Kevin Barrett to Host Holocaust Discussion

The following is from Kevin Barrett.  I realize that many people take issue with "mixing" holocaust and 9/11 revisionism, but as has been argued many times here before, and on other sites before those arguing for one of the sides (guess which) were banned, there are extensive parallels between "the holocaust" and 9/11.  Both were, for example,  legitimate tragedies that have been used to justify other tragedies, and both are narratives the details of which are hotly debated. 

I will, as usual, repeat that it is pointless and detrimental to draw these parallels among people who are being introduced to 9/11, i.e. the feckless "noob" of lore, and that the WTCD blog has never been intended for such people.  Among seasoned 9/11 truth activists however there is much to be gained by analysis of the phenomenon known varyingly as holocaust "denial" and "revisionism".  Every trick used by self-styled "9/11 Truth debunkers" had already been honed for years by self-styled "holocaust truth debunkers"--sometimes by the very same people (see Michael Shermer, e.g.) 

You would not know this of course if you haven't taken the time, and more importantly taken the difficult step of studying both sides of the debate dispassionately, or in the words of David Ray Griffin with an at least 30% open mind.  Like most people I avoided dipping my toes in those seemingly dirty waters for fear of being tainted somehow, thinking that the only people craven enough to call what I imagined such a well-document series of events into question were racists, bigots, in a word--haters.  That is until I learned the truth about 9/11 and realized the price that we all end up paying--some with our lives--when we become afraid to question--when we allow ourselves to be cowed by the frantic rhetoric of any given orthodoxy's supporters into silence.

 From Kevin Barrett:

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"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

On this day in history, 394 years ago -- on April 23rd, 1616 to be exact -- the two greatest European writers of all time shuffled off this mortal coil. Both were famous for sidestepping or deflating the sacred narratives and windy generalities that often pass for wisdom, instead taking a tough but sympathetic look at the actual human condition.

The story of the Nazi Holocaust has become a sacred narrative underpinning a self-congratulatory American-Zionist narrative of World War II and its aftermath. Like other foundation myths (including Zelikow's pre-scripted events of 9/11/01), the Holocaust separates time into a "before" and an "after," justifying the "whole new world" created by the foundational event. For Americans, the "whole new world" is one in which the ultimate evil of the Nazis shows why the US must build the world's biggest military and remain perpetually at war; for the Zionists, it is a "whole new world" in which poor little Israel, endlessly threatened with annihilation, must use every available means, including mass murder and big lies, to preserve itself.

More than any other single story, the Holocaust is the foundation of the Zio-American empire's war against the world. It is the foundation of both the Palestinian holocaust, the Nakba, and the US military/CIA murder of millions that William Blum calls the American Holocaust.  Thus, if we are to end these holocausts, the original Holocaust story needs to be ripped out of its sacred setting and returned to ordinary, secular history. To achieve this, we must overcome the fear, horror and awe that has been drummed into us by the media and talk about the Nazi holocaust calmly, empirically, historically. Such fearless talk, whatever conclusions it may or may not reach, will help transfer the Holocaust story from the sacred to the secular sphere--a major step toward ending the ongoing genocides that are explicitly or implicitly justified by its sacredness. It will help U.S. Americans realize that the holocausts THEY committed and are still committing, whose body counts of tens of millions are protected by no laws and enshrined by few museums and whose "righteous victims" are unfinanced by reparations, are the ones that should get most of their attention...in order that the real lesson of all holocausts, "never again," can finally be achieved.

That's why, on tomorrow's Truth Jihad Radio, I'm shattering the taboo on discussing holocaust revisionism. I hope you'll agree that I'm doing it in the kind of fair and open-minded way that would be helpful to those who, like me, are new to the issue -- and to those who are not who can set aside their emotional prejudices and reflexive use of ad-hominems, and listen to three guests' well-informed yet wildly different perspectives on this fascinating and deeply repressed issue.

Kevin Barrett
McFarland, WI
4/23/2010

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