ZGram - 4/20/2002 - "Happy Birthday to you..." :)

[irimland@zundelsite.org]

ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny

April 20, 2002

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Today is, of course, a most important birthday, and it behooves the 
Zundelsite in honor of the occasion to put the Thought for the Day up 
front:

Imagine Uncle Sam supine on a psychiatrist's couch, utterly dejected 
and defeated, wondering how on earth he could have ended up like 
that, with everything he once held dear in shreds. 

The F=FChrer sit's behind him in his chair, clipboard at the ready, and 
tells the patient:  "You should have come to me sooner."

Don't laugh.  There's wisdom in those homilies.

=3D=3D=3D=3D

Yesterday, I sent you a translation from "Pravda Online" - which, it 
turns out, merits a sobering correction, courtesy of ASMarques, a 
splendid purist when it comes to championing free speech, an utterly 
befuddled fellow when it comes to the slightest concession that what 
happened in Germany in the Third Reich years might have been good and 
right and proper, given the backdrop, given the times - and given an 
enemy that had the German people targeted for utter destruction.  Be 
that as it may, here is the ASM correction:

[START]

The "Pravda Online" edition (where the "Holocaust" article appeared)
is a totally different one from the printed mass circulation 
newspaper. In fact,
it's simply one of three different publications named "Pravda", and reaching
different publics.  I didn't know this. Portuguese electronic editions of
newspapers are always either full reproductions of, or closely based on, the
printed versions. "Pravda Online" is a different, exclusively electronic,
publication. You may check here:
http://images.pravda.ru/engabout.html

Mea culpa then, but no matter. It's becoming obvious that break-out point ha=
s
been reached. No matter what we do, it's only a matter of time now. I think
=46aurisson was right when, some time ago, mentioning Voltaire & l'Infame, h=
e
suggested that the "Holocaust" will be around for a long time, even after th=
e
truth is widely known and historians accept it more or less openly. This is =
a
deep insight, even though revisionists would very much prefer to see the
infamous lies crushed, once and for all.

This is the way things work out in the end: in the long run, a sort of awkwa=
rd
but "peaceful" -- well, not really, on the intellectual level -- coexistence=
 of
history and myth develops and people simply live with the lies, both the nic=
e
and the ugly ones.

That's how collective religious beliefs survive in modern 
non-religious societies. Not the best of worlds, but not the worst 
either...

The day when the "Holocaust" will be treated as "not true" in wide-circulati=
on
publications and simultaneously as "not false" in ordinary people's 
minds is not
far away. This is how mankind -- apparently unlike fleas, newts, bats 
or dogs --
works. It's not a serious species, you know...

ASMarques

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I can live with that.  I have preached for some three years that we 
ought to shed the stodgy, boring, nitpicking Revisionist mode and 
concentrate on saying "Okay now, our best revisionist minds have done 
it - at great costs to themselves and their lives.  They have proven 
that the so-called "Holocaust" is just a pot of crock.  Forensic 
excavation of a historical site makes sense only once."

If we are so immature that we must obligate each and every 
Holocaustomaniac who has nothing better to do than to keep shrieking 
"Prove it!  Prove what you say!"  it will be our own fault if we get 
stuck in a ditch of our own making.  I, for one, have not the 
slightest interest in some hairsplitting details any more about 
exactly why the Holocaust is just a pot of crock. 

The evidence has been delivered - and that, for me, is that!

We need to focus now on what that MEANS. 

=46or one, it means - jawohl! - that just like grown-up people we need 
to study without prejudice and without malice just what the German 
=46=FChrer did that made the moral, social and intellectual desert bloom 
as it had never bloomed before.  As mature, grown-up people we can 
learn from the times - don't you think?  We don't dance to 
extortionists' tune - or do we?

Have a nice April 20th - and remember, you heard some of these 
thoughts right here on the Zundelsite first.

Ingrid

P.S.

And, by the way, it is fate's giggle that  today, of all the days, 
there was the first important protest march  on Washington to make 
the American leadership listen to a pretty urgent message:  That 
there is serious grassroots discontent here in America from sea to 
shining sea.