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Nobel winner Wiesel attacked by holocaust denier
Feb 10, 2007, 0:47 GMT
San Francisco - Nobel Prize-winning author Elie Wiesel was accosted recently by a Holocaust denier who dragged him from a hotel elevator and tried to force him into a hotel room to confront him about his writing, the San Francisco Examiner reported Friday.
The incident occurred last week in the Argent Hotel in San Francisco when an unidentified man entered the elevator with Wiesel and dragged him out on the sixth floor. The man fled when Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, screamed for help.
Though police have yet to identify an attacker, the report said the assailant has boasted about the incident on the anti-Zionist website Ziopedia.org and revealed that he had been stalking the writer for months.
'After ensuring no women would be traumatized by what I had to do (I had been trailing Wiesel for weeks), I stopped the elevator at the sixth floor. I pulled Wiesel out of the elevator. I said I wanted to interview him,' a posting by someone calling himself Eric Hunt said.
The writer said he tried to 'bring Wiesel to my hotel room where he would truthfully answer my questions regarding the fact that his non-fiction Holocaust memoir, Night, is almost entirely fictitious.'
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P. Lyte:
M&C is unwise to rely on the German Press Agency (dpa, Deutsche Presse Agentur) as news source, because it's biased in favor of German government policies which include anti-Semitism and glorification of the Third Reich.
The outrageous and disgusting reality in today's Germany is that its government officials not only promote the rise of anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism but also allow German companies to transfer nuclear know-how and technical components to Iran for the purpose of producing nuclear arms such as long-range missiles that can reach Israel.
Inside Germany, the Nazi parties NPD and DVU are pursuing their anti-Semitic agenda totally unobstructed. Contrary to the outspoken anti-Semitism of government officials in the Third Reich, today's German governing officials are resorting to sweet talk while at the same time knifing Jewish people who live in Germany in the back.
The Nazi parties NPD and DVU have been legalized, receiving taxpayers' funds to promote and advertise their criminal intentions. The neo-Nazis were also voted into several Landtag parliaments where they spew their vitriolic and anti-semitic hate-filled speeches on a daily basis paid by taxpayers' monies.
Recently a German court has shown its sympathy with and support of a well-known Nazi, allowing him to carry deadly arms which could be used against Jewish targets.
Also, not long ago the phrase 'Glory and honor to the SS' was ruled legal by other German judges. Just think of it: The mass-murdering organization SS that was carrying out the Holocaust is considered glorious and honorable by German courts!
The effects on the lives of Jewish people trying to live a normal life in today's Germany are once again getting disastrous, as neo-Nazis and associated skinheads track down Jewish men, women and adolescents, terrorizing them and attacking them both verbally and physically, thus committing assault and battery.
In todays society admitting that your
no doubt that big bad thing happened but there are sad people who exaggerate the truth and thereby harm the cause i.e. search for a more humane world.
Marcus, so what you are saying is that all the uproar that was caused by the President of Iran, wanting to attend the soccer championship's, but couldn't, because he risked being thrown in prison because German law requires that for anyone who denies the holocaust (which he does) is just a front? Say it ain't so!!!
To 'Seriously':
The answer to your question is simple: The law you mentioned does exist but it is not enforced.
Quite to the contrary: Today's German politicians support and protect neo-Nazis who were recently voted into several Landtag parliaments where they spew their vitriolic and anti-semitic hate-filled speeches on a daily basis paid by taxpayers' monies. Every single day the Holocaust is being denied in the parliaments of Germany and yet the perpetrators are never punished, much less has any one of them been thrown into jail.
Elie Wiesle claimed to spend time in the hospital after injuring his foot. Why would prisoners slated for death be placed in a hospital?
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P. LyteFeb 10th, 2007 - 02:32:28
How can that be? In this day and age there can be no argument or dispute about the Holocost. Can we not agree on anything in this country? People died for no good reason and it is blasphelme to say they did not. If your Mom was taken to the trains never to be seen again, can you imagine how you would feel? Let's at least agree that it was done and then maybe, just maybe, we can carry on as human beings. My God, are we really coming to this?
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