David Irving, an impoverished 68-year old British historian who disputes the official version of World War Two and, within that, the Jewish narrative known as the Holocaust, has been jailed today for 3 years by the inquisition

a court in Austria.  His crime consisted in refutational remarks made in speeches to Austrian nationalist groups in 1989 in Vienna and the southern town of Leoben.

I do not believe in the Great 1960’s Narrative either.  I consider myself free to weigh the evidence as I have gathered and understood it, imperfectly or otherwise, and to believe what I will.  I consider myself free to speak to my fellow Man about this, as any, belief.  I consider that any racial or elite group that removes this basic right of free speech from me and threatens incarceration if I disobey to be fundamentally evil.

Am I wrong?  What is your opinion?

The Austrian prosecutor has reacted to Irving’s filing of an appeal by moving to appeal the sentence.

A spokesman for the prosecutor’s office said it had lodged an appeal to have the sentence increased.

Michael Klackl, the state prosecutor, said Irving was a serial “falsifier of history” and had been cast as a martyr for free speech by neo-Nazis who would not grant such rights if they were in power.

A new hearing is not likely before the second half of 2006.

Irving expressed his unfashionable opinions in Vienna and Leoben three years before the legislation under which he has now been prosecuted was even on Austria’s statute books.  At the time, then, he was not committing a crime in Austria.  It’s grim enough that this legislation is so repressive ... worse that it is retrospective.  But that it is also apparently the Law of Schadenfreud, whereby the wretched Irving can be tormented at will post-trial, is alien to all civilised standards.

I have never much interested myself in Irving’s colourful career.  Certainly, I never considered him a sympathetic figure, much less a martyr.  But that is what he will increasingly become to many observers shocked, like me, by the cold power of the state that has been employed against him.

A lot of feminists like to blither about how they aren’t mature enough to raise a child until they are running a risk of Downs syndrome if not menopause. Rational people wonder how they could be so stupid but it may be a natural result of childlessness.

The upshot of pregnancy, Dr. Kinsley says, is a maternal brain changed forever in critical ways—not just different, but vastly improved.

Can you imagine a drug to produce the neurological enhancements of pregnancy?  A number of young women might choose to enhance their mental function thinking they needed that “competitive edge” to “get established in a career”.  Then, much to their dismay, they realize they are being stupid and stand a hope of choosing to have children before it is too late!  Who knows, they might even choose to drop the entire project of political correctness for the sham it is.  As such they might start voting more rationally but also start demanding characteristics of the sires of their children that made more sense.

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A child aged 10 who had been kidnapped from his family home and held hostage for almost 36 hours was safe last night after being rescued by armed police from a “terrifying experience”.

... Great Peter Street in Victoria was cordoned off for the Friday night police operation, while a search of a further address in Clapham, south London, recovered three guns. Scotland Yard said that four men and a woman had been arrested for questioning on kidnap and firearm allegations.

So reads this news item in the Sunday Telegraph.  It also mentions that the dedicated squad which deals with crimes of kidnap and extortion sees, on average, one “live” or on-going case a week.  What it doesn’t mention is that there is nearer one such crime reported just to London’s

Cosmopolitan

Metropolitan Police every day, but the ransom has been paid and the victim released.  And it doesn’t mention what this article in The Guardian did last June: we are facing here, to quote its headline, “A kidnap a day by foreign gangs in London”.

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There are a lot of young Australian expats - about 10% of Australians aged 18 to 35 live overseas. Why? The reasons are looked at in a new book by 25-year-old Ryan Heath, an extract of which was printed in The Age this morning.

Some of the expats he interviews come across as profoundly narcissistic. For instance, Jo Fox, now living in London complains that,

“In Australia the television industry is ageist. As a 22-year-old woman, it was impossible to get work heading a script department.”

Yes, Jo, it’s tough not being able to start out at the top.

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So, Dennis Healey’s famous advice about stopping digging has been ignored.  The Home Office and the CPS just can’t resist putting Nick Griffin and Mark Collett back in the dock.

Perhaps they feel they have no choice - the sanctity of the MultiCult cannot be preserved if BNP members can legally tell one another that Islam is a wicked religion.

Perhaps they only really care that their private, Marxoid prejudices are exercised.  After all, with the Anti-Hunting Bill the left was happy to turn the toff-hating, cuddly fox-loving public into veritable hunt supporters.  It has a long tradition of self-indulgent gesture politics regardless of cost.

In any event, the judge has named May 15th for the start of the trial.  That will be eleven days after the Council Elections to be held at the beginning of the month.  The BNP is hoping for a good showing as a result of the first trial.  As I said on February 2nd, none of this is going to get any easier for the Crown.

I suppose the chances will increase of a few arrests in connection with the hate protest held outside the Danish Embassy in London.  I can already hear the bearded ones’ brief wearily explaining to the court that sorry, sorry but no offense, mate, and the placards were just meant to illustrate how those peaceful, brotherly, vibrant people see Mr Rose’s blasphemous cartoons.  But Nick and Mark could be inside by then, of course, if the new jury is more Pee-Cee than the last one.

We don’t know the balance of the original jury’s opinion on the live charges.  The impression given by Griffin on his Free Speech Blog was that no prospect of agreement existed at all.  Obviously, the judge accepted that or the charges would not have been quashed.  One might be over-confident in assessing the chances of a successful prosecution this time as distinctly low.  Over-confidence in legal matters is never advisable, but in the absence of any known grounds for the Crown’s optimism - any new evidence or new witnesses - it does look that way.

Bear in mind also that a second trial for Griffin and Collett is a trial also for the Establishment.  A collapse or another failure to agree a verdict - or, of course, Not Guilty verdicts - would be a huge propaganda coup for the BNP while the CPS and police would be compromised by their clear political bias.  There is a lot more riding on this than the fate of two minor British politicians.

Whatever drove the decision to press ahead, this prosecution has “dangerous” and “unwise” stamped everywhere.  Expect the media to greet it with a marked lack of enthusiam and to report it with minimal interest.

Is it the function of the police to protect the people against criminals or to protect the MultiCult against the people?

This question seems about to be answered yet again.

Can’t have JJR out on his lonesome.  Here are a couple of blog offerings from the capital city of love, the first a fine display of principle and true courage from the bloggers of “no-passaran” who protested a Muslim protest march last weekend against Western free speech.

Voices start to ring out. “It’s provocation!” “You tread on 1.5 million Muslims!” “Connards!” “Rat faces!”

“Ignore them, they are idiots!” reply others as a crowd starts to press around. A rhetorical question rings out: “Would they be carrying out the same provocations in other types of demonstrations?!” (Actually, Monsieur, yes we would and yes we have.)

The Danish American feels like replying that they have done the same to Chirac, to Mitterrand, to the civil servant salons, and to union demonstrations, but suddenly he and the French American start moving away. What has happened is that a short blonde Frenchwoman has tugged on their sleeves and gently but firmly started pulling them away.

“I will show you my ID 10 meters from here” says the plainclothes cop. “They are going to lynch you!” she adds, as she leads us into another street (in the movie taken by our valiant camera team, you can briefly see her wearing a brown coat, right after a bearded guy in white cap and tan jacket says “They are provoking us” and the camera turns).

“Sons of adultery!” “Hey, you two sons of the whore!” Uniformed policemen join us and start rushing us, more and more quickly down the street (I don’t want to run, I tell them), with a growing crowd quickening their steps. A police van’s door opens. “Go! Go!” shouts a policeman to the driver, “Foncez!” as sirens wail and the van rushes ahead.

“Are you out of your minds?!” ask the two officers. “Do you know how many of them there were?!” “Somebody’s got to stand up for free speech”, replies the French protestor. After staying with us for 20-something minutes, they let us out. (As a departing farewell, I say, “You know, right before you came, we almost had them surrounded.”)

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It seems pretty obvious to me that prison riots, prisoner rape and abuse could all be quelled by imposing neither integration nor segregation on the inmates, but by simply giving them what “free” men in the outside world are denied:

Freedom of association—even, and especially, by race.

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