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I do not believe this phenomenon is completely accidental or organic. This year, a renegade Catholic Bishop, Richard N. Williamson, was convicted of Holocaust Denial in Germany. Williamson had argued on Swedish national television that no Jews were intentionally killed by the Nazis in gas chambers.
I was not surprised to hear this story because I had seen Bishop Williamson’s indoctrination first hand. He claimed that the Protocols of Zion were a gift from God to warn the modern world of encroaching Jewish world dominance. He also loved a particular movie producer named Oliver Stone. Paradoxically, Williamson taught that movies and television were intrinsically evil. Despite this belief, which some thought bordered on eccentricity, Williamson went out of his way to show Stone’s JFK to the entire seminary.
Bishop Williamson used this film in the manner I believe it was intended to be used: as a tool to prepare young minds to adopt a modern version of the Protocols Conspiracy Theory.
We know that history repeats itself. Many have spent their lives educating others on the horrors of the Holocaust so that we would “never forget.” But now we are not dealing with ignorance, but stealth. Stone, like Mel Gibson and Helen Thomas, was not imprudent. He was not joking. Although he would claim to not be anti-Semitic, Stone had to believe his theories for years and years. The only difference between then and now is that, back then, he knew to keep these ideas to himself. Nowadays, however, he is comfortable expressing these views in public. The most troubling thing is that many of us are all too willing to tolerate him expressing them.
Lastly, here is a glimpse into where conspiracy theories lead.
Keep that in mind next time some Hollywood producer makes a disgusting remark and you’re willing to let him off the hook because ‘he’s just a movie maker.’
