Arbeit macht frei: - Fredrick Töben

Of course, during the time of this initial US concern, as expressed above, I
did not apply for a US visa because the Visa Waiver program enables eligible
individuals from various countries to enter the USA without obtaining a visa.
I did this on a number of occasions but then noted it took too long to explain
to US Immigration about my 7-month German prison term, which was NOT
for moral turpitude. Then US Ambassador Tom Schiefer suggested it would
expedite matters if I had a visa, and so I applied and was granted a five-year
US visa, which remained valid until August 2009.
My current US Visa is valid for only one year and so in 2011 I will have to
re-apply, i.e. if it is still safe for me to travel. In the current visa application I
did ask, but received no reply, whether I would be safe in the U.S.A. from
any extradition requests coming from either Germany or Israel.
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In place of an index to this book, here is a word of clarification from a free
thinking person who reveals the mechanism of thought suppression
contained within the concept of denialism.
Words That Think For Us - The tyranny of denial
Edward Skidelsky, Lecturer in philosophy, University of Exeter
‘Denial’ is an ordinary English word meaning to assert the untruth of
something. Recently, however, it has acquired a further polemical sense.
To ‘deny’ in this new sense is to repudiate some commonly professed
doctrine. Denial is the secular form of blasphemy; deniers are scorned,
ridiculed and sometimes prosecuted.
Where does this new usage come from? There is an old sense of ‘deny,’
akin to ‘disown,’ which no doubt lies in the background. (A traitor
denies his country; Peter denied Christ.) But the more immediate
source is Freud. Denial in the Freudian sense is the refusal to accept a
painful or humiliating truth. Sufferers are said to be in a ‘state of denial’
or simply ‘in denial.’ This last phrase entered general use in the early
1990s and launched ‘denial’ on its modern career.
‘Holocaust denial’ was the first political application, followed closely by
‘Aids denial,’ ‘global warming denial’ and a host of others.
An abstract noun, ‘denialism,’ has recently been coined. It is perhaps no
accident that denial’s counterpart, affirmation, has meanwhile acquired
laudatory overtones. We ‘affirm’ relationships, achievements, values.
Ours is a relentlessly positive culture.
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