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About Ted Koppel's Nightline program about Censorship of Internet speech, in which he interviewed
DON BLACK

Quotes from the Interview are in Italics.

  1. RABBI ABRAHAM COOPER The lunatic fringe has embraced this technology with a sophistication and a veracity that is frightening.

    Is veracity frightening, Rabbi Cooper?

    GINA SMITH (VO) Rabbi Abraham Cooper is the associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, an organization that monitors hate groups.

  2. SKY DAYTON Besides being totally impractical trying to regulate messages on the Internet or censor information, basically it destroys the freedoms that the Internet provides people and it’s totally unnecessary in addition to being impractical. The great value of the Internet is that all ideas can be taken on their merits and evaluated by people relative to their importance and other ideas. It’s a great open environment where the best ideas ultimately win.

  3. GINA SMITH (VO) Regardless of their political leanings and for reasons going well beyond the First Amendment, many Internet users would deeply resent any attempt to limit their speech online. Chalk that up to the culture of the Internet, a communications medium designed from the beginning to allow for free form communication.

  4. DON BLACK If Thomas Jefferson had a Web site today, he would be censored because in his autobiography he says that nothing is more certainly written than that these, the Negro people, are to be free, nor is it less certain that equally free they cannot live under the same government. Well, that makes Thomas Jefferson a separatist and by the definition of the Wiesenthal Center, then his site would be subject to censorship.

  5. FLOYD ABRAMS, FIRST AMENDMENT ATTORNEY (New York) . . . Mr Black’s a very lucky man that he lives in this country. In just about every other democratic country in the world he’d be in jail.

    How can a country that jails people for free speech be "democratic", Abrams? Can people who are not allowed to know the truth rule themselves?

    Democracy and free speech are vestiges of the Aryan race which wrote the Constitution of the USA, but are disappearing as the percentage of Aryans in the US population decreases, and as the Exploiters increase their stranglehold over the media and government of the USA.

  6. FLOYD ABRAMS Well, I think most of all what it means is that we don’t trust our government, any government enough to decide what the content of speech is that we’ll allow or not allow. So we say Mr Black and his views, awful though I and lots of other people, most people think they are, Mr Black can go right ahead and try to persuade people. As I said, in most countries, in most democratic countries, he’d be in jail and he wouldn’t be allowed to say these things. I think they are dangerous things. I think we do pay a price. But the theory of the First Amendment is that we’d pay more of a price by shutting him up than by letting him speak.

  7. DON BLACK Exactly. The truth will win out in this debate. There is no controlled point of view on the net. There’s no, unlike the, what I, what we consider a media monopoly, which your network is part of, all points of view are accessible, good and bad, and I think it can be left up to the Internet user to determine who is right and who is wrong. And we believe—my views are unfashionable. That doesn’t mean that I’m a hater. That’s all you’re saying. Fifty, 60, 70 years ago, what I’m saying was part of the mainstream. So when you start talking about how dangerous or hateful I am, I think that’s a little bit self—serving. The national media in this country promotes a pretty one—sided point of view on certain issues in our opinion and we’re promoting, we’re providing an alternative to that.

    To the Index of my other files, globetrotter?

    Is CENSORSHIP a war against our knowing the TRUTH,
    and therefore really a war against DEMOCRACY and US?

    Please e-mail me at nationalist@rocketmail.com

    That's all, folks. Farewell; Au revoir; Hasta la huego; Adeus; and Auf wieder sehen
    from a mostly Aryan country boy whose ancestors have lived in Fairfield County since before SOUTH CAROLINA was a free and sovereign state (it has been the first to struggle against Imperialism to be so again) in the land of

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    DIXIE !.

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