As much as Channel 4 and more 4 should be vilified for the broadcast
last night (9.12.2008)proclaiming holocaust denier David Irving a
martyr for freedom of speech, I think part of the problem is a great
deal of sectarian "anti-prisoner" sentiment on the part of Amnesty
International, or at least a reluctance to interview any individual
involved in Animal or Prisoner Rights (just because someone had
committed a crime in the past does not mean that they are not
mistreated in the present).

Letter I sent to Channel 4:


Dear Sir/Madam,
With regards to last nights broadcast with the
interview with holocaust denier David Irving which I have to
complain about in the strongest terms.

After watching your programme I suspect there is some degree
of sectarianism on Amnesty International's part because there
are plenty of individuals languishing in British prisons


http://www.brightonabc.org.uk/index.htm
http://www.brightonabc.org.uk/european.htm

because of their beliefs who could have been interviewed ;
they could have even had the hacker Gary McKinnon on, who faces
extradition to the US and a 70 year sentence in a Federal prison
for illegally entering federal databases, with no need to be
terribly controversial. I stress, there was no need for more4
and channel 4 to court controversy by interviewing an admitted
Hitler fanatic, holocaust-denying racist.

Freedom of speech should not drown out freedom of debate and the
truth and issues surrounding the Holocaust has now been further
muddied by Mr Irving’s comments