Posted by David Bernstein:
HRW's Garlsco Responds, Making Matters Worse:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_09_13-2009_09_19.shtml#1252891768
In response to concerns expressed about Human Rights Watch's Marc
Garlasco's obsessive Nazi medal collecting, [1]he claims that it
didn't occur to him that anyone might question his "hobby." "Precisely
because it's so obvious that the Nazis were evil, I never realized
that other people, including friends and colleagues, might wonder why
I care about these things."
Yet [2]here's a post of his under his pseudonym Flak88 from September
2007:
Need advice
So I am trying to figure out what to do. My book [on Nazi war
medals] is clsoe [sic] to done, but I am not sure if I should put
my name on it. If folks at work found out I might very well lose my
job. That is the reality, so don't dwell on it - ok? But this is a
small group of people - should I worry? And shouldn't I stand up
for myself? And if I use a psyeudonym [sic] isn't that worse, like
I am trying to hide something?
I wonder whether this untruth is Garlasco's alone, or whether, as
seems likely, HRW officials vetted his response, and were either too
incompetent to discover his prevarication, or too dishonest to care. I
also wonder what kind of person is so obsessed with German World War
II medals that he publishes what amounts to a vanity press book on the
subject, knowing it could cost him his job and reputation.
References
1.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marc-garlasco/human-rights-watch-invest_b_284075.html
2.
http://www.germancombatawards.com/print.php?threadid=6370&page=1&sid=ba6ff1bfd04dddddd98bfd54d89680bf
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