Today I have two pieces of rather important news. The first is the widely beloved "Collins Column", now on-line at <http://www.freedomsite.org/> The second comes from Ahmed Rami, who runs the Swedish Revisionist website called Radio Islam. <http://abbc.com/islam/>
First Mr. Collins of British Columbia, Canada:
The Hate Industry has lost one. You might not think so from reading the mainstream media, but it is so.
After wasting two years of public money on peering into whether Bernard Klatt of Oliver had been spreading "hatred" as an Internet server, the guardians of our political morality have decided they had nothing on him.
"We consulted with the experts in the industry, both public and private, to ensure we had exhausted every possible avenue," said the appropriately named Corporal Grant Learned of the RCMP in announcing that the cops and Klatt's Jewish accusers had scored no goals.
Sol Littman of the "Nazi-hunting" Simon Wiesenthal Centre was the one who started this caper. In 1998 he captured the hearts and minds of the media by claiming that Oliver was "the hate capital of Canada".
Littman has made many other excursions into falsehood. In 1984 he claimed that Dr. Josef Mengele, he of Auschwitz, had applied to come to Canada as a landed immigrant and might have arrived.
That piece of fiction led to the Deschene Commission on war criminals that cost millions, plus a useless and even more costly hunt for them. But a government that can waste a billion bucks in handing out grants to friends and phonies would never worry about such small stuff. It is more interested in pleasing the pressure group paradiddlers.
Threatened with a lawsuit, Littman withdrew his statement while claiming in a kind of conjuring trick that he had never said it. The guy makes more claims than were made during the Klondike gold rush.
Hot on the hate trail, the media went into a feeding frenzy when it was known that Klatt was organizing a "hands off the Internet" meeting in Oliver community hall. Paul Fromm of the Canadian Association for Free Expression and I agreed to speak in defence of Klatt's rights. I had never seen any of the material Littman was bitching about but I recognize a censor when I see one.
"Oliver awaits the hate," was the Vancouver Sun's headline. Much the same garbage was carried in the public prints in Oliver and the rest of the Okanagan. Mayor Linda Larson and her council got the shakes and cancelled Klatt's meeting room.
Whereupon we extremists decided that the event would be held on the city hall steps.
More press fever.
"Racists challenge the decent people of Oliver," was the fatuous editorial headline in the Sun. "B.C. town gives the boot to far right," gloated the Globe.
The cops were there in force. So were the commies and their liberal accomplices. Meanwhile, members of the wayward media almost outnumbered our modest gathering - modest because a lot of people who intended to come either thought the meeting had been cancelled or were scared off.
I spoke for 25 minutes, giving a review of the attacks on free speech in this happy land of ours. Paul Fromm spoke on the same theme. Dangerous stuff!
Predictably, not a word of what we had to say in our speeches was reported, and if any public person had anything to say in favor of free expression it must have been lost in cyberspace.
In these enlightened times, you see, "free speech" equals hate speech. That's why the term always appears in inverted commas. As was to be expected, the CBC was tops in slanting the story. Half way through my dull but detailed peroration a demented woman started screaming something about blacks and other victims of our vicious society. I had to stop talking for a few minutes while she hyperventilated. And when the Oliver story was run on CBC Newsworld, she was featured prominently, with reporter Terry Milewski turning to the camera and saying:
"She's talking about Doug Collins, who says the Holocaust was Jewish propaganda."
I had not even mentioned the Holocaust. And in fact I have never said any such thing. What I had said, in my 1994 column, which has been the subject of two human wrongs tribunals, was that the never-ending stream of Hollywood movies on the Holocaust was propaganda. Which is a different matter.
I complained to the CBC Ombudsman about that piece of gross reporting and six months later he found in my favor. "Your complaint is justified," he declared. As well he might.
Why did it take him so long? Because CBC News and its pressure group accomplices had put under a microscope everything I had said or written since the mid-1980s without coming up with such a quote.
Attorney General Ujjal Dosanjh - my friend - chose to get in on the act. On the same day that the Oliver meeting took place he organized a demonstration in Surrey, attended by a couple of hundred of his fellow East Indians, plus a number of white dupes.
"Give us stronger hate laws," was Democrat Dosanjh's theme. "Bring them into the 21st Century."
As I say, another hate balloon has gone pop. Not that you would know it from the Vancouver Sun, the Globe & Mail, or CBC TV news. Unless it was hidden in the truss ads, that is.
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The second piece was forwarded to me from France but pertains to the Swedish Revisionist, Ahmed Rami, who seems to have gathered about him a number of writers angry enough with the Israeli bombing of Lebanon to have decided to do something about it:
Ahmed Rami together with 8 Arab writers has just sent the following message to the Prime Minister Persson (Sweden).
To Prime minister Göran Persson
The Government Office, Stockholm
Stockholm, February 15, 2000
As is well known, Israeli air forces have bombarded and destroyed vital civilian targets in Lebanon, among them three electric power stations. In the meantime the Israeli foreign minister has threatened to burn down every single inch of Lebanon, if the Lebanese pursue their resistance against the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon since 1978. This in spite of the fact that Israel in the UN Security Council resolution number 425 urged to withdraw its forces immediately and unconditionally from Lebanon.
The action of Israel against Lebanon reminds us of the scorched earth policy conducted by the earlier colonial powers and of the policy of ethnic cleansing and mass expulsion practised by the Zionist gangs and the Israeli government during the last century against the indigenous population in Palestine - a policy that produced well documented massacres, demolition of hundreds of villages and expulsion of millions of Palestinians in order to establish a monocultural Israeli state in the land they had robbed.
Contrary to all international law, Israel has for 22 years occupied large parts of Lebanon, a small country that has never made war with Israel during the whole period of the Arab-Israeli conflict. We call upon the Swedish government to clearly and emphatically deplore the war crimes committed against Lebanon and the threats of the Israeli foreign minister of such new crimes against the civilian population. A dissociation from the Israeli war crimes would be well in line with the Swedish government's declared principles about peace, democracy and human rights!
With kind regards.
- Mohamad Khalifa: author, journalist, tel 08 - 760 58 38
- Ibrahim Ahmed: author, tel 0522 -14 514
- Moaid Abdalsatar: author, tel 040 - 21 21 36
- Dalor Miqri: author, poet, tel 018 - 40 19 54
- Adnan Alssaiegh: author, poet, tel 040 - 94 90 89
- Yahya Abuzakaria: author tel 018 - 30 18 96
- Ali Nasser Kanani: author, poet, tel 08 - 28 69 18
- Ahmed Rami: author, journalist, tel 070 - 8 12 12 40
- Sabri Yossef: author, poet, tel 08 - 621 18 48
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Thought for the Day:
"The People never give up their liberties but under some delusion."
(Edmund Burke Speech at County Meeting of Bucks, 1784.)