ZGram - 6/1/2004 - "Running afoul of the thought police"/

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June 1, 2004

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Off and on, I had come across some writing titled "Dave's Diatribes" 
in what is called the Augusta Free Press.   I was gratified to see 
the first two segments of a five-part series that looked to me like 
mainstream Revisionism in a mainstream publication.   I liked the 
common sense approach and cautious tone of the articles.  But I to 
myself I said:  "I wonder how long it will take until the howling and 
shrieking begins and the paper's managers will feel the advertising 
thumb screws."

Well, not long at all.  Here's how:

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Running afoul of the thought police

Notes from the Press

Chris Graham

"Hello, Augusta Free Press, may I help you?"

"Why are you publishing that anti-Semitic crap from Dave Mullenax in 
your newspaper?"

"He's one of our columnists. He ..."

"Are you anti-Semitic?"

"No, I'm ..."

"Maybe your advertisers would like to know that you publish 
anti-Semitic racist garbage in your newspaper."

"What?"

"Maybe your advertisers would like to know that they're supporting an 
anti-Semitic racist."

Click.

This was how I spent my Memorial Day.

Not paying my respects to the millions of American war dead who gave 
their lives on the battlefields of the world to protect our freedoms 
and liberties to be and to think and to do.

But instead hearing from those who obviously feel that freedoms and 
liberties of being and thinking and doing is only for a select few.

The mini-furor over David Mullenax's "To look again" series is 
absolutely baffling to me - if only because it doesn't take much time 
with an Internet search engine to find that the discussions related 
to the Holocaust and Israeli foreign policy that Dave has been 
tackling the past few weeks aren't at all anything new.

And we're not talking about discussions taking place on the so-called 
lunatic fringes here, either.

The New York Times and Newsweek came up on my first page of Google 
searches - less than two seconds after I hit the search web button on 
my Explorer toolbar.

Just for the record, I didn't come across any evidence that the Times 
or Newsweek had been boycotted as a result of taking this subject on.

Let me digress for a moment here and make clear that it is my feeling 
that the jury is still out (indeed, if it has ever been convened) 
regarding the substance of what Dave is writing - that the claims 
that millions of Jews were killed by Nazi Germany in the Holocaust 
are overblown; and that Israel uses what it knows to be 
misinformation to its PR advantage.

In the course of editing the "To look again" series, though, I have 
learned that there are scholars out there who are raising what could 
be viewed as legitimate questions as to the veracity of what we know 
about the Holocaust.

Whether or not they're onto something ...

Well ...

I'm far from being an expert on this topic, I'll concede that up front.

And if you asked me my feelings on the issue, I would say without 
equivocation that I am holding true to what I have long since come to 
believe about the Holocaust, namely, that millions of Jews were 
systematically exterminated by the Nazis in an attempt at ethnic 
cleansing.

That having been said, I do not - let me emphasize this, DO NOT - 
respond to the threats of intellectual terrorists who promise to 
launch advertising boycotts or who wish death to me or whatever else 
is considered acceptable in thought-police circles these days.

Chris Graham is the co-publisher of The Augusta Free Press.

What do you think? Share your thoughts on this story at

chris at augustafreepress.com

(Soures:  http://www.augustafreepress.com/stories/storyReader$22414
http://www.augustafreepress.com/stories/storyReader$22320)

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To my readers:  Please write a paragraph or two and thank Chris for 
his courage not to cave in to the censorship pit bulls.  Just a brief 
note of support and appreciation - no long dissertations necessary. 

Ingrid