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Are_grits_groceries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-21-09 06:28 AM
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Holocaust denier sues Pembroke Pines survivor and author, 80
A notorious Holocaust denier convicted of attacking Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel in an elevator has now set his sights on an 80-year-old Pembroke Pines woman whose memoir recounts her ordeal in the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.

In a lawsuit filed in Broward Circuit Court, Eric Hunt alleges that the The Fifth Diamond: The Story of Irene Weisberg Zisblatt is full of "vicious lies" and "fantastical tales" that turn Jews into haters and torment non-Jews.

Zisblatt's son-in-law, who is a lawyer, called Hunt's lawsuit "absurd," but expressed concern for his elderly relative's safety.
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"Zisblatt blatantly stole other Jewish people's experiences during World War II and passed them off as her own in order to further the Jewish political agenda and profit off of these fantastical tales," Hunt, who is representing himself without an attorney, wrote in his lawsuit. "The defendants must not go unpunished for tormenting Gentiles and instilling hatred in Jews using such hideous lies."
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At sentencing, Hunt apologized and said he had suffered a "severe mental breakdown." (sentenced for attacking Wiesel)

"I had been sucked into anti-Semitic conspiracy theories on the Internet," Hunt said in August 2008. "I don't believe any of that garbage now that I'm taking my medication."

Eric Hunt
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/sfl-zisblatt-holocaust-lawsuit-b10209,0,1735322.story

Why is this shit allowed to go on into a trial? What effect does anything she wrote have on him?

That lady doesn't need this shit thrown at her by that loon.


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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-21-09 06:33 AM
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1. very, very unlikely this will go to trial. very, very likely Mr. Hunt
will find himself in a mental hospital.
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LeftinOH Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-21-09 07:06 AM
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2. Apparently, the kid is off his meds again.
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