More censorship in the name of anti-Anti-Semitism for all P-List censors

Richard Fiero rfiero at pophost.com
Mon Apr 14 18:06:27 CDT 2003


S.R. Prozak wrote:

>Irish best-selling author Gordon Thomas discovers the ADL is
>preventing his books from being sold at bookstores
>
>By Gordon Thomas
>
>THE paragraph was short and based on information from NASA and the
>Israeli's Space Agency. It dealt with the role of Israeli astronaut,
>Ilon Ramon, one of the crew of the ill-fated Columbia shuttle.
>
>This is what I wrote in that paragraph:
>
>"Astronaut Ilon Ramon was conducting secret experiments on the
>Columbia to discover new ways to beat Saddam's threat to use
>biological and chemical weapons against Israel. For most of his 16
>days on board the Columbia, he had been using cameras linked directly
>to the Israeli Space Agency to study desert dust and wind-drifts
>emanating from the deserts of Iraq."    . . .

This is of course nonsense. As we all know and as it has been 
affirmed and reaffirmed in the press, the Columbia's crew was a 
diverse and photogenic bunch charged with performing high 
school level experiments involving things one can find around the house.
A Black, a Jew and a little something to freak the Pakistanis. 
Definitely non-military.







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