What Is Behind The Tide Of Historians Being Arrested?

From another user's blog, very thought provoking.

What Is Behind The Tide Of Historians Being Arrested?

It’s been another long while since I’ve had any time to write, but I sure have been observing and thinking. One thing I have observed is that strange dosie-do down in Israel where Sharon gave with one hand - Gaza - and took with the other - Jerusalem.

This whole Jewish homeland thing really gets me. They claim that Palestine is theirs because “God gave it to them.” Actually, that is not exactly the case. They are the only people on Earth that god SOLD real estate to for some bloody pieces of flesh they have to cut off their privates. If I were them, I’d keep my privates and give Palestine back to the Palestinians.

Anyway, there was Israel making a big show of giving Gaza back to the Palestinians - in a lot worse shape than it was in when they stole it - and sneaking into Jerusalem like thieves in the night.

MEANWHILE, David Irving gets arrested for “Holocaust Denial.”

That just boggles my brain.

I mean, let’s just try to wrap our heads around this one.

First of all, there the International Red Cross had access to the German camps, both POW and labor, and their official report very much contradicts the textus receptus about the Holocaust. Second, the curators of the Auschwitz revised downward the total number of dead at the camps from 4 million to1 1/2 million in 1990.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I think that the Nazis really WERE after the Jews. There’s no doubt in my mind about that. They just weren’t killing them the way we have been told. I don’t see that there’s a big issue here. I think it is just as heinous for the Nazis to herd all those people into camps where they had poor nutrition, were put into forced labor, and other ill-treatment which led to their deaths by any number of reasons. What’s more, I DO think that many of them were quite simply exterminated. But I also think, based on all the reading I’ve done, that the Nazis were doing that to a LOT of people, including the Poles!

Anyway, taking note of the Red Cross report and the revision of the numbers at Auschwitz suggests that there is a real problem with the Holocaust history and it is very odd, in my mind, that a law can be passed making it illegal to NOT believe something. Hell’s bells! What’s next? A law against NOT believing in Yahweh?

A lot of people have a lot of different ideas and research should be open and subjected to FAIR and RATIONAL review. If you take a look at the matters investigated by these historians, you find that they really have a point!

For example: Ernst Zundel. He was born in 1939, in Germany, he immigrated to Canada at the age of 19, and started a career as a graphic artist. In the 1980’s, he published a book called “Did Six Million Really Die?“which asked some serious questions about the prestidigitaion of facts about the Jewish version of the Holocaust.

And that reminds me: even if 6 million DID die, that was only one tenth of the total number of deaths of people in World War II. How come we don’t hear about the Russian Holocaust? The FORTY to SIXTY MILLION people killed by Stalin and his gang???

What I mean here is this: there is NO escaping the horror of that time. It was horrible beyond imagining. And I don’t even want to quibble over whether it was 6 million or 4 million or 2 million Jews that died in the Global Holocaust that was WW II. What I DO find extremely offensive is that a law can be passed to make it a doctrine. That amounts to legally mandating what a person must BELIEVE.

Now, believe it or not, there are still people that believe that the earth is Hollow and that there is a whole population of people living inside even with their own “sun.” How weird is that? There are MILLIONS of people who believe that they get abducted by aliens almost every night. (Maybe that’s not so weird, IMHO.)

So, the point is: nobody has made it a legal mandate that people must stop believing that the earth is hollow or that people must stop believing in aliens.

Okay, I acknowledge that it’s not quite the same thing. We are talking about the difference between beliefs about things that aren’t related to a horrible human tragedy. and those that are about this unspeakably dark period in our history. But the essence of the issue is the same nevertheless. If somebody believes that the earth is hollow, he is allowed to say so, to publish books about it, to try to sell those books to other people, to have his ideas examined and scrutinized. People may laugh at him and call him a kook because, obviously, he isn’t going to have any serious evidence.

And maybe that’s the difference. Maybe that’s why they have to legally mandate belief in the Holocaust - because the evidence shows otherwise.

In 1985, Canada charged Ernst Zundel with “publishing false news”. He brought in gas chamber experts, other historians, and also cross-examined a number of Jewish survivors, who fell apart under oath.

He moved from Canada to the United States, where he was arrested in 2002, deported to Canada, and finally to Germany in 2005.

Then, there is Germar Rudolf. He is a German-trained chemist, who re-examined Auschwitz, Birkenau, and other installations and buildings, testing rocks, soil, and other physical samples for traces of Zyklon B. As a scientist, he found the “gassing” claims to be scientifically untenable and, therefore, absurd. He was sentenced by Germany to 14 months, and then fled to the US. He was arrested on November 18, 2005 in Chicago, and extradited to Germany.

So, that’s TWO, so far, in 2005.

It gets even weirder.

David Irving is a 65 year-old guy, a Brit, an author and historian, who has written 36 books, and is a recognized authority on Hitler and World War II. Although he skirted around the Holocaust and concentrated on the WW2 battles, he testified at Zundel’s trial. He was arrested in Vienna, Austria just a couple of weeks ago on November 14, 2005.

Thats THREE in 2005.

What is UP with that?

It gets stranger still: Siegfried Verbeke was charged with denying the holocaust, and questioning the Anne Frank fable. He is an historian and, publisher involved with Castle Hill Publishers who say that it is their goal to “scientifically investigate historical events, particularly those of the 20th century, without limitations imposed by dogmas or axioms.”

He was arrested in August of 2005 in Amsterdam. On October 6th, the Netherlands agreed to extradite him to Germany, where he faces 14 months in prison.

Now, either I’m losing my marbles, or something serious is up with all of this coming down in a single year.

Anyway, while I was reading up on Siegfried, I came across something that really startled me: the idea that the Diary of Anne Frank - that famous book that about every American school kid has read - is a fraud!

Yup, a hoax perpetrated by her father who was a psychopathic philanderer, a collaborator with the Nazis, and was probably even engaged in pedophilia with his own daughter, Anne.

Now, don’t take my word for this: READ IT YOURSELF! And especially check out the handwriting issues.

So, the strangest thing of all is that, as a result of the arrest of FOUR HISTORIANS in the same year, I got curious and started to read what it was they were writing and saying, and darned if they don’t have some serious evidence that the Holocaust - as it is presented and promoted: a uniquely Jewish tragedy - is a FRAUD.

You’d think that whoever was behind this law would figure those kinds of things out! It would be far more effective to just use ridicule or “unseen” pressures to silence people like Zundel, Irving, Verbeke and Rudolf. I think that the Powers That Be do that kind of thing all the time. I mean, look at what happened to Karen Silkwood? She was just going to rat on safety violations at a Nuke plant.

So, nope. I think there is something even more insidious to this business of arresting so-called “Holocaust Deniers.” I think it is a subtle ploy on the part of somebody to draw attention to their work and the only result of that will be to turn more and more people against Jews.

Either that, or whoever is behind this action is stupider than I thought.

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Israel and the Neocons

Israel and the Neocons
JAMES PETRAS CounterPunch November 3, 2005

The national debate, which the indictment of Irving Lewis Libby for perjury and obstruction of justice has aroused in the mass media, has failed to address the most basic questions concerning the deep structural context, which influenced his felonious behavior. The most superficial explanation was that Libby, by exposing Valerie Plame (a CIA employee), acted out of revenge to punish her husband Wilson for exposing the lies put forth by Bush about Iraq's "importation" of uranium from Niger. Other journalists claim that Libby acted to cover up the fabrications to go to war. The assertion however raises a deeper question -- who were the fabricators of war propaganda, who was Libby protecting? And not only the "fabricators of war", but the strategic planners, speech-makers and architects of war who acted hand in hand with the propagandists and the journalists who disseminated the propaganda? What is the link between all these high- level functionaries, propagandists and journalists?

Equally important given the positions of power which this cabal occupied, and the influence they exercised in the mass media as well as in designing strategic policy, what forces were engaged in bringing criminal charges against a key operative of the cabal?[...]

The prosecution of Libby however reveals the intense internal struggle over the control of the US imperial state between the neocons and the traditional leaders of its major institutions. Along with the indictment of Libby by a grand jury at the request of the special prosecutor, the FBI has arrested the two leading policy makers of the most influential pro-Israeli lobby (AIPAC) for spying for the State of Israel. These are not simply isolated actions by individual officials or investigators. To have proceeded against Libby and AIPAC leaders , they had to have powerful institutional backing; otherwise the investigations would have been terminated even before they began.

The CIA is deeply offended by the neocon usurpation of their intelligence role, their direct channels to the President, their loyalty to Israel. The military is extremely angry at their exclusion from the councils of government over questions of war, the disastrous war policy which have depleted the armed forces of recruits, devastated troop morale, and the neocons' grotesque ignorance of the costs of a colonial occupation. It is no wonder that General Tommy Frank referred to Douglas Feith as "the stupidest bastard I have ever met."

The current institutional war recalls an earlier conflict between the rightwing Senator Joseph McCarthy and the Defense Department. At the time during the mid 1950's, Senator McCarty was accumulating power first by purging trade unions, Hollywood, the universities, and promoting likeminded conservative officials. He successfully extended his investigations and purges to the State Department and finally tried to do the same to the military. It was here that Senator McCarthy met his Waterloo, his attack backfired, the Army stood its ground, refuted his accusations and discredited his fabrications and grab for power.[...]

Comment: While the theory that the military and/or the CIA are standing their ground and not "taking it" from the Bush gang and the NeoCons anymore is a plausible one, it occurrs to us that it may involve more than a little wishful thinking and, dare we say it, desperation. After all, the top brass of the military were up to their eyeballs in the 9/11 event, and the CIA would appear to have been effectively neutered. To fully understand the Plame scandal and the movitations for it and just who Libby (and soon Rove) may have taken a fall for, we have to understand the real nature of the 9/11 attacks.

A careful look at the evidence of the events of that day, and the course of American politics over the 50 years that preceeded it, point us in one main direction: Israel.

Israel was the prime motivator for the 9/11 attacks and, as such, they were, and are the main beneficiaries of the attacks. Those benefits include, it would seem, total control over the Bush government. The nature of that control the and the way in which it is being exerted, are detailed in Laura Knight-Jadczyks ground-breaking book on the 9/11 attacks - "9/11: The Ultimate Truth".

It is very possible then that Libby's fall was indeed to make a scapegoat of him in order to protect the real Iraq war planners, but neither the CIA nor the military weild the required influence to bring these charges against key members of the Bush administration. We are all familiar with the classic double cross, where useful idiots are dispensed with once they have served their purpose. It is our view that we are witnessing a more insidious version of this classic double cross in the outting of Valerie Plame which has led to the fall of Libby and ultimately, the likely fizzling out of the Bush regime.

It would be entirely in keeping with the modus operandi of the group of which we speak to develop and implement a plot in which the entire world becomes convinced that one of the real conspirators is the victim. It is our contention that neither Valerie Plame nor her husband were the victims in this little episode, quite the opposite in fact, but then, in the murky world of global politics, where entire nations are but pawns on the chess board and Palestinian children are murdered as "terrorists", nothing is ever as it seems.
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US poor set to lose food stamps

With more than 38 million Americans too poor to buy adequate food, the US Congress has begun to take away the food stamps many of them receive.

The Republican majority on the House Agriculture Committee has approved budget cuts that will take "food stamps" away from an estimated 300,000 people and could cut off school lunches and breakfasts for 40,000 children.

The action came as the US Government reported that the number of people who are hungry because they can't afford to buy enough food rose to 38.2 million in 2004, an increase of seven million in five years.

The number represents nearly 12 per cent of US households.

Food stamps are coupons distributed to low-income people and redeemable at grocery stories for food.

The cuts, approved by the Republican-controlled committee on a party-line vote, are part of an effort by Republicans to curb federal spending by $US50 billion ($65.7 billion).
The food and agriculture cuts would reduce spending by $US3.7 billion, including $US844 million on nutrition, $US760 million on conservation and $US212 million on payments to US farmers.

The $US574 million reduction in food stamp spending is estimated to shut up to 300,000 people out of the program. [...]

The White House proposed the restriction earlier this year. [...]
Comment: Meanwhile, US senators shot down a proposal to increase the minimum wage:

Rich Senators Defeat Minimum-Wage Hike
Congressional Pay Rises While Minimum Stays Same
Helen ThomasHearst White House columnist6:12 pm EDT October 26, 2005
U.S. senators -- who draw salaries of $162,100 a year and enjoy a raft of perks -- have rejected a minimum wage hike from $5.15 an hour to $6.25 for blue-collar workers.

Can you believe it?

The proposed increase was sponsored by Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and turned down in the Senate by a vote of 51 against the boost and 49 in favor. Under a Senate agreement, it needed 60 votes to pass.

All the Democrats voted for the wage boost. All the negative votes were cast by Republicans.
Four Republicans voted for it. Three of the four are running for reelection and were probably worried about how voters would react if they knew that their well-heeled senators had turned down a pittance of an increase in the salaries of the lowest paid workers in the country.
The minimum wage was last increased in 1997.

Kennedy called the vote "absolutely unconscionable." [...]

The Senate also killed an amendment proposed by Sen. Michael Enzi, R-Wyo., which also would have increased the minimum wage by $1.10 but included drastic measures such as wiping out the 40-hour work week, cutting overtime pay and weakening job safety and health protection. [...]

The Senate's action comes at a worrisome time when motorists are paying much more for gasoline and heating bills are expected to rise by 56 percent this winter, according to Kennedy. [...]

"It is shameful that in America today, the richest and most powerful nation on earth, nearly a fifth of all children go to bed hungry at night because their parents, many of whom are working full time at the minimum wage, still can't make ends meet," Kennedy said. [...]
Comment: Yes indeed, it's all about compassionate conservatism. Take, for example, Bush's speech on Social Security earlier this year, where he fielded questions from the (planted) audience.
Mary is with us. Mary Mornin. How are you, Mary?
MS. MORNIN: I'm fine.
THE PRESIDENT: Good. Okay, Mary, tell us about yourself.
MS. MORNIN: Okay, I'm a divorced, single mother with three grown, adult children. I have one child, Robbie, who is mentally challenged, and I have two daughters.
THE PRESIDENT: Fantastic. First of all, you've got the hardest job in America, being a single mom.
MS. MORNIN: Thank you. (Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: You and I are baby boomers.
MS. MORNIN: Yes, and I am concerned about -- that the system stays the same for me.
THE PRESIDENT: Right.
MS. MORNIN: But I do want to see change and reform for my children because I realize that we will be in trouble down the road.
THE PRESIDENT: It's an interesting point, and I hear this a lot -- will the system be the same for me? And the answer is, absolutely. One of the things we have to continue to clarify to people who have retired or near retirement -- you fall in the near retirement.
MS. MORNIN: Yes, unfortunately, yes. (Laughter.)
THE PRESIDENT: Well, I don't know. I'm not going to tell your age, but you're one year younger than me, and I'm just getting started. (Laughter.)
MS. MORNIN: Okay, okay.
THE PRESIDENT: I feel great, don't you?
MS. MORNIN: Yes, I do.
THE PRESIDENT: I remember when I turned 50, I used to think 50 was really old. Now I think it's young, and getting ready to turn 60 here in a couple of years, and I still feel young. I mean, we are living longer, and people are working longer, and the truth of the matter is, elderly baby boomers have got a lot to offer to our society, and we shouldn't think about giving up our responsibilities in society. (Applause.) Isn't that right?
MS. MORNIN: That's right.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes, but nevertheless, there's a certain comfort to know that the promises made will be kept by the government.
MS. MORNIN: Yes.
THE PRESIDENT: And so thank you for asking that. You don't have to worry.
MS. MORNIN: That's good, because I work three jobs and I feel like I contribute.
THE PRESIDENT: You work three jobs?
MS. MORNIN: Three jobs, yes.
THE PRESIDENT: Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that. (Applause.) Get any sleep? (Laughter.)
MS. MORNIN: Not much. Not much.
Even with scripted questions, Bush couldn't avoid exposing his complete and utter lack of understanding or empathy for the plight of another human being. With a President like this, who needs "evil terrorists".
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