(07-05-2016, 10:05 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:(07-02-2016, 02:56 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: On February 1, 2007, Wiesel was attacked in a San Francisco hotel by 22-year-old Holocaust denier Eric Hunt, who tried to drag Wiesel into a hotel room. Wiesel was not injured and Hunt fled the scene. Later, Hunt bragged about the incident on the website Stormfront.[59] Approximately one month later, he was arrested and charged with multiple offences.[60] Hunt was convicted on July 21, 2008,[61] and was sentenced to two years imprisonment, but was given credit for time served and good behavior; he was released on probation and ordered to undergo psychological treatment. The jury convicted Hunt of three charges but dismissed the remaining charges of attempted kidnapping, stalking, and an additional count of false imprisonment, amid Hunt's withdrawal of his insanity plea.[62] District Attorney Kamala Harris said, "Crimes motivated by hate are among the most reprehensible of offenses ... This defendant has been made to answer for an unwarranted and biased attack on a man who has dedicated his life to peace."[63] At his sentencing hearing, Hunt apologized and insisted that he no longer denies the Holocaust;[64] however, he continued for some time afterwards to maintain and update a (now defunct) blog that was critical of prominent Jewish people and denied the Holocaust.[65]
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Nazi punks f____ off!
Having seen this gentle soul on television -- regrettably the only way that I could -- I can hardly imagine how anyone could attack him. But in view of 6 million other Jews... it happened, and Eric Hunt showed what an angry fool he is.
Holocaust denial is one of the most absurd misrepresentations of history possible, something that (even if one ignores its cruelty and disrespect of people who died for no comprehensible reason) negates the meaning and value of the study of history. Yes, history is often a horrific story written in the blood and ashes of innocent people. There's still good reason to see in its rawest, harshest form -- so that we never allow its worst deeds to happen again.
Maybe someday someone as similarly cruel as Eric Hunt will deny the Atlantic slave trade, one of the few evils as horrible )if more protracted) as the Shoah. The Holocaust deniers have established the precedent for others to treat the worst events of History as something to pretend never happened instead of the NC-17 (the old X rating) film that children absolutely must see. Yes, rape is also a part of history, which allows the most obvious excuse for an NC-17 rating for History at its harshest.
Between 1933 and 1945 Christian civilization completely failed in Germany; from 1938 to 1945 it completely failed in Austria. Christianity without conscience is itself a gross heresy.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.