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Title: Iran has the U.S.'s number
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The Daily Northwestern
URL Source: http://www.dailynorthwestern.com/vn ... v/ART/2006/02/14/43f1778c0f7e0
Published: Feb 16, 2006
Author: Arthur R. Butz
Post Date: 2006-02-16 07:46:52 by Zoroaster
Ping List: *Israeli Espionage*
Keywords: U.S.s, number, Iran
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Thursday, February 16, 2006 ____ Write a letter to the editor The Daily Northwestern? FORUM Iran has the U.S.’s number By Arthur R. Butz February 14, 2006 I have been asked “why people are so reluctant to consider” the validity of “Holocaust” revisionism. I shall try to answer that, showing the relationship to Iranian President Ahmadinejad. The principal obstacle to the propagation of revisionism is, simply, fear. At present, the entrenched legend is protected by a system of legal and extra-legal prohibitions (“taboos”). Nobody could dispute the truth of that statement in Europe, where laws in most countries specifically proscribe the expression of revisionist ideas as criminal offenses. For me, the most painful instance of that intellectual terror is the incarceration of my chemist friend Germar Rudolf, presently being held in solitary confinement in a maximum security prison near Stuttgart. His heinous crime? As a chemistry graduate student he did a forensic analysis of the walls of the alleged gas chambers, didn’t find the cyanide residues that ought to have been there and concluded they weren’t gas chambers. The lack of such forensic evidence is well known in the field. For example, in the Wall Street Journal of July 7, 2004, Timothy Ryback wrote that “there is little forensic evidence proving homicidal intent” in the ruins of Auschwitz. For Germar that was a 14 month rap in 1994, and he bolted rather than serve it. Last November he was finally deported back to Germany by the US government, despite his application for political asylum and his marriage to an American woman. For his subsequent writings the Germans are now charging Germar with a new 5-year rap, enacted into law after his original “crime.” This is not a strictly European reign of terror. The U.S. is definitely complicit. How many Americans know that our foremost execution technologist declared the alleged gassings not possible at the alleged sites? That was Fred Leuchter, who actually preceded Germar in the cyanide residue investigations. Leuchter was considered foremost in the execution field until 1990, when his views were widely publicized, and his business ruined by the refusal of authorities to work with him. I doubt he has any work in the field now. Illinois barred the politically unclean Leuchter from servicing the lethal injection machine he had designed and built. During the execution of John Wayne Gacy, there was a hitch attributed to incompetent operation of Leuchter’s machine. The terror exists in the U.S., but it is more subtle than in Europe. That brings us to President Ahmadinejad of Iran. For many years I ignored revisionism coming from Islamic countries, because I found it inept. With Ahmadinejad, I found something else; his statements were formidable in their perspicacity. My original statement on him has to be read to make the specifics clear. He understands the intellectual terror in the West. However, the best surprise came after I wrote my endorsement. British Prime Minister Tony Blair made a routine pompous suggestion to Ahmadinejad: Visit the camps and see for yourself. Ahmadinejad replied: Good idea, I’ll bring a scientific team. He knows about the forensic issues too. The most recent Iranian development has come from Hamshahri, Iran’s largest newspaper. They will answer the offensive cartoons of Muhammad, defended in Europe in the name of freedom of expression, with a cartoon contest on the theme of the “Holocaust.” Let’s hear the Europeans preach “human rights” and “freedom” then! The cartoons will likely be criminal offenses throughout continental Europe and perhaps actionable in Britain as well. The hypocrisy is staggering. In the present Iran, we have a formidable enemy of some Western trends that ought to be vigorously opposed by all who value “freedom” as more than a mere slogan. That, and not mere “denial,” was the basis of my involvement with Ahmadinejad’s statements. Beware. Present-day Iran has our number, and is giving it to others. Arthur R. Butz is an associate professor of electrical engineering. He can be reached at butz@ece.northwestern.edu.
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http://revisionistreview.blogspot.com/2006/02/professors-holocaust- denial- sparks.html Tuesday, February 07, 2006 Professor's "Holocaust Denial" Sparks Uproar at N.W. University It didn't take long for the West's fabled tolerance to go up the creamtoria chimney now that WWII revisionists are having their say. Whereas cartoons depicting the Muslim Prophet Muhammad as a bomb-thrower are merely "inappropriate" or "somewhat offensive," revisionist criticism of "The Holocaust" story is "hate speech." Here's what Chabad-Lubavitcher Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein has to say about statements by revisionist Professor Arthur Butz: "The pain and hurt associated with this is beyond words. I just want to sit down and cry every time I think about it.” The stoic Dr. Butz, who has been under threat of death and termination of his university employment for thirty years, engages in no such melodrama. If the holohoax deserves special honor, immunity and weekly adoration in our schools and newspapers, why not Muhammad? Why are Judaic religious tenets more worthy of reverence than Islamic ones? Dear Neo-Con Super-Patriot: are you really ignorant of the fact that the Muslim world is very well aware of this pernicious double-standard? BUTZ'S DENIAL OF HOLOCAUST IRRITATES NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Tenured professor's views anger students, faculty, but no action can be taken by Jasett Chatham | The Daily Northwestern February 07, 2006 http://www.dailynorthwestern.com/ A Northwestern professor's support for the Iranian president's denial of the Holocaust is angering students and faculty across the university. McCormick Prof. Arthur Butz recently backed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in comments published by several Iranian news agencies. Calling the Holocaust a myth, Ahmadinejad said Israel should no longer exist as a country. The remarks are causing global controversy. “I congratulate him on becoming the first head of state to speak out clearly on these issues and regret only that it was not a Western head of state,” Butz said. His comments were reprinted in Saturday's Chicago Tribune. Butz's statements circulated campus through student listservs, includes ones through Hillel Cultural Life and Shephard Residential College. One widespread e- mail asked students to sign a petition calling for the university to take action and prevent Butz from causing future embarrassment. Butz did not return phone calls or e-mails asking for his comment. In a statement released Monday, University President Henry Bienen said the university cannot take action against the tenured professor because Butz has kept his views out of the classroom and unaffiliated with the school. “We cannot take action based on the content of what Butz says regarding the Holocaust - however odious it may be - without undermining the vital principle of intellectual freedom that all academic institutions serve to protect,” Bienen wrote. Stuart Loren, a Weinberg sophomore, created the petition against Butz on Saturday after reading the professor's statements in the Tribune. The petition has about 200 signatures. “The importance of the petition is not so much whether he is fired or not, but to make a loud response from the Jewish community and the university as a whole,” said Adam Dorsky, a Communication freshman who signed the petition. Loren said he hopes the petition will encourage Northwestern University (NU) to clarify its standard of conduct for faculty and make wiser decisions when giving tenure to professors. “Northwestern should not serve as a forum or haven for the spread of hatred or historical inaccuracy,” Loren said. Butz' stance is nothing new. In 1976, just two years [after] receiving his tenure, he published [a] book denying the Holocaust titled “The Hoax of the Twentieth Century.” Since, his views have been published through various articles and speeches. His latest statements have reverberated beyond NU's campus. Since Saturday, Loren has received e-mails from NU parents, alumni and a Holocaust survivor. “I think we're forming a respectful and civilized platform to hold a dialogue on,” Loren said. “I'm glad people are being respectful.” For many, the appropriate limits of free speech remain the salient issue. Some, like Chabad House Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein, define the professor's message as “hate speech.” “The pain and hurt associated with this is beyond words,” Klein said. “I just want to sit down and cry every time I think about it.” Rabbi Josh Feigelson from the Fiedler Hillel Center has also issued a response condemning Butz' comments. Aside from signing the petition, some Jewish students in McCormick also refuse to take courses that Butz teaches. “I would never take a class with him; it would be very uncomfortable to take a class with someone who denies the Holocaust,” said Alex Thaler, a McCormick sophomore. Students have taken action against Butz roughly every five years since he first published his book, said Prof. Peter Hayes, chairman of NU's German department. Hayes, who teaches History of the Holocaust, describes Butz as “a crank and a fool.” “I just hope people will not overreact to this,” Hayes said. “He loves the attention and why should we give it to him? This is how he publicizes his crazy views and we should just treat them with the contempt they deserve.” A community forum on Holocaust denial will take place tonight at 8 p.m. in room 212 of the Fiedler Hillel Center. Reach Jasett Chatham at jasett@northwestern.edu (End quote) posted by Michael A. Hoffman II @ 2/07/2006 07:11:00 AM
Life is a tragedy to those who feel, and a comedy to those who think.
If the cyanide doesn't fit - you must acquit.
Perhaps not for long! Brave man.
ROTFL!
The cynide rule does not apply to Jewish supremacists. The holocaust mythi is the lynchpin of their supremacy and they've been hounding Butz for years. At some point they will move Congress to subvert the Bill of Rights so that what they call "holocaust denial" will be labelled as a hate crime, just as it is in many European countries.
Life is a tragedy to those who feel, and a comedy to those who think.
http://mp3.rbnlive.com/Rick06.html The last two nights on Rick Adams' show have been the ADL's worst nightmare. I don't know who Rick Adams, but he's bound to be pretty near the top of ADL's "enemies list" by now, along with Rev. Pike and Eustace Mullins.
the best of the comments, imo.
Rick Adams does a great show.
Dr. Butz doesn't appear to be at all fazed by the Jew media entertainment combine demonization campaign. GO BUTZ! GO BUTZ! GO BUTZ! :o)
Lodwick, you are funnny.
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Arthur R. Butz is an associate professor of electrical engineering.
Let me be very clear about this: We are still a nation of immigrants; we should be proud of it. We should honor every legal immigrant here, working hard to become a new citizen. But we are also a nation of laws.
-- William Jefferson Clinton, 1996
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Let me be very clear about this: We are still a nation of immigrants; we should be proud of it. We should honor every legal immigrant here, working hard to become a new citizen. But we are also a nation of laws.
-- William Jefferson Clinton, 1996
#5. To: lodwick (#2)
If the cyanide doesn't fit - you must acquit.
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In my own research on the Holocaust, I've come across two things that are problematical. Why have revisionist historians, scientists and publishers been murdered, assaulted, had acid thrown in their face, and been imprisoned? This seems like Dark Ages stuff. Here is a site that gives a partial...
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If the cyanide doesn't fit - you must acquit.
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