On Thu, 1 May 2003, Linda Dionne wrote:

> Hi Carrol,
>
> Maybe F. Leon is just playing devil's advocate to get us to talk about it.

Really, I was only asking the question being put forward in the other
discussion forum.

I do have a copy of The Protocols of Zion and several other "underground"
publications, but does owning books mean that you believe and/or advocate
those ideas?

I thought (and wrote) the CHOMSKY forum was better equipped to handle such
a conversation.

The reactions were . . . astounding!

> I am on another list with him and the topic came up. On the other list it
> seemed as though some did believe the protocols to be the truth. If
> intelligent people believe the "drivel" then something is terribly wrong
> and it should be discussed.
>
> Linda

Linda, now you see why it was suggested to move the discussion to a forum
which was not as narrowly focused.

There are people who are citing The Protocols of Zion as fact.  They
simply do not know the history, source and use of the writings.  I now
understand why.  There is nowhere to discuss The Protocols of Zion to a
point of clarity and understanding.  When people do not get concrete
answers, they create their own (right or wrong).

As world events headed in their current direction, I see this as a growing
problem that that cannot be discussed.


F. Leon

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carrol Cox" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 2:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHOMSKY] Clarification
>
>
> > Jonathan Julius Dobkin wrote:
> > >
> > > The drivel I refer to is the defense (or something--the whole rant is
> > > rather incoherent) by F Leon Wilson imputing some significance to a
> > > racist forgery.
> > >
> > > What the hell are you talking about?!
> >
> > The whole thing is a jolt. It had never occurred to me in my whole life
> > (73 years) that anyone would take that forgery seriously. It should be
> > no more necessary to argue that fact than to argue that the earth is
> > round. But then about 50 years ago when my father was teaching in a
> > rural elementary school, a father of a student came in very angry. He
> > insisted that the world was flat. Wilson's questions about the Protocol
> > is as outrageous and stupid as that man's insistence that the world was
> > flat.
> >
> > Wilson utterly bewilders me. Why would anyone in 2003 defend a stupid
> > racist forgery>?
> >
> > Carrol
>