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AN OPEN LETTER FROM THE US GOVERNMENT TO THE REPUBLICS OF FRANCE AND TURKEY
Hammer of Truth
http://hammeroftruth.com/2012/an-open-letter-from-the-us-government-to-the-republics-of-france-and-turkey/
Jan 25 2012
Dearest Frenchmen and Turks,
We here in Washington, DC would like to applaud the French parliament
for breaking new ground in the policing of people's thoughts. If
President Sarkozy steps up and signs the legislation it will be a
crime to express doubt about the Ottoman Empire's supposed Genocide
of Armenians. The French are making revolutionary progress in the
arena of thought crime! Bliss it is to be alive in this dawn, and to
be a young bureaucrat is very heaven!
Turkey is already accomplished in this arena. Article 301 of the
Turkish Penal Code makes it a crime to insult the Turkish Nation. Now
that France has weighed in on Turkey's history, the Turks may want
to return the favor. As the descendant of Protestants allow me to
propose that Turkey make it a crime to deny the Huguenot Genocide! The
Huguenots were French Protestants. France's Catholic government exiled
and exterminated them in the 16th and 17th centuries.
There was all manner of religious cleansing. Huguenots were exiled,
sold into slavery, and massacred in great numbers. This century and
a half of persecution culminated in the Revocation of the Edict of
Nantes. The Edict of Nantes was a sensible piece of paper that said
that people could worship as they wished. Louis the XIVth revoked it
in 1685, making it illegal for a whole class of people to exist. Over
the next decade almost a million Huguenots were forced to leave
the country.
What's that you say? This isn't quite a genocide? Doesn't matter.
That's the beauty of what the French are doing. If you legislate
historical fact you can't discuss it. We're not interested in
historical truth here, just political gain. If we wanted truth,
Turkey could focus on the Vichy regime's eager participation in the
Nazi holocaust, but that would be too close to rational. The truth
doesn't need to be legislated.
Great job guys! Once we deal with this pesky 1st Amendment thing,
we'll be doing the same!
Hugs, The Federal Government of the United States of America
Satire, Obviously
From: A. Papazian
Hammer of Truth
http://hammeroftruth.com/2012/an-open-letter-from-the-us-government-to-the-republics-of-france-and-turkey/
Jan 25 2012
Dearest Frenchmen and Turks,
We here in Washington, DC would like to applaud the French parliament
for breaking new ground in the policing of people's thoughts. If
President Sarkozy steps up and signs the legislation it will be a
crime to express doubt about the Ottoman Empire's supposed Genocide
of Armenians. The French are making revolutionary progress in the
arena of thought crime! Bliss it is to be alive in this dawn, and to
be a young bureaucrat is very heaven!
Turkey is already accomplished in this arena. Article 301 of the
Turkish Penal Code makes it a crime to insult the Turkish Nation. Now
that France has weighed in on Turkey's history, the Turks may want
to return the favor. As the descendant of Protestants allow me to
propose that Turkey make it a crime to deny the Huguenot Genocide! The
Huguenots were French Protestants. France's Catholic government exiled
and exterminated them in the 16th and 17th centuries.
There was all manner of religious cleansing. Huguenots were exiled,
sold into slavery, and massacred in great numbers. This century and
a half of persecution culminated in the Revocation of the Edict of
Nantes. The Edict of Nantes was a sensible piece of paper that said
that people could worship as they wished. Louis the XIVth revoked it
in 1685, making it illegal for a whole class of people to exist. Over
the next decade almost a million Huguenots were forced to leave
the country.
What's that you say? This isn't quite a genocide? Doesn't matter.
That's the beauty of what the French are doing. If you legislate
historical fact you can't discuss it. We're not interested in
historical truth here, just political gain. If we wanted truth,
Turkey could focus on the Vichy regime's eager participation in the
Nazi holocaust, but that would be too close to rational. The truth
doesn't need to be legislated.
Great job guys! Once we deal with this pesky 1st Amendment thing,
we'll be doing the same!
Hugs, The Federal Government of the United States of America
Satire, Obviously
From: A. Papazian