- LONDON -- I am told that
in today's Times (April 7) the poo- obsessed Times columnist Giles Coren
has revealed that his doctor has told him that he produces an excess of
bile. His writings about me of late suggest that he had no real need to
seek medical expertise to learn this.
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- More seriously, the German Government has quietly admitted
that over the last twelve months it prosecuted over 18,000 Germans for
offences of "right-wing extremism," of which only a few hundred
involved actual violence: i.e. they prosecuted over seventeen thousand
thought-crimes -- people unwitting displaying the old swastika emblem,
or even worse, National Socialist ideas, and perhaps even "denying
the H."
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- As the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung recently pointed
out in a courageous editorial, most of these new criminal records have
been sprung on ordinary citizens blissfully unaware of the criminality
of their actions and thoughts, because the tame German media are too cowardly
to report any of these cases -- even the major trials like those involving
the revisionists Ernst Zündel and Germar Rudolf.
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- These absurd laws themselves are protected by fresh layers
of other, even more absurd, laws making it impossible even for court-appointed
attorneys to provide an adequate and conscientious defence to those accused
under the thought-crime laws. Any German or Austrian lawyer who does, can
be -- and frequently is -- himself ordered arrested by the judge, for having
associated himself with these criminal thoughts and deeds. Zündel's
court-appointed defence attorney Sylvia Stolz (right) made herself unpopular
with the prosecutor for "hampering the prosecution," and is now
to be prosecuted for so hampering. Go figure, as the Americans say.
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- More than once my chosen Austrian lawyer, Dr Herbert
Schaller, left, arrived in the Vienna prison with fresh horror tales from
Zündel's Mannheim courtroom -- the judge Meinerzhagen had warned him
that if he asked certain questions of the court, or made certain defence
motions, he too would be arrested.
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- I remember that in January 1993, when I was tried in
Munich under Germany's laws for the suppression of free speech, one of
my three lawyers turned up apologetically on the morning of the hearing
apologizing that he could not continue to act for me, as the Munich Bar
Association had threatened him with dismissal -- i.e. the end of his career
-- if he did. He showed me their actual letter. I was fined thirty thousand
deutschmarks, around twenty thousand dollars, for uttering a single sentence
which the Polish authorities now belatedly admit was true.
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- I NOTICED when I was in Viennese prison that the jailhouse,
built to hold eight hundred malfeasors, currently held 1,400 inmates, a
quarter of them Blacks. It was a tight fit but it was possible, provided
we did not all breathe at the same time.
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- This morning I have received a letter from Frau K., an
elderly Viennese lady in her nineties. Exercising what is the constitutional
right of every citizen in most other countries, on September 27 of last
year she had written a personal letter to the President of Austria, one
Herbert Fischer -- a small, straw-haired gentleman of even smaller character
and endowed with all the intellect and bearing of Lady Chatterley's gardener
-- to protest against my arrest, trial, and imprisonment. "What D.
I. said was right," she wrote in one passage of this incriminating
letter.
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- She received no presidential reply? Right. -- She heard
no more? Wrong.
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- On March 8 the Austrian criminal authorities sent her
a letter fining her the sum of 200 euros under penalty of jail for having
written these seditious words to their august president. No trial, no hearing,
no defence -- no lawyer would have dared to defend her anyway.
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- This is the new Europe, coming soon to a jailhouse near
us. I for one shall do my damndest to prevent it.
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