[lbo-talk] Re: freedom, double standards, etc.

[Leigh Meyers]

Jim Devine wrote:
> while Holocaust denial is morally wrong, intellectually stupid, etc.,
> should Germany jail people who embrace it? If Scott is asking that
> question, it's worth talking about (unless it's been discussed to
> death already). I don't see why he should be expelled from the list.
>
> On 2/4/06, Marvin Gandall <marvgandall at videotron.ca> wrote:
>   
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
>> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 7:36 PM
>> Subject: [lbo-talk] Re: freedom, double standards, etc.
>>
>>
>>     
>>> Frank Scott wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> they specificaly question the alleged numbers of dead , the alleged
>>>> methods of killing, and the alleged plan for extermination...for this they
>>>> are in the slam, and much of the allegedly free world is either totally
>>>> ignorant of them, or, totally unconcerned about their freedom to speak or
>>>>         
Expelled? That would be chilling.... Could I get kicked for saying that 
there's
no evidence that Saddam Hussein slaughtered 10s of thousands of Kurds?

I was jumped a few months back about that, and now USAToday reports:

USA TODAY  
Little links Saddam to bloody 1982 crackdown

BAGHDAD, (AP) — After four months and 26 witnesses, prosecutors in the 
Saddam Hussein trial have offered little credible testimony directly 
linking the former leader to the killings and torture for which he's 
charged.
[..]
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2006-02-04-saddam-trial_x.htm?csp=34

Hey DUDE, (that's you Doug), some people, my dad included, stopped 
buying Fords
and other U.S. made products that helped the german war effort... ITT, 
Dupont (IG Farben).

I could go on about who's responsible... and who lied about what...

or an EXACT body count (Western people LOVE body counts... Like harvest 
time - Vine Deloria)

...and who made the $$$ from the holocaust, the US (that's us) made out like
a bandit from the war in europe, and wrote the fairy tales too!

Jailing people who are ostensibly holocaust deniers or questioners IS an
attempt to suppress whatever TRUTH may come from it, and is reprehensible.

IMHO, suppressing the 'deniers' makes a replay MUCH more likely.

Leigh
www.leighm.net
http://leighmdotnet.blogspot.com/