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From yesterday’s The Jerusalem Post:

Hungary passes Holocaust denial bill

BUDAPEST— Hungary’s parliament on Monday approved a bill making Holocaust denial punishable by up to three years in prison, but the measure may be unconstitutional.

Lawmakers passed the bill submitted by Attila Mesterhazy, the prime ministerial candidate of the governing Socialist Party, by 197-1, with 142 abstentions.

Earlier attempts to ban Holocaust denial have been rejected by the courts for infringing on freedom of speech. Efforts to modify the Constitution to ensure the bill’s legality have also failed.

Mesterhazy’s proposal was backed by the Socialists and most of the Alliance of Free Democrats, a former coalition partner. Most members of Fidesz, the main center-right opposition party, and their allies, the Christian Democrats, abstained after Fidesz’s wish to also include the denial of Nazi and Communist crimes in the bill was rejected.

Free Democrat Gabor Horn, who voted in favor of the bill, questioned the timing of the Socialists’ proposal and wondered why a similar effort by his own party a few months ago was not accepted.

“The difference is that six months ago there was no campaign,” Horn said.

... Hate speech and incitement to violence against minorities is already a crime in Hungary, but Monday’s bill adds “denying, questioning or making light of the Holocaust” to the penal code.

In mentioning the forthcoming general election in Hungary the report at least acknowledges that Jobbik is “expected to easily clear the five percent threshold needed to enter parliament.”  So something not to the Jewish taste is afoot there, at least.

There are few sites active on the international White Nationalist/Revolutionary Nationalist scene that have provoked me to thought more than this one. None did more to open my eyes to the necessity of building a new philosophical worldview if we wanted to succeed in our struggle. This idea that we must first present a moral and philosophical alternative to the ills of modernity is not new.  It is a reiteration of an argument that the French New Right, for example, has been trying to make since the ‘70’s with questionable success and while being the victim of periodic witch-hunts.

Now, there’s also an element of narcissism at play as I’m in agreement with Guessedworker, in particular, on all important issues and I feel an uncanny kinship of spirit. But, that being said, since I’ve done a 180 degree turn on the J.Q. some people who’ve known me have suffered a “whiplash” (to quote Hunter Wallace). I’ve been called a Jew lover, a race traitor, and accused of being romantically involved with a Jewish woman.

There’s absolutely no doubt in my mind that anti-Semitism is a political loser and no longer a potent organizing force in the western world. I’ve come to the conclusion that only a Right friendly to the Jewish community and Israel can succeed in the western political arena; a Right that admits Jews and places them in positions of authority; a Right that welcomes Jews in a tangible effort to show them that they must not fear the Right. I don’t believe that the Right will gain any traction without first abandoning anti-Semitism, Holocaust-denial, anti-Zionism, or National Socialist nostalgia. All these points are not only completely irrelevant but an insurmountable stumbling block to success.

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Jim Giles interviewed James Bowery a couple of days ago on Radio Free Mississippi. The primary territory is the conflict between Jewish interests and the Enlightenment values of truth and freedom—conflict as exemplified by the hostility of Jews toward the laboratory of the states to found discourse on experimentation rather than argumentation. It is 1 hour 48 minutes.

A long and winding conversation, as much as an interview, with Alex Linder. One hour seventeen minutes long, in fact. File size 35.2MB.

Starting at about 10 minutes into the season premiere of “Sons of Anarchy” (a biker gang), titled “Albification” is the following dialog:

Law enforcement officer: I’m guessing this isn’t about cigars.
Town father: Ethan shares a common interest.
Ethan: The Sons of Anarchy have been supplying weapons to gang members for over a decade.  Its time it stopped.
Officer: (picking up business card handed to him) “The League of American Nationalists”
Ethan:  (shifty eyes, and inflection avoiding racial agenda) The League represents an influential group of businessmen who are tired of criminals undermining local enterprise.
Officer: (with an “I’ve got your number” expression) Right.  And how many black and Latino businessmen in your influential group?
Ethan: (with an OK you’ve got my number deadpan): None.
Officer:  I know who you are.  (then looking at the obviously ex-con bodyguard of Ethan’s) White hate.
Ethan:  Quite the opposite, deputy chief.  (with a “he doth protest too much” unctuousness) We are separatists, not supremacists.  We are God fearing patriots.  And in a time when black radicals are in power in this country we are desperately trying to remind our citizens of their founding beliefs.
Officer: (again, with the “I’ve got your number” expression) That all white men are created equal. (pregnant pause with no retort from Ethan)  What the Hell do you want from me?
Bodyguard: Call us what you want.  We’ve got the same goal:  Stop scumbags from arming scumbags.
Ethan:  We just want you to know, we are at your disposal, if you need us.
Officer gets up and walks out.

This “screenwriting” is chock-full of little pieces of, uh, propaganda that deserve careful dissection and examination.

The BNP’s lawyers have proposed that the party introduces an ethnic monitoring form, in line with the mad strivings after equality that afflict hundreds of public bodies in the UK.  The idea of Evil Nazis monitoring people’s ethnicity is likely to occasion John Wadham and his anti-English colleagues in the EHRC rather more unease than schadenfreude.  But that’s their outlook.

The draft form can be perused via the link at the bottom of this article (pdf).  It is exhaustive on the subject of native British ethnicity - Archipel Normandian, anyone?  But not so all the rest of the globe’s by no means migrationally economic and vibrant diversity, who hardly receive racially-equal treatment.

But one ethnic group stands out by it’s absence.  Yes, it’s the one which never likes to be monitored - never mind named - yet defines itself obsessively night and day.

Looking at the available options to tick, I suppose Jewish must simply mean English to the BNP.  Except it passes down the matrilinear line as some sort of jus judaicus.  Or maybe Jewish is just a religion, and we needn’t take any account of it at all.  The one thing that is certain is that leaving Jews off the form is intended as a sop, not a snub.

A couple of days ago the BBC News website informed us that a “Romanian mayor has been strongly criticised by Jewish groups after appearing dressed in a Nazi uniform at a local fashion show.”  Radu Mazare is mayor of Constan?a, the Black Sea port and the oldest living city in Romania (having been founded around 600 BC).  He was, he explained, inspired to wear the costume by the film Valkyrie.  But it’s not an explanation that the “offended party” requires:

Dr Efraim Zuroff, a Holocaust historian and the director of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Jerusalem, expressed “insult and outrage” at the mayor’s appearance.

In a letter to Mr Mazare, he wrote: “It would be hard to adequately describe the depth of the pain that your appearance caused, not only to Jews and other victims of Nazism, but to any person of moral integrity who knows the history of World War II.

“Today it is well-known that the Wehrmacht played an active role in the mass murder of European Jewry and many other innocent victims.

“By dressing in a Wehrmacht uniform, you are expressing totally unwarranted support and nostalgia for an army which committed the most terrible war acts of genocide.”

Dr Zuroff suggested Mr Mazare could make amends for his “incredible lack of judgement” by bringing an exhibition on the crimes of the German army to Romania.

So, is this the speech of a beautiful but tortured Jewish soul lying flayed and bleeding on the ice-cold alter of German history?  Is he making manifest that great testament to human evil which is the G-d-given lot of all Jews?  Or does he merely have a practical mind?  Never mind the insult and outrage, and even the “pain” of a depth “it would be hard to adequately describe”, is all he really wants to keep Christian Europe’s head-down in the moral mire?  Might one conclude that, far from being a Chosen vessel of Man’s redemption from evil, Dr Zuroff is a ruthlessly opportunistic race huckster ... the kind of man who might not be above employing that indescribable Jewish “pain” in a trick:

(Thanks to reader KD who sent me the link to this video.)

We saw something very like opportunistic trickery with Prince Harry’s fancy dress back in January 2005:

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John de Nugent has circularised this LA Times article, published yesterday, about the incarceration and legal processing of Simon Sheppard and Stephen Whittle.  Dana Parsons did a fair job with it, one has to say.  He resisted the very tiresome temptation to demonise them.  Instead, he treated them with some sympathy as people who naively thought America was “the beacon of free speech in the Western world”.

Men bedeviled in bid for sanctuary

... Sheppard and Whittle were convicted in England for a string of essays and other published material on Sheppard’s heretical.com website, which uses a server based in Torrance. Sheppard was convicted on 11 counts, Whittle on five. In January, Sheppard was retried in absentia and convicted on five more charges.

Their online entries follow the well-traveled path of other nationalist polemicists, with particular emphasis on decrying the influence and power of Jews in the world.

“People are entitled to hold racist and extreme opinions which others may find unpleasant and obnoxious,” Mari Reid, a lawyer for the Crown Prosecution Service’s Counter Terrorism Division in England said in a prepared statement earlier this year about the case.

“What they are not allowed to do is to publish or distribute those opinions to the public in a threatening, abusive or insulting manner either intending to stir up racial hatred or in circumstances where it is likely racial hatred will be stirred up.”

The vast majority of the material in this case concerned Jewish people, Reid said, “but there was also material relating to black, Asian and non-white people generally, all described in derogatory terms using offensive language.”

... In denying asylum, Peters ruled that the men hadn’t shown they had been persecuted in the past or likely to face future persecution.

Sheppard and Whittle had hoped their story would attract media attention, but that never materialized.

“I think it has very wide ramifications,” Leichty says of their convictions. “I don’t share their views or the way they communicate their views, but I certainly don’t think we should be incarcerating people for what they did.”

Sheppard said he and Whittle are merely waiting for a middle-of-the-night wake-up and a quick trip to the airport.

“We’re not cowed and we’re not repentant,” Sheppard says. “We have the right even to make mistakes. We could be wrong, it’s not inconceivable. We have a right to be wrong. All we’re doing is speaking our minds.”

Whittle says he isn’t keen on making a career out of being a political prisoner in England. “Simon is from Yorkshire,” he says. “People from Yorkshire are strong-willed. I’m not from Yorkshire. He sticks to his guns. I don’t have his willpower and tenacity.”

After 11 months in custody, Whittle is not sure anymore that he and Sheppard would have remained free even if they had quietly gone through customs, left LAX and found a lawyer to handle their asylum request. “Once they became aware of who we were and that we came to the U.S. to flee,” Whittle says, “we would have ended up in detention.”

That is how it played out. Coming to America has been a bust.

“We’ve never seen California but through bars,” Whittle says.

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