| "Apologies
for a very late update. I worked a night-shift last night and I have
another one tonight, so my hours are a little weird. It helps to pay
the bills though. Tomorrow's update will therefore be late too. Today
I want to update my thoughts on Dr Queen's website and
why I am
defending him. My views on this apply to all the news right now.
Dr Queen
is a lecturer at the University of Birmingham and he has come under fire
from Jewish organisations for one link on his webpage. It started with
the Union of Jewish Students (UJS) taking offence to the linked-to website
and presumably deeming it anti-semitic and therefore also Dr Queen by
association for having linked to it.
Lets put
events into perspective here. The UJS want to have someone change their
personal website because they are offended by one link. A personal
website! There are no reports of Dr Queen going around and making accusations
against Jews, or about the state of Israel. There aren't even any
reports of him inciting violence or repression. And certainly he's not
shooting protestors in the head or running them over with mechanical
diggers.
What we have is a
story making the news about one link on someone's website. Before
the news coverage, what difference did it make to the world what Nat
Queen had on his home page? Especially one link that a few might take
offence to because of their close-mindedness? Very little.
Before anyone gets irate about Dr Queen's apparent rabid anti-semitism,
let's consider how events unfolded.
Take a
look at Dr Queen's homepage. Under the heading of `Scientific', Dr
Queen has the following links:
From his
webpage it is apparent that Dr Queen has a background in physics and
mathematics. He's a scientist. If you read a lot into those links, you
might presume that he believes there is no God. He's not saying that
though, I merely presumed it.
Under
the heading of `Human Rights' is the offending link:
- American
State Terrorism.
The most serious attacks on human rights are committed by
undemocratic and imperialist governments. This site documents the
prime example.
Since Dr
Queen said he refuses to change his website just because the one he
linked to has been updated, we must make the assumption that he put it
up in the format you would now see. Since he added it, the
`offending' material must have gone further in challenging peoples'
preconceptions of America and perhaps now Israel. Did the website
mention Israel before it was changed? I don't know. But the point is
that Dr Queen linked to it to demonstrate AMERICAN state terrorism. He
wasn't having a pop at Israel with that link.
The
website has changed and until the the UJS started its campaign, it
would seem that Dr Queen was not aware of this. Meanwhile the UJS was
already helping to sway the thinking of students on campus into
believing that Dr Queen was against Jews in some way. Absent an
ongoing national advertising campaign by Dr Queen to plant in the
public consciousness :
- that
he was an advocate of free speech
- that
he had
certain views about the extreme practices of the USA and perhaps
also Israel
- that his
work was about his work and his views weren't something he made a
big deal about
what
chance would he have?
Sure the
links were on his website, but who would even know that unless they
had been there? Who else would this have been except fellow academics,
students, seekers of information on maths, physics or PGP. I missed
one; maybe people with absolutely nothing better to do with their
lives than hunt down people with links on their website that they, the
viewer, may have a problem with ie the Thought Police.
I
suppose what could have happened was that a Jewish student of Dr
Queen's saw his website recently, clicked on the link in question and
then disengaged their brain. Maybe the student was a member of the UJS.
Once the campaigning starts however, it can only get fuel in the
mainstream press and from interest groups who polarise the issue and
push it further.
We need to ask
what UJS campaign organiser, Danny Stone,
hopes to achieve by pushing this issue?
I would
bet that he would respond `to counter-anti-semitism'. For
those who are able to appreciate that this whole thing is being blown
out of all proportion, they can see that Dr Queen is being unfairly
targeted for condoning thoughtcrime. For
those who don't appreciate how this all unfolded, they will believe,
absent stimuli for opening their minds, that Dr Queen is anti-semitic,
racist and therefore an `undesirable'. The
result of this campaign is not a reduction in anti-semitism. Rather it
will lead to an increase in anti-semitism because it will demonstrate
to some how Jewish interest groups manage to get news coverage which
colours the way people think. It also shows how they target people who
attempt to stand up for the right to make criticism when it is Israel
which is criticised. Jewish groups seldom seem able to
distinguish between criticism of the State of Israel and criticism of
Jews. I still don't understand why Jews aren't allowed to be
criticised, but Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Sikhs, Jehova's
Witnesses and anyone else I've forgotten are all fair game. Anti-semitism
has become an industry. The
dominance of coverage in the news about people like Nat Queen
doesn't prompt thought about the issues. It brainwashes people into
believing that Queen and others are anti-semitic, that anti-semitism
on campus is `a problem' and serves to stifle debate about what
objectionable activities Israel or the USA may undertake. Rather
than give the same degree of coverage to more important issues like
the criminality of the US and Israeli governments they instead let
people know about this apparent prejudice and racism. What they don't
tell you in the news is often more important than what they do say. I'm
still waiting for the BBC, Sky News, The Times, The New York Times and
other media institutions to tell us how the 9/11 attacks were an
inside job. Of course they won't do. If they gave the same coverage to
the problems with the official 9/11 story rather than parrot it,
they would educate the public and help shape a more realistic paradigm
rather than the fiction they convey on a daily basis. The same goes
for these allegations of racism. It fuels racism rather than diminish
it. In
some ways we really do live in the Matrix. People get most of their
ideas of the wider world from the media - what they read, what they
watch, what they hear. The voice of media institutions seems to carry
more weight than those who are not in the business of selling
advertising to promote press-releases to the public, such as human
rights groups, internet-based journalism or so-called `conspiracy
theorists' who in fact are often dedicated and detailed factual
researchers. People are heavily influenced by the corporate media and
we are constantly bombarded with it. To deny this is to put one's head
in the sand. The
general public are so busy running around in their day-to-day lives
that they don't have time to think about the news, never mind realise
how it subconsciously shapes the world around them. Very few take the
trouble to investigate whether governments or the media are telling
the truth. The
death of Rachel Corrie as a
result of being mowed down by a mechanical earth digger driven by an
Israeli soldier received very little press attention. However when a
lecturer has a link on his website that says things that threaten the
squeaky clean image of Israel in the minds of of some Jews, they'll do
all they can to make a big deal about it. What ever happened to
"love they neighbour as thyself?" Can't they just open
their eyes and their minds beyond their indoctrination? Dr
Queen is being used to promote an agenda of controlling our minds. For
this reason I am defending his actions. If anyone has a problem with
this, deal with it.
Update
on physics911.org website
I
received an email from Dr Dewdney:
"Dear
Simon,
Thank you for getting in touch with me. The physics911.org site was
put up by one Sid Walker, an Englishman-turned-Australian who recently
had to return to England to attend his father's funeral and to assist
with the ensuing estate and family matters that inevitably accompany
such things.
Sid is better known for another site,
which he had been operating for two years (or more) called
feralnews.com, rather like your site, I imagine.
Thus, prior to the site going down, we were a bit like a turtle out of
it's shell, so to speak - somewhat vulnerable. My last contact with
Sid was about a week ago. Communications had been spotty, but more or
less regular, as he gadded about the country, sending me a message via
whatever equipment he
could get his hands on whenever he had the time.
He is supposed to be back in Australia sometime today, being somewhere
in the middle of the air at this moment.
I am not too worried about Sid and I have every confidence that he
will have the site back up within a few days of his return. Thus, in
my opinion of the moment, we are down but not out.
We suffered a possible denial-of-service attack over a month ago,
although it may also be that links to physics911.org had previously
been posted (prematurely) on other sites that assumed we were live. We
weren't.
Until we go public in a few days, the site will have been been
private, used only by the fifteen-odd members of the Scientific Panel
Investigating Nine-eleven, or SPINE for short. We are an
all-professional panel consisting of two aeronautical engineers, a
mathematician, a computer scientist, a physicist, a cellphone
engineer, a physician, and sundry other relevant professions, not to
mention an intelligence officer. We are getting new applicants all the
time and the level of expertise (and, therefore, credibility)
continues to climb. We have been cooperating over the web to develop
as much new, reliable material as we can. I am nearly finished an
analysis of the Pentagon crash that makes it physically clear, even to
relatively unknowledgable people, that the absence of relatively
intact wings, albeit somwhat crumpled, is conclusive. No 757.
I hope I have addressed your
concerns. Please feel free to post this message if you feel so
inclined.
All the best,
Kee Dewdney
akdewdney@uwaterloo.ca
(519) 679-8105
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~akd/"
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