Break His Bones

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Bradley R. Smith was an author, playwright and free-speech activist. He served in the U.S. Armed Forces in Korea, where he became a combat veteran and was twice wounded. He was a deputy sheriff (Los Angeles County), a merchant seaman, a bookseller on Hollywood Boulevard, an activist for free speech (he was prosecuted for intentionally selling a book then banned by the U.S. Government – Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer), and was a freelance writer in Saigon during the TET offensive of 1968. Smith was married to a native Mexican woman; they have two daughters.

Beginning in the early 1990s, Smith ran essay-advertisements in student newspapers at colleges and universities around the country, calling for intellectual freedom with regard to the orthodox Holocaust narrative. He was interviewed on hundreds of radio talk shows, by scores of print journalists, and appeared on numerous television programs, including 48 Hours, Phil Donahue and Jerry Williams.

Pursuing this American ideal of free inquiry and open debate put him at enmity with those who represent what Norman Finkelstein has so aptly termed the “Holocaust Industry.” Organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, blinded by their own extremism, routinely lumped Smith together with racialist extremists, because he was a “skeptic” with regard to the orthodox Holocaust story.

In the pages of this book, the reader encounters possibly the most-legendary face of Holocaust skepticism – and discovers that it is a very affable one. This is the antidote to the slander and false accusations that the Holocaust Industry makes against those who don’t take the orthodox Holocaust narrative at face value. This is the story that reveals the programmatic suppression, censorship and taboo by the Industry to limit intellectual freedom with regard to their narrative. Here you will discover why an organization like the ADL is driven to make the ludicrous charge that this libertarian author was one of the “Top Ten Extremists” in America. Smith, on the other hand, remained an incorrigible believer in a free press, and that open debate is preferable to close-mindedness and censorship.

If you want to know what it is like to try to convince intellectuals that it is better to encourage intellectual freedom than to discourage it, read this unusual mix of autobiography and political journalism. This book, the controversial and compelling Part 2 of Smith’s earlier Confessions of a Holocaust Revisionist, brings “the other side” to the Holocaust debate. Everyone should test the authenticity of their own beliefs in intellectual freedom by reading this book.