such an historic letter

In regards to ‘blaming it all on people that lived 175 years ago’…

The descendants of colonialists have no room to cry about their ancenstors being held accountable for their actions.

Wah! I’m descended from a bunch of money grubbing religious zealots that spread disease and incompatible religious beliefs across the world… Why do you say such bad things about my ancestors. Wah! Why do you expect the same behaviour from me? Wah! Just because I live in the dominant culture, why do you think that I should pay any attention to the lessons of history? Wah! Why should I be help accountable for my actions?

Yep, it just goes on and on. A bunch of autocratic maniacs just trying to do, um, whatever the hell they want to do.

Why should they be held accountable by history? Why should we expect to be held accountable for our actions?

Patrick Giagnocavo: I’m curious if you even believe that the Holocaust happened? I know people who have seen it and said that it was anti-Semitic. Why are you so skeptical that a movie could be anti-Semitic?

Patrick: how about that church in Denver that put on a sign saying “jews killed Jesus”? Or do you need to see actual jews being killed before you admit the existence of bigotry against them?

“History is bunk ” – - Henry Ford

History is always being rewritten . . . and before our very eyes . . yet , no one even so much as blinks .

As to the PASSION of the CHRIST , it must be said ,

” What this little . . . JEW . . . . did for mankind . . . is beyond HUMAN understanding .

ojsbuddy , russ conner 480-380-7483

I like the comment from Fazal Majid, why not blame L. Carnot for fathering S. Carnot for global warming with the invention of thermodynamics

Surely, with Mel Gibson’s movie grossing $125 million in its first 5 days alone, there would be at least one or two instances of “Jew-hatred” someone could cite – I mean, a Sikh (wearing a turban) was actually killed in the days after 9/11 because he was mistakenly identified as a Muslim.

Where are the rampaging Christians going all Kristallnacht on Jews after watching the film? Answer: they don’t exist, because evangelical Christians are the most pro-Jewish goyim on the planet.

Who are the people talking about the anti-Semitism in this film? People who haven’t actually seen it.

Mel must be Jewish too, considering that in the crucifixion scene one of the shots has his hand holding the nail and hammer…

I don’t think you need to go that far back to understand Haiti’s problems. You could also focus on the US invasion of Haiti in 1915. The occupation lasted until 1934. It looks like the US cannot keep its troops out of this tiny country.

Philip that is true. Ebert says it’s the most violent movie he has ever seen. I can take the violence; I’m boycotting it for religious reasons. I can’t support a film whose primary benefactor can’t be bothered to distance himself from his holocaust-denying dad, and who goes out of his way to make a minority group look worse than necessary for no good reason. Most of the film, as I understand, is dedicated to making the Jews look bad.

B.P.B.: I haven’t seen the movie and I won’t see it so I can’t say what is in the movie. I have read in the newspaper that people are complaining that the movie has elements of Jew-hatred.

[I'm not boycotting the movie, by the way, because of its religious content. I don't like violence in movies and have heard that this one is tough to watch even for people who are accustomed to screen violence. I prefer to watch violent movies on commercial airliners because then all the really painful stuff has been edited out.]