David Irving
comments: THIS JOURNALIST seems a bit
adrift with the news:
"Holocaust revisionist"? I
have not written a single book
on this boring theme.
"Facing eviction?"
Removal trucks drove up within
two days of our losing the
appeal last month, and amid
scenes of great drama I lost
everything.
Penguin
Books Ltd (Lipstadt's
co-defendants) siezed the
opportunity, knowing that the
London apartment I lived in
for 34 years was defended only
by Bente and Jessica, and that
I was 6,000 miles away
speaking in Seattle.
Their agents
grabbed the apartment and
everything within it -- my
only table, my only desk, all
my computer software, etc. The
alleged debt to them, which we
had unsuccessfully challenged
on May 21 in the High Court,
was for
£150,000. |
Irving
tries to talk his way out of
debt
BANKRUPT and now facing eviction
from his Mayfair home, Holocaust
revisionist David Irving has
come up with a typically controversial
plan to clear his debts.
The 64 year-old historian - who owes
more than £2 million after the
collapse of his libel case against
Deborah Lipstadt - is to embark
on his first lecture tour of
Britain.
The 15-date tour will be similar to
those Irving conducts in America, where
he hires a restaurant or hotel function
room and speaks to paying guests over
dinner.
"I feel that freedom of speech is
under severe threat at the moment and I
think it's important for me to get out
and speak to people directly," he says.
"I know the interest is there."
Irving's current American tour has
been dogged by protests by anti-Nazi
activists. He admits his British
venture is likely to go the same
way.
"I know I will encounter opposition,
but that is always the case. In
America, generally it has been OK,
although there was one nasty incident
in Chicago when a group of men wearing
balaclavas and carrying baseball bats
broke into the restaurant and smashed
everything up, leaving me and others
nursing bruises."
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