. Afterwards one woman comes over to me and
says that she watched the famous "decapitation"
video several times on the BBC and other TV
programs throughout the day concerned, and then
spotted something distinctly odd: One of the five
"Muslim" captors standing behind Berg was
wearing a wedding ring: Muslims do not wear
wedding rings. I tell her that The Sunday
Times in London has published an
article remarking on fifteen anomalies in the
brief video.  Before
I leave, I give the last Lida Baarova "Goebbels"
tape to Erica, a thirty-something teacher at a
mixed-race school, who asks me for advice on what
to tell her pupils about the Holocaust.
I advise her earnestly to stick to the
curriculum, if she values her career. I give away
two Churchills as gifts, one to an
impoverished female student who shyly approaches
with her boyfriend, and one to a rather reluctant
police officer (three uniformed police officers
have kept order); I guess he is a George W Bush
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