From: "Phil Payne" 

> FWIW I agree with you. While his denial of the holocaust was ridiculous,
to
> jail him for it is just as reprehensible. One doesn't always like what one
> hears in a free society

I've had real fun chasing some of this sh1t up.

He claims to be "one of only three people in the world who can read
Himmler's handwriting".

Hey.  There's four.  It's not hard if you've spent seven years reading the
scribbles that Deep South german engineers write on their expense forms.  A
"1" that looks like a "7" on speed, etc.

I damn well wish I'd been around when he's supposed to have issued his
challenge.  The first page took less than twenty minutes, and by page 10  I
was down to under a minute.

His conclusions from the Eichmann papers are contradictory - at one point
he makes capital out of Eichmann having witnessed a machine-gunning and
having a Jewish baby's brains cleaned from his uniform by his chauffeur,
and deduces from this honesty that Eichmann was right when he said there
were no gas chambers.  And then we have the invoices that the East Germans
so carefully preserved with Eichmann's signature on them.

One of the most common remarks is that Hitler knew nothing of the whole
affair.  But there's a problem with that.  The Reichskanzler was
notoriously careful about money, and there's no way the gas chambers could
have been built without his signature on the requisitions.  As always -
follow the money.

Anyway - Mr Irving, although he defended himself in "fluent
German" - seems to have been ignorant of Austrian Federal Law.  The
prosecution may not appeal against the leniency of the sentence unless the
defendant appeals against its severity.  The the floodgates are opened. 
Sentencing will now be repeated.  The rules are different - second time
around the jury has little influence.  My money is on it being harsher.

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