“The debate over immigration, growth and the enviroment has become so clouded with misinformation and hidden agenda’s that rational discourse and objective, scientific analysis has become impossible. If anyone believes that our current Globalist/Corporate-capitalist growth model can be sustained indefinately within the constraints of a finite resource base, just doesn’t get the math. Yes, nativist and xenophobes who could really care less about the natural world have cynically used the population argument to further their own agenda, but while being disingenuous about their real motives, they can be right about the issue.”

The concern here is that by constantly linking these individuals to an environmental movement goal that far predated America’s current debate about immigration, links in the mind of the many that population stabilization/reduction is another code word for racism and xenophobic hatred. For those of us in the Deep Ecology movement, an international and multiethnic group of concerned advocates for a new ecological ethic, this is a tremendous concern. Perception can quickly become reality in the minds of many, and shut off debate and engagement in the general population over the critical issue of a dwindling natural world and exploding human exploitation of it.

I won’t get into a “debate” about the actuality of the Holocaust, thereby giving you any credence whatsoever, but my Dad’s stories from Auschwitz-Birkenau (he has since passed) and his tattoo, and the lack of any extended family from Europe after the war, and the stories from his teen girlfriend who ended up in Australia, and the literally _hundreds_ of books, records from the Nazi’s themselves (perhaps you ought to see the film ‘Shoah’ by Claude Lanzmann), and other sources of information, including the Nuremberg trials and eyewitness reports from Allied soldiers, both American and Russian who liberated the concentration camps prove you to be nothing more than a base liar and coward.

The process of eliminating Jewish People due to the disease and sickness they would inflict on others was necessary as stated above …..why do we know that the German people gladly collected their belongings, including their teeth, and skin …………to make collectibles.? And why was the wealth confiscated and sent to Austria and Switzerland for safe keeping? Why would the Austrians and Swiss people have accepted the father load knowing how contaminated it was with disease?

I work part time in an Antique Mall in Florida. Tons of Nazi figurines dated 1938 and Nazi toys and Nazi keepsakes are funneled into our store from former German Nazi homes for resale.

Are we receiving Nazi “collectibles” to prove that the holocaust actually did happen? Or are the old Nazi people dying off and their children find it a great market in Florida to send large boxes of the stuff for resale ………….to keep some dream alive?

How is it possible to deny the holocaust when so much physical evidence including Nazi SS keepsakes are showing up in our Antique Stores on a weekly basis? And selling well.

The History Channel documents the actual oral histories from those who worked for and harbored Nazi officials. We have newspapers from the 1920s and figurines celebrating Nazi efforts in 1938 which you can hold in your hands. Do German people send us these items for some sort of safe keeping? Perhaps a warning or reminder of what happens when NATIONALISM becomes so cruel and marketed so completely that the aggression against some scape goat group of people…… can happen to anyone? Or do they just want them out of their homes…….so their friends and family will not know about the sins of their fathers and mothers? And they can make a profit at the same time ? Or have they found kindred spirits in American business people who agree with the need to get rid of people…………..and marvel and buy these trinkets of the holocaust history and salute it’s marketing process? Is America becoming the Nazi heirloom museum? Or their proof that what happened is some natural form of behavior and is acceptably happening all over again? Probably throughout our nation?

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How can one deny the Holocaust??

Jim Rizoli

This reflects more negatively on Canada’s authoritarian government than it does John Tanton or Roy Beck.

@Mr. Daleiden: Please fill us in on the ways in which the above article was ignorant or dishonest.