The Internet Anti-Fascist: Tue, 15 October 2002 -- 6:58 (#706)
Paul Kneisel
The Internet Anti-Fascist: Tuesday, 15 October 2002
Vol. 6, Number 58 (#706)
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Announcements and Web Site of Interest:
01) Jonathan Levy, "The Terrorists That America Embraced: Announcing
PavelicPapers.com - A New Website Exposing the Ustase Movement," 14
Oct 02
Analysis and Discussion:
02) Flint (Barricade), "Fascists, Anti-Fascists And The State"
Humor From "The Onion"
03) tallpaul, "A Warning About 'The Onion' and the Far Right"
04) Georgia School Board Bans 'Theory Of Math'
05) Gay Gene Isolated, Ostracized
06) Klan Rally 70 Percent Undercover Reporters
07) Did Six Million REALLY Visit the Holocaust Museum?
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
01) The Terrorists That America Embraced: Announcing PavelicPapers.com - A
New Website Exposing the Ustase Movement
Jonathan Levy
14 Oct 02
<http://www.pavelicpapers.com>
CHICAGO -- More than fifty years ago, Ante Pavelic, head of a Nazi puppet
state called the Independent State of Croatia, arrived in Buenos Aires,
Argentina. While the rest of Hitler's Nazi henchmen were being tried for
crimes against humanity in Nuremberg, Pavelic and his cohorts in the
fascist Ustase movement -- responsible for the murder of more than 30,000
Jews, 40,000 Gypsies and an estimated 500,000 Serbs -- escaped abroad and
began planning for a new reign of terror.
Today, owing to the efforts of a new generation of Nazi hunters, the
documents which tell the real story of the Ustase's miraculous survival are
finally being published on the Internet.
A new Internet website, PavelicPapers.com, has been launched to publish and
analyze a tremendous collection of declassified intelligence documents,
court decisions and other materials which implicate the United States
government as well as the Vatican in the continued existence this deadly
terrorist organization. Files from the archives of the CIA, the FBI and the
US Army are augmented with original background material, making
PavelicPapers.com the most thorough resource on the Ustase ever created and
likely to be of equal use to scholars of the Balkans or the Holocaust as
well as students and readers who have never heard of the Ustase before.
"Without Vatican and intelligence agency intervention, there's no question:
the Ustase would have ceased to exist," says Attorney Jonathan Levy. Levy
has been instrumental in fighting bureaucratic red tape to find out the
truth about the Ustase's survival, through multiple Freedom of Information
Act requests and lawsuits against the Army, the CIA and the Vatican Bank,
which is alleged to be responsible for the laundering of millions of
dollars worth of gold looted from Ustase victims.
The Ustase was formed by Ante Pavelic in the early 1930s in Vienna,
Austria. After Hitler's invasion of Yugoslavia in April, 1941, Pavelic and
his Ustase were placed at the head of a Nazi satellite called the
Independent State of Croatia. Within weeks, a massive bloodletting began as
Ustase fanatics descended on Serbian villages, slaughtering the inhabitants
by the most bestial means imaginable -- using knives, clubs, axes and even
chainsaws. Concentration camps for Jews, Serbs and Gypsies run by the
Ustase, such as Jasenovac, were exceedingly brutal, shocking even hardened
German officers.
After his arrival in Argentina, Pavelic was able to rebuild the Ustase --
now enrolled as part of an American anti-Communist crusade -- with cells in
countries as far-flung as Australia and West Germany. All told, the Ustase
have been responsible for more than a hundred terrorist attacks since 1945,
including the bombing one airliner and hijacking two others, the murder and
extortion of dozens of Croatian-Americans and the bombing of dozens of
public buildings and monuments, including the Statue of Liberty.
PavelicPapers.com was created by Cali Ruchala, a 27 year old publisher, as
a robust clearinghouse for documentation on the Ustase. "I was appalled by
the lack of information that's out there, even in studies of the
Holocaust," he says. "This is a terrorist movement that has lasted for more
than seventy years -- longer than the PLO, Hamas, and al-Qaeda combined."
Governments and individuals have tried to keep these documents suppressed
for years, Ruchala says, and for good reason. "Their involvement with the
Ustase is a textbook case of what the intelligence community calls
'blowback': a gang of thugs that American intelligence recruited to fight
the Soviets, but who went on to kill other Americans instead."
PavelicPapers.com is being published without institutional support for the
time being. "My primary goal is simply to get the information out there,"
Ruchala says. "We should not subject the victims of the Ustase to the
indignity of being forgotten as well."
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ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION:
02) Fascists, Anti-Fascists And The State
Flint (Barricade)
"The totalitarian vision of fascists often resonates with the many
statists who wish to unbind their hands from the pretense of
'democratic' government and civil liberties."
-- Call for a Revolutionary Anti-Fascist Bloc
Over the last two years, the neo-nazi National Alliance (NA) has held a
variety of public demonstrations. The NA is the largest, most well-
financed, white supremacist fascist organization in North America. The most
successful venue for them has been Washington, DC. On May 11th, they had
their fifth demonstration. The May demonstration outside the Israeli
embassy, the largest public display of fascists in the U.S. in decades,
numbered over 300 hundred fascists.
After the May 11th demonstration, an east coast anti-fascist networking
conference was held in Baltimore to plan for the next time the NA would
march. As soon as details of the next NA action were known, several calls
to action began to circulate -- in particular NEFAC's call for a
Revolutionary Anti-Fascist Bloc. Other calls came from Anti-Racist Action
(ARA), and an Arab Anti-Nazi Bloc. The Open City Collective in New York
City held a teach-in, as well as publicly responding to crypto-fascist
Israel Shamir attempts to spread disinformation to the Palestinian
solidarity activist community.
Responding to the NA's increasing presence, local activists formed the DC
Anti-Fascist Network. People went door to door in North East DC. Posters
were wheat pasted throughout the city, and flyers were handed out at metro
stations for months before the action. There was also a concerted effort to
outreach at the Reparations march in DC the weekend before August 24th.
Leading up to the action, ARA groups did public outings of local neo-nazis
in Ohio, New Jersey, and Maryland. The outing in Maryland was particularly
interesting, as it exposed Steven Smith, owner of the nazi paraphernalia
online store SS Regalia. Smith was attempting to use an elementary school
in Edgewater as a meeting location for carpooling and busing to DC.
With the Edgewater location outed, the NA chose the Baltimore Travel Plaza
for its meeting location outside DC. Once again, the location became known
to anti-fascists who distributed flyers door to door in the O'Donell
Heights neighborhood -- warning that the fascists were coming to town and
calling for a demonstration at the Travel Plaza on Saturday morning. It
became common knowledge that the fascists were not only meeting at the
travel plaza, but had rented several buses for Saturday.
About an hour before the scheduled demonstration, a bus load of neo-nazis
from Detroit pulled into the Travel Plaza. Varying reports describe what
happened next: a small mob garbed in black charged the neo-nazis. Only a
few boneheads had gotten off the bus, and those that did were attacked. The
bus took most of the damage, having its windows smashed, tires slashed, and
the interior pepper sprayed. As quickly as they came, the attackers fled
the scene, leaving behind a banner that read "Smash Hate". Eventually the
neo-nazis left their bus, and were joined by other neo-nazis from a nearby
hotel. Cops swarmed the Plaza, trying to understand what had happened. One
cop reported to the media that it had been a fight between rival neo-nazi
gangs.
Later, anti-fascists arrived in a nearby parking lot for the counter-
protest that had been previously announced. They got out of their cars, saw
the scene over at the Travel Plaza with its confusion of fascists, police
and a downpour of rain, and debated whether to continue or head on to DC.
They crossed the street. Twenty-Eight of them were arrested. They were held
for an hour in the rain, while neo-nazis were allowed to photograph them,
before being taken to central booking and held for twenty-four hours before
receiving their papers. When they were finally allowed to see
commissioners, some of the Twenty-Eight were released on their own
recognizance while others received bail amounts upwards of $10,000. Twenty-
Six were charged with three counts of aggravated assault, possession of a
deadly weapon with intent to injure, malicious destruction of property,
rioting and disorderly conduct.
Bizarrely, some of them had a "hate crimes" enhancement on their charges.
The only minor arrested was ludicrously charged with an additional 20
counts of assault. Even the lawyer that accompanied them was arrested with
the charge of failing to obey an officer.
Meanwhile, things were getting started in DC. The NA was meeting at the top
of the parking garage of Union Station. The police had erected small
barricades around the south side of Union Station's exit ramp, complemented
by hundreds of riot cops, horse cops, squad cars and armored cars. The hum
of the police helicopter remained constant through out the day.
The Revolutionary Anti-Fascist Bloc (RAFB) was forming up at Stanton Park
at Maryland Avenue and 4th St NE, including NEFAC and ARA. Their meeting
location had been publicly announced, and was also attended by a dozen
marked police cars. Once the RAFB had gathered enough participants, they
headed up 4th Ave towards Union Station. The bloc, however, didn't turn
directly towards the phalanx of police. Instead, they headed further north
into North East where anti-fascists had previously gone door to door. The
police held their positions and didn't follow. Eventually, the bloc
reached H Street, and then quickly marched up the H Street overpass to the
north side entrance of Union Station parking garage that was "guarded" by a
single squad car. The bloc deployed itself thinly across the entrances to
the parking garage. A few neo-nazis had already made it into the
parking garage and looked over the edge at the black clad anti-fascists.
Several vehicles of suspected fascists were turned away from the garage.
Eventually the police redeployed and riot cops marched up the overpass
ordering the bloc to disperse. The bloc headed down the hill and headed
towards the police barricades on the south side.
A large crowd had gathered around Columbus Circle. Where there had been
plans for several distinct blocs, such as one for the DC Anti-Fascist
Network, another for the Arab anti-nazi bloc, and another for the Youth
Leadership Support Network; everyone merged into one mass. The Progressive
Labor Party's megaphones led the chants of "Death to the Klan". Perhaps
five hundred anti-fascist demonstrators were there, six times as many as
were at the May 11th demonstration. While this was a real improvement in
the size of counter-demonstrations in DC over the past two years, it was
only as large as similar counter demonstrations in York (Pennsylvania),
Richmond (Virginia), and Wakefield (Massachusetts). Most of the
demonstrators were part of leftist groups like Left Turn, International
Socialist Organization (ISO), and Anti-Capitalist Convergence (ACC). The
lack of spontaneous participation by locals was disappointing--in many
smaller towns, there typically is larger participation from unaffiliated
locals, as well as more participation from liberals groups like the NAACP,
or church groups.
One group needs particular mention, the Arab Anti-Nazi Bloc that was formed
by Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims. The NA was attempting to hijack the
cause of Palestinian liberation through their "Tax Payers Against
Terrorism" and turn anti-Israel sentiment, to anti-Semitism, even boasting
that there would be Arabs in attendance supporting them. There were none
who came to support the NA, but many who came out to oppose them.
Organized by participants in the Committee in Solidarity with the People of
Palestine (CSPP) and Stop U. S. Tax Aid to Israel Now (SUSTAIN), their
message was opposition to both Israel's treatment of Palestinians, and
opposition to anti-Semitism.
The NA was able to assemble about four hundred fascists, even with one bus
disabled in Baltimore--however they were also an hour late. The RAFB had
deployed too early to actually block the buses of the fascists. Typically,
the NA march was exclusively white, overwhelmingly male, and mostly
boneheads and some older suit & tie fascists. The entire time, they were
guarded by police who kept the counter-demonstrators away. Whenever small
groups or individual nazis left police protection, they were harassed by
counter-demonstrators to the point of fleeing back to behind police lines.
The counter-demonstrators followed the nazis along their entire route. By
the reflecting pool, counter demonstrators tore down some barricades to get
closer to the fascists, but were effectively kept separated from the
fascists who were "sieg heiling" on Capitol Hill. At one point, the NA
demonstration lost cohesion as boneheads slipped the leash of their suit &
tie masters to be so "brave" as to shout insults at anti-fascists behind a
fence, a wall, and a small army of riot police. The NA left Capitol Hill,
forty minutes before the permit was set to expire. While counter-
demonstrators dogged the NA march back from the Capitol, there was little
confrontation as the sheer number of police left little opportunity. There
were a few scuffles with nazis departing the area in personal automobiles.
There were only two arrests of counter demonstrators for disorderly conduct
in DC.
The NA headed north, returning to Baltimore. The most successful technique
for the NA for increasing participation at public demonstrations, has been
by combining them with hate core music shows at a venue near to the
protest. In exchange for going to the demonstration, the suits bribe the
boneheads with a racist concert. The venue was discovered by anti-fascists,
who followed the nazis back to Baltimore.
Several anti-fascist groups met in a show space in Baltimore, the
Bloodshed. Discussion ranged from jail solidarity for those already
arrested, to plans to counter the concert. Police presence in the
neighborhood was unusually large, and the anti-fascists decided to change
location. Shortly after they left, the building was raided by police
conducting a warrant-less search. There were no arrests. There were
several reports that throughout the evening after the protest in DC, that
anti-fascists in the Baltimore area were pulled over by the police and
questioned, some at gun point.
The remaining anti-fascists had decided that the best course of action was
to expose the controversial location of the nazi concert -- an active duty
National Guard Armory in White Marsh, Maryland. To do so, they went to the
Progressive Action Center (PAC), home of the Baltimore Independent Media
Center. As they gathered at the building, police began to arrive there as
well. All of the anti-fascists entered the PAC and locked the door. A
police chopper was overhead, along with marked and unmarked police cars.
Eventually the police came to the door demanding entry. Lacking a warrant,
they were denied. The PAC is an old public library in the residential
neighborhood, and a day care center is in it's basement. Perhaps it was the
more public nature of the location, with curious neighbors looking on from
their porches, that deterred the police from conducting another raid. While
some anti-fascists worked the phones and the internet to expose the hate
core show, others negotiated outside with the police. From the roof, a
banner was dropped reading "Anti-Racists Under Siege". When the
corporate television media arrived on the scene, the police withdrew. After
an exclusive interview with television news, the anti-fascists left the PAC
for yet another location to plan jail solidarity for the arrested.
There were anti-fascists who made it to the National Guard Armory. Some
conducted surveillance, others quickly organized a small protest.
According to neighborhood residents, police had been training outside the
Armory for days, for exactly what they were doing that day--guarding the
neo-nazis. Over thirty police vehicles, including a helicopter, and a large
group of riot police protected the nazi show. The police set up a road
blocks in the vicinity of the Armory, using them as checkpoints for
identifying and interrogating drivers. Unlike DC, the National Guard Armory
is in the center of several residential neighborhoods, about fifty
neighbors came out to see the commotion and spontaneously joined the
counter-demonstration against the neo-nazis. There were no confrontations
at the concert, and no arrests.
Though there was some mild harassment by police of the picketers outside
the jail solidarity vigil in Baltimore for the Twenty-Eight arrested that
morning, there was far more support--ranging from the recently released and
their visitors, neighbors, passing motortists, and even cops who would honk
their horns in support. The defense committee began raising bail. With such
high bails, however, a bondsman had to be used, which still meant raising a
thousand dollars for each prisoner bonded. The solidarity picket was
maintained continuously until everyone was released by Monday morning. One
example of the continuing patriarchy of the state is that women prisoners
could not released at night, even if their bail had been posted--though men
could be release at any time.
The trouble for the "Parking Lot Twenty-Eight", as they called themselves
on the inside, didn't stop there. Most of their names, descriptions, ages,
addresses and phone numbers found their way from the police--into the hands
of fascists, who gleefully publicized that information as on their websites
and email lists, along with several violent threats. Not only information
from the defendants, but also information for many anarchist and activist
spaces in Baltimore and Philadelphia were distributed. Then, the hang up
calls started. Later, anti-fascists at their home in New Jersey found
National Alliance stickers on their door and literature in their mailbox.
In Pittsburgh, the fascists were bolder, three of them showed up to the
home of one of the defendants armed with a baseball bat and knives.
However, they were confronted by three unarmed anti-fascists--the fascists
didn't go beyond talking. Eventually the police arrived and sent the
fascists home. So far, none of the defendants in Baltimore have had any
trouble from fascists.
Was the march by the NA a victory? Was it a victory for the anti-fascists?
It seems inconclusive. Unlike May 11th, anti-fascists were considerably
better organized. There were more counter protesters at the demonstration,
which have been slowly increasing in diversity. While it didn't achieve the
spontaneous popular participation that made York and Wakefield interesting,
there was more potential for that when the nazis venture out of such a
secure "official" venues as Capitol Hill, and into the neighborhoods. The
events of around the NA march were the lead story on all local television
stations as well as CNN and many newspapers, many with stories sympathetic
towards the anti-fascists.
The only time the neo-nazis didn't have police protection, is the only time
they were decisively attacked. The confrontation at the Travel Plaza
certainly disrupted the NA, caused them to loose a bus and arrive late. All
of the NA's security culture for meeting locations was repeatedly, and
visibly compromised.
Since that time, cracks have continued to develop in the unity of the
fascist milieu in North America. Bill Roper, deputy membership coordinator
of the National Alliance, who had been the driving force in organizing
these demonstrations--was fired from his position and expelled from the
organization. Roper is now calling for others to follow him in founding a
new organization--a move that may further divide neo-nazis. There have also
been a number of public arguments about the NA suit & tie fascists
disrespecting their bonehead supporters. For now, the Baltimore Hammerskins
are throwing their support behind the National Alliance, not Roper. After
another fiasco in Wakefield, many fascists are also questioning the
behavior of Matt Hale of the World Church of the Creator, who led the NA
into the disastrous (for them) situation in York. Gliebe, the new "CEO" of
the NA, seems to be distancing himself from public protest and illegal
action, while Roper might lack the support to continue his public
demonstrations. One thing is certain, continual opposition to fascist
gatherings by anti-fascists, does little to bolster the morale of fascists,
and much to discourage them.
Most of the problems for anti-fascists have come, not from the fascists,
but from the state. The state protected the fascists for the entire day.
The government protected the fascist meeting points in Baltimore, escorted
them through DC, and guarded their racist concert. The state provided an
active duty National Guard Armory for the concert, despite public outcry
against it. The state went beyond merely protecting fascists, to actively
repressing anti-fascists by arresting counter-demonstrators, and framing
them. The police continued to harass anti-fascists by raiding their meeting
locations, and attempting to disrupt their media work, counter-protests and
jail solidarity. The message was clear, "state protection for fascists,
state repression for anti-fascists."
As of October 8th, the majority of the Baltimore Anti-Racist Twenty-Eight
defendants have had their cases dismissed.
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Flint is a member of the Roundhouse Collective (NEFAC-Baltimore).
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HUMOR FROM "THE ONION"
03) A Warning About 'The Onion' and the Far Right
tallpaul
Perhaps the best evidence that the politically-correct far right has no
sense of humor rests on its history of taking stories in 'The Onion'
seriously. See for example our back issue TINAF (#666) 4 April 2002 special
issue on "Harry Potter, Satanism, and the Rightwing's Politically
Correctness, in particular the articles:
Ellen Makkai (WorldNetDaily) "Heart of the Matter," 26 Nov 2001
Urban Legends Reference Page: Harry Potter
<http://www.snopes2.com/humor/iftrue/potter.htm>
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04) Georgia School Board Bans 'Theory Of Math'
COGDELL, GA -- The Cogdell School Board banned the teaching of the
controversial "Theory Of Math" in its schools Monday. "We are simply not
confident of this mysterious process by which numbers turn, as if by magic,
into other numbers," board member Gus Reese said. "Those mathematicians are
free to believe 3 times 4 equals 12, but that dun [sic] give them the right
to force it on our children." Under the new ruling, all math textbooks will
carry a disclaimer noting that math is only one of many valid theories of
number-manipulation.
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05) Gay Gene Isolated, Ostracized
BALTIMORE -- On Friday, scientists at Johns Hopkins University isolated the
gene which causes homosexuality in human males, promptly separating it from
normal, heterosexual genes. "I had suspected that gene was queer for a long
time now. There was just something not quite right about it," team leader
Dr. Norbert Reynolds said. "It's a good thing we isolated it悠 wouldn't
want that faggot-ass gene messing with the straight ones." Among the
factors Reynolds cited as evidence of the gene's gayness were its pinkish
hue, meticulously frilly perimeter, and faint but distinct perfume-like
odor.
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06) Klan Rally 70 Percent Undercover Reporters
SPARTANBURG, SC-- Vowing to "defend white Christian America against its
mongrel assailants," some 20 members of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and
more than 45 investigative reporters posing as members rallied on the steps
of Spartanburg's city hall Saturday.
Joining Larson in the call for white racial purity were reporters covertly
working for dozens of newspapers, magazines, and television programs,
including The Washington Post, Newsweek, and 20/20.
"I'm doing an article for The Atlantic Monthly about what it means to be
part of the Klan in the 21st century," said Peter Underwood, a 1999
graduate of Columbia University. "Well, okay, I'm doing it on spec, but I
know they'll go for it. Worst-case scenario, I'm sure I can at least get
some of the secret documents I snagged into the Readings section in
Harper's."
"My editor absolutely eats this undercover shit up," said Pittsburgh Post-
Gazette reporter Brian O'Neill, holding aloft a "Wake Up, White People!"
sign. "More important, so does the Pulitzer committee. I think this may
finally be my year."
O'Neill said his white robe "provides a steel cloak of anonymity," not only
from the public, but also from other reporters.
"I was in the hotel this morning, and I ran into Jason Garcia. He's a
reporter at The Orlando Sentinel who I know a bit from SPJ conferences and
whatnot," O'Neill said. "He was pretty vague about what he was doing in
Spartanburg. Later, at the rally, I couldn't help but notice that nice
Citizen diving watch he wears sticking out of a Grand Council robe. Damn,
that guy always was a go-getter."
Over the course of the two-hour rally, no journalists were ferreted out by
the Klansmen. To the trained eye, however, some differences could be
detected. Several times, reporters were seen disrupting the marching
formation as they stooped to scribble notes, take photos with digital
cameras, or answer cell phones. In addition, a number of lavaliere
microphones could be seen poking out of robes.
The undercover journalists were also distinguishable by their footwear.
While the real KKK members tended to wear heavy work boots, the journalists
were divided between sensible leather oxfords and beat-up sneakers.
"I think I did a pretty good job blending in," said Debra Rafalski, a
freelancer on assignment from Mother Jones magazine. "At one point, I even
shouted, 'Let's send those n-words back to Africa!'"
One of the few journalists to speak before the crowd, Rafalski told
rallygoers that the event represented "a triumphant exercise of our First
Amendment rights."
"Free speech, regardless of its content, always deserves full
protection溶ot because it is necessarily right or good, but because our
democratic institutions are only safe when all ideas, no matter how hateful
or virulent, are allowed to be heard," Rafalski told the crowd through a
bullhorn. "In fact, all of you counter-demonstrators, I respect your right
to be here, just as the U.S. Supreme Court has determined that it is our
right to be here."
Added Rafalski: "Oh, and also, the Jews are bleeding this country dry."
The rally also gave the reporters a chance to interact with Klan members
one-on-one. While preparing for the march to city hall, 60 Minutes reporter
Richard Carleton chatted casually with a KKK member who was painting a
"Hail Hittler [sic]" sign with one hand while holding a beer in the other.
"Isn't it interesting that the original KKK was organized in Pulaski, TN,
during the winter of 1865 by six former Confederate army officers?"
Carleton, clad in a white robe, remarked to the man. "We gave our society a
name adapted from the Greek word kuklos, or 'circle,' and our activities
were directed against the Reconstruction governments and their leaders,
both black and white. As a member of such a tradition-based organization,
how does that make you feel? Do you think this fact subverts our modern
agenda?"
Carleton then rushed back to his room at the Spartanburg Ramada to
transcribe his notes while the exchange was fresh in his mind.
In spite of the significant attendance boost provided by the reporters,
some KKK members said the rally turnout fell short of their expectations.
"In my granddaddy's day, 10, 15, even 20 hundred Klansmen used to come
'round for a rally," said Valdosta, GA, carpenter Randy Jones, a KKK member
since 1988. "The way things are nowadays, we didn't even get to have horses
at the rally because we couldn't fit their food and transport into the
budget."
Saturday's rally nearly had to be called off, but was saved from
cancellation by the reporters. Less than an hour before the scheduled start
time, the chapter realized it did not have the $1,500 "parade fee" required
by the city. Fortunately, dozens of new Klansmen like Chicago Tribune
reporter Stuart Zimmel volunteered to chip in an extra $50 each.
"I did have to pay membership dues and the extra $50 and buy the robe and
all that, but as long as I save my receipts, I should get reimbursed for
everything by the Trib," Zimmel said. "I admit, it's strange to give money
to a group that wrongly persecutes so many, but that just makes it all the
more vital that I blow the lid off their inner workings and expose their
racist agenda once and for all. Plus, a story like this will look pretty
sweet in my clips."
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07) Did Six Million REALLY Visit the Holocaust Museum?
Walter Lolich
Did six million people really visit the United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum since it opened in April 1993? That's what the United States
Holocaust Memorial Council would have you believe, and if all you've been
exposed to is its Zionist propaganda, you probably do. But just how many
people have actually passed through the Holocaust Museum's doors?
Despite the wealth of evidence proving that the museum's visitor numbers
are wildly exaggerated, it is truth seekers like myself who are labeled
dangerous to society. Swayed by the Jewish agenda and its powerful lobby in
Washington, millions of people have been duped into blindly accepting the
museum's one-sided view of its attendance history. And those who attempt to
set the record straight are promptly dismissed as "kooks," "liars," and, of
course, "anti-Semites."
What are you afraid of, United States Holocaust Memorial Council? That the
world will find out that the number of people interested in your museum has
been greatly distorted?
Let's take a look at this supposedly well-visited museum. Just where do
these attendance figures come from? You might be surprised by the answer:
Speaking anonymously for fear of retribution, numerous Holocaust Museum
workers have admitted that the six-million figure is "only an estimate."
Furthermore, this misrepresentation includes not only visitors to the
museum's Permanent Exhibition, which requires a pass, but also visitors to
the rotating exhibits at the front of the building! Shocked? Anyone with a
basic understanding of the way the Zionist propaganda machine works
shouldn't be.
So, the supposed six million is not derived from the number of free tickets
which have been distributed, but is instead a CAREFULLY AND DELIBERATELY
MANIPULATED FIGURE which includes visitors to the museum who were unable to
obtain a pass and only visited the all-access Wexler Learning Center. In
other words, it includes visitors who could not in any way, shape, or form
be counted! Even Sharon E. Underwood, one of the museum's own tour guides,
admits that the question of how many people actually visited the museum
remains "OPEN TO DEBATE." Yet the American Jewry continues to present six
million as reality.
Further, while high-ranking Jews at the Holocaust Museum claim to have
records showing the exact number of tickets distributed each day since its
opening, none can provide ANY PROOF WHATSOEVER that once a ticket was
handed out, the recipient actually used it and entered the museum!
Then there is the fact that a "computer glitch" wiped out all ticket data
from May 14 to May 22, 1998. That begs the question, just how reliable are
these computers that supposedly contain the museum's visitation records?
And is it just a coincidence that those providing the six-million figure
have clearly established ties to the museum's board of directors? It seems
their "facts" are closer to the dangerous lie the museum and its
sympathizers have so successfully gotten the public to buy into.
In addition, there is the issue of what can supposedly be found inside the
museum, reported by visitors and accepted as truth by so many. How much of
this is elaboration for the sake of currying the favor of the Horowitzes
and Greenspans of this world? Why is flash photography EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED
in the Hall Of Remembrance? WHAT ARE THEY TRYING TO HIDE? And what about
that rumored museum gift shop, which supposedly offers Holocaust-related
books, videotapes, and teaching materials? There is precious little
evidence that it even exists, yet people around the world BLINDLY ACCEPT
the trumped-up stories and believe that it is there, somewhere inside the
museum.
Some will provide so-called "proof" of widespread interest in the museum in
the form of newspaper clippings about its 1993 grand-opening ceremony. In
one such article, which ran in THE JEW YORK TIMES, a journalist named
DANIEL LEVINE wrote that 3,000 people attended. By studying the
accompanying photograph, I was able to verify the presence of only 16
people. If this sort of skewed math, a fact-to-fiction ratio of 16:3,000,
is applied to the alleged museum total of six million, the figure is
reduced to 32,000.
Considering the Holocaust Museum's proximity to Washington's National Mall,
it is plausible that 32,000 people have entered since 1993容ven if most did
so only to use the bathroom or get a drink of water. But compared to the
millions of people who visit the Smithsonian or the National Air & Space
Museum each year, can anyone consider the Holocaust Museum's measly 4,500
annual visitors significant? Hardly. It's time the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum closed the door on its lies once and for all.
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