---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 15:16:00 -0700 (PDT) From: NSWPP-CSUTo: nswpp@earthlink.net Subject: Doubts at Nizkor? [NSNet Bulletin #39] DOUBTS AT NIZKOR? My recent announcement that Nizkor had succeeded in pressuring America On Line to pull the NSWPP website off the air produced one very strange response, which I'm still not quite sure what to make of. Let me state at the outset that this e-mail I got may well be a fake. It came through an anonymous server and I have no way of knowing the real author. But if it's NOT a fake---hoo boy, a very interesting can of worms indeed may soon burst open! Bearing in mind my reservations about this communique's authenticity, I will not quote it specifically. Besides, if it IS authentic the last thing I want to do is cause this person trouble, and his or her "colleagues" might recognize the author from style or content. Briefly, the e-mail I received purports to be from someone involved with Nizkor. For those of you who have the good fortune to be unfamiliar with them, Nizkor are the evil cyber-munchkins who claim to be devoted to refuting Holocaust revisionism through open debate, but whose definition of "debate" includes some of the most vile and arrogant personal invective I have ever read and apparently also includes every way they can devise to silence those who think politically incorrect thoughts by driving them off the Internet. They run several controlled newsgroups based on the principle of the Maoist "struggle session" wherein anyone who thinks independently or questions received orthodoxy is subjected to an intense battering of abuse, vilification, insult, and other deranged behavior. The head honcho of Nizkor is a Sixties retread named Ken McVay, assisted by two women named Hilary Ostrov, who I assume is a Jew, and Jamie McCarthy. (One contact of mine says Jamie McCarthy is a man, by the by. She sounds female to me, but whatever. Maybe he or she is an "it"; nowadays you can never tell. For present purposes I'll stick with she, but I'm open to any solid info there.) McVay has recently begun to enjoy his Fifteen Minutes and has been the subject of several adoring media stories about how he's trouncing us nasty old Nazis on the Net. He's doing nothing of the kind, of course---he refused an offer to debate with me and after my first e-mail message has refused to respond ever since. Together with his two sidekicks and a cast of kosher auxiliaries like Arthur Mathis, Joel Rosenberg, Sara Swartz, and a number of lesser lights they play in their newsgroups like kids in a sandbox and surreptitiously send spams, mail bombs, bogus complaints to ISPs, and fraudulent e-mails all over to try and silence those who refuse to think as we're told. Okay, getting back to my mysterious e-mail, the crux of it is that the author claims Nizkor is now involved in a moral crisis; there is allegedly feuding between the gentiles and the Jews involved over who calls the shots, rumors abound to the effect that McVay has shadowy handlers who remain in the background but for whom he is basically an errand boy following orders, and ABOVE ALL---some of the gentile Nizkorians are beginning to DOUBT. They began their crusade with a fundamentalist fervor; the Holocaust was Holy Writ and any questioning of the dogma of the Six Million was heresy deserving only of the rack, the gallows, and the stake. These people spend their leisure hours reading Revisionist material in order to refute it, learning the Revisionist dialectic in order to expose it as false---and they trip over their own shoelaces. They find that contrary to their own claims, Revisionists generally DO have their facts straight. They find that more often than not, when facts are run to earth the Revisionists are right and the Exterminationists are wrong. They perform semantic and quasi-scientific acrobatics to get around that damning and damnable Leuchter Report, but it never quite rings true. After a while the inconsistencies in the Holocaust myth start to become more noticeable, more glaring, harder and harder to explain away. Have I got it right, O mystery correspondent mine? That's what it struck me you were trying to say. It makes sense that's the way it would happen. The nub of it is that Nizkor allegedly is now preparing what amounts to a heresy trial for one of their associates. This unnamed heretic [my source is maddeningly reticent about details] has gone so far as to express doubts about what the group is doing on moral grounds, suppressing freedom of speech and freedom of thought and so on. Worse still, he/she has expressed cautious agreement with certain points of the Revisionist position, specifically the twin ideological pillars of the whole Holocaust religion. He/she now believes that the Auschwitz gas chambers are in fact fakes which were assembled after the war by the Communists, and he/she also believes that there never was any concerted plan on the part of Adolf Hitler or the government to exterminate the Jews of Europe, i.e. the camps were for forced labor and conditions were bad, food and medicine scarce, guards brutal and sometimes sadistic, and death rates high---but there was no deliberate extermination plan. In other words, no gassing. In other words, the whole house of cards has come tumbling down in this person's mind, for which he/she will doubtless be burned at the stake, figuratively speaking. I have believed ever since my first contact with these people that at the very least Ken McVay, Hilary Ostrov, and Jamie McCarthy are quite well aware of the fact that they are defending and propagating a massive historical hoax. As I said, I do not insist on the authenticity or accuracy of this e-mail I got---but it SOUNDS legit. It SOUNDS like exactly the sort of thing one would expect when you rope basically decent, intelligent people into lending themselves to a left-wing cause---Lenin called such well-meaning liberal dupes "useful idiots"---but the useful turn out to be not quite so idiotic, capable of independent thought, refuse to put on the blinders and stop using their eyes and their minds. There is a very good book which I recommend highly by a man named Eugene Lyons called THE RED DECADE; it is about the way the liberal intelligentsia in the West was roped into supporting Stalin and the Soviet Union and world Communism as the "wave of the future" and "the hope of peace", always in the face of mounting evidence that the USSR was a murderous, corrupt and inhuman tyranny controlled by an uncouth Asiatic despot who didn't give a tinker's damn about the toiling masses. One of the most interesting chapters deals with how the well-meaning liberals eventually woke up and smelled the coffee and realized how they had been duped and used. There's another good book on the same subject which I recommend, THE GOD THAT FAILED. The Nizkor situation is significant, because for the first time organized Jewry has actually allowed some kind of Holocaust debate to take place. They seem to have realized that given the realities of the Internet, they now have no choice. The fact that it isn't really a debate is irrelevant; as part of this project, for the first time, the "useful idiots" have been allowed to get a look at uncut, unsanitized Revisionist material---and some of them are recoiling in horror as they realize that it is truth, and the enormity of the implications strike them. I predict that just as the Thirties, Forties, and Fifties were full of defectors and apostates from the Communist cause, like Whittaker Chambers, Arthur Koestler, Andre Gide, and Eugene Lyons himself, Nizkor's net effect will be to produce the first apostates from the Holocaust religion---those who once Believed with a capital B, but who now understand that all their lives they have been Deceived, with a capital D. -WINSTON SMITH "This destiny does not tire, nor can it be broken, and its mantle of strength descends upon those in its service." - Francis Parker Yockey, IMPERIUM
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