Friday, August 18, 2023
Report on Beth Israel vigil 08-12-23
Does the First Amendment include a duty to listen?
Part of our First Amendment reads “Congress shall make no law … prohibiting … the right … to petition the Government for a redress of grievances”. But what if the Government refuses to listen? On August 7 this writer addressed the Government, specifically the Ann Arbor City Council, to shed some light on the mandated Holocaust education our students receive. But as the screenshot below shows, fully six members of this ten-member body left the room, rather than hear the words of Elie Wiesel. One member – Councilwoman Linh Song - turned her back during the presentation. Text of our presentation follows signature.
Please view this entire exodus from Council chambers on the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdWTqtEnrds (Fast forward to 31:09)
Just because we think we have something to say doesn’t mean that Mr. Average Citizen needs to listen, but when people who are paid to represent “the Government”, maybe they should be required to listen when their citizenry is petitioning them for a redress of grievances. Especially considering they are being paid in part by our own tax dollars. Fortunately for these government workers, Witness for Peace does not have the funds of a Marvin Gerber or Henry Brysk to take these slackers to court.
Comments from Council
Councilwoman Lisa Disch seems to scold this writer in her comments following Public Commentary, but the sound quality appears insufficient for us to transcribe her words correctly. Fast forward to 52:55 to hear what she has to say. And Linh Song, speaking right after Ms. Disch, vows to contribute $1,000 of her own money to Jewish Family Services every time a Holocaust revisionist dares address City Council with remarks that, as yet , remain unchallenged. Her words: “And I just want to, I will continue with my pledge every time a Holocaust Denier comes and gives public comments here, to give a thousand dollars. I'm happy to give that donation to an organization I love and to a community that still struggles with hate here.”
Note to Ms. Song: if the Jewish community struggles with hate, maybe they should challenge their own leaders when they advocate hatred. Again, here’s Elie Wiesel: “Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate — healthy, virile hate — for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.”
Coffee with Rabbi Caine
As described in our last report, this writer sat down for coffee with Rabbi Caine of Beth Israel Congregation. We had hoped for a second meeting by the end of July, but that date has passed, and a reminder email sent to the Rabbi on July 24 has gone unanswered as of today. Holding the Rabbi in the highest possible regard, we assume his schedule has been very busy, and that he will contact us when he gets a breather. Please stay tuned …
Scorecard
Date/For-Against
1-Jul 15-15
8-Jul 15-9
15-Jul 10-7
22-Jul 21-14
29-Jul 14-4
5-Aug 14-12
12-Aug 13-4
Henry Herskovitz
Witness for Peace
216 Palestinians killed this year by “Israel”
ALL SO THAT JEWS CAN HAVE A “HOMELAND”
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Address to City Council August 7, 2023
Good evening,
Sometimes it doesn’t take a revisionist to enlighten us about the exaggerations we find in the Holocaust narrative. Often the enlightenment comes at the hands of the Holocaust traditionalists themselves. Recommended reading from the Ann Arbor Public Schools Holocaust curriculum is the well-known novel Night, written by the famous Elie Wiesel. On page 32, he writes:
"Not far from us, flames, huge flames, were rising from a ditch. Something was being burned there. A truck drew close and unloaded its hold: small children. Babies! Yes, I did see this, with my own eyes ... children thrown into the flames. (Is it any wonder that ever since then, sleep tends to elude me?)"
And in another book from the same author – “The Jews of Silence”, he writes about the alleged massacre of 33,000 Jews at Babi Yar in the Ukraine. From p. 48 we read: “Eyewitnesses say that for months after the killings, the ground continued to spurt geysers of blood.”
Without supporting evidence, Wiesel wants us to believe that blood spurted out of the ground in geyser-like fashion for months, when no one has ever seen such an occurrence.
Yet in a third book, Legends of our time, Wiesel comes clean. In the introduction he writes about a conversation with the local rabbi:
"'What are you writing?' the Rebbe asked. "Stories", I said. He wanted to know what kind of stories: true stories. "About people you knew?" Yes, about people I might have known. "About things that happened?" Yes, about things that happened or could have happened. "But they did not?" No, not all of them did. In fact, some were invented from almost the beginning to almost the end. The Rebbe leaned forward as if to measure me up and said with more sorrow than anger: "That means you are writing lies!" I did not answer immediately. The scolded child within me had nothing to say in his defense. Yet, I had to justify myself: "Things are not that simple, Rebbe. Some events do take place but are not true; others are - although they never occurred."
What will the reaction of Ann Arbor students be, when they read of such an admission?
Thank you
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Eli Wiesel was a certified liar indeed, who invented egregious stories to enable him and his tribe obtain undue sympathy, influence and $$$. Same is true with the infamous Simon Wiesenthal. The latter financed bogus academic research, by a jewish "scholar" of course, to perpetuate the profitable yet slanderous accusation that the German Nation would be "collectively guilty of Genocide against the Jews". All these lies and falsifications of History repeated without an end by the jewish controlled media, government and entertainment industry, are weapons used to justify the destruction of the cradle of our Civilization, in the Middle East. And used to distract from the mass murder of millions of non-jews, wholesale, and to foment wars and to fracture our Nations by polluting their sense of Identity and belonging, and by spreading of depravity.
As to the question whether there is a constitutional obligation to listen [to the citizenry] by members of the government. As a matter of fact, there is not! Contrary to Switzerland, where the concept of 'direct democracy' imposes to the governement to listen and react, when a specific number of citizens petition. We have such dispositions at the State level, but they are practiced as a mockery, where it always ends in propositions so convoluted that the elector does not even realize that it does the opposite of what it says it does. Interestingly, Muammar Ghaddafi introduced very early on in his political career the same type of "direct democracy" as Switzerland, in Lybia. But our politicians and subservient historians do not like revision, and the finding of uncomfortable facts.
As to the question whether there is a constitutional obligation to listen [to the citizenry] by members of the government. As a matter of fact, there is not! Contrary to Switzerland, where the concept of 'direct democracy' imposes to the governement to listen and react, when a specific number of citizens petition. We have such dispositions at the State level, but they are practiced as a mockery, where it always ends in propositions so convoluted that the elector does not even realize that it does the opposite of what it says it does. Interestingly, Muammar Ghaddafi introduced very early on in his political career the same type of "direct democracy" as Switzerland, in Lybia. But our politicians and subservient historians do not like revision, and the finding of uncomfortable facts.
The Council is well within its rights to refuse to hear those like you who advocate and incite violence like the Pittsburgh bombings which you applauded and genocide (i.e. the Nazi Holocaust which you clearly approve of and seek to justify). You have no constitutional right to force others to listen to you -only to not be thrown in Jail for your views as long as unlike your hero Robert Bowers you don't put them into action.
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: Monday, September 04, 2023 9:34:00 PM
: Monday, September 04, 2023 9:34:00 PM
Human history is so atrocious, very few can acknowledge, accept, or admit it. Even fewer, if any, can correct it for any length of time. Personally, I haven't nailed down the details of your "revisionism", but I do not doubt the sincerity of your effort. As a predatory and fallible, self-conscious species, our nervous systems are prone to denial, projection, selective inattention and hypocrisy. I commend your curiosity. Humility is helpful, too.
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