The Daily Camera: Talbott: Holocaust denier gets help from CU

David Irving, one of the world's most notorious Holocaust deniers, will speak at the University of Colorado on Friday. Afterwards, he'll sign and sell copies of his pro-Nazi, Hitler-happy books. Mandatory student fees will fund his police protection. Lovely. Last Thursday, the CU Student Union Representative Council (composed of at-large representatives), approved a bill allocating more than $400 for police protection for Irving, who is scheduled to speak at 7 p.m. Friday in Hellems Hall. Irving is being brought to campus by a student group calling itself Student Advocates for Free Expression. The group's leader, who identifies himself as Joshua McNair, told student legislators that SAFE has three members. The CU directory lists a Joshua McNair as a sophomore in English, but he didn't respond to an e-mail, and his phone number is disconnected. But on his Web site, http://studentadvocates.org, McNair praises "famed British historian David Irving." When the site is not extolling neo-Nazi David Duke or white-supremacist William Pierce, it criticizes CU student lawmakers: "Though the more hateful members were able to force my budget into a compromise in which they killed all funding for advertising, our request for police protection (for Irving) remained intact."