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AFP ON THE ADL

Anti-Defamation
League
Linked to Arizona Tragedy
By Michael Collins
Piper
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. Yet
another obvious lunatic commits a shocking act
of violence and the stage is again set for self-righteous
soapbox rantings from Republicans and Democrats
and conservatives and liberals alike.
All
the while, the mass media and an assortment of
special interest groups — trying to find
some advantage in the tragedy — stir the
pot and crank up the volume.
Much
noise has been made about angry political rhetoric
and name-calling, as though that somehow motivated
the deeply disturbed young man charged with the
horrible crime that took place in Arizona.
The
media and other self-interested folks have desperately
been trying to find some sort of political motivation
behind this insane act — which seems to
have been focused on a member of Congress, Gabrielle
Giffords, but which left six people (including
a child) dead and 14 others (including Giffords)
gravely injured.
Although
Mrs. Giffords was in a bad business — politics
— where violence might be considered a professional
risk, the fact Giffords was holding a public meeting,
right on the street, to give constituents the
opportunity to greet her face-to-face and express
their concerns about public issues is a credit
to the congresswoman.
There
are many members of Congress who wouldn’t
dream of actually meeting their constituents,
let alone talking to them on the telephone. (Try
to call Capitol Hill and get through personally
to your congressman.)
So,
many had to suffer because a lone-nut assassin
took advantage of Mrs. Giffords’ good will.
Initially,
the word was the Tucson terrorist, Jared Loughner,
was “linked” to an anti-Semitic organization
and that he was a devotee of Adolf Hitler’s
Mein Kampf. Those spreading this story
were quick to point out that Rep. Giffords was
Jewish.
However,
there were several distinct problems with this
theme which nonetheless still seemed to get widespread
currency in the mass media. First of all, Loughner
was not linked to the group in question. Secondly,
the group is not anti-Semitic at all and, instead,
has a reputation of actually being supportive
of Jewish concerns. Thirdly, Loughner didn’t
admire Hitler; he considered Hitler’s book
offensive.
While
one of Loughner’s forebears may have been
Jewish, a tailspinner with known Israeli “intel”
connections set loose on the Internet a totally
fabricated (but cleverly crafted) story that Loughner
and his mother were members of the same synagogue
as Mrs. Giffords. This rumor totally muddied the
waters.
Although
the politically correct thing to say is that neither
the religion of the terrorist nor that of Mrs.
Giffords is relevant, you can bet your last dollar
if the terrorist had been a Muslim, his religion
would have been a non-stop 24/7 topic in media
discussion.
It
is interesting that so many are talking about
how excessive name-calling and heavy-handed rhetoric
may have somehow influenced the killer. Even Mrs.
Giffords recently expressed concerns about the
angry tone of political discussion today.
Yet,
going back to her earliest years in politics in
the Arizona state Legislature, Mrs. Giffords publicly
associated herself with a group that has, for
decades, engaged in the most incendiary form of
political grandstanding, name-calling, throwing
brickbats, organizing boycotts, and — perhaps
most disturbingly — engaging in illicit
spying on law-abiding American citizens.
Although
it pains us to report Mrs. Giffords’ association
with such a group, the fact is she served on the
Arizona regional board of the Anti-Defamation
League (ADL) of B’nai B’rith, a nasty
outfit that has stirred up public unrest —
and racial and religious strife — for nearly
a century.
During
World War II, the ADL accused fellow Americans
of being disloyal to their country and played
a major part in a trumped-up case (eventually
thrown out of court) in which some 30 Americans
were falsely charged with “sedition.”
Then,
in the late 1940s — although the ADL wants
people to forget about this — it was pointing
fingers at people and calling them “communists”—
long before anyone had ever heard of a guy named
Joe McCarthy.
And
although the ADL portrays itself as a “civil
rights” group, in the 1960s the ADL was
spying on Martin Luther King. They considered
him a “loose cannon.” And the ADL
spied on the American supporters of Nelson Mandela
— a fact the ADL doesn’t want Mandela’s
fans to know about.
These
days the ADL specializes in accusing people of
“anti-Semitism” if they dare to criticize
the U.S. policy of open-ended financial support
of Israel. And they are constantly stirring up
talk about “racism” and pitting different
racial groups against one another.
All
pray for the recovery of Mrs. Giffords and the
surviving victims and for the families. God forbid
this should happen again. Let us hope troublesome
groups like the ADL keep their unwelcome voices
out of political affairs. The truth is that the
ADL has contributed to the ill will found in public
discourse today.
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. . ..Michael Collins Piper
can now be heard on the Internet at
michaelcollinspiper.podbean.com.
He is the author of Final
Judgment, the controversial
“underground bestseller”
documenting the collaboration of Israeli
intelligence in the assassination
of John F. Kennedy. He is also the
author of The
High Priests of War,
The
New Jerusalem: Zionist Power in America
, The
Judas Goats: The Enemy Within,
Dirty
Secrets: Crime, Conspiracy & Cover-Up
in the 20th Century,
The
GOLEM: Israel's Hell Bomb,
and Target:
Traficant. These
works can be found at America
First Books and FIRST
AMENDMENT
BOOKS: 1-888-699-NEWS.
He has lectured on suppressed
topics in places as diverse as Malaysia,
Japan, Canada, Russia and Abu Dhabi. |
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