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to: Rich Gauszka
from: Rich Gauszka
date: 2006-02-21 21:42:34
subject: Re: Irving changed his mind?

From: "Rich Gauszka" 

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That seems a bit more fascist than the utterings of Irving


"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
news:43fbba1c$1{at}w3....
> So in your society you choose to jail those that are mentally challenged?
> That seems a bit more fascist than the cure/jail
>
> "Phil Payne" 
wrote in message
> news:43fba4c7{at}w3....
>>> 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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