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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Bickford's History
Message-ID: <237@cybvax0.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-Nov-84 10:06:51 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 14 10:06:51 1984
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Reply-To: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
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Summary: 

[Ken Arnold]
>Um, not really.  For example, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
>is a counterfeit, not because there is a REAL one but because they
>were written by the Czar's secret police as a justification for
>anti-semetic actions.  It is counterfeit because it is not real
>(or more precisely it pretends to be something which it is not), not
>because it is an imitation of an actual real thing.

Point of information--  Protocols was long ago discovered to be a plagiarism of
a much older conspiracy fantasy that was not written about jews.  (Source: a
newspaper summary of notorious writing hoaxes after the recent Hitler diary
fabrication.)
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Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh