A man who published a study that he said proved the Nazis did not gas Jews at Auschwitz has been deported from the US to his native Germany to serve a prison term for Holocaust denial.   
  
Posted Nov 16, 2005 07:45 AM PS                            Category: DICTATORSHIP           


Forget the hyperbole. Rudolf is a chemist, and he performed a chemistry experiment. He tested samples from the Auschwitz buildings for the presence of cyanide, which should still be present even after 60 years, and could not find it.
 All his report said is that the building he tested did not have levels of cyanide residue consistent with the historical claims made for that building. 

In a normal civilized and free society, the proper response is for other scientists to come in and repeat the experiment. Then, if they come to a different result, a search for the cause of the discrepancy begins, until finally the truth is known. But we are not seeing such a reaction.

 The chemist was convicted by the German courts for daring to question. And the fact that his results suggest the question was valid is not a defense.
 A new dictatorship is being imposed on the world; a dictatorship of thought. One can be punished for having "wrong" thoughts about a certain subject.

 You can doubt there were WMDs in Iraq, you can doubt the Moon landings happened, you can doubt the existence of the gods, all without peril. But to doubt the official version of the history of WW2 is to risk prison.

 Why? Why is this one and only one area of inquiry subject to such punishment? What is it about this subject that laws exist to prevent even a single question?