32 IHR Publications (Holocaust: IHR)
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This article is from the Holocaust FAQ, by Ken McVay kmcvay@nizkor.org with numerous contributions by others.
32 IHR Publications (Holocaust: IHR)
The IHR publishes an unreviewed "journal," "The Journal of Historical
Review," as well as "The IHR Newsletter," and an "IHR Update."
Dan Gannon, the owner-operator of the Portland, Oregon, bulletin
board system known as "banished.uucp," published articles from
Carto's organization on a regular basis, presumably as a public
service to those wishing to obtain a more accurate understanding of
the true nature of Carto and his associates. Many of these documents
are archived by ftp.nizkor.org, and thus available for anonymous
retrieval. (Mr. Gannon's computer system offers its users a steady
diet of anti-Semitic and racist material; Gannon is an eager
campaigner for Mr. Carto's anti-Semitic agenda.)
Why did Gannon do it, when he knew from past experience, both on
UseNet and GEnie, that he would be laughed at and hated for doing so?
Martinez provided the answer during a discussion of free speech
issues in general, and the Alan Berg show in particular:
Alan Berg gave huge amounts of air time to racists so that he
could satisfy his ego by responding to them and ridiculing them. The
racists know they will be ridiculed when they go on such programs,
and assume they will be despised by more than 99 percent of the
people who hear them spout their venom. But none of that is of any
matter to them. The fraction of 1 percent is. There they will find
the malcontents, the embittered, the bigots, and the sincerely
concerned but ignorant people like I was. The numbers are in their
favor, and they know it. Snyder's program [Tom Snyder interviewed
David Duke on television, and seeing that show led Martinez into the
supremacist camp. knm] may have reached 2 million listeners; if only
one-tenth of 1 percent of them respond favorably, they have recruited
2,000 people, no doubt swelling the ranks of their group ten- or
twentyfold. One hundredth of 1 percent would make them happy.
(Martinez, 242)
A parting comment or two regarding Mr. Gannon, from those he most
admires:
Prince Otto von Bismark, a member of the great chancellor's family,
charaterized Ribbentrop as 'such an imbecile he is a freak of
nature.' The French ambassador remarked: 'I could not talk to
Ribbentrop; he listened only to himself.' Goering referred to him
as 'Germany's number-one parrot,' because of his endless repetition
of meaningless claptrap." (Conot, Robert E. Justice at Nuremberg.
New York: Harper & Row, 1983, 52-53)
One can only wonder how these folks would have viewed Mr. Gannon...
IHR publications posted to UseNet newsgroups are archived on
ftp.nizkor.org, and are available to the public via anonymous
ftp. In general, the filename reflects the source of the article:
IHR newsletters are prefaced with IHR, while JHR files are prefaced
with JHR. The file extensions reflect either the month and year of
publication, plus the volume number (if provided) i.e. IHR.0492n86
contains material from the April, 1993, newsletter, number 86, while
JHR.v12n4 contains material from the Journal of Historical Review,
volume 12, number 4. Spotlight articles use the form
"spotlight.mmyy," i.e. "spotlight.0193" contains material from the
January, 1993 editions.
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