Jim Rizoli breaks with "crook" Fred Leuchter โ Oh Nooo
Apr 23, 2022 4:34:12 GMT
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Post by ๐๐๐จ๐ญ๐ญ on Apr 23, 2022 4:34:12 GMT
Just in โ Jim Rizoli and his partner Diane King have split with "the crook" Fred Leuchter. They have just published a couple of videos about this.
My view on Mr. Leuchter is that I regard him as a great man for having gone to Auschwitz, then in Communist Poland, to examine the Nazi homicidal gas chamber (HGC) question.
Leuchter was an expert on American execution methods and his expert report was commissioned by Prof. Robert Faurisson (1929-2018) for the intrepid defense of publisher Ernst Zรผndel (1939-2017) in his second heresy trial in Canada (1988), and this fact alone remains enormously important for historiography, even if the Report's relevance to the historical question itself can hardly be overstated.
However, Fred A. Leuchter was never a qualified Engineer โ and this annoys me as much as the Australian electrical engineer Richard Krege never actually publishing a credible scientific report on his ground-penetrating-radar (GPR) testing at Treblinka โ particularly after all the hype given to it by Fredrick Tรถben (1944-2020) and other fellow-travelers, who often seemed more interested in "fighting the Joos" than soberly answering the burning historical questions.
Mr. Leuchter (with Dr. Faurisson behind him) persisting in calling himself an Engineer has always been problematical in the extreme.
Furthermore, although I believe that Mr. Leuchter did his investigations honestly, they were incontrovertibly influenced by the ideas of the late Prof. Robert Faurisson. And while Faurisson was an iconic Revisionist and had many insights into the Holocaust mythology, he was not in any way technically qualified.
Some Revisionists have gone so far as to say that Robert Faurisson was almost the "ghost writer" of the original 1988 Leuchter Report. Mr. Rizoli directly questioned Mr. Rudolf and Mr. Leuchter on this matter, and it is a very interesting angle.
In any case, I do recommend the Germar Rudolf "Critical Edition" of the Leuchter Report.
Germar Rudolf is a long-time Revisionist who is a degreed chemist and former PhD candidate, who is enormously qualified on the matter, and I think he does a fair job of saving the Leuchter Report. His "Critical Edition" is the only version of the Leuchter Report that I will recommend.
The Columbia-educated engineer Friedrich Paul Berg (1943-2019) long ago had some fundamental criticisms of some of the technical aspects of Faurisson and Leuchter's reasoning in the Leuchter Report โ but Mr. Berg encountered a disturbing amount of one-track orthodoxy within the Revisionist "movement" itself, which was detrimental to the spirit of Revisionism and its scientific methodology of historical review by earnestly "bringing History into accord with facts."
Fritz brooked little disagreement in his own right, but he honestly found this rigid and uninformed orthodoxy amongst his colleagues very frustrating, and he no doubt lost numerous Revisionist friends for his blunt candor.
So, while I do admire the octogenarian Mr. Leuchter for the courage of what he did, neither he nor Dr. Faurisson deserve any kind of "papal" status โ which itself would certainly be against the spirit of Revisionism itself, the scholarship meaning nothing if we can't even question the questioners.
To its credit, RODOH has always been willing to do this. I've never had any hesitation challenging anyone, not even my late friend Fritz Berg, if I thought something was unreasonable or just wrong. Mr. Berg was an old school admirer of President Kennedy, for example, a man whom I more or less despise.
The bottom line for me is that Mr. Berg's criticism of Mr. Leuchter's work was, as far as I'm concerned, fully justified.
Jim Rizoli (from Communist Massachusetts) and Diane King (from Texas) have been one of the most stalwart supporters of Fred Leuchter until now โ and now they've had enough. As far as they are concerned, Fred Leuchter is a crook and con man.
I like Mr. Rizoli and Ms. King. They produce streaming video commentary nearly every day, and sometimes they interview some interesting people.
Sometimes Jim and (twin brother) Joe Rizoli and Diane King veer off into conspiracy theory, natural health fads, and Libertarian nonsense, and excessively defend Christianity, etc., but they are never afraid to criticize Jews, and I think they are honest people โ which apparently Fred Leuchter is not.
All parties are invited to come here and defend their case if they so wish. Other comments invited.
My view on Mr. Leuchter is that I regard him as a great man for having gone to Auschwitz, then in Communist Poland, to examine the Nazi homicidal gas chamber (HGC) question.
Leuchter was an expert on American execution methods and his expert report was commissioned by Prof. Robert Faurisson (1929-2018) for the intrepid defense of publisher Ernst Zรผndel (1939-2017) in his second heresy trial in Canada (1988), and this fact alone remains enormously important for historiography, even if the Report's relevance to the historical question itself can hardly be overstated.
However, Fred A. Leuchter was never a qualified Engineer โ and this annoys me as much as the Australian electrical engineer Richard Krege never actually publishing a credible scientific report on his ground-penetrating-radar (GPR) testing at Treblinka โ particularly after all the hype given to it by Fredrick Tรถben (1944-2020) and other fellow-travelers, who often seemed more interested in "fighting the Joos" than soberly answering the burning historical questions.
Mr. Leuchter (with Dr. Faurisson behind him) persisting in calling himself an Engineer has always been problematical in the extreme.
Furthermore, although I believe that Mr. Leuchter did his investigations honestly, they were incontrovertibly influenced by the ideas of the late Prof. Robert Faurisson. And while Faurisson was an iconic Revisionist and had many insights into the Holocaust mythology, he was not in any way technically qualified.
Some Revisionists have gone so far as to say that Robert Faurisson was almost the "ghost writer" of the original 1988 Leuchter Report. Mr. Rizoli directly questioned Mr. Rudolf and Mr. Leuchter on this matter, and it is a very interesting angle.
In any case, I do recommend the Germar Rudolf "Critical Edition" of the Leuchter Report.
Germar Rudolf is a long-time Revisionist who is a degreed chemist and former PhD candidate, who is enormously qualified on the matter, and I think he does a fair job of saving the Leuchter Report. His "Critical Edition" is the only version of the Leuchter Report that I will recommend.
The Columbia-educated engineer Friedrich Paul Berg (1943-2019) long ago had some fundamental criticisms of some of the technical aspects of Faurisson and Leuchter's reasoning in the Leuchter Report โ but Mr. Berg encountered a disturbing amount of one-track orthodoxy within the Revisionist "movement" itself, which was detrimental to the spirit of Revisionism and its scientific methodology of historical review by earnestly "bringing History into accord with facts."
Fritz brooked little disagreement in his own right, but he honestly found this rigid and uninformed orthodoxy amongst his colleagues very frustrating, and he no doubt lost numerous Revisionist friends for his blunt candor.
So, while I do admire the octogenarian Mr. Leuchter for the courage of what he did, neither he nor Dr. Faurisson deserve any kind of "papal" status โ which itself would certainly be against the spirit of Revisionism itself, the scholarship meaning nothing if we can't even question the questioners.
To its credit, RODOH has always been willing to do this. I've never had any hesitation challenging anyone, not even my late friend Fritz Berg, if I thought something was unreasonable or just wrong. Mr. Berg was an old school admirer of President Kennedy, for example, a man whom I more or less despise.
The bottom line for me is that Mr. Berg's criticism of Mr. Leuchter's work was, as far as I'm concerned, fully justified.
Jim Rizoli (from Communist Massachusetts) and Diane King (from Texas) have been one of the most stalwart supporters of Fred Leuchter until now โ and now they've had enough. As far as they are concerned, Fred Leuchter is a crook and con man.
I like Mr. Rizoli and Ms. King. They produce streaming video commentary nearly every day, and sometimes they interview some interesting people.
Sometimes Jim and (twin brother) Joe Rizoli and Diane King veer off into conspiracy theory, natural health fads, and Libertarian nonsense, and excessively defend Christianity, etc., but they are never afraid to criticize Jews, and I think they are honest people โ which apparently Fred Leuchter is not.
All parties are invited to come here and defend their case if they so wish. Other comments invited.
