ZGram - 10/3/2004 - "Bradley Smith: 'Fanatics Don't Talk to Fanatics'"

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October 3, 2004

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Here's Bradley Smith for you, a good-natured fellow and one of the 
first Revisionists on the American continent.  The ADL folks fear 
Bradley like the plague - I have always wondered why.  I mean, if you 
have to have an enemy for fund-raising purposes and such, to scare 
people out of their wits, why not pick a REAL enemy - not someone who 
strives harder than practically anybody else I know to see both 
points of view? 

I have known Bradley for some eight years and always enjoyed his writing:

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This newsletter will follow my efforts to encourage the ideal of 
intellectual freedom
in American culture among those who most often claim to have it as one of
their priorities-academics, journalists, and "human rights" organizations.

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Bradley R. Smith, Editor

No. 02 - 29 September 2004

Fanatics do not talk to fanatics, unless those they talk to are 
fanatic about the same matter/s. Otherwise, fanatics shoot fanatics, 
bomb them, starve them, isolate them, cut off their heads, and act 
generally in a way that is tacky almost beyond belief. "Almost," 
because human culture is soaked through with poor taste and 
fanaticism, so with a modicum of reflection we are able to observe 
what goes on.

Cutting off the heads of innocent, unarmed civilians for a greater 
good is, if not normal, certainly human. What's that? Beheading 
innocent folk for a "greater good" is what small-timers do who do not 
have the funding to burn alive or blast into oblivion hundreds, 
thousands, or tens of thousands of innocent, unarmed civilians for a 
greater good.

Sometimes small-timers break into the big time, like Osama did in New 
York City and Washington, but usually their numbers are not all that 
good. Big-timers, on the other hand, are big-timers because they can 
produce the numbers. They can initiate preemptive wars for the 
greater good of-well, it depends on circumstances. Personal whim, 
whether it's winter or summer, things like that. Big-timers have very 
good numbers. That's why they're big-timers.

This being the case, we have to wonder why "terrorism" gets such bad 
press in America and other places around the world. America, for 
example, has much better numbers than the Arabs or the rest of the 
Muslim world. Israel, thanks to the U.S. Congress, has much better 
numbers than the Palestinians. Yet terrorism, the intentional killing 
of innocent, unarmed civilians for a greater good, is condemned by 
those who are best at it, while rationalized by those who are second 
best.

Well, terrorists are evil when they try to kill you, and swell 
fellows when they're killing the families and neighbors of those who 
are trying to kill you. So far Americans have killed somewhere 
between 10,000 and 20,000 innocent, unarmed Iraqi civilians for what 
the administration believes is a greater good. This suggests that 
Americans have wounded and maimed at least 50,000 innocent, unarmed 
Iraqi civilians. Probably more. Probably a lot more.

The difference between the Arab terrorists who killed us, and the 
American soldiers who are killing the Arabs, is that the Americans 
can morally justify killing Arabs for a greater good, while the Arabs 
cannot morally justify killing Americans in any way whatever. Moral 
justification is always the ground upon which the terrorists stand.

Americans morally justify intentionally killing Arab civilians for a 
greater good because Arab terrorists intentionally killed American 
civilians first. It has nothing to do with the individuals who are 
being killed. This is group think. If you're in the wrong group, and 
you're in the wrong place at the wrong time, your ass is mud. Is this 
how we all are-or what?

Arabs morally justify killing Americans because Americans fund the 
colonization of Arab land by Israeli Jews, and fund the Israeli 
military in a way that makes it is a foregone conclusion that Israeli 
Jews are going to have better numbers than Palestinians, or any other 
Arabs who get careless. Very much better numbers.

So we have a situation in which there would be no moral justification 
for war in Iraq without 9/11. There would be no moral justification 
for 9/11 without the U.S. alliance with Israel. No moral 
justification for the U.S. alliance with Israel without the Holocaust 
story. And no Holocaust story without the "gas chambers." The irony 
being that revisionists have shown that the gas-chamber stories 
cannot be demonstrated to have existed.

Those who wanted to morally justify the invasion and colonization of 
Arab land in Palestine by European Jews were pleased to be convinced, 
or pretend to be convinced, that the gas-chamber stories are true. 
That is why the opposition to an open debate on the Holocaust story 
is opposed so fanatically by the Holocaust Industry.

Holocaust fanatics depend on the gas-chamber story to morally justify 
their working the U.S. Congress to underwrite the U.S./Israeli 
alliance, to morally justify the conquest and colonization of Arab 
land by Jews, and to morally justify the preemptive war against Iraq 
that was so valuable to Israeli security, in the short run.

Holocaust fanatics do not talk to "revisionists" because they believe 
that they are in a "war" against intellectual (revisionist) 
terrorism. They believe that if revisionist arguments continue to 
make their way through Arab and Muslim culture, as they are making 
their way now, that it will add to Arab and Muslim convictions that 
Jews had no moral justification to invade Palestine or colonize Arab 
land.

Holocaust fanatics are justified in fearing that revisionist 
arguments will add fuel to Arab fanaticism. I think Holocaust 
fanatics are right about this, and I feel a certain sympathy for 
them. If they allow the truth about the gas-chamber stories to emerge 
freely into the light of day, one result will be that Arab fanatics 
will kill Jews, using the Holocaust "hoax" as morally justifying it.

That is one reason why Holocaust fanatics believe, and find it to 
their benefit to believe, that those who question the core image of 
the Holocaust story-the gas chambers-are anti-Jewish fanatics. In 
some cases, as a matter of fact, that is true. But the vast majority 
of Holocaust revisionists are willing to be convinced that we are 
wrong. I count myself among these fine fellows.

Holocaust fanatics want to see revisionists imprisoned and censored 
and their work destroyed. Revisionists want to talk to Holocaust 
fanatics. This reminds me-this is a very sentimental anecdote and I 
probably should not tell it here, but what the hell. It's a story 
that my mother loved to tell. I more than half remember the morning 
it happened.

When I was four years old we lived in an apartment in a Victorian 
house on a street that ran up a hill in downtown Los Angeles. Bunker 
Hill. There was a boy who lived in another apartment in the same 
house. His name was Alvin. One day Alvin punched me out over--I can't 
remember what. I wasn't hurt, but I went in the house crying and 
complaining. My mother asked me what had happened. I told her. She 
said: "Bradley, the next time Alvin hits you, you just hit him back."

I said: "But, Mother, I don't want to hit him. I want to play wif him 
(that's the way she always pronounced it).

That's the problem that Holocaust fanatics have with Holocaust 
revisionists. We don't want to be at war with them. We want to talk 
things over. We know that most fanatics are fine fellows-have you 
noticed the way Osama smiles?-and we understand that allowing the 
truth about the gas chambers to be told publicly will result in Arab 
fanatics having yet one more moral justification for killing 
innocent, unarmed Jews.

That's the problem that Holocaust fanatics have created and nurtured 
for themselves and for Jews everywhere. If they continue to censor 
and imprison revisionists who want to talk to them, Arab fanatics 
will continue to see through that sleazy behavior and feel morally 
justified in killing Jews for "lying" about how the "Holocaust" 
justified the Jewish colonization of Arab Palestine.

If Holocaust fanatics stop censoring and imprisoning revisionists, 
Arab fanatics will feel morally justified in killing Jews for finally 
revealing that Holocaust fanatics have lied for half a century about 
how the Holocaust (without "gas chambers) morally justified their 
colonization of Arab land.

What to do when in doubt? Go with the truth. Don't demonize your 
enemy. Talk to him. Keep your guard up. Remember, while he's no worse 
a man than you are, he's no better either. He may be a fanatic.

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Bradley R. Smith is an author, playwright, and free speech activist.

He is the author of Break His Bones : The Private Life of a Holocaust 
Revisionist
<http://outlaw.c.topica.com/maacHyxabaptYcgesnkcafpOlX/>www.breakhisbones.org

He is Director of The Campaign to Decriminalize World War II History
<http://outlaw.c.topica.com/maacHyxabaptZcgesnkcafpOlX/>www.outlawhistory.com

Smith co-founded The Committee for Open Debate On The Holocaust (CODOH)
<http://outlaw.c.topica.com/maacHyxabapt0cgesnkcafpOlX/>www.codoh.com 
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