I think they want the best of both worlds, basically intimidating people into being good sheep and making it look like they are all just really, well, agreeing with Jon Gold. You know that whatever Jon Gold decides he is going to cry about not enough people agreeing with him on will soon morph into a "disruptive topic". Whatever!

Cass, you hit the nail on the head. What pushed me to look closer at stuff that I really had not had any inclination to examine before was the incessant insistence that I better not even THINK about going there. That it was bad enough that I had issues with the Israel lobby in the US, that only anti-semites think Norman Finkelstein is absolutely not controversial (whenever the zionist-friendly harvard student paper refers to Dershowitz's worst nightmare he is always called "controversial professor norman finkelstein")

I am really not even that concerned about "exposing" the truth about the holocaust. I see it more as a way to start disciplining the Zionist shills. If they want to deny 9/11 go ahead, but if you think the way to do that is by accusing 9/11 truth people of being holocaust deniers then you darn well better be prepared to answer all the tough questions that exist that call into question the notions of "denial" you are equating. I understand the view (that I share) that lumping the holocaust in with 9/11 is not our best strategy, and I don't raise the issue in public. On the other hand, it doesn't help us that people generally are totally in the dark about what "holocaust denial" really involves--most people imagine evil skinheads (I really don't like skinheads--see stormfront for what I mean) going around saying absurd things like "Hitler didn't cause the deaths of ANY Jews!"

Most people do NOT (as I could not have) imagine a guy like David Cole very thoroughly inspecting the grounds at Auschwitz, including the pool, and being given false information by the tour guide. Most people will therefore also never know that it took death threats from JDL goons (what? there are Jewish terrorist groups operating in the US? shock!) to shut him up. They will probably also not know that Jewish terrorism, or better put Zionist terrorism (I can't think of a Jewish terrorist who operated except as a Zionist), existed before anyone could have figured out what was meant by "Islamofascism".

Would I care about any of this if it wasn't for the fact that my tax dollars are used to fund ethnic cleansing in Palestine and to murder arabs and muslims en masse in a bogus "war against terror"? Sadly it probably would never have crossed my mind to look into any of it. As concerned as I have always been about poverty and injustice (from growing up as a "rich" American in some very poor countries) I was not awakened to the ugly truth until 9/11. Nothing can change that now, and no one is going to tell me what I may or may not study, what ideas I may or may not entertain. That's the thing about all of this--it is much bigger than any of the details involved. It is about the fundamental freedoms we were all taught to value. It is about fighting while we still can some very sick people before they can consolidate their power through an insurmountable technological advantage.

This is our calling, and we will not fail.