CENSORSHIP: JEWISH CONGRESSMAN GETS AMEX TO PULL DAVID IRVING'S PRIVILEGES

Written by Paul Fromm

Sunday, 25 October 2009 04:56

Censorship: Jewish Congressman Gets AmEx to Pull David Irving's Privileges AmEx yanks merchant privileges from author who denies Holocaust *Martha C. White[image: Martha C. White RSS Feed]* Oct 21st 2009 at 6:30PM <http://www.tipd.com/submit.php?url=http%3A//www.walletpop.com/blog/2009/10/21/amex-yanks-merchant-privileges-from-author-who-denies-holocaust/%23> More Text SizeAAA David Irving is not a man with whom many of us would want to be associated. The British-born historian has made a career peddling books and speeches claiming that the Holocaust and Adolph Hilter's realm of genocide are fabrications. He's run afoul of strict laws in Austria forbidding statements of Holocaust denial and even has done jail time there for his beliefs. Now, it seems American Express doesn't want to be associated with him, either. When Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind learned that Irving accepted American Express from people who wanted to buy his books or buy tickets to his book tour events, he got a dozen lawmakers to sign a letter urging AmEx to drop Irving and alerted the media<http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2009/10/21/2009-10-21_lifes_less_rewarding_for_denier_of_the_holocaust_thanks_to_pol.html> . The result? David Irving is no longer a merchant, according to American Express. "It's effective immediately, as of yesterday," which is when the card issuer was made aware of the nature of Irving's business, says AmEx spokesperson Christine Elliott. "The materials that he sells on his website are not consistent with the brand policies that we have in our merchant agreement so we made the decision to terminate his ability to accept the American Express card," Elliott tells WalletPop. Irving still accepts Visa and Mastercard; Assemblyman Hikind says his office would like to see those issuers drop Irving as well. He acknowledges this will be a longer battle since many different banks use Visa and Mastercard. If dropped by one, Irving could simply take his biased business to another one. "We are figuring out how to do that," Hikind tells WalletPop. "It's a more difficult nut to crack but we intend to crack it. We don't need to have major corporations working with the guy." Hikind is pleased with AmEx's response, though. "I'm very happy. I think [the termination] was incredibly fast," he says of the company's response.

 

RACISTS, RACISTS EVERYWHERE, SAYS SOUTHERN POVERTY (WELL, NOT THEIRS) LAW CONFERENCE

Written by Paul Fromm

Sunday, 25 October 2009 04:55

SPLC: “Racists” are EVERYWHERE! Please send money to fight them.<http://cofcc.org/2009/10/splc-racists-are-everywhere-money-to-fight-them/> When you’ve built an empire worth hundreds of millions under the guise of “fighting racism,” you have to keep finding more racists to keep the donations coming in. Of course the Southern Poverty Law Center spends very little time and money representing poor people. It only takes a few cases a year. Most of the money either goes to pay outlandish salaries and bonuses, or it is added to the $150 million and growing “endowment.” An endowment that never actually funds anything and is referred to by critics as the “Morris Dees retirement fund.” The SPLC has been denounced by both the right and the left as a con game. Harper’s Magazine dubbed it little more than a fundraiser hustle, calling it the “Church of Morris Dees.” More and more the SPLC has to brand ordinary middle class Americans as hard-core “racists” to justify its existence and fundraiser letters. Recent additions to the list of hatemongers have been Tradition Catholics, Pentecost Tent Revivals, the American Legion, the makers of the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, and others. Yet still new enemies must be found for new SPLC fund-raising letters. The latest addition to the list includes: 1. People who are defending Rush Limbaugh concerning the NFL deal. 2. Radio Talk Show Host Micheal Savage, whom the SPLC calls “hate radio host.” 3. An online risk-style video game, called United States of Earth, which portrays Obama as a bad guy. 4. Military and police who say they will disobey orders to disarm American citizens 5. Dutch EU Parliament member (who’s party received 27% of the vote), Geert Wilders. 6. Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz. for inviting Geert Wilders to the US. 7. Craig Bodecker for making a documentary exposing the left-wing “racism” hustle. 8. People who gave positive reviews for Craig Bodecker’s film. Of course the #1 group that the SPLC loves to hate, is the Council of Conservative Citizens. They have attacked us in every single issue of their free fund-raising magazine for the last ten years!

 

BOTH THE LEMIRE AND TREMAINE CASES SHOW INTERNET GAG LAW WAS PUNITIVE, NOT REMEDIAL,

Written by Paul Fromm

Sunday, 25 October 2009 02:32

*Both the Lemire and Tremaine Cases Show Internet Gag Law Was Punitive, Not Remedial, Fromm Tells Moncton Crowd* ** *MONCTON. October 24, 2009*. Free speech supporters from as far away as Halifax travelled to Moncton to hear Paul Fromm discuss the significance of the Marc Lemire constitutional challenge to Sec. 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, the Internet censorship law. "Marc Lemire has won an important victory but we haven't won the war," Fromm said. "The Canadian Human Rights Commission is seeking judicial review (appeal) of this decision. We must win this and toss this evil, un-Canadian piece of minority-inspired censorship into the garbage can of history. Free men and women deserve no less." Paul Fromm, the Director of the Canadian Association for Free Expression, was introduced by fellow teacher Malcolm Ross who lost his teaching job over a decade ago for his Christian writings on his own time off school property, which criticized Jews. Malcolm Ross is the author of a number of books including *Cross-Examination* which looks at the long legal war to take his job and further shut down right-of-centre teachers who might choose to speak their minds. "Marc Lemire's battle involved a lot of courage," Mr. Ross said. "We contend for truth, for our people, for our heritage," he added. "A court doesn't give us a victory. The truth does." "We're in this war for the long run. It may take years or even centuries to overcome the forces of evil censorship," he said. Paul Fromm, who is finishing an eight city, four province speaking tour to help raise funds for Terry Tremaine, explained that Mr. Tremaine is a victim of Richard Warman's "maximum disruptlon" campaign to silence dissidents and destroy their lives. "Athanasios Hadjis ruled Sec. 13 unconstitutional because it was no longer 'remedial' as the Supreme Court thought it was when it upheld an old form of this law in 1990. Warman launched a Sec. 13 complaint against Mr. Tremaine in 2005 for his postings on Stormfront under the name *Mathdoktor99*. He then went complaining to the University of Saskatchewan and Mr. Tremaine was fired from his job as a math instructor. Next, he sought to have Mr. Tremaine charged under Sec. 319 of the Criminal Code (the "hate law"). He sent bundles of material and his complaint to the Regina Police." Even though Mr. Tremaine at one point, while under severe medication at the Regina Hospital, made a grovelling apology and retraction, neither Mr. Warman nor the Canadian Human Rights Commission would drop the complaint. "If the process were really 'remedial,' at that point, there was nothing further to remediate and the complaint should have been withdrawn or dismissed," Mr. Fromm insisted. As with the Lemire case, said Fromm, it was clear that the goal was the gagging or destruction of the dissident. "At one point, both Warman and the Commission insisted that the Freedomsite 'in its entirety', even the title and mailing address, all constituted 'hate'," Mr. Fromm reported. "It was not about removing a few passages that might offend one of Canada's priviledged class of minorities. At this time, all the original passages complained of had been removed. If the process had been 'remedial,' the case should have ended there. It didn't," Fromm thundered, "because the real intent was to destroy Marc Lemire and shut him up and shut down the Freedomsite."