“I disapprove of what you say,
but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
The Friends of Voltaire (1906)
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Evelyn_Beatrice_Hall
Demonising Dissent
It’s a mystery to me how anyone could possibly deny that the Shoah (Holocaust) happened ! The wealth of evidence is overwhelming. Photos, film footage, eyewitness accounts and the testimonies of survivors – as well as much courtroom documentation – all paint a vivid picture of a hell on earth. In all of Human History, there is probably no other event that is so well documented.
Nevertheless, there are those who do not believe it. One can only look in wonder at these “Holocaust Deniers”.
Perhaps, their “reason” is that they cannot accept the fact that Humanity has a dark and diabolical aspect that, unleashed, can commit unimaginable evil.
Germany, the nation where the demons were first unleashed, may still be suffering from a great burden of Guilt. Naturally, but it could have happened anywhere. Germany would better salve its conscience by working to ensure that nothing comparable ever happens again.
To forbid Free Speech, however, is to fall back into the mind-set of an all-powerful State, a mind-set that allowed the Shoah to happen.
Free Speech applies not only to those who agree with us, but also to those whose views are diametrically opposed to our own.
The term “Hate Crimes” should only be applied to those who incite others to violence, based upon prejudice. It should never be applied to those who merely question or disagree with us.
The Shoah/Holocaust is probably the worst Crime Against Humanity that has ever occurred. Curtailing the basic Right of Free Speech, however, will not expiate any Guilt.
Of course, there may be discrepancies in the actual figures, because such an “accounting” can beleaguer the Human Spirit. Who can accept such a horror ? How is it possible that Human Beings could have committed such horrendous crimes ?
The Human Spirit recoils and says, “No, it couldn’t have happened. No one could have done such terrible things. No one could have systematically designed, developed and applied technology to kill millions of people !”
Nevertheless, IT DID HAPPEN !
Germany was taken over by the Nazis who brought the blood sacrifice cult to its zenith and denied the obvious fact that Humanity is a Unity, with many divisions. The Nazis sought a “pure race”, whatever that means, for we are all inter-related in one Unity, one Human Race.
Their insane beliefs brought us the greatest degradation of Human Society that the world has ever known.
Beyond words like “Tragedy” and “Horror”, the Nazis killed and tortured MILLIONS of Human Beings !
One may discuss the actual figures. One book I have read states 4.5 Million Jews, whereas the official figure is 6 Million. The difference is obviously irrelevant. Only the most pedantic would attach any real significance to such numerical discrepancies when faced with the enormity of the crime. The fact is that MILLIONS of Jews were killed in a mad sacrifice to a demonic belief !
Yes, there were also millions of Gypsies, now called “Roma”, after the Language of Gypsies. There were also homosexuals and many others who did not fit into the so-called “Master Plan”
Were this not a well-documented fact, one might think it a nightmare fantasy.
Nevertheless, IT DID HAPPEN and YES, HUMAN BEINGS ARE CAPABLE OF SUCH INSANE HORROR.
To a far lesser degree, it happened in Rwanda and Bosnia. It might even happen again - which is but one reason to never forget the Shoah/Holocaust.
Historically, there were also other Genocides: the Native Americans; the Africans who died on the Atlantic and in Slavery; the Armenian Massacre under the Ottomans and the Albigensian “Crusade”, among others. There are also “prolonged genocides”, today, called “Ethnic Cleansing”.
The great difference, however, is that the Nazi Regime planned, developed and applied modern technology, for the expressed purpose of ELIMINATING peoples from the Earth, not only from one country.
Nevertheless, there are those whose Spirits are so innocent that they cannot believe that Human Beings could even imagine such horror.
We should not punish such souls. We can only pity them and – in some ways – admire their innocence.
Strangely, however, we have decided to punish them. We have even decided not to allow them to speak openly.
THIS IS A GREAT MISTAKE !
To forbid the questioning of the Holocaust and to forbid others from denying its reality will only drive the deniers underground. It will also lend a measure of “credence” to their misconceptions. Sadly, it will also serve the interests of the prejudiced sick minds who judge people according to their Race or Religion.
No, we must allow anyone to question anything !
Atheism has not stopped Organised Religion and the Flat Earth Society has not endangered the planet.
Anyone who sincerely attempts any research into the Shoah is bound to find out the Truth. It happened ! It might also happen again – lest we forget.
Let the so-called “Holocaust Deniers” do their research. They too will eventually come to recognize Reality. If they don’t, the facts themselves will eventually silence them.
Let those who refuse to face the facts walk in their own darkness – but let them walk freely !
Please read the following reports – and think again.
Paul V. Rafferty
U.N. OBSERVER & International Report
Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority
http://www.yadvashem.org
USC Shoah Foundation Institute
http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/vhi
Nuremberg Trials Project; A Digital Document Collection
http://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/php/docs_swi.php?DI=1&text=overview
The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/imt.htm
Nuremberg Trials
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/nuremberg.htm
A Look Back At Nuremberg
http://www.courttv.com/archive/casefiles/nuremberg
The Nuremberg Trials: Electronic Resources
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/law/e-nuremberg.doc
The fight against Holocaust denial
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4436275.stm
The Flat Earth Society
http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/Flatearthsociety.htm
Jail for German Holocaust denier
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6364951.stm
Shame on Germany!
Ernst Zundel sentenced to prison for 5 years for exercising free speech!
The German officials who have imprisoned a human being for speaking his political and historical opinions are the real criminals, not Ernst Zundel.
Shame on Germany! http://www.davidduke.com/general/shame-on-germany_1795.html
General Assembly adopts resolution condemning any denial of holocaust
United States Representative Says to Deny Events Of Holocaust Tantamount to Approval of Genocide in All Its Forms
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2007/ga10569.doc.htm
EU anti-hate law sparks debate on Nazi and Soviet crimes
http://euobserver.com/9/23515
No Room for Holocaust Denial in Germany
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,1833619,00.html
EU plans far-reaching 'genocide denial' law http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/02/weu02.xml
Germany wants Holocaust denial to be EU-wide crime
http://www.eubusiness.com/news_live/1168275602.74
Holocaust-denial law for Europe?
The European Commission on Friday backed the criminalization of Holocaust denial in the 27-member European Union.
http://www.jta.org/page_view_breaking_story.asp?intid=6610
Berlin Seeks Holocaust Denial Ban in EU
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1168265640711&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout
Iran challenges Europe to hand over Holocaust 'proof'
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070206/wl_mideast_afp/iranjewsisrael_070206131801
Bush to write letters against 'genocide resolution'
http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=42573
but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
The Friends of Voltaire (1906)
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Evelyn_Beatrice_Hall
Demonising Dissent
It’s a mystery to me how anyone could possibly deny that the Shoah (Holocaust) happened ! The wealth of evidence is overwhelming. Photos, film footage, eyewitness accounts and the testimonies of survivors – as well as much courtroom documentation – all paint a vivid picture of a hell on earth. In all of Human History, there is probably no other event that is so well documented.
Nevertheless, there are those who do not believe it. One can only look in wonder at these “Holocaust Deniers”.
Perhaps, their “reason” is that they cannot accept the fact that Humanity has a dark and diabolical aspect that, unleashed, can commit unimaginable evil.
Germany, the nation where the demons were first unleashed, may still be suffering from a great burden of Guilt. Naturally, but it could have happened anywhere. Germany would better salve its conscience by working to ensure that nothing comparable ever happens again.
To forbid Free Speech, however, is to fall back into the mind-set of an all-powerful State, a mind-set that allowed the Shoah to happen.
Free Speech applies not only to those who agree with us, but also to those whose views are diametrically opposed to our own.
The term “Hate Crimes” should only be applied to those who incite others to violence, based upon prejudice. It should never be applied to those who merely question or disagree with us.
The Shoah/Holocaust is probably the worst Crime Against Humanity that has ever occurred. Curtailing the basic Right of Free Speech, however, will not expiate any Guilt.
Of course, there may be discrepancies in the actual figures, because such an “accounting” can beleaguer the Human Spirit. Who can accept such a horror ? How is it possible that Human Beings could have committed such horrendous crimes ?
The Human Spirit recoils and says, “No, it couldn’t have happened. No one could have done such terrible things. No one could have systematically designed, developed and applied technology to kill millions of people !”
Nevertheless, IT DID HAPPEN !
Germany was taken over by the Nazis who brought the blood sacrifice cult to its zenith and denied the obvious fact that Humanity is a Unity, with many divisions. The Nazis sought a “pure race”, whatever that means, for we are all inter-related in one Unity, one Human Race.
Their insane beliefs brought us the greatest degradation of Human Society that the world has ever known.
Beyond words like “Tragedy” and “Horror”, the Nazis killed and tortured MILLIONS of Human Beings !
One may discuss the actual figures. One book I have read states 4.5 Million Jews, whereas the official figure is 6 Million. The difference is obviously irrelevant. Only the most pedantic would attach any real significance to such numerical discrepancies when faced with the enormity of the crime. The fact is that MILLIONS of Jews were killed in a mad sacrifice to a demonic belief !
Yes, there were also millions of Gypsies, now called “Roma”, after the Language of Gypsies. There were also homosexuals and many others who did not fit into the so-called “Master Plan”
Were this not a well-documented fact, one might think it a nightmare fantasy.
Nevertheless, IT DID HAPPEN and YES, HUMAN BEINGS ARE CAPABLE OF SUCH INSANE HORROR.
To a far lesser degree, it happened in Rwanda and Bosnia. It might even happen again - which is but one reason to never forget the Shoah/Holocaust.
Historically, there were also other Genocides: the Native Americans; the Africans who died on the Atlantic and in Slavery; the Armenian Massacre under the Ottomans and the Albigensian “Crusade”, among others. There are also “prolonged genocides”, today, called “Ethnic Cleansing”.
The great difference, however, is that the Nazi Regime planned, developed and applied modern technology, for the expressed purpose of ELIMINATING peoples from the Earth, not only from one country.
Nevertheless, there are those whose Spirits are so innocent that they cannot believe that Human Beings could even imagine such horror.
We should not punish such souls. We can only pity them and – in some ways – admire their innocence.
Strangely, however, we have decided to punish them. We have even decided not to allow them to speak openly.
THIS IS A GREAT MISTAKE !
To forbid the questioning of the Holocaust and to forbid others from denying its reality will only drive the deniers underground. It will also lend a measure of “credence” to their misconceptions. Sadly, it will also serve the interests of the prejudiced sick minds who judge people according to their Race or Religion.
No, we must allow anyone to question anything !
Atheism has not stopped Organised Religion and the Flat Earth Society has not endangered the planet.
Anyone who sincerely attempts any research into the Shoah is bound to find out the Truth. It happened ! It might also happen again – lest we forget.
Let the so-called “Holocaust Deniers” do their research. They too will eventually come to recognize Reality. If they don’t, the facts themselves will eventually silence them.
Let those who refuse to face the facts walk in their own darkness – but let them walk freely !
Please read the following reports – and think again.
Paul V. Rafferty
U.N. OBSERVER & International Report
Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority
http://www.yadvashem.org
USC Shoah Foundation Institute
http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/vhi
Nuremberg Trials Project; A Digital Document Collection
http://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/php/docs_swi.php?DI=1&text=overview
The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/imt.htm
Nuremberg Trials
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/nuremberg.htm
A Look Back At Nuremberg
http://www.courttv.com/archive/casefiles/nuremberg
The Nuremberg Trials: Electronic Resources
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/law/e-nuremberg.doc
The fight against Holocaust denial
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4436275.stm
The Flat Earth Society
http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/Flatearthsociety.htm
Jail for German Holocaust denier
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6364951.stm
Shame on Germany!
Ernst Zundel sentenced to prison for 5 years for exercising free speech!
The German officials who have imprisoned a human being for speaking his political and historical opinions are the real criminals, not Ernst Zundel.
Shame on Germany! http://www.davidduke.com/general/shame-on-germany_1795.html
General Assembly adopts resolution condemning any denial of holocaust
United States Representative Says to Deny Events Of Holocaust Tantamount to Approval of Genocide in All Its Forms
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2007/ga10569.doc.htm
EU anti-hate law sparks debate on Nazi and Soviet crimes
http://euobserver.com/9/23515
No Room for Holocaust Denial in Germany
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,1833619,00.html
EU plans far-reaching 'genocide denial' law http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/02/weu02.xml
Germany wants Holocaust denial to be EU-wide crime
http://www.eubusiness.com/news_live/1168275602.74
Holocaust-denial law for Europe?
The European Commission on Friday backed the criminalization of Holocaust denial in the 27-member European Union.
http://www.jta.org/page_view_breaking_story.asp?intid=6610
Berlin Seeks Holocaust Denial Ban in EU
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1168265640711&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout
Iran challenges Europe to hand over Holocaust 'proof'
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070206/wl_mideast_afp/iranjewsisrael_070206131801
Bush to write letters against 'genocide resolution'
http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=42573