European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 17, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes thursday december 17.1987 Carl Rowan hustler1 and the meaning of a free press Washington when Hustler publisher Larry Flynt and he Rev. Jerry Falwell arc locked in a deadly Duel a lot of people May be inclined to Hope inc guns file simultaneously. Some think thai while Flynn has a pm oiled the sinful Side of Man s nature Mill his pornographic Manga inc Falwell has exploited the gullibility is of people who want and need a religion and has used pseudo religion Loiry to alter inc american political landscape. Rul 1 can t hide Oul under a plague on to Olla her sinuses  when their Bailie reaches the United Stales supreme court and involves Freedom of the press and Freedom of religion. For reasons personal and intellectual i think the firs amendment to the Constitution is the greatest Sei of words Ever Strung together by men. Those words arc wha separate a society in which i and other journalists write whatever we believe and societies like Haiti Korea the soviet Union where sudden death is not a football term but the punishment for writing what Kyranis do not like. Yet i Walch Shis debate before inc supreme court resenting the possibility that Larry Flynt and Hustler Magazine could become a Legal Symbol of Vhal Freedom of the press Means in America. Flints Hustler published in 1983 and 1984 a so called parody in which there is a fictitious portrayal of Falich having sex with his Mother in an outhouse even As Falwell talks of gelling drunk before going to his pulpit to preach. A jury awarded or. Fal Ivell j200.000 in damages for the intentional infliction of emotional distress by Flynn and Hustler. Flynn says the first amendment gives me the right to be offensive. The Larry flints of Floc world have to be lol  Well now do inc Flynnis have to be tolerated to maintain Freedom of inc press Flynn puts himself in the company of cartoonists like Herb lock of the Washington Post comic strip writers like Gary Trudeau who docs Doun Asbury and . Rosenthal i suffer emotional mistress when i tune n4to Jerry Falwell so pulp isue him or just take an antacid pour in rite Hrycai had who does Bloom county and others in journalism who ridicule the qualities of Lyndon Johnson George hush Jimmy Carter or in a most unflattering Lour of Ronald Reagan s brain. Flynn s lawyers suggest that if he is punished the her blocks Trudeau and Fri itt fic ils will never again of free.  there is a world of difference below can saying that Richard Nixon was a liar. Jimmy Carter was a wimp or Cagan ranks at inc Bottom among presidents and Flynn portraying Falwell As engaging in outhouse incest with Bis Mother. The Lone and ongoing Standard of limitations of Freedom of speech has been the  ration by Oliver Wendell Holmes or. In Schunck a /ni1rej.l la Llinat tic most stringent Protection of free speech would not protect a Man in falsely shout ing fire in a theater and causing a  Well crying fire falsely in a in catch is a naughty and dangerous thing to do Bui it is not As outrageous As suggesting falsely to millions of people that a Politi Cal foe has engaged in incest in an out House with his Mother. Falwell s lawyer Norman Roy Snitman referred to inc Hustler parody As outrageous Hei Nous repulsive and loathsome and i cannot quarrel with a single one of those words. Flints lawyer attempted 10 Dis miss the parody As rhetorical hyper Bole As just an All empt to deflate this stuffed shirt Falwell. And bring him Down to our  1 Don t think  a Falwell can Ever be deflated by the kind of sewer based attacks that Flynn authorized. Muster has. In Riith glorified fal Weli in Many important circles of Ameri Ca. So i Erml to make in Clear that if inc supreme court decides Flynn and his Maga Ine have behaved outrageously Lului is one journalist who is not going to scream thai the High tribunal is taking away my freedoms. There is simply no correlation Between Flynn s abominable parody and inc practice of free and irreverent journalism. In memory of Eleni her murderers must be stated on aug. 28, 1948, Eleni Gatzogiannis a peasant woman 41 years old was murdered in the tiny Sione Village of Lia in the greek mountains. She was Shol by a firing squad finished off with a Bullet to the head. Her body was Thrawn into a Ravine. Years passed. Her son Nicholas grew to manhood in inc United states. He spent years tracking Down inc Man who ordered her death to kill him. But when he confronted the murderer he did not take Oul his gun. He remembered his Mother s last words were my Chil Dren a cry of love Hal bound him. Nicholas knew killing the murderer would sear the lives of his own children and that would not be love As Eleni knew love for children. He spat in the killer s face but walled away from the act of  for which he had burned so Long. On dec. 10, 1987, president Reagan told the Story of Eleni and her son in his talk on the results of the Summit meeting. He said Eleni s last cry was for All inc children of the world a cry for peace love and undemanding. I was Happy for Nicholas Gage who was a Fine re Porter for the new York times and is now a writer of books and producer of films. One of his books is Eleni and ii will live. He is a trusted Friend. But then i became saddened because i realized the president had not told the whole Story. There were questions to which he knew the answer but had chosen not to raise. Who murdered Eleni whal was her real crime Eleni gat/oy1ann1s was murdered by the communist guerrillas in Greece. It was not an isolated act of violence but a carefully planned Campaign of Ter ror against inc parents of the greek Mountain villages. Her crime was Hal she helped her son and three of her daughters escape the Roundup of greek children marked for deportation 10 communist Albania near by and thence to permanent exile in communist indoctrination Camps in Eastern Europe. This information was omitted from inc speech. The feeling Al the White House i was Lolu was thai to say Flat Oul the communists did it might have been too jarring a note in a Post Summit speech. Welt perhaps thai was the right thing to do. The president did speak Oul against totalitarianism now almost a naughty word among american admirers of Gorbachev. I wish he had told the whole Story but then it is a bit easier to be a columnist than president. But in Eleni s memory in Musi be stated who killed her. And it was Nicholas Gate who pointed Oul 10 me Why it is so important to explain that she was executed by the communists for daring to protect her children from kidnapping. The reason is thai the Abdul Iron of children is still being practice by communists today in Afghanistan. Tens of thousands of children Are removed from their Homes lobe indoctrinated in special schools inside Afghanistan most of Ihm against the wishes of heir parents. And the communist afghan government in self has announced thai every year 2,000 children Are sen for education and training to the soviet Union for Peri ods of up to 10 years. The soviet puppet regime in Kabul says that mos of the children Are orphans off to a yrs _ a More than 25,000 youngsters have been Scal off. Spring  killed by inc afghan resistance. Even if they really were without family the deportation would be counter to International Law and any concept of human rights. But the fact is thai the Elan system of Afghanistan takes in orphans and nurtures Ihm. The abductions have been attested to by United nations officials foreign diplomats correspondents. Afghan parents and the words of the Kabul re Gime. Forced training in Afghanistan or inc soviet Union is part of the Kremlin s program of Soviel Iarion of Afghanistan a program of indoctrination bases and secret police thai Gorbachev and his politburo Hope will keep Afghanistan in the soviet orbit Long after any withdrawal of soviet troops if thai Ever lakes place. When the communists knew icy were Osing the civil War. Icy rounded up inc people of Lia Al gun Point and herded them into Albania. For the firs Lime in 2.500 years Lia became an empty place. Only crows remained feeding on corpses. Later the people came Back. Nicholas is now head of his Dan. Which can Lars in Worcester mass. He re turns Lolia three or four times a year to help build the Village and to Bear witness thai in her Dalh Eleni left life. She lives in inc Freedom of her children and in the connection Between her murder and the sorrows of other mothers very far away and four decades later. A to a tort Al nw5 Stylc