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Welcome to Good Information Advocates ZUNDELS FIGHT ON AFTER LATEST SETBACK Knoxville, Tennessee--(12/8/09)--Ernst and Ingrid Zundel are insisting on reconsideration based on errors of law after a Knoxville judge dismissed all their remaining claims against the government in federal district court November 10. more... EXPULSION AVERTED -- FOR THE SECOND TIME San Jose, California--(11/8/09)--At a special meeting of Mennonite Economic Development Associates held in San Jose November 5, MEDA officers announced to some 40 members in attendance that MEDA had reached a resolution with member Bruce Leichty, and that the MEDA Board was dropping its attempt to remove him from the membership of MEDA, Leichty said today. More... MEDA CALLS OFF ATTEMPT TO EXPEL MEMBER Clovis, California (GIA 9/29/09)--An attempt by Pennsylvania nonprofit Mennonite Economic Development Associates ("MEDA") to expel Bruce Leichty from its membership was halted by MEDA's attorneys after Leichty notified MEDA September 17 that MEDA was proceeding under an unlawful corporate bylaw. Read more... MEN BEDEVILED IN BID FOR SANCTUARY
The following
Los Angeles Times article
(6/3/09) bearing the above heading, about two former controversial asylum clients of mine, is accurate as far as it goes, but it leaves out much information of importance, including information that I gave to reporter Mr. Parsons. See the additional and earlier release published on this site.
NO LONGER SPEAKING THROUGH THE FLOWERS
In January 1933, Jasch (Jakob)
Regehr wrote from a bleak Soviet gulag prison camp to his sister
and brother-in-law in Canada, "If it would be possible to write
all our days into a book under one title, it would certainly be called
`Lamentations.' There would be days that can never be forgotten and
which must go to the grave with me....The future is so very dark, only
hunger and starvation, and again hunger."
Read more
MENNONITE PERIODICALS RESORT Clovis, California (12/12/08)--Within the past couple months, I have been subjected to censorship by both the Mennonite Weekly Review and The Mennonite, the two main periodicals of the Mennonite world. Read more
GIA Exhibit Removed by MEDA Officers
Columbus, Ohio (11/7/08) -- Officers with Mennonite Economic
Development Associates ("MEDA") told Bruce Leichty that the permission
of Good Information Advocates to exhibit and sell materials had
been revoked, and forcibly removed the exhibit, on 11/5/08 barely two
hours after he set it up. Read more
September 2008
Good Information Advocates regrets that plans for regularly publishing The Advocate have been shelved, at least for the time being. No further issues have been published after July 2007 due mostly to lack of time on the part of Bruce Leichty, and to a lesser extent due to a lack of support. Lack of support is a lesser factor since GIA believes that it will take more publishing, more good information, for that support to grow. The need for better information in the U.S. and in the church has never been greater. For those who have followed the two legal cases that have been the main topic of these pages, here are brief updates:
Finally, in August 2008, Michael Hoffman's new 1100-page book, Judaism Discovered , was released. Hoffman has spoken at two GIA-sponsored events planned in conjunction with Mennonite Church conventions in 2007 and 2005. Although banned by Amazon, Hoffman's book can be ordered directly from www.revisionisthistory.org. For those readers of Anabaptist orientation, GIA founder Bruce Leichty reports from his reading thus far that there are a surprising number of references to Amish and Mennonites in the book, and Leichty urges prayerful review and dialogue based on the contentions of Hoffman: "It is clear that the book arises from profound Christian conviction and considerable scholarship. While it is certainly controversial, one finds in Judaism Discovered good information in the truest counter-culture sense, presented with obvious redemptive motivation and not hatred, that is not available anywhere else."
New Releases - December 2007
Claim of 9/11 Widow Attacked in New Hampshire Embattled Zundel Seeks Supreme Court Hearing
New Releases - October 2007
Germans Bounce Zundel Lawyer from Georgetown Law School Campus by Bruce Leichty Habeas Corpus – Already Gone: (Do the Eyes Have It?) by Bruce Leichty
Forum: "Putting Off Falsehood"
The forum "Putting Off Falsehood" was held July 4 and 5 at the Ramada Limited, San Jose, California, in conjunction with the convention of Mennonite Church USA (not in any way affiliated or sponsored by MCUSA). Attendance was low but conversations were fruitful, according to Good Information Advocates founder Bruce Leichty. Leichty also distributed at the convention the inaugural issue of The Advocate published by GIA (see below), at which time MCUSA San Jose 2007 convention coordinator Jorge Vallejos called convention security personnel in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent the distribution.
Among the speakers appearing on the first day of
the "Putting Off Falsehood" program, devoted to 9/11 Truth, were 9/11
survivor and artist Jeanette MacKinlay and Professor Paul Rea, author
of Still Seeking the Truth About 9/11. Speakers on the second day of
the program, devoted to a number of revisionist and historical topics, were
Ingrid Rimland Zundel of Tennessee, Horst Gerlach of Germany, Bruce
Leichty, Michael Hoffman of Idaho, and one late addition, Californian Craig
Heimbichner, author of Blood on the Altar: The Secret History of the
World's Most Dangerous Secret Society. A copy of the program
flyer distributed to convention-goers (without map) appears here.
A third speaker featured on the 9/11 truth program was contacted by phone prior to the event by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (a Judaic oath-based society), which had labeled this event as well as a presentation featuring Ingrid Rimland Zundel in Fresno on June 30 as an "extremist" event. Two representatives of the Fresno Judaic community challenged Ingrid Zundel and Leichty with questions at the June 30 event, and one Mennonite convention-goer, Tim Nafziger, challenged Michael Hoffman after his presentation on Judaism at the July 5 event in San Jose, quoting invective of Hoffman from 1994 which Hoffman characterized as satirical. "These two GIA-sponsored events were extremist only in the sense that Good Information Advocates is attempting to take extremely seriously the message of Jesus Christ, with its implications for speaking truth to power and accountability of political, religious and financial elites," according to Leichty. "We also allow dialogue and dissent. Some call themselves radical; we are trying to live the call." More complete reports of the "Putting Off Falsehood" and June 30 events will be published on the website as time permits. A report of the "Putting Off Falsehood" event prepared by speaker Michael Hoffman as distributed on The Hoffman Wire appears here.
The Advocate Premiers
The premier issue of The Advocate , a newsletter for American Christians, July 2007, Volume I, No. 1, was released at San Jose. This 12-page print publication, scheduled to appear three times a year, featured in its first issue the following articles (most available only in print -- see subscription information below).
Articles to appear in the next issue of
The
Advocate,
November 2007, include:
Subscriptions to
The Advocate
(for residents
of North America), scheduled to be published three times a year,
are $50 U.S., and may be obtained by sending $50 U.S. and a U.S. or Canadian
address to:
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Good Information Advocates
About GIA
We are advocates of good information for citizens of the kingdom of God, the giver of all things Good. We offer complements to and critiques of existing Christian and North American media, which are frequently dominated by acknowledged and unacknowledged special interests. We come from a Mennonite heritage but seek dialogue with all heritages. We are not formally affiliated with any denomination.
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