Prisoners of Conscience and Holocaust Revisionism:
An Open Letter to President George W. Bush
December 28, 2005
President George W. Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington , DC 20500
Dear President Bush,
In a public statement issued on December 10, 2005 , you called
for the immediate and unconditional release of prisoners of
conscience by the Syrian authorities, labeling the imprisonment of
these individuals as an example of the government of Syria 's
ongoing repression of Syrian people. I will quote directly from your
statement: “As we commemorate Human Rights Day, we call attention to
the continued imprisonment in Syria of Dr. Kamal Labwani and the
many other prisoners of conscience whom the Syrian authorities have
denied the fundamental right to freedom of opinion and expression.”
Apparently, President Bush, you operate with a hypocritical
double standard. You chided the Syrian government for imprisoning
Syrian prisoners of conscience, yet under your administration you
allow the deportation and imprisonment of the German prisoner of
conscience Germar Rudolf.
In Europe and the US , you can openly deny the existence of God.
However, if you question and dispute the Holocaust ideology as
Germar Rudolf has done, you can suffer severe persecution here in
the US and end up in prison in Europe . Germar Rudolf is a German
citizen who was forced to flee his native Germany because he has
questioned and refuted certain aspects of the Holocaust ideology. In
the United States , near Chicago , Revisionist scholar Rudolf was
recently torn from his American wife and their child and delivered
to Germany . He is in prison in Stuttgart .
Just as those Syrian intellectuals were imprisoned because of
their beliefs and public statements, so too is Germar Rudolf being
imprisoned for his beliefs about the Holocaust ideology. You chided
the Syrian authorities because they have denied Dr. Labwani and
others their fundamental rights to freedom of opinion and
expression, yet you are silent about the German government's denial
of Germar Rudolf's right to freedom of opinion and expression. You,
President Bush, make public protests about the Syrian intellectuals,
yet you allow and apparently condone the deportation and
imprisonment of Germar Rudolf.
This legally formulated persecution of Holocaust revisionists is
in blatant contradiction to the sermons you have given the rest of
the world on “human rights and freedom of expression.” As another
Holocaust revisionist scholar, Dr. Robert Faurisson, has pointed
out: “[A]s long as in the United States, Canada, nearly all of
Europe and as far away as Australia the revisionists are subjected
either to special laws or tribunals, underhanded police procedures,
or methodical vilification by media in the service of certain Jewish
or Zionist pressure groups, the Western world will have ever less
right to impose lessons of lawfulness, morality or democracy on
others.”
I now ask you to live up to your publicly promulgated dictums
about “human rights and freedom of expression,” and speak out
against the persecution and imprisonment of the Holocaust
revisionist scholar Germar Rudolf.
I await your response.
Sincerely,
Paul Grubach