I
wonder how it will play in Peoria, I
conclude, as my American friends would
say: unquestionably this pas-de-deux has
aroused more anti semitism in the souls of
ordinary folks.
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February
16, 2005 (Wednesday)
London
(England) I SEND this email to Charles Hughes in
Felixstowe: "I should have written you ages ago to
thank you for your notes on the Frederich Taylor
book, Dresden. He lifted a lot of stuff out
of mine,
as you will have seen. His claim that Dresden was a vital industrial
and communications target is difficult to square
with the target
map [below], which included no
factories, railroad bridges, stations, or even the
railway lines in the target sector. I will post
your notes on my website in a day or two in the
Dresden
dossier. Thanks too for your much needed
support. All the best,.. [etc]"  
I SEE that Michele [Lady
Renouf] has written among others to
Professor Tony Martin, the Black expert on
the slave-trade whom we had as a guest speaker at
Cincinnati, about the Ken Livingstone
episode; she writes,
Just godda congratulate the 'new' Ken
who is now opposing even his deputy -- you'll be
the more delighted, since [she] was
behind your being disinvited by the Mayor's
Office last year -- and is refusing for a second
day to "apologize" to the JDL, the ADL, et al. Not satisfied with that, the irrepressible
Lady Renouf also writes to Ken Livingstone
himself  [email protected] Good on you! Your battered
sensibilities are at least as valid as any
cry-wolf histrionics from today's orchestrated
"victims with nukes". [-- Joe Sobran]Keep leading firmly. There are too few public
voices willing, in effect, to release true open
debate and world governments from this bullying,
irrational crawling to 'Israel'. I doubt that Livingstone will welcome plaudits
from her Ladyship, any more than he would from me.
Which would not stop me either. I shall however
keep my thoughts to myself. I am known as a generous, forgiving, and
Christian man, but in my own private world order I
have worked out a kind of hierarchy, which ranks
washing-machines above dishwashers, and beneath the
latter a crumbling soggy heap of flaking lineoleum,
dampness, crud, and mould, which is roughly where I
would place the average journalist; and beneath
that foul stratum, down in that darkness, the home
of the cockroaches, termites, woodworms, and other
infestations, and -- lurking even beneath their
unremoved excrement -- the world of enemy lawyers,
solicitors, and other bottom-crawling scumsuckers;
and somewhere beneath all of them, until now, I had
imagined Ken Livingstone and his "anti-fascist"
ilk. No longer. He has restored himself in my
estimation. I chime in: Yes, I was strongly tempted to send a
private note of congrats to him. But the
background is sordid, if you study the
transcript of their dialogue in detail: Ken
Livingstone emerges from a County Hall
bean-feast, splurged for his fellow-homosexuals,
a celebration funded by us unwilling taxpayers;
he is evidently well dined and lubricated, and
has enjoyed himself until he is challenged by a
reporter on the building's steps, a Mr
Finegold (where do they get these
names?) -- who asks "How was it?"Ken obviously takes this to be a nasty
reference to the homo shindig; and he snaps back
at the guy a retort reminding him in effect that
the Nazis put homos into concentration camps or
worse, and that by his question the reporter is
sinking to the level of a Nazi concentration
camp guard. Whereupon said reporter reveals his Jewish
identity and takes refuge behind it, like the
coward he is. Because as we all know, it offends
against Jewish sensitivities and all the
existing commandments to criticise a Jew,
whatever he does -- even driving
a US-built armoured Caterpillar bulldozer over
the fair face of an American relief worker, for
example, and killing her, in the Gaza Strip:
to condemn that too is "anti-Semitic." So Ken must be made to pay the price.
However, he is a Livingstone, I presume, and he
refuses to say sorry, not just once but twice
and thrice. Worse, he heaps calumny on the Fourth Estate,
this country's journaille. "Scumbags" is
just one of the words he uses about journalists.
A glorious spectacle. I never liked him until
now (though his bold congestion charge strategy
has earned my grudging respect). "I wonder how it will play in Peoria," I
conclude, "as my American friends would say:
unquestionably this pas-de-deux has aroused more
anti semitism in the souls of ordinary folks (I
certainly know now what words to use if Mr Finegold
ever darkens my doorstep); and it has sowed more
outrage in the hearts of this country's guests, the
Jewish community --- who seem once again to blame,
through the arrogance of their Mr Finegold, for
their own misfortune. [Previous
Radical's Diary] 
Deutsche
Stimme interviews David Irving at length (in
German) about Dresden, Auschwitz, World War II
and history: "The German spirit is still
enemy-occupied territory. . ."-
Apologies all round Outrage
of Auschwitz survivor because Canadian
Television included interview with Prof Norman
Finkelstein | and Mr Irving's comments
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David Irving