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Subject: "Holocaust" promoters nervouser and nervouser
Holocaust Deniers Neda Bit of Help in Iran
Hold your nose: with news that Iran is planning to hold a Holocaust "debate", this blog dives deeper than usual into the sewer with a trip to the site of the far-right Adelaide Institute, where we fish out Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson's praise for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad:
On December 8, 2005, - a date that will be remembered - the President of your country, Mr Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, - a name that will go down in history - dared to voice doubts on the historical reality of the alleged "Holocaust". (1)
This appears in an open letter from Faurisson to Jawad Sharbaf, managing director of Neda Institute of Scientific-Political Research and Studies in Iran. Sharbaf had written to Faurisson a few days before, in order to commiserate over the UN "Holocaust Day" resolution, and to encourage him to organize a denialist conference. Faurisson's response, as ever, rants on at length at how "the Jews" disallow any discussion about the Holocaust - but while is keen on the idea of Islamist theocrats sponsoring his quest to show that he's a serious scholar rather than a neo-Nazi, he's doubtful on the practicalities:
...However, in view of the circumstances, such a project seems, sad to say, unrealisable at this moment. Allow me to explain why.
The reason, of course, is that all his comrades are in prison or suffering other forms of supposed persecution. Faurisson presents a long list of martyrs; they're all pretty distasteful characters, although one name sticks out even there: Manfred Roeder, whom Faurisson calls a "barrister". In fact, Roeder is a convicted terrorist, responsible for killing Vietnamese asylum seekers with bombs in 1982.
However, Faurisson has a "Plan B":
...In conclusion, I think that, until things have changed somewhat, an international conference is, unfortunately, impossible. But, in accord with an idea put forth by professor Arthur Robert Butz, I shall say that we hope to see President Ahmadinejad create in Iran an international centre for revisionist studies whose first task would be to propagate historical revisionism's attainments in the Arabo-Moslem world via the Internet or any other medium. Meanwhile, we request that Iran make repeated appeals to the Western world for the freeing of our prisoners of conscience.
Faurisson has praised Iran's promotion of Holocaust denial before:
In November 2000, I spent a week in Iran at the invitation of the Centre of Strategic Studies, a body directly attached to the office of the President of the Islamic Republic, Mr Mohammed Khatami. I had no contact with the country's press, radio or television but only with a few personalities who were well-informed about revisionism. I held no public conference but enjoyed an interview of several hours with the head of the Institute for Scientific Political Research, Professor Soroush-Nejad and a few of his colleagues. There again, I was struck by the knowledge of revisionism that certain Iranians could have. At about that time, the Swiss revisionist Jürgen Graf made his appearance in Iran and I am indeed pleased that, some months later, thanks to his intense activity and to the contacts which I, at my end, had maintained with the Iranian authorities after returning to France, the Teheran Times undertook the publication of a series of revisionist articles, the first of which was to bear the signature of Professor Soroush-Nejad. (2)
Sharbaf and Nejad show up on various sites reporting on Holocaust denial conferences; the Neda Institute itself, however, is (in English, at least) thankfully obscure online. However, a website on Palestine affiliated to the UN gives the following information:
Neda Institute for Scientific-Political Research
No. 20 Forsat Shirazi St.
Kargar Shomali St.
Tehran Iran
Focus: Assistance; Human rights; Peace promotion; Publication; Refugees; Research/Analysis; Solidarity
The site tells us that "no endorsement by the United Nations is implied", but it describes Neda thus:
It conducts research projects on the Middle East with a particular focus on the question of Palestine.
Hardly an accurate account of its very unsavory agenda, and of course completely counter-productive as far as the Palestinian cause is concerned. Talk about handing it to John Bolton on a plate...
(NB: There is also a Neda Rayaneh Institute in Tehran, but seems to be completely unrelated)
UPDATE: David Bloom has some more background, over at World War 4 Report.
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Far-right sites quoted, but not linked:
(1)Here.
(2)www.ety.com/HRP/rev/beirut.htm
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Subject: "Holocaust" brainwashing visited on American high school teachers
Schoolteachers Attend Seminar On Holocaust
By RUSSELL BERMAN - Staff Reporter of the Sun
January 18, 2006
With Iran's president putting Holocaust denial back in the headlines, some city schoolteachers are getting a crash course on the genocide and the pitfalls of relying on the Internet as a reliable historical source.
Sixty high school social studies teachers yesterday attended a day-long seminar on the Holocaust, days after Iran announced it would hold a conference to "assess its scale." The program at the New York Tolerance Center focused on Holocaust denial, the use of the Internet as a tool of hate, and the efforts of rescuers during the genocide.
Although the seminar had been in the works for months, it proved to be "timely," a chief organizer, Stanlee Stahl, said. Ms. Stahl heads the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, which teamed with the city on the event.
For teachers, the program's most practical aspect may be the intersection of technology and extremism. As students increasingly use the Internet for research, more are coming back with purported facts gleaned from Web sites that look legitimate but in fact are run by "hate" groups pushing racist myths, teachers said.
For Eric Friedman, a social studies teacher at A. Philip Randolph High School in Harlem, the downside of the Internet became clear when he assigned groups of 10th grade students to research Zionism on the Web. As Mr. Friedman observed the students' progress on the project, he saw a cartoon image traced on a poster board depicting Prime Minister Sharon walking hand in hand with Adolf Hitler. The students had copied the image from a political cartoon they found on the Internet.
"The kids really thought this was a legitimate viewpoint, not knowing what the cartoon was saying," Mr. Friedman said. "They thought they found something great."
At yesterday's seminar, the director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Task Force Against Hate, Mark Weitzman, showed teachers a sampling of the nearly 6,000 Web sites the center has identified as "hate" sites.
A large problem, Mr. Weitzman said, is that deceptive sites feature prominently on major search engines. When "Martin Luther King Jr." is typed into the search engine Google, for example, the third site listed is www.martinlutherking.org, which is actually an anti-King site linking the civil rights leader to a purported Jewish-communist conspiracy. [Is the material on it factual? To jewish "teachers," it doesn't matter. Either X supports the jew's agenda, or it's hate.]
"Especially with the URL, you could easily imagine students in the past few weeks wandering onto that site and using it as a source," Mr. Weitzman told the teachers.
He advised teachers assigning research projects either to provide lists of trusted Web sites to students or to preview sites students find on their own. http://www.nysun.com/article/26081
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Subject: Holocaust Museum needs more anti-Arab material, shriek loxists
U.S. Holocaust Museum Comes Under Fire For Failing to Address Arab Anti-Semitism
By MEGHAN CLYNE -- Staff Reporter of the Sun
WASHINGTON -- Amid pledges from Iran to "wipe Israel off the map" and to hold a conference examining whether the Nazi murder of 6 million Jews is a "myth," America's Holocaust Museum is under fire for its silence about Arab assistance to the Nazis during World War II, and about the intensifying hatred of Jews in the Arab Middle East today.
Leading the charge is Holocaust Museum Watch, a national organization formed 18 months ago to spur the museum toward meaningful acknowledgment of Arab anti-Semitism. A forum at the National Synagogue here last night - headlined by Rep. Eliot Engel, a Democrat of New York; the author of "IBM and the Holocaust," Edwin Black; the president of the Amcha Coalition for Jewish Concerns, Rabbi Avi Weiss, and other Jewish leaders - marked Holocaust Museum Watch's inaugural public event. Here.
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Subject: "Holocaust": best...scam...ever
Iran's president Denies Holocaust: Why Should we be Surprised?
By William Fisher
Jan 18, 2006
Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, launched a media tsunami when he declared the Holocaust a myth.
But we shouldn't be all that surprised. The Middle East is chockablock with Holocaust-deniers and Holocaust-minimizers. And it is not only the so-called Arab Street that has been infected. The disease has spread to many members of the Arab intelligentsia and to some of the area's privileged elite.
I learned just how deeply embedded this attitude is during a conversation I had with members of my staff when I was managing a U.S. aid program in Egypt a few years ago.
Sitting with me in our luxurious offices overlooking the Nile on a steamy, smoggy Cairo afternoon were three of Egypt's "best and brightest" all from affluent families, all with master's degrees from what is arguably the premier international educational institution in the Middle East, the American University in Cairo. These were no ordinary proxies for the Arab Street; they were Egypt's future leaders.
I've long since forgotten what aspect of geopolitics we were talking about, but the subject soon turned to Israel. All three made excellent and accurate points about that country's deeply myopic policies vis a vis the Palestinians. Then we seemed to segue effortlessly from Israel to the Holocaust.
"The Holocaust is mostly a myth," declared one. "It's an idea that's been pushed by the Jewish lobby in America to keep U.S. support for Israel."
"How do you know that?" I asked.
"Everyone who studies the truth knows it", my staffer responded.
"How about all the photos of American GIs liberating the concentration camps," I asked. "Were they faked?"
Another staff member joined the conversation. "No, they weren't faked, but the numbers were purposely exaggerated", she said, adding, "The camps were there, but only a million or so were killed."
"Have you read Irving's book about it?" my third colleague chimed in. "He's a well respected historian and he proves it never happened." He was referring, of course, to the writing of one of more outrageous Holocaust-deniers, David Irving (whose history' has been reliably refuted by virtually all reputable historians).
Where did these exceptionally smart, exceptionally competent, thoroughly Western-oriented young people get their information? For more than a generation, their views have been fuelled by a non-stop stream of inaccurate and distorted statements by their leaders, by the "reporting" of mostly-State-owned newspapers, magazines and television channels, by uninformed teachers, and by textbooks from kindergarten through university.
A few years ago, I wrote an article on these textbooks for The Daily Star, a highly respected newspaper based in Beirut.
I found that in Syria, for example, school children from the fourth grade up are taught that Zionism is a form of colonialism similar to Nazism; Zionism endangers the Arab world and prevents its unification; Israel is an aggressive and expansionist enemy and is responsible for the backwardness of the Arab world; and when young readers grow up, they must engage in holy war jihad against Israel and seek martyrdom. The texts also underline that Arab leaders who negotiate with Israel, even in third countries, are spies and traitors and that Jews are a menace. Books containing these passages are published by the Syrian Education Ministry and are part of the official school curriculum.
And in Saudi Arabia, texts for government-financed and private religious schools declare that God's wisdom mandates continuing the struggle between Muslims and Jews until the Day of Judgment; Jews and Christians, as enemies of Islam, will never be pleased with Muslims, so Muslims must beware of them.
This kind of vitriol was equaled only by the inaccurate, disrespectful and totally scurrilous caricatures used in Israeli textbooks to portray Arabs.
And, while the authors of most Israeli textbooks were ordered to clean up their act together in recent years, far too much Arab writing on Israel and the Holocaust remains unchanged. Arab governments continue to use their control of the media and their educational systems to magnify their messages of hate -- while professing solidarity with President Bush's "Global War on Terror" and happily accepting huge sums in American aid.
For example, Egypt the Middle East's most absurd example of "pretend democracy" -- owns an evening newspaper called Al-Masaa. In a recent article titled "Israel's Lies", columnist Hisham Abd Al-Rauf wrote that there were no massacres of the Jews during World War II, and that the gas chambers were intended for disinfecting clothing. Hitler, he wrote, was not against the Jews, and had even permitted Jews to emigrate to Palestine during his first years in power.
This kind of message is repeated on a daily basis throughout the Middle East in schools, in newspapers, on television, in coffeehouse conversations, and in government-financed textbooks.
So we shouldn't really be surprised by what Iran's new president has to say. His voice is only one added to many others. The problem is that he is the president of a proud and important country. When he calls his faithful to an "international conference on the Holocaust", people will actually attend, speak, and be reported in the world's press with the straight face of journalistic objectivity.
The profound sadness of all this is that it does nothing to help anyone solve anything. It adds nothing to facilitate understanding or conversation. It is a roadmap to nowhere. It simply provides yet another convenient crutch that democracy-denying authoritarian leaders can keep using to prop themselves up.
It may generate lots of heat, but if you're looking for light you won't find it here.
William Fisher has managed economic development programs in the Middle East and elsewhere for the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development. He served in the international affairs area in the Kennedy Administration. He is currently a writer for InterPress News Service.
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Subject: Iranian conference
IRAN: HOLOCAUST CONFERENCE SOON IN TEHRAN
Tehran, 5 Jan. (AKI) - Iran has decided to rewrite and revise the history of the Holocaust. Following the repeated declarations by the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and other senior government officials on the need to re-examine the history of the genocide of the Jews during the Second World War, the association of Islamic Journalists of Iran has been tasked with quickly putting together an international conference on the Holocaust.
"President Ahmadinejad has placed at the centre of international attention, a very important question on the truthfulness of the version that Europe and the Zionists have imposed on the world on the murder of Jews during the years of the great war, and therefore we are of the opinion that it is useful and necessary to organise an international conference on that theme, where all the historians and researchers, even those that do not believe in the official version, will be able to express themselves freely," Mehdi Afzali, spokesperson of the Association of Islamic Journalists told Adnkronos International (AKI).
"We want to offer a free and democratic platform to the historians to examine in-depth this myth, seeing that in different European countries there exist laws against democracy and freedom that to do not allow intellectuals who believe in a version distinct from that which is officially pronounced on the Holocaust," added Afzali.
"We will invite those who believe in the imposed version as well as all those who have spent years of their lives in the study of documents related to the Holocaust and have come to the conclusion that the history books in schools and universities do not correspond to the truth," said Afzali, who however refused to supply the names of the revisionist historians who have been contacted to appear in the conference in Tehran. Revisionists are those who deny that the Holocaust ever happened.
In Iran, books by the English historian, David Irving, currently in custody in an Austrian jail after having been accused of denying the Holocaust, are very popular.
Among the names of possible guests at the conference are the Israeli journalist lsrael Shamir, a convert to Christianity, and Horst Mahler from Germany, a former member of the the terrorist group, the Red Army Faction. Other revisionist scholars, such as the French Robert Faurisson and the American Arthur Butz, are also some of the other possible participants of the conference in Tehran.
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Subject: jew Finklestein on boycotting Kikistan
Human Rights Violations, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity
Why an Economic Boycott of Israel is Justified
By Prof. NORMAN FINKELSTEIN
EDITORS' NOTE: In early January Kristin Halvorsen, current Norwegian Finance
Minister and leader of the Left Socialist Party (a member of the current
three-party governmental coalition), expressed her personal and party support for a
Norwegian boycott of Israeli goods and services. Almost immediately the
Israeli ambassador to Norway protested and Condoleezza Rice threatened Norway with
"serious political consequences" if Halvorsen's statement represented the
policy of the current government. Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store then
dashed off a letter to Rice (addressed "Dear Condi"), assuring her that the
Left Socialist Party's position on a economic boycott of Israel "has never been
and will never be" the policy of the Norwegian government. For her part
Halvorsen distanced herself from her previous statements, as top leaders of the
foreign affairs department criticized her and drew parallels between a boycott of
Israeli goods and the Nazi boycott of Jewish shops. Finklestein's piece was
published in Norway's most influential newspaper Aftenposten this past week.
The recent proposal that Norway boycott Israeli goods has provoked passionate
debate. In my view, a rational examination of this issue would pose two
questions:
1) Do Israeli human rights violations warrant an economic boycott? and
2) Can such a boycott make a meaningful contribution toward ending these
violations?
I would argue that both these questions should be answered in the affirmative.
Although the subject of many reports by human rights organizations, Israel's
real human rights record in the Occupied Palestinian Territory is generally
not well known abroad. This is primarily due to the formidable public relations
industry of Israel's defenders as well as the effectiveness of their tactics
of intimidation, such as labeling critics of Israeli policy anti-Semitic.
Yet, it is an incontestable fact that Israel has committed a broad range of
human rights violations, many rising to the level of war crimes and crimes
against humanity. These include:
Illegal Killings.
Whereas Palestinian suicide attacks targeting Israeli civilians have garnered
much media attention, Israel's quantitatively worse record of killing
non-combatants is less well known. According to the most recent figures of the
Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (B'Tselem),
3,386 Palestinians have been killed since September 2000, of whom 1,008 were
identified as combatants, as opposed to 992 Israelis killed, of whom 309 were
combatants. This means that three times more Palestinians than Israelis have
been killed and up to three times more Palestinian civilians than Israeli
civilians. Israel's defenders maintain that there's a difference between targeting
civilians and inadvertently killing them. B'Tselem disputes this:"[W]hen so
many civilians have been killed and wounded, the lack of intent makes no
difference. Israel remains responsible."
Furthermore, Amnesty International reports that "many" Palestinians have not
been accidentally killed but "deliberately targeted," while the award-winning
New York Times journalist Chris Hedges reports that Israeli soldiers "entice
children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport."
Torture.
"From 1967," Amnesty reports, "the Israeli security services have routinely
tortured Palestinian political suspects in the Occupied Territories." B'Tselem
found that eighty-five percent of Palestinians interrogated by Israeli
security services were subjected to "methods constituting torture," while already a
decade ago Human Rights Watch estimated that "the number of Palestinians
tortured or severely ill-treated" was "in the tens of thousands - a number that
becomes especially significant when it is remembered that the universe of adult
and adolescent male Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza is under
three-quarters of one million." In 1987 Israel became "the only country in the world to
have effectively legalized torture" (Amnesty). Although the Israeli Supreme
Court seemed to ban torture in a 1999 decision, the Public Committee Against
Torture in Israel reported in 2003 that Israeli security forces continued to apply
torture in a "methodical and routine" fashion. A 2001 B'Tselem study
documented that Israeli security forces often applied "severe torture" to "Palestinian
minors."
House demolitions.
"Israel has implemented a policy of mass demolition of Palestinian houses in
the Occupied Territories," B'Tselem reports, and since September 2000 "has
destroyed some 4,170 Palestinian homes." Until just recently Israel routinely
resorted to house demolitions as a form of collective punishment. According to
Middle East Watch, apart from Israel, the only other country in the world that
used such a draconian punishment was Iraq under Saddam Hussein. In addition,
Israel has demolished thousands of "illegal" homes that Palestinians built
because of Israel's refusal to provide building permits. The motive behind
destroying these homes, according to Amnesty, has been to maximize the area available
for Jewish settlers: "Palestinians are targeted for no other reason than they
are Palestinians." Finally, Israel has destroyed hundred of homes on security
pretexts, yet a Human Rights Watch report on Gaza found that "the pattern of
destructionstrongly suggests that Israeli forces demolished homes wholesale,
regardless of whether they posed a specific threat." Amnesty likewise found that
"Israel's extensive destruction of homes and properties throughout the West
Bank and Gazais not justified by military necessity," and that "Some of these
acts of destruction amount to grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention
and are war crimes."
Apart from the sheer magnitude of its human rights violations, the uniqueness
of Israeli policies merits notice. "Israel has created in the Occupied
Territories a regime of separation based on discrimination, applying two separate
systems of law in the same area and basing the rights of individuals on their
nationality," B'Tselem has concluded. "This regime is the only one of its kind
in the world, and is reminiscent of distasteful regimes from the past, such as
the apartheid regime in South Africa." If singling out South Africa for an
international economic boycott was defensible, it would seem equally defensible
to single out Israel's occupation, which uniquely resembles the apartheid
regime.
Although an economic boycott can be justified on moral grounds, the question
remains whether diplomacy might be more effectively employed instead. The
documentary record in this regard, however, is not encouraging. The basic terms
for resolving the Israel-Palestine conflict are embodied in U.N. resolution 242
and subsequent U.N. resolutions, which call for a full Israeli withdrawal from
the West Bank and Gaza and the establishment of a Palestinian state in these
areas in exchange for recognition of Israel's right to live in peace and
security with its neighbors. Each year the overwhelming majority of member States
of the United Nations vote in favor of this two-state settlement, and each year
Israel and the United States (and a few South Pacific islands) oppose it.
Similarly, in March 2002 all twenty-two member States of the Arab League proposed
this two-state settlement as well as "normal relations with Israel." Israel
ignored the proposal.
Not only has Israel stubbornly rejected this two-state settlement, but the
policies it is currently pursuing will abort any possibility of a viable
Palestinian state. While world attention has been riveted by Israel's redeployment
from Gaza, Sara Roy of Harvard University observes that the "Gaza Disengagement
Plan is, at heart, an instrument for Israel's continued annexation of West
Bank land and the physical integration of that land into Israel." In particular
Israel has been constructing a wall deep inside the West Bank that will annex
the most productive land and water resources as well as East Jerusalem, the
center of Palestinian life. It will also effectively sever the West Bank in two.
Although Israel initially claimed that it was building the wall to fight
terrorism, the consensus among human rights organizations is that it is really a
land grab to annex illegal Jewish settlements into Israel. Recently Israel's
Justice Minister frankly acknowledged that the wall will serve as "the future
border of the state of Israel."
The current policies of the Israeli government will lead either to endless
bloodshed or the dismemberment of Palestine. "It remains virtually impossible to
conceive of a Palestinian state without its capital in Jerusalem," the
respected Crisis Group recently concluded, and accordingly Israeli policies in the
West Bank "are at war with any viable two-state solution and will not bolster
Israel's security; in fact, they will undermine it, weakening Palestinian
pragmatistsand sowing the seeds of growing radicalization."
Recalling the U.N. Charter principle that it is inadmissible to acquire
territory by war, the International Court of Justice declared in a landmark 2004
opinion that Israel's settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and the
wall being built to annex them to Israel were illegal under international law.
It called on Israel to cease construction of the wall, dismantle those parts
already completed and compensate Palestinians for damages. Crucially, it also
stressed the legal responsibilities of the international community:
all States are under an obligation not to recognize the illegal situation
resulting from the construction of the wall in the Occupied Palestinian
Territory, including in and around East Jerusalem. They are also under an obligation
not to render aid or assistance in maintaining the situation created by such
construction. It is also for all States, while respecting the United Nations
Charter and international law, to see to it that any impediment, resulting from
the construction of the wall, to the exercise by the Palestinian people of its
right to self-determination is brought to an end.
A subsequent U.N. General Assembly resolution supporting the World Court
opinion passed overwhelmingly. However, the Israeli government ignored the Court's
opinion, continuing construction at a rapid pace, while Israel's Supreme
Court ruled that the wall was legal.
Due to the obstructionist tactics of the United States, the United Nations
has not been able to effectively confront Israel's illegal practices. Indeed,
although it is true that the U.N. keeps Israel to a double standard, it's
exactly the reverse of the one Israel's defenders allege: Israel is held not to a
higher but lower standard than other member States. A study by Marc Weller of
Cambridge University comparing Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory
with comparable situations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, East Timor,
occupied Kuwait and Iraq, and Rwanda found that Israel has enjoyed "virtual immunity"
from enforcement measures such as an arms embargo and economic sanctions
typically adopted by the U.N. against member States condemned for identical
violations of international law.
Due in part to an aggressive campaign accusing Europe of a "new
anti-Semitism," the European Union has also failed in its legal obligation to enforce
international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Although the claim of a
"new anti-Semitism" has no basis in fact (all the evidence points to a lessening
of anti-Semitism in Europe), the EU has reacted by appeasing Israel. It has
even suppressed publication of one of its own reports, because the authors -
like the Crisis Group and many others - concluded that due to Israeli policies
the "prospects for a two-state solution with east Jerusalem as the capital of
Palestine are receding."
The moral burden to avert the impending catastrophe must now be borne by
individual states that are prepared to respect their obligations under
international law and by individual men and women of conscience. In a courageous
initiative American-based Human Rights Watch recently called on the U.S. government to
reduce significantly its financial aid to Israel until Israel terminates its
illegal policies in the West Bank. An economic boycott would seem to be an
equally judicious undertaking. A nonviolent tactic the purpose of which is to
achieve a just and lasting settlement of the Israel-Palestine conflict cannot
legitimately be called anti-Semitic. Indeed, the real enemies of Jews are those
who debase the memory of Jewish suffering by equating principled opposition to
Israel's illegal and immoral policies with anti-Semitism.
Norman Finkelstein's most recednt book is Beyond Chutzpah: On the misuse of
anti-Semitism and the abuse of history (University of California Press). His
web site is www.NormanFinkelstein.com.
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Subject: fascism
Fascism: The Mother of Genocide
The New Times (Kigali)
Thomas Kagera / What Next?
Kigali
In the mind of an ordinary reader, genocide goes with a caricature of a brutal goose-stepping soldier wearing a uniform armed to the teeth, trained, not to defend a nation, people and property, but to kill.
Yet the genocide ideology is hatched and harboured by the intellectual echelons, with a deliberate identification of possible victims and sporadic execution. It begins with identifying 'goodness' and 'superiority' with 'us' and identifying 'evil' with 'them'.
It is rooted in fascism. Fascism, according to Roger Scruton in his 'A Dictionary of Political Thought' is 'an extreme racial or cultural nationalism combined with economic corporatism and authoritarian autocracy; masked during its rise to state power by pseudo-radical populist appeals to overthrow a constitutional elitist regime; spurred by a strong charismatic leader whose reactionary ideas are said to organically express the will of the masses who are urged to engage in a heroic collective effort to attain a metaphysical goal against the machinations of a scapegoated demonised adversary'.
The National Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (NAZI) in the 1900s developed a grotesque biologically-determinant view of so called "Aryan" supremacy. The Jews and other races were placed against the background of scapegoating and dehumanisation.
In the process of developing a genocide ideology, it became easy and important for the NAZI to blame all societal problems on 'them', and presuppose a conspiracy of 'those evildoers' which had emasculated and humiliated the idealised and idolised core group of the nation. So when Adolf Hitler rose to power in 1933 he contended to solve society's problems to unmask the conspirators (the Jews and other 'inferior races') and eliminate them. So the Jews were the first on the list of Hitler whom he scapegoated as 'them'.
Both fascism and the genocide ideology, have a flimsy and definitely misplaced yearn and search for nationalism and super-patriotism with a sense of historic distortions. The 'them' who are associated with 'evil' are subjugated. The 'us' therefore start advocating for aggressive militarism even to the extent of glorifying war as good for the national or individual spirit. In essence therefore, use of violence or threats of violence to impose views on others becomes not only necessary but desirable as well.
As the cult of personality around a charismatic leader becomes compounded and concretised, authoritarianism becomes an accepted and expected norm, characterised by a fierce reaction and condemnation against modernism, democracy and liberalism.
The homogeneous masses are then subjected to latent coercion to 'voluntarily' join a 'heroic mission' which is often romanticised in character.
With this coercion comes the continuous dehumanisation of the 'inferior race', the 'gospel' justifying their eradication intensified, spiced with threats to the 'us' group how bitter the consequences will be, if they fail to participate in eradicating the 'them' group.
Usually, the fascism/genocide phenomena are engendered by century long institutions; which may be cultural, industrial, religious and racial.
In the 1941 holocaust, the author of "The Vatican Holocaust demonstrates how the Catholic Church was at the forefront of exterminating the 'enemy' in Croatia.' Writes he; "The Catholic Church did not leave the execution of a religious war to the secular arm, as she had done in similar circumstances in bygone centuries. She came down into the fighting field, full tilt, shunning precautions and brandishing the sword against those whom she had decided to exterminate, which had not been seen for a long time. Many of the Ustashi formations were officered by Catholic priests, and often by friars who had taken an oath to fight with dagger and gun for the "triumph of Christ and Croatia." Many of them did not hesitate to carry out the most infamous tasks, glorifying in deeds that would have filled with shame any average "heathen or barbarian from the East." All in the name of religion.
"Thus, while some, as we have already seen, took charge of concentration camps, others led the armed Ustashi in the closing of Orthodox churches, in the confiscation of Orthodox records, in the persecution, arrest, and yes even in the murder of Orthodox people, including Orthodox priests. At Banjaluka, for instance, an official order directed that all the Orthodox Church records of marriages, baptisms, and burials be delivered forthwith to Catholic parishes, while at Pakrac Catholic priests took possession of the Serbian Bishop's residence following the locking and sealing of the Orthodox cathedral."
Thus fascism, as is known is a despotic and totalitarian discipline which eventually gives birth to the rending acts of genocide. A closer scrutiny of the recent genocides; Rwanda, Darfur, Serbia and Kosovo have got strong ties and are in tandem with fascism. If where conversion fails, coercion rejected and then genocide employed to ensconce certain fascists in power is not checked in future, with an aim of totally putting it seven feet under, then what next? Here.
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Subject: LTE re Miller's re TAA
Mary Brown: Beneath its veneer of inclusion, Madison quietly tolerates racism
A letter to the editor
Dear Editor: I'm responding to a recent letter from Glenn Miller of Springfield, Mo., distributor of the Aryan Alternative newspaper.
Although Madison attempts to masquerade as a city of equality for all its citizens, those of us who are African-American know it is not.
We are constantly reminded in the workplace when we're subjected to intimidation, harassment and unequal pay for superior work that there is much to do to improve our lives.
When we receive inferior health care and we're charged exorbitant prices for that care and overcharged for medicine that may often cause us more harm than good, we are again reminded that we have a long way to go before we are treated fairly.
When our young people either drop out of school or are passed along from grade to grade without the skills necessary to create a life a good life we fearfully look toward the future.
We must form a partnership with schools with the goal of producing the best-educated children regardless of race or economic status. From experience, I know that schools are oftentimes reluctant to enter into a partnership relationship with parents they perceive as either inferior in knowledge or a threat to their position.
It is the duty of every educator to allow parents a role in the education of their children. It is the duty of every parent to assume that role and to vow to become as knowledgeable as required for the benefit of their child.
We are again reminded of the inequality when we see, whether Madison admits it or not, that there is a local policy of containment that produces areas of poverty, like Allied Drive and the former Simpson Street.
I live on Monroe Street. I believe one of Miller's hate-filled papers may have been left in my driveway. I assumed it was a shopping flyer and picked it up and immediately tossed it into the trash bin. After reading comments related to Miller's paper, I suspect the trash paper ended up exactly where it should have.
Unfortunately, there are folks in Madison who share Miller's beliefs. A better approach would be for those folks who care to receive trash to call Miller's number and ask for a copy. Then the rest of us would not have to be subjected to trash in our yards. After all, Madison must surely have an ordinance about littering.
In spite of all its faults, Madison is home for many of us. We don't intend to leave just because there is some trash around. We do intend to work within whatever systems we can to improve Madison for the benefit of all its citizens, even those who are filled with hate.
Mary Brown
Madison
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Subject: "Son of Man," Jeboo as Shaft
Black-Jesus Movie Premieres
The South African film "Son of Man" portrays Jesus Christ as a modern African revolutionary and aims to shatter the Western image of a placid savior with fair hair and blue eyes. It is billed as the world's first black-Jesus movie . . .
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Subject: rise of the shitskin
First Bilingual Super Bowl Ad Comes From Toyota
Toyota Motor Corp's Super Bowl ad will be memorable. The 30-second ad for the new hybrid Camry will be in both Spanish and English. The ad will feature a Latino father driving his young son in their new Camry. The father explains how the hybrid car switches between gas and electric power, and the son compares it with the way his father can switch between English and Spanish .
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Subject: controlled media coverage of Griffin trial
BNP LEADER: 'STEPHEN LAWRENCE WAS NOT MURDERED BY RACISTS'
TRIAL OF THE BNP BOSS BNP CHIEF NICK GRIFFIN
By Lucy Thornton
BNP leader Nick Griffin denied student Stephen Lawrence was murdered by racists, it was claimed yesterday.
Instead he said the 18-year-old - stabbed to death 12 years ago - was a drug dealer killed by "another black", a court heard.
He also allegedly told his followers there would be Islamic terror attacks in Britain a year before the 7/7 London bombings, and predicted the multiracial "experiment" would lead to "blood all over our streets".
Griffin, 45 - who is accused of race hate crimes - was filmed at a meeting in Morley Town Hall, Leeds, in May 2004.
Referring to Stephen's murder as he walked with his friend Duwayne Brooks in Eltham, South East London, in April 1993, he said: "Everyone down there knows he was notorious for taxing kids for their dinner money and he was a drug dealer.
"According to many people within the Metropolitan Police, he was killed by another black - not a white racist attack at all."
Warning of Islamic attacks in Britain, he said: "When it happens it's going to be done by asylum seekers or second generation Pakistanis living somewhere like Bradford.
"It hasn't worked, this multiracial experiment. When the British say 'enough is enough', there's going to be blood all over our streets."
The film was one of six featuring speeches by Griffin and BNP chairman Mark Collett, 24, shot by an undercover BBC reporter for the documentary The Secret Agent.
In one talk played to the jury at Leeds crown court Griffin claimed Asian gangs were "trying to wipe us out". In a second he said the only benefit of multiculturalism was "a few curries".
Griffin, from Llanerfyl, Powys, and Collett, of Rothley, Leics, both deny stirring up race hate.
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Subject: intra-Tribal debate over "Munich"
Symposium: The Munich Debate
By Jamie Glazov
FrontPageMagazine.com | January 19, 2006
Spielberg's new film "Munich" has stirred a tremendous amount of controversy since its release several weeks ago. Today, in the special edition of Frontpage Symposium, we host a debate on the movie and its meaning.
To present the case that Munich is simply just a fictional film that doesn't warrant the condemnations it has received from critics, we are joined by:
Phyllis Chesler (jew), author of the recently published The Death of Feminism: What's Next in the Struggle for Women's Freedom (Palgrave Macmillan), as well as an updated and revised edition of Women and Madness. Her website is www.phyllis-chesler.com.
Carl F. Horowitz (jew), (no relation to David Horowitz) director of the Organized Labor Accountability Project of the National Legal and Policy Center, based in Falls Church, VA. He has a Ph.D. in urban planning and public policy from Rutgers University.
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Ariel Chesler (what do you think?), a matrimonial attorney in Manhattan.
To present the counter-argument that "Munich" is a terrible movie that lies about history, we are joined by:
Debbie Schlussel (jew), a Conservative political commentator, radio talk show host, columnist, and attorney. Her website is DebbieSchlussel.com.
Arnold Steinberg (jew), a political strategist who has written graduate texts on politics and media. His expertise includes message and public opinion. Early in his career, he worked for U.S. Sen. James L. Buckley (NY), where he began his involvement in national security.
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Andrea Levin (jew) is executive director of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA).
FP: Phyllis Chesler, Carl Horowitz, Ariel Chesler, Debbia Schlussel, Andrea Levin and Arnold Steinberg, welcome to Frontpage Symposium.
Dr. Chesler, let me begin with you. Allow me to start with some of my own thoughts to stimulate this discussion.
You have come out defending the Spielberg movie to a certain degree, saying that it is "just a film" and that is does a level of justice, on several realms, to the true historical event.
A film that is dedicated to depicting a historical event, I am afraid, is not "just a film." It has a certain degree of responsibility to historical truth.
This is a fictional movie about a true historical event, the 1972 massacre of the Israeli athletes in Munich, that presents history wrong. Aside from the facts that it distorts facts, which we will discuss in this symposium, it engages in a sickening moral equivalency, applying a notion of "the cycle of violence" to a situation in which the Holocaust is simply literally being replayed. In other words, the cause of Israel's thirst to survive and the Palestinian terrorists' yearning to extinguish Jews is portrayed to be on a relative moral playing field. Both sides are portrayed as equal in their objectives. The lives of the innocent victims of terror are morally equated with the terrorists' lives. This is an intellectual and moral crime.
Dr. Chesler, let's say I made a movie about Auschwitz, Dachau and Buchenwald, and then I depicted the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Suppose I made equivalent the struggle of the Jewish rebels with the objectives of the Nazis carrying out the Final Solution. Let's say I humanized the Nazis and painted a picture in which they were just as human and justified as their victims and I implied throughout the whole movie that the "cycle of violence" that emerged in the Warsaw Uprising was unproductive.
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Subject: Wisconsin horror
Alleged hate crime occurs in Ogg
by Megan Costello and Mike Gendall
Thursday, January 19, 2006
Two University of Wisconsin freshmen appeared in court Jan. 17 facing felony charges of disorderly conduct and criminal damage to property as hate crimes.
The students, Benjamin Chamberlain and Michael Riha, allegedly vandalized the dorm room door of a UW student and LGBT liaison in Ogg Hall Dec. 21, according to court documents.
Also charged and due to appear in Dane County Court Feb. 13 are Purdue University freshman Kevin Cochacki and Auburn University freshman Caleb Moore, both of whom were visiting Riha, their Naperville, Ill., high school friend.
According to court documents, Chamberlain is a U.S. Marine ROTC student, and Riha, Cochacki, and Moore are all members of Sigma Chi fraternity at their respective universities.
If convicted, Chamberlain, Cochacki and Moore could each face up to three years in prison and $20,000 in fines. Riha faces an additional charge of obstructing an officer. This charge came from repeated changes to his story to UWPD Detective Carol Ann Glassmaker, the criminal complaint states.
Riha could receive an additional $10,000 fine or nine months in jail.
When contacted late Wednesday night, the alleged victim declined comment on the December incident, and asked The Badger Herald to protect his anonymity.
According to the criminal complaint, the alleged victim said he was sleeping in his dorm room at around 2:30 a.m. Dec. 21 when he was awoken by male voices yelling, "All f*ggots should die! I hate f*cking f*ggots!"
The alleged victim then reportedly heard a male voice say "Oh, who wrote that?" followed by another voice saying "I wrote that."
The complaint then states the alleged victim said he opened the door to find saliva dripping down his door. His bulletin board, which LGBT posters had been ripped off of, now reportedly read, "I hate f*cking f*ggots! Die."
Chamberlain, from Crystal Lake, Ill., later confessed to writing this, the complaint states.
"I tore down a picture, I was showing off and saw a picture of two guys kissing," Chamberlain was quoted in the complaint. "I am conservative and had a problem with it. Why does the photo have to be displayed in public? Keep it to yourself. I tore it down."
The complaint stated the defendants went back three times to tear other LGBT posters down, and that all four were involved with the incident.
According to the complaint, Cochacki told police he was laughing but denied spitting on the board, although he was not asked about spitting.
After the incident, Riha reportedly brought his friends to his Sigma Chi fraternity house, and along the way Chamberlain yelled, "I hate f*cking f*ggots. I hate f*cking liberals."
Moore later told police, "[Chamberlain] was insane and he should be in jail."
The complaint states that Riha denied ripping the pictures down but subsequently confessed Dec. 22 when told there was a witness.
"I was showing them how liberal Madison was," he reportedly said.
According to the complaint, Riha apologized and pointed out the door of the alleged victim.
Although court documents indicate Riha has moved from his former residence on the second floor of Ogg West to the Sigma Chi fraternity house, UW Housing Director Paul Evans said none of the defendants have been asked to vacate their residence.
"They wouldn't be removed because they're in the student conduct process," he said.
Evans said the Dec. 21 incident is not unprecedented in university housing, but could not recall the outcomes of past cases.
"It's not like this is the first time something of its kind [has] happened," Evans said. "We obviously hope that it doesn't and it's fortunate that it doesn't happen very often."
Were it not for the hate crime enhancers added, the disorderly conduct offenses would not be felonies.
According to Wisconsin law, a case can be tried as a hate crime if the defendants intentionally selected the person with whom the crime was committed because of belief about sexual orientation, whether or not the perception was correct.
As of press time, phone calls to Chamberlain, Riha, Cochacki and Moore went unanswered, as did phone calls to UW LGBT officials.
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Subject: horror at Northwestern
Hate incident handled badly
January 19, 2006
A hate crime occurred this weekend at Northwestern. But it seems like NU officials and University Police didn't want you to know about it.
Anti-Semitic graffiti was found Sunday morning on the wall in the stairwell of Sargent Hall, it represented NU's fourth hate crime incident in the last four years.
It was alarming. So was the reaction of UP. The Daily did not catch wind of the incident until Tuesday, some 48 hours after the incident had occurred. Sargent residents have been silent and it has been hard to get a word out of anyone at UP.
It's not just The Daily that should be concerned. Students should be upset that they were left in the dark for so long they have a right to know.
If a student lives in a nuisance property, the city and University is not shy in telling them. The same should apply for such a shocking incident as the one found Sunday morning.
The new-found silent treatment represents a change from past reaction to hate crimes and bias incidents. The University had always been proactive, establishing task force groups and keeping students updated on the goings on. Why the shift? Ignoring it only stands to create more speculation and rumors.
Sure, the graffiti featured sketches of rabbits and could easily be taken as a joke another pathetic attempt by some people of questionable character to steal the headlines. That doesn't make it okay to leave the University community in the dark.
People stand to be offended and hurt and it's important to not sweep them under the rug along with the hate crime.
NU got burned by Xander Saide, a student who made up two of NU's four hate crimes. Now don't use it an excuse to keep students in the dark.
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Subject: McVeigh
McVeigh's Iowa Connections
Des Moines, January 17, 2006 -This week, Des Moines' police chief said Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh looked at targets in Des Moines, before the bombing in Oklahoma City. Today, we learned just how deep McVeigh's connection to Iowa goes.
Before April 19th, 1995, the Alfred P. Murruh Federal Building looked like any other federal building in the country. Then, Timothy McVeigh set off a bomb in front of it - killing 168 women, men and children. In the months before the bombing, did McVeigh case places like Des Moines' federal building - as police chief William McCarthy claims? And did his time in Iowa actually help pay for the Oklahoma City bombing?
As the smoke cleared at the Alfred Murruh Federal Building everyone asked the same questions. Why Oklahoma city and could it happen here?This week, Chief McCarthy said the FBI approached him following the explosion - suggesting Des Moines had a connection. One of those connection was a series of bank robberies in the Midwest that were loosely associated with McVeigh and bombing accomplice Terry Nichols. Three of those robberies took place in Iowa in the month's prior to the Oklahoma city bombing. One in Ames, one in Davenport and one on Des Moines' east side. Those robberies- which included a fake bomb at an East Des Moines National Bank- were carried out by members of a Neo-Nazi group called the Arian Republican Army, which Timothy McVeigh was a known to associate. An FBI agent close to the investigation says McVeigh likely played a role in these robberies. Some reports suggest he even drove the get-a-way car.
J.D. Cash has reported exclusively on the Oklahoma City bombing for the past ten years for a newspaper in Oklahoma. He says the Des Moines robbery was not McVeighs first trip to the state. Cash, and agents close to the investigation confirm that there is a possibility that the robberies-- including the one in Des Moines helped to finance the Oklahoma City bombing. The question the FBI wanted to know in those weeks following the bombing - 'W hat else was McVeigh up to?'
An FBI investigator told Channel 13 they never determined if McVeigh or any associates planned to target other buildings such as the Des Moines federal building. H owever, they say it is very likely he cased this or other buildings like it to get a feel for security. The FBI believes Oklahoma City was ultimately chosen because ATF officers involved in the siege on Waco were located in that complex.
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Subject: swastika brightens rock
Swastika discovered on Sloatsburg's Liberty Rock
By HEMA EASLEY
THE JOURNAL NEWS
SLOATSBURG Ramapo town officials inspecting a building they intend to buy saw an unlikely sight yesterday through the third-floor windows a swastika, the Nazi symbol of hate [sic].
The symbol was clearly visible on Liberty Rock, the highest point in Sloatsburg. The rock was used in the Revolutionary War to signal patriots and to light watch fires for returning comrades.
"Any graffiti there is a desecration," said town employee Janet Burnet, who alerted Mayor Carl Wright about the swastika. "This swastika is an affront to the humanitarian spirit of everybody. It's frightening and saddening."
The swastika, painted white on a red circle on the rock, is just behind Liberty Rock Road. The hill is visible from several locations in the village, but the swastika itself is barely discernible from the ground because it is faded and obstructed from view by branches.
Wright said it appeared that the symbol was painted some time ago because access to the high point is difficult in icy conditions. It may have been painted in the summer and remained unnoticed in the foliage, he said.
"It's an outrage. I'm shocked," Wright said. "This is a community of family, friends and neighbors. The sign of the swastika is infuriating. It's a sign that someone is trying to hurt us emotionally and psychologically. It's an expression of hate."
The swastika is associated with fascism, white supremacists and the Holocaust, in which 6 million [sic] Jews were killed by the Nazis. It remains a symbol of neo-Nazi groups.
"I'm enraged," said Paul Galan, a trustee of the Rockland Holocaust Museum and Study Center. "In this day and age
I'm practically in tears," said Galan, a Holocaust survivor whose immediate family was sent to concentration camps in Germany during World War II. "These are not things we expect in this country. It's un-American to the core."
Because the swastika was painted on a red background, it appeared to be the handiwork of someone who was familiar with the Nazi symbol and its history, he said. Hitler's swastika was always painted on a circle and on a red background, he said.
The village has asked Ramapo police to investigate and prosecute with the full force of the law, Wright said. The village wants the image removed as soon as possible, he said.
Village attorney George Cotz said police could make an arrest for violating a New York state statute on hate crimes.
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Subject: ZOG/Germany against Iranian Holocaust truth conference
The Iranian government's announcement that it plans to hold a conference on the Holocaust with notorious deniers as guests has caused outrage in Germany.
The Iranian government announced last weekend that it is planning a conference on the Holocaust and intends to invite academics such as German neo-Nazi Horst Mahler, the Israeli journalist and Christian convert Israel Shamir and the historian David Irving -- all of whom are Holocaust deniers -- as guest speakers.
While there was some debate among western officials immediately after the announcement was made as to whether the conference would actually take place or that it was intended to provoke, politicians, especially in Germany, were up in arms at the idea of such a conference.
"This is international anti-Semitism at work," said Gert Weisskirchen, the foreign affairs spokesman for the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in an interview with German magazine Der Spiegel. His parliamentary colleague, Left Party member Norman Paech, added that the conference was part of an on-going "strategy of provocation" being employed by the Iranian government.
Werner Hoyer from the free-market liberal Free Democratic Party told Der Spiegel that the idea of the conference was "untenable" and that such a meeting of Holocaust skeptics at a time of heightened tensions over Iran's nuclear ambitions was a "dangerous spark in the powder keg."
Ahmadinejad spreading anti-Semitic doctrine, claims Green chief
Green party chief Reinhard Bütikofer said that the planned conference was further evidence that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was pursuing an "unrestrained policy of anti-Semitic indoctrination" in Iran. President Ahmadinejad has called the Holocaust a "myth" and has questioned the right of Israel to exist.
Bütikofer said Ahmadinejad had used public statements questioning the legitimacy of the Holocaust to mobilize Iranian fundamentalists. This will lead, he said, to "the international isolation of the Iranian regime." Everybody which gets involved in anti-Semitism or racism soils its own culture and nation, he added. "This also applies to Iran."
Weisskirchen meanwhile cautioned western leaders not to be sucked into a further row with Iran as the so-called "Holocaust experts" could not be taken seriously. He added that Ahmadinejad was trying to validate his stance on denial by inviting well-known authorities on the subject.
"Ahmadinejad apparently now tries to give a quasi-scientific meaning to his rhetoric," Weisskirchen said.
As well as condemning the conference, German politicians were quick to point out that any Germans who spoke at the conference would have to accept the legal consequences. Holocaust denial is a criminal offence in Germany.
Irving and others would be free to speak in Iran with impunity
If freed from Austria, Irving would be able to speak in Iran without restriction.
British historian David Irving is currently awaiting trial in Austria on charges of Holocaust denial and faces a possible sentence of between one to 10 years in prison if found guilty.
Irving, whose trial begins on Feb. 20, was arrested in the southern province of Styria in November under a warrant issued in 1989. Irving held two speeches in Austria that year, during which he allegedly claimed there had been no gas chambers at Auschwitz.
However, Gerry Gable, the former editor of anti-fascist magazine Searchlight and an authority on Irving told DW-WORLD that if Irving escapes prosecution in Austria, he and his fellow speakers will be free to travel to the Middle East to speak with impunity.
"Iran obviously has no law against Holocaust denial and therefore if Irving or anyone else speaks there they will not be punished," Gable said. "Irving cannot be punished in any other country for denying the Holocaust in one with no laws against it."
Nick Amies
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German politicians swiftly condemned Iran's president when he called into question Israel's right to exist and said the Holocaust was a myth. Their reactions reflect a broad consensus on the issue in German society.
Germany's parliamentarians were in agreement: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish remarks were "entirely unacceptable."
Ahmadinejad caused international outrage in the past few weeks with a series of remarks, in which he said Israel -- described as a tumor -- should be wiped off the map, or moved to Europe, casting doubt on whether the mass extermination of Jews in Nazi Germany ever took place.
"For us, the unconditional acknowledgement of the State of Israel's right to exist is one of the fundamental pillars of German foreign policy," pronounced Deputy Foreign Minister Gernot Erler in the name of the German government.
Aside from a small group of right-wing extremists, a broad consensus in German society sees the World War II extermination of six million Jews as a historical fact that cannot be denied, according to historian Wolfgang Benz, who heads the Center for Anti-Semitism Research in Berlin.
"Everyone has gotten it: The Holocaust took place, the genocide existed. And it wrought horrible consequences that we continue to suffer from today," Benz said.
Delayed acknowledgement
West Germany was indeed slow to come to turns with its Nazi past. The Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal brought the horrors of Hitler's regime to light, despite the fact that many Germans didn't want to talk about what happened. "People were ashamed. People felt guilty and didn't want to deal with it publicly," Benz said. But they didn't deny it."
West Germany first made an effort during the student demonstrations in the late 1960s. They weren't just protesting against the Vietnam War, but also demanded that their parents speak openly about the Nazi past.
An unexpectedly passionate debate developed in West Germany in the late 1970s, when "Holocaust," an American mini-series about a Jewish family during the Third Reich, was aired on television. People began to grasp the emotional dimension of the Holocaust in which real people were killed, not just an abstract figure of six million, Benz said.
In the mid-1980s, German newspapers were filled with the so-called Historiker-Streit, a passionate dispute between German historians, not about whether the Holocaust occurred, but about whether it was a unique event in world history. In the end, the opinion prevailed that the Holocaust was a crime that could not be equated or even compared to the horrors of Stalin's regime in the Soviet Union.
Holocaust denial illegal
Germany's parliament passed legislation in 1985, making it a crime to deny the extermination of the Jews. In 1994, the law was tightened. Now, anyone who publicly endorses, denies or plays down the genocide against the Jews faces a maximum penalty of five years in jail and no less than the imposition of a fine.
"It affects the agitator who claims the Jews prey on the German people, that they invented the Holocaust for that purpose, that foreigners should all be thrown out and that the discussion should finally be over with," Benz said. "He must be punished because he engages in incitement of the masses, because he slanders the memory of those murdered, because he slanders our fellow citizens."
Austria imposes even tougher penalties for such offences. Historian and Holocaust-denier David Irving, who was recently arrested there, faces up to 20 years in jail.
Klaus Dahmann (ncy)
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Subject: Irving
Right-wing historian Irving to be tried in Austria
18 January 2006
VIENNA - British right-wing radical David Irving, presently in pre-trial custody in Vienna, is writing his memoirs, according to the German magazine Der Spiegel.
"Perhaps I should call them 'My War'," 67-year-old Irving was quoted as saying. He is due to go on trial on February 20 under Austria's anti-Nazi laws. "I would be less confident if I didn't know that the intellectuals of the world are on my side," he declared.
Irving has been in jail in Austria since soon after he entered the country in mid-November at the invitation of the German-nationalist "Olympia" student fraternity. Police arrested him driving his car on a motorway in Styria province.
Just beforehand,
Irving had caused controversy with two lectures in Vienna and the town of Leoben. He denied the existence of Nazi gas chambers at Auschwitz, and of Hitler's persecution of the Jews, claiming instead that the Nazi dictator had "held his hand protectively over them."
Irving also alleged that Nazi pogroms against Jews had been committed by "unknown" persons disguised in the uniforms of Hitler's elite force SA.
He now faces charges under Paragraph 3 of Austria's banning laws on Nazi revivalism, which carry a maximum penalty of ten years' imprisonment.
A report in the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung meanwhile said Irving was on a list of possible participants in a conference planned at an unknown date by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to give an "academic" front to his anti-Jewish polemic.
Others on the list included such questionable so-called "experts" as Morst Mahler, who converted from being a member of the radical left-wing German terror group RAF to a neo-Nazi, Israeli journalist Israel Shamir who converted to Christianity, American revisionist Arthur Butz and his French colleague Robert Faurisson.
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Subject: jews whine about Russians putting Russia ahead of jews
Rights group [ie, loxist jews claims Russia condones growing racist tension
Politically fuelled racism could backfire, say activists
By the Associated Press
MOSCOW -- A group of leading human rights activists claimed today that Russian authorities were condoning racism and xenophobia among the population for political reasons, but said the rise in hate crimes and aggressive nationalism could backfire.
Hate crimes against dark-skinned foreigners and others with a non-Slavic appearance have been growing in Russia. A knife attack at a Moscow synagogue last week left eight people injured.
Rights activists say hate groups are emboldened by authorities' mild approach to prosecuting such crimes and complain that Nazi and other extremist literature is sold freely.
Alla Gerber, head of the Holocaust Foundation, claimed officials were purposely allowing nationalist sentiments to spread in order to capitalize on them.
On one hand, Russian leaders are appealing to already nationalist voters, she said. On the other, they seek to scare liberal-minded voters with the so-called neo-Nazi threat and portray themselves as the only forces capable of preventing nationalists from seizing power.
"For those normal people it is necessary to show how scary it all is and that authorities are able to deal with that (nationalist) monster," Gerber told a news conference.
Thousands of right-wingers were able to march unimpeded through Moscow shouting nationalist slogans on a national holiday late last year, while a small anti-fascist rally was broken up by riot police shortly afterward.
President Vladimir Putin has acknowledged the problem of anti-Semitism in Russia. Regardless, a group of nationalist Russian legislators last year escaped prosecution despite calling for the banning of all Jewish organizations, arguing that they foment ethnic hatred.
The authorities' alleged policy of inciting fear and cultivating hostility of non-Russians was shortsighted because it would eventually be targeted at them, said Emil Pain, head of the Russian Academy of Sciences' centre on xenophobia and extremism studies.
Citing his research trips to Russian provinces, Pain said many Russians critical of government policies were already regarding certain government ministers and other officials of being Jewish and were hostile against them.
Twenty-five people have been killed in hate crimes over the past year and more than 200 have been attacked, said Alexander Brod, head of the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights, which runs an EU-funded program monitoring xenophobia. Since Jan. 1, at least two people have been killed in racist crimes and a number of others beaten, Brod said.
He said the rise in hate crimes was in part the result of the prosecutor's reluctance to classify them as racist crimes, which are harder to investigate and prove.
"Prosecutors don't realize the menacing character of such crimes; they are not responding in an appropriate way," he said. He added that the Moscow Prosecutor's Office has only two employees dealing with hate crimes in a city of more than 10 million residents. Brod urged officials to launch a tolerance campaign in schools and universities.
http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/World/2006/01/18/1400332.html
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Subject: jews pule for censorship in Russia
Moscow Newspaper Reports Antisemitic Literature Widely Available in the Capital
(January 18, 2006)
Antisemitic literature, neo-Nazi music and DVDs promoting Nazi ideology are widely available in Moscow, according to a January 17, 2006 article in the local paper Vechernyaya Moskva. The author of the article entitled "In Moscow It's Easy to Buy Even 'Mein Kampf'" begins by asserting that while it is not yet clear if Aleksandr Koptsev--the skinhead who attacked worshippers in a city synagogue last week--was "zombified" by extremist literature, there is no question of where he could have obtained such literature. "In our capital, that is not a problem," the correspondent writes, despite laws banning the incitement of ethnic hatred and the publication of extremist literature.
On Revolution Square, the reporter finds books titled "The Essence of Zionism", "The Protocols of the Red Elders" and "The ABC of the Russian Nationalist" by the founder of the neo-Nazi Russian National Unity movement, Aleksandr Barkashov. "Mein Kampf" is not on open display, but can be acquired under the table, both at Revolution Square, inside the Olympic stadium book fair, and on Novy Arbat Street, where "The Jewish Terror of Russia" is also on sale.
At the 1905 Street Metro station, skinhead publications like "White Resistance" and "Street Fighter" are openly sold, along with DVDs glorifying the Nazis. "This is how the kernels of evil are sowed in unstable minds," the article concludes.
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Subject: Google and BNP
Google Blasted For Indexing "Nazi" Article
Jason Lee Miller
Staff Writer
Published: 2006-01-18
Google News has come under fire in England from anti-fascists organizations for picking up a news article published by far-right "Nazi" and "openly racist" British National Party (BNP), reports Times Online.
A leader of the party is currently in court on race-hate charges after a BBC undercover report outed him. The BNP's story about the rape and murder of a young girl by a gang is high on the list of Google News search results, outranking Reuters and BBC.
One of the chief critics of Google News is Sabby Dhalu, joint secretary of Unite Against Fascism (UAF), who says being picked up on the site lends credence to the party.
"The BNP is an openly racist organisation. Through Google using the BNP as a supposedly legitimate news source it legitimises the party. It should not be treated as a legitimate organisation in this way," said Dhalu.
After reporting the details of the tragedy, the BNP story takes an abrupt right turn, criticizing the BBC for not mentioning the ethnic background of the assailants in its report.
"...the BBC, which is normally so quick off the mark to label a crime as "racist" when the victim is Black and the perpetrators are White are, apparently having trouble finding this word in their corporate mindbenders dictionary!" reads the article.
That the BNP represents neo-Nazi sentiments is widely accepted in Britain. Times Onlines' Rhys Blakely reports that the Standards Board for England ruled the party could be described as a "Nazi" organization.
Though Google asserts that all material is algorithmically chosen by computers and denies their ability to screen everything that comes through their index, the search company has admitted in the past that some human selection is utilized. For example satirical websites are tagged as such so spoof articles won't appear along side CNN articles.
A Google spokesman told Times Online that if the company is notified by authorities of illegal content in their index, then the webpages in question would be removed. Google has maintained in the past that it generally takes a hands-off approach to the material returned in search results.
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Subject: Czech's National Party
Ultra-right National Party seeks to gain attention ahead of elections
[19-01-2006] By Daniela Lazarova
The National Party, one of three tiny ultra right wing groupings which have been on the margin of Czech politics for years now without gaining any significant support - is suddenly making headlines. Ahead of the June general elections, the party is highlighting its anti-Romany, anti-immigration and anti-drugs stand.
Most recently the party has shown an active interest in the wartime camp for Romanies at Lety, where 326 people perished and from which over 500 inmates were transported to the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Under the guise of unveiling a memorial stone to WWII victims, the party is spreading the word that Lety was a camp for misfits and that those who died there succumbed to common diseases because of their lack of hygiene, not because of the way they were treated. The statements have shocked many Czechs and Interior Minister Frantisek Bublan has asked the police to look into the party's activities and particularly its web pages. The National Party has achieved its goal - it is in the spotlight - but will this tactic pay off? A question for political analyst Jiri Pehe:
"Well, I think it may pay off in the sense that it may bring attention to this party and possibly help them gain some new members but I do not think it will help the party to win seats in Parliament because they do not have a large enough constituency in Czech society."
What is the point of this provocation at Lety?
"Well, I think it is exactly what you imply: a provocation. Groups like these always try to provoke, to stir things up and call attention to themselves, but simply also to destabilize society because these are anti-establishment parties which do not believe in democracy and that is why they provoke. I think the leaders of this group know that the provocation will not get them seats in Parliament but it has gotten them some media attention."
The National Party
This particular party seems to be operating on the margin of the law, so to speak. They play neo-Nazi bands on their radio station and the interior minister has now asked the police to look into some of their activities. Do you think they may have gone too far?
"I personally feel that there are several groups in the Czech Republic that have gone too far and I think that perhaps the interior ministry, the police and other institutions are reacting too late. It seems to me that we have seen a number of incidents for example concerts organized by the skinhead movement and similar provocations by extreme right wing parties as we are seeing in Lety. So my opinion is that yes, they have gone too far, and it is not the first time they have gone too far and in my opinion the Czech authorities should be more forceful."
The National Party wants to unveil its controversial stone at the site of the Lety camp this Saturday. The local authorities do not want their presence there and have asked for the stone to be removed from their property. The police are expected to be out in force to keep things under control.
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Keep quiet - Romany officials to Romanies over Lety camp
PRAGUE, Jan 18 (CTK) - The leadership of Romany regional representatives today called on Romanies to keep quiet and not to start any clashes over the controversial memorial to be unveiled by the far-right National Party in the former concentration camp in Lety, Romany servers said.
The appeal has been joined by the Romany association Dzeno.
The National Party (NS) wants to unveil a memorial with the inscription "To the Victims" on the site where an internment camp for Romanies existed during World War Two in a ceremony on Saturday.
The camp in Lety was established by the government of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in August 1942 upon the orders from Berlin. Czech personnel worked in the camp where Romanies were interned before their transport to extermination camps.
The Lety camp existed for about a year. Over 300 inmates perished there mainly of infectious diseases.
At present a pig farm occupies part of the camp's area. Romany organisations strive for the pig farm's demolition.
NS chairwoman Petra Edelmannova has told the press that Germans had also interned vagabonds and antisocial elements in the camp. She said that Romanies themselves were to blame for their deaths since they did not observe sanitary rules.
NS officials have said that the pig farm was useful.
Romany officials said that the NS plan was a well-thought provocation. "The provocation is devised to bring about a bloody clash with Romanies, eventually discrediting them before the Czech and foreign public," they said in their statement.
Romany regional representatives have called on Romanies not to take "law and order" into their own hands. NS organisers reckon with "flaring up of feelings and emotions" among the Romanies and want to prompt them into using violence, they added.
The plan is a barbaric sign of racial hatred, they said, adding that 30 Romanies lost their lives in racially-motivated attacks in the Czech Republic in the past 15 years.
Romany regional representatives said that the "neo-Nazi provocation" had been inspired by a statement by MEP Miroslav Ransdorf (Communists, KSCM).
"As a historian I know that utter lies are told about Lety. There has never been any real concentration camp there," Ransdorf said last year.
Romany officials said that the problem was also fuelled by President Vaclav Klaus when saying that it was a labour, not concentration camp like Auschwitz and Buchenwald.
However, Klaus's spokesman Petr Hajek said that Klaus's words had been misinterpreted. Here.
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Subject: niggers don't tolerate criticism
Commission threatens one of the last independent newspapers with closure
Reporters Without Borders voiced dismay today at learning that Tafataona Mahoso, the head of the Media and Information Commission (MIC), recently threatened the weekly Financial Gazette (FinGaz), one of Zimbabwe's last independent news media, with withdrawal of its licence.
The threat was made after FinGaz refused to publish a note retracting a 1 December article questioning the independence of the MIC, which was set up to monitor and regulate the Zimbabwean media and which has proved to be under the control of the government and the intelligence agencies.
"The MIC has closed down four newspapers in three years, and clearly takes its order from the most senior members of the government," Reporters Without Borders said. "Reduced to functioning as branch of the police, the MIC continues to impose the law of silence, especially when a newspaper dares to criticise it. As the African Union has apparently decided to try to loosen the vice-like grip on Zimbabwe's press, it should not let one of the last independent publications be shut by Robert Mugabe's and Mahoso's thought tribunal."
FinGaz editor Sunsleey Chamunorwa and his deputy, Hama Saburi, were ordered to report to MIC headquarters during the week of 9-13 January. The MIC is currently carrying out its annual reexamination of newspaper licences and journalists' accreditation, and Mahoso threatened to withdraw FinGaz's licence.
On 8 December, the MIC had ordered FinGaz to retract a report published the previous week that the MIC originally agreed to grant a licence to the owner of the now closed Daily News and then changed its mind under pressure from the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO). In its letter to FinGaz, the MIC said it would choose the journalist who wrote the retraction. The newspaper refused to comply, and there was no mention of the incident in the following issues, published on 15 December and 5 January.
These threats have come at time when information minister Tichaona Jokonya has announced that Zimbabwe's draconian press laws are to be amended. The decision was taken after the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR), an African Union offshoot, issued a resolution on 5 December accusing Zimbabwe's legislation of violating basic rights and civil liberties.
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Subject: Al Jazeera in Africa
Al Jazeera to open bureau in Zimbabwe
HARARE, Zimbabwe - The Qatar-based Arab broadcaster Al Jazeera is to set up a news bureau in Zimbabwe, state radio reported on Thursday.
It said officials of Al Jazeera met with Zimbabwe Information Minister Tichaona Jakonya in Harare and said they would report objectively on the southern African country.
Most Western correspondents have been barred from entering Zimbabwe on assignment amid government claims of bias against President Robert Mugabe in the Western media.
Under sweeping media laws enforced since 2002, the state Media and Information Commission has shut down three independent newspapers, including The Daily News, the only independent daily.
At least 40 independent Zimbabwean reporters have been arrested, threatened or assaulted on allegations they criticized the government, falsified information, supported Mugabe's opponents or worked illegally.
It is illegal to work as a journalist in Zimbabwe without a state license.
State radio quoted Al Jazeera director of news Steve Clark saying the broadcaster planned to open at least eight offices in Africa alongside those already established in Egypt, Ivory Coast and Kenya.
He said most international news agencies had focused on conflict, hunger, disease and other African "stereotypes" in their coverage of the continent, the radio reported.
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Subject: Buchanan on jews threatening Iran
Another undeclared war?
Is the United States about to launch a second preemptive war, against a nation that has not attacked us, to deprive it of weapons of mass destruction that it does not have?
With U.S. troops tied down in Afghanistan and Iraq, and Pakistanis inflamed over a U.S. airstrike that wiped out 13 villagers, including women and children, it would seem another war in the Islamic world is the last thing America needs.
Yet, the "military option" against Iran is the talk of the town.
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Subject: good riddance to precriminals
About 1,452 black babies are killed every day in America. Black women "choose" to have 32 percent of abortions that take place in the country, despite representing only 12 percent of the population. According to the Centers for Disease Control, "the abortion rate for black women was 3.1 times the rate for white women."
As Kelly Hollowell points out in her critically important new book, "Struggling For Life: How Your Tax Dollars and Twisted Science Target the Unborn," without abortion, America's black community would be 35 percent larger than it is today. It would represent a total population of 41 million. In total, every fourth member of the U.S. black population has been eliminated by abortion.
If this were happening in some other country, Americans might be able to see the phenomenon for what it truly is genocide.
We might also be able to see that this is no accident.
The very same forces that have promoted this horrific policy from the start as a means of lowering the black population showed their cards long ago about their true intentions.
Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion company in America and throughout the world, was candid about her aims by the time she opened her first clinic in the 1920s:
[If] we can train the Negro doctor at the clinic, he can go among them with enthusiasm and with knowledge, which, I believe, will have far-reaching results ... His work, in my opinion, should be entirely with the Negro profession and the nurses, hospitals, social workers, as well as the country's white doctors. His success will depend upon his personality and his training by us.
The minister's work is also important, and also he should be trained, perhaps by the federation, as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs.
The fact that this non-profit company, Planned Parenthood, today receives hundreds of millions of dollars from the U.S. federal government more today, under Republican leadership in the Congress and White House, than ever before should be at least as troubling to blacks as it is to the pro-life community that wants to end the massive, subsidized killing through abortion for everyone.
As Hollowell puts it so effectively in her new book:
Imagine a country that forced its citizens to fund an organization which, by itself, was the third leading cause of death in that nation. In addition to operating an industry of death, imagine that this organization targeted communities based on race, fought tooth and nail to undermine parental rights and exposed teens to the most debauched forms of sexual perversion imaginable.
"Well, that is no imaginary nation," she writes. "In fact, you are living in it, if you call America your home."
As the nation marks the birthday of Martin Luther King this week, I began to wonder what he might think of such a development had he lived to see it.
Would he be part of the problem, like so many of his followers, including Jesse Jackson?
Would he condone the extermination of 25 percent of his community?
Would he accept the massive taxpayer funding of the machine that makes it all possible?
What would Dr. King say?
Ed. Note: King liked white women and black men. If those niggers hadn't been nixed, we'd have another 4-5 D.C.s and Detroits on our hand. That's a good thing? Only in the fantasy world of the christian lunatic, drunk on equality.
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Subject: Mayor McCheese
Internet entrepreneurs have capitalized on New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin's controversial comments about wanting his city to once again be "chocolate" a majority black by selling T-shirts bearing the official's image dressed as Willy Wonka.
As WorldNetDaily reported, Monday during a Martin Luther King Jr. event, Nagin stated:
"We ask black people ... It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild New Orleans the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans. And I don't care what people are saying in Uptown or wherever they are. This city will be chocolate at the end of the day."
He also noted: "This city will be a majority African-American city. It's the way God wants it to be. You can't have New Orleans no other way. It wouldn't be New Orleans." Here.
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Subject: attacks on oil pipeline?
Web site encourages attacks on pipeline
By WESLEY LOY
Anchorage Daily News
A recent posting on a Web site purportedly affiliated with al-Qaida urges attacks against the trans-Alaska oil pipeline and Valdez tanker dock, calling on jihadists to either shower the pipe with bullets or hide and detonate explosives along its length.
The unknown author encourages small cells of four or five mujahideen, or Muslim guerrillas, living in the United States or in Canada or Mexico to mount the attacks.
The 10-page posting includes numerous links to Web sites providing maps and other, basic information about the pipeline.
Attacking oil and gas targets in the United States and other countries is key to bringing down the economy of the "American devils," the author writes, saying the message was posted in response to calls from Osama bin Laden and his top al-Qaida deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri. Here.
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Subject: Millard essay
ENVY THE IMBECILES
by H. Millard
Down at the Cosmic Casino, the Intelligent Designer is in his eternal shuffling glory. He's creating and destroying and creating again.
If the Intelligent Designer actually had intelligence, he might be pleased that some insignificant bits of superstitious protoplasm on earth are defending his handiwork with all the flawed logic and goofy statements that their tiny little brains can muster. Truth be told, however, the Intelligent Designer may not be very intelligent at all and he's not doing much designing as we normally think of the term.
Those who argue for the so-called intelligent design of life often analogize living things to machines and then rely on the argument that randomness can't put together pieces of plastic and metal and build, say, an automobile. And, right they are. It took intelligence to do that. Someone designed the automobile and built it. You'll get no argument from me on this point. But, it's a non sequitur. And, it gets worse. Those pushing this theory then leap to the false conclusion that randomness can't put together living things. Give them your ear and they'll talk it off with sophomoric arguments about how various parts of the human body are extremely complex and how it would be impossible for these parts to evolve and how Darwin got it wrong, blah, blah, blah.
Baloney.
In the first place, an automobile is not a living or natural thing. It's a natural apples and plastic pears comparison. To even begin the argument with that as an example is to start stepping off in the wrong direction from which you may never recover. An automobile is not flesh and blood. It's not even plant tissue. It is obviously a manufactured item that has been built from various things. It does not have the shape or the qualities or the characteristics of the natural things that are found in the universe. By contrast, ALL natural things, from star systems to rocks to trees to human beings and everything else that is naturally in existence, do have the shape and the qualities and the characteristics that are capable of being formed naturally by very simple principles that require no intelligence.
What is the main principle that has designed everything in existence? Spinning. Period. From the spinning comes everything and to the spinning goes everything. It is the spinning that shuffles and sorts things out. And, within the spinning many other forces and influences take place to form all matter. All of existence is spinning. If the spinning were to stop, existence would stop. All of existence is very simple. Only the explanation is complex. Here.
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Subject: Cronulla reverbs
Riot row over 'PC policing'
Elizabeth Gosch
January 17, 2006
A BRAWL has broken out over suggestions the NSW Government has been too politically correct to arrest the people responsible for revenge attacks in the wake of the Cronulla riot.
NSW Opposition Leader Peter Debnam yesterday repeated his attack on the Iemma Government for being soft on ethnic crime and criticised police for failing to arrest people of Middle Eastern descent.
Premier Morris Iemma denied telling police to go soft on people of Middle Eastern descent and responded angrily to the comments.
Inspecting the state's new anti-riot squad, Mr Iemma promised a crackdown on antisocial and riotous behaviour.
"We're on the side of the police in this, he's (Mr Debnam) not. The hooligans and thugs have got no respect. No wonder, when the example is being set by the Leader of the Opposition," Mr Iemma said.
Mr Debnam's comments last week that the NSW Government had been soft on ethnic crime for the past 10 years prompted Mr Iemma's outburst and criticism from police Commissioner Ken Moroney.
"The statistics would suggest the Government is simply not putting the resources into rounding up these Middle Eastern criminals and thugs. The Labor Party seems to be indebted to certain ethnic groups," Mr Debnam said last week. Yesterday, he refused to back down. "Thugs on the streets of Sydney that should be in jail. That's the issue."
Mr Debnam said the Government was too "politically correct" to act against ethnic gangs. "The community wants these people locked up and I'm going to keep raising this issue every day until those couple of hundred Middle Eastern thugs are behind bars."
Police have charged 20 people with offences relating to the December 11 Cronulla riot, during which people of Middle Eastern descent were chased and attacked.
Middle Eastern youths carried out violent revenge attacks at Cronulla, Maroubra and Brighton-le-Sands in response to the riot.
Hadi Khawaja, 24, of Peakhurst, was last week jailed for three months for burning an Australian flag stolen from the Brighton RSL Club.
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Subject: race and prison rape
Race and Ethnicity
Past studies have documented the prevalence of black on white sexual aggression in prison.(213) These findings are further confirmed by Human Rights Watch's own research. Overall, our correspondence and interviews with white, black, and Hispanic inmates convince us that white inmates are disproportionately targeted for abuse.(214) Although many whites reported being raped by white inmates, black on white abuse appears to be more common. To a much lesser extent, non-Hispanic whites also reported being victimized by Hispanic inmates.
Other than sexual abuse of white inmates by African Americans, and, less frequently, Hispanics, interracial and interethnic sexual abuse appears to be much less common than sexual abuse committed by persons of one race or ethnicity against members of that same group. In other words, African Americans typically face sexual abuse at the hands of other African Americans, and Hispanics at the hands of other Hispanics. Some inmates told Human Rights Watch that this pattern reflected an inmate rule, one that was strictly enforced: "only a black can turn out [rape] a black, and only a chicano can turn out a chicano."(215) Breaking this rule by sexually abusing someone of another race or ethnicity, with the exception of a white inmate, could lead to racial or ethnic unrest, as other members of the victim's group would retaliate against the perpetrator's group. A Texas inmate explained, for example: "The Mexicans--indeed all latinos, nobody outside their race can 'check' one without permission from the town that, that person is from. If a black dude were to check a mexican w/out such permission & the mexican stays down & fights back, a riot will take place."(216)
The causes of black on white sexual abuse in prison have been much analyzed. Some commentators have attributed it to the norms of a violent black subculture, the result of social conditioning that encourages aggressiveness and the use of force.(217) Others have viewed it as a form of revenge for white dominance of blacks in outside society.(218) Viewing rape as a hate crime rather than one primarily motivated by sexual urges, they believe that sexually abused white inmates are essentially convenient surrogates for whites generally. Elaborating on this theory, one commentator surmised that "[i]n raping a white inmate, the black aggressor may in some measure be assaulting the white guard on the catwalk."(219)
Some inmates, both black and white, told Human Rights Watch that whites were generally perceived as weaker and thus more vulnerable to sexual abuse. An African American prisoner, describing the situation of incarcerated whites, said:
When individuals come to prison, they know that the first thing that they will have to do is fight. Now there are individuals that are from a certain race that the majority of them are not physically equip to fight. So they are the majority that are force to engage in sexual acts.(220)
Another African American inmate, while generally agreeing with the idea of whites as easy victims, gave a more politically-oriented explanation for the problem of black on white sexual abuse:
Before I continue, let me explain that I consider myself to be speaking from mainly a black perspective. The reason I say that is not to be racist, but to emphasize that on the main, blacks, whites, hispanics, etc. . . . have a different outlook on prison rape from a convict viewpoint. Most [blacks] feel that the legal system is fundamentally racist and officers are the most visible symbol of a corrupt institution & with good reason . . . . [B]lacks know whites often associate crime with black people. They see themselves as being used as scapegoats . . . . So is it any wonder that when a white man comes to prison, that blacks see him as a target. Stereotypes are prevalent amongst blacks also that cause bad thinking. The belief that all or most white men are effete or gay is very prevalent, & that whites are cowards who have to have 5 or 6 more to take down one dude . . . . Whites are prey and even a punk will be supported if he beats up a white dude.
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Subject: Dutch make moves to control immigration
Dutch Closer to Immigrant Admissions Test
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- The Netherlands on Thursday approved a pilot program to test prospective immigrants on the basics of Dutch language and culture, moving the country closer to requiring it for all.
The test, to be given in their home countries, is intended in part to discourage Dutch immigrants from marrying foreign brides.
It is the latest example of the Dutch government's efforts to reduce immigration and improve integration of first- and second-generation immigrants, especially the 1 million Muslims who make up some 6 percent of the population.
A parliamentary commission approved plans by Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk to try the test out on 500 would-be immigrants as a preliminary step to requiring it for all.
"We now have sufficient preparation to put this into practice," Verdonk told the commission.
The test is primarily a language test, but it will also test familiarity with basic aspects of Dutch culture.
Many Turkish and Moroccan immigrants feel unfairly targeted by this and other recent measures by the center-right governing coalition, which was elected on an anti-crime, anti-immigration platform.
Anti-immigration steps include the ongoing deportation of 26,000 illegal immigrants, the interning of asylum-seekers at prison camps while they apply and raising visa and work permit fees by hundreds of euros.
Taking the new foreign admission test will cost around euro350 (US$425), Verdonk said Thursday.
Rights groups and others have criticized some aspects of the Dutch policy, though it has been successful at reducing immigration.
Some 54,000 people left the country in the first half of 2005, while just 41,000 immigrated to it, government statistics show. Poles were the single largest group arriving.
Total population growth was under 20,000 -- less than a third of 1 percent, a third of what it was in 2000 and the lowest rate since 1920.
The government has also approved plans to require all immigrants who have stayed or intend to stay in the Netherlands for more than three years to take citizenship classes.
That plan would affect half a million of the 16 million Dutch population, including many who already hold citizenship.
But putting it into practice has proved difficult.
In July, the Netherlands' own top governmental legal advice council found that a domestic test would violate EU laws against compulsory integration.
Verdonk said Thursday that she was nearly ready to submit a redrafted version of the plan.
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Subject: borders
Fear and loathing on lawless "third border"
By Bernd Debusmann, Special Correspondent Tue Jan 17, 2:59 PM ET
TECUN UMAN, Guatemala (Reuters) - This dusty frontier town caters to smugglers and illegal migrants. It's a stone's throw from Mexico, across the brown waters of the Suchiate river. In a way, it is also the southernmost border of the United States.
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"Make no mistake, this river is not an obstacle, none whatever, " said Father Ademar Barilli, a Catholic priest who runs the Casa del Migrante, a hostel for migrants.
"The obstacle is across the river. The Mexican government has turned all of Mexico into a frontier. They are working on behalf of the U.S.. They are hunting migrants."
This is a common argument in Central America though one would not hear it in Washington, where the border with Mexico has moved into the center of a heated debate. In December, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill to build a wall along the border with Mexico to keep illegal immigrants out.
Mexico has made clear it feels it efforts to stem the tide of illegal migration have not been properly appreciated. Statistics issued by the country's National Immigration Institute explain why: in 2000, Mexican authorities deported 105,902 illegal immigrants, almost all of them Central
Americans. In 2005, the number rose to almost 250,000.
In comparison, the U.S, Border Patrol reported 1,188,997 apprehensions in 2005 along the U.S.-Mexican border, which is the world's most frequently-crossed international line and more than three times as long as Mexico's border with Guatemala. Here.
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Subject: mud rapists in Australia
Jury convicts men of rape
By Johanna Leggatt
18jan06
TWO brothers accused of the multiple rape of a young woman at knifepoint have been found guilty in Brisbane of six counts of sexual assault.
Fijian-born Afsheen Kashef Hussein, 26, and Azhar Zuhayr Hussein, 21, each pleaded not guilty in the District Court to eight charges of rape and one of indecent treatment of the 22-year-old woman at Mt Coot-tha in Brisbane.
After almost two days of deliberation, the jury of 10 men and two women found each of the brothers guilty of six counts of rape but not guilty of three charges: two rape counts and the indecent treatment charge.
Prosecutor April Freeman however, submitted that a sentence in the order of 12 years for each of the men was appropriate and Judge Warren Howell adjourned sentencing to a later date.
Judge Howell informed the jury once their verdict had been delivered, that the two brothers have also been charged over a second rape at Mt Coot-tha, this time of a sex worker, in February last year.
They have also pleaded not guilty to the charges but the brothers' co-accused Brisbane men Zaak Imtiaz Ali, 21, and Zain Iftiaz Ali, 23 have pleaded guilty. The matter will be heard on May 29.
The Hussein brothers' trial heard that on September 17, 2004, the men picked the woman up from Fortitude Valley and drove her to Mt Coot-tha, where they took turns to repeatedly rape her at knifepoint for about an hour.
She eventually escaped and ran to the nearby security hut of a television station.
The victim broke down a number of times during her evidence, despite a screen being placed between her and the accused men.
At one point one of the rapists started laughing and Judge Howell responded by saying: "If the accused on the left doesn't behave ... I'll take appropriate action".
Judge Howell told the court the victim is also seeking sexual assault compensation from the two men of $75,000 each.
The civil claim will be heard on March 10.
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Subject: police brutality as nig-pig assaults human woman
Stories differ after officer, skater scuffle
By DON WALL / WFAA-TV
Finger pointing has begun after a scuffle between an officer and a Dallas Roller Derby League skater ended with the woman on the ground with a bloody face Saturday night.
Michelle Metzinger, who skates for Assassination City, was skating down Elm Street when police Officer Ceaphus Gordon stopped her in front of Elm Street Tattoo, which was where the differences in story began.
"I have bruises and scratches all over me," Metzinger said. "You have no idea how rough he was on me."
However, police said Metzinger tried to gouge the officer's right eye in the fight.
But some witnesses also had a different opinion from the officer's account of what occurred that night.
"He just jumps on her and puts his knee on the back of her head with her face in the ground like so brutally," said Oliver Peck, tattoo artist. "It was ridiculous, and instantly blood was everywhere and she's crying bloody murder like helplessly."
Peck said he saw the police officer give Metzinger a ticket for jaywalking and then jumped on her twice when she tried to pull away.
"It was just a textbook example of unnecessary excessive force," he said.
Camille Dubose
A witness captured an image of Officer Ceaphus Gordon restraining Michelle Metzinger with his knee.
Derek Conway, who is also known as D.C. and works as a bartender, said he also witnessed the struggle between the two and called the incident "police brutality."
"[It was] completely over the top," Conway said. "It looked like a street mugging. It looked like a fight. He was mugging her, that's what it looked like."
Metzinger was treated for her injuries and arrested for assault of a peace officer.
Officer Gordon was treated as well for scratches on his face and bruises on his shins after he said Metzinger kicked him with her skates.
Metzinger has hired a lawyer to fight back and police said they will consider an internal investigation.
Here.
Ed. Note. If the woman were black, police brutality would be the story, the focus of the headline, not scuffles and finger-pointing, which connotes whining children.
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Subject: Carmelo Anthony and the marketing of the nigger
The Super VIP room at Beyond is the place to be in downtown Denver on a late-fall Friday night. There's a private DJ, plenty of couch space, an open bar and an elite crowd celebrating Carmelo Anthony and the launch of his Jordan Melo 5.5. The shoe is displayed like a museum piece in an elevated glass case at the center of the darkened lounge. A-listers like Jadakiss and Kiki Vandeweghe mill around it, shooting glances at the wide-screen panels on the wall that show a commercial for 'Melo's shoe on a continuous loop.
The human star of the night, though, is nowhere to be seen. He is tucked in an adjoining room, a sliver of Super VIP space beyond the dance floor. A glass wall separates Anthony and entourage from the sea of bobbing heads. As the hip-hop pounds, he props himself against the partition, brandishing a half-smoked Macanudo in his left hand. But he can't keep from leaning over the transom again and again to slap palms with the have-nots and have-somes to let them know they're not forgotten.
"Yoooo, what's up!" he says, with such gusto it's as if he's trying to pull one portly soul over the wall.
This is his young life: reaching over the divide. Sometimes, his golden hand finds a disenfranchised party who anyone would agree is in need. Other times, the recipient could be a rogue, even a criminal, and the unwitting gesture gets memorialized on a DVD that shuts down trials, marks Anthony as an enemy of the police and nearly gets him hauled before Congress.
Carmelo Anthony isn't particularly interested in sorting the cowboys from the angels, even if, as he is told, that may stand in the way of his off-court dreams. Anthony wants to be a power broker, a tastemaker, a corporate icon. To do that, the thinking goes, he has to connect to the broadest swath of the American marketplace. He has the nickname, the smile and the game. But is that enough to make Main Street feel comfortable with a kid from the hood who is intent on maintaining street cred?
ANTHONY IS courtside in a chair in a nearly empty Pepsi Center. He's just shot a cheerful guest spot for "Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide," a Nickelodeon kids' show, but his boyish, gently lined face is lit with frustration and purpose. "Do you know how many people I've touched?" he asks. His marketing team is quick to answer. There's the Katrina pledge of up to $100,000. Fundraising for family services in Denver. Donations of Thanksgiving and Christmas meals in his hometown, Baltimore. A van for a wheelchair-bound teen. The children's book. "I've touched a lot of people," Anthony repeats. "But all anyone sees is headlines: 'Melo is a gangster, 'Melo is a thug. No, 'Melo is a good person." He draws a breath. "I got a mission."
It's all about the tombstone. When he's done, Anthony claims, "I want people to say, 'He did a lot for everybody.'" That includes strangers doing life plus 25. His latest project is "Prison Ball," a documentary he bankrolled (with a six-figure check) and narrates. The haunting film, which he hopes to premiere during All-Star weekend, profiles some imprisoned ballers and explores the forces that drive dysfunction in urban neighborhoods. But it also questions the wisdom of giving hard time to two-bit dealers. "America has spent over $900,000,000,000 on the war on drugs," one full-screen shot declares. "Drugs are just as available today as they have ever been."
Anthony surely will be yelled at for this. The national drug policy is a messy topic -- and he's an easy target. In October 2004, he was charged with marijuana possession when team security at Denver International Airport found a small bag of pot in his backpack as he was getting set to board a team charter. (The charge disappeared after a friend swore it was his own stash, stowed without Anthony's knowledge.) The incident occurred two months after 'Melo first made the wrong kind of news, by complaining about his lack of playing time on the Olympic team. He made some more when he defended his now-fiancιe, MTV veejay LaLa Vasquez, in a bar fight in Manhattan. Making matters worse, three men tried to extort $3 million from him with a videotape of the altercation.
All of it quickly became backstory in December 2004 with the emergence of "Stop Snitching." The now-infamous underground DVD discourages cooperation with the police, specifically by drug dealers who might try to avoid mandatory prison sentences by fingering other dealers. Anthony appears in a few scenes, mostly in the background. He doesn't say much, and never advocates drug dealing or use, much less violence. In fact, Anthony now argues, "stop snitching" is the ghetto way of saying "stop the violence."
But in mainstream circles, that he appeared at all in such a film was damning enough.
There are two dominant archetypes of NBA stars: the corporate guy, personified by Michael Jordan, who steers clear of social issues, dresses for the boardroom and sells more sneakers than anyone; and the street guy, embodied by Allen Iverson, whose wall-to-wall ink and gangsta swagger limit his appeal beyond inner cities and devotees of urban style. After "Stop Snitching" dropped, Anthony, who looked to be morphing into archetype No. 2, received an urgent call from archetype No. 1.
MJ had handpicked the Nuggets star to drive the Brand Jordan line of shoes and apparel. But now his pitchman was on news shows, in a clip that showed him standing on a sidewalk, red baseball cap pulled low, laughing nervously as a man near him appeared to suggest that informants "get a hole in their head." Gotta get on track, Jordan lectured.
In fact, Anthony wasn't at all prepared for the ensuing fallout. For weeks, no one could get him on the line. Not friends. Not family. Not his agent, who left messages pleading with his client for help in controlling the damage. Potential endorsement deals were yanked, and the sports gawkers described him and LeBron as two phenoms headed in opposite directions, on the court and off. Anthony's play suffered, and he was left off the West's 2005 All-Star roster, a doubly humiliating snub because the game was in Denver.
He inked a new tat on his left forearm: When the Grass Is Cut the Snakes Will Show. In time, so did his resolve to move on. "I could hide for only so long," he says. He immersed himself in community work. And rather than pout during All-Star Weekend, he played the gracious host, throwing bashes around the city and paying for 200 kids to attend Jam Session, an interactive event sponsored by the NBA. Energized by the local love he received in return, Anthony played well enough to be named MVP of the rookie/sophomore game, then pushed his game to new heights in the second half of the season. LeBron got all the attention, but it was Carmelo who ended up leading his team to the playoffs for a second straight year.
He seemed to brush aside any taint in the marketplace, too. Both his sneaker and jersey hit No. 1 in sales among active players. "I probably lost a couple endorsement deals with Fortune 500 companies," he admits. "But I actually gained fans."
How much his street rep benefited from "Stop Snitching" is up for debate. The video's producer, Baltimore barber Rodney Bethea, cut just 100 copies, but when the local ABC affiliate got hold of one, it exploded nationally. With bootlegs blanketing the streets, "Stop Snitching" T-shirts began to appear in Atlanta, L.A. and New York, and before long in cul-de-sacs in the burbs .
"The DVD gave 'Melo street cred on a national level," Bethea says. "People in other hoods saw it and said, 'He understands. He's like us.'" Anthony says that when he travels across the country now, people yell his name and tug on their tees, as if he were minister of the message. Whenever he sees this, he shakes his cornrowed noggin, marveling at the power of celebrity. No one ever pointed to his carton of 2% because the 2004 Rookie of the Year runner-up did a "Got Milk?" ad. So is it celebrity or notoriety that sells?
Anthony firmly believes some of his popularity comes because of the controversy, not despite it. Surely, his popularity has at least as much to do with his stylish play, blissful smile and heightened willingness to share himself. "If there are 60,000 people in a stadium, I'll try to shake 60,000 hands," he says. Still, not only surviving "Stop Snitching" but thriving in its wake has been a liberating experience, freeing 'Melo to be 'Melo.
And by all accounts, 'Melo sells.
MJ ISN'T fretting anymore. He signed off on the gritty spots that promote the new sneaker as well as its evocative design. One of Anthony's tattoos, "CA," is carved into the sole of the $125 shoe, as is "Myrtle Ave," the West Baltimore street he grew up on. The commercial, "B More," follows him as he walks late at night along a stretch of abandoned rowhouses, slapping at his basketball in slo-mo and nodding respectfully at hard-faced street characters -- and Jim Boeheim! -- hanging on the sidewalk. All the while he's being harassed by a police helicopter that trails him with a spotlight.
Anthony says Nike originally proposed a concept that had him buying cars and playing video games. He rejected it, feeling it was too much bling, too little substance. Let's keep it real, he proposed. "I worked for two days on the script," Anthony says. "It was hard boiling my life down to 30 seconds."
To him, keeping it real is the key to building his empire. Having affirmed his ability to sell shoes, Anthony now is looking to access Madison Avenue from Myrtle Avenue. His bet is that, like Jay-Z, he can be both street and corporate. He'll live in a 12,500-square-foot mansion in the suburbs even as he continues to be the voice of the projects. Be a brand and a man. When he addresses the ills of the inner city, it will be on his terms.
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Ed. Note: ESPN, a wholly jew-owned, global operation out of Connecticut, is one of the most effective forces for evil in the modern world. It is second perhaps only to MTV in promoting the idea that niggers should be worshipped by Whites. It's anchors are mostly white twinks, sanctimonious liberal hypocrites who don't have the balls to hold niggers to the same standard as Whites. ESPN tirelessly promotes the idea that blacks are discriminated against as coaches and quarterbacks, which pressure has led to incompetent blacks being hired over whites. When the blacks fail, ESPN looks the other way.
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