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Title: NY Times asks Iran about imprisoned writer
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Published: Jan 30, 2007
Author: Michael A. Hoffman II
Post Date: 2007-01-30 19:52:50 by Max
Keywords: NY Times asks Iran about impri, Michael A. Hoffman II, http://www.revisionisthistory.
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NY Times asks Iran about imprisoned writer THIS IS THAT RABBINIC-PAPAL-CALVINIST DOG KNOWN AS "ERROR HAS NO RIGHTS." In Iran, a nation that believes that "error has no rights," the NY Times, the Zionist newspaper that by its silence and omissions obviously agrees with the European Union, Austria and Germany that revisionists have no rights, asks a hyprocritical question of an ayatollah. Michael Hoffman reports: Again! More, ever more arrogant New York Times hypocrisy pours forth from the newspaper that has never raised a word of protest or alarm concerning the imprisonment of writers Ernst Zundel and Germar Rudolf in Germany and David Irving in Austria, daring to badger an Iranian cleric about the imprisonment of a journalist in Iran: "Whose Iran?" by Laura Secor, NY Times Magazine, January 28, 2007: He (Ayatollah Mohsen Gharavian) appeared shocked by the suggestion that Iran held political prisoners and demanded an example. I offered the journalist Akbar Ganji, imprisoned for six years on account of his critical writings. Gharavian replied: “Did you read Mr. Ganji’s manifesto? He questioned the whole establishment.” Freedom of expression, he explained, did not include the freedom to “breach the peace of the society.” He demanded, “Don’t you have prisoners in your country?” If it is right to declare to World War II revisionist researchers: "Your erroneous views have no rights and merit imprisonment," why is it wrong for the Ayatollahs to tell Akbar Ganji what amounts to the same thing? The underlying principle of both is the same: "error has no rights." This is a reversal of the Enlightenment, of Pierre Bayle, John Stuart Mill and other giants of the West who broke with the rabbinic-papal-Calvinist system to ask the prime question, "Who decides what is error?" The NY Times can only judge Iran wrong in jailing a dissenting journalist and Germany, Austria and the European Union correct in jailing dissident researchers (smeared with the stigma of the absurdly bigoted "Holocaust denier " nomenclature), on the basis of Judaic supremacy. The rabbis are infallible. The Holy People know best. Historians must not ask questions that offend Holy People or question the basis of modern western nation-states. While Iran rejects rabbinic supremacy and does not believe that Zionists and Israelis are superior in judgment or rights, how can they be faulted for agreeing with the philosophy that underlies the criminalizing of "Holocaust denial," the principle that "Error has no rights"? In that spirit, Iranians have criminalized Ayatollah denial. Laura Secor and the New York Times are playing an unconscionable game when they question Iranians about free speech but refuse to raise the names of Zundel and Rudolf with German authorities or regard their imprisonment as odious and worthy of protest as the jailing of Ganji. This game is another installment in the nauseating and infuriating double standard of Judaic supremacy, which reserves to itelf the right to breach the ethical standards it pompously demands of everyone else. Indeed, error does have rights. Without that acknowledgment we have no democracy and no real freedom. Once any faction in society sets itself up as competent to decree what is a thought crime and what is not, we are back to the rule of infallible rabbis, infallible popes and infallible ayatollahs, in other words, back to tyranny instead of onward toward a new enlightenment. Copyright ©2007 by http://RevisionistHistory.org Labels: Free Speech, Holocaust Denial, Iran, New York Times
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