DO I TELL THE TRUTH OR DO I OBEY THE LAW

Amelia Aremia, left, US constitution defender, in Melbourne at 2 June 2010 Birthday lunch

“Denial” is an ordinary English word meaning to assert the untruth of something. Recently, however, it has acquired a further polemical sense. To “deny” in this new sense is to repudiate some commonly professed doctrine. Denial is the secular form of blasphemy; deniers are scorned, ridiculed and sometimes prosecuted.

Where does this new usage come from? There is an old sense of “deny,” akin to “disown,” which no doubt lies in the background. (A traitor denies his country; Peter denied Christ.) But the more immediate source is Freud. Denial in the Freudian sense is the refusal to accept a painful or humiliating truth. Sufferers are said to be in a “state of denial” or simply “in denial.” This last phrase entered general use in the early 1990s and launched “denial” on its modern career.

“Holocaust denial” was the first political application, followed closely by “Aids denial,” “global warming denial” and a host of others.

An abstract noun, “denialism,” has recently been coined. It is perhaps no accident that denial’s counterpart, affirmation, has meanwhile acquired laudatory overtones. We “affirm” relationships, achievements, values. Ours is a relentlessly positive culture.

An accusation of “denial” is serious, suggesting either deliberate dishonesty or self-deception. The thing being denied is, by implication, so obviously true that the denier must be driven by perversity, malice or wilful blindness.

Few issues warrant such confidence. The Holocaust is perhaps one, though even here there is room for debate over the manner of its execution and the number of its victims. A charge of denial short-circuits this debate by stigmatising as dishonest any deviation from a preordained conclusion. It is a form of the argument ad hominem: the aim is not so much to refute your opponent as to discredit his motives.

The extension of the “denier” tag to group after group is a development that should alarm all liberal-minded people. One of the great achievements of the Enlightenment–the liberation of historical and scientific enquiry from dogma–is quietly being reversed.

SOMEONE LETS HIMSELF BE UPSET

— "I don't care nothin' about my life-it's your lives that I want to save...

these people are, to play games with your lives and the lives of your babies,

didn't want to be left out of America - so America signed us up to fight the

Just to remind those who see no relevance in focusing on Adolf Hitler. Note what Prof R Dommergue says:

'The only thing we know about Hitler is that he killed six million Jews which never existed in gas chambers

which nobody ever saw. That’s all – that’s the only thing people know about him.'

.... why is it that I can speak freely about holocaust matters in such company

but not in free and democratic western countries that have criminalized any such discussion?

Final destination Iran?

Exclusive: Rob Edwards Published on 14 Mar 2010

Hundreds of powerful US “bunker-buster” bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for a possible attack on Iran.

The Sunday Herald can reveal that the US government signed a contract in January to transport 10 ammunition containers to the island. According to a cargo manifest from the US navy, this included 387 “Blu” bombs used for blasting hardened or underground structures.

Experts say that they are being put in place for an assault on Iran’s controversial nuclear facilities. There has long been speculation that the US military is preparing for such an attack, should diplomacy fail to persuade Iran not to make nuclear weapons.

Although Diego Garcia is part of the British Indian Ocean Territory, it is used by the US as a military base under an agreement made in 1971. The agreement led to 2,000 native islanders being forcibly evicted to the Seychelles and Mauritius.

The Sunday Herald reported in 2007 that stealth bomber hangers on the island were being equipped to take bunker-buster bombs.

They are gearing up totally for the destruction of Iran

Dan Plesch, director, Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, University of London

Although the story was not confirmed at the time, the new evidence suggests that it was accurate.

Contract details for the shipment to Diego Garcia were posted on an international tenders’ website by the US navy.

A shipping company based in Florida, Superior Maritime Services, will be paid $699,500 to carry many thousands of military items from Concord, California, to Diego Garcia.

Crucially, the cargo includes 195 smart, guided, Blu-110 bombs and 192 massive 2000lb Blu-117 bombs.

“They are gearing up totally for the destruction of Iran,” said Dan Plesch, director of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at the University of London, co-author of a recent study on US preparations for an attack on Iran. “US bombers are ready today to destroy 10,000 targets in Iran in a few hours,” he added.

The preparations were being made by the US military, but it would be up to President Obama to make the final decision. He may decide that it would be better for the US to act instead of Israel, Plesch argued.

“The US is not publicising the scale of these preparations to deter Iran, tending to make confrontation more likely,” he added. “The US ... is using its forces as part of an overall strategy of shaping Iran’s actions.”

According to Ian Davis, director of the new independent thinktank, Nato Watch, the shipment to Diego Garcia is a major concern. “We would urge the US to clarify its intentions for these weapons, and the Foreign Office to clarify its attitude to the use of Diego Garcia for an attack on Iran,” he said.

For Alan Mackinnon, chair of Scottish CND, the revelation was “extremely worrying”. He stated: “It is clear that the US government continues to beat the drums of war over Iran, most recently in the statements of Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton.

“It is depressingly similar to the rhetoric we heard prior to the war in Iraq in 2003.”

The British Ministry of Defence has said in the past that the US government would need permission to use Diego Garcia for offensive action. It has already been used for strikes against Iraq during the 1991 and 2003 Gulf wars.

About 50 British military staff are stationed on the island, with more than 3,200 US personnel. Part of the Chagos Archipelago, it lies about 1,000 miles from the southern coasts of India and Sri Lanka, well placed for missions to Iran.

The US Department of Defence did not respond to a request for a comment.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/final-destination-iran-1.1013151

Education: Wonder why during the last 25 years standards have slipped a little?

or, if not, withstand me might and main that I may not deceive you as well as myself in my desire,

and like the bee leave my sting in you before I die. And now let us proceed." - Socrates

Prince Charles, wearing his Royal yarmulke, and his wife Camilla light the menorah as

Dr Fredrick Töben with Director of Adelaide Institute, Mr Peter Hartung, outside the Federal Court at Adelaide

Australian Jewish legal eagles feel persecuted whenever they are not in charge of situations - it's the tyrant's mechanism:

vicious when exercising power, playing the victim when they become the object of an exercise of justice.

"The man who is not opposed, and vilified, and slandered in the Jewish press, is not a staunch German,

and not a true National Socialist. The best rule whereby the sincerity of his convictions,

his character and strength of will, can be measured, is the hostility which his name arouses among the mortal enemies of our people."

"I do not set much value on the friendship of people, who do not succeed in getting disliked by their enemies."

"The standing of the higher classes must not be lowered, but that of the lower classes must be raised."

"Democracy, as practised in Western Europe today is the forerunner of Marxism."

A beauty-conscious people, evidenced by the many planned walks and public buildings,

by their art, their homes, their literature. Germans noted for their cleanliness and neatness - no filthy back yards.

Youth encouraged to to travel through country in healthy, natural surroundings.

Magnificent roads, sportsfields, public buildings and an efficient housing scheme.

Every town and village to have a sports field, swimming pool, beautiful buildings...

SOMEONE LETS HIMSELF BE UPSET

Adolf Hitler discovers Revisionism & Holocaust Denial

Final destination Iran?

Exclusive: Rob Edwards Published on 14 Mar 2010