I think this has gone way out of hand.
If you read my original comment:
> So this guy was convicted based on comments he made in 1989, under a law
> that wasn't enacted until 1992, by which time his view had changed based on
> 'new evidence'.
>
> He may be a moron (and does look like a nazi), but that's not a crime... so - is
> he a criminal or victim of politics in a world where people like Kurt Waldheim
> could become UN SecGen and President of Austria?
I reiterated my question in a subsequent post:
> My question is, if he made his comments based on his original research, which
> he retracted based on new evidence, is it right in convicting him under a law
> which wasn't passed until a couple of years after his comments?
Instead of presenting your case (i.e. he did not retract his views and continued to push his original case after 1992), which probably would have ended my doubts right there and then you chose to flame me for even daring to suggest he could be a victim.
Then you asked if I thought "They were all liars, yes?" to which I said there was that possibility (and you yourself admitted that there is a possibility that not all the statements collected from the survivors were 100% true).
And now you're giving me a lecture on appropriate forum behaviour...
Yes, I do believe an apology is in order, but I'm not going to push for one.
Frank Pohlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--- calvinwrote:
> Frank
>
> > ok, how about I saw some of the German language
> documentation and talked to survivors? They were all
> liars, yes?
>
> Possibly, how'd you know they weren't?
I am afraid that this is not the style of discussion
we are accustomed to on silkilist. If you have an
argument to make, make it. If you have no evidence...
So it
> shows you did some research on which you are basing
> your opinion, nothing more.
Thats interesting. In that case, we all have just
opinions. Nothing can be considered true or false. I
am not sure whether the dead and injured would agree.
I find this line of argument rather sad and very
insulting to the survivors as well disrespectful to
those 50 million who were killed as a result of the
2nd WW and the holocaust.
I think an apology is in order.
I didnt do "some research". I spent years studying the
phenomenon. I have a degree in Middle Eastern history
and read literarlly hundreds of books and read
thousands of pages of original documentation. If you
want to participate in discussions on this list,
please show some respect and ask for evidence and do
not assume we or the witnesses we cite are all liars.
Some of the are, there is no doubt. But not all
survivors lied.
-Frank
-Frank
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