-- On 11 Jan 2002, at 19:26, Eric Cordian wrote:
This is not simply a case of reporting something, and then tossing the burden of proof on the opposition to prove it wasn't said. This is a case of something pretty widely disseminated on the Net, to which not a single official voice of opposition has been raised.
Lots of things get widely disseminated, often from quasi official sources, for example "UN" documents, meaning some document issued by a loon working for a quango working for the UN, and never get denied. For example lots people on usenet have posted all sorts of things about me, that I am a nazi, was a Stalinist, and so on and so forth, and for the most part I usually do not deny it. If I do not deny such stuff, and for the most part I do not, why would you expect Sharon to deny such stuff? Sure, Sharon is a murderous semitic bigot, but the claims attributed to Sharon are not characteristic of Semitic bigots, but of anti semitic bigots. Thus it is far more likely that those words were invented by an antisemitic bigot, and attributed to Sharon to give them added plausibility, than that those words, or anything resembling them, were spoken by Sharon. Semitic bigots do not believe that Jews control America. Rather they believe that America and Americans are part of the antisemitic encirclement of Israel, and that Americans cackle with glee every time terrorists knock off a few Jews, and that American schools teach that the Jews murdered christ. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG aPKptkQYDEwNBKCjhHLeObgQJdWLNveilJEI6PyM 4+3ux3eQKF/P+LENF4pIdcFYl4DhCnmeYc9lTbEJY