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echo: barktopus
to: Phil Payne
from: Rich Gauszka
date: 2006-02-21 20:08:14
subject: Re: Irving changed his mind?

From: "Rich Gauszka" 

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
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>> 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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