tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21240636.post4541716868509668514..comments2024-02-03T08:32:18.692-08:00Comments on On the Contrary: Does anyone remember The Great Holocaust Trial?Michael Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09485741729327325322noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21240636.post-34606252694621768952011-04-27T15:25:07.149-07:002011-04-27T15:25:07.149-07:00You should perhaps think of releasing it as an ePu...You should perhaps think of releasing it as an ePub or some other e-book format (I would not choose Kindle, as Amazon might ban it); the costs of e-book production are low, there are no transportation or storage costs, and readers are moving more and more to electronic formats (this is especially true of avid readers who actually read and who are not just 'book-collection wankers').<br /><br />I have not bought a physical book for several years now. If an audiobook is available I get that; if not, an e-book.<br /><br />And be aware: if YOU don't produce an e-text of the book, someone else will. Far better for creators to generate e-texts themselves (many users will buy an e-text even if a pirate is available, if they feel that the work's authors are worth supporting). <br /><br />I'm someone whose personal experience at the hands of European Holocaust law went totally un-noticed, un-reported and so forth: I was put in a cage in France for <a href="http://www.marketmentat.com/markets/oz/ozrant-another-lurch-downwards/" rel="nofollow"><b>this blog post</b></a> about the imprisonment in Australia of Frederick Toben. That post resulted in an accusation of 'negationnisme et nti-semitisme'.<br /><br />It became clear during the 'investigation' that the case was motivated by bad faith on the part of the complainant (a 50-year old 3rd grade teacher who lives in Los Angeles). However while I was in the cells, my passport was mysteriously <i>lost</i> and thus being 'sans papiers' I was thus deemed to be in France illegally. Had it not been abundantly clear that the post in question was all about freedom of expression, I would also have been in a longer-term cage.<br /><br />Anyway... think about providing an e-text. I would download and pay for it just to annoy the 'correct line' ideologues who think they have the right to try to control what we think, say, write or read.Kratoklasteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08656600074436057305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21240636.post-8072432459372001312011-04-26T16:06:45.865-07:002011-04-26T16:06:45.865-07:00Personally, I don't think it's revisionist...Personally, I don't think it's revisionists that the West needs, rather what it needs is critical-thinking ability. That, I think, was the message of Professor Butz's tome. Even some sense of proportion would be a great start. Even some sense would be. <br /><br />Seriously, why revise a mess of fantastical rubbish? If people can't see it's rubbish, they have some bigger problems than holding one incorrect belief or group of beliefs. They're not being <i>made</i> fools, they <i>are</i> fools. Maybe we should take steps to preserve that heap of rubbish before the industry gets its act together. It only really started with full force in the 90s, right? If I were Elie Wiesel, I would be planning a revised edition of "Night". You know, something that doesn't mention his decision (literally, free choice given to him by the Nazis) to join the Auschwitz staff in its retreat before the advancing Soviets. Or the medical care given to his father. Or the geysers of blood. Or...<br /><br />Ultimately, it's for the German historians to write the history of their own country as accurately as they can. The problem is that the laws of the country don't allow that. Someone might say the U.S. has that freedom yet hasn't put it to much use. True. But one can't expect the court historians there to help an enemy out of its prison. The Holocaust is, among other things, meant to keep Germany down. If the U.S. could keep Russia and China down through similar devious means it would. It can, in Germany's case, and so does. I believe that as long as Germany has to bow to the U.S. or the U.K., it won't be able to even change its own laws. In point of fact, Germany didn't even make those restrictive laws - they were imposed on it by the victorious Allies.<br /><br />I think there's an important point here, not just an excuse: until the U.S. empire falls, until Germany changes its laws regarding Holocaust denial, nothing will be done to correct the official account. (And it's the official account that matters to the vast majority of people, not what someone writes in a heretical work.)<br /><br />Finally, while I'm aware that revisionists have had an effect, I think the effect has been mostly increased propaganda effort by the priests of Holocaustianity, and a slightly less ridiculous doctrine. I think that's as far as revisionists will get without the above mentioned changes. It's why I don't, personally, spend time in educating myself or others about the Holocaust anymore. It's not exactly rocket science anyway, as I've been saying. I don't think anyone will have to fear that the Holocaust will ever have more than social proof on its side.V. Aishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18419896377130115918noreply@blogger.com