SMITH'S REPORT
 
 
 
 
 
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- Number 35 -
September 1996

Contents

• CODOHWeb defies July 4th sneak attack!
• Congresswoman continues to protest use of her name in connection with Cole/Piper video.
• Rude awakening: how it looked to the man who does the work.
• Spielberg wheedles $1 million from taxpayers for new Hollywood holocaust project.
• Spiegelmouse's World
• Letters
• and more!

and now... our front page!

CODOHWeb defies July 4th sneak attack! We're up and roaring revisionist truth world-wide

    As subscribers to this newsletter are aware, the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust's Web site was closed down without notice and without explanation (other than a cryptic reference to its "content") by its Internet server, ProtoSource Network, approximately one minute after midnight on July 4th, 1996.

    While the losses CODOH suffered during the two weeks it was off the Internet, and the weeks following when innumerable repairs to the site continued, are not as heavy as those the Institute for Historical Review, suffered on the same date and at the same time twelve years earlier in an arson attack that has never been solved, they are nonetheless serious. CODOH lost not just its Web site, by now a world-wide beacon for revisionists, including those denied access to Holocaust revisionism in countries like Germany and France; we also lost access to the electronic mail service that, thanks to its speed, dependability, and low cost, now accounts for 90 percent of our work-related communications.

Enter Horowitz

    At mid-morning of the 4th, after I discovered I was unable to reach CODOHWeb, and unable to use email to report to ProtoSource what had happened, I telephoned the Fresno company and got through to ProtoSource's division manager, Rick Horowitz. At first, Horowitz told me that the site had been shut down because ProtoSource no longer wished to serve it. Just that. I tried to make a connection with him but it was like trying to converse with an automaton who hadn't the ability to have a real thought.

    Rick Horowitz was not an entire stranger to me. He has his own Web site, served by ProtoSource, listed under the same index mine was. For nine months we were something of associates. His Homepage displayed a photo of a man perhaps 30 years old, slim, bearded, dressed in a white tuxedo, giving the impression of a man who thinks well of himself. His short bio stated that he was recently returned from Hollywood, where he'd tried his hand at acting and evidently failed, which is no disgrace. I lived in Hollywood 30 years and it was my experience that almost everybody who goes there to be in films fails.

    Recently, after his promotion to division manager, he removed the tuxedo photo from his Homepage and dropped the bit about being a failed actor. Horowitz's Web site tells us something about where his mind and soul are now, however, as do all Web sites. One of Horowitz's specialties is providing access to things Jewish: Jewish culture, Jewish history, Israel (ergo, Zionism), Jerusalem, the Hebrew language and Yiddish. His site provides direct "links" to such entities as Yad Vashem, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, a section on anti-Semitism, Holocaust archives provided by the Shamash and Jerusalem-1 Web sites, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Nizkor (which means never forget, or always remember, or never fail to exploit the story, or something like that) Project, which is "a collection of Holocaust memorial and anti-revisionist projects on the Internet" (my emphasis) and so on and so on and so on.

"Stonewall" Horowitz

    As we talked on the telephone, or as I tried to talk to someone who didn't want to talk, I asked Horowitz repeatedly for the specific reason for ProtoSource's drastic, unfair action against me. Since he had access to CODOHWeb I reminded him: "You know there is absolutely nothing on the CODOH site that needs to be removed." Horowitz said, rather uncertainly it appeared to me: "I'm not so certain of that." He wouldn't commit himself to an adult exchange--probably because, despite his evident holocaustomania, he understood that anything he said would reveal that what he had done was dishonorable, as there is no way for a man in a free society to censor ideas--and the Internet is the world's newest and most explosive media for ideas--without dishonoring himself.

    I have had the identical experience with editors at college newspapers which refused to run a CODOH ad. When the Campus Project began, the editors and their faculty advisers often sought to justify their rejection of the ad on this ground or that, but no matter what the nature of their defense was, it was always a transparent act of censorship.

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