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Ursprungligen postat av Skoll
Läs själv bakåt i tråden, då märker du att ingen annan än de redan frälsta tar ditt märkliga resonemang om kronologin på allvar.
David Cole hotades på JDLs hemsida och gjorde därefter avbön. Innan dess så hade han blivit fysiskt attackerad. Avbönen 1994 är av tveksam natur vilket redan tagits upp i tråden.
Ja, han gjorde en avbön
efter 4 år efter sitt sista framträdande. 2 månader efter JDL , så kallade "hot". Men det berodde ej på hotet, utan rädslan att någon skulle ta hotet på allvar och ge han en kula. Han hade redan gjort en avbön innan(1994), så det var bara bekräfta den.
IRV rubin :
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It was not a hit or a contract on him. We just wanted to find out what he was
doing and get an update. We didn’t know if he had really quit the Holocaust
denial movement and we just wondered where he was. We wanted to sit down
face to face with him to find out what he was doing. I eventually tracked him
down by phone and had numerous conversations with him. He begged me to
take him off the Web page, explaining that he was worried that someone would
take the Internet posting as a hit or contract on his life. He has moved to Michigan
and is taking care of a sick relative and he is worried something bad will happen. He sent us a couple of hundred dollars to help us get Bradley Smith
to quit selling his videos. He says the videos are a fraud and a fake.
Källa 89. Irv Rubin, telephone interview by Michael Shermer, April 6, 1998. All
subsequent quotations from Rubin in this section are from this interview.
Samma källa till citatet nedan, Irv Rubins ord om Coles avbön:
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I stake my personal credibility on his conversion. It is a result of the fact that
someone made him see the light of day. Someone offered him stone cold proof
of the Holocaust and so he converted. He realized he was previously distorting.
I know it for a fact because I had a fist fight with him at UCLA and he
was humiliated. For a guy to turn around and send me $200 cash he must really
mean it. He has total contempt for Bradley Smith and Ernst Zündel. I
had great trepidation until I saw the notary stamp with the letter. People do
make these radical changes. I think the guy is sincere. In correspondence with
me he says he quit the denial movement three years ago, and we only put out
our materials on the Internet a year ago.
Tidningen Skeptic försökte få kontakt med David Cole under 1998 och i april ringde han upp tidningen och bad de lägga på luren så att han kunde lämna ett röstmeddelande.
Meddelandet löd:
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Now listen up because this is going to be my only communication with you.
Originally I didn’t plan to answer your calls but after talking with Irv Rubin,
whose counsel I have come to trust over the past few months, I’ve realized
that my silence might be misconstrued by you as an attempt to distance myself from the statement I gave to the Jewish Defense League making clear my
changed position on the Holocaust. So to that end let me make it absolutely
crystal clear that that statement is a completely accurate summary of my present
views. It was made willingly by me and was in no way the result of threat
or blackmail or some kind of contract that was out on me. The people making
that claim are either mistaken or are purposefully trying to make trouble
for me. My refusal to return your calls was due to my personal opinion of
you and your methods. This will be my only communication with you. Please
refrain from calling anymore.
Källa 92. David Cole, phone message to Skeptics Society, April 10, 1998.
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