Hi Sword Of Truth
You broke Rule #4.
Limburger.
Creative intro to start with C
Hi Joey Donuts
You broke Hokulele's rule # 5 (see post 209).
On another note I had missed where Budly did bring some info! Since this is what we've been asking for I'll scan it and see if my hunch was correct. BTW since he first said
O.K. I'll pick a video for you and an episode:<snip> Here is a specific question for you: Do you think Yankel Wiernik is a credible Treblinka eyewitness?
I figured that was your strong point and you just might even be correct that A witness has credibility issues.
An obviously fraudulent eyewitnesses like Yankel Weirnik who claimed a guy dressed as a clown with an alarm clock tied around his neck, timed people going to the bathroom at Treblinka
The clock makes perfect sense to me, the costume might have to have a back story. Is this the obvious fraud part?
isn't discredited by saying such a ridiculous thing.
Again, not ridiculous in my book. Unusual, sure.
And because A Year in Treblinka was used as a template by other witnesses, at least one other witness said the same thing as the rebuttal author points out.
False story spreading? Or confirmation? As a non-expert i can't say but luckily you've got all kinds certainty.
The next passage makes a big deal about where the testimony of Yankel Wiernik can be found, stating that it's disingenous to say it's hard to find when it's on the web. Maybe the videomaker wanted a hard copy. By the way,
the web version of Wiernik's account is great to read because you can see that Denierbud left out a lot of parts that show Wiernik is lying. Like where the naked woman leaps a 9 foot fence, from chapter 8 of A Year in Treblinka:
I agree that that story seems unlikely as literal truth. Perhaps he was speaking in metaphors? A superhuman naked female heroine leaping fences and killing enemy soldiers sounds like the kind of urban legend schoolkids would make up and pass around.
In other words, Denierbud doesn't include ALL the unbelievable stories.
Oh my, have you alerted him? So there are other good examples? Fine, you may have a witness whose stories can't be all believed. Perhaps there's something wrong with his mind and memory due to, oh, I dunno...
THE HOLOCAUST?
So "sprinkled with benzine" becomes "soaked in gasoline" thereby suiting the rebuttal author.
What's your point? I don't know much about benzene.
Okay that's good enough. Suffice to say, from what you've shown, Wiernik may not be a fully credible witness. That may be wrong, but let's just presume a moment this is true - that even his full account is wrong, or fabricated, and all thing Wiernik, and all subesquent repetitions nased on them, go down. That's a big "if" in itself, but if it were so, what would that really mean for the overall denial case? It's not like our understanding of the holocaust is from one witness with no supporting evidence or anything.
it hardly is meaningful if people haven't watched the video.
No, there's actually less lost, all around, this way.
Gorgonzola