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Thursday, December 30, 2010
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FROM MY NOTEBOOKS
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What have we learned from our Soviet experience and the Genocide?
As far as I can see, nothing.
When it comes to free speech, our revolutionaries in the Diaspora are as intolerant as our commissars in the Homeland.
In their eyes silencing dissent is not a crime, dissent is.
They'd rather be wrong their way than right in someone else's.
All they care about is maintaining and whenever possible increasing their power even if it means hoodwinking, bamboozling, flimflamming, and brainwashing innocent civilians and their defenseless children.
In their thinking (or unthinking) when truth (that is, their ideology) speaks, lies should be silenced, in the same way that when the wise (that is, the boss) speaks, fools should hold their tongue.
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“From the crucifixion of Christ to the excommunication of Spinoza: what have you learned from history?” I once asked my old friend, the rabbi.
His reply:
“Who are you to tell us how to deal with our criminals?”
Spoken like a true commissar and a revolutionary.
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Friday, December 31, 2010
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To those who hunger for solutions to our problems,
may I remind them that
great reformers like Jesus, Mohammad, and Marx,
who provided solutions to mankind's problems
and changed the world,
did not always change it for the better.
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If the Kingdom of God is within us,
so are the solutions to all our problems.
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The blame-game is not a solution,
neither is lamentation –
and that's what Turcocentrism is --
endless and fruitless talk of Turks and massacres.
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Turcocentrism is the absence of all ideas
and the denial of all solutions.
In that sense it is more pathology than ideology –
a pathology that says we are beyond criticism
and free speech is our only enemy
(which happens to be the official Turkish line too).
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I suggest we don't need reformers.
What we really need is a good look at ourselves in the mirror.
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It takes great courage to see ourselves as we are.
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Speaking of solutions:
Talaat and Atatürk, and before them Sultan Abdulhamid II,
had one for the Turks.
So did Hitler for the Germans.
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