Diary: June 28, 2002

Real History and The Decline of Free Speech

If memory serves, they were captured and forcibly spoon-fed large quantities of cod-liver oil. If nothing else, this will only have contributed to the longevity of the lunatic Left, as recent medical studies show.
—
David Irving, on the methods that
Benito Mussolini used to pacify his opponents.

June
28, 2002 (Friday)
Key
West (Florida)

David Irving speaking in
Seattle:

The “Adolf Hitler” portrait the protestor saw was actually a lifesized painting of Winston
Churchill, the jacket of Mr
Irving’s book (below)

Picture left: The huge crowd of protestors (three, in figures:
3) outside the meeting.

A FRIEND in British Columbia, and they are
legion, tells me he found his car smeared
with human excrement yesterday. That rings
a bell, but I probably had other things on
my mind. I should have mentioned earlier
that on May 21, The Guardian
(“Deathwish News”, as I call it) reported
in London as follows, after I spoke in
Seattle on May 19:

Protesters dog Hitler historian’s tour
Duncan
Campbell in Los Angeles:
Protesters met the rightwing historian and
Hitler biographer David Irving in
Washington state while on an American tour entitled The Problems of Writing About
Hitler. Irving, 64, who lectures regularly in the US where he has a small but loyal following, is due to speak in San
Francisco tomorrow and later in Sacramento and Salt Lake City.

The locations of the meetings are kept secret until the last moment and people attending must show identification. On Sunday, in Maltby,
Washington, protesters held ‘No Nazis’ and
‘Not in our town’ signs outside the building where he was speaking.
Anti-Irving activists also took photos of the cars and number plates
[license tags] of those attending the gathering.

Supporters of Irving were told to meet at a community centre via his website, Action Report online, which describes itself as a “human rights website”, after the original venue declined to host the meeting.
Kinuko
Noborikawa, the co-chairwoman of
Snohomish county’s Human Rights Coalition, is reported as saying that she had photographed a poster of Adolf Hitler hanging over the centre’s sign when she arrived. It was quickly removed.

Irving is best known for challenging the extent of the holocaust. After losing a controversial libel action in London which he had brought against an American academic who criticised him, he was declared bankrupt in March.

Nice folks we are up against, Duncan
Campbell’s friends in the Pacific
North-West, an’ all. It is only two or three years ago that the accolytes of the
Board of Deputies of British Jews dumped a quantity of horse manure on our front doorstep in Duke Street half an hour before we held a reception there; previously, they had confined the use of such substances to the pages of their
“history” books.

And of course the famous photo of me outside the High Court in London on April
11, 20002, arriving to hear Sir Charles
Gray’s Judgment — sealed until then —
shows me ducking under a hail of garbage being thrown by Lipstadt’s supporters, mysteriously unhindered by the police officers on duty; the garbage they threw
— which hit the Washington Post’s
reporter whom I had thoughtfully positioned to my left — echoed the
Judgment’s contents, of which they somehow appeared to have heard.

The excrement-dealers in Oregon and Washington went by the rather incongruous name of
The
Campaign for Human Dignity. When I spoke in Portland,
Oregon before, they organised a gauntlet of mob-spitters to greet my audience as they arrived at the church hall where I lectured.

Impressed by their human dignity,
London attorney Anthony Julius
(clients: Princess Diana and the equally lovely Deborah Lipstadt, right) actually obtained an affidavit from their
Führer, one Jonathan
Mozzochi, for use in defence of
Lipstadt; with more haste than dignity,
Julius hurriedly withdrew the document when I pointed out to the Court that M.

hid his address behind a post office box number (not permitted on affidavits) and, ahem, had something of a criminal record (which the Oregon police authorities were kind enough to supply to us).

NOW comes this report from a Canadian couple who actually drove me away from the
Seattle hall in their car afterward, as no doubt several dignified camera shutters clicked):

As
you know, my computer was mysteriously
stolen from my home two weeks ago. At
the time, I felt that it was probably a
random act of thievery. Last Thursday
morning, my wife was shocked to find
that the windshield of our Volvo,
parked in front of our home, had been
covered in human excrement. An emptied
plastic margarine container and paper
towels were left on the boulevard
beside it.

I now realize that both of these acts resulted from our attendance at the May
19 Seattle function. We suspect that our license plate number was recorded by the mob of protesters. I recall a young Chinese-American protester
[probably Kinuko Noborikawa
] taking photos of us there.

There is evidently somebody in the
British Columbia motor vehicles department willing to sell personal data on license tag owners to the extreme Left. The next time, of course, they may sell it to somebody brandishing something even more lethal than his own turd in his hand.

This episode gives a new meaning to the phrase “smear tactics”. They remind any qualified historian of the methods allegedly used by Benito Mussolini
to pacify his Leftist opponents; if memory serves, they were captured and forcibly spoon-fed large quantities of cod-liver oil.

If nothing else, this will only have contributed to the longevity of the lunatic Left, as recent medical studies show. Heinrich Himmler’s men were evidently more pragmatic, choosing Zyklon
B and phenol in preference to other nutritional aids.

[Postscript:
Fabio
Rossetti
of Florenz, Italy, points out on
Monday, July 1, 2002: “Unfortunately,
it was not cod-liver oil, but castor
oil, a bad tasting liquid used to ease
constipation and induce vomit.

It’s
toxic in high quantities, and
reportedly some of Mussolini’s
opponents died as a
result.”

Previous
Radical’s Diary

Index
to some David Irving speeches

1993
CHD attack on “Irving Supporter”
Michael Clinton

Demonstration
organised by Mozzochi, The
Oregonian, Oct 11, 1994

Reader
criticises CHD demonstrators for
spitting, Oct 27, 1994

CHD
report

on Oct 10, 1994 demonstration,
refuted by organiser

Affidavit
Sworn by Mozzochi in Lipstadt’s Behalf,
May 6, 1998

Our
Profile of Mozzochi

“Race
Hatred” and The Runestone, article
commenting on lies by Mozzochi

Second
Affidavit Sworn by Mozzochi in
Lipstadt’s Behalf, May 6, 1998

Witness
statement by Robert Horenstein, Jan
1999

Oregonian, Oct 16, 1992, on David
Irving visit

Aug
2001: Anti-Hate Group Faces

Bankruptcy:
Mozzochi’s CHD Going Bust, Sources
Say