FREEDOM: LOST BY ONE, LOST BY ALL
By Harmony Grant
14 Oct 08
A Belgian woman confessed earlier this year that her Holocaust
memoir was a fake. Her book had been translated into 18 languages.
It was a feature film in France. But it turns out she never lived
among wolves to avoid the Nazis, walked across Europe, or saved
a German soldier. She isn’t even Jewish.
Of course, she wasn’t imprisoned for this. But others who allegedly
lie about the Holocaust—“Holocaust deniers” like
Ernst Zundel and now Dr. Fredrick Toben—are deported to Germany
for prison time. It’s a classic and frightening case of allowing
some words—some “lies”—while criminalizing
others. And it is a powerful demonstration of who holds political
power in the west.
Here’s another case. Last August, the Anti-Defamation League—a
Jewish organization committed to “civil rights”—got
in a little controversy for refusing to recognize the genocide of
1.5 million Armenian Christians from 1915 to 1923. ADL
even fired a regional director for disagreeing with its non-recognition
of the genocide.
When ADL's national director, Abe Foxman, finally
admitted it was
genocide, he still said there shouldn’t be a Congressional
resolution to recognize it.
Obviously, Foxman isn’t in prison for minimizing the Christians’ holocaust.
In Washington DC, we have a national Holocaust Museum to remember
the Nazis’ alleged, systematic murder of six million Jews.
You can visit Holocaust museums in Dallas, Florida, Detroit, Houston,
and Virginia. Memorials were built in Tennessee, Boston, Miami Beach,
Pennsylvania and Portland—to name a few. Wikipedia’s
list of international Holocaust films takes a while to scroll through.
I counted 298; I could be wrong, it was too long to count twice.
I couldn’t bring myself to count books.
Yet, while the Jewish Holocaust is memorialized and remembered,
and used as blackmail for support of Israel—other genocides
go barely discussed. Other genocides are comparatively minimized:
Russia, China, Cambodia, Rwanda, Sudan, etc. It's okay to debate
other areas of human history endlessly. But the Jewish "Holocaust" is
untouchable. Why? It is because so many films and books and memorials
and museums have been created to galvanize human emotion and Gentile
guilt. They falsely scream to us that Jews have uniquely suffered
far above the rest of humanity.
Even so, it’s amazing that it’s considered okay—even
laudable—to imprison someone for questioning historical narratives.
Yet that’s happening! Academic “Holocaust deniers” don’t
lynch Jewish people. They don’t torch synagogues. They don’t
even throw rocks through windows. They sit in offices, plough through
archaic research and then they write books. They express ideas. And
then…they are sent to Germany to go to prison—sent by
Western nations! It’s shocking and scary. If Dr. Toben and
others can lose their freedom for questioning the Jewish Holocaust—what
other questions will soon become illegal? What other thoughts will
soon be unspeakable?
In the Jewish Chronicle, Anshel Pfeffer says denying the Holocaust
is as ridiculous as saying the earth is flat. Yet, he says, “Any
limit on freedom of speech is wrong and almost always achieves the
opposite to that which it is aiming for. But in the case of Holocaust-deniers,
sticking them in prison is an especially bad idea.”
Pfeffer thinks jailing men like Dr. Toben is a bad idea because it
turns possibly evil, definitely marginal crazies into martyrs for
free speech. Instead of criminalizing them, “We must fight
them in the open, gladiatorial arena of public opinion.” Bravo.
Sort of.
Pfeffer’s arguments would be a lot stronger if he got off
his elitist horse—from which he and his haughty audience get
to make judgment calls about whose opinions are despicable—and
realized his own vulnerability before the law. Once a hate speech
law is used to prosecute a person’s beliefs, no one else’s
beliefs are safe. Opinions that rule today may be considered fringe
tomorrow, and what will happen to those who hold them?
People with insane or evil beliefs shouldn’t be allowed freedom
merely so we can better attack their ideas, or keep them from gaining
glory or notoriety. People with insane or evil beliefs should be
allowed freedom so that the rest of us can also keep our freedom.
HERE’S WHAT YOU CAN DO!
Dr. Toben's deportation hearing is this Friday, Oct. 17th.
Call
the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) which arrested Toben: 011 44
20 7796 8500
Call the three largest parties in Parliament:
Labour Party: 011 44 87 0590 0200
Conservative Party: 011 44 20 7222 9000
Liberal Democrat Party: 011 44 20 7222 7999
Tell them: "Please free Dr. Frederic Toben
from arrest and extradition for the 'thought crime' of questioning
the methods and numbers of the Holocaust."
Or, come here at Truthtellers.org and
email or fax our longer message to political leaders in England.
Note: All phone numbers listed as for USA callers, if calling from
another country use your country’s international calling prefix
instead of “011”.
Harmony Grant writes and edits for National Prayer Network, a Christian/conservative
watchdog group.
Let the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith teach you how they
have saddled 45 states with hate laws capable of persecuting Christians: http://www.adl.org/99hatecrime/intro.asp.
Learn how ADL took away free speech in Canada and wants to steal
it now in the U.S. Congress. Watch Rev. Ted Pike's Hate
Laws: Making Criminals of Christians at video.google.com.
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