Rush Limbaugh's Criminal History

Name:  LIMBAUGH, RUSH HUNDSON	Race:  White	DOB:  01/12/1951
Address:    340 ROYAL PALM WY S-304    PALM BEACH, FL 33480	Facility:  CASH BOND  Booking Number:  2006021379
OBTS Number:  N/A	Booking Date:  04/28/2006		Time:  16:25
Arresting Agency:  01 - PBSO	Officer: J. HOFFMAN
Original Bond: $3,000.00	Current Bond: $3,000.00
Release Date: 05/01/06  Time: 13:45	Holds For Other Agencies:No
Warrant Number: N/A
Charges:  893.13-3730   FRAUD-CONCEAL INFO TO OBTAIN PRESCRIPTION

Rush Limbaugh surrendered to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office in April 2006 after being charged with doctor shopping. According to investigators, the 55-year-old Limbaugh bounced from doctors in a bid to secure multiple prescriptions for powerful painkillers like OxyContin. In a settlement with Florida prosecutors, the felony case against the conservative radio star will be dropped in 18 months if Limbaugh continues to undergo addiction counseling and is not arrested again. He also agreed to pay about $30,000 in fines and court costs.

JULY 6--Rush Limbaugh was traveling with four other men--including the producers of the hit show "24"--when he was detained over a mislabeled bottle of Viagra found in his luggage during a Customs search. A Department of Homeland security passenger manifest shows that Limbaugh and his four buddies flew from the Dominican Republic on a Gulfstream IV jet owned by Premiere Radio Networks, which syndicates his radio program. Limbaugh returned to Palm Beach, Florida on June 26 with Joel Surnow, "24"'s co-creator and executive producer and Howard Gordon, another of the Fox hit's executive producers (Hollywood agent Jeffrey Benson was also part of the Limbaugh quintet). With all those guys in tow, it is unclear what Limbaugh needed with those 29 100mg Viagra pills. The passenger manifest was among several documents released today by the Palm Beach County State's Attorney in response to a TSG open records request. Included in the material released were a copy of the handwritten statement Limbaugh provided investigators after he was detained upon the discovery of the impotency drug. An affidavit sworn three days later by Limbaugh was also released. In that document, Limbaugh explains that the Viagra "was intended for my exclusive use" and that the drug had been prescribed in the name of his drug treatment doctor, Steven Strumwasser, "to further maintain and protect my privacy." (4 pages)

AFFIDAVIT

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DECEMBER 5--Rush Limbaugh illegally purchased hundreds of prescription pills a month and sought a quartet of doctors to fuel his drug addiction, according to search warrant applications unsealed yesterday in Palm Beach County Circuit Court. Investigators executing the searches, which took place November 25 at offices used by Limbaugh's South Florida physicians, accused the radio personality of "doctor shopping," or improperly seeking out practitioners to supply him with an inordinate abundance of painkillers OxyContin, Lorcet, Norco, Hydrocodone and Kadian, the anti-anxiety drug Xanax, the cholesterol-lowering drug Niacin, and Clonodine, which treats high blood pressure. Under Florida law, doctor shopping is punishable by up to five years in prison. The affidavits, one of which you'll find below, indicate that authorities began investigating the talk-show host last December after meeting with Wilma Cline, Limbaugh's former maid, and her husband, who told them that they sold Limbaugh "large quantities" of pharmaceutical drugs "over the course of many years." (5 pages)

AFFIDAVIT

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JANUARY 23--Plea negotiations between Rush Limbaugh and Florida prosecutors stalled last month when government officials insisted that the radio host cop to a felony, rejecting a defense suggestion that Limbaugh simply enter a pretrial diversion program and "continue to receive treatment for his addiction." In an exchange of letters (copies of which you'll find below), Roy Black, Limbaugh's attorney, and prosecutor James Martz offered starkly different versions of the punishment Limbaugh, 53, should receive were he to admit that he engaged in "doctor shopping" to score prescription painkillers and other drugs. In his December 15 letter, Martz argued that Palm Beach investigators had evidence to support "in excess of ten felony counts" against Limbaugh. Copies of the Black-Martz correspondence were released to reporters pursuant to a freedom of information request. In November, agents executed search warrants at the offices of three Limbaugh doctors in an attempt to determine whether he illegally obtainied drugs like OxyContin, Hydrocodone, and Xanax. (4 pages)

AFFIDAVIT

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JANUARY 12--While Rush Limbaugh has regularly derided the American Civil Liberties Union and its causes, the group today came to the radio host's defense, filing a legal motion contending that Florida investigators violated Limbaugh's privacy rights when they seized his medical records last month. The ACLU's Florida branch filed the below request to submit a friend of the court brief in connection with an ongoing probe of alleged "doctor-shopping" by Limbaugh. The ACLU petition, filed with Florida's Fourth District Court of Appeal, seeks the "protection of every Floridian's fundamental right to privacy." We're sure Limbaugh--who has grouped ACLU members in the same category as feminazis and other mushy-headed liberals--is grateful for the support. (5 pages)

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• Rush Limbaugh The Felon -- Al Franken, 00:17:32 10/23/06 Mon
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Also read: Catholic League President Blasts New Orleans Contract With Farrakhan’s Security Chief

Likens to David Duke Conducting Sensitivity Training

The security chief for Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has been hired to provide sensitivity training for the NOPD. Captain Dennis Muhammad has conducted sensitivity training in other cities such as Buffalo and will be paid $15,000 for his services, which NOPD Chief Eddie Compass says are needed in New Orleans . Compass says there are people in New Orleans who have complained about police treatment and are “anti police.” Compass believes that the “members of the Nation of Islam have some type of relationship with these people.”

However, what about those in the community and on the NOPD who are not members of the Nation of Islam? David Benelli of the Police Association of New Orleans says his phone has “been ringing off the hook” with members upset about the hiring of someone with ties to the Nation of Islam. The NOPD is 45% white, while the city is about 30% non-black, so there is a large number of people who might feel insulted by this decision. However, not only should whites be outraged about the selection of this Nation of Islam leader to conduct sensitivity training, but also all African-Americans in the community who are of the Catholic or Jewish faiths.

At the press conference announcing the training, a rabbi and priest expressed concern about Muhammad’s selection. Such concern is more than justified considering the history of Muhammad’s boss, Louis Farrakhan. Here are just a few of the Nation of Islam’s beliefs, as well as some of Farrakhan’s disturbing statements:

• Whites are “blue eyed devils.”
• Jews are “bloodsuckers”
• “Hitler was a very great man.”
• Jews controlled the slave trade and currently control the government
• Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammad believed that whites were created by an evil Black scientist and that there will be “The Great Decisive Battle in the Sky” when a space ship will kill all white people by bombing the earth
• Muhammad believed that white people should relocate to Europe and that racial integration was wrong

 In addition, Farrakhan has met with dictators in Sudan , Libya and Iraq , before the war, and praised their governments while denouncing the United States .  Leaders in the Nation of Islam have also made very inflammatory anti-Catholic statements. In a November 1993 speech at Kean College in New Jersey, Farrakhan’s chief spokesman Khallid Muhammad said, “T]he old no-good Pope-you know that cracker, somebody need to raise that dress up and see what´s really under there. Jesus was right; you´re nothing but liars. The book of Revelations is right; you´re from the Synagogue of Satan.”

Unfortunately, the list of racist and inflammatory statements from Nation of Islam leaders is too comprehensive to completely catalog. Needless to say, it is vast. With such a controversial and confrontational history, why would Chief Compass hire any representative from the Nation of Islam?

Farrakhan’s views have even been condemned by African American leaders such as Rev. Jesse Jackson and former Congressman Cynthia McKinney (D-Georgia). Even pop star Michael Jackson fired the members of the Nation of Islam who were part of his security detail.

If the Nation of Islam ties were too controversial for Michael Jackson, it should be too controversial for the NOPD. New Orleans is a very diverse community with strong ties to the Jewish and Catholic faiths. Hiring an individual who is affiliated with such a hate filled group that has a history of anti-White, anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic rhetoric is an insult to all such individuals on the police force and in New Orleans . Obviously, Chief Compass needs sensitivity training to realize the implications of his decision.

Jeff Crouere is a native of New Orleans, LA and his Louisiana based program, Ringside Politics, airs at 8:30 p.m. Friday and 10:30 p.m. Sunday on WLAE-TV, Channel 32. Visit his website at www.ringsidepolitics! .com and e-mail him at jeff@ringsidepolitics.com.

Also read: Catholic League President Blasts New Orleans Contract With Farrakhan’s Security Chief - Likens to David Duke Conducting Sensitivity Training

Louis Farrakhan (born Louis Eugene Walcott, May 11, 1933 in the Bronx, New York), is the head of the Nation of Islam.

Farrakhan was raised within the West Indian community in the Roxbury section of Boston, Massachusetts. His mother had emigrated from Saint Kitts and Nevis in the 1920s; his father was a Jamaican cab driver from New York but was not involved in his upbringing.

As a child, he received training as a violinist. At the age of six, he was given his first violin and by the age of 13, he had played with the Boston College Orchestra and the Boston Civic Symphony. A year later, Walcott went on to win national competitions, as well as the Ted MackOriginal Amateur Hour. He was one of the first blacks to appear on the popular show.

In Boston, Farrakhan attended the prestigious Boston Latin School and English High School, graduating from the latter^[1]. He attended college for two years at Winston-Salem State University teachers college, but left to continue a career as an entertainer. In the 1950s, Walcott became an up-and-coming calypso singer. Popularly known in Boston as "Calypso Louie," he recorded several calypso albums under the name "The Charmer."[1] In 1955, while headlining a show in Chicago entitled "Calypso Follies," Walcott first came in contact with the teachings of the Nation of Islam.

He had been inspired by Malcolm X and he had accepted a friend's invitation to attend the Nation of Islam's annual Saviours' Day address by Elijah Muhammad. Walcott accepted Elijah Muhammad's teachings that day and was renamed "Louis X."

Adoption of the "X" surname is a tradition within the Nation of Islam. In mathematics, "X" represents an unknown variable. In the purview of the Nation of Islam, followers accept the "X" surname as the rejection of their slave name. Eventually, the "X" name is replaced by a proper Muslim name more descriptive of the individual's personality and character.

After joining the Nation of Islam, Farrakhan quickly rose through the ranks to become Minister of the Nation of Islam's Boston Mosque. He was appointed Minister of the influential Harlem Mosque and served in that capacity from 1965 to 1975.

Louis Farrakhan separated from Warith Deen Muhammad in 1978 because of doctrinal disagreements. Farrakhan formed a splinter group using the original name — the Nation of Islam. He reestablished the teachings of Elijah Muhammad and also reinstated the movement's security force known as the Fruit of Islam (FOI).

On October 24, 1989, at the J.W. Marriott Hotel in Washington, DC., Louis Farrakhan claimed he had a vision of being abducted in 1985 by an invisible pilot in a UFO and carried up on a beam of light to a "human built planet" known as the "Mother Wheel." There the voice of Elijah Muhammad informed him that the President and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, under the direction of Gen. Colin Powell, were planning a war, which Farrakhan said he later came to realize was "a war against the black people of America, the Nation of Islam and Louis Farrakhan." "I saw a city in the sky," Farrakhan said, after which the UFO "brought me back to Earth and dropped me off near Washington; over to Tyson's Corner and Fifth Street I think...to make The Announcement." His entire inspiration for the "Million Man March", he says, is based on this "vision of being swept into a UFO that took him to a larger mothership." (The Washington Post, Sept. 18, 1995, p. D3).

On January 12, 1995, Malcolm X's daughter, Qubilah Shabazz, was arrested for conspiracy to assassinate Farrakhan. It was later alleged that the FBI had used a paid informant, Michael Fitzpatrick, to frame Shabazz. After Shabazz's arrest, Farrakhan held a press conference in Chicago in which he accused the FBI of attempting to exacerbate division and conflict between the Nation of Islam and the family of Malcolm X. Nearly four months later, on May 1, U.S. government prosecutors dropped their case against Shabazz.

On May 6, 1995, a packed public meeting in Harlem, New York, termed A New Beginning, featured Louis Farrakhan and Malcolm X's widow, Betty Shabazz. Originally organized by community activists as a fund raiser for Qubilah Shabazz's legal defense, the meeting marked the first public rapprochement between Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam and the Shabazz family.

On October 16, 1995 Farrakhan convened a broad coalition of black men in what many say was the largest march in American history, the Million Man March. The calming of Farrakhan's fiery rhetoric in recent years possibly signals a change of direction in the Nation of Islam, and may also be due as well to the seriousness of the advanced prostate cancer with which he was diagnosed years ago, but is evidently now in remission.

Louis Farrakhan is currently the leader of the Nation of Islam and lives in Chicago, Illinois at the former home of Elijah Muhammad, near the campus of the University of Chicago.

Farrakhan, along with New Black Panther Party leader Malik Shabazz Zulu, Al Sharpton, Sen.Barack Obama (D-Illinois) and other prominent black Americans marked the 10th anniversary of the Million Man March by holding a second march, the Millions More Movement on October 14, 2005 through October 17, 2005, in Washington.

In a February 2006 AP-AOL "Black Voices" poll, Farrakhan was voted the fifth most important black leader with 4% of the vote[2].

Farrakhan often wears a bow tie.

Farrakhan and anti-semitism

Probably the most provocative aspect of Farrakhan's political philosophy is to many people his alleged anti-Semitism. Farrakhan rejects accusations of anti-Semitism as politically motivated and without any ground in fact. One of the most controversial quotes attributed to Farrakhan, and which led to him being censured unanimously by the United States Senate, was, "Hitler was a very great man." Farrakhan continued by saying "I'm not proud of Hitler's evil toward Jewish people [...] don't compare me with your wicked killers." Farrakhan made this statement in response to a Jewish journalist at The Village Voice referring to him as a "Black Hitler":

"So I said to the members of the press, 'Why won't you go and look into what we are saying about the threats on Reverend Jackson's life?' Here the Jews don't like Farrakhan and so they call me 'Hitler'. Well that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man. He wasn't great for me as a Black man but he was a great German and he rose Germany up from the ashes of her defeat by the united force of all of Europe and America after the First World War. Yet Hitler took Germany from the ashes and rose her up and made her the greatest fighting machine of the twentieth century, brothers and sisters, and even though Europe and America had deciphered the code that Hitler was using to speak to his chiefs of staff, they still had trouble defeating Hitler even after knowing his plans in advance. Now I'm not proud of Hitler's evil toward Jewish people, but that's a matter of record. He rose Germany up from nothing. Well, in a sense you could say there is a similarity in that we are rising our people up from nothing, but don't compare me with your wicked killers."

Farrakhan: "Is the Federal Reserve owned by the government?" Audience: "No." Farrakhan: "Who owns the federal reserve?" Audience: "Jews." Farrakhan: "The same year they set up the IRS, they set up the FBI. And the same year they set up the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith… It could be a coincidence… [I want] to see black intellectuals free… I want to see them not controlled by members of the Jewish community."[3]

“Dewey, Kant and Hegel, and the rabbis that wrote the Talmud, make blacks inferior.”[4]

Farrakhan has referred to Jews, Palestinian Arabs, and Asians collectively as "bloodsuckers" and maintains that "Murder and lying comes easy for white people." [5] He has also been accused of calling Judaism a "gutter religion," although Farrakhan and his supporters deny this. An article in the NOI's periodical, Final Call, has responded by claiming that Farrakhan instead used the expression "dirty religion," and that "...in Minister Farrakhan’s vocabulary the phrase 'dirty religion' has a particular meaning... 'dirty religion' is the distorted faith which emerges from its manipulation by hypocrites or sinners."[6]

In 1998, former The Wall Street Journal editor Jude Wanniski attempted to foster dialogue between Farrakhan and his critics. He arranged for Farrakhan to be interviewed by reporter Jeffrey Goldberg who had written for the Jewish weekly, The Forward and The New York Times. Since the extensive interview was never published in either publication, Wanniski decided to post the transcript on his website in the context of a memo of Senator Joseph Lieberman. The following are links to the interview, parts one, two and three:

• Interview with Farrakhan Part I
• Interview with Farrakhan Part II
• Interview with Farrakhan Part III

Farrakhan has had friendly relations with leaders of the Neturei Karta, a small but controversial Jewish group that is well-known for its association with and support for anti-Zionists. Neturei Karta stressed that "Minister Louis Farrakhan is an extraordinary force for good in the Black community. His followers are responsible, industrious, modest and moral. And for this he and they have our respect." [7]

In 1999, after battling prostate cancer, Farrakhan adopted a more concilliatory tone. During Christmas of the same year he met with catholic leaders and rabbis at a gathering in Chicago where he called on all peoples of the world to "end the cycle of hatred".[8]However, Farrrakhan subsequently made numerous anti-Semitic statements.[9]

At an NOI-sponsored event in February 2005, Farrakhan provoked accusations of anti-semitism in Illinois by stating that "These false Jews promote the filth of Hollywood. It's the wicked Jews, the false Jews that are promoting lesbianism, homosexuality, [and] Zionists have manipulated Bush and the American government [over the war in Iraq]" [10]. Farrakhan's former aide, Sister Claudette Marie Muhammad currently serves on Illinois' Hate Crimes Commission, which has caused tension between the Black and Jewish populations, and has resulted in the resignation of the HCC's five Jewish members.

Louis Farrakhan has also alluded to a figure called "Yacub" (or, Biblically, "Jacob") in regards to whites. According to Farrakhan's mentor, Elijah Muhammad, blacks were "born righteous and turned to unrighteousness," while the white race was "made unrighteous by the god who made them (Mr. Yacub)." [11]

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Despite a landslide loss in Tuesday night's primary runoff against Hank Johnson, the controversy just keeps coming out of the Cynthia McKinney campaign.

First there was a scuffle between McKinney's bodyguards and an 11Alive news photographer, then there were remarks made to a cable network news crew, in which members of McKinney's entourage allegedly made shocking anti-Semitic remarks.

The Anti-Defamation League says they want to hear from McKinney and they want her to disavow the anti-Semitic remarks reported by the network crew, remarks that recall the scandal that cost her the election in 2002.

“We’re seeing some Cynthia McKinney supporters are resorting to anti-Semitic and racist language and again blaming the Jews for her loss in this campaign,” said ADL southeast Associate Director Shelley Rose.

The remarks were allegedly made just moments after McKinney's entourage passed out of earshot of 11Alive cameras, as the congresswoman left her campaign headquarters on Tuesday night.

Someone reportedly said quote, “You wanna know what led to the loss? Israel. The Zionists. You. put on your yarmulke and celebrate."

Rose said, "We're really astonished that in 2006, anti-Semitism once again rears its ugly head.”

The ADL lists the New Black Panther Party as a hate group, and questioned their affiliation with the McKinney campaign as well.

“We're really concerned that she continues to include the New Black Panther Party in her entourage, because we see them as one of the largest anti-Semitic and racist black hate groups in America today,” said Rose.

During the final days of the campaign, one face continued to show up in photographers’ lenses – McKinney’s personal bodyguard, Steve Muhammad.

On one occasion, Muhammad said, "Right now it's personal -- she's having personal conversation can't you understand that."

And on Tuesday afternoon, during an altercation with an 11Alive photojournalist, Muhammad said, “That’s right, and I'm going to touch you again if you do that again.”

Muhammad is no stranger to the cameras. A grandmaster in Kenpo-style karate, he's a contemporary of Bruce Lee, and even had a role in his movie "Enter The Dragon," playing Jim Kelly's karate teacher.

On Tuesday night, however, in a dust-up still being investigated by DeKalb County police, Muhammad ended up with stitches.

11Alive News tried repeatedly throughout the course of the day on Wednesday to get someone from the McKinney campaign or her congressional office to comment on the matter without success.

Lawmaker faces possible charges after allegedly striking officer

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- As U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Georgia, faces possible criminal charges for a Wednesday altercation with a Capitol Police officer, one of her lawyers said Friday that the real issues were "sex, race and Ms. McKinney's progressiveness."

In a news conference featuring actor Danny Glover and singer Harry Belafonte, McKinney said she would be exonerated and that "this whole incident was instigated by the inappropriate touching and stopping of me, a female, black congresswoman."

She had little else to say, citing the ongoing investigation into her allegedly striking a police officer after he failed to recognize her at a security checkpoint and tried to stop her from passing.

One Republican congressman dismissed the star-studded news conference. "Rep. McKinney appearing with the star of "Lethal Weapon"? Not exactly the message you want to be sending," said Ron Bonjean, spokesman for House Speaker Dennis Hastert.

Asked Friday if Capitol Police intended to bring charges against the congresswoman, Sgt. Kimberly Schneider said only, "I know we're still investigating."

The 51-year-old legislator was surrounded by more than two dozen supporters at the Friday news conference, some carrying handwritten placards that read "Recognize our congresswoman" and "Is Cynthia a target?"

During the conference, held at historically black Howard University in Washington, civil rights attorney James Myart said his client was "assaulted" by a Capitol Police officer, whose name the department refuses to release.

"Because she was assaulted and placed in impending fear of her safety, she responded," he said. "This case has just begun and we're going to fight, and we're going to use the U.S. Constitution."

Myart said McKinney would seek a criminal investigation against the officer, and a civil lawsuit against both the officer and the Capitol Police is being explored.

However, McKinney's other attorney, Michael Raffauf, downplayed the possibility of pressing charges against the officer, saying, "Not every assault deserves to be criminally prosecuted."

Myart further called the incident racial profiling and said there was "no excuse" for Capitol Police not recognizing his client, and Raffauf said she was stopped solely because of her race, gender and politics.

"It is the job of the Capitol Police to protect members of Congress. As a part of that job, they are to know who those members are," he said. "Whenever you put a police officer out on the street, he is supposed to know his job."

Members of Congress are allowed to bypass the metal detectors and security checkpoint. They are supposed to wear a lapel pin that identifies them as lawmakers. McKinney acknowledges she wasn't wearing one when she was stopped, but concurred with Myart that police should know who she is.

"The pin is not the issue," the six-time congresswoman said. "The issue is face recognition."

Glover and Belafonte refrained from addressing the facts of the case and said they were there to support McKinney. Belafonte said he did not know what happened during the Wednesday incident but wanted to make sure the matter was handled on "a very fair and very square basis."

"We've watched her be abused in the past, and she's overcome, stood strong," the outspoken Belafonte said. "We're not going to be absent or indifferent to the fact that she may be abused again."

Added Glover, "We're not here to judge the merits of the case, but here to support our sister."

Representatives of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and National Organization for Women also spoke on McKinney's behalf.

McKinney represents a majority black district on the east side of metro Atlanta. She was first elected in 1992, but lost the seat in 2002. She regained it in 2004.

The congresswoman, who said she has had problems with Capitol Police not recognizing her in the past, demanded and received an apology from Bill Clinton's administration in 1998 after White House guards stopped her.

There is no longer an anti-semitic hate site at the #1 ranking when you use Google to search for 'Jew'. The site that used to be there isn't on the first page of results, or the second page. A mirror site appears on the third page. What happened? Did Google do what it said it wouldn't do?

Maybe not. They (or dmoz.org) did remove it from a category of hate sites. The directory is accessible at directory.google.com or dmoz.org. This undoubtedly affected their ranking negatively. Though, while all the sites in this directory are chosen by people (anyone can volunteer to manage a category), I do question the decision of whoever made the choice. The hate site, unfortunately, does belong there.

The owner of the hate site, who is a St. Louisan, and who's address and phone number used to be accessible with a simple WHOIS query at networksolutions.com has purchased a private registry.

A WHOIS query now results in:
Registrant: Internet Education
ATTN: JEWWATCH.COM
c/o Network Solutions
P.O. Box 447
Herndon, VA. 20172-0447
Domain Name: JEWWATCH.COM
Administrative Contact: Weltner, Frank
4tx3fc4gt@networksolutionsprivateregistration.com
ATTN: JEWWATCH.COM
c/o Network Solutions
P.O. Box 447
Herndon, VA 20172-0447
570-708-8780

A brief search of NetworkSolutions site, and no mention of a TOS requirement for having a private registry. Godaddy.com (which has much cheaper annual fees for domain names), refuses to provide private registration to "morally questionable" websites. NetworkSolutions may not make that decision. Which is laudable from a freedom of speech perspective.

Frank Weltner's couchpower.com domain is still not private, by the way.

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DON BLACK

Stephen Donald Black, (photo [1])(born 28 July 1953) is an American white nationalist. He is the current webmaster of the "Stormfront" forum and former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. He was convicted in 1981 for attempted armed invasion of Dominica.

Black was born and raised in Athens, Alabama, first coming into contact with the white nationalist movement at age 15, when he joined the White Youth Alliance, an organisation founded by David Duke. He caused controversy by handing out racist literature at his school, which caused the school to ban the distribution of political pamphlets.

In 1970, his senior year of high school, Black went to Savannah, Georgia, to work on the campaign of J.B. Stoner, a segregationist running for governor of Georgia. During this time, Jerry Ray, brother of James Earl Ray, shot Black in the chest after he admitted to having broken into Stoner's offices at the request of the American Nazi Party (this was at a time when Stoner and the ANP were in conflict with each other). He recovered and returned to finish his education at a private school in Huntsville.

Black joined the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK hereafter) in 1975, one year after David Duke took over the organization. He moved to Birmingham to become the group's organizer for the state of Alabama. After the resignation of Duke in 1978, Don Black became Grand Wizard, or national director, of the KKK.

He unsuccessfully ran for mayor of Birmingham in 1979.

On April 27, 1981, Black, along with Larry Lloyd Jacklin and Wolfgang Droege, was arrested in New Orleans as they prepared to board a boat stocked with weapons and ammunition to invade Dominica in what Black, Droege and Jacklin dubbed Operation Red Dog.

The invasion would have restored former prime minister Patrick John and set up lucrative logging and gambling industries on the island. Defenders have claimed that his actions were no different from those of President Reagan's invasion of Grenada.^[1] Black was sentenced to three years in prison for his role in the attempted invasion and his violation of the Neutrality Act. He was released in 1984, having served his sentence in a federal prison in Texas.

In 1985, Black announced that he had created the "Nathanial Bedford Forrest Brigade" under KKK auspices to aid the Contras in Nicaragua. He said the 120-man unit would engage in psychological warfare to foster anti-government sentiment and would provide "a civil action unit to promote a stable economy".^[2]

In 1986 Black rethought his commitment to the KKK. Resigning from the group in 1987, he said:

In 1995, Black founded Stormfront, a white nationalist website, featuring the writings of prominent white nationalists such as William Luther Pierce and David Duke, as well as works by the Institute for Historical Review. Initially, along with these articles, Stormfront housed a library of white pride, neo-Nazi and skinhead graphics for downloading, and a number of links to other white nationalist websites.

In 2004, Black joined in signing the New Orleans Protocol on behalf of Stormfront. The New Orleans Protocol seeks to "mainstream" white nationalism by reducing violence and internecine warfare, and was written by David Duke.

He has also attended meetings of the Council of Conservative Citizens in the 1990s.[2]

In 2005 Don Black again attended CCC meetings according to the SPLC.

A judge in Missouri ordered several Web sites shuttered Wednesday after the state's Attorney General accused a St. Louis man -- an alleged racist and anti-Semite -- of illegally soliciting donations for Katrina relief efforts. It was the first known case of an official crackdown on Web scams taking advantage of the disaster in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.

Early Wednesday, Attorney General Jay Nixon filed an injunction asking the court to shut down 10 sites, all which fed to a central hub at internetdonations.org, that were asking for donations to Katrina relief. Nixon also asked that all funds collected be returned.

"Among other things, the sites were concealing the fact that none were registered as a charitable organization," said Jim Gardner, a spokesman for Attorney General Nixon.

Nixon's lawsuit also claimed that the man behind internetdonations.org -- who had recently registered several sites, among them katrinafamilies.com, kartrinafund.name, donate-kartrina.com, and katrina-donations.com -- "support[s] white supremacy and that the money raised from the consumers will be only for use to help white victims of the hurricane."

"This is a horrendous use of the victims of Hurricane Katrina to the benefit of a hate group," Nixon said at a news conference. He added that Weltner is associated with the National Alliance, which his office described as "listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as one of the nation's most active neo-Nazi hate groups."

The National Alliance Web site currently features a large ad-style link on its home page that reads "Katrina: The Aftermath / Help White Victims."

Weltner also operates jewwatch.com, an anti-Semitic site that was in the news last year when Google listed it as the top-ranked hit on searches using the word "jew." The site is now ranked No. 2, behind an entry in Wikpedia.

"This was political motivated," said Weltner, contacted at his home in St. Louis. "They just want to stomp on people based on their political views. This whole thing is a misunderstanding. Every penny was going to tax-exempt charities like the Red Cross and the Salvation Army."

Weltner denied any connection with the National Alliance, and said he was not a racist or anti-Semite.

"I'm a racial egalitarian. Jewwatch.com is absolutely not an anti-Semitic site. It's actually a library of information about the history of Jews that's been hidden from people," Weltner said. "It's a clipping library, I'm a librarian."

Jewwatch.com's front page features a photo of Lenin posed facing a photo of Michael Chertoff, the head of the Department of Homeland Security, and collects links under such subject headings as "Jewish Controlled Press" and "Jewish Zionist-Soviet Anti-American Spies."

"The Bolsheviks were basically Russian Jews in exile living in New York," claimed Weltner during the interview.

The donation-collecting sites, as well as the internetdonations.org hub, are now offline. On Wednesday afternoon St. Louis Circuit Judge Julian Bush issued a temporary restraining order requiring Weltner to stop seeking contributions.

Weltner wasn't even sure who took down his sites. "I didn't take them down. Someone else may have done it."

"I may contest some of [the lawsuit]," said Weltner, "but I don't intend to do battle with the state of Missouri. I could have stood on the corner with a cup and collected money and there wouldn't have been any problem, but now I've been slandered and accused of collecting money for racist groups."

As far as he knew, Weltner said, he had not managed to collect any monies before the sites were shut down. "But if I had, I've said I would have written a check to the Attorney General.

"I just tried to help people," he said.

David Duke, wearing Klan robes, attends a Klan rally in Euless, Texas in June, 1979. Dukes influence has been corrosive for the Republican Party in Louisiana.

Photo by APF Fellow Vince Heptig.

How David Duke and the Aryans Wrecked Louisiana's GOP

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By 1988 there were 24 Republicans out of 144 in the two chambers. Three of Louisiana's six Congressmen were Republican, and Secretary of State Fox McKeithen soon shocked his daddy, former governor John McKeithen, by leaving the Democratic told. In the last four years, seventy lower-level Democratic officials also have become "switchers." Republican control of the White House was a boon in attracting Southerners at odds with national Democratic policies.

'The Louisiana Republican Party is an empty shell," says University of New Orleans political scientist Charles Hadley. "David Duke pretty much destroyed it. They've had no mail solicitation [of money from members] for the last two years. As recently as 1988 they were operating on a $500,000 budget and had to use a secondary facility for computer operations. The evangelicals are quietly going about the business of capturing the party apparatus"-or what's left of it.

In early 1988 former chairman George Despot wrote a prophetic internal memo, warning that televangelist Pat Robertson's forces wanted "to take control of the state Republican party." Beyond support of Robertson, then- overriding issue was abortion. To party loyalists, most of whom already opposed abortion, that obsession meant trouble.

'The Aryans have several leaders who control their votes," says John Treen, brother of former Governor Dave Treen. "In the past we didn't have bloc voting in the State Central Committee. Everybody was an individual, voting their conscience. It was like an open debating society, a good representative body. Trying to reason with these people is like trying to teach calculus to a second-grader."

Other GOP veterans criticize the "Aryans... support of unsuccessful candidates in races Republicans might have won. But the Aryans are symptomatic of deeper turmoil in a state party fractured by racism, in fights. and feuds with national leaders. Republican National Committee operatives clashed with state chairman William J. Nungesser, 63 over his handling of Duke and former Governor Buddy Roemer's reelection campaign.

Billy Nungesser's term as chairman ended in November; he did not run again and most Republicans were relieved. In May, when the vice-chair, Sally Campbell, backed by Cong. Richard Baker of Baton Rouge, tried to oust him, Nungesser's allies moved files out of party headquarters the night before the vote.

'The evangelicals wanted to take over the party and the Bush people made deals with them to ditch Nungesser," said a party source. "When Billy found out, t was the last straw." Still, Nungesser foiled the challenge and remained chairman until his term ended.

"I was put upon or encouraged to run for chairmanship by Baker and others," concedes Sally Campbell, a Slidell evangelical and longtime GOP activist. "Billy has a real problem with [RNC] interference and in a lot of ways I think they've gotten a black eye in the state. Billy's a very shrewd politician."

With wavy red hair, streaked gray, and a raspy voice, seasoned by years of cigarettes, Nungesser has bruised the egos of just about every major player in the state party. "Billy doesn't have the ability to say no," claims a friend. He has rankled others with hard candor.

Nungesser's bullish style is a throwback to good-ole-boy dealmaking of yesteryear, a style quite distinct from backstabbing techniques taught in the late Lee Atwater's school of dirty tricks. Nungesser is a hard-line conservative, however his salty wit and rough tactics call to mind that exotic Louisiana liberal, the late Earl K Long.

Nungesser was born in New Orleans the day before the 1929 stock market crash. With modest education he went into a seafood processing business, and became prosperous as a caterer to oil operations in the Gulf of Mexico. "I gave ~4,000 to the Goldwater campaign in 1964," he muses in his business office, gazing at a china cabinet filled with miniature GOP elephants.

In the 1960s he began raising money for Dave Treen's early campaigns. In 197 9 when Treen made it to the governor's mansion, Nungesser went with him as a $1-a-year chief of staff. Last spring relations between the two men chafed when Nungesser endorsed Pat Buchanan in the primaries-the only state party chairman to do so, which infuriated the White House. Lobbing that hand-grenade at Bush was Nungesser's revenge for the plot to oust him as chair man. But it was David Duke that triggered the rupture between Nungesser and the Republican National Committee.

Neither did Dave Treen, who last fall swallowed his pride and endorsed arch enemy Edwin Edwards in the gubernatorial runoff against Duke, the nominal Republican with a neo-Nazi stamp.

Only once since Reconstruction has a Republican been elected governor here: in 1979, when Treen, a silver-haired Congressman, won a 950(~-vote victory over Democrat Louis Lambert. Lambert should have won but many people thought he made the run-off via vote theft. In Louisiana's open primary system-conceived by Edwin Edwards-all candidates run regardless of party affiliation, after which the top two square off. Lambert made the runoff when 14 voting machines mysteriously registered shifts in his favor after polls closed. The man he dislodged, Lt. Gov. Jimmy Fitzinorris, was incensed. So were the other defeated Democrats.They cut bait on Lambert and to a man backed Treen.

As governor, Treen gave key state jobs to the Democrats he defeated like Paul Hardy, who joined the GOP. A flow of rank-and-file Democrats-a dozen or so "switchers" a month-have since turned Republican. Ronald Reagan's popularity was a big factor. But Louisiana had a strong negative impetus: Edwin Edwards, who returned in 1983 and defeated Treen in a landslide.

Edwards personified everything that good government conservatives considered dirty about the bayou state. He pushed through a $700 million tax increase in 1984. His extra-marital romps were so well known that he told The Washington Post he was safe with voters "unless caught in bed with a (lead woman or a live boy." In 1986 he was twice tried for racketeering; though acquitted, he lost control of the legislature. In testimony he had admitted handing over $700,000 in suitcases to cover his Las Vegas gambling losses when a casino emissary came calling at the mansion.

In his 1987 reelection bid, Louisiana sank into steel) recession as oil prices collapsed. Edwards' call for a lottery and casino to spur growth was too much for the public to stomach, and he lost to Buddy Roemer, an upstate Congressman. Paul Hardy was elected the state's first GOP lieutenant governor.

So it was, in March 1988, when the State Central Committee met to select a chairman. Years of dogged organizational work were bearing fruit. Edwards was out. Republicans had the lieutenant governor, more legislators than ever before, continuing "switchers," and Bush was on a roll.

The State Central Committee members were elected from legislative districts in the 1988 Super Tuesday primary. Pat Robertson was campaigning for president with a network of evangelical ministers, like Rev. Billy McCormack who lives, outside of Shreveport. At the committee meeting to choose a chairman, the Aryans, many of them new to politics, backed David Thibodeaux of Lafayette, a young professor of English at University of Southwestern Louisiana, and a recent switcher. A political novice, Thibodeaux wanted the party chair as a platform to run for Congress. But a Nungesser ally learned that Thibodeaux and his wife were in the midst of a divorce. They had two children. Horrified Aryans dropped Thibodeaux like ;I hot potato. Nungesser was elected chairman.

The Aryans also wanted caucuses to select uncommitted delegates to the national convention.Tapping church pews, they would use sheer numbers to regain delegates for Robertson, undercutting Bush's Super Tuesday victory. That self-styled "party-building process" lost by 4 votes at the committee. Afterwards, John Treen confronted evangelical leaders: "That wasn't party-building. It was party-destroying. You lie about your motives. How can you square that with being a good Christian?"

"God wants Pat Robertson to be President," he was told.

"Anything we do to bring that about is God's will."

"I'm amazed that you have so little faith," said Treen.

Nungesser gave several committee chairman ships to the Aryans to promote unity. "Billy," said Treen, "they'll knife you the first chance they get and try and put in one of their own."

In February 1989, John Treen faced David Duke in the runoff for a vacant state house seat. Although Duke left the KKK in 1979, his racist views, cynically recast as "equal rights for all," galvanized media coverage. Democratic officials joined Republican ones in supporting Treen. In the final week he was endorsed by Bush and Reagan-a move Nungesser opposed because "it looked like a gang-up." Duke's attacks on welfare, set-asides and affirmative action were issues that few Republicans had stressed in a state where such programs had little impact.

Duke also profited by sloppy journalism. Although the Anti-Defamation League circulated material about his neo-Nazi ties, reporters failed to probe that past and kept calling him "ex-Klansman."

Two nights before the election on a 30 minute television spot, Duke said that John Treen had an arrest record. Duke volunteers going door-to-door told people that Treen was a child molester. On election eve, Treen received obscene phone calls at home till 3 a.m.

Duke won by 227 votes. National chairman Lee Atwater promptly dubbed him "a charlatan" with no place in the Republican Party.The criticism was ironic from an architect of the GOP Southern strategy. Racism was implicit in Republican denouncements of programs designed to lift blacks. Now, however, when the state party sent out a fund raising appeal, several dozen forms came back, scrawled with angry messages-and no money. "Not until Atwater apologizes," read one. Another: "Since he is espousing a political philosophy which more closely resembles my own I have contributed my support to Mr. David Duke." Another: "It was shameful the way LA. Republicans treated DAVID DUKE-A MAN OF THE PEOPLE ... A GODSENT [sic]." Yet another bristled: "After what you people did to Duke, stick it in your ear."

Nungesser was in a bind. Having criticized Duke's "opportunistic character," he now refused Atwater's plea to ostracize him for fear of alienating Duke supporters. Many were Reagan Democrats potential switchers. The news vacuum was also widening. The New Orleans Times-Picayune, deciding Duke had profited from overexposure, opted for a less-is-better approach in covering him. Beth Rickey, A 32-year old moderate on the Central Committee, had researched Duke's past for Treen and wanted him exposed.

That March, Duke flew to Chicago and spoke to the Populist Party, an amalgam of neo-Nazi and far-right extremists on whose ticket he had run for president the previous fall. Rickey followed him. Before his speech (which Rickey secretly taped), a Chicago Nazi named Art Jones, standing next to Duke, shoved a television reporter and said, "You-are a sleaze-ball." After the tiff aired on several Louisiana stations, Duke circulated a letter to fellow legislators, defending his speech to an "an anti-tax" group. He denied knowing Jones, whom he called "a kook." A brief story on the Chicago event was buried in the New Orleans daily.

Rickey gave her eyewitness account of Duke's speech to Bill Elder of New Orleans' WWL. TV. The 15-minute report on his monthly Journal aired Sunday April 3, at 10 p.m. and included footage of two neo-Nazis in Ohio, imprisoned for trying to blow up a school, whose release Duke had championed in 1982. The rest of the local media ignored the story. But Atwater got a copy of the tape and pressed Nungesser to take action. Meanwhile, Rickey bought Nazi books from Duke's Metairie office while he was in Baton Rouge. Convinced that she had the goods proving he was a fraud, she asked Nungesser to support a censure of Duke when the central committee met in June. Nungesser told her she would "stir up a hornet's nest and help Duke by giving him publicity."

Nungesser was no fan of Duke. He watched him milk the underdog status, raking in cash from unsolicited letters at the legislature. At a chance encounter, Nungesser said: "Duke, where'd you earn the money for that $300 suit?" Duke chuckled.

When the central committee met on June 3, Duke hovered about, trying to charm members. He offered his hand to John Treen, who snapped: "You are a lying, character-assassinating son-of-a -bitch!" Three days later, Rickey showed the Nazi books to reporters at the Capitol during an exhibition of Nazi death camp photographs mounted by the Simon Weisenthal Center at the request of Gov. Roemer and the state humanities endowment. TV news showed a flustered Duke; newspapers made little of it.

That summer Duke met with Rickey, trying to win her over. But he couldn't keep himself from steering their talks to his disgust for Jews and admiration of Nazi history. He was also letting evangelicals know of his "prolife" convictions.

Nungesser, trying to keep a lid on the party, told the RNC to back off. In August 1989, Lee Atwater told reporters in Washington that he understood the Louisiana party's position "from a tactical point of view ... People down there understand [Duke] is trying to get into a fight. Anyone generating publicity for Duke is in concert with him. Without publicly he just flattens out." Undaunted, Beth Rickey drafted a censure motion with media consultant Neil Curran, himself an evangelical.

The night before the Sep. 3 central committee meeting, they met with Nungesser an(] Rev. Billy McCormack in a Baton Rouge hotel. In The Emergence of David Duke, an anthology published by University of North Carolina Press, Rickey writes in her article:

"McCormack ... planted himself in the only available chair in the room. Nungesser sat on one of two beds, while Curran and I sat together on the other facing him. Chain-smoking and talking in a voice like Marlon Brando The Godfather, Nungesser browbeat Curran and me for two hours You have no right to do this!"

Rickey argued that an investigation of Duke put the party in line with the national leaders: Atwater had censured him. No he hadn't, Nungesser insisted. Finally Rickey exploded: "Listen, Billy, yesterday I received a phone call that said if I get up in front of the committee tomorrow and move to censure Duke, the caller will put a bullet in my head."

McCormack, who had been silent, suddenly said of Duke: "This man is evil. You've been carrying this burden by yourself and we need to help you out." Rickey sensed a new ally. The four cut a deal: Nungesser would recognize Curran, who would read a motion calling for a committee to investigate Duke for a censure debate to be held at the committee's winter meeting.They shook hands. McCormack then asked that they pray. "It was a strange moment," notes Rickey. "Nungesser, Curran, McCormack, and I huddled together, holding hands. praying for God's blessing."

The next day when Curran read the motion, a Nungesser ally immediately moved to table it-backed by Aryans down the line. The plan died. Duke had Republican legitimacy by default.

Louisiana Republicans use a caucus-and-convention system to choose statewide candidates; losers traditionally pledged support of the nominee. The party gained media exposure with the conventions. In 1990, Senator J. Bennett Johnston's high-profile opposition to Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork made him a marked man. Fox McKeithen had the best shot. As Secretary of State, he had an electoral base. But another switcher, State Sen. Ben Bagert hit the road, seeking caucus delegates. None of the party veterans thought Bagert could win; but his prolife stance won evangelical support. Bagert won the nomination. Before the convention a Duke delegate was exposed in press reports for Nazi ties; still, Duke spoke spoke at the convention, causing Treen to walk out.

Running as a Republican, Duke by midsummer was at 26% in the polls, with Bagert at half that. The RNC told Bagert to quit. The While House wanted Dave Treen to run as a viable alternative to Duke. Treen had no burning desire to run but was willing-only if Bagert pulled Out. An embittered Bagert refused~ he was the nominee. But five days before the election, with his campaign broke, he saw himself becoming a spoiler for Duke~ so Bagert withdrew, and endorsed Johnston to halt a second primary. In a year of anti-incumbent fervor, the stop-Duke posturing helped him draw 605,000 votes, or 44% and he loomed as a statewide force.

A Duke explored his options, several GOP legislators approached Gov. Buddy Roemer in early 1991 about switching parties. A conservative reformer, Roemer had an irascible strain that put off many politicians. But, says Rep. Quentin Dastugue, "if a sitting governor switched, it would be a coup for the party, especially if we could get him reelected." Roemer was interested. Dastugue asked Nungesser for assurance I fiat Roemer would face no GOP opponent.

"And I told Dastugue I couldn't make that guarantee," says Nungesser. "Polls showed that Roemer could be beaten." McKeithen. Baker and IA. Gov. Hardy were considering the race. So was former governor Dave Treen, and he more than anyone else worried Roemer. In early 1991, with Roemer on a trip to Washington, a reporter asked Nungesser if a switch was imminent. Nungesser contacted an aide to White House chief of staff John Sunnunu. 1 said I had to know, but they said 'no truth to the story,"' continued Nungesser. They stonewalled us all the way. They had been dealing with Buddy Roemer from late summer (1990). In December I had to issue the call for a [gubernatorial nominating] convention in the spring."

"When Roemer decided to switch," says Dastugue, "he did it with the white House, That's where the jealousies came about. The White House should have made sure the state party was involved, but there was distrust because of the Duke stuff."The RNC blundered by failing to convince Cong. Clyde Holloway, whose district was disappearing because of reapportionment, not to run for governor. Holloway, a prolifer, was lining up Aryan support.

In early March, Roemer's staff and RNC operatives met party insiders to map plans. Dastugue: "Billy started talking about Holloway staying in the race. It's like You're trying to sell someone a product but saying, you still can't guarantee it's gonna work. People got perturbed." Thus Roemer hosted a luncheon, aimed at mollifying potential opponents Dave Treen, Paul Hardy, Fox McKeithen, Richard Baker, and Clyde Holloway-"who tell he wasn't talked to in the right tone of voice and went away mad," says Dastugue. Treen promised not to run.

Indeed, at a later meeting, Nungesser and Roemer got into it again when the chairman told the governor he wasn't showing well in the polls. Roemer said he had always underpolled, and demanded that the convention be canceled. No way, said Nungesser. "F- you, Nungesser!" shouted Roemer. "I want you to cancel that convention!" Nungesser fired back choice expletives of his own.

And so the Republicans fielded not one, but three candidates-Roemer, Holloway, and Duke-which delighted Edwin Edwards, who slashed away at Roemer from the left, while Duke and Holloway attacked the governor from the right. Roemer scaled his fate with the Aryans by vetoing an anti-abortion bill, which the legislature overrode. When Duke knocked Roemer out of the primary, it was a Republican nightmare. Edwin Edwards, the Democrat they hated most, had to save the state from a schemer whose record of Nazi apologetics was now being unearthed in huge scoops each day on the news.

This past June, Gov. Edwards faced his own avalanche of criticism in the Picayune by ramming through a controversial bill for casino gambling in New Orleans, with a state gaining commission whose members he would appoint. He offered the first seat to the LSU chancellor, who declined. He then turned to Billy Nungesser, who accepted it, to the shock of many Republicans.

"I was opposed to casinos," reflects Nungesser, "but if it's gonna happen, I want to see it's done right. I ain't gonna be like the guy playin' piano in a whorehouse who doesn't know what's goin' on in the back room.

©1993 Jason Berry Jr.

Sunday, 17 December, 2000, 11:01 GMT

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THE PICAYUNE CATCHES UP WITH DAVID DUKE

January/February 1992 | Contents

When David Duke became a Republican candidate for the Louisiana legislature in December 1988, he disavowed the white supremacist and neo-Nazi agenda he had espoused all of his adult life. New Orlean's only daily newspaper, The Times-Picayune (circulation 270,000), obligingly covered him as if his past had evaporated. It did report, in January 1989, that in the local telephone directory the addresses listed for Duke's residence and business were the same as the addresses listed for The National Association for the Advancement of White People and the Ku Klux Klan -- but Duke assured the Picayune reporter that "There's no issue to it," and the story wasn't pursued.

Once Duke made the runoff race, anti-Duke activists began assiduously providing information to The Times-Picayune and other media pointing to Duke's continued racist activities. The most alarming revelation to surface involved the racial redistricting plan he had published in the mid-1980s in the newsletter of his white-supremacist National Association for the Advancement of White People: the plan divided the U.S. into separate countries, each reserved for a different minority. The Shreveport Journal, a 20,000-circulation daily that has since ceased publication, gave the plan front-page prominence; in The Times-Picayune, the issue was examined by a columnist, in the newspaper's "B" section.

In early March 1989, after his legislative victory, Duke addressed a Populist party convention in Chicago, telling the audience of neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and skinheads that he had run for office under the GOP label "because that's where so many of our people are," adding, "I am a Republican, but I am and always will be a Populist Republican!" Unbeknownst to Duke, an opponent tape-recorded his remarks and later offered the story to the Picayune.

But the Picayune wasn't interested. (The story was subsequently offered to other news media, some of which did pick it up.) Nor did the newspaper publish the wire-service photograph of Duke shaking hands at the convention with American Nazi party vice-chairman Art Jones. Instead, the Picayune's first and only acknowledgement of Duke's Populist party convention appearance came when Duke repudiated the picture as a "media smear." The paper duly noted where and when the photograph had been taken, and that Duke had run for president in 1988 on the Populist party ticket, but it failed to explain what the Populist party stands for or what Duke was doing at its convention.

On August 26, 1990, as Duke's U.S. Senate campaign entered its final weeks, The Times-Picayune published its first major profile of Duke. But many of the story's "revelations" had already been reported in other publications:

* Finderskeepers, the advice book for women Duke published under a female pseudonym in 1976 which included instructions on vaginal exercises, fellatio, and anal sex, had received front-page play in the Shreveport Journal on August 21, 1990.

* Duke's anti-Semitism and white-supremacist agenda had been explored in the New Orleans alternative weekly newspaper Gambit in June 1990.

* Gambit has also reported, in September 1989, that although Duke was in the ROTC at Louisiana State University, his affiliation with Nazism had precluded him from getting a military commission. Information about Duke's dysfunctional family background, attributed by the Picayune to an unauthorized biography of Duke published during the summer of 1990, had been first detailed in a Gambit article a year earlier.

The Picayune did unearth information about Duke's heavy gambling and stock market investing while claiming his income was too low to require filing state income tax returns. And it reported on his extensive plastic surgery and how into the late '80s he had held parties to celebrate Hitler's birthday.

During Duke's 1991 Louisiana gubernatorial primary campaign, The Times-Picayune reverted to its earlier minimalist coverage. Then, on October 19, came Duke's second-place finish in the primary elections. Suddenly, faced with the prospect of having a neo-Nazi as Louisiana's governor, The Times-Picayune devoted nearly a month of coverage aimed squarely and unapologetically at defeating Duke. A sampling of Picayune headlines tells the story: WHAT THE REPUBLICANS CAN DO ABOUT DAVID DUKE (October 23)

TWO LEGISLATORS ON DUKE PROBLEM (October 24)

DUKE VICTORY WOULD COST LA., EXECS SAY and IF HE LOSES GOVERNOR'S BID, WILL DUKE TARGET [U.S. Senator John] BREAUX? (October 26)

JEWS FEAR RISE OF ANTI-SEMITISM, and BLACKS HAVE SEEN IT BEFORE (October 27)

SPARING DUKE THE TOUGH QUESTIONS (November 6)

In a series of five consecutive editorials beginning October 27, the paper methodically built its case against Duke, marshaling evidence that he was not qualified to govern. The Picayune has circulated reprints of this coverage, portraying itself as having contributed to his defeat and as having been at the forefront of investigative reporting about him.

Jonestown Audiotape Primary Project : Summaries
Summary prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III . If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you.

Tape Number : Q 833

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FBI Catalogue: Jones Speaking 

FBI preliminary tape identification note: Marked in part "White Night"

Date cues on tape: Late March 1978 (Israel has entered and occupied Lebanon, March 15) 

People named:

Public figures/National and international names:
         U.S. President Jimmy Carter (by reference)
         Griffin Bell, U.S. Attorney General (by reference)
         former President Dwight D. Eisenhower
         Former U.S. President John Kennedy
         David Duke, leader in Ku Klux Klan
         Chloe Hardin Duke, wife of David Duke
         Huey Newton, Black Panther leader
         Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet Union General Secretary (by reference)
         Cuban leader Fidel Castro
         Che Guevara, Latin American revolutionary
         Charles DeGaulle, former President of France
         Nikita Khrushchev, former premier of Soviet Union
         Patrice Lumumba, assassinated Prime Minister of Zaire
         Forbes Burnham, Guyana prime minister
         Shirley Field-Ridley, Guyana Minister of Information
         Hamilton Green, Guyana Minister of Health and Labor
         Desmond Hoyt Guyana Minister of Development
         Hubert Jack, [Guyana Minister of Energy and Natural Resources]
         Cheddi Jagan, leader of People’s Progressive Party
         Sir Lionel Luckhoo, Guyana lawyer
         Vibert Mingo, Guyana Minister of Home Affairs
         Paul E./Polly Moore [phonetic], “old time PNC moderate socialist”
         Ptolemy Reid, Guyana deputy prime minister
         Fred Wills, Guyana Minister of Foreign Affairs
         Inspector Benjamin, first name unknown, Guyanese official
         Inspector Brown, first name unknown, Guyanese official
         Clark, first name unknown, senior advisor to Burnham
         Dr. Baird, first name unknown, Guyanese medical officer
         Dr. Fernandz [phonetic, first name unknown], “chairman of the Guyana livestock board”
         Brigadier Price, first name unknown

Temple adversaries; members of Concerned Relatives:
        Grace Stoen
        Tim Stoen

Temple members not in Guyana:
        Louise Hill

Names possibly in code:
        Mrs. White

Jonestown residents, full name unknown:
        Johnny
        Brother Johnson
        Mom Taylor

Jonestown residents:
        Sharon Amos
        Tommy Beikman
        Norya Blair
        Orde Dennis
        David Goodwin
        Marceline Jones (Speaks)
        Rose Peterson
        Joan Pursley
        Larry Schacht (Speaks)
        John Victor Stoen
        Bobby Stroud
        Joyce Touchette
        Dana Truss, aka Dana Danielle Truss
        Mary Wotherspoon

Bible verses cited:     
“So if somebody disappears one night, you’ll uh, understand they have been translated like Jesus was.” (Colossians 1:13, “Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son.”

“I’m not going to take up a lot of time with you now, honey. It’ll be it is an old proverb: one will be taken, the other left. You heard about that proverb? There were two, two by the mill there was two in their bed and one was taken and the other left?” (Matt. 24:41-42: “Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.”)

Summary:

Note: This tape was transcribed by Michael Bellefountaine. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.

This tape was one of the 53 tapes initially withheld from disclosure.

There are numerous expressions of emergency and urgency in this undated White Night in Jonestown – ranging from the presumption that some of the Guyanese government officials with whom they have to work are under the control of the CIA, to the possibility that some new arrivals to Jonestown are under the control of the CIA, to the uncertainty created by the lawsuits, custody battles and arrest orders that are pending for Jim Jones and other members of the Temple leadership – but the underlying reason for the crisis seems to be that Larry Schacht, the Jonestown doctor, has not received national certification as a physician.

Several characteristics of a White Night punctuate the conversation. In this two-hour tape, recorded late at night, Jones urges people to stay awake, criticizes some who do not appreciate the “war time situation” they’re in, and demands that his followers emulate other resisters of oppression, including the Cubans of the current day, the Russian citizenry in World War II, and the fighters of ongoing liberation movements. What is unusual is that Jones brandishes a weapon and – late in the tape – fires it once, apparently in an effort to emphasize that he does not want people randomly moving around the pavilion.

At the beginning of the tape – with the White Night already underway – Jones speaks about the community’s relations with the various ministers in the government of Guyana. They have several friends, he says, but sometimes the officials are “unreachable,” which leaves them vulnerable to the “element in the country that is under the control of the CIA.” This is the same CIA, Jones adds, which has tried to undercut the Cuban revolution. He then speaks of other liberation movements around the world, including in Africa and the Middle East, and reminds his followers repeatedly that the struggle will not be won unless people are willing to die for what they believe. “If you don’t have something you’re prepared to die for, you have nothing worth living for,” he says early in the tape. A few moments later, he makes a more pointed assertion: “I don’t think we’ve got a reason to expect that we might not have to die at some point for what we believe. I think we got any kind of guts, we ought to be willing to die for what we believe.”

Despite this refrain, to which he returns several times, Jones also expresses the need for them to live. “[T]o me it’s braver to try to stay alive and bring more babies, to bring more socialists, to try to be able to be in position to win more, and just because you had [lived] through White Nights… that doesn’t mean you’re going to lose.” The need to live brings an accompanying responsibility to defend what’s important, as he adds a moment later with a cry of defiance: “I don’t think we’ve got a right to expect revolutions to come easy. As I said, we’ve got a lovely land … [but] we can’t expect to keep it without fighting for it, and be ready to fight at the drop of a goddamn hat, and I am ready at a drop of a goddamn hat.”

The willingness to die, the right to defend themselves, both are based on a hope for the future, Jones concludes. He speaks of his miracle cures as an affirmation of life. To warm applause, he says, “So I think that there’s hope, [as] long as there’s life, there’s a lot of hope around Jim Jones.”

[Note: On the so-called “death tape,” the recording made on November 18, 1978 in Jonestown, Temple member Christine Miller disagrees with the decision to die, and echoes the words Jones uses on this tape. “I feel like that, as long as there's life, there's hope. That's my faith.”]

Eventually, though, Jones returns to the inevitability of death and how the community should face it. “The only guarantee you’ve got [in life] is a graveyard,”  he says, despite the healings he has performed and the resurrections they have all witnessed. But that’s good, he adds. Their knowledge and acceptance of that puts them in a strong position. “I would hate to be doomed with the curse of immortality. Then you couldn’t bargain so freely. But we are equipped if we had to, to commit revolutionary suicide.”

He expands upon the theme to reiterate his views on reincarnation and his lack of faith in a loving god. They tie into his beliefs in the differentiation between selfish suicide and revolutionary suicide. “I know you don’t want to mess with committing suicide, because … if you do it, you commit suicide for selfish reasons, you’ll come back… It’s immoral to commit suicide for selfish reason. It’s hostile. It’s an act of vengeance to do it.”

But, he continues, “if tonight, we couldn’t get our freedom and we all said we’re all going to commit suicide and drink some potion, that would be an honorable act, if that was our only alternative… That would be revolutionary suicide, and that would be an honorable thing to do.”

The commitment to revolutionary suicide also means a willingness to undergo – and withstand – torture. The people of Jonestown should study the lives of those who were tortured for their beliefs, to appreciate the “dignity and control” they’ve shown in enduring the pain. That takes training, Jones says, and everyone should take that training. “That’s why every nurse should report anybody that makes a big fuss about taking a shot or when the doctor has to look in somebody’s asshole and they make a big fuss, or in their vagina or he has to push on something and it hurts, and they scream, that person ought to be reported, because that person’s a potential traitor.”

More than that, the people’s reluctance to endure torture – which he says he can hear in their response – puts them at odds with their revolutionary counterparts elsewhere in the world. It is part of the softness and decadence they have brought with them from the U.S. Popular culture has a corrupting influence on them, he says. The music and dancing of the youth lead away from thoughts of the revolution and towards the selfishness of love and romance. Movies and television shows are good only when they educate the viewers on socialist principles. “Comedies don’t teach me shit,” he says. “I don’t need to laugh while two out of three babies are going bed hungry.”

The only reason he tolerates the people of Jonestown participating in musical performances “is that socialism can be gotten across, that we could … show that socialist communes can work.” The only other thing that popular culture in Jonestown does is to bring about White Nights.

Jones speaks highly about the people of the Soviet Union throughout the tape. He praises their role in revolutionary struggles, he lauds their fortitude in times of strife, and he compliments their resistance to imperialist forces. He reports of the return praise which the Soviets have given to them, and raises the possibility of emigrating. One thing is certain, he adds, whatever the Soviets asked of him, he would do.

The problem of Dr. Schacht’s lack of official certification – and ideas on how the community should respond to the Guyana’s government decision – recur throughout the evening. Jones is combative on the issue whenever it arises. Recalling the pugnacious tactics of former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in his dealings with adversaries, Jones speaks of going “eyeball-to-eyeball” with Georgetown. “Now, the situation is this: we have been refused the license of a doctor. I have refused the admission of any doctors or reporters on this property.” Moments later, he reminds the community, they have had to travel this route before. “The last time, we threw our bodies out in front of a car and stopped the deputy prime minister… [I]t took that kind of an attack to get him to understand that he wasn’t communicating with us.” Later in the tape, an unknown male offers a possible resolution, by pointing out to the government that Schacht has been practicing medicine for a while in the community, and suggesting that his de facto satisfaction of residency requirements should allow Jonestown to ask for license. “We’re demanding and not asking,” Jones replies.

In other issues with Guyana’s government, though, relations are more cordial and satisfactory. An unidentified woman reports that, despite a few setbacks, the government is cooperating with them. Arrest orders against Jones and other Temple leaders – presumably originating with legal difficulties in the U.S. – will not be enforced, pending child custody cases will be dropped, and “Tim Stoen will not be allowed into Guyana.”

As different advisers present reports to the community, the crowd becomes alternately restless and sleepy. Jones angrily tells some people to wake up and others to shut up. About three-quarters into the tape, Jones talks about the gun in his hand – “I wasn’t pointing no gun at you, honey” – and a few minutes before the tape’s end, he fires it. He has just asked why people are moving around “without any clearance” and reminded them that they are in a “war emergency” when he fires the gun. In the silence that follows, a bullet casing falls to the ground. “The next time I’m going to fire it over your heads,” he says. “If you want to get out of here, you clear it. You clear it. I don’t want to put the gun on our own people.”

The crowd’s restlessness and disregard of Jones’ commands have other repercussions beyond the gunshot. Jones has spoken earlier about CIA infiltration in the country and possible CIA infiltration into Jonestown. He has spoken earlier about the fact that a new group of people has just arrived. At this point, though, he makes a connection between the two subjects.

“How do we know that one of you not a CIA agent when you moving?” he says into the silence. “It’s funny, since the last group came in, all this shit began, we’d had weeks of peace. Funny kind of correlation. Maybe there some knowledge of our activities and mood… Maybe somebody communicated something since they’ve been here.”

The tape ends with a relatively short exchange following a lengthy pause caused by technical problems during the recording, so the context for calling out for a confession has been lost. Apparently someone has talked about leaving Guyana from Georgetown, and Jones wants her – the presumption is it’s a woman, since Jones refers to the person as “honey” – to make it easy on herself by volunteering the information. “You better get straight with us,” he says. A moment later he adds, “You either talk about it, or honey, you’re gonna pay for it… Won’t nothing will happen to you, if you get up and talk about it now.” Whether Jones actually knew who the miscreant was or if the person eventually confessed is unknown, as those are the last words on the tape.

FBI Summary:

Date of transcription: 6/8/79

In connection with the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) investigation into the assassination of U.S. Congressman LEO J. RYAN at Port Kaituma, Guyana, South America, on November 18, 1978, a tape recording was obtained. This tape recording was located in Jonestown, Guyana, South America, and was turned over to U.S. Officials in Guyana and subsequently transported to the United States.

On June 8, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B60-8. This tape was found to contain the following:

JIM JONES, addressing a large room of his followers, is discussing the security problem relating to all of the new people which had just come to Jonestown. The problem lies in the presence of possible CIA Agents in the country. JONES said he was told by a friend in the U. S. Embassy that there was an element in the country which was being controlled by the CIA.

JONES then relates the events leading to and including the Cuban missile crisis of 1963 and describes the events which he experienced while he was in Cuba in the early 1960s. He describes the crises of the time leading up to and including the missile crisis as Cuba’s white nights. He added that he learned about revolution in Cuba.

He said that decadence was being allowed in Jonestown because people could only be expected to make changes slowly, but that they should, at least some of the time, think about things of a revolutionary nature.

He advises that Jonestown is under a white night alert and that several groups of people had not reported; he said that supervisors of these groups should make an accountability check immediately.

He then continues discussion of revolutions around the world, including that of CASTRO in Cuba, the Israeli-Palestinian situation as well as revolution by the Soviet people. The Soviet people have had to face white nights for three years while their country was being invaded.

He complained to the audience that there was a lack of attention during the news broadcasts which are made daily by him and adds that if they had listened they would have known that something was in the wind when he jumped onto Central Supply earlier in the day.

He states then that he would like to be able to fight a revolution and that he was ready to fight for this land on which Jonestown was centered, at the drop of a hat.

He then relates the reason for the white night alert, which consists of a confrontation between him and representatives of the AMA, as well as of the press, whom he had refused admission to Jonestown. The AMA was refusing to give a license to any doctor in Jonestown until an inspection by the AMA had been made.

He then continues to speak of the revolutionary nature of the Soviet Union and the fact that they had won more revolutions than anyone else and had thus shown their revolutionary leadership. He said he would be meeting with the Soviet Union and added that “their wish is our command.” He then began a discussion of the support of the Guyanese ministers for Jonestown, as well as the political situation in Guyana, and relates incidents of civil, racial strife within the United States recently.

He then states that they (Jonestown) were equipped to commit revolutionary suicide if it were to become necessary. He adds that it is immoral to commit selfish suicide or suicide for selfish reasons. He says that if tonight they were to drink some potion, that this would be a revolutionary suicide and that such a suicide would be committed if there were no other alternative. He adds that this would be an honorable thing to do.

He continues by saying that he is glad that there is a point where people die. He says that one should train himself not to react to pain so that he would be steeled against torture designed to extract information.

He says that this reason for coming to Jonestown was to prove that a socialized commune could work.

He says that he is sometimes nervous about some of his followers, which often brings on a white night or a crisis such as this.

He then states that he wants to learn all that he can about assassinations and mentions the movie, “Day of the Jackal” (a movie which deals with a terrorist plot to assassinate French President CHARLES DE GAULLE), and adds that everyone should watch this movie. He says that the movie was obtained by “special concession” for Jonestown. He states that the book is even better. At this point, a female begins to give a briefing on a meeting of the Guyanese ministers. It is mentioned that JONES has made a good friend with the head of the GDF (Guyana Defense Force). JONES reiterates that a state of emergency exists at this time.

Further discussion of the influence of the various Guyanese ministers ensues.

He then mentions, apparently to someone in the audience, that he was not pointing the gun at that person and adds that before “this cannon” goes off, he would have to cock it.

He says that some people need to be reminded not to walk over the hill in order to tell of all of the capabilities of Jonestown. Again a discussion of the power and influence of the various Guyanese ministers who are favorable toward Jonestown continues.

Then an unidentified male mentions that we (Jonestown) had gone through a number of white nights and due to the strategy of JONES had come through them successfully. He then goes into a discussion of the AMA coming into and inspecting the medical facilities in Jonestown, as well as the AMA’s refusal to license a doctor which already had been treating people in this area.

The name TIM STOEN (phonetic) is brought up by JONES, who discusses the possibility that he may be an Agent sent to work against Jonestown.

Throughout the tape, JONES has told people in the audience to stay awake or to wake up. He reminds them that they are in a wartime situation. He says, “Are you people gonna take notice that we’re in a war emergency room?” At this point a sound similar to that of a shot from a shotgun is heard and is followed by the sound of a shotgun being racked and an empty shell casing hitting the floor of the room. JONES then says, “Next time I’m gonna fire it over your heads.”

JONES then relates again the possibility of a CIA Agent being in Jonestown and even in the room where this meeting is being conducted. He then mentions that maybe they will take a flame thrower or this cannon and shoot it out into the trees just in case that there is someone out there with whom someone inside of Jonestown is communicating. He adds that he had reason to believe that someone is predicting the behavior Jonestown too accurately. He says that someone may be getting out of Jonestown and adds that if someone disappears one night, “You’ll understand that they’ve been translated like Jesus was.”

He then asks if a person in the room would like to confess before the matter is dealt with in another way. He relates that someone had been overheard saying that they were lucky that they were not being sent to Georgetown for the show or they would run. JONES again asks that person to talk about it and then says, “Sleep tight tonight. Good dreams.” He continues by saying that that person should either talk about it or they would pay for it and adds that there are witnesses to that statement having been made. He adds that nothing would happen if that person were to get up and talk about it at this time.

At that point the tape ends.

Differences with FBI Summary:

The summary is accurate and meets the FBI’s purposes. It is also quite detailed, especially compared to most other FBI summaries.

Full statement of Fidel Castro

Proclamation of the Commander in Chief to the People of Cuba Due to the enormous efforts made to visit the Argentinean city of Cordoba, participate in the MERCOSUR meeting, in the closing of the People's Summit at the historic University of Cordoba and the visit to Altagracia, the city where Che lived during his childhood, and together with that my participation in the commemoration of the 53rd anniversary of the assault on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de C?pedes barracks on July 26, 1953, in the provinces of Granma and Holguin, days and nights of continuous work with practically no sleep, my health, which has resisted all tests, was subjected to extreme stress and broke down. This provoked a severe intestinal crisis with sustained bleeding which obliged me to undergo complicated surgery. All the details of this health accident are found in the x-rays, endoscopes and filmed materials. The operation obliged me to rest for several weeks, away from my responsibilities and tasks. Since our country is threatened in such circumstances by the government of the United States, I have made the following decisions: 1. I temporarily delegate my responsibilities as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party to Second Secretary partner Ra? Castro Ruz. 2. I temporarily delegate my responsibilities as Commander in Chief of the heroic Revolutionary Armed Forces to the aforementioned partner, Army General Ra? Castro Ruz. 3. I temporarily delegate my responsibilities as President of the Council of State and the Government of the Republic of Cuba, to the First Vice President, partner Ra? Castro Ruz. 4. I temporarily delegate my functions as principal promoter of the National and International Public Health Program to Political Bureau Member and Public Health Minister, partner Jos?am? Balaguer Cabrera. 5. I temporarily delegate my responsibilities as the principal promoter of the National and International Program of Education to partners Jos?am? Machado Ventura and Esteban Lazo Hern?dez, members of the Political Bureau. 6. I temporarily delegate my responsibilities as the main promoter of the National Program of the Energy Revolution in Cuba and collaboration with other countries in this area to partner Carlos Lage D?ila, Member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Council of Ministers. The funds related to these three programs -- Health, Education and Energy -- should continue being carried out and prioritized, as I have personally been doing, by Companeros Carlos Lage D?ila, Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Council of Ministers, and Felipe Perez Roque, Minister of Foreign Relations, who have accompanied me in these endeavors and should form a commission to continue the work. Our glorious Communist Party, supported by the mass organizations and all the people, has the mission of assuming the task set forward in this Proclamation. The Summit of the Movement of Non-Aligned Nations, which will take place between September 11th and 16th, should receive the highest attention of the State and the Cuban nation, and to celebrated with the highest splendor on the dates scheduled. The 80th anniversary of my birthday, for which thousands of personalities have agreed to celebrate on August 13th, should be postponed until the 2nd of December this year -- the 50th anniversary of the Landing of the Granma. I call on the Central Committee of the Party and the National Assembly of People's Power to give their strongest support to this Proclamation. I don't have the slightest doubt that our people and our Revolution will struggle until the last drop of blood to defend these and other ideas and measures that are necessary to safeguard our historic process. Imperialism will never smash Cuba. The Battle of Ideas will continue forward. Long Live the Homeland! Long Live the Revolution! Long Live Socialism! Ever Onward to Victory!

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Prison Information

• Name: Matthew Hale

• Register Number: 15177-424

• Age: 34

• Ethnicity: Caucasian

• Sex: Male

• Release Date: 12-06-2037

• Location: Florence ADMAX USP

Matthew F. Hale (born July 27, 1971) is the leader of the white supremacist group formerly known as the World Church of the Creator and now known as the Creativity Movement which was based in East Peoria, Illinois. In 1998, Hale made headlines when his application for an Illinois law license was denied for his belief in racial discrimination (described as "gross deficiency in moral character").^[1] On April 6, 2005, Hale was sentenced to a 40-year prison term for soliciting an undercover FBI informant to kill federal judge Joan Lefkow. He is currently incarcerated in the Administrative Maximum facility in Florence, Colorado.

Hale was raised in East Peoria, a blue-collar community on the Illinois River. According to Hale, by the age of twelve, he was reading books about Nazis such as Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, and had formed a "little reich" group at school.

At the age of nineteen, Hale burned an Israeli flag at a demonstration and was found guilty of violating an East Peoria ordinance against open burning. The next year, he passed out racist pamphlets at a shopping mall and was fined for littering. In May of 1991, Hale and his brother allegedly threatened three African-Americans with a gun, and he was arrested for mob action. Since he refused to tell police where his brother was, Hale was also charged with felony obstruction of justice; he was convicted of obstruction, but won a reversal on appeal. In 1992, Hale allegedly attacked a security officer at a mall and was charged with criminal trespass, resisting arrest, aggravated battery and carrying a concealed weapon. For this attack, Hale was sentenced to thirty months probation and six months house arrest.^[2]

In 1993, Hale attended Bradley University and received a degree in Political Science. In 1996, Hale took over the Church of the Creator, a racist, religious group that worships the white race as creators of civilization. The church believes that a "racial holy war" is necessary to attain a "white world" without Jews and non-whites and to this end they encourage their members to "populate the lands of this earth with white people exclusively". Prior to Hale's leadership, members of the church had committed violent criminal acts, including the murder of an African-American Gulf War veteran, the firebombing of an NAACP office in Washington state, and an attempted bombing of a Maryland law enforcement officer's home.

After Hale was appointed "Pontifex Maximus" (supreme leader), he changed the name of the organization to the World Church of the Creator. The name was changed again to the Creativity Movement when a religious group in Oregon (the Church of the Creator) sued Hale's group for trademark infringement. Hale ran the church from an upstairs bedroom at his father's two-story house in East Peoria, where an Israeli flag served as a doormat to his office, and the walls were painted red to symbolize the blood of the white race.

In 1997, Hale married Terra Herron, a sixteen-year-old member of the World Church of the Creator. The marriage only lasted three months. Hale graduated from Southern Illinois Law School in May 1998 and passed the bar in July of that same year. On December 16, 1998, the Illinois Bar Committee on Character and Fitness rejected Hale's application for a license to practice law. Hale appealed, and a hearing was held on April 10, 1999. On June 30, 1999, a Hearing Panel of the Committee refused to certify that Hale had the requisite moral character and fitness to practice law in Illinois.^[3]

Benjamin Smith

Two days after Hale was denied a license to practice law, a World Church of the Creator member named Benjamin Smith went on a three-day shooting spree in which he randomly targeted members of racial and ethnic minority groups in Illinois and Indiana. Beginning July 2, Smith's rampage killed two people, including former Northwestern University basketball coach Ricky Byrdsong, and a 26-year-old Korean graduate student named Won-Joon Yoon who was shot as he was on his way to church. Smith wounded nine others before committing suicide on July 5. Mark Potok, director of intelligence for the Southern Poverty Law Center, believes that Smith may have acted in retaliation after Hale's application to practice law was rejected.^[4]

After Smith's shooting spree, Hale appeared on television and in newspapers saying, "We do urge hatred. If you love something, you must be willing to hate that which threatens it." He also referred to non-whites as "mud races." According to Hale, America should only be occupied by whites, but he never explained to the media how he was going to achieve these goals. During a television interview that summer, Hale stated that his church didn't condone violent or illegal activities. Meanwhile, Hale was distributing thousands of copies of the "White Man's Bible," a book which encouraged a war against Jews and "inferior, colored races". In public, Hale claimed to be against violence, but his church's bibles expressed the opposite sentiment: "You have no alibi, no other way out, white man! It's fight or die!"^[5]

Hale's reactions to Smith's shooting spree were also recorded by a police informant and on the tapes Hale laughs about the murders and imitates the sound of gunfire. The tapes were used by the district attorney's office to prosecute Hale after he was arrested on January 8, 2003 for soliciting an undercover FBI informant to kill federal Judge Lefkow.

Judge Lefkow

Prior to his arrest, Hale denounced Judge Lefkow in a news conference, claiming that she was biased against him (in his trademark case) because she was married to a Jewish man and had grandchildren who were biracial.^[6] On March 9, Hale's former attorney Glenn Greenwald revealed that Hale's mother, Evelyn Hutcheson, asked Greenwald to pass a coded message (relayed from Hale to his mother) to one of Hale's supporters in 2004, but Greenwald refused.^[7]

On February 28, 2005, Lefkow's mother and husband were murdered. At first, police looked to see if the murders were connected to Hale, but Bart Ross, a plaintiff in a medical malpractice case that Lefkow had dismissed, admitted to the murders before committing suicide on March 9. Hale was in no way connected to Ross. The media's initial coverage of the murders was heavily focused on Hale and the Creativity Movement, despite the fact that there was no evidence linking either to the murders.

Updated: 4:22 p.m. ET March 3, 2005

CHICAGO - Jailed white supremacist Matthew Hale said Thursday the slaying of a federal judge?s husband and elderly mother was a ?heinous crime? that ?only an idiot? would think he ordered, according to a statement released by his mother.

?There is no way that any supporter of mine could commit such a heinous crime,? Hale said in the statement, released through his mother after her weekly telephone call to him at Chicago?s Metropolitan Correctional Center. ?I totally condemn it and I want the perpetrator caught and prosecuted.?

The shootings at U.S. District Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow?s home came a month before Hale was to be sentenced by another judge for trying to have Lefkow killed. In a trademark dispute presided over by Lefkow, she had ordered Hale to change the name of his extremist group.

Lefkow arrived home after work Monday to find the bodies of her husband, Michael Lefkow, 64, and her mother, Donna Humphrey, 89, in the basement. They had been shot to death.

Lefkow vowed to return to the bench. ?Nobody is going to intimidate me off my duty,? she told the Chicago Sun-Times in an interview published Thursday.

The judge said she always knew her job could put her at risk but never thought it would endanger her family.

?I think we all sort of go into this thinking it?s a possibility, but you don?t think it?s going to happen to you because it?s so unthinkable,? she told the Chicago Tribune.

Lefkow is now under guard, along with her four daughters.

Police released sketches Wednesday of two men, saying they want to interview them based on witness statements. One, a man in his mid-20s, was seen in a car near the Lefkow home. The other, a man in his 50s, was wearing dark coveralls and a dark knit cap.

FBI agents investigating the slayings were focusing on white supremacist groups.

Hale?s father, retired East Peoria police officer Russell Hale, said he also spoke to his son by telephone for about 15 minutes Thursday morning. The younger Hale is despondent over the turn of events and ?knows it?s going to bode terribly bad for him if they don?t find out who did this,? Russell Hale said.

Jail officials moved Hale this week from a cell with a radio and legal materials he used while serving as his own attorney to a cell with nothing but a bed, sink and toilet, his father said. He said jail officials gave no reason for the move.

Russell Hale said neither he nor his son has any idea who is behind the killings.

?Anything?s possible. It could be people in other organizations that want to put it on Matthew,? he said. ?Whoever did it were animals, I don?t care who they were.?

Authorities questioned Hale on Tuesday, and he denied any involvement in the killings, his father said.

Hale?s father said he has not been contacted by the FBI, but other relatives have, including his son and ex-wife.

Erica Hardwick, formerly Erica Hoesch, (b. 1982) is a former political activist in the United States. She attracted media attention due to her prominent involvement with neo-Nazi groups, and has been reported on by the Baltimore Sun, the Washington Post, and anti-racist research groups such as the Center for New Community. She later changed her politics and affiliated with the One People's Project, an anti-racist organization.

Neo-Nazi activities

Hardwick organized the Hendrik Moebus Defense Fund in 2000, on behalf of convicted "Satan Murderer" Hendrik Moebus, who came to the United States to avoid charges of neo-Nazi political activism in Germany, but was arrested by the US Marshals at the National Alliance headquarters in 2000.

Hardwick was a member of the National Alliance headquarters staff through 2001, living at their headquarters in Marlinton, West Virginia. She was expelled from the group for fighting with William Pierce over the alleged lack of support he was showing to Keith Carney, a National Alliance skinhead arrested for stickering a Veterans' Memorial in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Hardwick was married by Matthew F. Hale of the World Church of the Creator to Joe Hoesch of the Keystone State Skinheads, in a wedding publicly covered by the York (PA) Daily Record, taking his name, moving to Philadelphia, PA, and continuing to be active in white political causes.

Hardwick left Hoesch and began to date Roger Williams, National Alliance unit coordinator in Denver, Colorado, moving there to assist in National Alliance activities in 2003. While in Denver, Hardwick allegedly stole a membership list of National Alliance members in the Colorado area. After a breakup with Williams, Hardwick left the National Alliance again and moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, where she joined the National Socialist Movement and White Revolution.

Hardwick acted as a public spokeswoman for the two groups, being quoted in several newspaper accounts of White Revolution and NSM rallies, before she was violently expelled by the NSM over accusations of chronic drunkenness, theft and malicious gossip.

Anti-racist activities

After her expulsion from the NSM, Hardwick gave significant information on neo-Nazis to the One People's Project, turning over large amounts of data, including National Alliance membership lists, all of which she stated online ended up in the hands of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Hardwick returned to Roanoke, Virginia and began a relationship with Bill White of Overthrow.com. White had met Hardwick in 1999 through her activities raising money on behalf of the Friends Of The British National Party. According to court transcripts, when White broke the relationship off, Hardwick began agitation against White and was charged with assaulting him outside property he owns in Roanoke, VA in July, 2004. Hardwick then launched a media campaign in the Roanoke Times accusing White of various crimes, including housing discrimination and organizing a local branch of the Ku Klux Klan. The FBI and Department of Housing and Urban Development are currently investigating those complaints.

References

• Beyond A Dead Man's Deeds (pdf) (mentions Hardwick as a National Alliance member)
• 2002 Anti-Racist Bulletin On Hardwick leaving National Alliance, joining Keystone State Skinheads
• Bigots In Business
• Roanoke City Trial Transcript, edited by Bill White
• Landlord Denies Allegations Of A Sinister Agenda
• Virginia Court Case Information System -- Pending case CR05000444-00 in Roanoke County
• Virginia Court Case Information System -- Pending case GC05003293-00 in Bedford County

Not on the web:

• Marriage conducted by Matt Hale -- York Daily Record, January 13, 2002
• Front page photo of Hardwick at anti-Israeli demonstration -- Baltimore Sun, May 12, 2002
• Hardwick as spokeswoman for White Revolution -- "Diversity festival outdraws hate rally", Indianapolis Star, August 25, 2003

Wolfgang Walter Droege (or Dr?e) (September 25, 1949 ? April 13, 2005) was a Canadianwhite supremacist, neo-Nazi and founding leader of the Heritage Front.

Droege was born in Forchheim, Germany. His parents and grandparents had been enthusiastic supporters of the Nazi Party, and Julius Streicher was a friend of the family. Droege and his mother moved to Canada in 1962. In 1967, he moved back to Germany to join the military but was rejected due to health reasons. He moved back to Canada and became a Canadian citizen in the early 1970s. Droege became interested in far-right politics and joined an extremist group, the Western Guard, in 1974 at the prompting of Don Andrews and later joined Andrews's Nationalist Party of Canada. He was arrested, charged, and convicted of damage to property and mischief in 1975 after spraying "white power" slogans along the route of the African Liberation Day march in Toronto. In December 1976 he joined the Ku Klux Klan, then led by David Duke, after attending the "International Patriotic Congress" in New Orleans organized by Duke. Droege attempted to start a KKK branch in Toronto and also organized for the Klan in British Columbia where he spread Duke's "one law for all" and "equal rights for everyone" slogans.

In 1981, Droege helped organize a failed attempt, codenamed "Operation Red Dog", to invade the Caribbean nation of Dominica and overthrow its government and restore deposed Prime Minister Patrick John to power. According to testimony presented at the trial of Droege and his nine co-conspirators, in exchange for restoring John to power, Droege would have been permitted to use the island as the centre of a drug-refinement and trafficking operation. The attempted coup turned sour after a CFTR radio reporter who had been approached about an "exclusive story" decided to contact the police. Droege was sentenced to a three-year prison sentence for his mercenary activities. As it was launched from New Orleans, this event was derided as the "Bayou of Pigs" fiasco by critics such as Don Andrews.

In 1985 he was arrested in Alabama as an illegal alien and charged with cocaine possession, as well as possession of an illegal knife. He served four years of a 13-year sentence.

Upon his release from jail in 1989, Droege went to Libya to attend a congress of what became the International Third Position and then returned to Canada to found the Heritage Front. The growth of the neo-Nazi group prompted the creation of Anti-Racist Action (ARA) in Toronto which devotes itself to combating the Front and other groups. In 1992, Droege's connections with racist organizations led to his expulsion from the Reform Party of Canada. In 1993, following a brawl with ARA members, Droege was charged and convicted of aggravated assault and possession of dangerous weapons, and he served two months of a three-month sentence. Following his release from prison, Droege drifted away from organized racial activity and worked for a time as a bailiff. After losing his job, he returned to cigarette and drug trafficking as well as auto theft. In 1998 he pleaded guilty to possession of a stolen car.

Droege's fifty-fifth birthday party was held at Jack Astor's restaurant in Etobicoke, Ontario[1] just weeks after the same restaurant was the site of a confrontation between Anti-Racist Action and supporters of Ernst Z?del.

Droege was found shot to death on April 13, 2005 in the hallway of his lowrise apartment in Scarborough, Ontario. One suspect barricaded himself in Droege's apartment but was arrested at the scene without incident after negotiations with the Emergency Task Force.

Droege's remains were cremated and returned to Germany.

On 16 June2006, Keith Deroux pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to ten years in prison without regard for time in pre-trial custody. According to an agreed statement of facts read out in court, Deroux was an alcoholic with paranoid delusions fuelled by cocaine, some of it supplied by Droege himself. Deroux was apparently convinced that Droege was keeping his house under audio and video surveillance. Deroux furthermore believed that people were burrowing into his house through a tunnel, and that all of this was Droege's revenge for Deroux's having laughed at Droege's political views. Max French, a friend of Droege's, told the Toronto Star that Droege may have turned to selling drugs because his political views had resulted in his being hounded from jobs in the last years of his life.[2]

Volume No. 1 Issue No. 67 - Tuesday April 05, 2005

Wolfgang Droege White Supremacist who Tried to Overthrow Dominica's Government is Shot to Death by TheDominican.net Newsdesk Wolfgang Droege a white supremacist who spent three years in prison for attempting to overthrow the government of Eugenia Charles in Dominica, was reportedly shot dead in a suburban Toronto apartment on April 14, 2005. Droege who once led the neo-Nazi Heritage Front was found dead after police responded to complaints of gunshots at a Scarborough apartment building Wednesday afternoon. In what became known as operation Red Dog, Klu Klax clan leaders Droege, and Don Black (US) as well as former Prime Minister Patrick John conspired to overthrow the government of Prime Minister Eugenia Charles. The invasion was meant to restore John to power and to transform the island into a white supremacist nation. John was forced to resign in 1979 after a popular uprising against his Administration. On April 27 1981 Black, Droege, Larry Lloyd Jacklin and seven other men were arrested by the US Federal Agents in New Orleans as they prepared to board a boat with automatic weapons, shotguns, rifles, handguns, dynamite, ammunition, and a black and white Nazi flag. The incident was later dubbed the Bayou of Pigs. The plan was to charter a boat to Dominica and rendez vous via rubber boats with John and his makeshift army, made up of remnants of the Dominica Defense Force. The genesis of the idea came from long-time Klan member Mike Purdue, who was introduced in 1979 to Droege through David Duke. That summer, Purdue outlined his plan to overthrow the government of Grenada and to set-up several lucrative businesses. After their meeting, it was established that Droege would locate funds and resources. Duke initially involved Don Andrews but after Purdue changed the target island to Dominica, Andrews bailed out. Andrews however put Purdue in contact with Klansmen Arnie Polli and Roger Dermee who were paid US$3,000 to visit Dominica to obtain preliminary reconnaissance. Andrews also put Purdue in contact with Charles Yanover, who was a well-known organized crime figure. Yanover who was ecstatic with the idea, provided Purdue with a $10,000 advance. In return for the investment, Yanover was given the right to set-up a gunrunning operation to smuggle weapons into South Africa and Central America. According to a 1987 analysis by Stanley Barllet, the reason for the invasion was not to set up a white supremacist nation, but rather to establish lucrative businesses involving casinos, cocaine and brothels. It was later revealed that in the summer of 1980 Droege traveled to Dominica and spent nearly two weeks on the island meeting with several investors from Las Vegas. The investors, who were connected to the Mafia, invited Droege to Las Vegas to further discuss the invasion. Droege and Purdue returned to Las Vegas in January 1981 to finalize the plans with their new business associates. At the meeting, it was decided that Droege would remain in Nevada while Purdue would travel to Dominica to get Patrick John to sign a contract that secured the participation of the military in the coup as well as assurances that all natural resources and development projects on the island would be handed over to the mercenaries and the investors. In return, Purdue promised John that he would be reinstated as Prime Minister. Under the agreement with the business group from Las Vegas, the mercenaries would receive more than $8 million. By winter 1981, Droege and Purdue had secured more than $100,000 in capital for the invasion. In February 1981, the captain and crew Duke had arranged for backed out. Purdue then approached a local boat captain and Vietnam veteran, Michael S. Howell. Purdue said the CIA needed his boat for a covert operation. Howell then contacted the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF). To make matters worse, Mcquirter contacted a reporter from CFTR radio (Toronto) in March 1981 and informed him of the coup. McQuirter's intention was to capitalize on the ensuing media coverage, thus building his public image. Suffering an ethical dilemma between an exclusive-story or allowing many people to die, the reporter, apparently against the direction of his superior at CFTR, eventually contacted the OPP. In April 1981, Charles Yanover and an associate returned from a reconnaissance trip of the island to attend the final operational planning meeting. At the meeting it was decided that Marion McGuire and Yanover would return to Dominica, just days prior to the coup to meet with the invasion team after they landed on the beach. McQuirter would also travel to Dominica a few days in advance to organize local resistance with the help of John and his military leaders. The invasion force, which included Droege, Purdue, Don Black and seven other Americans, would leave from New Orleans on Howell's boat with all of the weapons and explosives onboard. On April 25, John was arrested in Dominica after Prime Minister Charles was tipped off by the FBI. When Purdue learned of the arrest and that their plans were no longer secret, he insisted that the mission should continue. On April 27, the group, including three ATF agents, met at the predetermined location, loaded the van and proceeded to the marina. The FBI and SWAT team members were lying in wait. Purdue and Droege never thought that they would get caught. The agents confiscated a number of automatic weapons, shotguns, rifles, handguns, dynamite, over 5000 rounds of ammunition, and a black and white Nazi flag. The legal system was not kind to the mercenaries. Droege, Purdue, and McQuire each received a three-year prison term while Yanover was sentenced to 6 months. The other mercenaries received anywhere from a year to three years. McQuirter, however, was not charged until a year after the failed coup. Apparently, McQuirter, thinking he was not culpable of a criminal offence, openly bragged about his involvement in the coup to the media. McQuirter was eventually charged with conspiracy to overthrow a foreign government, fraud, and conspiracy to commit murder (a charge related to McQuirter planning to kill his girlfriend's former common-law husband) and received two years for his involvement in the coup and five more for conspiracy to commit murder. Patrick John would eventually be sentenced to 12 years in prison. Arnie Polli, the police informant, and the CFTR reporter both escaped criminal prosecution. Nearly 20 years after the failed coup, Droege was quoted in the Canadian Press as saying that the objectives were completely achievable. "We had the men and the resources," he said, "It was just unfortunate that we got caught." Putting a positive spin on the experience, Droege asserted "But jail wasn't that bad. It really put American society and the racial issue into perspective. Plus, it gave me an opportunity to network with other racialist leaders, which really helped me after I got out." Editor?s Note:For this report, we drew on an essay written by Canadian student Matthew Lauder, Historian Lennox Honneychurch and other internet resources. Related Item Who is Wolfgang Droege Who is Patrick Roland John

Deuterium Oxide and Mitosis

Mitosis is asexual reproduction of cells, or division of the nucleus. One cell replicates its DNA and then through a series of four steps divides into two daughter cells. Mitosis is used by organisms to differentiate, grow, and replace dead cells. It is integral to growth and health of the organism and any agent that hinders or damages this process (like deuterium oxide) should be avoided in general. Cancer, however, occurs when mitosis proceeds so rapidly and constantly that it can produce tumors and other effects adverse to many common bodily functions. An agent that hinders mitosis would then be beneficial in preventing cancerous growth. Deuterium oxide has properties that make it look promising for cancer treatment.

First the intricate process that is mitosis should be examined. Most of the cell's life is spent in the phase known as interphase. In this phase the cell carries out regular metabolic activities, translates proteins, and replicates DNA. Interphase is not a stage of mitosis, even though this is when the DNA is copied. The first stage of mitosis is prophase. In prophase, the nuclear membrane disappears, the DNA coils into replicated chromosomes (sister chromatids) spindle fibers form, and they connect with the sister chromatids at their centers (kinetochores). In the second stage, metaphase, the sister chromatids are brought into alignment at the equator of the cell (called the metaphase plate). The third phase, anaphase,
occurs when the sister chromatids are pulled apart by contraction of the spindle fibers, and they move toward the poles of the cell. Telophase, the last phase of mitosis, is basically the reverse of prophase; the chromosomes decoil, the nuclear membranes reform, and the spindle fibers disappear. During telophase cytokinesis occurs, which is division of the cytoplasm. Combining mitosis (nuclear division) and cytokinesis (cytoplasmic division) gives cell division.

Moving from biology to chemistry, mitosis can be examined through the cellular macromolecules. DNA contains hydrogen in the nitrogenous bases and in the deoxyribose sugars. In fact, the DNA macromolecule takes the shape of a double helix because of hydrogen bonds between the nitrogenous bases that are across from each other. When deuterium oxide is introduced into a cell, deuterium atoms gradually replace hydrogen atoms in DNA molecules. The bonds between the deuterium atoms are stronger than the original hydrogen bonds, and this has the effect of the DNA molecules becoming more rigid. The mitotic process is heavily dependent on the hydrogen bonds of DNA, so any alteration of this will adversely affect mitosis. For example, DNA replication requires the double helix to uncoil, and when deuterium is incorporated in DNA, it makes it harder to uncoil because of the increased rigidity. Or, if the DNA does replicate, deuterium oxide can still affect mitosis. When the DNA begins to coil into chromosomes, the deuterium oxide causes the chromosome to become shortened and thickened. The effect is also felt in the cytoplasm, which becomes more rigid due to the increased viscosity of heavy water and again makes cellular division all the more difficult to take place. Very importantly, deuterium oxide is unique among all anti-mitotic agents in that it works on many stages of mitosis, unlike most others which act specifically on only one stage of mitosis.

Biological Effects of Deuterium

Many different experiments have been done to test the effects of deuterium on different body systems in rodents, the results of many of them have been complied by J.F. Thomson in Biological Effects of Deuterium. When pure deuterium oxide, heavy water, is given to rodents, it seems that it is unpalatable to them. To humans it would taste like distilled or de-aerated water. It is made more palatable to rodents by aeration and the addition of traces of salts.

When heavy water is given to these animals it is readily absorbed and it does not seem to be filtered out by the kidneys and excreted. The deuterium oxide will build up in the body systems until it reaches an equilibrium level that is usually about eighty percent of the concentration that is consumed by the rodents.

General results in rats and mice seem to be consistent. When zero to fifteen percent of the body water has been replaced by heavy water, there is little change in them except that they are unable to gain weight as fast as the control group. At fifteen to twenty percent the animals seem to be very excitable. At twenty to twenty five percent the animals are so excitable that they go into frequent convulsions when stimulated. Skin lesions, ulcers on the paws and muzzles, and necrosis of the tails appear. The animals also become very aggressive; the males are almost unmanageable. When thirty percent replacement occurs the animals refuse to eat and become comatose. Their body weight drops sharply and the metabolic rate of the mice drops far below normal. When replacement has reached thirty to thirty five percent the rodents die. It seems that no tolerance to deuterium oxide is developed over time but the effects are reversible unless more than thirty percent of the previous body weight has been lost due to heavy water.

In live rats that were given deuterium oxide the kidney function was studied: it was found that as the concentration of deuterium in the body increased the glomerular filtration rate and the renal plasma flow decreased. This caused the overall function of the kidneys to decrease as well. This process was also completely reversible; if the rats were placed back on water, the kidney function returned to normal in a short amount of time.

It was found that if the concentration of deuterium oxide in the body was over twenty to twenty five percent then the formation of mature erythrocytes, red blood cells, was completely inhibited. The red cell count was able to be restored to a normal level from as low as twenty five percent of the normal amount if the rats were placed back on normal water. The problem is that when the red cell count gets as low as twenty five percent many of the rodents were dying from anemia. Heavily deuterated rats also had a problem keeping a normal blood glucose level. Even when they were injected with glucose the level dropped to below normal in a couple hours. The rats were also unable to store glucose as liver glycogen.

The metabolic rate and body temperature of the mice depended on the concentration of deuterium oxide in their body. The metabolic rates and body temperatures of the rodents increased up through twenty percent deuterium in the body. Past twenty percent the metabolic rate and the body temperature began to drop.

Physical Properties of Deuterium

Deuterium is a stable isotope of hydrogen, meaning that it is not radioactive and has a very long life span. Deuterium is still the same element as hydrogen but it has one neutron making it twice as heavy as protium. Deuterium was discovered by Harold Urey, in 1932. Deuterium was the first isotope to be separated from its element in pure form. It is believed that deuterium was created during the initial phase of the big bang. A free neutron will decay in ten minutes unless it interacts with a proton to form a nucleus of a deuterium atom. Most of these deuterium atoms combined to form helium but a few extra were left over and remained deuterium.

When two deuterium ions bond with one oxygen ion, deuterium oxide, heavy water, is formed. It looks the same as and tastes similar to regular water, but some of it's characteristics are different. Heavy water is different from regular water in physical properties. Heavy water boils at 101.41 degrees Celsius and freezes at 3.79 degrees Celsius. The heat capacity, heat of fusion, heat of vaporization, and entropy of deuterium oxide are all higher than the values for water. Heavy water is also more viscous than water is. Deuterium oxide is not as good of a solvent as water is either. Deuterium will form stronger bonds than hydrogen will.

Approximately one of every six thousand drops of water is actually deuterium oxide. The overall deuterium to hydrogen ratio on earth is 1:6600.

Current Research - Deuterium's effect on mitosis:

There has not been much research on deuterium's effect on mitosis, which is surprising because it still is not known exactly why deuterium slows the mitotic process. In 1989 Jan Lamprecht, Dieter Schroeter, and Niedhard Paweletz conducted a study at The Institute of Cell and Tumor Biology and German Cancer Research Center in Heidelburg. They set out to test the basic mechanism underlying the anti-mitotic activity of deuterium oxide and how it affected somatic mammalian cells at various phases of mitosis. The effect of deuterium had already been studied on sea urchin eggs, but no study had been done on cells of any higher animals.

To do the study, they subjected cells to 25%, 50% and 75% deuterium oxide for two hours in one test, and then in another they subjected cells to 75% heavy water for two, six, twelve and twenty four hours. Then they measured the percentages of cells in prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase, and cytokinetic pairs (interphase), and restituted nuclei (cells in which the nuclear membrane reappeared but the cell was not done dividing).

The data showed abnormally high numbers of cells in prophase and metaphase, especially metaphase. Also, the incidence of cells in metaphase increased with increased percentage of deuterium oxide. This points to the fact that deuterium oxide's anti-mitotic effect is optimized between metaphase and anaphase. Cells in deuterium oxide had trouble lining their cells up on the metaphase plate. The chromosomes often arranged themselves radially instead of in a straight line, thus preventing anaphase from occurring. Although it seemed like the deuterium oxide was affecting the spindle fibers, this supposition was disproven by the fact that these fibers could assemble and disassemble without chromosomes in deuterated water. The researchers believed that it was the centrosomes (kinetochores) of the chromosomes that were affected by the heavy water; they must have somehow had their alignment thrown off so that the spindle fibers could not connect properly, and/or their movement was slowed and thrown off by the increased viscosity of the deuterium oxide. The group suggested more studies since they could not pinpoint for sure what the cause of the anti-mitotic action was, but their theory is logical. Unfortunately no more studies of this nature have been done.

Deuterium's effect on cancer:

Current research on the effects of heavy water on cancerous growths has focused mainly on how moderately deuterated water can depress the rate of tumor growth in athymic mice. The absence of a thymus means that the mice have no immune system, and so cancerous cells can be injected into the mice, giving them cancer. Research by Hans Altermatt, Jan-Olaf Gebbers, and Jean Albert Laissue of the University of Bern in Switzerland has shown that when these mice are given heavy water, the effects are similar to and synergistic with those of other cytostatic drugs. Mice with tumors were divided into four groups: mice given only heavy water, mice given only a cytostatic drug (This varied depending on the origin of the cells used to give the mice tumors.), mice given both heavy water and a cytostatic drug, and mice used as controls. The tumors produced in the mice were measured and weighed, and the results were used to compare the effectiveness of each treatment. The results of this experiment were clear-cut for mouse tumors derived from less differentiated tumorigenic cells; control mice always showed the highest rate of tumor growth. The rats given either the cytostatic drugs or deuterium showed a marked decrease in tumor growth, with deuterium having a slightly greater effect. Finally, when drugs and deuterium were combined, mice showed even slower tumor growth. Results for tumors derived from more highly differentiated cancer cells showed deuterated water to be less effective. This work shows that heavy water is effective as an alternative to other drugs in retarding the growth of cancer, although it gave no data concerning the side effects of deuterated water on the mice.

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The Real 'Feminazi'
Elisha H. Strom, 28 | EARLYSVILLE, Va.

 

Elisha Strom

Elisha Strom is about as close to a feminist as you can get on the American radical right. She has engaged in running battles with some leading neo-Nazis and others over their use of salacious images of women, and has managed to enrage many male members of the group her husband helps lead, the neo-Nazi National Alliance*.

Strom apparently joined the revolutionary right early this millennium, when she became the second wife of Kevin Alfred Strom, who was a key deputy to Alliance founder and leader William Pierce. Though the couple did not live on the Alliance's compound in West Virginia, they visited often from their Earlysville, Va., home, and Pierce is known to have developed a dislike for Elisha Strom's assertive ways.

Up until their marriage, Kevin Strom's personal Web site had carried a gallery of alluring photos of young girls, many of them scantily dressed, and running to shots of a teenage Brooke Shields atop a horse. That changed after the wedding, and today his site carries a gallery of far less alluring classical art, although it includes many nude paintings.

After Pierce died in July 2002, Kevin Strom was named to replace him as host of the Alliance's shortwave "American Dissident Voices" broadcast. In that post, he has been attacked by many racists as effeminate and weak (see Against the Wall). But neither those attacks nor the criticisms leveled at her personally have caused Elisha Strom to desist.

Today, she has her own Web site (elishastrom.com) that celebrates Renaissance art and classical European composers along with the raising of "elite white children" and her "favorite man of all," Kevin Strom.

She also runs the angrywhitefemale.com Web site. And she has engaged in running battles with two key Internet racists, Bill White (see The Gossip) of overthrow.com and Alex Linder (see Potty Humor and the Revolution) of Vanguard News Network (VNN).

When Linder, an Alliance member known for his misogyny, attacked her recently, Elisha Strom responded coolly: "Very much looking forward to meeting you again, Linder. My really awesome 'Fuck VNN' t-shirt is already packed."

Kevin Alfred Strom is the Managing Director of National Vanguard, an organization based in Charlottesville, Virginia. It is widely regarded as racist, white separatist and homophobic. They state on their website that the USA would be improved "if it becomes a proud White nation again". [1] Their membership rules stipulate that "Persons of Jewish descent, homosexuals or bisexuals, criminals, persons with a non-White spouse or sexual partner, or persons with more than an undetectable trace of non-White ancestry are specifically barred from membership." [2]

Strom has also been the managing editor of The Truth at Last since October 2005. Several sources have described this tabloid as anti-Semitic and racist. [3][4] Strom's boss at The Truth at Last, Edward R. Fields, is a former Grand Dragon of the New Order Knights of the KKK. [5]

Kevin Alfred Strom was born in Anchorage, Alaska in 1956.

Strom's marriage to his first wife, Kirsten Helene Kaiser, produced three children, including a daughter they named after Hitler's mother, Klara. [6] Since their marriage ended, Kaiser has spoken out about her life with Strom in several interviews. [7][8] She has also written a book on her experiences with Strom and the National Alliance entitled The Bondage of Self (ISBN 0972070559). Kaiser claimed that Strom was an extremely controlling husband who forced her to abstain from meat, forbade her to wear blue jeans, and predetermined her favorite music, Mozart. [9] She has since disavowed the racist beliefs she held while married to Strom and has summarized their years together: "Hundreds of women like me have gotten hooked up with some man from a racist group who controls their lives. I want them to know that if I can escape and regain my soul, they can too." [10] Strom disputes Kaiser's claims.

Kevin Alfred Strom is now married to Elisha Strom, his second wife.

In 1982, Kevin Alfred Strom became a member of the National Alliance, a group that has been described as "anti-Semitic,[11][12] "racist",[13][14][15], and "neo-Nazi".[16][17][18][19] In 1991, he founded and frequently delivered the American Dissident Voices shortwave and Internet radio broadcasts. In 1995, he founded and edited Free Speech magazine, published by the Alliance as an adjunct to the radio program. In early 2002, a few months before his death from cancer on July 23, the Alliance's founder, William Luther Pierce, named Strom as editor of National Vanguard magazine and Media Director for the Alliance. Pierce also named Strom editor of the Alliance's monthly Bulletin.

During the weekend of April 16-17, 2005, Strom and several others were expelled from the National Alliance because of a dispute with the Alliance leadership. [20] The expelled former Alliance members, led by Strom, promptly formed their own organization which they called National Vanguard. Strom fills several roles with the fledgling National Vanguard group, including Managing Director, Media Director, and Editor-in-Chief of the NationalVanguard.org website (also known as V-News.org).

As he previously did for the National Alliance, Strom now delivers weekly Internet radio broadcasts which he calls American Dissident Voices for National Vanguard. The National Alliance continues to produce Internet radio broadcasts of same name which are now delivered by their chairman, Shaun Walker.

Strom was a close associate of University of Illinois Classics professor and racial-nationalist writer Revilo P. Oliver, who has been described as "one of America's most notorious fascists" and, according to B'nai Brith Canada, was "a long time proponent of antisemitism". [21] Strom was chosen by the Oliver estate to be archivist and publisher of Oliver's papers when Oliver died in 1994. In 2002, Strom published the book The Jewish Strategy by Oliver.

Strom is the author of what he calls the Maxim of Self-Determination: "Each people which considers itself to be a people should, to the maximum extent possible, live under its own government." Though unapparent in this quotation, Strom's notion of "a people" carries with it a crucial yet unproved assumption about racial categories--namely, that races are different and should not intermix to other races.

As Strom writes, his Maxim of Self-Determination "means no Pakistani MPs. No Middle Eastern Mosques in London. No Jewish Lords. No Caribbean Blacks taking over whole city wards.", "no Chinese takeover of British Columbia and no Jewish control of the legal system.", "no Africans flooding into Rome anymore, and no more Gypsy gangs preying on White people." [22]

Melissa Guille (born ca. 1972) is a leader of the Canadian Heritage Alliance (CHA).

Guille became involved with Neo-Nazi groups in Canada through her brother, Chris Guille, who had been a longtime member of the Heritage Front. While studying at Wilfred Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario in early 2000, Guille joined the Heritage Front with the intention of starting a local chapter. Within a few months, she instead decided to form the Canadian Heritage Alliance in order to use political wedge issues to bring young people to racialist politics.[1]

Guille met far right activist Paul Fromm at a meeting he was speaking at in Kitchener, Ontario in September, 2000. He agreed to help her with her project. At the same time, she met Marc Lemire, who soon became her boyfriend and helped her develop a website and policy platform. Lemire and Guille later clashed when he became the leader of the Heritage Front and she refused his entreaties to become leader of a Kitchener-Waterloo Heritage Front chapter instead of continuing with the CHA.

Guille's brothers, Andrew Guille and Chris Guille, were involved in the CHA. Andrew embarrassed his sister when it was revealed he had been convicted in 1999 for possession of child pornography, a fact the Guilles had kept from other members. According to researcher Matthew Lauder, Andrew Guille remained active in the CHA after his conviction. Chris Guille announced his departure from any leadership role with the group in 2003. By 2003, the Guilles had left Kitchener-Waterloo and moved to London, Ontario where the CHA is now based.

According to lawyer Richard Warman's complaint to the Canadian Human Rights Commission, material on the CHA website included calls for ethnic cleansing and genocide against Jews: "We must now solve the most urgent of all problems, and that is, of course, the Jewish Problem; there are only two alternatives: we must expel them, or we must massacre them!"[2]

• Journey into darkness: Covert research in the Canadian racist underground by Matthew Lauder.
• full text of the federal human rights complaint filed against Melissa Guille

Limbaugh on Drugs

People like Limbaugh should go to jail, says Limbaugh

There's nothing good about drug use. We know it. It destroys individuals. It destroys families. Drug use destroys societies. Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods, which become consumed by them. And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.

What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug use. Too many whites are getting away with drug sales. Too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too.

...We are becoming too tolerant as a society, folks, especially of crime, in too many parts of the country.... This country certainly appears to be tolerant, forgive and forget. I mean, you know as well as I do, you go out and commit the worst murder in the world and you just say you're sorry, people go, "Oh, OK. A little contrition."... People say, "I feel better. He said he's sorry for it." We're becoming too tolerant, folks.

--Rush Limbaugh TV show (10/5/95)

These tough sentencing laws were instituted for a reason. The American people, including liberals, demanded them. Don't you remember the crack cocaine epidemic? Crack babies and out-of-control murder rates? Liberal judges giving the bad guys slaps on the wrist? Finally we got tough, and the crime rate has been falling ever since, so what's wrong?

--RushLimbaugh.com (8/18/03)

In the audio link below, I go into detail about these non-thinking talking points that "you can't tell people what to do with their bodies" and "you can't legislate morality." First of all, we tell people what they can do to their bodies all the time--no cocaine, no prostitution, no throwing yourself off a building. Second, laws are nothing but defining morality!

--RushLimbaugh.com (6/27/03)

All right. Joe Fernandez came to New York from Miami, ladies and gentlemen, to be schools chancellor.... Now he is embattled--he's got a book that just came out, an autobiography that's soon to come out, I think, in which he admits that he was a mainliner as a teen-ager. This guy [pretends to stick needle in arm]--pfsst--shot up heroin. And people are praising him. He overcame the scourge. He triumphed over that profound obstacle in his life and has gone on to become this great schools chancellor.... [Plays a clip of Fernandez saying that the message of his teenage drug use is "to not give up on our kids."]

Reach out and try to help them, not give up on the kids, give them condoms and teach them about a bunch of stuff that is worthless in terms of preparing them for their future as adults in the greatest country on Earth, teaching them all this social gobbledygook. "Let's not forget about the kids."...


Whoa. The guy wants to be education secretary, folks. Watch out. Now why does he want to go to Washington? Probably because he's studied the case of Marion Barry. Here's a guy who got involved in drugs. You want to see my Marion Barry impersonation? Do you want to see that? All right. I'll do the Marion Barry impersonation.


You put some stuff out here on the table and you go [pretends to snort cocaine]. "You tell Jesse to stay out of my town. This is my town, and Jesse--you tell him to stay out. [More snorting.] And I said no, no, no, no, I don't smoke it no more. Tired of ending up on the floor." [More snorting.]


So what is he? He gets involved in drugs and ends up, ladies and gentlemen, as a newly elected official in Washington, D.C.... So I'm sure Joe Fernandez is looking down there saying, "Hey, there's a future for, you know, drug users in Washington, D.C."

--Rush Limbaugh TV show (12/8/92)

When you strip it all away, Jerry Garcia destroyed his life on drugs. And yet he's being honored, like some godlike figure. Our priorities are out of whack, folks.

--Rush Limbaugh radio show (quoted in the L.A. Times, 8/20/95)

I want to let you read along with me a quote from Jerry Colangelo about substance abuse, and I think you'll find that he's very much right…"I know every expert in the world will disagree with me, but I don't buy into the disease part of it. The first time you reach for a substance you are making a choice. Every time you go back, you are making a personal choice. I feel very strongly about that."...

What he's saying is that if there's a line of cocaine here, I have to make the choice to go down and sniff it….And his point is that we are rationalizing all this irresponsibility and all the choices people are making and we're blaming not them, but society for it. All these Hollywood celebrities say the reason they're weird and bizarre is because they were abused by their parents. So we're going to pay for that kind of rehab, too, and we shouldn't. It's not our responsibility. It's up to the people who are doing it. And Colangelo is right.

--Rush Limbaugh TV show (9/23/93)

I have a solution for Mrs. [Jocelyn] Elders. I mean, if she wants to legalize drugs, send the people who want to do drugs to London and Zurich and let's be rid of them. Now...The problem with legalizing drugs is, it's just another abhorrent example of human behavior that we've suddenly decided, "Hey, we can't handle it. We've given up and we're going to sanction the destruction of lives. We're going to let you destroy your life. We're going to make it easy, and then all of us who accept the responsibilities of life and don't destroy our lives on drugs--we'll pay for whatever messes you get into."...

I'm appalled at people who simply want to look at all this abhorrent behavior and say, "Hey, you know, we can't control it anymore. People are going to do drugs anyway. Let's legalize it." It's a dumb idea. It's a rotten idea, and those who are for it are purely, 100 percent selfish.

--Rush Limbaugh TV show (12/9/93)

Mearsheimer wants to expel all Jews from the University of Chicago...

Professor John Mearsheimer

John J. Mearsheimer (born December 1947) is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He is a well known neorealist.

Mearsheimer was born in December 1947 in Brooklyn, New York. He was raised in New York City until the age of eight, when his parents moved his family to Croton-on-Hudson, New York, a suburb located in Westchester County. At age 18, Mearsheimer enlisted in the U.S. Army. After two years as an enlisted man, he was faced with the choice of attending the United States Military Academy at West Point, or going to Vietnam and serving as an infantryman. He chose West Point, which he attended from 1966-1970. After graduation, he served for five years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. After leaving the Air Force, Mearsheimer earned a Masters Degree in International Relations from the University of Southern California in 1974. He subsequently entered Cornell University as a graduate student and earned a Ph.D. in government, specifically in international relations, in 1981. From 1978-1979, he worked as a research fellow at the Brookings Institution, in Washington, D.C. From 1980-1982, he worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs.

Since 1982, Mearsheimer has been a member of the faculty of the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He became an associate professor in 1984, a full professor in 1987, and was appointed to the Harrison chair in 1995. From 1989-1992, he served as chairman of the department.

Mearsheimer has written extensively about national security policy and international relations theory, especially neorealism, which he defines as a state’s tendency to attempt to gain as much relative power as possible and eventually become the hegemon of the international system.

Mearsheimer’s books include Conventional Deterrence (1983), Nuclear Deterrence: Ethics and Strategy (1985), Liddell Hart and the Weight of History (1988), and The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001). He has also written numerous book chapters, journal articles, and newspaper op-ed pieces.

Finally, Professor Mearsheimer has won a number of teaching awards. He received the Clark Award for Distinguished Teaching when he was a graduate student at Cornell in 1977, and he won the Quantrell Award for Distinguished Teaching at the University of Chicago in 1985. In addition, he was selected as a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar for the 1993-1994 academic year. In that capacity, he gave a series of talks at eight colleges and universities. In 2003, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

John Mearsheimer is the leading proponent of a branch of realism called offensive realism. Offensive realism is a structural theory which, unlike the classical realism of Morgenthau, blames security conflict on the anarchy of the international system, not on human nature. In contrast to another structural realist theory, the defensive realism of Waltz, offensive realism believes that states are not satisfied with a given amount of power, but seek hegemony for security. Mearsheimer summed this view up in The Tragedy of Great Power Politics:

Given the difficulty of determining how much power is enough for today and tomorrow, great powers recognize that the best way to ensure their security is to achieve hegemony now, thus eliminating any possibility of a challenge by another great power. Only a misguided state would pass up an opportunity to become hegemon in the system because it thought it already had sufficient power to survive.^[1]

In this world, there is no such thing as a status quo power, since according to Mearsheimer, "a great power that has a marked power advantage over its rivals is likely to behave more aggressively because it has the capability as well as the incentive to do so." He has also dismissed democratic peace theory (which claims that democracies—specifically, liberal democracies—never or rarely go to war with one another).

Although Mearsheimer does not believe it is possible for a state to become a global hegemon, he believes states seek regional hegemony. Furthermore, he argues that states attempt to prevent other states from becoming regional hegemons, since peer competitors could interfere in a state's affairs. States which have achieved regional hegemony, such as the U.S., will act as offshore balancers, interfering in other regions only when the great powers in those regions are not able to prevent the rise of a hegemon.

Mearsheimer has been a vocal critic of American policy toward China. Though China does not have openly militaristic ambitions today, he thinks that by trading with China and helping its economy, the United States is providing a base from which the Chinese could seriously threaten American national security in the years to come. Furthermore he thinks that China's neighbours are increasingly worried about the growing power of China and that there are already indications that they are trying to balance China by improving ties with the United States, making the U.S. an offshore balancer. [1]

Nuclear proliferation

In 1990 he published a controversial essay called Back to the Future where he predicted that following the Cold War, Europe would revert to a multipolar environment similar to that in the first half of the Twentieth Century.

In this essay and in the 1993 paper called The case for a Ukrainian nuclear deterrent, he argued that to reduce the dangers of war, the United States should encourage Germany and Ukraine to develop a nuclear arsenal, while working to prevent the rise of hyper-nationalism.

Iraq War

Mearsheimer is a visible opponent of the Iraq War. In 2002, he was one of thirty professors to endorse a letter in the New York Times arguing against President Bush’s intention to invade Iraq and topple Saddam Hussein from power. He felt that invading Iraq would distract from the war against al Qaeda, which he described as a greater threat to national security. The war was unnecessary, Mearsheimer felt, because the United States could continue to effectively contain Hussein, as it had done for over a decade since the Gulf War. His thinking on the matter is underpinned by a belief in a rational deterrence theory of weapons of mass destruction - namely, that there is no way by which a power with nuclear weapons equal to or less than another power can effectively coerce it into policies against its choosing (this presumes, and he holds, that Saddam Hussein was a rational actor). Mearsheimer predicted that after invading Iraq, the U.S. would need to occupy it for decades. He also wrote several Op-Ed pieces in 2003, including An Unnecessary War ^[2] and Keeping Saddam in a Box ^[3] in which he made the same points. In a December, 2004 interview ^[4], Mearsheimer argued that the architects of the invasion, however misguided, were motivated by a sincere desire to protect American interests. This contrasts with the viewpoint put forth in his March, 2006 paper with Walt (discussed in the section below on the Israel Lobby): "the war was motivated in good part by a desire to make Israel more secure". ^[5]

Israel Lobby

Main article: The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

In March 2006, Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, the academic dean and Robert and Rene Belfer Professor of International Relations at the Kennedy School of Government, published a working paper ^[6] and an article^[7] in the London Review of Books on the negative effects of "the unmatched power of the Israel Lobby". They define the Lobby as "the loose coalition of individuals and organisations who actively work to steer US foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction". The articles generated considerable media coverage throughout the world, replete with claims of anti-Semitism and counter-claims of intimidation. For full details see The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy.

• ^ Mearsheimer, John (2001). The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. New York: W. W. Norton. ISBN 0393020258, 35.
• ^ An unnecessary war, John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy, Jan/Feb 2003.
• ^ Keeping Saddam in a Box by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, New York Times, 2 February 2003
• ^ American Amnesia Interviews John Mearsheimer
• ^ Alex Safian in The Jewish Press, Will the real John Mearsheimer please stand up
• ^ The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government Working Paper, Submitted 13 March 2006
• ^ The Israel Lobby by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, London Review of Books, 23 March 2006

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NICHOLAS PAUL DE GENOVA

(Nicholas De Genova)
Assistant Professor
Columbia University
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Biography:
The central concerns of my research and teaching include: labor and class formation, racialization, the production of urban space, nationalism, the politics of citizenship, and transnational social processes, especially migration. My ethnographic research explores the social productions of racialized and spatialized difference in the experiences of transnational Mexican migrant workers within the space of the U.S. nation-state. More specifically, I examine transnational urban conjunctural spaces that link the U.S. and Latin America as a standpoint of critique from which to interrogate U.S. nationalism, political economy, racialized citizenship, and immigration law. This work contributes to a reconceptualization of Latin American, Latino, and "American" (U.S.) Studies. Likewise, I am interested in the methodological problems of ethnographic research practice and the limits of anthropological disciplinary forms of knowledge and modes of representation. My current research concerns the politics of race and immigration in relation to the Homeland Security State and the so-called "War on Terrorism".

Representative Publications:

1998. "Race, Space, and the Reinvention of Latin America in Mexican Chicago," in Latin American Perspectives, Volume 25, Number 5.

2002. "Migrant 'Illegality' and Deportability in Everyday Life" in Annual Review of Anthropology #31.

2003. "Latino Racial Formations in the United States: An Introduction" (co-authored with Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas) in Journal of Latin American Anthropology, Volume 8, Number 2.

2003. "Latino Rehearsals: Racialization and the Politics of Citizenship Between Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Chicago" (co-authored with Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas) in Journal of Latin American Anthropology, Volume 8, Number 2.

2003. Latino Crossings: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship (co-authored with Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas) (New York: Routledge).

2004. "The Legal Production of Mexican/Migrant 'Illegality'" in Latino Studies, Volume 2, Number 1.

2005. Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and "Illegality" in Mexican Chicago (Durham, NC: Duke University Press).

2006. Racial Transformations: Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States (edited, with an Introduction, by Nicholas De Genova); in press.

Cum nimis absurdum was a papal bull issued by Pope Paul IV dated July 14, 1555 and taking its name from its first words, translated¹ "Since it is absurd and utterly inconvenient that the Jews, who through their own fault were condemned by God to eternal slavery…" and therefore placing religious and economic restrictions on Jews in the Papal States.

The bull renewed anti-Jewish legislation and subjected Jews to various restrictions on their personal freedom and degradations like forcing Jewish males to wear a yellow hat, and females a yellow kerchief (see Yellow badge), compulsory Catholic sermons on the Jewish Shabbat, and Jews being forbidden to own real estate or practice medicine among Christians.

The bull also created the Roman Ghetto, where the Jews of Rome, who had lived freely since antiquity, were segregated in a walled quarter with three gates that were locked at night. Jews were also restricted to one synagogue per city. The following Pope Pius IV enforced the creation of other ghettos in most Italian towns, and his successor Pope Pius V recommended them to other bordering states.

Calls for calm after synagogue attack

July 31, 2006 12:59pm

AUSTRALIA'S Jewish community has appealed for calm after a Sydney suburban synagogue was attacked in the latest expression of anti-Semitism tied to the conflict in the Middle East.

Shortly after the incident witnesses told police they saw a group of about 10 Middle Eastern men laughing and running down a nearby street.

Rabbi Wernick and his young family were inside a house attached to the synagogue in Mason Street when it was attacked, and said the conflict between Israel and Lebanon may have been the trigger.

NSW Jewish Board of Deputies chief executive Vic Alhadeff has today called on all members of society to respect Australia's diversity and tolerance.

"Our message is that Australia is a wonderful society which is known for its acceptance of diversity and its strong ethic of tolerance," Mr Alhadeff said.

"And we the Jewish community absolutely subscribe to that and abide by that and we would hope that all our fellow Australians would have that same approach."

He said there had been a rise in incidents of anti-Semitism tied to the recent conflict in the Middle East.

"There's been an increase in expressions of anti-Semitism in the form of anti-Semitic graffiti, emails and abusive phone calls, and also the incident at the Parramatta Synagogue."

But he called on those who felt strongly about what is happening in the Middle East not to bring the conflict onto the streets of Australia.

"We feel very strongly that no mosque, church or synagogue anywhere should be attacked and it is of great concern when there are elements within our society who choose to bring the issues of the Middle East into the streets of Australia."

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For a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - Present, please visit the KSG Research Report Online. Selected Publication Citations    Books   Walt, Stephen. Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy. W.W. Norton, 2005.    Book Chapters   Walt, Stephen. "Keeping the World Off-Balance: Self-Restraint and U.S. Foreign Policy." America Unrivaled: The Future of the Balance of Power. Ed. G. John Ikenberry. Cornell University Press, 2002.   Walt, Stephen. "The Enduring Relevance of the Realist Tradition." Political Science: State of the Discipline III. Ed. Ira Katznelson and Helen Milner. Norton, 2002.   Walt, Stephen. "NATO's Future (In Theory)." Allied Force or Forced Allies? NATO After Kosovo. Ed. M. Bawley and P. Martin. St. Martin's, 2001.   Walt, Stephen. "Alliances." Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World. Ed. J. Krieger. Oxford University Press, 2001.    Academic Journals   Walt, Stephen. "Taming American Power." Foreign Affairs 84.5 (Sep/Oct 2005): 105-120.   Walt, Stephen. “The Relationship between Theory and Policy in International Relations." Annual Review of Political Science Vol. 8 (2005).   Mearsheimer, John J., and Stephen Walt. "An Unnecessary War." Foreign Policy 134 (January-February 2003).   Walt, Stephen. "American Primacy: Its Prospects and Pitfalls." Naval War College Review 55 (Spring 2002).   Walt, Stephen. "Nothing Revolutionary." Review of International Studies 27.4 (October 2001).   Walt, Stephen. "Beyond bin Laden: Reshaping U.S. Foreign Policy." International Security 26.3 (Winter 2001-2002).    Magazine and Newspaper Articles   Walt, Stephen. "In the National Interest." Boston Review February/March 2005.   Walt, Stephen. "The Imbalance of Power." Harvard Magazine March/April 2004.    Op-Eds   Walt, Stephen. "Bush Needs a Mideast Exit Plan." Financial Times, London edition, September 8, 2003: 19.   Walt, Stephen, and John M. Mearsheimer. "Keeping Saddam in a Box." New York Times, February 2, 2003.   Walt, Stephen. "'Realists' Are Not Alone in Opposing War With Iraq." Chronicle of Higher Education, November 15, 2002.   Walt, Stephen. "Fragile: Package with Care." Boston Globe, September 30, 2001.    Research Papers/Reports   Walt, Stephen. "Can Saddam Be Contained? History Says Yes." BCSIA Occasional Papers, November 2002.

David Duke Claims to Be Vindicated By a Harvard Dean

BY ELI LAKE - Staff Reporter of the Sun
March 20, 2006
URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/29380

A paper recently co-authored by the academic dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government about the allegedly far-reaching influence of an "Israel lobby" is winning praise from white supremacist David Duke.

The Palestine Liberation Organization mission to Washington is distributing the paper, which also is being hailed by a senior member of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist organization.

But the paper, "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," by the Kennedy School's Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago, is meeting with a more critical reception from many of those it names as part of the lobby. The 83-page "working paper" claims a network of journalists, think tanks, lobbyists, and largely Jewish officials have seized the foreign policy debate and manipulated America to invade Iraq. Included in this network, the authors say, are the editors of the New York Times, the scholars at the Brookings Institution, students at Columbia, "pro-Israel" senior officials in the executive branch, and "neoconservative gentiles" including columnist George Will.

Duke, a former Louisiana state legislator and one-time Ku Klux Klan leader, called the paper "a great step forward," but he said he was "surprised" that the Kennedy School would publish the report.

"I have read about the report and read one summary already, and I am surprised how excellent it is," he said in an e-mail. "It is quite satisfying to see a body in the premier American University essentially come out and validate every major point I have been making since even before the war even started." Duke added that "the task before us is to wrest control of America's foreign policy and critical junctures of media from the Jewish extremist Neocons that seek to lead us into what they expectantly call World War IV."

Mr. Walt said last night, "I have always found Mr. Duke's views reprehensible, and I am sorry he sees this article as consistent with his view of the world."

"I think that the people who wrote that report were working for the interest of the American people," a senior member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's guidance council, Abdulmo'em Abulfotah, said yesterday. "I ask a question here: Is it in the interest of the American people to clash with 1.3 billion people in favor of 5 million people who represent the Zionist project? Not even the Jews, but the Zionists."

The Kennedy School published the essay nearly a month before a trial is scheduled to begin of two lobbyists for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Keith Weissman and Steve Rosen, on charges that they conspired to leak classified material to an American journalist and an Israeli diplomat. But it also comes as public support for the Iraq war has ebbed to new lows. Messrs. Mearsheimer and Walt argue that "neoconservatives" in particular launched a "campaign to manipulate intelligence" that led to that war.

While the arguments in Messrs. Mearsheimer and Walt's paper are hardly new - allegations of dual loyalty have flitted about the Internet since before the war, and the left-wing press in particular has focused on the role of the Pentagon in making the case for the war - the fact that these points are now being made by such establishment thinkers has raised concern among Israel's friends in America and cheers from their adversaries.

"The content is not significant. Those seeking to damage the U.S.-Israel relationship have been saying this for a while. The fact that it carries the imprimatur of the Harvard Kennedy School is. Those that don't know better would assume it has validity, when it doesn't," the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Malcolm Hoenlein, said.

A professor at Harvard Law School, Alan Dershowitz, whom the authors call an "apologist" for Israel, said he found much of the paper to be "trash." He said, "It could have been written by Pat Buchanan, by David Duke, Noam Chomsky, and some of the less intelligent members of Hamas. An intelligent member of Hamas would not have made these mistakes."

Those mistakes for Mr. Dershowitz include, for example, the assertion that "There is no question, for example, that many Al Qaeda leaders, including bin Laden, are motivated by Israel's presence in Jerusalem and the plight of the Palestinians," which Mr. Dershowitz says "is just absurd."

Mr. Dershowitz was particularly troubled by the claim in the paper that Israeli "citizenship is based on the principle of blood kinship." He pointed out that the authors had conflated Israel's law of return with its criteria for citizenship. "That's right from the neo Nazi Web sites. Anybody can be a citizen of Israel. He confuses the law of return for the criteria for citizenship. He never mentions that a Jew cannot be a citizen in Jordan and Saudi Arabia," Mr. Dershowitz said.

Mr. Walt said on this citizenship point last night that he wanted to check into it. "We were not writing on Saudi Arabia and Jordan," he said.

Mr. Dershowitz also objected to the paper's claim that the 2000 Oslo offer to Yasser Arafat would have created "Bantustans." Mr. Dershowitz said, "They should talk to President Clinton about that. The West Bank territory would have been completely contiguous."

"What he is saying is, 'some of my best lobbyists are Jews. Don't confuse what we are saying with the Protocols of the Elders of Zion,'" Mr. Dershowitz said. "Sorry, but it sounds very similar to me. The only difference is the Protocols are a forgery, but this is actually written by two bigots."

The authors attempt to distinguish their argument from that of classical anti-Semites, writing at one point, "there is nothing improper about American Jews and their Christian allies attempting to sway U.S policy towards Israel. The Lobby's activities are not the sort of conspiracy depicted in anti-Semitic tracts like the Protocols of the Elders of Zion." At another point, the authors distance themselves from the president of Iran by writing, "Israel's survival is not in doubt - even if some Islamic extremists make outrageous and unrealistic references to 'wiping it off the map.'"

Yet the paper also refers to "the unmatched power of the Israel Lobby." It says, "Were it not for the Lobby's ability to manipulate the American political system, the relationship between Israel and the United States would be far less intimate than it is today."

"AIPAC, which is a de facto agent for a foreign government, has a stranglehold on the U.S. Congress," says the paper, which also accuses "the Lobby" of "manipulating the media" and being "a critical element" in the American decision to attack Iraq in March 2003.

A retired lecturer at Harvard, Martin Peretz, who is editor of The New Republic, a magazine named in the report as one of those that "zealously defend Israel at every turn," said, "It is easier to attribute disloyalty to Jews than to question the loyalty of Islamists. This is really questioning the loyalty of Jews, that is what this is about. Everyone is looped in, even people who are a little dicey about Israel like Aaron David Miller and Howard Dean. This goes from the lobby in capital letters, from Jerry Falwell to every left wing Jewish Democrat in the House. It is the imagining of a wall to wall conspiracy and therefore it's nutsy."

The executive director of the Committee for Accurate Middle East Reporting in America, Andrea Levin, said yesterday that she would be asking the Kennedy School to withdraw the paper because it failed to meet academic standards. She said the paper relied too much on "new historians," a group of Israeli academics who have been critical of the founding of Israel. She called them "a thoroughly discredited lot." She also said the authors wrongly say that her group organized a rally in front of the Boston affiliate of national public radio.

One of the claims in the paper is that "The Lobby's goals are also served when pro-Israel individuals occupy important positions in the executive branch." To prove this point they point to a former Aipac official, Martin Indyk's high positions in the Clinton administration and the fact that Dennis Ross left government service in 2001 to join the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. This list of these pro-Israel officials also included Mr. Ross's former deputy Aaron Miller, who they point out "has lived in Israel and often visits there."

Mr. Miller, who wrote an opinion piece for the Washington Post in 2005 complaining that during the 2000 failed peace negotiations he helped broker, American diplomats often served as "Israel's lawyer," differed with Messrs. Walt and Mearsheimer. "The lobby has an important influence but not control. On issues related to assistance for Israel there is no question the organized Jewish community has a profound impact," Mr. Miller said. "The argument breaks down when he says the Jewish lobby is somehow responsible for Iraq." Mr. Miller added that the pro-Israel lobby is not powerful enough to influence the executive branch in the manner in which Messrs. Mearsheimer and Walt say.

Another way the authors say the Israel lobby exercises influence is through think tanks. Under the subchapter heading "Think Tanks that Think One Way," the authors say, "Pro Israel forces have established a commanding presence at the American Enterprise Institute, the Brookings Institution, the Center for Security Policy, the Foreign Policy Research Institute, the Heritage Foundation, the Hudson Institute, the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA)."

The president of the Hudson Institute, Herbert London, said the notion that his institution had a standard line on American policy to Israel "was patently absurd." He pointed out that a senior fellow at his institute was the former director of the National Security Agency, William Odom, who has not only been a vociferous critic of Israel but also the Iraq war.

"The Saudis want to express an opinion, I don't object. People have the right to express their opinions," Mr. London said. "They don't have anything to say about how the Saudis try to influence opinion in think tanks, universities, and corporations."

In December of 2005 Harvard announced it had received a $20 million gift from a Saudi prince, Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud.

A former executive director of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Morris Amitay, who is quoted in the Kennedy School paper, minimized the document's significance. "I would be worried if Henry Kissinger was saying this. But who are these guys?" Mr. Amitay said. "As far as I'm concerned this is a tribute to the Jewish community. We couldn't do anything about Auschwitz, but look, we now control foreign policy for a region of the world so vital to American interests."

Meghan Clyne and Josh Gerstein contributed to this report.

Hate 101: Climate of hate rocks Columbia University

By DOUGLAS FEIDEN
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Many students say Columbia Prof. Hamid Dabashi, a department chairman, has bullied and threatened them for defending Israel. Students Ariel Beery (speaking) and Noah Liben (r.) at press conference after showing of the film 'Columbia Unbecoming.' In the world of Hamid Dabashi, supporters of Israel are "warmongers" and "Gestapo apparatchiks." The Jewish homeland is "nothing more than a military base for the rising predatory empire of the United States." It's a capital of "thuggery" - a "ghastly state of racism and apartheid" - and it "must be dismantled." A voice from America's crackpot fringe? Actually, Dabashi is a tenured professor and department chairman at Columbia University. And his views have resonated and been echoed in other areas of the university. Columbia is at risk of becoming a poison Ivy, some critics claim, and tensions are high. In classrooms, teach-ins, interviews and published works, dozens of academics are said to be promoting an I-hate-Israel agenda, embracing the ugliest of Arab propaganda, and teaching that Zionism is the root of all evil in the Mideast. In three weeks of interviews, numerous students told the Daily News they face harassment, threats and ridicule merely for defending the right of Israel to survive. And the university itself is holding investigations into the alleged intimidation. Dabashi has achieved academic stardom: professor of Iranian studies; chairman of the Middle East and Asian languages and cultures department; past head of a panel that administers Columbia's core curriculum. The 53-year-old, Iranian-born scholar has said CNN should be held accountable for "war crimes" for one-sided coverage of Sept. 11, 2001. He doubts the existence of Al Qaeda and questions the role of Osama Bin Laden in the attacks. Dabashi did not return calls. In September in the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram, he wrote, "What they call Israel is no mere military state. A subsumed militarism, a systemic mendacity with an ingrained violence constitutional to the very fusion of its fabric, has penetrated the deepest corners of what these people have to call their soul." After the showing of a student-made documentary about faculty bias and bullying that targets Jewish students, six or seven swastikas were found carved in a Butler Library bathroom last month. Then after a screening of the film, "Columbia Unbecoming," produced by the David Project, a pro-Israel group in Boston, one student denounced another as a "Zionist fascist scum," witnesses said. On Oct. 27, Columbia announced it would probe alleged intimidation and improve procedures for students to file grievances. "Is the climate hostile to free expression?" asked Alan Brinkley, the university provost. "I don't believe it is, but we're investigating to find out." But one student on College Walk described the campus as a "republic of fear." Another branded the Middle East and Asian languages and cultures department the "department of dishonesty." A third described how she was once "humiliated in front of an entire class." Deena Shanker, a Mideast and Asian studies major, remains an admirer of the department. But she says she will never forget the day she asked Joseph Massad, a professor of modern Arab politics, if Israel gives warnings before bombing certain buildings so residents could flee. "Instead of answering my question, Massad exploded," she said. "He told me if I was going to 'deny the atrocities' committed against the Palestinians, I could get out of his class." "Professorial power is being abused," said Ariel Beery, a senior who is student president in the School of General Studies, but stresses he's speaking only for himself. "Students are being bullied because of their identities, ideologies, religions and national origins," Beery said. Added Noah Liben, another senior, "Debate is being stifled. Students are being silenced in their own classrooms." Said Brinkley: If a professor taught the "Earth was flat or there was no Holocaust," Columbia might intervene in the classroom. "But we don't tell faculty they can't express strong, or even offensive opinions." Yet even some faculty members say they fear social ostracism and career consequences if they're viewed as too pro-Israel, and that many have been cowed or shamed into silence. One apparently unafraid is Dan Miron, a professor of Hebrew literature and holder of a prestigious endowed chair. He said scores of Jewish students - about one a week - have trooped into his office to complain about bias in the classroom. "Students tell me they've been browbeaten, humiliated and treated disrespectfully for daring to challenge the idea that Israel has no right to exist as a Jewish nation," he said. "They say they've been told Israeli soldiers routinely rape Palestinian women and commit other atrocities, and that Zionism is racism and the root of all evil." One yardstick of the anti-Israel sentiment among professors, critics say, is the 106 faculty signatures on a petition last year that called for Columbia to sell its holdings in all firms that conduct business with Israel's military. Noting that the divestment campaign compared Israel to South Africa during the apartheid era, Columbia President Lee Bollinger termed it "grotesque and offensive." That didn't stop 12 Mideast and Asian studies professors - almost half the department - and 21 anthropology teachers from signing on, a review of the petition shows. To identify the Columbia faculty with the most strongly anti-Israel views, The News spoke to numerous teachers and students, including some who took their courses; reviewed interviews and published works, and examined Web sites that report their public speeches and statements, including the online archives of the Columbia Spectator, the student newspaper. Their views could be dismissed as academic fodder if they weren't so incendiary.   Columbia's firebrands In the world of Hamid Dabashi, supporters of Israel are "warmongers" and "Gestapo apparatchiks." The Jewish homeland is "nothing more than a military base for the rising predatory empire of the United States." Nicholas De Genova, who teaches anthropology and Latino studies. The Chronicle of Higher Education calls him "the most hated professor in America." At an anti-war teach-in last year, he said he wished for a "million Mogadishus," referring to the slaughter of U.S. troops in Somalia in 1993. "U.S. patriotism is inseparable from imperial warfare and white supremacy," he added. De Genova has also said, "The heritage of the victims of the Holocaust belongs to the Palestinian people. ... Israel has no claim to the heritage of the Holocaust." De Genova didn't return calls.   Bruce Robbins, a professor of English and comparative literature. In a speech backing divestment, he said, "The Israeli government has no right to the sufferings of the Holocaust." Elaborating, Robbins told The News he believes Israel has a right to exist, but he thinks the country has "betrayed the memory of the Holocaust."   Joseph Massad, who is a tenure-track professor of Arab politics. Students and faculty interviewed by The News consistently claimed that the Jordanian-born Palestinian is the most controversial, and vitriolic, professor on campus. "How many Palestinians have you killed?" he allegedly asked one student, Tomy Schoenfeld, an Israeli military veteran, and then refused to answer his questions. To Massad, CNN star Wolf Blitzer is "Ze'ev Blitzer," which is the byline Blitzer used in the 1980s, when he wrote for Hebrew papers but hasn't used since. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon can be likened to Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, he once declared. "The Jews are not a nation," he said in one speech. "The Jewish state is a racist state that does not have a right to exist." Massad didn't return several calls. On his Web site, he says he's a victim of a "witch hunt" by "pro-Israel groups" and their "propaganda machine."   George Saliba, a professor of Arabic and Islamic science. His classroom rants against the West are legendary, students have claimed. One student says his "Islam & Western Science" class could be called "Why the West is Evil." Another writes that his "Intro to Islamic Civilization" often serves as a forum to "rail against evil America." A recent graduate, Lindsay Shrier, said Saliba told her, "You have no claim to the land of Israel ... no voice in this debate. You have green eyes, you're not a true Semite. I have brown eyes, I'm a true Semite." Saliba did not return calls.   Rashid Khalidi, who is the Edward Said professor of Arab studies. He's the academic heir to the late Said, a professor who famously threw a stone from Lebanon at an Israeli guard booth. Columbia initially refused to say how the chair was funded. But The United Arab Emirates, which denies the Holocaust on state TV channels, is reported to have provided $200,000. When Palestinians in a Ramallah police station lynched two Israeli reservists in 2000 - throwing one body out a window and proudly displaying bloodstained hands - the professor attacked the media, not the killers. He complained about "inflammatory headlines" in a Chicago Sun-Times story and called the paper's then-owner, Conrad Black, who also owned the Jerusalem Post, "the most extreme Zionist in public life." Reached at Columbia, Khalidi declined to comment on specifics. "As somebody who has a body of work, written six books and won many awards, the only fair thing to do is look at the entire body of work, not take quotes out of context," he said.   Lila Abu-Lughod, a professor of anthropology, romanticizes Birzeit University in the West Bank as a "liberal arts college dedicated to teaching and research in the same spirit as U.S. colleges." But it is well-established that Birzeit also is the campus where Hamas openly recruits suicide bombers, stone-throwers and gunmen. As in her published works, Abu-Lughod gave a carefully nuanced response when reached Friday by The News: "The CIA has historically recruited at Columbia, but that's not the mission of Columbia. The mission of Birzeit is to educate students, and they're working under very difficult circumstances to do that." Originally published on November 21, 2004

Of Israel, Harvard and David Duke

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International relations scholars John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harvard University ignited a furious debate last week with their lengthy essay "The Israel Lobby," appearing in the London Review of Books. Their argument -- that the influence of a powerful pro-Israel lobby in the United States threatens U.S. national security -- has reverberated through academic and policy circles, the media and the blogosphere. A sampling of their article and the ongoing controversy:

"Since the October War in 1973, Washington has provided Israel with a level of support dwarfing that given to any other state. It has been the largest annual recipient of direct economic and military assistance since 1976, and is the largest recipient in total since World War II, to the tune of well over $140 billion (in 2004 dollars). Israel receives about $3 billion in direct assistance each year, roughly one-fifth of the foreign aid budget, and worth about $500 a year for every Israeli. . . .

Other recipients get their money in quarterly installments, but Israel receives its entire appropriation at the beginning of each fiscal year and can thus earn interest on it. Most recipients of aid given for military purposes are required to spend all of it in the U.S., but Israel is allowed to use roughly 25 percent of its allocation to subsidize its own defense industry. It is the only recipient that does not have to account for how the aid is spent, which makes it virtually impossible to prevent the money from being used for purposes the U.S. opposes, such as building settlements on the West Bank. Moreover, the U.S. has provided Israel with nearly $3 billion to develop weapons systems, and given it access to such top-drawer weaponry as Blackhawk helicopters and F-16 jets. Finally, the U.S. gives Israel access to intelligence it denies to its NATO allies and has turned a blind eye to Israel's acquisition of nuclear weapons. . . .

Since 1982, the U.S. has vetoed 32 Security Council resolutions critical of Israel, more than the total number of vetoes cast by all the other Security Council members. . . .

[S]aying that Israel and the U.S. are united by a shared terrorist threat has the causal relationship backwards: The U.S. has a terrorism problem in good part because it is so closely allied with Israel, not the other way around. . . .

[T]he Lobby's campaign for regime change in Iran and Syria could lead the U.S. to attack those countries, with potentially disastrous effects. We don't need another Iraq. . . ."

Harvard Law professor Alan M. Dershowitz: "These are two serious scholars and you need to expose what they have done as ignorant propaganda." (Jerusalem Post)

Juancole.com: "Political scientists John Mearsheimer (University of Chicago) and Stephen Walt (Harvard) bravely take on the issue of the pro-Israel lobby in Washington and the way it distorts U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Most American Jews deeply disagree with the policies advocated by the American Enterprise Institute, the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, etc., but a sliver of the political spectrum, falsely insisting that it represents all American Jews, manages to skew U.S. politics and reporting on the issue of Palestine."

Dennis Ross, President Clinton's Middle East envoy: "It is basically a series of assertions. They quote only those people who basically have this point of view and don't take a serious look at anything in a more profound way. It is masquerading as scholarship." (New York Sun)

Rosner's Blog: "The new study . . . presents an interesting dilemma to the writer: Do you ignore it -- having concluded it is biased, one-sided, foolish, repetitive, and most of all, has nothing new to offer -- or do you write about it, knowing that the 'Harvard,' 'Chicago,' 'professors,' 'Kennedy School' labels will make it acceptable anyway, even newsworthy, in the eyes of many. In short: Does one need cooperate with the advancement of the cause of academic garbage?" (Haaretz.com)

David Duke: "It is quite satisfying to see a body in the premier American university essentially come out and validate every major point I have been making since even before the war even started." (New York Sun)

Danieldrezner.com : "Walt and Mearsheimer should not be criticized as anti-Semites, because that's patently false. They should be criticized for doing piss-poor, monocausal social science."

Ruth R. Wisse: "[I]t would be a mistake to treat this article on the 'Israel Lobby' as an attack on Israel alone, or on its Jewish defenders, or on the organizations and individuals it singles out for condemnation. Its true target is the American public, which now supports Israel with higher levels of confidence than ever before." (Wall Street Journal)

Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America: "Even a cursory examination of 'The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy' reveals that it is riddled with errors of fact, logic and omission, has inaccurate citations, displays extremely poor judgment regarding sources, and, contrary to basic scholarly standards, ignores previous serious work on the subject."

Mearsheimer and Walt's study appeared earlier this month as an 83-page "Faculty Research Working Paper" on the Web site of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where Walt serves as academic dean. Following the uproar, the Kennedy School discreetly removed its logo from the paper, and the document now features a more detailed and prominent disclaimer: "The two authors of this Working Paper are solely responsible for the views expressed in it. As academic institutions, Harvard University and the University of Chicago do not take positions on the scholarship of individual faculty, and this article should not be interpreted or portrayed as reflecting the official position of either institution."

NOVEMBER 17, 2000

Nine years after his bid for Louisiana governor transfixed the state and the nation, David Duke found himself in a different type of spotlight Thursday when a dozen federal agents spent most of the day searching the former Ku Klux Klan leader's Mandeville home, emerging with nearly two dozen boxes of documents related to an apparent criminal investigation of his finances.

Agents from the FBI, Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Postal Inspection Service arrived with a search warrant at about 8 a.m. and meticulously scoured Duke's split-level brick home in the quiet, middle-class Beau Rivage subdivision for more than seven hours.

Duke was not home during the search, but his personal assistant Roy Armstrong escorted the agents into the Garden Avenue home without incident. When the search ended about 3:15 p.m., agents drove away in a blue Chevrolet van with 22 boxes of records.

The agents declined to comment, but Armstrong said they took bank statements, credit card receipts, tax records and mailings for the National Organization for European American Rights, a group founded by Duke this year to promote white civil rights. Agents also removed three computer hard drives and a rifle that one of them said had been reported stolen, Armstrong said.

At one point, the agents used a crowbar to pry open a locked file cabinet, but otherwise, Armstrong said, the uninvited guests were "very orderly and polite." They even hauled away their own trash after a midday lunch of takeout pizza and soft drinks.

Spokesmen for the FBI and IRS declined to comment on the details of the search but confirmed that it is part of an ongoing investigation. The IRS agents involved were from the agency's Louisiana-Mississippi criminal division, which is based in New Orleans.

"Of course, any time the IRS serves a warrant, you can figure out what it's about," IRS agent Raymond Gregson said.

Duke's finances have been under federal scrutiny for more than a year, since a grand jury looked into Gov. Foster's $152,000 purchase of a mailing list of Duke supporters. When Duke was summoned before the grand jury in May 1999, his attorney, James McPherson, said he assumed that his client was the target of a criminal investigation.

Though Duke was never charged in the case, Foster later was fined $20,000 by the state ethics board for failing to report his purchase of the Duke list. At the time, Duke admitted he failed to pay taxes on $128,000 from the sales but said he had filed amended returns and paid up. The ongoing investigation, under the direction of federal prosecutors Jan Mann and Carter Guice, has focused on other financial matters, including Duke's fund-raising.

Duke, a one-time high-profile Klan leader and Nazi sympathizer, emerged from the political fringes in 1989 when he won a seat in the state House as a representative from Metairie. He also staged unsuccessful bids for the U.S. Senate and Louisiana governor's office, generating considerable national publicity by earning runoff spots in those elections. His opponent in the 1991 governor's race was Edwin Edwards, who is now facing a prison term after his recent federal racketeering conviction.

Armstrong said Duke is in Moscow, where he is peddling a book. Armstrong, who described himself as Duke's chauffeur and bodyguard, criticized Thursday's raid as a "fishing expedition."

"It's a politically motivated smear campaign to prevent Mr. Duke from running for office again," he said.

At the time of the search, two cars were parked in a carport attached to Duke's home: a black Mercedes E320 with a dealer's license plate and a red Oldsmobile with several bumper stickers, including one with a Confederate flag and the slogan "Never apologize for being white."

 

© 2000, The Times-Picayune. New Orleans, Louisiana. Used with permission.

The Nizkor Project (Hebrew: נִזְכּוֹר we will remember) is an ongoing Internet-based project run by Ken McVay which is dedicated to countering Holocaust denial. It was founded by McVay as a central Web-based archive for the large numbers of documents made publicly available by the users of the newsgroup alt.revisionism.

The site also archives numerous postings made to the newsgroup since the early 1990s. It does not archive every single posting ever made to the newsgroup; rather, the maintainers of the web site have selected various messages for display that are seen as presenting factual information about the Holocaust; or, in the case of some posters, about the authors of the messages themselves. In addition to providing an extensive archive of documents regarding the Holocaust, the Nizkor Project also seeks to expose the activities of Holocaust deniers themselves. Based on the postings to the newsgroup over the years, it has compiled extensive writings from self-proclaimed revisionists, including David Irving, Ernst Zündel, Michael Hoffman, and others. Several regular pro-revisionist posters to the newsgroups have earned reputations as persistent Internet-based kooks, and a number of their writings are also stored at the Nizkor Project.

Among the various pieces of information stored at Nizkor is a sound recording of an answering machine message allegedly made by white supremacistTom Metzger, encouraging various individuals to "take action" against "Zinkor [sic] on the Internet." According to the Ottawa Citizen in 1996, McVay has "so many on-line death threats that he refuses to give out his address."

The Nizkor Project has been widely cited among scholars and researchers as a prime source of information on various hate groups. It has been cited by USA Today, the Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post, The Guardian, and by the American Journal of International Law, among many sources.

Ken McVay OBC (b. ca. 1940), a Canadian-American dual citizen, is one of the Internet's foremost experts on the subject of Holocaust denial (also called Holocaust revisionism) and the methods used by revisionists to promote it. He is the founder of the Nizkor Project, one of the first (and largest) World Wide Web sites dedicated to exposing the truth about Holocaust denial and the hate groups that promote it.

One of the most active participants on the newsgroup alt.revisionism, McVay describes himself as a person who found himself moved to action by the efforts of Holocaust deniers on the newsgroup to promote "factual evidence" that he found to be poorly presented and claims that were vague at best. He also opposed the idea of censoring and suppressing the deniers, as authorities and experts on hate groups often did.

A former United States Marine and retired service station manager, McVay found that he had an ample amount of spare time to dedicate to researching and transcribing historical documents, so that they could be made available online to counter the arguments of the deniers. In various interviews, he has stated his belief that of the many reasons for the deniers to oppose him and despise him, one of the most frustrating to them is the fact that their arguments have been so thoroughly debunked by a man who is not Jewish, has not professed to be a world-class scholar, and who is "only" a retired gas station manager.

McVay's efforts in combatting Holocaust denial with truth instead of censorship won him praise among many activists, and he was awarded the Order of British Columbia by the province.

McVay spends much of his time on extended speaking tours, where he discusses Holocaust denial and hate groups.

• Alfred Adler

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The Anarchist Cookbook (ISBN 0-9623032-0-8) is a book written by William Powell. It was published in 1970 and was intended as a protest against the United States government over the Vietnam war. The book contains recipes and instructions for the manufacture of explosives, drugs, a number of now obsolete telecommunications hacking devices, and other controversial themes. Despite the name, the book has no connection to the anarchist movement and is in fact heavily criticized by most anarchists (see below).

The book is now regarded to be public domain and is easily accessible on the internet. The author has disowned it and, though the copyright having been registered in the name of his publisher, he does not receive royalties from it.

While The Anarchist Cookbook is legally available in the United States, it is illegal in many other countries. The information contained in the book includes instructions that, if followed, may be against the law (see felony for more details). Because of this, access to the book is often restricted, with some bookstores refusing to sell the book to persons under 21 years of age. Authorities and munitions experts have stated that the instructions in the book should never be attempted by inexperienced persons. It has been suggested that the book contains errors and other problems that make it unreliable for use. In fact, one rumor states that the book was actually written by the FBI, CIA, or some other branch of the US government, and that the dangerous errors in the recipes were put there to injure would-be terrorists. The book is treated more as a set of guidelines, or a book of ideas, than an instruction manual for terrorists, though it has been accused of promoting violence. Part of this book has a section on martial arts and unarmed street fighting.

Activists and spokespersons often see the banning of books such as The Anarchist Cookbook as a move against freedom of speech. The argument used in the defense of this and similar publications includes such statements as "guns don't kill people, people kill people." This can be interpreted as meaning the information contained itself in The Anarchist Cookbook is only dangerous in the hands of people who intend to use it. They also note that information on the same topics (including construction of explosive devices) is freely available at most libraries, and suppression of this book will not prevent such information from being obtained by people who look for it.

Other "underground" books have taken the basic premise of The Anarchist Cookbook and expanded upon it. Some of these books, including E for Ecstasy and The Big Book of Mischief, have been confiscated by authorities as "instruction manuals" for the manufacture of explosives and illegal drugs.

Much of the information in the book has been rightly criticized as outdated, misinformed or, in some cases, outright wrong. Many scientific tests have proven this point.

The Big Book of Mischief