Hi Carrol,

Maybe F. Leon is just playing devil's advocate to get us to talk about it.
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
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carrol Cox" <[log in to unmask]>
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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