ZGram - 1/21/2002 - "Truth isn't hate speech"

[irimland@zundelsite.org]

Copyright (c) 2001 - Ingrid A. Rimland

ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny

January 21, 2002

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

In response to the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal assault on the
Zundelsite, somebody sent me the following - unfortunately without
attribution.  It has sensible and sane ideas, and I feel it is my civic
duty as part of the ongoing discussion to pass it along to my readers.

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 The truth is "hate speech" only to those who have something to hide

 This was written in response to those who are trying to conceal the
Israeli spy scandal, the largest spy ring ever uncovered in the United
States, behind cries of "hate" and "anti-Semite".

 I am not "anti-Jewish", I am anti-espionage. There's a difference. If you
can't see that, then you're the one with the problem.

 The current focus on the Israeli spy ring is about crimes committed
against our nation by a foreign government, plain and simple, and whether
one opposes those crimes or is accessory to those crimes by seeking to
conceal them. There can be a no more dangerous path than for our
government, our media, and our citizens than to ignore the presence of the
largest spy ring ever uncovered within our nation simply because it is
connected with a "protected" nation presumed to be above reproach or
criticism.

 I urge you to all to continue to contact your representatives and your
local media and demand a full and public hunt for the spies in our midst.
Those who seek to protect those spies by suppressing this story must be
suspect.

 In the wake of the revelation of yet another spy scandal involving the
Mossad, involving the arrests of the largest spy ring ever uncovered inside
the United States, and the existence of a huge system that allowed Israel
to track telephone calls by media, politicians, law enforcement, indeed all
Americans, as well as the means to eavesdrop on actual calls by using the
wiretapping system built into the telephone system by an Israeli owned
company, any and all reports of this scandal have been met with the charges
of "hate speech" and "anti-Semite".

 These phrases, "hate speech" and "anti-Semite", are well-worn devices to
shut up a critic of Israel without having to answer the criticisms. Indeed
they have been used so much that they have become red warning flags that
the person using those phrases has something to hide and needs to shut down
the discussion by any means possible. By screaming "hate speech" or
"anti-Semite", the debate is over without actually examining the issues
involved.

I've run this web site for over 8 years. You can check through the pre 9/11
version of What Really Happened for yourself to see if I have had any
excessive preoccupation with Israel during that time. Only in recent weeks
have I even mentioned Israel, and that solely because the ACTIONS of the
government of Israel have called attention to Israel. In the wake of the
spy arrests this is a story that people do need to know about, to know who
else may be listening when that phone is picked up, if the phone tapping
system was actually paid for with the money we send Israel every year, to
know what intelligence service may be blackmailing our government and
media, and to what purpose.

 So, I've been getting a lot of email from people who ask "Why do you hate
the Jews"? The answer is that I don't hate the Jewish people. I know a lot
of Jewish people and count as my friends the ones who are as respectful of
me as I am of them. My first wife was Jewish, which should erase once and
for all that I came with any built in bias regarding the Jewish people.

 What I hate are certain actions of INDIVIDUALS. I hate the idea of someone
spying on our nation's citizens. I don't like our own government to do it;
why should I be any less opposed to a foreign government doing it? Why is
it not reasonable to hate those who pry into our government, then use the
information to coerce that government into actions contrary to the good of
our own people? I hate that sort of behavior. All civilized people should.
I would hate the perperators of the spy ring and the phone taping scandal
if they were Russian, British, Lithuanian, Brazilian, whatever. That's a
perfectly normal response to this crime.

 Hate gets a bum rap. In our politically correct society we are taught that
it's bad to hate at all, but I disagree. Hate can be a good thing. There
are lots of things I hate and I am not ashamed to admit it. I hate liars. I
hate thieves. I hate drug dealers. I hate corrupt politicians. I hate child
molesters. These are hates that are good for the people to have. Maybe if
more people allowed themselves to hate liars, thieves, druggies, and the
corrupt, our nation wouldn't be in the mess it's in. Think about that for a
while. Hate could actually save our country.

 I hate those who presume to decide for us what we can and cannot see,
hear, or read. I am firmly opposed to and have openly defied efforts by our
own government to withhold from the people information the people need to
make good decisions with. When the Israeli lobby coerces Fox News to erase
the story about Israel's spy ring, should I be less outraged at the
concealment simply because the concealers are Israeli? To NOT speak out
about a crime because the perpetrators are Israeli would be racist. Because
this is EXACTLY what we are dealing with. Crimes. Espionage. Illegal
wiretaps. Interference with investigations. Under the definitions in the
USA Patriot bill, the coercion of Fox News to drop the espionage story is
itself (technically) an act of terror.

 Speaking of racism, the ideal held forth in the Constitution and
Declaration of Independence is that no one race is superior to others; that
no one race should rule by virtue of being a specific race. We even fought
a civil war partly on that principle, and while the United States has not
always lived up to that ideal, we have never surrendered it as our goal.
So, when Arial Sharon openly bragged on October 3rd that, "We, the Jewish
people, control America, and the Americans know it", why should I not find
this statement objectionable, and anti-American? Why should I not feel
something less than affection for the man who made that statement? Why
should a reasonable citizen of this nation not wonder to what extent Sharon
was speaking the truth, especially in light of the manner in which Fox News
was forced to erase the Carl Cameron stories?

 As seen in the subtitle above, the truth is "hate speech" only to those
with something to hide. In the wake of the exposure of this latest spy
scandal, the government of Israel might have expressed some public regret
or shame over treating its purported friend, from whom it gets more foreign
aid than is given to the entire continent of Africa, in such a shameful
manner. Instead what we have seen is censorship of the American news by a
foreign power, apparently with the permission of a compromised or complicit
US Government, and the shrill cries of "hate speech" and "anti-Semite"
hurled at anyone who dared presume to notice or comment on what Israel has
been caught doing.

 If you want to know why Israel is so much in the news it isn't because of
"hate" and it isn't because of "anti-Semitism", it's because foreign owned
companies were caught bugging the phone system (including that of the White
House) and foreign citizens have been arrested as part of the largest spy
ring ever found in the United States. That is NEWS, no matter what
nationality is involved. In the course of that reporting, it was revealed
by a US official that evidence exists linking 9/11 to persons other than
Muslim Arabs, but that this evidence is CLASSIFIED. That too is NEWS. Deal
with it.

 The good side to the Fox News incident is that for the first time,
Americans got a good look at just how much power and influence over what we
see and hear is being exercised. It doesn't even matter who did it; that it
was done at all is the lesson for our time.

 And it is not "hate" to point that fact out.

 Neither is it "hate" to point out that CNN followed Fox News' example by
erasing their story about the 2 hour advance warning of the World Trade
Towers attacks received by employees of Odigo, one of the companies
implicated in the espionage case.

 Finally, to those who insist that the Israeli spy scandal should be
ignored because it makes all of the Jewish people look bad, I ask if we
should have ignored Jeffrey Dahmer's cannibalism because it made the people
of Milwuakee look bad?

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 Thought for the Day:

 "The U.S. is ready to victimize its own people for the sake of Israel and
the Zionist lobby."

 Mark Weber, as recently quoted in the Teheran Times