ThoughtCrime: 02/24/88
Teacher Suspended for Challenging Holocaust Story
The latest victim of a series of witch-hunt's against
school teachers accused of questioning the "Holocaust" is Giovanni Pinto,
a forty-two-year-old high school teacher from Montville, New Jersey.
Pinto was suspended by school authorities last February 24, nineteen
days after he is alleged to have challenged the historicity of the Holocaust
in Spanish class. Pinto has denied the charges. If found guilty of stating
that the Holocaust was a myth, Pinto faces dismissal from his tenured
position by the Montville school board. Pinto joins a growing list of schoolteachers around the world
who have faced disciplining or firing for daring to question the traditional
Holocaust story. James Keegstra lost his teaching job in 1982 for giving
his history students a dissenting viewpoint on the Jewish and Zionist
role in history, and for presenting a revisionist position on the Holocaust
story. There appears to be a growing interest in academic indoctrination
rather than academic freedom. Mandatory classes which teach the orthodox
Holocaust story have been suggested in many states. Adapted from IHR Newsletter #61 October 1988, Institute for Historical
Review, PO Box 2739, Newport Beach, CA 92659 "Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death."
George Orwell
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