He is NOT a criminal and should NOT be locked away!
As one European free speech martyr, Ernst Zundel, is released from prison, another one takes his place in the EU gulag. A Spanish court has sentenced Barcelona bookshop owner Pedro Varela to two years and nine months in prison for “spreading racist propaganda.” The court ruled that Varela spread ideas “favorable to genocide.” In fact none of the books Varela sold were favorable in any way to genocide. Varela has always condemned all human rights violations against peoples. He was charged with “racism” for simply selling a book in his bookstore by a leading British scientist on racial differences. A book which advocated no repression or harm against anyone. He was also ordered to pay a fine of 2,880 euros (3,945 dollars). Prosecutors had asked for a four-year prison sentence.
The court rejected Varela’s defense that he belonged to no political party and that there were no banned books in Spain. During the trial, Varela said “I am not saying there was not persecution of the Jews, and I have always condemned forcefully any persecution that existed, but there should be traditional academic investigation, criticism and challenge on historical events.” Brief English summary from EarthTimes; Spanish-language media reports from El Pais and EFE. So, they seek to throw him in prison not for denying crimes against Jews in the Second World War but for simply selling books in his shop that historically argue numbers of which there is considerable dispute even among mainstream Jewish researchers.
This represents Pedro Varela’s third time through the Spanish justice system over free speech issues. In 2006, Varela was arrested on Holocaust denial and justification of genocide charges, convicted on the justification charge, and sentenced to seven months in prison after a 2008 trial, but avoided incarceration at the time because he lacked a prior criminal record. Previously, on November 16th, 1998, a Barcelona criminal court found Varela guilty of inciting racial hatred and of denying or justifying genocide, and sentenced him to five years imprisonment and a fine of 720,000 pesetas (about $5,000). The conviction was suspended by the Catalonia Provincial Court on April 30th, 1999 when the three judges of the Audencia court in Barcelona unanimously declared that the law under which he had been convicted may have violated Article 20 of the Spanish Constitution, which guarantees the rights of free speech and free expression of opinion.
Ultimately, a Constitutional Tribunal sided with the provincial court, deciding in 2007 to decriminalise a presumption that was included in the reform of the Penal Code of 1996. Article 607.2 anticipates punishments of up to two years in jail for whoever, “by any means” diffuses “ideas or doctrines that deny or justify” the Holocaust. The Tribunal found that this clause limited a fundamental right, the right to freedom of expression, since it punished the diffusion of ideas “without demanding any other element, such as affronts, or inciting to attack groups.”
In 2007, Pedro Varela published Dr. David Duke’s Spanish-language translation of his book, “Jewish Supremacism”. The two launched a joint book tour for Dr. Duke. The November 2007 Spanish news video embedded below shows one of the joint appearances of Dr. Duke and Pedro Varela — and also shows Spanish Marxists staging a riot in protest. Ironically, a nonviolent man who has harmed no one is facing almost three years in prison while communist terrorists who rioted, burned property, who physically harmed police and bystanders, who sought bodily harm against other humans simply because of their viewpoint — were let off with only a slap on the wrist!
THE YOUNG NATIONAL FRONT DOES NOT BELIEVE YOU CAN LEAVE INNOCENT MEN IN PRISON TO ROT.
In April 2011 we shall stage protests in England and Scotland in support of Pedro.
We want ALL to consider these facts. Have you ever said anything that the ZOG machine would consider "racist" ?
Have you ever questioned events of historical importance?
Have you ever read a book that was against the current system of "politics and democracy"?
If the answer is yes the possibilities here should speak for themselves.
It could be you or me in the dock for a book we read, it could be you or me in court for something we have questioned. Free speech isn't free. It has cost Pedro 2years and 9months of his life, it cost countless others countless years in these "thought prisons"
This isn't a political issue or a racial issue as much as it should be seen as a civil liberty issue, and heres one I am so happy to be able to use... "a human rights" issue so I will be getting all of those who claim to support free speech and human rights and asking them to step up to the plate for Pedro.
So I ask all to consider what they can do for this event, can you help find all the right embassy locations etc. Can you keep an eye on court dates and updates on Pedro's case? Can you lend a hand preparing leaflets or articles? Can you make contact with others to make them aware of this event? can you make contact with any and all Spanish Nationalists you may know and ask if they would be willing to speak on behalf of Pedro. Maybe we can try (which I will do after posting this) to get those from Spain to come here and speak on behalf of Pedro outside our embassy.
Dates will be confirmed in the next few days and we would again stress this is NOT a YNF event, it is an event for ANYONE & EVERYONE who claims that we should have the right to free speech and freedom of opinion.
YNF
Embassy of Spain in Andorra - Prat de la Creu, 34.-Andorra la Vella. Teléfono: 80 00 30. Fax: 86 85 00. Email: embespad@correo.mae.es
Consulate of Spain in Melbourne, Australia - 146A. Elgin St. Carlton Victoria 3053. Tel.: (03) 9347 1966 y 9347 1997. Fax: (03) 9347 7330. Email: conspmel@mail.mae.es
Consulate of Spain in Sydney, Australia - Level 24, St. Martins Tower.-31 Market St.-Sydney, N.S.W. 2000. Tel.: 9261 2433, 9261 2443 & 9261 1321. Fax: 9283 1695. Email: cgspainsydney@mail.mae.es
Embassy of Spain in Brussels, Belgium - 19, rue de la Science.-1040 Bruxelles. Teléfono: 230 03 40. Fax: 230 93 80 y 230 01 62. Email: ambespbe@mail.mae.es
Embassy of Spain in Sofia, Bulgaria - Sheynovo, 27.-Sofía. PO Box: P.K. 381. Tel.: 946 12 09, 943 30 32, 943 30 34, 943 36 20 y 943 36 30. Fax: 946 12 01 Email: embespbg@mail.mae.es Comercial Office: Dragan Tsankov, 36.-Sofía 1040. P.O.Box 849, Sofía 1000. Tel.: 971 20 01 & 71 46 31 85. Fax: 971 20 63. Télex: 23176 OFCOM BG.
Consulate of Spain in Montreal, Canada - 1, Westmount Square. Suite 1456.-Montreal (Québec). H3Z 2P9. Tel.: 935 52 35. Fax: 935 46 55. Email: conspmontreal@mail.mae.es
Consulate of Spain in Toronto, Canada - Simcoe Place, 200 Front Street West Oficina 2401. P.O. Box 15, Toronto (Ontario). M5V 3K2. Tel.: 977 1661, 977 3923, 977 4075 & 977 4705. Fax: 593 4949. Email: cgspain.toronto@mail.mae.es
Embassy of Spain in Santiago, Chile - Av. Andrés Bello, 1895. Providencia.-Santiago de Chile. Tel.: 235 27 54/55/61 & 235 78 19. Fax: 236 15 47 y 235 10 49. Email: embespcl@correo.mae.es
Embassy of Spain in Zagreb, Croatia - Meduliceva, 5.-10000 Zagreb. Tel.: 48 48 607/3/6/10. Fax: 48 48 608, 48 48 605. Email: embesphr@mail.mae.es
Embassy of Spain in Cyprus - 32, Strovolos Avenue, 4.th floor. 2018 Strovolos, Nicosia, Cyprus. P.O.B. 28349. 2093 Nicosia Tel.: 22450 410, 22450 412 Emergencies : 99581 953. Fax: 22491 291. Email: enmora@cytanet.com.cy,embespcy@mail.mae.es
Embassy of Spain in London, Great Britain and Northern Ireland - 39, Chesham Place.-London SW1X 8SB. Tel.: 235 55 55. Fax: 259 53 92. Email: embespuk@mail.mae.es
Embassy of Spain in Slovakia - Prepoatská, 10.-81101 Bratislava. Slovak Republic. Tel.: 5441 57 24 & 5441 57 26. Fax: 5441 75 65 y 5441 5717. Email: embespsk@mail.mae.es
Embassy of Spain in Slovenia - Trnovski pristan 24.-1000 Liubliana. Tel.: 420 23 30, 420 23 12, 420 23 11 & 420 23 25. Fax: 420 23 33.Email: embespsi@mail.mae.es
Consulate General of Spain in Boston
545 Boylston St., Suite 803
Boston, MA. 02116
Tel. (617) 536-2506/2527
Fax: (617) 536-8512
conspbos@mail.mae.es
Jurisdiction: Maine, Massachussets, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont.
Consulate General of Spain in Chicago
180 N. Michigan Ave., Suite 1500
Chicago, IL 60601
Tel. (312) 782-4588/4589
Fax: (312) 728-1635
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Jurisdiction: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesotta, Missouri, Wisconsin.
Consulate General of Spain in Houston
1800 Bering Dr., Suite 660
Houston, TX 77057
Tel. (713) 783-6200/05/14
Fax: (713) 783-6166
spainconsulatehoust@prodigy.net
Jurisdiction: New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas.
Consulate General of Spain in Los Angeles
5055 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 860
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Tel. (323) 938-0158/0166
Fax: (323) 938-2502
consplax@mail.mae.es
Jurisdiction: California ( Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties), Arizona, Colorado, Utah.
Consulate General of Spain in Miami
2655 Le Jeune Rd., Suite 203
Coral Gables, FL 33134
Tel. (305) 446-5511/12/13
Fax: (305) 446-0585
cgspain.miami@mail.mae.es
Jurisdiction: Florida, South Carolina, Georgia.
Consulate General of Spain in New Orleans
2102 World Trade Center
2 Canal Street. . New Orleans, LA 70130
Tel. (504) 525-4951/7920
Fax: (504) 525-4955
conspneworleans@mail.mae.es
Jurisdiction: Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennesse.
Consulate General of Spain in New York
150 East 58th Street, 30 th & 31st Floors
New York, NY 10155
Tel. (212) 355-4080/81/82/85/90
Fax: (212) 644-3751
spainconsulny@mail.mae.es
Jurisdiction: New York, Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey.
Consulate General of Spain in San Francisco
1405 Sutter St.
San Francisco, CA 94109
Tel. (415) 922-2995/96
Fax: (415) 931-9706
conspsfo@mail.mae.es
Jurisdiction: Alaska, California (except southern part), Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming, and American possessions in the Pacific.
Consulate General of Spain in Washington D.C.
2375 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Washington D.C. 20037
Tef. (202) 728-2330
Fax: (202) 728-2302
cog.washington@mae.es
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