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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Jan 17, 2018, 05:25 PM Jan 2018

Britain bans entry to prominent U.S. Holocaust denier

Last edited Wed Jan 17, 2018, 06:37 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: Reuters



JANUARY 17, 2018 / 11:14 AM / UPDATED 5 HOURS AGO

Reuters Staff

London (Reuters) - Britain has banned a prominent American Holocaust denier from entering the United Kingdom, according to a copy of correspondence from the interior ministry. Mark Weber, director of the California-based Institute for Historical Review, has questioned the scale of the Holocaust, in which six million Jews were killed.

“You are the subject of an exclusion decision taken personally by the Home Secretary on 28 April 2015 on Unacceptable Behaviour ground,” the letter to Weber dated Dec. 22 from Britain’s Home Office said.

Prime Minister Theresa May, who became premier in 2016 amid political turmoil prompted by a shock referendum vote to leave the European Union, was Home Secretary at the time of the decision.

“She personally directed that you should be excluded from the United Kingdom on the grounds that your presence here is not conductive to the public good,” according to the 2015 decision.



Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-politics-holocaust/britain-bans-entry-to-prominent-u-s-holocaust-denier-idUSKBN1F623Z

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Britain bans entry to prominent U.S. Holocaust denier (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2018 OP
Good for P.M. May. nt irisblue Jan 2018 #1
Asking Britain to mollify accepted facts of WWII really is a stupid delusion bucolic_frolic Jan 2018 #2
Excellent. They_Live Jan 2018 #3
I always remember this quote ripcord Jan 2018 #4
I love that quote - thank you! erronis Jan 2018 #7
Meditations efhmc Jan 2018 #11
Ike was so smart.. Mahalo for that, ripcord Cha Jan 2018 #16
As a German language teacher my name ended up on the Institute mailing list for a while. Creepy bobbieinok Jan 2018 #5
As a German teacher Chrysanthemum Jan 2018 #12
What state was this? I wasbin IA when I got those mailings bobbieinok Jan 2018 #13
Thank you Great Britain! bronxiteforever Jan 2018 #6
But, I thought President Trump already announced that he wasn't going... MrPurple Jan 2018 #8
Add this to the "military-industrial complex" quote, BobTheSubgenius Jan 2018 #9
There is a verified living former Nazi party member who has BigmanPigman Jan 2018 #10
Good! raven mad Jan 2018 #14
Trump will invite him... SergeStorms Jan 2018 #15

bucolic_frolic

(43,249 posts)
2. Asking Britain to mollify accepted facts of WWII really is a stupid delusion
Wed Jan 17, 2018, 05:34 PM
Jan 2018

at least someone is standing in opposition to fake news

With all the UK faced in that war, did he expect them to be receptive to denial?

ripcord

(5,492 posts)
4. I always remember this quote
Wed Jan 17, 2018, 06:16 PM
Jan 2018

“Get it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses – because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”

– General Dwight D. Eisenhower, medications on future Holocaust denial

erronis

(15,324 posts)
7. I love that quote - thank you!
Wed Jan 17, 2018, 07:26 PM
Jan 2018

It's especially important now the everybody can pull stuff out of the air (internet) and adapt to their own agenda.

It's too late, but I don't think Ike was taking medications to deal with the future Holocaust denial. However, the more we learn about our heros and mortal leaders, the more possible that could be.

Chrysanthemum

(188 posts)
12. As a German teacher
Wed Jan 17, 2018, 09:08 PM
Jan 2018

I and other teachers and students were targeted by the so-called "Schiller Institute", a front for the Lyndon LaRouche organization. They used to hang up posters for free classical German music concerts as a way to lure students and teachers into their outfit, which, frankly, I used to consider cultlike. Of course, as soon as I saw them, I took their posters down. They had no permission to hang anything up on the department's bulletin board anyway.

It's my understanding they're still out there trying to draw support from the vulnerable and confused.

BigmanPigman

(51,622 posts)
10. There is a verified living former Nazi party member who has
Wed Jan 17, 2018, 07:52 PM
Jan 2018

been kicked out of the US and sent to Germany but Germany, and a few other countries, will not take him. So he is still in the US. He was found guilty and extradited. I forget his name.

SergeStorms

(19,204 posts)
15. Trump will invite him...
Thu Jan 18, 2018, 03:28 AM
Jan 2018

to the White House for dinner (Big Macs, XL order of fries, and "two scoops" for desert) or to the "Winter White House" in Mar-ma-lado where the dinner fare will be less 'fancy'(Quarter pounders, small fries, and only 'one scoop').
After all, birds of a feather must flock together.

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