Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-pundit!black From: black@pundit.DEC (Don Black DTN 261-2739 MS: NIO/N9 Loc: Pole B6) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: The Big Lie Message-ID: <2774@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 19-Jun-85 11:44:15 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.2774 Posted: Wed Jun 19 11:44:15 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 21-Jun-85 01:48:13 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 55 I do appreciate Tom Schlesinger's comparing my "line" with the John Birch Society. I neither deny it nor confirm it. The open-minded and inquisitive among you will want to check it out a little further. After all, you wouldn't want me to stand unjustly accused of such a heinous offfense, would you? The only real way to find out if Schlesinger is right is to find out what the Birchers are saying, and compare it to my postings. Their address is: The John Birch Society 393 Concord Ave. Belmont MA 02178 It seems to me that the only rational way to be opposed to some- thing or some group is to find out everything you can about them, and read every piece of their literature. Find out what they're saying, and refute it. Am I right, or am I blowing smoke? Speaking of paranoia---World War II ended forty years ago. Forty years later, people are still making a career of chasing down "war criminals." It must be nice being a professional Nazi-hunter. Imagine being able to travel to exotic places like Brazil and Paraguay, all expenses paid. And then when you get back, you can publish a book and collect all sorts of lecture honoraria. Meanwhile, the guy you're looking for is a geriatrics patient or a name on a tombstone. Like this guy Mengele. He's probably been dead for years, but they still collect funds to hire somebody to hunt him down. And the case against Klaus Barbie is a real can of worms. If the French prosecute him, it will expose what really happened in the Maquis during the war. But yet, nobody raises a finger to the people who provided Nazi Germany with the materials to prosecute the war, to wit, the petroleum products, the ball bearings, the aviation engines, the bauxite, etc. Nobody says a word about the connection between I.G. Farben and Standard Oil Company, between the Bank for International Settlements/Reichsbank and the Chase National Bank (Chase-Manhattan), or the bearings manufact- urer, SKF, that shipped bearings from the US and Swedish plants when their German factory at Schweinfurt was bombed. Or how about the ITT/ Folcke-Wulf connection? The Big Lie, you say. Paranoia. And just for chuckles, the next time you're in the Big Apple, go over to the UN and find out who donated the land that the UN building sits on. Then think about what we're in for. Sleep well tonight. --Don Black