This video shows an attempt by Anti-Fascist protestors to disrupt a debate held at Oxford University with the BNP chairman Nick Griffin and the Nazi apologist, fraudulent historian and Holocaust denier David Irving. David Irving is not a champion of free speech as he is hypocritically characterised by political opportunists like Nick Griffin. In fact David Irving has made a career out of trying to surpress free speech!
In Sept 1996 David Irving filed a libel suit against author Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books for publishing a book about him called "Denying the Holocaust", and David Irving sued writer Gitta Sereny for an article she wrote about him in The Guardian newspaper. The case against Gitta Sereny has yet to be heard, but in the Deborah Lipstadt case David Irving offered to drop the action if Penguin agreed to withdraw the book, to deny Deborah Lipstadt's conclusions and to settle out of court, paying him alot of money. Penguin rejected David Irving's terms, the case went to trial, and the court found that Deborah Lipstadt's criticisms of David Irving were "substantially accurate", thus defending Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin's right to speak freely in criticism of David Irving and his fake research.
In 1997 David Irving also threatened to sue writer John Lukacs if he published a book about David Irving called "The Hitler of History", but again John Lukacs stood up for free speech and David Irving caved in. In Oct 2007 David Irving threatened to sue The Jewish Chronicle for describing him as a "Holocaust Denier", the newspaper stood up for free speech, stood its ground, and responded with the bold challenge of printing their solicitor's name and address on its front page - again David Irving caved in. So, not one but FOUR times David Irving tried to prevent free speech and to stop the free press from subjecting his work to fair criticism. One case had yet to be resolved, but in the other 3 cases every time David Irving's attempts to stop free speech have been prevented.
It's not surprising that one of the few people who actively support David Irving is the British Fascist, former NF leader and current BNP chairman Nick Griffin, since Nick Griffin is on film denying the Nazi Holocaust ever happened, telling a TV news crew that (quote) "this nonsense about Gas Chambers is exposed as a total lie"...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7Dygboz4Ew
Groups like the BNP and NF only support democracy and free speech in the short term, while those freedoms temporarily offer Fascists like them some chance of gaining political power. When the BNP set-up their HQ in a permanently boarded-up shop in Welling, South East London, the arrival of the BNP was followed by a shocking increase in local knife crimes, including the murders of schoolboys Rohit Duggal, Rolan Adams and Stephen Lawrence. So, exercising their right to free of speech, local Trade Unionists organised an anti-BNP meeting in Welling Public Library. Rather than turning up to debate BNP beliefs in a rational manner, BNP officials launched an attack on this meeting that was so violent that one BNP employee - Matthew Collins - started passing information about the BNP to an Anti-Fascist group in disgust...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMO8hSMMGok
Good arguments are made in this video for both allowing and denying a debating platform to emotional psychopaths like David Irving and Nick Griffin, but two issues are not debated in this news report - TACT and COMMON SENSE. If any historian was (hypothetically) to tell the parents of children tortured to death by Myra Hindley that their children's murders were figments of their imagination, the (hypothetical) historian would be guilty of committing (either legally or morally) a psychological assault of psychotic proportions. The psychological assault committed by Holocaust deniers against relatives of Holocaust victims is tens of millions of times worse, yet debating this disgusting sadism is presented by the media as being almost respectable!
You do not "prevent" free speech by exercising your right to choose not to invite David Irving and Nick Griffin to your house to peddle their views from your front lawn, so it is not "preventing" free speech to suggest that David Irving and Nick Griffin should not be invited to Oxford University to persecute Jewish students with lies about the murders of their grandparents. David Irving and Nick Griffin and still FREE to discuss their ideas, elsewhere! Those who believe the opposite are of course FREE to prove they have the courage of their convictions by inviting David Irving and Nick Griffin to hold meetings about Holocaust denial in THEIR homes!
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