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source June 10, 2007 How stand the
cases of French author Georges Theil? AS IS WELL KNOWN, our French
friend Georges Theil has received some heavy
sentences -- in Limoges (2005) and in Lyon (2006)
-- in two cases of "overt revisionism". A resident
of Grenoble, he is a retired senior executive of a
large state corporation; from 1998 to 2004 he
served as an elected official in Rhône-Alpes
Regional Council. A first trial, in Limoges, concerned the
circulation (from the autumn of 2002) of a few
dozen copies of his autobiographical work Un cas
d'insoumission -- Comment on devient
révisionniste, written under the
pseudonym Gilbert Dubreuil and prefaced by
Robert
Faurisson. (The book has since been
published in English translation, under his real
name, as Heresy in 21st Century France: a case
of insubmission to the "Holocaust" dogma.) In the book he had especially described his
intellectual path in life, marked as it was by the
discovery first of his grandfather's death during
the First World War in Indochina -- the French
officer had been sent there to train Tonkinese
riflemen, his avowed assignment being to make good
"Boche-killers" of them -- then of the death of his
father, an engineer slain in unclear circumstances
in 1944. He told how what at the start was for him
intellectual curiosity (others might say filial
devotion as well) quickly changed into a
well-grounded conviction that a gigantic lie was
bringing itself to bear on our world as concerned
the relation of historical facts, mainly those
having to do with the Second World War, the
consequences of which are, still today, so very
grave. Indeed, the whole Western world, crushed by
the slanderous and criminal allegation of inexact
"facts", has fallen to such a degree of thraldom
that the rightful seeking out of historical truth
and the public expression thereof have become
illegal -- subject to criminal proceedings -- as
has been the case in France since July 14, 1990 (in
some neighbouring countries, like enslaved Germany,
it's worse still). 
FOR writing that book, in 2005 the Limoges court of
appeal, sentenced Theil to six months' imprisonment
without remission and a €30,000 fine, ordering
him as well to pay an individual plaintiff (a
wartime communist) and two "remembrance"
associations some €12,000 in damages all told.
In December 2006 France's highest court, the Cour
de cassation ("superior appeal court"), quashed
that conviction, ruling that the case must be
retried by another appeal court because the statute
of limitations for publications, albeit obvious
here (three months at the time of the facts, though
afterwards increased to one year by a new law known
as "Perben II"), had not been applied, it having
been established as early as in 2003 -- notably by
the contents of an article in the weekly
Rivarol of January 16 of that year -- that
the book was effectively in circulation. Thus the
case must be heard again by the court of appeal of
Bordeaux (date not yet set).
The Lyon case is closely linked to the former.
In October 2004, in a private exchange, off to one
side in the hall of the regional council in the
town of Charbonnières, two journalists from
a local television station (TV8-MontBlanc)
questioned Theil about the Limoges trial and asked
what he thought of local Front National head
Bruno Gollnisch's recent statement (where,
in substance, Gollnisch had said that the estimated
number of victims of the deportation from France
was a matter for specialists, historians and
researchers). That non-public interview of Theil with the two
reporters, in fact an informal talk about this and
that, was also to touch on the presumed "crime
weapon" for the mass-murder as invoked by the
official history, i.e. the gas chambers. There
Theil was to explain the radical impossibility --
for physical, chemical, logistical and
architectural reasons -- of carrying out such a
slaughter in the places and ways alleged. In
conclusion he remarked that if intelligent people
endowed with a fair sense of judgment believed the
official version all the same, then there was but a
single possible explanation, namely the belief -- a
preposterous one -- in the diabolical capacity
(propensity?) of the Germans, natural born
"technical wizards", to achieve the impossible. In
short: "It's unrealisable, but the German Nazis
were able to do it"! A bit like Martians possessed
of unimaginable technical abilities… Hauled into court in Lyon for those remarks
after they had been broadcast on TV8-MontBlanc a
few days later (a fine setup), Theil was once more
to be hit with a harsh sentence, and one which was
made even harsher after appeal, to wit: another six
months' imprisonment without remission, a fine of €10,000,
an order to pay €4,500
in damages to each of nine "remembrance"
associations that had joined their suits to the
prosecution, and the
obligation to pay for the decision's publication in
two newspapers at an estimated cost of over €8,000. Neither his colleague in Limoges nor the
presiding judge in Lyon agreed at any time to a
discussion of the basic substance of the case! An
important and significant observation: the TV
station's director was not even charged, whereas he
had given the green light to the broadcast! And,
during the appeal hearing, it proved impossible to
find and listen to the tape recording of the
incriminated remarks, although it was being held
under seal in the clerk's office! The petition lodged against this ruling from the
court of appeal of Lyon has now been dismissed by
the Cour de cassation. The six months' imprisonment
and the fines thus stand, awaiting
implementation. If prison doesn't scare Georges Theil overmuch,
especially when one thinks of Ernst
Zündel and Germar Rudolf, the
appalling sums to pay in damages and fines (more
than €100,000 or 135,000 USD all
together, not including legal fees) spell ruin
for him and his family, who are without any
personal wealth. It must indeed be acknowledged
that, amongst our inquisitors, a deep contempt for
historical exactitude holds sway, along with a
desire to put the unsubdued to death. Georges Theil has done nothing more than dare to
write and speak out about the sufferings of our
nations in the West and of the Palestinian people,
which he deems intolerable in a civilised world. He
has dared to do it, for an internal force, his own
courage, bids him not to give in, not to resign
himself, and to bear witness. It is a matter, in
effect, of life or death for us. His sacrifice is
that of us all, whether we like it or
not. Readers
may express their sympathy and, henceforth, come to
his aid by writing to the following
address: - M.
Georges Theil
- BP
50 38
- F-38037
Grenoble Cedex 2
- France
E-mail
: [email protected] His
book in French is available from the above address
for €13 per copy, including postage to all
European Union countries (+ Switzerland and
Norway). Likewise the English version: price €20
(or 25 USD), postage outside Europe
included. 
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