Modkraft.com
Saturday, February 21, 2004
David
Irving comments:
I SUSPECT that these bellicose
"anti-racists" may have a lot in common
with Deborah Lipstadt and her chief
counsel at her 2000 libel trial in London,
Richard Rampton QC. Connoisseurs of
the trial will recall the moment when
Rampton challenged me with racism (a vice
of which even Lipstadt had not accused me,
which is why it was not "pleaded" in her
original defence).
I pointed out that, from
my vantage point in the witness box under
Rampton's cross-examination, I had been
surveying his forty-strong team of
lawyers, counsel, barristers, juniors,
historians, experts and assistants, ever
since the trial began -- and it was by
then about three weeks old -- and I had
not once seen anything but pure White
(though not all Aryan), faces amongst
them; whilst I myself have never hesitated
to engage Pakistanis, Punjabis,
Barbadians, Jamaicans, and Indonesians as
my personal assistants, i.e. one on one,
if they are the best candidates to apply
for the job at any one time.
[See
their faces]
How His Lordship snarled
at me to drop that line of argument! When
I repeated the statement, as His
Lordship's former friend and colleague,
Rampton, was obviously playing for the
afternoon's press headlines, I sensed that
the Court would willingly have had me
jailed for contempt.
How my friends and I
chuckled when, on the day that the final
submissions were delivered to the packed
Court room, Rampton was careful to ensure
that this time there was one Black face at
his side, just in case I ventured to make
the same wounding comparison.
Yes, hypocrisy is
rampant, and never far from the Left.
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Press
Release from Anti-Racist Network
[Excerpt:]
Joy among
anti-racists over David Irving's defeat
[...] Anti-racists from the left wing
and the trade union movement of Copenhagen have
been ready all day to turn out in short notice to
protest against David Irving's meeting about
the "Holocaust Lie". [...]
[...] The anti-racists had hired buses
to transport them a long way, if it was confirmed
that the meeting should be arranged outside town,
and the Anti-Racist Network (Anti-Racistisk
Nætverk) have printed leaflets with the
headline "No more "Auschwitz".
[...] Of course we keep an eye on, if
David Irving nevertheless should held a meeting
tomorrow, but we look upon today's cancellation as
a big defeat for David Irving, and a victory for
the anti-racist movement, even if the intention
never has been to stop the meeting, Erik
Jensen declares.
Lørdag den 21. februar 2004
Pressemeddelelse
Glæde
blandt anti-racister over David Irvings
nederlag
Anti-racister fra den københavnske
venstrefløj og fagbevægelse har hele
dagen i dag holdt sig parat for med kort varsel at
kunne rykke ud for at protestere mod David
Irvings møde om
"Holocaust-løgnen". Anti-racisterne har
opholdt sig forskellige steder i København,
hvor de har hørt på foredrag om EU's
asylpolitik og hygget sig med Trivial Pursuit og
videofilm, mens de har ventet på oplysninger
om, hvor David Irving skulle holde sit foredrag.
Anti-racisterne var forsamlet på opfordring
af det københavnske netværk
Anti-Racistisk Netværk.
-- Det har været hemmeligt, hvor David
Irvings møde skulle holdes, men vi regnede
med før eller siden at få nys om det.
Planen var, at så snart vi fandt ud af, hvor
mødet blev afholdt, ville vi tage ud til
mødet for på fredelig vis at markere
vores utilfredshed med mødet, udtaler Erik
Jensen fra foreningen Demos, der en del af
Anti-Racistisk Netværk.
Anti-racisterne havde arrangeret busser til at
transportere dem langt, hvis det skulle vise sig,
at mødet blev afholdt uden for byen og
Anti-Racistisk Netværk havde trykt
løbesedler med overskriften "Aldrig mere
Auschwitz".
Meddelelsen om at David Irving havde aflyst
mødet, blev mødt med jubel blandt de
forsamlede anti-racister.
-- Det er for fedt, at de ikke holder
mødet. Som løbesedlen siger:
"Holocaust var en forbrydelse mod menneskeheden. At
benægte Holocaust i dag er også en
forbrydelse mod menneskeheden." Det er godt at
vide, at den slags løgne ikke vil blive
udspredt i Danmark i dag, udtalte en ung kvindelig
anti-racist, inden hun løb ud for at
købe smøger til at fejre meddelelsen
om at mødet var blevet aflyst.
-- Vi holder naturligvis øje med om David
Irving alligevel skulle afholde møde i
morgen, men vi opfatter dagens aflysning som et
stort nederlag for David Irving, og en sejr for den
anti-racistiske bevægelse, selvom det aldrig
har været hensigten at stoppe mødet,
udtaler Erik Jensen.
Erik Jensen kan
kontaktes på 21 67 96 37
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