JANUARY
4, 2007 --
Have a hunch,
if you hadn't called that Holocaust Conference, people really
would have gotten to forgetting that horrific example of man's
inhumanity to man.
Certainly the discontinued Yahoo message boards signaled that lots of people
in the U.S. preferred to deny the Holocaust.
Not that such denial should be a criminal offense. Without free speech, how would
we know about such topsy-turvy anti-Semitism?
So thank you Mr. President of Iran for helping warn us that society continues
to be afflicted with the virus of anti-Semitism.
One suggestion, on a different matter. if you want to sound less shrill in your
denunciations of President Bush -- just quote what the domestic adversaries of
President Bush say about him.
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And to point to our
shortcomings you might simply cite domestic observations on corruption
in local, state, and federal government.
But if you do, you should also point out that in the US, critics tend not to
get whacked, as seems to happen to critics of
the current former Soviet Union.
And if you really wanted to be persuasive, you might suggest that America return
to the wisdom of the Founding Fathers, by reference to the guidance in the Declaration
of Independence, the
Preamble to the Constitution, The Federalist Papers, and Washington's 1790 letter
to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport (RI) stating, in pertinent part "The
Government of the United States ..." gives
to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no
assistance...."
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