The president of Iran, known here and at Dave’s as Gorilla Boy, is going to convene a conference explicitly for Holocaust denial. Watch for David Duke and David Irving to show. Oh, wait. Irving can’t show. He’s in an Austrian prison.
Deborah Lipstadt, who won the libel suit Irving brought against her, thinks Irving should be set free. I’m torn on this one, because Holocaust denial is more than a speech issue, as Gorilla Boy is showing us. The entire Arab world is using Irving’s books as proof that the Holocaust never happened, and passing on the lie of “European Jewish colonists” forming the state of Israel.
If more Holocaust deniers were imprisoned, there would be far fewer published lies.
However, I predict a big turnout for Gorilla Boy’s Adventures in Jew-Hatred. Lipstadt is wrong about the effect of the lies fading.
“I am not interested in debating with Holocaust deniers,” she says. “You wouldn’t ask a scientist to debate with someone who thinks the Earth is flat. They are not historians, they are liars. Debating them would be nonsensical.
“But we also should not allow them to become martyrs. Nothing is served by having David Irving in a jail cell, except that he has become an international news issue.
“Let him go home and let him continue talking to six people in a basement.
Maybe Gorilla Boy should be known as Dave’s boy? DD, DI both support him.
Ahmadinejad had a busy week! I also found on that site a whole section dedicated to the lunacy that is Gorilla Boy — Vital Perspective: Ahmadinejad Watch
Again, strenuous objections to calling him Gorilla-boy. We have strong union and very ugly attorneys who resemble men in rubber lizard suits…
Oy vey. I have that feeling that usually precedes another tasteless post of mine…
Lipstadt of close-by Emory University is consistent in her dealings with fools like Irving: don’t dignify them with anything that may be construed as respect (such as sharing a platform). As to the Iranian nitwits, I hope the attendance is good, that all the so-called experts (yech-sperts) are present, that they have brought their families, and that this is the night the West decides to cook their reactors.