Public Chamber members propose to ban The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Interfax Religion ^ | 27 January 2006, 18:07

[Uncle Fud]

No book should ever be banned.

A far more valuable service would be to make known how many copies of the "Protocols" are printed every year in Saudi Arabia.

[theFIRMbss]

>A far more valuable service would be to make known how many copies of the "Protocols" are printed every year in Saudi Arabia

They get "CBS"
about it -- They know it's false
but pretend it's true . . .

[snowrip]

Damn... Neo, Morpheus and those guys will be pissed.

[popdonnelly]

Had an internet argument once with an anti-Semite crank who made exactly that argument. Said even if the Protocols were a fake, that didn't mean that the story of Zionist domination couldn't be true. I gave up at that point.

[Tailgunner Joe]

Russia is becoming a socialist country with thought crime laws like the EU where the government can ban whatever it wants. Contrary to popular belief, Russia's gulag system is still in operation and they will soon be sending political and religious dissident to Siberia just like in the USSR days.

[theFIRMbss]

>if the Protocols were a fake, that didn't mean that the story of Zionist domination couldn't be true

In this book they say "Zion" is really Sion and the "protocols" are really about a secret society out to rule the globe . . .

[cgbg]

Banning books is an incredibly stupid and counterproductive idea.

Russians are the experts on the black market for everything.

There would probably be more copies in circulation after the ban than before it.

[x5452]

One day you insist that Russia is anti-semitic the next you say they are caving to the interest of the EU with regard to banning anti-semitism. Make up your mind.

[x5452]

True but they may see it as a way to get EU morons to quit insisting that Russia is anti-semitic.

[-YYZ-]

"Banning books is an incredibly stupid and counterproductive idea."

Yes, it is, along with all hate-speech and hate-crimes laws. We have hate speech laws in Canada that stop anti-semitic holocaust-revisionist nutbags from spreading their garbage here. Much as I detest them, I still think they should be free to speak their lies. Better that they're known and out in the open, where they can be identified and given the ridicule they so richly deserve.

[cgbg]

Let me get this straight--the anti-Semitic EU (which has clearly sided with Muslim extremists and the Palestinians) are trying to tell Russia not to be anti-semitic?

Russia should tell those arrogant dirtballs to stuff it.

[x5452]

They probably should.

I think the only reason they put this on the table is that it's holocaust memorial day, and there's a ton of Jewish organizations telling the international press that anti-semitic crime is rampant in Russia after there was a single stabbing in a synagogue, and the mayor uped security on all of them, the church condemened the action, and the guy was arrested for hate crimes.

The proper answer to what more could they have done should be that they've done enough, adding yet another law is overkill, and redundant.

[101st-Eagle]

Russia is becoming a socialist country with thought crime laws like the EU where the government can ban whatever it wants. Contrary to popular belief, Russia's gulag system is still in operation and they will soon be sending political and religious dissident to Siberia just like in the USSR days.

Note to scientists who support the ACLU: They sent the natural scientists to the gulags as well

[cgbg]

anti-hate speech law in Canada

I am a person of Jewish background who happens to be a white male. I am surrounded by a culture in all of North America and Europe that teaches youngsters that white males are responsible for all of the world's ills and something should be done about it.

So the "hate speech" that I worry about is not anti-Jewish but rather anti-white male.

White males can be disciminated against in employment, education, etc. and are every day.

Of course if they banned the anti-white male hate speech they would have to burn most of the political science, sociology, psychology, women's studies, black studies, islamic studies sections in bookstores and libraries.

I guess nobody wants to do that since it would pollute the atmosphere. :-(

[x5452]

There are no gulags in modern day Russia.

[REactor]

Half of EU countries sent their troops to Iraq (not being obliged by NATO treaty), and even more to Afghanistan. That's what you call siding with Muslim extremists?

[101st-Eagle]

Where did I say there were? Santayana comes to mind nevertheless.

[Tailgunner Joe]

you insist that Russia is anti-semitic

No I didn't. You said that Ukraine was antisemitic but Russia wasn't, a contradictory and hypocritical stance.

I do not resort to such henious leftist racebating Al Sharpton-wannabe tactics. You do.

[Tailgunner Joe]

Kim sells workers to gulags in debt deal - August 06, 2001! - The spectre of the gulag came to haunt President Kim´s Moscow summit with a report that, in order to service a $5.5 billion (£3.5 billion) Soviet-era debt, he will enlarge a scheme blamed for the torture and summary execution of some of his country´s most desperate refugees.

Russia’s gulags still in business - The camps were supposedly closed down with the end of communism, but reports in Moscow say they continue to exist, with North Korea using the system as a way to pay off its £5.5 billion debt to Russia. "North Korean labour holds the position of a special type of mass quantity product."