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Is the Press freer in the United States than in Europe?

By Tomislav Sunic

http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2012/11/is-the-press-freer-in-the-united-states-than-in-europe/

What follows below is the authors translation of his piece in French (Fall 2012). The

original text in F rench can be accessedhereorhere.I t is publi shed inRflchir et

Agir,a poli tical-cultur al quarter ly publi shed in F rance. I t can be roughly categorized

as non-conformist national-anarchist journal with critical articles on art, literature

and politi cs. The journal has publi shed in terviews with prominent French personali ties

fr om cultural and politi cal li fe (Bri gitte Bardot, Jean Raspail, Al ain de Benoist,

Vladimi r Volkof f, etc).

America does not yet know freedom-killing laws that have by now become the trademark of theFederal Republic of Germany and France. Compared to the French Penal Code, especially theFabius-Gayssot law,or the dreadedSection 130 of the Criminal Code in Germany,the

famous First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution opens up avenues to freedom of expression

that one could only dream about in Europe. Intellectuals who write for newspapers labeledracist or extreme rightwing, or heads of U.S. institutions who voice doubts about the official

casualty figure of the Jewish Holocaust, such as The Barnes Reviewor The Institute of Historical

Review, could be liable to a 4-year prison sentence in Germany, or subject to heavy legal fines in

France. None of this exists as of yet in America, where one can see even proscribed Europeanscholars such as Robert Faurisson and David Irving as guests of honor of different revisionist

groups. Moreover, openly anti-Black, indeed racist gatherings are not uncommon in America,

just as wearing the Waffen SS uniform, or sporting the swastika by U.S skinheads, or for thatmatter displaying the Celtic cross in ones own back yard all this baggage, all of this behavior

is strictly protected under the U.S. legal system.

One must not be fooled, however. American media and especially the mainstream press attunedto the System, such as The Huffington Post, The New York Times, The Washington Post, let alone

the major television channels, such as CNN, are careful not to venture into open discussions ofthe great taboos of our postmodernity: the Jewish question and the race question. It is not fear of

judicial censorship that rules over the intellectual landscape in America; fortunately there is none

for the time being. Rather, self-censorship among journalists and well-known professors, or the

paranoid anticipation of inadvertently crossing paths with an evil thinker producesunprecedented psycho-anthropological knee-jerk reflexes. Fear of social ostracism and fear of

being consigned to professional oblivion turn out to be stronger antidotes than fines,imprisonment, or the loss of job [American professors with tenure cant be fired for expressingtheir views on politics or scholarly issues].

Similar to the French political and media environment, there are few American journalists and

tenured professors who muster the courage to tackle in a critical and scholarly manner the topics

of Judaism and multiculturalism. The founding myths of postmodern America, such as itsself-assigned role of the supreme guardian of Good, its evangelical struggle against the supreme
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Evil, named the Shoah, as well as its belief in the myth of eternal economic progress, are

carefully internalized by the media and the political class. Even the slightest misstep of an

impulsive journalist or a nonconformist teacher means the kiss of death for his or her career.

The climate of self-censorship in the media and in the institutions of higher learning in Americadoes not require state censorship as is the case in France. In America, journalists quickly learn tocensor themselves. In fact, in the liberal system in Europe and across the Atlantic, there are

differences in degree, tone, shape, and especially in style in the workings of the Inquisitorial

System, but never any difference in substance.

The SPLC: The Afterthought Police

The thought police in America, with its numerous outlets, are much less visible and much moresubtle than in Europeand therefore more efficient. For example, The Southern Poverty Law

Center (SPLC) claims to be a think tank but is essentially an assembly line for smearing those

who have evil thoughts on topics such as race and Jewish influence. It receives millions of

dollars from anonymous sources with its prime goal being the blacklisting of all groups it labels

as extreme rightwing and of all intellectual nonconformists daring to criticize the System.Indeed, the SPLC resembles a private spy agency whose ideological lines are drawn in the

vicinity of cultural Marxism, and which is headed by Morris Dees, Mark Potok and Richard

Cohen.

Long ago, it was the SPLC itself that launched the new rules of the language engagement andwhich continues to employ abusively the expressions such as hate groups or white

supremacist for individuals of European ancestry voicing opinions critical of multiculturalism

and opposing the disproportionate role of the Jews in the American media. In the French

language, words such as hate groups or white supremacists have not yet assumed the sameinquisitorial significance, in contrast to America, where these terms have a paralyzing effect on

any intellectual or a politician daring to touch the modern Holy of Holiesi.e. the Jewish

Question or the Metaphysics of Multiculturalism. Although in the Penal Code there is not yet alegal provision referring to hate speech, this expression, however, is propagated by the U.S.

media on all wavelengths, and has by now become part of the new media jargon, serving as an

increasingly powerful deterrent against all free spirits. Indeed, the locution of hate speech is sovague that it can easily lend itself to any interpretation; hence the label may strike anybody at

any time.

The SPLC or the powerful explicitly Jewish lobby, the ADL, [(whose counterpart in France isthe CRIF (Conseil reprsentatif des institutions juives de France) (Council of French Jewish

Organizations)] are not just intellectual espionage machines. The SPLC is also an outlet which

informs the FBI, and the Department of Homeland Security in the United States about White

heretics suspected of spreading hate speech and who by the process of guilt by associationare likely to become terrorists a denotation with far more serious implications in

America. Worse, the SPLC has also set itself the task of monitoring academic institutions,sniffing out and cataloguing evil-minded teachers whose syllabi depart from the Gospel of

Multiculturalism. Not only are its targets young wacky self-proclaimed Nazis, but also many

prominent scholars in the field of sociobiology, as for instance Professor Kevin MacDonald, oreven politicians and writers, such as the former presidential candidate and the bestselling author

Patrick Buchanan.
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Of course, everybody in America is legally entitled to criticize everything on numerous websites

and in fringe nationalist papers of the so-called extreme right, but in most cases, the intellectual

scope of these papers and sites is limited and can in no way harm the System. It is clear thatthose different websites or webzines, run by racialist or nationalist groupings, with rare

exceptions (such as high quality racialist magazines like The Occidental Observerand The

Occidental Quarterly, or a newly launched political party The American Third Position Party)resort to a binary language, replete with vulgar, anti-Semitic and racist words, with no culturalveneer. It is therefore understandable why they can never be taken seriously by either the thought

police, or by the U.S. government itself. Indeed one might even speculate that those countless

extreme rightwing groupings are often used as a pretext by the U.S. government to scream fromall Washington DC rooftops that America, in comparison to the rest of the world, is the only

country of free speech.

A new intellectual nervous tic: self-censorship

By contrast, in the mass media in league with the System, the rules of engagement are quite

different. A correspondent of a television channel or an apprentice journalist wishing to reach

lofty peaks in his career must heap eulogies on behalf of Jews and Israel. Former CNN host RickSanchez and the dean of the White House press corps, Helen Thomas, have recently been fired

from their positions for comments considered critical of Israel and the Jews. Their sin was notconsidered a minor sin, as for instance when somebody criticizes undocumented mestizos. Theirs

was a mortal sin. The very old and the very famous Helen Thomas had to pack up her bags forhaving uttered on, May 27, 2010, during the celebration of the Jewish heritage at the White

House, that they (Jews) should get the hell out of Palestine and go home.

It is an unwritten rule, even in the American newspapers engaging in serious debates about the

dogma of multiculturalism (e.g., the conservative daily The Washington Times) never to criticize

the Jews or Israel. In this context one could detect, perhaps, a slight advantage regarding the

freedom of speech in the left-leaning European press, such asLe Monde diplomatiqueand TheGuardian, in which the reader can spot once in a while articles, if not critical of the Jews, at least

critical of the state of Israel. This is something unthinkable in any major American newspaper ofany persuasion. The slightest critical reference to the state of Israel, even without any allusion to

the Jews in America, can easily lead to professional dismissal.

Professor Kevin MacDonald of California State University Long Beach, who himself was

subject of professional harassment on the part of the ADL and SPLC for his allegedlyanti-Semitic writings, notes in his book The Culture of Critique, which has become a bestseller

in the non-conformist America and elsewhere:

By all accounts, ethnic Jews have a powerful influence in the American mediafar

larger than any other identifiable group. The extent of Jewish ownership andinfluence on the popular media in the United States is remarkable given that

relatively small proportion of the population is Jewish.

Hence the paradox. On the one hand one is allowed to say and write anything in the UnitedStates, even things that are completely stupid and sometimes openly preach the overthrow of the

American system. On the other hand, however, everyone, including the Jews themselves, live in

perpetual self-denial, assuming that the influence of the Jews is non-existent and that the role of


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Jews vis--vis non-Jews is always the Same. This seems to be a typical American projection in

observing the Other as the mirror image of its embellished Double. In reality, though, there are

powerful Jewish lobbies in the media and in Hollywood who exert a tremendous pressure onpublic discourse and on the imagination of the American massesas well as on the masses in

Europe.

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