BISHOP WILLIAMSON FACING THREE YEARS IN PRISON IN ARGENTINA

Hunted on two continents for doubting the existence of execution gas
chambers in Auschwitz-Birkenau on Swedish television

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h0Ɩ0cαųst Revisionist Put Under Pressure by Church, Courts

Deutsche Welle | Feb. 10, 2009
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4017832,00.html

Church leaders aren't the only ones calling on Williamson to retract his
denial of the h0Ɩ0cαųst The superior of an ultra-conservative Society of
St. Pius X (SSPX) called on Richard Williamson to "correct" his denial
of the h0Ɩ0cαųst. The move comes as Argentina, where Williamson resides,
filed suit against him.  

Bernard Fellay, who heads the ultra-conservative Society of St. Pius X,
said Richard Williamson "should study the historical facts quickly and
correct his false statements -- the sooner the better," the online
version of the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel reported Tuesday, Feb.
10.   There has been outrage, especially in Germany, over Williamson's
claim to a Swedish television interviewer that there had been no gas
chambers at nαzι cσncєnтrαтισn cαмρs and "only 200,000 to 300,000" Jєωs
had died in the camps.  

Fellay, 50, said he told Williamson to "correct this nonsense" as soon
as he saw the interview.   "It should not have needed a papal demand to
do so," Fellay said, adding that he had suspended Williamson as head of
the SSPX seminary at La Reja, Argentina, on Jan. 31. "I have forbidden
him to make further public statements without my permission."  

Legal charges were also leveled against Williamson on Tuesday in
Argentina. He is accused of denying the h0Ɩ0cαųst, according to evidence
brought to Judge Julian Ercolini's attention.  The head of Argentina's
National Institute Against Discrimination (INADI), Maria Jose Lubertino,
said Williamson would have to correct or confirm his claims and could
potentially face other legal charges.  

"He is obliged to clarify the veracity of his claims," Lubertino said,
according to the AFP news agency. "We are going to make a formal legal
complaint and he may face up to three years in prison."  

Last week, Williamson told Der Spiegel he would reexamine the historical
evidence before reaching a decision on whether to apologize.   "If I
find proof I would rectify (earlier statements)... But all that will
take time," he said, adding that he would not travel to Auschwitz.  

Pope Benedict had hoped to reunited the Church by lifting the four
bishops' excommunication Fellay, Williamson and two other SSPX bishops
were re-admitted to the Catholic Church by Pope Benedict XVI two weeks
ago to end a 21-year schism with an estimated 600,000
ultra-traditionalist Catholics who had refused to follow the pope.  

CALLS FOR POLICE SURVEILLANCE IN GERMANY

SSPX, which opposes much of the religious doctrine put in place by the
Second Vatican Council, is active in Germany, where it is opposed by
most official Catholic bishops.   The lay people's committee of the
Catholic diocese of Paderborn called Tuesday for SSPX groups to be put
under police surveillance to establish if they were a threat to
democracy in Germany.   Several politicians in the Social Democratic and
Greens parties endorsed the call.  <end quote>

ALSO OF INTEREST:

Your editor will be discussing the case of Bishop Williamson on the Jeff
Rense radio program early next week. Watch this column for information
on the date and time, or check our "News Bureau" at
http://www.revisionisthistory.org

In addition to three years in jail in Argentina, CNN reports that Bishop
Williamson is facing a potential five year prison sentence in Germany:

"A German district attorney (Guenther Ruckdaeschel) announced February 4
that he had launched a criminal investigation against
Williamson....Denying the h0Ɩ0cαųst in Germany is punishable by up to
five years in prison."
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/02/09/germany.bishop/

"A Proper Defense of Pius XII"
 http://mauricepinay.blogspot.com/2009/02/proper-defense-of-pope-pius-xii-against.html


Progressives at NPR Applaud Repression:
"The society (of St.Pius X) has begun to clean up its act: It fired
Williamson, the h0Ɩ0cαųst denier, from his seminary; it removed a
virulently anti-Semitic tract from its Web site; and it banished an
Italian h0Ɩ0cαųst-denying priest."

--Sylvia Poggioli, National Public Radio (NPR)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100534823

This is totally ridiculous!

How can you go to prison for performing a virtuous act? At the very least, it's not a serious sin.

This is the "h0Ɩ0cαųst", not the Resurrection or the Incarnation! This isn't a question of heresy.

Matthew