Erich H. Loewy Letter 1 25-Feb-2001 Beat them to a pulp

Erich H. Loewy Letter 1 25-Feb-2001 Beat them to a pulp — alas!!!!

"It is a typical passive aggressive move and as always with these folks there is no really appropriate answer (the satisfying one of beating them to a pulp is — alas!!!! — foreclosed)." — Erich H. Loewy

February 25, 2001

Dr. Erich H. Loewy
Professor and Endowed Alumni Association Chair of Bioethics
Associate in Philosophy
University of California, Davis
UCDMC — PSSB 2400
4150 V Street
Sacramento, CA 95817
USA

Erich H. Loewy:

It has come to my attention that following a brief online discussion of the Ukrainian Archive (UKAR) web site at www.ukar.org, and more particularly of my letter to Yitzhak Arad of 09-Mar-1999 at www.ukar.org/arad02.html on the subject of his testimony at the Jerusalem trial of John Demjanjuk in 1987, you added the following statement:

From: Erich Loewy <[email protected]>
List Editor: "Mott, Jim" <[email protected]>
Editor's Subject: Re: Treblinka (Loewy)
Author's Subject: Re: Treblinka (Loewy)
Date Written: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 13:23:30 -0600
Date Posted: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 13:23:30 -0600

This is the problem — I agree with Cheney that to even answer the "Treblinka" didn't exist type of outrage isn't worth doing. That no amount of proof will convince. That talking to these people is beneath one's dignity. And then — when we don't answer them we can hear "well, they do not even have any evidence", etc. It is a typical passive aggressive move and as always with these folks there is no really appropriate answer (the satisfying one of beating them to a pulp is — alas!!!! — foreclosed). So what I try to do is to do both — give some evidence and then say that discussing if the earth is or is not flat is not worth doing and walking away (keeping my hands in my pocket). Any other suggestions (other than taking them out?)

Dr. Erich H. Loewy
Professor and Endowed Alumni Association Chair of Bioethics
Associate in Philosophy
University of California, Davis
UCDMC — PSSB 2400
4150 V Street
Sacramento, CA 95817

Found online at h-net.msu.edu. Blue emphasis added.

As I am the author both of the UKAR web site, and of the letter to Yitzhak Arad with whose contents you disagree, I take your statement above to be directed at me, and I offer the following recommendations:

That you consult with your lawyer as to the advisability of making such statements, as they could be construed as threatening bodily harm and as inciting to violence, and so could expose you to criminal prosecution.
That you consult with University of California ethical standards staff as to the appropriateness of one of its faculty members boasting of his desire to beat to a pulp an individual with whom he disagrees.
That you consult with the same ethical standards staff as to the permissibility of writing threats of bodily harm and incitement to violence on University of California letterhead, of which your University of California email address combined with your statement of affiliation underneath your signature is the email equivalent.
That you consult with a therapist as to the amelioration that might be expected from anger-management counselling.
That you adopt the practise of reading documents before condemning them.
That you write a public retraction of your threat of bodily harm and your incitement to violence.

Lubomyr Prytulak

cc:
Richard C. Atkinson
President, University of California
1111 Franklin Street
Oakland, California
USA 94607-5200

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