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Arrogance:
Aggressively assertive or presumptuous;
overbearing.— Oxford English
Dictionary.
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There is no lack of arrogance in our
world. In the scales of argument,
arrogance certainly outweighs humility,
and I hereby award the Nobel Prize for
Arrogance to groups like the Canadian
Jewish Congress, B’Nai Brith, and the
Simon Wiesenthal Centre. All are
arrogantly opposed to free speech, which
in their book is hate speech if they
don’t like what is being said.
Stating such qualifies one to be
condemned to the Devil’s Island of
Anti-Semitism, of course. For, as is
obvious to everyone except the
intellectually blind or cowardly, any
criticism of things Jewish becomes “anti?Semitic”.
And not only to Jews, but to
lickspittles in government and
“liberals”.
Subversive thoughts of that sort are
not new and have led to my being chased
by human wrongs commissions. As B.C.
Report magazine put it a while back, the
human rights industry has declared war
on civil liberties and free speech.
I know of no groups who wage that war
more fanatically than B’Nai Brith,
etc., but I wouldn’t say so once again
were it not for some comments on the
subject by Joseph Sobran, an American
syndicated columnist and one of the
sharpest intellects in the media.
“The Jewish lobby...” he writes
in his newsletter, “now inspires
enormous fear because of its power to
ruin politicians, writers, and
businesses. It wields such dreaded
labels as anti-Semite and bigot with
abandon and — here is the real point
— with impunity.
“Far from being persecuted, or
remotely threatened with persecution,
Jews in the modern democracies are very
powerful.That is why they are feared,
and why their labels terrify. If they
were really helpless victims, there
would be no reason to fear them...
“Most Jews, he adds, “take no
active part in the thought-control
campaign and many would oppose it if
they considered it seriously; but the
major secular Jewish organizations are
determined to silence any public
discourse that is not to their liking,
as witness the fate of people as
disparate as [David] Irving, Louis
Farrakhan, and Pat Buchanan.” [Not to
mention my far humbler self.]
Sobran was dealing with the situation
in the U.S. But it is no different in
Canada and is even worse in Europe,
where the slightest murmur questioning
the official version of the Holocaust
can land people in jail. |
The
Holocaust, indeed, has become a massive
shield used not only in the democracies
but also in the Middle East, as the
Palestinians have learned to their cost.
The standard account of the Holocaust,
states Sobran, serves political
interests. “[Israel] has enjoyed great
indulgence from the U.S. by justifying
its violence against its Arab neighbors
and its abuses of its Arab minority as
necessary defensive measures by a people
still traumatized by persecution and
threatened by annihilation”.
The Zionist lobby, he says, has
become one of the most powerful forces
in American politics, and any criticism
of Jews or of Israel becomes
“anti-Semitism”. Holocaust denial,
meanwhile, [or what passes for Holocaust
denial] “has become a capital
thought-crime”.
Its real function, he continues,
“is not to identify and disarm real
hostility to Jews, but to terrorize”.
An example of that was evident after
the riot in the Vancouver Public Library
last September, when I spoke about the
threat to free speech as represented by
the B.C. Human Rights Code.
The Canadian Jewish Congress and
B’Nai Brith arrogantly lobbied the
library to prevent ‘‘known hate
groups” from using its premises, and
in a recent issue of the Western Jewish
Bulletin, Jewish biggies deplored the
fact that it had failed to do so. Some
of the most controversial rentals, they
claimed, had been to “outspoken
anti-Semites”. (Names, please.)
Up popped the Holocaust again, too.
B’Nai Broth’s Harry Abram, a devoted
enemy of free speech said that survivors
of the Holocaust would feel intimidated
if there were speakers in the library
who were denying that it ever took
place. A fine broth, that.The man makes
no sense, as usual.
For my part, I have never said it
didn’t take place. But even if someone
told me that the Second World War itself
had never taken place — and I was in
it for six years — I would laugh at
them. Laughs are in short supply,
however, where Abrams is concerned. Or
perhaps not. He once suggested that I
was preparing the ground for another
Holocaust.
Meanwhile, aren’t the above named
Jewish organizations hate groups? They
certainly hate little old harmless me
(as witness the “rights complaints
against me) and are selectively opposed
to free assembly, which, the last time I
looked, is supposedly guaranteed to all
who nest in the True North.
If they ever use it, perhaps we
should lobby to keep THEM out of the
library. Doesn’t every tit deserve a
tat? |
