British 'Holocaust denier' denied entry to New Zealand

Australian Broadcasting Company ^ | July 30 2004 | AFP

[knighthawk]

British historian David Irving, accused of being a Holocaust denier, will not be permitted to enter New Zealand later this year.

Mr Irving was denied a visa because he had been deported from another country, Immigration Service spokesman Kathryn O'Sullivan said.

Mr Irving, who was deported from Canada in 1992, says on his website that he planned to visit New Zealand in September.

"Anyone who has been deported from another country is not allowed into New Zealand, full stop. You don't look at the reasons why. It's basically New Zealand law," Ms O'Sullivan said.

She said if Mr Irving wished to enter the country he would have to apply for a special direction to the service "and that's considered on a case by case basis".

Earlier this month New Zealand's Jewish community asked the Government to keep Mr Irving out of the country.

He was "well known for his anti-Jewish writings and activities, and was found by the High Court in London in 2002 to be racist, (and) an active Holocaust denier", New Zealand Jewish Council president David Zwartz said in a statement.

Green MP Keith Locke accused the Immigration Service of not upholding the right of free speech in its refusal to allow Mr Irving into the country.

"David Irving's Holocaust denial views are repugnant to most New Zealanders but that is not sufficient reason to bar him from New Zealand," Mr Locke said.

"His fatally flawed analysis has been rubbished in open debate. Banning him only gives more publicity to his obnoxious views."

[knighthawk]

Ping

[cripplecreek]

They should deport him to Israel and let him run his mouth.

Of course I point out to liberals that the state department has all the info they need to renounce thier citizenship.

[Slings and Arrows]

I wonder if he ever paid that $2 million he owes from when he sued the scholar who exposed him and lost?

[Malesherbes]

Irving has done some useful historical work. As a young man he learned German and interviewed a lot of the old relics of the Nazi regime before they died, capturing information that might have otherwise been lost. Then, he went off the deep end. He is now little more than a crank. I think he revels in such incidents as being denied entry into New Zealand, as long as they spell his name correctly.

[King Prout]

oops?

;)

[SJackson]

Thanks

[SJackson]

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[Alouette]

Send him to Iran or Saudi Arabia where he can live out the rest of his miserable existence in opulent luxury.

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[bad company]

"accused of being a Holocaust denier"


I hate that PC category. The man's a bigot. The man's a liar. The man's a moron.

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

Here's the website about the U.K. trial in which Irving was proven a Holocaust denier and a false scholar who falsifying his supposedly scholarly works:

http://www.holocaustdenialontrial.org/

Also of interest:
http://www.nizkor.org

[Revolting cat!]

Gotta have a shtick nowadays to stand out! Holocaust affirmers are a dime a dozen!

[Slings and Arrows]

Thanks for the links. What a sick little man.

[Brian Allen]

<< "David Irving's Holocaust denial views are repugnant to most New Zealanders but that is not sufficient reason to bar him from New Zealand," Mr Locke said. >>

OK, then, so why not bar him as an "AIDS refugee?"

Or reclassify him as -- and bar him as -- an islamonazi terrorist running from Australia's repressive [Vis-à-vis those faux "refugees" who in seeking an immigration outcome have been trafficked through and/or have bypassed ten islamic s**t-holes] immigration rules and regulations -- and from other Christian-oriented repression and/or from the Iraelis' relentless cycle of violence maintenance?

< /sarcasm >

[SirLurkedalot]

Thanks for the pings....Halfway back from NZ,throw this creep out of the plane.

[shaggy eel]

,,, Keith Locke, son of two [now deceased] members of the New Zealand Communist Party, Jim and Elsie. Under Communist regimes freedom of speech doesn't go the distance, Keith. What could he have been thinking?

[Brian Allen]

Hmmmmmmmm?

Two good commies, eh?

Chalk it up!

[shaggy eel]

,,, Keith's in the closest thing to the Commie Party possible.

[NZerFromHK]

It wouldn't surprise me one day if Keith Locke discloses news that his son is a neo-Nazi skinhead. Heck, even his mentor, the esteemed Great Professor Noam Chomsky, supports Holocaust-denial organizations.

Nazism and communism (and by ideological links, socialism) are two sides of the same coin.