Break His Bones: The Private Life of a Holocaust Revisionist
Bradley R. Smith is an author, playwright, and free speech activist. He has been interviewed on hundreds of radio talk shows, by scores of print journalists, and has appeared on television via 48 Hours, Donahue, Jerry Williams and others.Smith is a combat veteran (Korea, 7th Cavalry, where he was twice wounded), has been 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.The Los Angeles Times had this to say about Smith's play, "The Man Who Stopped Paying". "In Bradley Smith's 'The Man Who Stopped Paying' .... bureaucrats are the enemy, for while they maintain the welfare systems, they also maintain the machines and programs that will destroy those systems. "For the first time in a long time on stage, an anarchist libertarian has sounded out.... With his love of nature and disgust for the bomb and the Feds, Smith could become a kind of playwright laureate of an American Greens Party, but then he would probably rather go it alone."Beginning in the early 1990s Smith has run essay-advertisements in student newspapers at colleges and universities around the country calling for intellectual freedom with regard to the Holocaust question. Pursuing this American ideal of free inquiry and open debate has earned him the emnity of those who represent what Norman Finkelstein has so aptly termed the "Holocaust Industry."Smith has been married to a Mexican woman for 25 years, they have two daughters, the usual "multi-cultural" problems, and a conglomeration of dogs, cats, and birds. Organizations such as The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, blinded by their own extremism, will routinely lump Smith in their grabbag of racialist extremists because he is a "skeptic" with regard to the orthodox Holocaust story.He argues that no "one should be imprisoned for writing a book." Men and women should be free to write and publish books on World War II, or the Holocaust, just as they are free to write books on any other historical queston. He asks: "Why should they not be? Who benefits from the suppression of intellectual freedom on this one particular issue? Who is harmed?"Smith’s writings, an unusual mix of autobiography and political journalism, focus on how events, oftentimes in remote parts of the world, impact on our daily lives.