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  • ARMENIAN PROPAGANDA WINS, FOR NOW

    ARMENIAN PROPAGANDA WINS, FOR NOW

    Boston Globe reports that a federal appeals court yesterday ruled that statewide public school guidelines on teaching human rights history can exclude materials disputing that the mass slaying of Armenians in the First World War era constituted genocide. Below, please read the article first and then my reaction to it.
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    SCHOOLS CAN EXCLUDE MATERIALS DISPUTING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

    Court ruled on 1999 case
    By Peter Schworm , Boston Globe Staff / August 12, 2010
    In a closely watched case, a federal appeals court yesterday ruled that statewide public school guidelines on teaching human rights history can exclude materials disputing that the mass slaying of Armenians in the First World War era constituted genocide.
    The decision, written by retired Supreme Court justice David Souter, who occasionally hears cases with the First Circuit Court of Appeals, found that state education officials did not violate public school students’ free speech rights in 1999, when they excluded all “contra-genocide’’ sources calling the Armenian genocide into question.
    Van Z. Krikorian, a professor at Pace University Law School who filed a brief defending the state’s move, said he was thrilled by the ruling, equating those who dispute the genocide designation to Holocaust deniers.
    “It would have put human rights education in reverse,’’ he said. “It’s a major defeat for genocide denial.’’
    Upholding a lower-court decision, the court ruled that although state guidelines were advisory, and “not meant to declare other positions out of bounds in study and discussion,’’ they were part of the official curriculum and therefore under the discretion of state authorities.
    Requiring that officials include references to dissenting viewpoints, Souter wrote, “might actually have the effect of foreclosing future opportunities for open enquiry in the classroom.’’
    Harvey Silverglate, a Boston civil rights lawyer representing the Assembly of Turkish American Associations, had argued that removing the references amounted to government censorship and prevented students from hearing both sides.
    “It always is a sad day when a court constricts First Amendment rights rather than expand them,’’ he said. “I think they made a mistake.’’ Silverglate said his clients will consider whether to appeal.
    The Turkish-American group disputes that the Muslim Turkish Ottoman Empire committed genocide against its Christian Armenian minority population. Over 1.5 million Armenians died at the hands of Turkish forces, but Turkish activists maintain it was not the result of a policy.
    In 1998, the Legislature ordered the state Board of Education to prepare an advisory curriculum guide for teaching about genocide and human rights, and a draft of the guide initially included a section on the “Armenian Genocide.’’ Under pressure from Turkish advocacy groups, the commissioner of education, David P. Driscoll, revised the draft to include references to opposing views, said the ruling.

    When officials filed the guide with legislators in March 1999, the state’s Armenian community protested the inclusion of “contra-genocide’’ viewpoints, and the education commissioner removed the references.
    Peter Schworm can be reached at schworm@globe.com.
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    ARMENIAN PROPAGANDA WINS, FOR NOW
    Jewish Holocaust is supported by due process and a court verdict by a competent tribunal (Nuremberg, 1945.) What due process and court verdict support Armenian claims of genocide? The answer might surprise you: none! That’s right, Armenian claims are based on a racist and dishonest version of history, not law or the truth. They are racist because they ignore the Turkish victims at the hands of Armenian revolutionaries (120,000 in the year 1914 alone, according to the dictionary of World War One, by Stephen Pope and Elizabeth-Anne Wheal, 2003, page 34.) And they are dishonest because they simply dismiss the six T’s of the Turkish-Armenian conflict. Too bad, our children in Boston will never know that the Armenians took up arms against their own government. Too bad the “poor, starving Armenians myth” will be ingrained in their brains like zombies, never seeing the photos of the Armenian ultra-nationalists armed to the teeth (www.ethocide.com ) They’ll never hear about the Armenians revolts, terrorism, treason, territorial demands and more. Just because a “sundown town” ruling by a misinformed judge said so. The decision must be appealed in the spirit of independence in 1776, anti-slavery in 1862, and civil rights of 1960s.

    BIAS & BIGOTRY IN THE TERM “ARMENIAN GENOCIDE”
    If one cherishes values like fairness, objectivity, truth, and honesty, then one should really use the term “Turkish-Armenian conflict”. Asking one “Do you accept or deny Armenian Genocide” shows anti-Turkish bias. The question should be re-phrased “What is your stand on the Turkish-Armenian conflict?”
    Turks believe it was an inter communal warfare mostly fought by Turkish and Armenian irregulars, a civil war which is engineered, provoked, and waged by the Armenian revolutionaries, with active support from Russia, England, France, and others, all eyeing the vast territories of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, against a backdrop of a raging world war.
    Armenians, on the other hand, totally ignoring Armenian agitation, raids, rebellions, treason, territorial demands, and Turkish victims killed by Armenians, unfairly claim that it was a one way genocide.

    GENOCIDE ALLEGATIONS IGNORE “THE SIX T’S OF THE TURKISH-ARMENIAN CONFLICT”
    While some in unsuspecting public may be forgiven for taking the blatant and ceaseless Armenian propaganda at face value and believing Armenian falsifications merely because they are repeated so often, it is difficult and painful for the children of Turkish survivors of hate crimes committed by Armenian nationalists and other Christians. Those seemingly endless “War years” of 1912-1922 brought wide-spread death and destruction on to all Ottoman citizens. No Turkish family was left touched, mine included. Those nameless, faceless Turkish victims are killed for a second time today with politically motivated and baseless charges of Armenian genocide. Those six T’s which are censored by an ill-informed judge are:
    1) TUMULT (as in numerous Armenian armed uprisings between 1894 and 1920)
    2) TERRORISM (by well-armed Armenian nationalists and militias victimizing Ottoman-Muslims between 1882-1920)
    3) TREASON (Armenians joining the invading enemy armies as early as 1914 and lasting until 1921)
    4) TERRITORIAL DEMANDS (where Armenians were a minority, not a majority, attempting to establish Greater Armenia, the would-be first apartheid of the 20th Century with a Christian minority ruling over a Muslim majority )
    5) TURKISH SUFFERING AND LOSSES (i.e. those caused by the Armenian nationalists: 524,000 Muslims, mostly Turks, met their tragic end at the hands of Armenian revolutionaries during WWI, per Turkish Historical Society. This figure is not to be confused with about 2.5 million Muslim dead who lost their lives due to non-Armenian causes during WWI. Grand total: more than 3 million, according to Prof. Justin McCarthy.)
    6) TERESET (temporary resettlement) triggered by the first five T’s above and amply documented as such; not to be equated to the Armenian misrepresentations as genocide.)

    VERDICT WITHOUT DUE PROCESS AMOUNTS TO LYNCHING
    Those who take the Armenian “allegations” of genocide at face value seem to also ignore the following:
    1- Genocide is a legal, technical term precisely defined by the U.N. 1948 convention (Like all proper laws, it is not retroactive to 1915.)
    2- Genocide verdict can only be given by a “competent court” after “due process” where both sides are properly represented and evidence mutually cross examined.
    3- For a genocide verdict, the accusers must prove “intent” at a competent court and after due process. This could never be done by the Armenians whose evidence mostly fall into five major categories: hearsay, mis-representations, exaggerations, forgeries, and “other”.
    4- Such a “competent court” was never convened in the case of Turkish-Armenian conflict and a genocide verdict does not exist (save a Kangaroo court in occupied Istanbul in 1920 where partisanship, vendettas, and revenge motives left no room for due process.)
    5- Genocide claim is political, not historical or factual. It reflects bias against Turks. Therefore, the term genocide must be used with the qualifier “alleged”, for scholarly objectivity and truth.

    HISTORY IS A MATTER OF SCHOLARSHIP, NOT CONSENSUS
    History is not a matter of “conviction, consensus, political resolutions, political correctness, or propaganda.” History is a matter of research, peer review, thoughtful debate, and honest scholarship. Even historians, by definition, cannot decide on a genocide verdict, which is reserved for a “competent court” with its legal expertise and due process.

    POLITICAL LYNCHING OF THE TURKS BY ARMENIANS TODAY
    What we witness today amounts to lynching of the Turks by Armenians to satisfy the age old Armenian hate, bias, and bigotry. Values like fairness, presumption of innocence until proven guilty, objectivity, balance, honesty, and freedom of speech are stumped under the fanatic Armenian feet. Unprovoked , unjustified, and unfair defamation of Turkey, one of America’s closest allies in the troubled Middle East, in order to appease some nagging Armenian activists runs counter to American interests.
    Those who claim genocide verdict today, based on the much discredited Armenian evidence, are actually engaging in “conviction and execution without due process”. Last time I looked in the dictionary, that was the definition of “lynching”.
    FREEDOM OF SPEECH? WHAT FREEDOM?

    This unfortunate and racist decision promoting Armenian propaganda over honest scholarship and civil dialogue, turns Boston into a SUNDOWN TOWN. Remember those towns, thousands of them coast to coast that sprang up during the NADIR PERIOD OF RACE RELATIONS in America, i.e. roughly 1890-1940, where signs told so-called COLORED PEOPLE TO LEAVE TOWN BY SUNDOWN or else live with the consequences, which meant death by lynching?
    Freedom of speech is dealt such a terrible blow by this SUNDOWN TOWN DECISION by an ill-informed judge today: 11 August 2010. What a sad day for America, , indeed….

  • FEDERAL APPEALS COURT:  NO GENOCIDE!

    FEDERAL APPEALS COURT: NO GENOCIDE!

    Another 1-2-3 blow to those bogus Armenian genocide claims.

    This time, it is from the high court. And this time, the ruling by a panel of federal judges pierces through the collective hearts of all Armenian falsifiers and their Turk-hating friends like a golden arrow… whoosh!

    The wording by The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (8/20/09) does not really leave much to say, does it?

    “…the U.S. government doesn’t legally recognize that an Armenian genocide occurred…”

    As if this is not enough, the judges follow with a thunderous lightning:

    “…The (California 2000) law contradicts past presidents’ opposition to describing Turkey’s slaughter of as many as 1.5 million Armenians as a genocide…”

    Never mind that the casualty numbers are deliberately inflated in the bogus Armenian claims and that Turkey was not “slaughtering” but “defending their home” in the face of a minority that took up arms against their own government, joined the invading enemy armies, and were killing their Turkish neighbors and other fellow citizens (Kurds, Arabs, Jews, Circassians, Bosnians, and more) en masse. Never mind that the Armenians made plans to betray Turkey prior to WWI, armed and organized themselves for sedition, attacked government facilities, killed soldiers and police and ordinary citizen bystanders, made territorial demands on the government, enthusiastically joined the enemy during a major war of survival of the state, and when Turks defended their country, home and family with much superior passion, determination, energy, and skill, the treasonous Armenian ingrates screamed “genocide!”… err… 50 years later!

    There is more, but first, let’s read the news:

    1- FEDERAL APPEALS COURT REJECTS ARMENIAN GENOCIDE CASE
    https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-aug-21-me-armenian-suit21-story.html

    Armenian Americans descended from victims of the 1915-18 massacre by Ottoman Turks can’t sue foreign insurance companies for unpaid claims because the U.S. government doesn’t legally recognize that an Armenian genocide occurred, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. A Glendale priest and thousands of other Armenians whose relatives were among the 1.2 million killed had won a partial victory two years ago. U.S. District Judge Christina A. Snyder said then that a 2000 law passed by the California Legislature gave the descendants standing to sue three German insurance companies… (Read more and then see comments below.)

    2- STATE CAN’T LET ARMENIAN VICTIMS’ HEIRS SUE
    https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/State-can-t-let-Armenian-victims-heirs-sue-3220858.php

    (08-20) 14:25 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — A California law allowing heirs of victims of the Armenian genocide to sue in state courts for unpaid insurance benefits is unconstitutional because it conflicts with U.S. foreign policy, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. The law contradicts past presidents’ opposition to describing Turkey’s slaughter of as many as 1.5 million Armenians as a genocide, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said in a 2-1 ruling. (ead more and then see comments below)

    2- COURT TOSSES CALIF. LAW ON PAYMENTS TO ARMENIANS

    SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court invalidated a California law Thursday that allowed heirs of Armenians killed in the Turkish Ottoman Empire nearly a century ago to seek payment on the life insurance policies of dead relatives. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the law amounted to unconstitutional meddling in U.S. foreign policy. It based its 2-1 ruling on a 2003 (Read more and then see comments below.)

    Now for comments, I have the following thoughts:

    1- Turkey and USA settled their differences arising from the mutual claims during WWI amicably with an agreement inked in 1934. Consequently, any claims after that point by any American (Armenian heritage or not) against Turkey cannot go through US Court system.

    2- This fact should have been known to those who have even the most cursory knowledge on this subject but even more so, to attorneys. Congressman Adam Schiff, an attorney at law by profession, who “co-wrote” this incredibly ill-informed law based on deliberate misrepresentations by his Armenian constituents and his gullible acceptance of same and who rammed it through the state legislature, should have known better.

    3- Adam Schiff, thus, wasted by his self-serving efforts to appease his Armenian supporters, untold amount of time, money, and energy. If a CPA could sit down and calculate all this, s/he would find that the final figure could be in the many millions of dollars.

    4- In view of the fact that California is just ordered to free up to 45,000 inmates due to substandard living conditions in prisons and does not have money or time to build new ones, Adam Schiff’s selfish disregard may have cost the taxpayers many millions of dollars. He could have worked on this real issue when he was in Sacramento instead of trying to legalize fictitious, divisive, polarizing, fraudulent, and good-for-nothing Armenian claims.

    5- What’s more, it is not a leap of imagination to predict that if those freed inmates commit terrible crimes tomorrow, Adam Schiff should be held at least partially responsible, since he so egotistically wasted the courts’ time and squandered the state’s and country’s resources in political witch hunt. (Schiff is still squandering taxpayers hard earned money by sending aid to Armenia, a land-locked, poverty-stricken, extremely corrupt, violent, and rogue country which goes out of its way to create trouble for each and every one of its neighbors. Armenia’s major import is foreign aid and major export is illegal aliens, crooks, criminals, and terrorists. Has anyone red the coverage in LA Times of the widespread Medicaid/Medicare fraud committed by mostly the “Armenian immigrants”? That’s my tax dollars at work. And Schiff wanted to open a “ US Trade Office” financed by more of my tax dollars there. Trade office? Really? Trade what? Five crooks for a bushel of wheat? Fifteen criminals for a Dell computer? Fifty terrorists for a Chevy truck? Anyway, let’s go back to the issue at hand.)

    6- Campaign pledges on the one hand and realities and responsibilities of office after being elected on the other, are two completely different things. The Armenian Diaspora simply does not get it, even after so many legal lessons ofsimilar magnitude. So when Obama, Biden, Clinton and others do not go along with discredited Armenian claims while in office, the Armenians are quick to call this reversal of their fortune ” a denial”. In reality, however, they are the ones who deny the truth.

    7- The Armenian claims are racist and dishonest. They are racist because they ignore Turkish suffering and loss caused by Armenian ultranationalists during WWI, just because the victims are Turkish. And they are dishonest because they deliberately and cunningly exclude the six T’s of the Turkish-Armenian conflict: tumult (revolts), terrorism, treason, territorial demands, Turkish suffering, and TERESET (temporary resettlement order of 1915, which is amply documented as such, not genocide. See www.ethocide.com.)

    Any questions?