Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke turned up among the speakers Monday at the first day of an Iranian-sponsored conference of Holocaust deniers in Tehran, praising Iran and acting as if denying that 6 million Jews were killed in World War II was a matter of opinion: “There must be freedom of speech. It is scandalous that the Holocaust cannot be discussed freely. It makes people turn a blind eye to Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people.”
Talk about turning a blind eye to crimes.
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I don’t care what people believe in or care to say and print. I always default to freedom, and with that comes Freedom of Speech.
I know this was more of a show for that radical leftist, Ahmadinejad. But if they want to deny the Holocaust, then that’s fine with me.
I don’t know how true this is, but I remember hearing somebody on NPR saying that in some European Countries, especially Germany, it’s against the law to speak about Holocaust denial. I think that’s wrong. But that’s on them.
On a true scholarly standpoint, there is still much to learn about the Holocaust. Supposely thousands of documents just showed up from Poland and we are finding more information about it all the time. It’s still not a finished story. There is however, still a legitmate debate on the exact numbers who were killed. I’ve seen numbers as low as 1 million to as high as 12 million.
Evidence from Europe are overwhelming that the Holocaust DID happen. Radical rightists Ahmanajad and Duke (R-LA) can claim otherwise all they want.
I agree with Joe, freedom of speech trumps. Interestingly I read about demonstrations in Tehran against the “conference”
60 million died in WWll. Are the other 54 million not worth recognition? Should we feel no sympathy for them?
There are lines of white crosses across Europe. Nobody is asking money for the 54 million.
“It makes people turn a blind eye to Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people.”
Sounds like some on this blog.At least you’ve got David Duke in your camp. Good for you.
You would think that when this many people disappear, even a pin-headed twit like Iran’s President could figure out that something bad happened!I can’t believe anyone is that much an ostrich not to see something this obvious.
Obviously I’m wrong, again!
Some on this blog would have us sit down with this pin-headed twit.
Are you volunteering?
If you believe polls, so would a strong majority of the U.S. population:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061212/pl_nm/iraq_usa_poll_dc_3
But… when you’re an empire, constituents don’t matter…
I believe in free speech, I also believe the Holacaust did happen.
But as far as Israel/Palestine, BOTH sides are guilty.
But it’s interesting they are talking free speech in Iran.Try “free speech” from your new testament in that country.They are throwing that around for convenience which is wrong.
Not news.
Idiots will always be with us–prime example: scientology.
I never said we should sit down with Ahmanahenajid-ditty; I have said, and still do say that Iran will be a modern, democratic nation in 10 years or so and a positive force for the U.S. once the Theocracy tumbles (and it will).
If the crackpipes in Iran (and apparently some here in the US..*cough* David Duke) want to suggest that the millions and millions of corpses of Jews, Russians, Hungarians, Austrians, Germans, French, etc. etc. were figments of our collective imagination, let them.
They only come across looking more and more foolish.
A-Ditty’s only goal is to convince enough people in the Middle East that Israel has no legitimate purpose so they can start another war against them.
To quote an “ancient” proverb – “Who’s the more foolish? The fool or the fool who follows him?”
Don’t worry about these crackpipes; worry about the people who start to BELIEVE the crap they’re shoveling.
~Dubyahttp://wichitavoice.com
Capn – That’s right because I’m sure you can prove YOUR beliefs are more reasonable than theirs…
~Dubyahttp://wichitavoice.com
Is this anything like the Star Trek convention?
No rox. Star Trek fans are intelligent.
HAHAHAHHAYeah, Trekers speak Klingon !!!!
Freedom of speech is one thing…
Hosting the event?
And these are the people we are supposed to be dealing with to help Iraq…
Actually Ben! David Duke was a long time registared and ran as a Democrat.
Joe Williams! – yes he was, back in the old Dixiecrat days. But when the Boll Weavels went over to the new GOP he became a leader in the new ‘improved’ Republican Party.
That is why I grew up as a Republican in the South back then – the Souther Dems were the party of Wallace, Thurmone, etc. Many of them have subsequently become the core of today’s GOP.
more on Dixiecrats post 1948 to the 90s …
“Subsequent electionsThe States’ Rights Democratic Party dissolved after the 1948 election.
Regardless of the power struggle within the Democratic Party concerning segregation policy, the South remained a strongly Democratic voting block for local, state, and federal Congressional elections. This was not true of Presidential elections.
In 1960, Democratic electors in Alabama and Mississippi appeared on the ballot as “unpledged electors” instead of as electors pledged to Democratic nominee John F. Kennedy. All 8 of Mississippi’s electors, 6 of Alabama’s 11 electors, and one stray elector from Oklahoma (a state carried by Richard Nixon) cast their votes for Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia. Alabama’s remaining 5 electors voted for Kennedy.
In 1968, Alabama’s Democratic governor George C. Wallace ran for President on the American Independent Party ticket, and swept the electoral votes of the Deep South. The American Independent Party failed to keep its foothold in the South, as its 1972 candidate was John G. Schmitz, a John Bircher from California whose strongest showing in the 1972 election was 10% in Idaho, but did poorly in the South. Subsequent southern Dixiecrats running on the American Independent Party ticket included Lester Maddox and John Rarick but these campaigns did not fare so well either.
In the 1960s, the courting of white Southern Democratic voters was the basis of the “southern strategy” of the Republican Party’s Presidential Campaigns. Republican Presidential Candidate Barry Goldwater carried the Deep South in 1964, despite losing in a landslide in the rest of the nation to President Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas. Johnson surmised that his advocacy behind passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would lose the South for the Democratic party and it did. When the Democrats pushed for civil rights, the Republicans reaped the political benefits of a Southern white backlash. The only Democratic presidential candidate after 1956 to solidly carry the Deep South was President Jimmy Carter in the 1976 election.
Senator Strom Thurmond switched parties and became a Republican as a result of his support for the Barry Goldwater campaign in 1964. Former Democrat Jesse Helms also switched his party registration to Republican in 1970 and won a Senate seat in North Carolina in 1972. Phil Gramm of Texas, at the time a member of the House of Representatives, switched his party registration from Democrat to Republican in 1983. Several other Southern senators, such as Richard Russell, Jr. of Georgia and James Eastland and John Stennis of Mississippi remained in the Democratic Party and went on to become prominent senators who served multiple terms in the service of their respective states. These long careers in the Senate elevated their seniority and put them in positions of power and prestige.
Into the twenty-first century, the South has changed from a Democratic monolith to a majority Republican sector of the country with GOP gains in state legislatures. This change, which became quite evident in 1972 with the electoral success of Richard Nixon’s “Southern Strategy”, peaked with the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, and was consolidated in 1994 when Republicans gained a majority in the House of Representatives under the leadership of Newt Gingrich.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixiecrat
Maybe Ian attended, that’s why he’s been on hyatus. Im sure he’ll be back to teach us coconuts the Truth.
My father-in-law helped liberate the concentration camps and I know a woman who lost her entire family and still has the tatoo on her arm. I can guarantee that walking through the Holocaust Museum is a life changing experience. Anyone or any country trying to minimize or deny the Holocaust has a totally different agenda than trying to uncover the truth.
Mary, I am with you. My mother was in Europe; we also knew survivors. The holocaust was far too real.
I have a friend who grew up in East Berlin, she talked about how when the war was over, her parents were paraded through the nearby concentration camp. She said it was so horrifying and that the locals in village had no idea what was going on in them until after the war. She said they would often see the smoke coming from the camp, but had no idea that they were burning bodies.She said things were really hard after the war, but it was really hell growing up behind the wall.We tend to forget that many non-jewish Germans were victims also.
What a bunch of maroons! PT barnum was way too optimistic! lmossao
Viva La Raza Blanco!!