by Ian Mosley

At a time when our Rights as Americans are being erased one-by-one in the name of “fighting terrorism,” a court in Spain has stood up for free speech. Most of the news coming out of Europe these days is very bad. Massive non-white immigration, declining white birth rates, and terrible Iron Heel persecution of anyone who dares to protest against unlimited Third World immigration–and above all, merciless suppression of anyone who dares to question the 21st century’s secular religion, the Holocaust myth and the guilt-driven industry that thrives on it. But now there is a glimmer of light in the European darkness.

Global Fire reports: “On November 7, 2007 Spain’s Constitutional Court ruled on the case of Pedro Varela, the well known Spanish human rights activist and publisher. Pedro Varela was sentenced initially (Nov. 16, 1998) to five years in prison by a Barcelona court for selling books that were considered to contain articles of racehate and Holocaust denial. In fact, they were books that disputed certain aspects of the modern holocaust dogma. On April 30, 1999, the highest appeal court of Catalonia overturned the verdict and denounced the original verdict, as well as the law the verdict was based on, (article 607.2 Spanish penal code) as illegal. Three judges came to the unanimous conclusion that such a law violates human rights by depriving every individual from his or her basic human rights (UN-Charter, Article 19).”

The Spanish government in turn appealed. On November 8th, the Spanish daily El Mundo reported that the nation’s Constitutional Court has struck down Spain’s Holocaust Denial law (or genocide denial; Spain was apparently one of those countries where you could go to prison for denying the Armenian Holocaust as well.)

According to an English translation off the web: “Freedom of expression cannot be denied even to the Nazis…The Constitutional Tribunal decided yesterday to decriminalise a presumption that was included in the reform of the Penal Code of 1996. Article 607.2 anticipates punishments of up to two years in jail for whoever, by any means diffuses ‘ideas or doctrines that deny or justify’ the Holocaust.”

In one European country, at least, the nightmare may be over.

El Mundo goes on: “With that legislation, a Barcelona court [Juzgado Penal Nº 3, Judge Santiago Vidal] sentenced a librarian [Pedro Varela] in this city in 1998 who distributed and commercialised pro Nazi books and videos. Against the prosecution’s criteria, the Catalonian Court of Appeal [Audiencia Provincial, three judges] posed the question of unconstitutionality, when considering that the referenced article limits a fundamental right, the right to freedom of expression, since it punishes the diffusion of ideas ‘without demanding any other element, such as affronts, or inciting to attack groups.’”

In other words, like all anti-Revisionist laws, the Spanish law essentially punished the thought rather than the deed, criminalizing the peaceful spread of ideas and viewpoints not approved of by the authorities.

El Mundo editorialized: “We are, undoubtedly, before a correct decision of the Constitutional Court that reinforces our system of guarantees. Because…a free society cannot deny their right of freedom of expression, unless it includes inciting to violence. The opposite would be to reinstate the crime of opinion.”

Essentially, opinion is no longer a crime in Spain. Contrast this with our own impending H. R. 1955, where for the first time in United States history, holding different opinions will in fact become a crime if so designated by one of the unaccountable government “boards” or “commissions” which the legislation establishes to determine just what thoughts shall be deemed criminal from now on in the United States.

It used to be that the United States was a haven for European Revisionists like Ernst Zundel and Germar Rudolf. Now it looks like the situation is reversing. We desperately need a new president who values the Constitution like Ron Paul. If Hillary Clinton or Giulian wins, we will continue down the road toward thought control and Free Speech in America will be a thing of the past.