[Vision2020] Holocaust denier visits Moscow

[Saundra Lund]

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I don't subscribe to the Trib -- can anyone who does please provide more
details?  Any identification of the group(s)/individual(s) responsible for
David Irving's decision to stop in ***our*** community to spew forth his
hate & lies?  Any explanation from The Hampton Inn about why they provided a
venue for his verbal vomit, *particularly* after The Mark IV did the Right
and responsible thing???  Were those in the audience supporters or
protesters or observers?  Was the audience just those traveling with him or
are they individuals from this community who support him?  More information,
PLEASE!

I don't know, but it looked to me like his "tour" was a driving one.  When I
first heard about his plan to stop in Moscow, the burning question for me
was, "What on earth makes this person think there are people in Moscow,
Idaho who would want to hear him or buy his lies???"  I mean, this isn't a
big city like Seattle, Portland, Salt Lake, Denver, or Chicago where the
sheer number of people living there would guarantee a few completely twisted
souls interested in his hate & lies.

Why Moscow?!?!  What the H*LL is going on in our community that would make
this . . . man stop here?!?!?  What message is getting it out to the world
indicating that this sort of hatred would be welcome in our community???

Whatever it is, as a community, we need to take a long hard look at
ourselves and address those issues:  for every person who showed up in
support of such sh*t, there are more in our community with the same
non-thinking mentality who didn't show up.

I really am just sickened by this  :-(


Saundra Lund
Moscow, ID

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
nothing.
-Edmund Burke 

-----Original Message-----
From: vision2020-admin@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-admin@moscow.com] On
Behalf Of bill london
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 9:32 AM
To: Vision2020
Subject: [Vision2020] Holocaust denier visits Moscow


Yup, David Irving (who makes a living publishing and selling books 
denying the Holocaust happened) was in Moscow last night.
(see Lewiston Morning Tribune today, 12/17, page 6A)
The Mark IV refused to let him speak and sell his books there.
Clever fellow that he is, he had reserved another space (at Hampton Inn) 
and spoke there to a dozen groupies.
BL