The war between the United States and Germany in the 1940’s is irrelevant here; this compares freedom of speech in two nations, regarding who was responsible for the 9-11 attacks on citizens and buildings in America. How do our present freedoms in the USA compare with the freedoms of citizens of Germany during the rule of Adolf Hitler?
I now write under the candlelight of the young Helmuth Huebener, for I have been enlightened by the documentary on his short life: Truth and Conviction. The teenaged spokesman of truth was martyred because he spoke against Nazi oppression and internal-terrorism. His accomplishments deserve far more than a few side notes, but a critical point cries out for acknowledgement: We in the United States in the early twenty-first century enjoy freedoms hardly dreamt of by German citizens during World War II.
Helmuth Hubener, at the age of seventeen, was beheaded by the Nazi leadership. Why? He had written pamphlets that condemned atrocities committed by that leadership. Why? He recognized the depravity of the Kristallnacht terrorism and he recognized the truth when German radio broadcasts contradicted common sense. Although Hubener gained only about two active followers during his lifetime, we now know that he wrote the truth about that Nazi leadership.
Looking at the general case, when a citizen writes about government oppression against freedom, that government’s reaction is enlightening, even when its goal is to snuff out the candle: regarding freedom of speech, ignoring the writer proves him wrong and putting him to death proves him right.
What about the “truthers” of early twenty-first century America, those who write that leaders of American government have covered up critical information or were even responsible for the atrocities of September 11, 2001? Have all of those writers been convicted and beheaded? No. Their writings appear to have captivated thousands of followers and perhaps millions of sympathizers. Compare that with the two active followers of Helmuth Hubener, the two young men who were convicted of assisting Hubener (passing out pamphlets), for those two were sentenced: five years and ten years of prison. To the best of my knowledge, no American publisher or editor has been sent to prison for complicity in publishing a book that suggests U.S. government involvement in the attacks of September 11, 2001.
I don’t condemn writers for trying to sell books or publishers for printing books; I am a self-published author. But when a book is written on the foundational idea that the government may have been the perpetrators of the terrorist attacks of 9-11, what is proven by the publication, distribution, and sales of that book? The foundational idea of that book is proven wrong by the existence of that book.
No government that is remotely like the leadership of Nazi Germany can survive when pamphlets or books are freely written and distributed with emphasis on the corruption of the government. One of the strongest disproofs of the ideas of “9-11 truthers” is the popularity of the ideas. That said, I have no desire to break their crystals or to arrest their leaders; I just want to break down a gross mistake and arrest foggy thinking.
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