A Lament for Lost Freedom

Wed, 03 Jan 2007 00:49:31 -0800

LewRockwell.com - By Paul Gottfried - Jan. 03 (Editorial) - Reading a statement issued last week by the Simon Wiesenthal Center deploring the release from an Austrian prison after 13 months of solitary confinement of septuagenarian historian David Irving, I was reminded of the disintegration of intellectual freedom in today's Western world. (Mind you this is not a defense of his opinions about the killing of European Jewry, but about his right to express them without being imprisoned.) One would have to scour the back issues of the newspaper in which I read the disapproving statement, the neoconservative New York Post, to find even an isolated dissenting column about the jailing of Irving. Note that this British historian was imprisoned in Austria for a presumed act of Holocaust denial that he had committed in England, many years before he had crossed the border into Austria to attend a scholarly conference. At the very time that Irving was condemned for slighting Hitler's crimes, people who deny openly and even proudly the numerous mass murders of Stalin and Mao had been elevated to seats of power in "European democracies."

NewsTrust Rating: 3.4 average - 3 Reviews » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

War Weariness

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:28:03 -0800

LewRockwell.com - Nov. 27 (Opinion) - War weariness is the prevailing public sentiment in the third stage of a major U.S. neo-imperialist war. Most people have grown tired of the war. They have surrendered their prior illusions about the glorious outcomes it was supposed to bring. They have come to understand that for them it is worse than pointless, that its costs have been real ...

NewsTrust Rating: 4.3 average - 3 Reviews » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

NewsTrust - All Rated Stories

A Lament for Lost Freedom

War Weariness