June 15, 1997

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

From Stockholm comes the news that the good Prime Minister of Sweden, horrified about a survey telling him that nearly 30 percent of Swedish pupils have doubts about the Holocaust, has promised he will speed up the brainwash cycles in Sweden's public schools.

This survey, conducted by Stockholm University and the Crime Prevention Council, surveyed nearly 8,000 pupils, age 12 to 18, in schools across Sweden.

Only 70.8 percent of the respondents said they were convinced the Holocaust occurred. Almost thirty percent had their doubts.

As expected, the response was politically correct to the comma, right out of prime ministerial quarters. Moans Prime Minister Goeran Persson:

"Have we told our children, have we sufficiently, strongly made it clear that this must never happen again?''

This fall, Persson plans to have the government offer educational materials about the Holocaust to all households with school-age children. It is said, according to a Reuters wire, that this idea ". . . met some skepticism in parliament."

Here at the Zundelsite an amazing number of letters come in from high school and even junior high school kids, asking what we are up to. Some of these letters are hilarious. Here are two, poor grammar and all, to brighten or sadden your Sunday, depending on your point of view.

The first one spoke sternly, giving an order:

"Dear Mr. Zundel,

"I am a student at a high school and for my hisory exam I
need to write an essay on a topic of my choice.

"I chose the one about you and if I feel you should be jailed for you actions toards the jews and your novels about the holocaust.

"I can't very well do my essay without your opinion and why you print novels that deny the holocaust.

"I have not read any of your novels and I have not nearly enough time to research them. That is why I am writing to you.

"I would like your opinions and reasons for your hatred towards Jews so that I may better understand your point of veiw and base my essay fair to you, and not predjudise you, that would be unfair to you and me.

"I would appreciate if I could hear from you. Thank you for your time and patience."

The second wailed:

"Why are you writing all of these letters? Isn't it bad enough that so many people suffered, that now you also says that nothing like that ever happened?

"I am from Israel, and I am 15. I wasn't in Europe and I didn't see what happened there, but I saw people that survived all of these horrors, and pictures and documents, and I believe them.

"This week was the memorial day, and this year it was full of stories about articles and people that says that the holocaust never happened.

"Some of these articles were vrey stupid ones and full of different parts of the trooth, like an article that says that a scientists checked samples of gaz chamber's wall and wrote that there was no gaz in there, but he forgot to write that these chamber was reconstructed.

"What I wants to say, is that even a 15 years old like me can see that the denial is wrong. I don't know what are your reasons to write these articles and internet sites, and I can't prove you that you are not right, but I can tell you that my opinion is that you are wrong and that you hurting too many people that doesn't diserve it."

Well, what's there to say? Isn't that the story of our era, right out of the mouths of our babes?

More than two millenia ago, Aristotle observed that ". . . all who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth."

In our lifetime John F. Kennedy has said that a child miseducated is a child lost.

It will be a glorious day indeed when a parent will start a petition against the public school brain laundromats.

Ingrid

Thought for the Day:

"Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?"

(Ronald Reagan)

Comments? E-Mail: irimland@cts.com

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