Welcome to 1984 - 21st Century Style

So this is the world in which we live. Historians who have spent their lives studying a very important part of world history are harassed, threatened and arrested simply because of what their findings showed them - that the official history is flawed, possibly even fabricated.

I am talking about the history of WWII and the holocaust of course. We all learned about it in history class throughout our education in our government run schools. But what if most of or all of what we were taught wasn't really how it all happened? Remember, the history of conflict is written by the winners - not the losers.

This is where these historians come into the picture. What they are saying publicly to anyone who will listen is that what we know about the holocaust is wrong. That what we have all been taught for around 60 years could be wrong.

I'm not going to get into whether or not these historians are wrong or right. I am more interested in the fact that their arguments are dismissed out of hand as simply anti-Semitic. Rather than refute their version of WWII and holocaust history with evidence, the mainstream would rather attack their character.

Why do they attack the persons character rather than refute what these people say using a valid argument?

When people claim that the moon landing never happened are they arrested and deported to countries with "thought crime" laws? No. When people claim to have been abducted by aliens are they arrested and charged? No. How about those who believe Elvis is alive?

Then why this type of treatment for those who question the official version of the holocaust? It is the reaction of the mainstream with regards to these people that makes me think there is more to this. Truth needs no law to support it. For some reason though, this "truth" does.

Ernst Zundell is one of the people who has spent his life studying WWII and the Jewish holocaust. He used his website and leaflets to get his version of this history out to the average person, and was arrested and deported from both the U.S. and Canada for it. Canada declared him a threat to national security and deported him to his homeland of Germany, where he faces a prison sentence simply for questioning the holocaust. It is a crime in Germany to deny the official version of the holocaust.

I didn't realize that simply questioning historical record made you a threat to the security of Canada. I know I certainly don't feel threatened.

David Irving is another historian who was arrested recently in Vienna Austria. He was there by invitation to speak to a University Association in the Austrian capital. His topics were secret negotiations between Adolf Eichman and Jewish leaders in Budapest and the 'trucks for Jews' deal. He was not allowed to speak and could face up to 20 years in proson - all for questioning the extent of the holocaust.

Germar Rudolph, a chemist, was recently deported from the U.S. to Germany where he was wanted for 'inciting racial hatred by disputing the deaths of thousands of Jews held captive at a concentration camp.'

This is a scientist who tested bricks in the gas chambers for traces of Zyklon B, a cyanide compound reportedly used to kill Jews during the Holocaust. His tests found no traces of this chemical. He therefore disputed the official story that Jews were gassed to death in this particular camp...Auschwitz.

No matter what you think you know about Auschwitz, you cannot be certain no matter what - you weren't there. We have an accepted version of events, and a growing group of people with evidence to support an alternate version.

The only conclusion any open minded individual can come to is that new evidence is being completely ignored based on character assassinations of those who bring it forward. This new evidence is never disputed with facts.

I wonder if the world is unfolding as George Orwell wrote in 1984 because of his book, or if he just had insight into where the world would end up if we kept a false history of our time here.

All I know is that on one side we have people who present evidence to support their side of the argument, and on the other side we have people that attack their character rather than refute the evidence presented with some of their own.

I will tend to believe that they cannot refute that evidence, and instead rely on me ignoring it as hate speech. I believe that the more they try to silence these "thought criminals", the more they make it obvious that they are trying to hide something.

Over the past few decades the 'official' number of Jews murdered by Hitler has dropped from around 6 million to 4 million, and more recently an accepted 1.5 million. I mention this only because the record is slowly being corrected...so why are they locking up people who only want to correct it further? What truth are they trying to hide that is worth taking these mens freedoms from them?

Some quotes relevant to this post :

The truth is "hate speech" only to those who have something to hide.--Michael Rivero

In this world, those who seek the truth will also find trouble. --Gary Amirault

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. --Arthur Schopenhauer

When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.-- Dresden James