A Night at the Ritz: White Supremacists, a Knife Fight and a Holocaust Denier

[ccharles000]

In what may be the latest sign of simmering tensions in Florida between two prominent racist skinhead groups, two men suffered knife wounds this week during a speech by Holocaust denying historian David Irving at a luxury Palm Beach County hotel.

Irving spoke to about three dozen invited guests in a conference room he booked at the Ritz-Carlton hotel south of Palm Beach. During his talk on “decoding the Nazi message,” two men, Christopher Nachtman and John Kopko, stepped outside to argue and one of them pulled a knife, police say. A fight ensued. Furniture was broken and a carpet was bloodied. Both men were taken to nearby hospitals for treatment of knife wounds. No charges have been filed yet.

Irving is a longtime Holocaust revisionist. In 2000, he sued Emory University professor and Holocaust expert Deborah Lipstadt for libel in his homeland of Britain, after she accused of him of deliberate falsification. A London court declared Irving a pro-Nazi anti-Semite and “active Holocaust denier” and ordered him to pay all court costs. In 2006, he was imprisoned in Austria after pleading guilty to telling audiences that there were no gas chambers in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz. Irving subsequently backed off those claims. Earlier this year, he set up a website selling Nazi memorabilia. His visit to South Florida was the latest on a surreptitious speaking tour in the United States, in which Irving informs attendees of his venue at the last minute so as to thwart protestors.

http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/10/29/a-night-at-the-ritz-white-supremacists-a-knife-fight-and-a-holocaust-denier/

[Hawkeye-X]

1. David Irving's punishment should be a pernament residence of the 3rd fl the U.S. Holocaust Museum

and his hands and his dick bounded so tight he won't be able to destroy the artifacts or get off on the items that he denies.

Or He can sniff Zyklon B and die like the others.

I don't care, I want him wiped out from the earth. Deniers disgusts me.

I know Holocaust is real. My grandfather survived it, and had the tattoo to prove it. His story was also recorded with the Shoah Institute, and the tapes still stands on top of the shelf on the office. My dad could NOT even watch it, as it was his father.

Hawkeye-X

[MUAD_DIB]

3. The crazies just keep getting crazier.

Perhaps they can all have a spontaneous knife fight at one of Irving's... ahem... lectures and go out in a blaze of ignorance.

[Louisiana1976]

4. +1

[bbinacan]

2. Reminds me of

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad