A Lament for Lost Freedom

LewRockwell.com by Paul Gottfried | Jan. 3, 2007 (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 ... Full Story »

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 by Kaizar Campwala - Oct. 1, 2008

While I can't say I agree with his libertarian principles, Gottfried is successful in two ways. 1) He brings focus to news ignored in MSM and 2) He defends his position with both historical and present-day examples. He does make some claims, such as "the ACLU, whose views about property have often paralleled those of the American Communist Party" without any support or citation.

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