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Let's give you a little background on Mr. Wilcox, because a lot of people never heard of him. Laird Maurice Wilcox, American researcher of political fringe movements, founder of the Wilcox Collection of Contemporary Political Movements, housed in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library at University of Kansas. He was raised in a family with, as he described, political intensity. His relatives politics ranged from socialist to membership in the far-right John Birch Society. His father was a construction accountant. Family moved frequently.

He attended the University at Kansas. He joined the students for Democratic Society and later dropped out of college. While living in, I think this is Olayth, Kansas. He worked as a carpenter, investigator, and writer. Basically, he accumulated four file drawers of literature about radical political movements. Some since his teens, University of Kansas, library bought a portion of them for $1,000. It's now called the Wilcox Collection of Contemporary Political Movement. It's kept in Kansas collection.

of the Kansas collection of Kenneth Spencer Research Library. So check this out. So this is, you know, he's talking about hate crime hoaxes. Here are his views. 1968, he signed the writers and editors war tax protest pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments and protests against Vietnam War. He was a member of the ACLU since 1961, member of Amnesty International since 1970.

Historian George Michael described Will Cox in 2003 as a left-wing libertarian. In 1997, he self-published a book called The Watchdogs. He criticized an anti-racist industry of groups monitoring extremism, writing that their identity and livelihood depend upon growth and expansion of their particular kind of victimization. He accused groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center, the ADL, the American Anti-Defamation League, and political research associates of a massive extortion racket, to exaggerate threats from right-wing extremists, who he estimated at 10,000 in a total U.S. population of 270 million. Mark Potock of the SPLC said that Wilcox had an ax to grind for a great many years.

Mark Potock, if I remember correctly, is the guy at the ACLU who keeps a post-it note on his computer chronicling the dwindling white population in the United States due to weaponized immigration. And yes, if you want to ask the question about Potock, you would be correct. Chip Burlett of political research associates said that Wilcox is not an accurate or ethical reporter. Historian George Michael noted that Wilcox examination of memoranda indicated a close working relationship between the ADL and the FBI. He passed away in 2003, November 4th, 2003 in All Out Kansas. He was 80 years old. All right. So I'm going to read the intro to crying wolf. Let's make sure this is sharing. Yep. Okay, here we go.

And see the chapters here? Not going to be a long book. Forward. This book grew out of a research project. I began to. in 1988 when the issue of racist and anti-Semitic causes first came to my attention in a serious way. I had learned in talking with a former associate in the civil rights movement in the 1960s that a cross-burning I had always assumed was done by white racists was in fact done by civil rights workers. This aroused my curiosity and more extensive research convinced me that it may not be an uncommon occurrence. I quickly learned that there were almost no sources of information on the subject of racist and anti-Semitic hoaxes. Right-wing groups, whom one might suspect would keep tabs on this, were rendered almost

useless by their conspiratorial approach to the subject. The various black and Jewish groups refused to discuss the issue. It was a subject that obviously had to be researched from scratch. In 1989, I established a hoaxer project. To bring together information on the subject, I managed to collect a number of newspaper clippings, and in 1990 I published a small report entitled, the hoaxer project report. Altogether, some 5,500 copies of that report were circulated. A few readers began sending me clippings of hoaxes that actually made the newspapers, as well as their own accounts of incidents they knew or suspected were hoaxes.

In time, this added up to some 300 documented incidents from which the cases described in this book were drawn. I did not have the resources of a clipping service or a large network of monitors to assist me. If I had, I believe this compilation would be many times as large. Obviously, hoaxers are people who have exercised pretty bad judgment. Their acts may have been hurtful to others, and they have usually violated various laws. I think it's important to avoid as much as possible the concept of good guys and bad guys when considering this issue. I think what we have instead are those who are simply responding to an opportunity.

I'm not trying to minimize individual responsibility, but rather, avoid the kind of witch-hunting atmosphere that created the problem in the first place. He apparently thinks that if he, you know, just take the pot, turn the flame down. I wonder if he was still around what he would think. Whenever an abstract ideal acquires the moral urgency that racial equality or opposition to bigotry has today, it's only a matter of time until we find individuals for whom the end justifies the means. The militant moralizing fanatic is the stumbling block which any reasonable resolution of racial problems must overcome. Further, in my experience, the uncompromising behavior of

the fanatic is often a way of compensating for a hidden inner ambivalence. Harold Laswell in psychopathology and politics has said, quote, dogma is a defensive reaction in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware. I think this unconscious ambivalence explains the apparent willingness of many so-called anti-racists to justify and practice a kind of reverse racism or counter-bigotry. This manifests itself in the good racism of affirmative action and hate crime legislation, as well as stereotyping and prejudicial judgments about white people. I suspect the last thing many professional anti-racists want is a truly race-neutral society. No advances in racial equity are going to quell the inner turmoil of people for whom their race or religion and its victimization are the only

things they have going for them and the only way they can explain their unhappiness and anxiety. It's very interesting because as soon as I started reading that sentence, I immediately thought of Uncle Ted. And what he talked about was that there were what he was, what he was, what he he called people of the left, they are over-socialized, and they need, they need this anxiety and this unhappiness. 20 years ago, one couldn't have said this, but today discrimination in schools, housing jobs, and government is minimal. Institutional racism is gone. In its place, a series of preferential policies is firmly established. Wish that he could come forward 21 years and see that It's just basically been reversed.

Something that I've been talking about recently, that Stormy Waters, Stormy Waters really gets upset when people talk about the competency crisis. He says, we don't have a competency crisis. He says, the most competent people are locked out of jobs, white people, the people who can do jobs, the people who can learn something in a month and be proficient at it, as long as it's not something highly specialized like surgery or something like that. What I see happening with hoaxes is a kind of market process. The frequency of hoaxes increases with their utility and accomplishing desired ends.

When the market for the payoffs of victimization goes up, the temptation to create victimization when none exists is very strong. Conversely, as a number of hoaxes increases, assuming they are reported, a greater skepticism toward unproven and marginal victimization claims will probably increase as well, and hoaxes will become less effective. It's pretty much a matter of supply and demand. We saw all sorts of hoaxes happening, and now it's, you know, especially with the way things can be investigated almost immediately on the internet, on Twitter, and things like that, it's, I mean, people are like, oh, boo-hoo. No. I mean, the, you know, the people who believe these things, these, you know, quote-unquote,

anti-racist, of course, they're in power, and they control, they still control academia, they still control a lot of different, you know, the press, a lot of the narrative. But that's changing. Consider a college campus boiling with racial and gender sensitivity, with courses in victimization, organization for victims, a constant barrage of victimization propaganda, but no immediate and palpable victims. Anti-racial. vigilantes with no racist to hang had better get busy and make some and they often do you catch them in the corner of your eye distinctive by design they move you even before you drive the new cooper plug-in hybrid range for mentor leon and terramar now with flexible PCP finance and trade-in boosters of up to 2000 euro

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and what the hell? It's for a good cause, right? This is right out of Uncle Ted. In an enterprising society such as ours, what is needed will eventually appear, one way or another. Americans are not known for their ability to defer gratification for long. Wow, he's saying that we have high time preference. Hence the racist or anti-Semitic hoax. It's as easy as apple pie. Finally, this publication is a continuing project. It is anticipated that future editions will appear either by myself or someone else.

I would like to recruit you to help overcome the disadvantage I have in compiling information. on hoaxes. If you see newspaper coverage or other information about a hoax in your community, please send it to me. Laird Wilcox, July 1994. All right. So I'm going to get into this. A lot of this is just going to be one, like, it'll talk about one incident for a couple paragraphs. It'll go on to the next incident for a couple paragraphs. And it'll just, it's going to inundate you with hoaxes one after another. And some people can say that this is just overkill. But I think it's good for you to pass along to people. You know, if you're listening to this and you already know, you don't need to be convinced, I think this is going to be great for people you can just pass along and say, here,

you know, listen to this. These are all the hate crime hoaxes. And these were a long time ago. So what are they now? All right. Chapter 1, the scope of the problem. In January 1994, the Anti-Defamation League, an organization devoted to defending the interests of Jews in the United States, reported that anti-Semitic acts against Jewish people and their property rose 8% in the United States during 1993. The ADL also reported 1,867 incidents involving threats, harassment, assault, vandalism, graffiti, other behaviors. one incident per 139,000 Americans. These included one arson, one attempted arson, one bombing, and one attempted bombing. The ADL annual audit claims 78 acts of vandalism, one per 330,000 Americans, or slightly over two per day, in a country of 260 million.

Look how much our population has grown. Down 8% from the previous year. Of those, 325 involved graffiti on bridges, buildings, and signs, i.e. expressions of values, opinions, and beliefs on private property. So it sounds to me like some, you know, some edgy kid decided to sprays pan and a swastika on, you know, like under a bridge somewhere. And that's considered, you know, hate vandalism. nationwide, according to the ADL, in 1993, there were only 60 arrests for any of this activity, revealing that the vast majority of the incidents were unsolved and no identified culprit was apprehended. Vandalism is almost always a criminal offense and could be prosecuted if there was anyone to prosecute.

The ADL, of course, lobbies hard for prosecution when the perpetrators are identified. On the other hand, the ADL's 1992 annual audit of anti-Semitic incidents reported an 8% decline from 1991. Thus, the 1993 increase only served to bring the number of incidents back to its 1991 level. A total of 1,730 incidents were reported in 1992, one incident per 150,000 Americans, including 28 serious cases of arson, attempted arson, cemetery, desecration, and, synagogue bombings, one incident per 928,000 Americans. 44% of the incidents took place in public areas, such as public schools or office buildings. B'nai Briths Canada's League for Human Rights, the Canadian equivalent of the ADL, also reported

decline in anti-Semitic incidents in its 1992 audit. A total of 196 incidents occurred nationwide in 1992, 1 per 196,000 Canadians down 22% from 1991. Half of them occurred in Toronto, which has the largest Jewish population in Canada. You catch them in the corner of your eye. Distinctive, by design, they move you, even before you drive. The new Cooper plug-in hybrid range.

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ADL National Chairman Melvin Salberg said that he found this, quote, very disturbing and of great concern. This in-your-face anti-Semitism may signal a new tendency to engage in direct confrontations with Jews and further arose the taboo against open bigotry. Huh. Interesting, huh? No other groups. Okay. Okay. Direct confrontations.

In other words, like kids. Yeah, many times I was called a spick when I was a kid and people just, you know, just screwing around or, you know, even in someone gets upset, who cares? Who cares? The audit also includes incidents where mailings are identified on the basis of their alleged anti-Semitic content, public expressions of identification with Arab radicals in Israel's occupied territories, distribution of Holocaust revision, material on the campus and other activities protected under the First Amendment. The ADL reported 1879 anti-Semitic incidents in 1991. This was up from 1685 incidents recorded by the ADL in 1990 and 1432 in 1988. Bonified anti-Semitic physical violence against Jews is extraordinarily rare in the United States. The ADL reported only 30 such cases in 1990 and 60 in 1991.

No disrespect is intended, and I'm sure these incidents were distressing to those who experienced them, but these figures do not support the claim of a serious and significant trend toward anti-Semitism in a nation of 260 million people. The vast majority of these incidents are on the order of simple graffiti, minor vandalism, verbal altercations, or telephone harassment. Most of these incidents remain unsolved in that no perpetrator was ever identified, let alone prosecuted. where the perpetrator is identified, most of these offenses are committed by juveniles under 18.

Many of the unsolved cases may be hoaxes. A single hoaxer with a can of spray paint or a pocketful of quarters can inflate statistics considerably. The ADL compiled these statistics through a nationwide network of regional offices, local monitors, clipping services, and reports from police agencies. In addition, the ADL actually solicited reports of anti-Semitic incidents by circulating questionnaires to its own mailing list, hardly a disinterested group. This practice raises serious doubts about statistics compiled by an interested organization eager to promote its own agenda, especially when it's one that fundraises. You send out mailings to your list and tell them that anti-Semitic.

is going through the roof and we need money to help stop this, well, and I'm not saying it would only be the ADL that would do that. Pretty much any organization that is, quote-unquote, activist, political in nature, social in nature, is going to do that. According to Leonard Larson, syndicated columnist for Scripps Howard Service, the ADL statistics may be questioned on other grounds as well. Larson notes that among the anti-Semitic incidents listed in an annual audit is a case where individuals in Boston displayed pro-Palestinian anti-Israel graffiti in the subways. Larson, as of the ADL, considered these and other incidents anti-Semitic because they recount brutal acts of repression against Palestinians by the Israeli government. Quote, an obvious intent here is to use intimidation

to silence criticism of Israel's political and military conduct. Larson's. says. It's amazing how this was written 30 years ago, 30 plus years ago, and this could be about today. New heading. Antisemitism. On the rise? Of course, there is the question of whether anti-Semitism is on the rise or in decline. In November 1991, the ADL held a two-day conference in Montreal, which produced a consensus that anti-Semitism, both a North American abroad, is on the rise, and Jews have to stop keeping close. Stop keeping quiet about it. According to ADL executive director, Abraham Foxman, I would love to go, no, I'm not going to do it. Quoting, there are so many, you can go and, um,

Dark Enlightenment has talked about Abe Foxman before, um, Tim Kelly has talked about Abe Foxman before. Quote, we have reason to be concerned and frightened. by what seems to be a rising tide of anti-Semitism here and around the world, the virus has become more active. The restraints and taboos have disappeared. Notice how they use the term virus there. Remember when I read Lorraine Gignon's essay, Israel, the Psychopathic Nation.

Remember that Zionists, the Zionist philosophers and fathers, all said that anti-Semitism was an incurable disease. If it's incurable, I mean, what do you do? Especially if you, if somebody has an incurable disease and it's a threat to you, how do you look upon that person? You're either going to do one or two things. You're going to seek to kill them, or you are going to do everything you can to medicate them. and drug them and quote-unquote dope them and sedate them until they're no longer a threat to you. In January 1992, however, another Jewish organization released this report based on detailed survey data

that racial and religious tolerance is increasing and anti-Semitism is declining. The American Jewish Committee report cited data, for example, the American Jewish Committee is actually, he's talking about this in 1992. The American Jewish Committee is the committee that commissioned the authoritarian personality, the F scale, which I've talked about on the show many times. The American Jewish Committee reports cited data, for example, which showed that in 1968, 59% of Gallup poll respondents expressed approval of marriage between Jews and non-Jews, while in 1983, 77% approved.

According to media reports, quote, the study found that anti-Jewish attitudes are at historic lows. Jews were even perceived in the 1990 general social survey as leading whites in general, southern whites, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, and blacks in terms of who was regarded as harder working, richer, less prone to violence, more self-supporting, and more intelligent. I wonder how people came to that. opinion. I wonder how 77% of the people polled could have came to that opinion. It's also interesting that Jews are separated from whites here and from southern whites and everyone else. The American Jewish Committee said that the report should come as a relief to

American Jews who fear a possible increase in anti-Semitism. This was not the first time in recent years, serious differences over the prevalence of anti-Semitism have emerged among Jewish organizations. In 1983, the Anti-Defamation League and the Simon Wiesenthal Center were at loggerheads over the issue. The ADL reported a 15% decline in anti-Semitic incidents in 1982 from the previous year, and out of 829 incidents, only 197 involved vandalism at Jewish synagogues, temples, and community centers. The Wiesenthal Center, on the other hand, claimed a total of over a thousand vandalism cases, asserting, for instance, that in the last three years, 57% of the synagogues in New York had been vandalized.

These are not trivial differences. In 1988, J.J. Goldberg, I'm not sure if that's Jonah Goldberg, but I will say it. It's not? Maybe. Writing in Jewish Week observed, a majority of the Jewish community's professional experts insists there is no detectable jump either in the rate of anti-Semitic acts or in the level of anti-Jewish feeling among the American population at large. Goldberg's article quotes sociologist Stephen M. Cohen, I read something by him recently. I can't remember what it is. Who believes that an increase in reporting anti-Semitic incidents fuels to claim that they are increasing. Cohen says,

Jews are more sensitive to anti-Semitism than they've been in the past. So one of the reasons we may be seeing a rise in reports of anti-Semitism is that local people see incidents as anti-Semitic more readily. And secondly, the national media give it more prominence than in the past. You have to conclude that to some degree, Jews construct anti-Semitism. You catch them in the corner of your eye. Distinctive. By design. They move you. Even before you drive. The new Cooper plug-in hybrid range. For Mentor, Leon and Terramar.

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Quoting, before World War II, anti-Semitism was defined as wanting to harm Jews. In the post-war era, it was broadened to include prejudice that might lead one to wish Jews harm. More recently, it comes to mean any stereotype or disagreement with the Jewish community. The very term has become a weapon. Now, I think the meme says that now anti-Semitism, or somebody that a Jew doesn't like. Goldberg commented on the hyping of anti-Semitism by Jewish organizations, noting that people give money when motivated by fear, what I said before.

Quoting, in private, some Jewish agency staffers insist the alarmist tone set by a few national Jewish agencies, mainly for fundraising purposes, is a key cause of Jewish anxiety. Hmm. Fingers point most often at the ADL and the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, both of which specialize in mass mailings warning of the impact of doom and urging donations. Really would like to go back right around this time and see what Israel was doing. If Israel was bombing, if Israel was having a war with Gaza, what they... Because that's when they start reporting that anti-Semitism is up and hate crimes are up.

the thing that we've called since October 7th, or before that, but on a more mass scale, the noticing. With Twitter and social media, I don't know how they get by it now. A critique of alarmist tactics was circulated by the Jewish Telegraph Agency in 1993. Debra Nussbaum-Cohen, a prominent Jewish journalist, noted that, quote, The reality, experts say, is that Jews no longer face serious discrimination in American society, not in the community, the workplace, politics, or academia. Both American Jews are convinced more than ever that anti-Semitism remains a serious threat, although few have encountered any real bias themselves.

This dilemma, Ms. Cohn, is occasioned by the very organizations that promote awareness of anti-Semitism and solicit funds to combat it. With apparent reference to the ADL audit, she says, quoting, the very lumping together of graffiti and epithets with occasional acts of violence in order to emphasize an upward trend in anti-Semitism may obscure the issue and raise undue alarm. Ms. Cohen quotes a source, which she identifies as a senior staffer at a mainstream Jewish organization, quoting again, by focusing on small and dramatic expressions of anti-Semitism, which don't mean much, they're sending an alarmist message, which is, at bottom, irresponsible.

The ADL's obsession with minuscule American hate groups has been noticed abroad as well. In October 1991, the Jerusalem Post editorialized, quoting, "...disappointingly, the American Defamation League, which used to take firm positions on Israel and devote much effort to its causes, now waste energy on such marginal phenomena as neo-Nazi skinheads, devotes inordinate time to aggrandizing its executive director and goes out of its way to ingratiate itself with the U.S. administration and the media. In a perceptive analysis of the hate crime controversy appearing in Reason magazine,

Associate Editor Jacob Sullum, he's been around that long, observed that serious problems exist in ADL statistics. Quoting, a single random event can skew the numbers falsely suggesting an alarming nationwide rise. For example, the ADL counted twice as many anti-Semitic assaults in 1991 as it did in 1990. But all but a handful of the additional attacks were associated with unrest in Crown Heights, Brooklyn following a car accident in which a Hasidic Jew killed a black boy. If that incident hadn't happened, the number of assaults would have been roughly the same. Sallam also observes that the statistics constructed by the ADL failed to provide necessary.

perspective. In 1990, the same year the ADL counted 30 anti-Semitic assaults. The FBI counted nearly one million arrests for assault nationwide. Jews represented about 2.4% of the population, and let's assume that they suffer a proportionate number of assaults. That means that every assault motivated by anti-Semitism, Jews experienced roughly 800 assaults for other reasons, assuming that every assault led to an arrest. Faced with growing criticism, of a statistics from within the Jewish community and without, the ADL commissioned another study to support its agenda. Amazingly, the May 1992 ADL study reported, quoting, 1 in 5 adult Americans hold strong prejudicial attitudes against Jews, and anti-Semitism is most

prevalent among blacks and the elderly, according to a survey released Monday. Overall, 20% of Americans in the survey fell into the most anti-Semitic category. 37% of blacks were in the category compared with 17% of whites. The study used a series of 11 questions to gauge anti-Semitism, and included among these were Jews stick together more than other Americans. 51% agreed. Jews always like to be at the head of things. 39% agreed. Man, a bunch of fascists.

How could you agree with that? the other questions related to Jewish loyalty to Israel, Jewish business practices, and Jewish power in America, etc. In order to be entirely free of anti-Semitism, a respondent could not agree with more, could not agree with more than one of the 11 questions. Agreeing with more than six, put one in the hardcore of haters who are unquestionably anti-Semitic. Deborah Nussbaum-Cone observes in Jewish week that the survey question about Jews sticking together more than other Americans was, quote, a quality that could be regarded as ambiguous, if not positive, by non-Jews and Jews alike. The problem is now is that you're a white supremacist if you stick together with your people and you're white. But if you notice that Jews do that, then you're

anti-Semitic. Other questions, such as the one implying Jewish leadership ability, are equally troublesome. This could easily be taken as a compliment. By injecting these two ambiguous questions into the survey, the ADL survey seriously fudged the results. A more interesting result might have been obtained if the questions were posed to an equal number of Jews. That's a good, uh, that's a good point. another critical account of the ADL survey was penned by Richard Cohen. A lot of Coens, a lot of kings. In the Washington Post Magazine, he observed, you may even want to publicly agree with one of the statements

with which the surveyors caught anti-Semites in the process of thinking anti-Semitically. Jews pretty much run the movie in television industries. I would have said yes to that myself. Cohen adds that he could cite several books to back up his position and that Hollywood has been dominated by Jews so completely and their influence in the entertainment business is so vast that to name them would take up the remainder of his column. In short, to agree with this statement is simply not evidence of anti-Semitism. However, Cohen admonishes, but non-Jews know better than to comment about what is before their very eyes. Should they answer forthrightly, they might be denounced. for anti-Semitism.

A very good point. In fact, in the ADL survey, they were. What many critics have pointed out as a perverse and manipulative double standard in perceptions of anti-Semitism is clearly evident. New heading. Hate crime in perspective. The ADL statistics have their problems and similar complications of hate-motivated incidents compiled by other interested parties such as the NWACP and Klan Watch are also

flawed. Perhaps the most glaring flaw in these statistics is the practice of counting unsolved incidents. Doubtless numerous hoaxes are included among them. Other crime statistics helped to put these figures in perspective. For example, 570 individuals, mostly young minority males, have died in violent, often interracial gang warfare in Los Angeles in the 12 months in 1989. In addition, there were 3,819 gang-related reported assaults with deadly weapons, 93 rapes, and 1,851 robberies. The perpetrators of this year of carnage, which certainly surpasses the death toll from racist and anti-Semitic hate crimes in 20th century America, have also been mostly young minority males, primarily Hispanics and blacks, and not white racists, neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klanmen, or skinheads.

But of course, when you point that out, they just start making excuses like socio-economics. Because the white racists and the neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan members and the skinheads, they don't have to deal with socio-economics or economics in general. You catch them in the corner of your eye. Distinctive. By design. They move you. Even before you drive.

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never mind. The issue of a black gang violence was graphically illustrated by a 30-second TV commercial commissioned by the Evanston, Illinois, Human Relations Commission in 1992. The commercial began with a shot of a Ku Klux Klansman on the left and a black gang member on the right, arms crossed and looking defiant. The announcer states, if they were giving medals for killing black people, the neo-Nazi would win a bronze medal, the KKK member is silver, and the street gang member, the gold. At this point, the following data appears on the screen under the Klansman and the gang member.

KKK murdered at least 20 blacks, 1960 to 1991. Black gangs murdered at least 1,300 blacks, 1991 alone. If you're in a gang, you're not a brother. You're a traitor. The black community went ballistic. A public screening was disrupted by protesters who called it racist. Operation Push, executive director, Jeanette Wilson, said that the ad misstates the problem. The Anti-Defamation League.

The Anti-Defamation League projects a public image of a human rights organization with a particular interest in the welfare of Jews in opposition to whatever it considers as anti-Semitism. Established in Chicago in 1913. What happened in 1913? What happened in Atlanta in 1913? I think I did three episodes, four episodes. on that. Established in Chicago in 1913 is a subdivision of Benet Brith, a Jewish fraternal order. The organization is grown by leafs and bounds. I love how it's a fraternal order and not basically a terrorist organization. That's amazing. Today, the tax-exempt organization maintains 31

offices nationwide and has a budget of 34 million. Oh, and over 400 employees, including an extensive of legal staff. Maybe at the end of this, I'll look up and see what that is now. Oh, it's got to be, got to be good. Or maybe I'll have that information for the, for the next episode, ADL budget and employees. Oh, it's, I, uh, it, I, uh, I, uh, I, uh, I, uh, I, I wouldn't be surprised if it's in the hundreds of millions. Over the decades, the ADL established a reputation within and without the Jewish

community as a major supporter of civil rights for Jews and other minorities, a staunch opponent of bigotry in all forms, a fearless watchdog over racist and anti-Semitic groups, and a major educational resource on human rights issues. Little known was its far less scrupulous espionage, disinformation, and destabilization operations, not only against neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan, but against leftist and progressive groups as well. The ADL charade came to a halt in January 1993, a rapidly developing investigation by the San Francisco Police Department into the activities of police intelligence officer, Tom Gerard, produced evidence of an extensive network of illegal ADL penetration into confidential police files in San Francisco and elsewhere.

The investigation quickly focused on Ray Bullock, a paid ADL operative and well-known figure in the gay community who had possession of an extensive ADL enemies list of some 10, thousand individuals and 1,000 organizations. Bullock, who had worked for the ADL for fully 35 years, and who was regarded as their top spy, had an illegal intelligence sharing relationship with Gerard, who regularly stole information from police files for transmittal to the ADL, and in some cases to Israeli intelligence agencies through Bullock. Other information developed that there were Bullock and Gerard clones positioned in or close to police departments throughout the country. At the least, they have to be registered as foreign agents. At the least, people make the, you know, it's anti-Semitic to make the dual loyalty comment.

Okay, then I'm not going to be anti-Semitic. I'll just say that they have one loyalty. And it's not to the United States. I mean, how do you read that? How do you know that that happened, that that was revealed, and the ADL is more powerful than ever, that they still exist, that they still operate in this country, that all of these Jewish groups still operate in this country. What was striking about the enemies list was that most of the individuals and organizations listed were of leftist progressive

persuasion. Given the scarcity of bona fide racist and neo-Nazi organizations, it is not surprising that few of them would be listed. Also not surprising is that many Arab human rights organizations listed were. What was shocking was the range of left. groups, which included many organizations included among the ADL's allies. Groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Conference of Black Lawyers, the Black United Fund, the Center for Investigative Reporting, the Asian Law Caucus, and the San Francisco Anti-Apartite Committee were on the list. Predictably, this produced a howl of protest from a sector of the American political

spectrum that might have been expected to condone the ADL's harassment of the far right. why leftist groups, particularly human rights groups? For the simple reason that the ADL fears nothing more than the American civil rights establishment will adopt the Palestinian cause, which in certain respects resembles the plight of American blacks. Do you understand everything that's happened since October 7th? It's right there. This is the early 90s. As far as I know, as far as I can remember from Israeli history, they're not dropping bombs right now.

But this is why they're going after the left too. This is why they went after the left. This is why now, if you criticize Israel, they call you a leftist. Because so many leftist organizations are like, screw Israel now. They're a bunch of psychopaths. And here it is. written by a guy who was basically like a new left. It was new left in the 70s.

And doesn't appear to have gone right in his entire life. Some of the tension existing between black organizations and the Jewish community centers around this controversy, although ADL disinformation efforts managed to keep... Let me read this again. Some of the tension existing between black organizations in the Jewish community centers around this controversy, although ADL disinformation efforts managed to either

cape it swept under the rug or framed it in terms of black anti-Semitism. Some of the best coverage of the ADL scandal appeared in the San Francisco Examiner, where reporters Dennis O'Partney and Scott Wynaker covered the story almost daily from its inception. Detailed overviews appeared in April and May 1993, respectively with George Cothran and Peter Hegarty in the San Francisco Weekly, a San Francisco tabloid, and by Robert J. Friedman in the New York Weekly, the village voice. The village voice.

Cotharine and Hegarty had this to say, quoting. Examples abounded the ADL's brazen invasion into the lives of people who happen to disagree with its political views. In 1983, the group disseminated a blacklist to Jewish campus leaders around the country. that smeared scores of respected academics and Middle East peace activists as pro-Arab sympathizers and propagandists who used their anti-Zionism as merely a guise for their deeply felt anti-Semitism. This playbook isn't old. This playbook isn't new. This is 30 years ago.

It's the same thing, which is probably why it's not working on most people. The only reason it works is because they have power. that has to come to an end. I think a lot of our friends or allies, I would say allies, understand this. The ADL responded to the adverse publicity with an intense media disinformation campaign. The group claimed that it did nothing wrong

in sharing information of violence-prone groups with law enforcement officials and that it will not count in its violations of the law on the part of anyone connected with the agency. I used to be very anti-cop, just because I didn't like authority. Now I'm very anti-cop because... I'm still anti-cop because they...

They're in service to someone else. They're not in service to Americans. Not saying your small-town sheriff isn't like that. What I'm saying is, look, listen. This is where power resides. Power doesn't reside in the town I live in. It resides in places that they're describing right here. This was met with healthy skepticism by virtually all concerned.

Robert J. Friedman had this to say in the village voice, quoting, that's what the ADL says for public consumption, but morale is so low that its employees complain of sleepless nights and crying fits. And even as other Jewish groups circled the wagons around the ADL in a show of solidarity, many do so holding their noses. Oh, the jokes write themselves. More than a few Jewish officials privately say that the ADL has to decide whether it is a human rights group or a secret police agency. And I'm saying that I don't have the smallest nose in the world.

More than a few Jewish officials privately say the ADL has to decide whether it's a human rights group or a secret police agency. I think we know what they are if you've been paying attention since October 7th especially. or since Kanye started talking a couple years ago. Not saying Kanye is a hero. When ADL National Director Abe Foxman went on damage control mission to West Coast news media offices and Jewish organizations, he attacked critics of the ADL in characteristic fashion, calling them anti-Semitic, undemocratic, and anti-American bastards. The ADL also enjoyed the same relationship it had with American police intelligence officials

with Israeli spy agencies, the super secret Mossad, and the Shinbet. The ADL may also have played a role in the Jonathan Pollard case as well. Pollard, an American Jew, was charged in 1987 with stealing thousands of pages of U.S. military secrets and transmitting them to Israel, according to Friedman. Pollard's handler was Avi Stella, an Israeli Air Force colonel whose wife worked for the New York ADL as a lawyer. Pollard later wrote to friends that a prominent ADL leader was deeply involved in the Israeli spy operation. Donald Trump pardoned him.

And he flew, when he was released, he flew to Israel on the Adelson private jet. And when he landed in Israel, he gave an interview telling Jews all over the world to spy for Israel. Part of the ADL's legal strategy and the various lawsuits filed against it over the years is to claim journalistic privilege. The ADL claims to be a news and information gathering organization, and such as it is entitled to protection under the shield laws used to protect the working press from having to reveal their news sources. In no sense of the word is the ADL on par with the New York Times or Time magazine, nor is it even vaguely related to the working press. Legally. Ideologically, its publications are designed to support the ideological prerogatives of the organization and

its constituency and not to provide news. In addition, its publishing activities are only a small part of its overall program, most of which is public relations and fundraising, along with developing and maintaining its extensive enemies files. Yet, time after time, judges have bought this argument and the ADL has avoided potentially damaging discovery proceedings that would have provided ample ammunition for both criminal prosecutions and private lawsuits. Such was the case in San Francisco. The evidence that developed against the ADL was overwhelming. Not only did their paid agent take part in stealing police records, a felony,

but there were numerous other infractions as well. There was active speculation that felony indictments against prominent ADL officials would be forthcoming. They were not. Why not? Consider this. Quoting. Some close observers believe that political pressure will make it impossible to prosecute the respected Jewish organization.

Mark my words, this is going to be obfuscated, obliterated, said one veteran inspector. It's going to be a classic study in how things get covered up. You don't do Jewish people in San Francisco. It's not PC, especially when you have two U.S. senators who are Jewish, Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein, and the city's chief of protocol, Dick Goldman, a prominent fundraiser in the, the Jewish community. The inspector was prophetic. The ADL and its spy, Roy Bollock, were dropped from the criminal investigation, leaving only

Tom Gerard against whom prosecution would be very difficult. In December 1993, the San Francisco District Attorney reached a settlement with the ADL. The ADL agreed to pay $75,000 to fight hate groups and its surrendered documents on some 1,400 groups and individuals it had illegally obtained. a mere slap on the wrist. Although the ADL is apparently off the hook in the case, the damage done to its carefully crafted reputation poses a major challenge to its staff

of disinformation specialists and spin doctors. This was the organization's closest call yet. Very likely there will be more to come. I'm sorry, Mr. Laird. You catch them in the corner of your eye, distinctive by design. They move you, even before you. you drive. The new Cooper

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until the Reagan administration, the FBI kept the ADL at an arm's length, although they readily accepted ADL information in the same manner that they do from a wide range of informants. Under J. Edgar Hoover, the Bureau was particularly reluctant to get into any kind of cooperating arrangements with the ADL. Hoover, for example, repeatedly declined offers to address ADL banquets, realizing that his presence would be a propaganda coup for an organization he and his agents didn't entirely trust. well, probably considering that they had dirt on him. Yeah, well, sure. A letter dated January 4th, 1966 to Dori Shari, National Chairman of the ADL, in which Hoover declined attendance at an ADL dinner for Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg, who had not yet resigned for various improprieties.

A note is appended, which reads, note, Mr. Shari is a Hollywood producer who is well known to the Bureau. He has never been investigated by Bureau files reflect that he has been a member or sponsor or contributed to or was in other ways affiliated with a number of organizations cited as CP Communist Party, could be something else, front groups, CP front groups, or which have been designated as subversive pursuant to Executive Order 10450. The reason for this distrust aside from the blatantly extremist background of certain ADL leaders was the sheer opportunism evident in ADL tactics to compromise the independence of the Bureau

and also in the shoddy quality of some ADL investigative work on its enemies, including blatant lies and misrepresentations. An internal FBI memorandum dated August 12, 1965, from Assistant Director William Sullivan to R.W. Smith made reference to an ADL pamphlet on the Ku Klux Klan, Sullivan notes, quoting, It is stated on page six that a clan plot to assassinate Martin Luther King early in 1965 leaked out and the FBI and other law enforcement authorities through a heavy guard around him. This is not true. The pamphlet erroneously lists James Venable's National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan as the

second most important group, having the support of 7,000 to 9,000, originally formed by Venable to bring a number of small clans. into one organization, the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan has not realized its goal. A year later, FBI documents referred to another erroneous ADL report, this fudging the strength of the Ku Klux Klan by some 200%, which the ADL claim was at about 29,500. The ADL also claimed in a September 1966 statement in the New York Times that KKK membership had increased by 10,000 since the first of the year.

This was a fantastic overestimate of KKK strength, a typical ADL tactic. According to the FBI memorandum, while the Klan, quote, while the Klan has made organizational efforts in the North and Middle West, they have met with little success. There has been no indication that Klan membership has grown to 10,000 since the first of the year. The present Klan membership is between 14 and 15,000 members. Perhaps most significantly, however, the 1966 FBI member, Marandum, contained the following, which is transparently evident to objective observers.

Quoting, the Anti-Defamation League has vested interest in discovering and exposing anti-Semitic organizations such as the Klan and other hate groups. Indeed, the ADL actually needs groups like the KKK and various minuscule neo-Nazi organizations. When the last Klansman and the last neo-Nazzi turns out the lights and locks the doors, either the ADL cooks up an acceptable substitute or it goes the same way. Small wonder the ADL is so frequently accused of puffery and exaggeration. Absent a scary-looking threat, the ADL finds its reason for existence, dramatically diminished. This peculiar symbiotic relationship between extremist groups and the counter-extremist groups that hate them is well established.

Faced with problems like these, throughout the 1960s and most of the 1970s, the FBI practiced a healthy skepticism about ADL information. It seemed clear that there was nothing the organization would like better than to have premier federal law enforcement agency become their enforcement arm. It wasn't until Judge William Webster became FBI director in 1978 that the agency bowed to political pressures from the White House and elsewhere and significantly stepped up its informal intelligence sharing operation with the ADL. cooperation between the ADL and the FBI increased enormously under President Reagan in 1981 and became formal with the issuance of a 1985 memo requiring all FBI field offices to develop formal liaison with some 30 ADL field offices around the nation.

Let me read that again. Cooperation between the ADL and the FBI increased enormously under President Reagan in 1981 and became four. formal with the issuance of a 1985 memo requiring all FBI field offices to develop formal liaison with some 30 ADL field offices around the nation. This memo remained secret until it was uncovered in 1990 in a FOIA request to an FBI field office in Minnesota where it was released to a journalist by mistake. So it was hidden. A FOIA request by the FBI brought it out. And then it was released by mistake. Or somebody who, somebody in that FBI field office. Yeah. Yeah. I know what you're thinking. You're thinking the same thing I am. The memo directed to the special

agent in charge, SAC of 24 FBI field offices, accompanies two ADL publications to review and instructs each SAC to contact each ADL regional office to establish a liaison and line of communication. One of the publications in question was the ADL's controversial 1984 hate groups in America. I'm going to stop right there. We'll pick it up later. There are ads during this. If you want to get the episodes early and ad-free, go to freeman Beyond the Wall.com forward slash support. You do it there through Patreon and Substack.

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Just remind you, Thomas and I do, we watch movies and comments on them and talk about the culture of the time, how it relates to our culture now. And the last one we did was The Warriors from 1979, a real cult classic, but an awesome movie. You can find those at, you can find links to where they are at Free Man. Beyond the Wall.com forward slash movies. All right, let's get into this. The wrap-up on Chapter 1 is going to be very fast, and then we'll jump into Chapter 2. And I think Chapter 2 is rather short. So, yeah, let's see how far we get. New heading, Hate Groups in America. In 1980, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights contracted with the Anti-Defamation League to produce a report on extreme right hate groups for a $20,000

fee. The ADL hardly needed the fee, but was thrilled at having the implied endorsement of a government agency for one of its reports. This did not work out so well, however. Last time, I told you about the ADL's budget, and I think it was, say it was something like 60 million back then. They claim now it's 101 million. No, it was 34 million then. They claim it was, they claim now it's 101 million. They claimed 400 employees back then. They claim 501 employees now. So it doesn't look like it's grown massively,

especially when you consider inflation and things like that. But power-wise, I think, you know, you'd have to admit that's a different story. After the report was published, a commission rejected and declined to publish it on several grounds. A letter dated March 8, 1982 from Paul Alexander, your acting general counsel of the commission to John Hope III acting staff director gave the following reasons. Quoting, I would like to raise several policy considerations. The ADL report does not in any way

resemble a standard USCR report. It is not a dispassionate attempt to present a balanced accounting of facts. The commission previously has had no difficulty in publishing reports containing defamatory information when it was verifiable and necessary to the report. You catch them in the corner of your eye. Distinctive. By design. They move you. Even before you drive.

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and labels that only serve to distort the factual accountings of the KKK and similar organizations. The liberal use of hyperbolic epithets throughout the ADL draft sets a tone that probably precludes correction through simple adjectival laundering. The alleged inaccuracies and misrepresentations noted by the respondents present very serious problems. If they are at all representative, the report probably contains many inaccuracies. It is doubtful that the report could survive the normal

process of a source check, as there does not appear to be sufficient date data to support the allegations. Alexander further noted that the ADL reported boarded, report bordered on jingoism. Although the USCR wisely declined to lend his name to the report, the ADL published it anyway, with epithets, emotionally-laden labels, and jingoism intact. Like all ADL, publications on the people in groups that it hates. Its tone is one that encourages contempt for the civil liberties of its subjects and treats them in a dehumanizing matter. Behavior as the ADL purports to oppose. The report has now appeared in several editions and is widely circulated to journalists and police departments. Accused others of what they do. Always. Always been the memo.

Hate group membership. New heading. If determining the extent of anti-Semitism, racism, or hate crimes is problematic, considered determining the strength of anti-Semitic and racist groups. Some of the most wild speculation has been made in this area. At a time when the ADL estimated nationwide KKK membership at roughly 12,000, a St. Louis TV station claimed a fantastic 50,000 members in Missouri alone. In this case, the ADL's estimate is much closer to the truth, though it probably didn't take into account several multiple memberships.

Some clansmen belong to several clans and a few carry cards from virtually all of them. According to the ADL in 1990, the various Ku Klux Klan organizations had a combined membership under 4,000, down from 45,000 in 1964, and 12,500 in 1981. In 1987, during a period of growth, the ADL estimated hardcore neo-Nazis at no more than 400 to 500. The much-publicized skinheads recently estimated at 5,000 nationwide are almost certainly no more than a third of that. Determining who is and who isn't a neo-Nazi racist skinhead involves a lot of pure guessing. A recent possible hoax in Denver initially focused on the local skinhead population and an estimate of 200 was made, a great surprise to bona fide Denver racist groups. Many bikers adopt the skinhead appearance while having no affinity for their views,

and there are many anti-racist skinhead groups around. The actual number of bona fide racist neo-Nazi skinheads in Denver is probably under 25. At the time of Kansas City KKK group made national news in 1988 with its plans for a public TV show, it had only two members. Speculation had ranged as high as 100, and rumors of alleged KKK vandalism and cross-burnings spread through the community. Groups like the Posse Cometatis attained almost mythical proportions in the early 1980s with estimates as high as 40,000 given by irresponsible writers. This was absolute fantasy, although Jim Wickstrom, posse leader, claimed the incredible figure

of a million and a half. Having talked with police agencies, journalists, farmers, and local officials, and with posse members themselves, I seriously doubt if more than a thousand serious posse activists ever existed at any one time. The posse was never tightly organized, and the national group was primarily a literature distribution group, local groups were autonomous, and virtually anyone could claim membership and be believed. In Kansas, for example, state police officials monitoring farm auctions in the early 1980s made the incredible mistake of estimating posse presence in one case by noting that a

posse activist was present, and he had 30 or so people gathered around him reading the literature he passed out. Hence, there was a posse presence in the neighborhood of 30 at the auction. A single individual distributing posse literature in several stations and restaurant restrooms caused near panic in one county. The situation got so far out of hand in 1985, three Kansans filed a civil rights lawsuit against Kansas Attorney General Robert Stephen for creating the posse comitatis to further his political career. A suit brought on behalf of Frida Steele, James Steele, and Harold Hovander, all rural Kansas residents, charged that unnecessary. police powers were utilized during a repression action against Mr. Steele, which included, quote, air support in a small army of Kansas Bureau of Investigation assets, Kansas Highway Patrol troopers, sheriff's deputies, and local police personnel, all heavily armed as for combat,

who descended on said farm like an invasion force. Among the various problems in determining memberships and groups is the fact that is the fact that claims by the groups themselves can't be believed uncritically. Invariably, they will exaggerate their own strength. Both Ku Klux Klan and groups routinely distort KKK's power, influence and threat to the established order. Also, in most cases, the membership list and the mailing list are usually two distinct entities. Ku Klux Klan organizations have maintained large complementary mailing lists in the past, although that practice is faded for reasons of economy. Some groups don't have members as such. Only people who receive their mailings and others make no distinction between members and people who write

and ask for information. A few groups even send out blank membership cards with their solicitation letters. In 1984, a terrifying right-wing Halstead, Kansas organization with a creative name of the Farmers Liberation Army was finally determined to have one member, founder Keith Shive. Anti-racist groups took the organization very seriously and references to it appeared in the national press. Shive was absolutely, absolutely delighted with the response. Similar cases involving alleged paramilitary constitutional patriot and tax protest groups consisting of one or two members are not uncommon. A creative trickster with access to a photocopy machine can create havoc in a community with the help of a properly sensitized local media on the watch for witches to burn. Robert DePue's Kansas City area-based

paramilitary Minutemen organization of the 1960s suffered from similar distortion. primarily a paper operation with a handful of activists, a pew topped out at 500 members, most of whom were essentially inactive literature collectors and several of whom were government agents. Media estimates ranged in the thousands. By 1968, the FBI had refined its intelligence on the group to the point where they stated that there were less than 50 persons upon whom Minuteman leaders can call for overt action. My own subsequent investigation suggested a more realistic figure of under a dozen. During the McCarthy era, by the way, the membership of leftist groups, including the Communist Party itself, was similarly exaggerated. Probably. Here we go.

The Southern Poverty Law Center. In February 1992, USA Today reported that Klan Watch, a subdivision of Morris D's Southern Poverty Law Center, had identified a total of 346 white supremacist groups operating in the USA, up an alarming 27% from the past year, included were 97 KKK and 203 alleged neo-Nazi groups. This figure is outrageously inflated. What Klan Watch apparently did is locate any mailing address they could find, including the large number of P-O box chapters maintained by several organizations, police, government agencies, and private groups monitoring the Klan. They probably listed many groups whose actual affiliation is neither KKK or Neo-O-O-O. Nazi or and who may and who would argue with the designation of white supremacy.

This writer publishes an annual directory of these groups and companion directory on the left and can attest to the irresponsible inflation of Clan Watch's numbers. In terms of viable groups, not one or two man local chapters, with more than a handful of members, the actual figure is a combined total of 30, a far cry from 346. unfortunately, this is this kind of exaggeration is typical. Obviously, if you're an organization who is crying wolf all the time and you rely on, well, if you rely upon donations, crying wolf is a great way to get it. I mean, I think any of you know how I feel about Dave Rubin, but Richard Lewis, the now elderly

Jewish comedian was on his show and was talking about the ACLU and it was Southern Poverty Law Center, I believe, and how, you know, oh, I've always given money and like, to his credit, Dave Rubin schooled him on it. It's like this, he goes, maybe at one time they did good work. He goes, but not now. Now they're just there to shut down speech. So we know. they're there to do more, but the Southern Poverty Law Center has been faulted on other grounds as well. In February 1994, the Montgomery advertiser ran a series of articles exposing various aspects of the SPLC, including its questionable fundraising tactics and other

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Among the issues raised were the SPLC has reserve funds of 52 million, just what the law center does with all that money is a source of concern. Some who have worked with Morris D's column a phony, the television evangelist of civil rights who misleads donors. For 15 years, people throughout the country have sent millions of dollars to the SPLC to fight the KKK and other supremacists, but critics say the law center exaggerates the threat of hate groups. The SPLC responded to the series with a number of veiled threats in charge that it was a hatchet job. Nevertheless, the series was widely praised and is regarded as a model for courageous objective reporting. reporting. The SPLC legal offensive. In 1987, D's and the SPLC made national headlines with a civil judgment against United Clans of America and two of its members for the 1981 slaying of a black teenager.

Unable to afford competent counsel in the complicated matter, the U.K.A. was forced to turn over all of its assets and went out of business. At issue in that trial was the liability of the U.K.A. for the acts of its members. Had this doctrine that organizations are responsible for the acts of their members been established as the legal president in the 1960s, it would have decimated the early civil rights movement and would have bankrupted the NAACP and Corps, both of which this writer belonged to. Even the labor movement and the anti-war movement could have been crippled by lawsuits arising from the violent acts of some of their participants. Suppose a black activist group was with a $7 million judgment because one of its members killed someone in the Watts riots.

This sounds far-fetched, but had the D's precedent existed, then it could have happened. Conscientious civil libertarians, although they disdain the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups, also disdain unfair and underhanded methods used to go after them in the courts. The SPLC proclivity to use civil suits, where constitutional protections are minimal, against poor, working class, and often semi-literate clansmen who are unable to afford counsel has been compared to shooting fish in a barrel. I know about the whole semi-literate thing. He threw that in there on his own, but I don't know. The issue, of course, is a classical moral one, i.e., whether the ends justifies the means used to accomplish them. Most moral philosophers

would say that the means indirectly determines the ends, and that unjust means necessarily leads to unjust ends. Another D's civil case involved three neo-Nazi skinheads who killed a black man during a November 1988 fight in Portland, Oregon. The skinheads pleaded guilty in her serving long prison sentences. This was the end of the matter, however. This was not the end of the matter, however. Morris D.s and the SPLC with the cooperation of the ADL filed civil suits on behalf of victims' family. None of the skinheads were worth suing, so Morris D. sought a judgment against Tom and John Metzger and their white Aryan resistance, organizing. to which the skinheads allegedly belonged. The Messkers, it was agreed, did not even know the men who

committed the crime, nor had they directed their actions. The issue was whether by virtue of the messengers' attitudes, opinions, and beliefs, they had somehow motivated the killers. The Messkers and war had minimal assets, not nearly enough to even cover the cost of the lawsuit. Dees and the ADL were clearly trying to put war out of business. The messengers were, of course, unable to afford counsel and attempt to defend themselves. after a long trial before a judge with one year of experience, a tired jury found against the Messkers in October 1990 and awarded the victim's families an enormous settlement. A subsequent appeal was denied largely because the Metzger's, with no legal training,

had failed to bring up specific objections during the trial. At one point, when Tom Metzger attempted to pay for a transcript of the trial with donated funds in order to prepare the appeal, D's garnished a payment, thus impending their efforts. Do you see how they play? I mean, wasn't it, was it Ian Smith who has the New Jersey gym who during COVID, they closed it down? And he raised money, I think, on GoFundMe and the government seized it. It may not have been Ian Smith, but it was, there was, this definitely happened in 2020 where, I mean, the government just stepped in and seized it and said, no. No, you're not, you're not getting money from the public to defend yourself.

Yeah, that's where we are. That's where we are. But I'm sure if we just ignore it and we talk about how bad they are. Criticism of Ds does not come from right-wing sources alone. In a column appearing under the banner of the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service, Ray Jenkins, a writer for the Baltimore Sun, noted that while the state of Oregon lacked evidence to put Metzger on trial for murder in the case, What Morris Deeds did was to, quote, convert the civil law whose basic purpose is to settle disputes between individuals into an arm of the criminal law.

In legal abracadabra, the standard of proof in civil cases, usually only preponderance of evidence, is a good deal easier to meet than the higher standard of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt required in criminal prosecution. Let's not forget, there are cases on record where civil law was tortured into criminal law to punish communists in the 1950s, then civil rights groups, including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in the 1960s. That's why you need your own. It's why you need people who are sympathetic to you in power. An unnamed philosopher once said to beware of those in whom the urge to punish is strong. The zealous and vengeful nature of those self-appointed

hate crime vigilante is so quick to abuse long-established legal processes designed to protect the civil rights of all citizens, renders them as dangerous as the hate groups they claim to oppose, and perhaps even more so in that they maintain an image of legitimacy. Militancy and fanaticism in any pursuit, even one that is objectively laudable on its face, is bound to produce results that are injurious in the long run. Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process, he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss will gaze back at you. Friedrich Nietzsche 1878.

All right. Here's all the, um, scrolling by all the references for that first chapter of which there are 58. All right. Chapter 2. Hate crimes legislation. If membership figures for anti-Semitic and racist organizations are hard to determine, and data on incident.

to incidents murky and conflicting statistics on so-called hate crimes are problematic as well. In 1990, Congress passed legislation based on the ADL's model hate crimes reporting statute requiring the United States Attorney General to set up a system for collecting statistics on hate crimes known as the Hate Crime Statistics Act. In addition to serious crimes such as murder, arson, and manslaughter, relatively minor offenses such as simple assault, intimidation, and vandalism, which includes graffiti, were to be included in the tabulation. The legislation contained no provision for reporting incidents that turn out to be hoaxes as such. When an incident is discovered to be a hoax, it might be dropped from the statistics,

or it might not. Even more disturbing, the legislation contained no provision to exclude unsolved offenses, many of which are probably hoaxes. Offenses having the mere appearance of a hate crime or to be reported as such, calling unsubstantiated telephone, including unsubstantiated telephone threats, anonymous graffiti, and unproven claims of name-calling. Local police departments quickly stepped in line. The LAPD adopted a policy that classified all hate crimes as category one crimes, like felonies, with named suspects.

Robert Vernon, LAPO Assistant Chief of Police, LAPD Assistant Chief of Police announced that even misdemeanor offenses such as alleged threatening phone calls or malicious mischief would be aggressively investigated by police. In 1991, FBI Director William Sessions announced that the implementation of the hate crimes program will continue to be a top priority of the FBI. However, Sessions also commented that while there appeared to be an increase in hate crimes, the rise may be due partly to required reporting. The decision to even classify incidents as racially motivated is fraught with issues of subjectivity and bias. Although racially motivated seems to be a neutral term, it is not. In practice, it's been a code phrase for crime by white and not black racists. It creates the anomaly of a white youth receiving a stiffer sentence for mere graffiti on a black business

than a black youth might receive for burglary of its owner. That's just a little narco-tirony going on here. Racial motivated is a legal distinction that justifies preferential statuses and discriminatory punishments. In many cases, the law actually provides for civil penalties and damages, which actually encourages hoaxes and fabrications. More importantly, we are in grave danger of institutionalizing a double standard where some citizens are accorded special protections based entirely on their race while others are penalized for theirs. a problem the civil rights movement originally sought to redress. A dramatic example of that double standard was illustrated in the 1999 DART man case in New York. Dartman was a black man who went around Manhattan shooting blowgun darts into women's behinds.

Although all of Dartman's two dozen plus victims were white, including two light-skinned Hispanics, it was reported that authorities do not think race is a factor. Employers, rewarding your staff? Why choose between a shop voucher or a spend anywhere card when with Options Card you can have both. With Options Card, your team gets the best of both worlds. They can spend with Ireland's favourite retailers or choose a Spend Anywhere card.

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motivated. However, in New York City's diverse racial mix, the odds of picking two dozen white women at random are the order of winning Lotto America. Imagine for a moment what the conclusion would have been if the dartman was white and all of his victims would have been black. Quite another story, isn't it? Imagine if the roles were reversed. The selective police attention to alleged hate crimes is shadowed by selective media in attention to hate crime hoaxes. Many hoaxes are only reported to the local media and die when they reached wire services. I've also been told that a fair number are simply spiked once their nature is ascertained out of sensitivity to minority concerns, or so as not to give ammunition to racists. Absence some kind of clipping service, a network of local monitors or the intelligence capability of the American law enforcement community, one is at a considerable disadvantage researching this subject.

There could be a much bigger story here than initially appears. In Kansas City, for example, Terrence Weaver defaced a wall near a major art museum with racist and anti-Semitic graffiti in September 1989. He was observed, chased, and apprehended. The local newspaper reported the incident as a hate crime, along with the same. the interesting fact that the perpetrator had checked himself into a local mental hospital immediately after his arrest. The incident quickly faded and no more was heard of it. The Kansas City Star has declined to pursue the manner. My own investigation developed that this young man was well known to local leftists and that he had talked of a plot to entice all KKK and neo-Nazis to a meeting and then blow up

the building and kill them. He was, in fact, not racist but anti-racist. Kansas City police sat the case and local anti-fascist activists seemed to be holding their breath until the story faded into the memory hole. If you didn't live in, 1989, okay? If you didn't live in Kansas City and read the local paper, you wouldn't know it had happened. If you hadn't investigated, you wouldn't know it's a probable hoax incident. And there are many cases like this. Are there many more cases? Pardon me.

Are there more cases like this? Probably so. Valid objections to hate crimes reporting act. There are many valid criticisms of the hate crime reporting concept, but by far the most legitimate is that selective reporting exaggerates a phenomenon by calling selective attention to it. If statistics were kept of crimes committed by Methodists or left-handed Democrats or by service station employees or of crimes against these groups, it would quickly seem that we have a serious crime problem in these areas. To answer an objection to this argument from a Jewish friend, I asked what the probable consequences of compiling and publicizing statistics on crimes by Jews in the United States might be so as to draw attention to them.

He quickly conceded that it would seriously distort the picture and lead to dangerous false conclusions by singling out a particular group and would be unfair selective attention. Enough said. Civil liberties are traditionally concerned with two issues more than any. other. In criminal law, they are concerned with due process issues, i.e. the fairness of the criminal justice system and its adherence to procedural processes that ensure even-handedness and protection for the rights of the accused. In constitutional law, the issue of free speech overshadows most other concerns, since it is regarded as the bedrock upon which all other freedoms depend, and rightly so. The ADL is acutely aware that too scrupulous and adherence to civil liberties can be

counterproductive to its interests. For example, inconvenience standards of evidence in criminal trials may allow individuals they would prefer to see convicted to go without punishment and ritual defamation, hence their clever advocacy of civil action against individuals and groups who offend their interests, whether or not they have been convicted of an actual criminal offense. In civil cases, evidence is allowable that wouldn't get past the door in a criminal case. Among other things, the standard for conviction is merely the preponderance of evidence. evidence and not the more rigorous beyond any reasonable doubt. Simply put, if you can't prove a crime, you may still be able to punish with a civil judgment. Similarly, although they routinely deny it,

free speech is troublesome to the ADL when it includes values, opinions, and beliefs they regard as retrograde to their interests such as criticism of Jews, Israel, or Jewish institutions. When the ADL condemns anti-Semitism, they are usually condemning some form of expression of values, opinions, or beliefs. Accordingly, while the ADL is officially given muted oppositions is discredited an unconstitutional hate speech legislation, it has worked mightily to create the climate that produced it. The hate speech in question was a St. Paul, Minnesota ordinance outlawing mere expressions of racism and NC-Semitism, including speech, writing, art, as well as symbolic acts such as cross-burnings. The United States Supreme Court decided unanimously in June 1992 that the ordinance was in violation of the Constitution.

On the other hand, the issue in the ADL's model hate crime statute, which they have successfully lobbied through most state legislatures, and which is being embodied in federal legislation as well, is that certain forms of speech, such as hostility or contempt for racial or ethnic interest groups may not be unlawful in itself, but when expressed in conjunction with a criminal act, such as graffiti, vandalism, or assault, it should result in a mandatory increase in sentence. hate crime laws. Bonified criminal activity, including violence, is always prosecutable as it should be, but the ADL clearly feels that criminal activity directed against Jews and their clients in the minority community deserves special punishment. However, to make a law singling out a particular interest group for special protection is a touchy subject and consistent civil libertarians attended to oppose the tactic, affirmative action programs aside. So they want They say criminal activity directed against Jews and their clients deserve special punishment. If you listen to, if you ever heard me talk about the book, the authoritarian personality,

which has the F scale in it, which if you take that test, you can find out if you're a fascist or not, or how prone you are to fascism. You can find it online. One of the questions had to do with, do you think that people who are, who touch children should be punished beyond the law. Interesting, huh? They're worried that that wanting to, and I go back to Leo Frank. You know, Leo Frank being dragged out of prison and being lynched, that was a problem.

but here, if you just say anything, you don't have to act, you just have to say if you have belief, if you heard my recent substack talking about how basically total war is war upon belief, then you deserve special punishment. But someone who touches a kid, no, they don't deserve special punishment at all. I always thought it was really weird when I read that. one question. Why did the American Jewish Committee want that in there? The ADL anticipated that laws outlawing acts directed at specific groups as hate crimes might present constitutional difficulties, particularly the Equal Protection Clause. Such laws may also encourage public perception

that special people get special protections, a view that the ADL wishes to discourage. Americans tend to reject group rights and public awareness that the ADL is promoting precisely what could be a public relations blunder. The ADL chose to minimize these complications by focusing its legislative offensive on the sentencing phase of the criminal procedure. This way, one can say that the accused has not been convicted of a special crime designed to provide special protections to special groups, but rather have been convicted of an ordinary crime. Only the punishment is to be more severe because of the circumstances surrounding it. No one is being convicted of a thought crime because of their values, opinions, or beliefs, only sentenced to longer terms because of them.

I've said enough. But why this convoluted tactic? Wouldn't that appellate court... Wouldn't the appellate court see the ruse? In 1993, the Wisconsin Supreme Court did exactly that when it invalidated a state law mandating longer sentences and hate crimes. Many civil libertarians applauded this development. Censusing practices are the neglected area of due process.

One can see this immediately by nashions. noting the wide disparity of sentencing in similar crimes. A simple $100 burglary may bring probation in one case in 20 years in another. Factors only marginally relevant to the seriousness of the crime at hand are allowed in the sentencing process, such as the defendant's appearance in court or courtroom demeanor, the judge's perception of the defendant's repentance, which may say as much about the judge as it does the defendant, or whether or not the defendant pled guilty or had the temerity to demand a trial. Employers, rewarding your staff?

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new heading racial motivation and sentencing policy. The particular case that brought this issue before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1993 involved not a white, but a black defendant in a case of aggravated battery. Todd Mitchell was one of a group of black teenagers who severely beat a 14-year-old white boy in Kenosha, Wisconsin in 1989. The group had just seen the film Mississippi Burning, which glorifies the civil rights move in the 1960s and vilifies its opposition, not a particularly difficult task. When Mitchell and his gang came upon the victim, Mitchell said, there goes a white boy, go get him. They did, and the boy was

seriously injured in the beating that followed. A jury found Mitchell guilty, and he was sentenced two years in prison, the maximum for aggravated battery in Wisconsin. However, the jury, finding that Mitchell chose his victim on the basis of race, went on to increase his sentence to a maximum seven years or a 350% increase. Paradoxically, had Mitchell merely beaten a black person for some other reasons, such as wanting his shoes, he would have been so thoroughly, he would not have been so thoroughly savage as sentencing. Two years would be two years, and he probably wouldn't have gotten that. Mitchell appealed, and the Wisconsin Supreme Court invalidated the longer sentence. They said the state legislature had violated the First Amendment by criminalizing, bigoted thought,

with which it disagrees. Civil rights groups and the ADL were outraged. In April, civil rights groups were outraged. In April 1993, Wisconsin Attorney General James E. Doyle argued the case before the U.S. Supreme Court making the distinction that the case involved conduct and not ideas. As a result of a massive lobbying effort in which the ADL played a major part, 49 other states had filed briefs in support of Attorney General Doyle. The Supreme Court agreed with Doyle and unanimously reaffirmed Mitchell's 350% sentence enhancement. The Supreme Court's reasoning bears special examination. Chief Justice William Rehnquist, writing for the court, said that, quoting, a defendant's abstract beliefs, however obnoxious to most people, may not be taken into consideration by a sentencing judge.

Rangquists offered that those beliefs are no longer abstract once they provide the motive for discriminatory action. Thus, according to his reasoning, a physical assault is not by any stretch of the imagination, expressive conduct protected by the First Amendment. Of course it isn't, and no one argued that it was. Physical assaults are and always have been punishable by law. The court decision is, of course, a can of worms. With this logic, it would be possible to legislate penalty enhancement for thieves whose crimes were motivated by a disrespect for private property, or shoplifters whose pilferage was occasioned by adherence to social doctrines that denigrate the virtue of capitalism. Although one might only be convicted of one offense, the net effect may be to get the equivalent of two times a normal sentence. It might as well be double jeopardy for all practical purposes accompanied by two convictions and two sentences.

However, all may not be lost. If these laws are applied equally to all interracial hate crimes, broadly defined and not primarily in the case for minorities or the alleged victims, the intended but denied discriminatory effect against whites may be blunted, perhaps severely. In the end, this may become another nuisance law that has been proven embarrassing to his proponents by... Sorry. Sorry, sir. Nice thought, but nope. Unforeseen consequences of hate crime legislation. New York University law professor James B. Jacobs has written that the proliferation of hate crimes laws has resulted in apparently unforeseen problems. Attributing the degree of prejudice or racial animosity necessary to establish a hate crime motive is not the least of the problems. Virtually all interracial crimes may be perceived as a hate crime.

crime if the conditions are defined loosely enough. Noting that the original impetus of hate crime legislation was to protect allegedly victimized blacks from victimizing whites, he says, indeed, at some point in the future, some supporters of hate crime laws may be dismayed to find that these laws are frequently used against black offenders. This Black Friday game stream and go full speed with one gig sky broadband and watch unmissable shows like all her fault on Sky. These nice people Killing me, John. And Ballad of a Small Player starring Colin Farrell on Netflix.

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So together, we can create a more reliable, sustainable electricity supply for your community. Find out more at airgrid.i.4.North-Northwest. Such a state of affairs may already be on the horizon, according to no less of a source than the SPLC's clan watch. In December 1993, New York Times reporter Peter Applebaum reported Klan Watch said that in the last three years, 46% of all racially motivated murderers tracked by the group were committed by blacks on victims who were white, Asian, or Hispanic. In an unsigned editorial in the comments section of a June 1993 issue of The New Yorker, these concerns were also expressed, with reference to the 1993 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, in Wisconsin v. Mitchell, the editorial noted that the black youth who had taken part in the beating of a white youth was essentially being punished because his victim wasn't black. The editorial also observed quoting, in Wisconsin, where less than a tenth of the population is non-white, half the defendants in hate crime cases have been minorities. A preliminary FBI report on hate crimes earlier this year found that 30% of the offenders whose race was reported were black. However, in another zinger, the editorial also raised

suspector of the old saw. What goes around comes around, he said, now that the Supreme Court has upheld the Wisconsin statute, it is a safe bet that the law enforcement community, which more often than not is largely white and largely conservative, will find black offenders a more attempting target for hate crimes prosecutions. What might have been the civil rights establishment's worst nightmare occurred in December 1993 when Colin Ferguson, a black man of Jamaican ancestry, deliberately shot and killed six white passengers and wounded 19 other on the Long Allen Railroad commuter train. It was clearly a hate crime for Ferguson raged at Black Uncle Tom's and carried notes on his person expressing his hatred toward white people.

Ferguson had been indicted on 93 counts, including civil rights violation. Black spokesman Jesse Jackson immediately went into damage. control expressing fear of a blacklash and preaching a message of healing and reconciliation. Jackson was reported as saying his second thought upon learning of the killings was hoping against hope it wasn't a black person because I knew there would immediately be a rash of irrational conclusions. But not so worry. Klan watch and Jesse Jackson for Ferguson was portrayed in the media as a victim of white racism on the one hand and a victim of mental illness on the other hand. Had he been a white man who would kill six black people solely because of their

race, we would still be hearing about it. In the meantime, however, the story has disappeared from the news. Kind of shocked that Jesse just didn't go, well, I mean, he's Jamaican. He's not Ados, American descendant of slaves, so he ain't black. Kind of shocked he didn't do that. You'd probably do that now. It's the opinion of this writer and many other observers that an even-handed approach to the hate crime controversy in which equal standards apply and behavior that is considered a hate crime for whites would also be considered a hate crime for blacks or anyone else, would reveal a picture much different than militant anti-racist groups would prefer. Let's take a few examples from the nation's campuses.

In 1989, the situation of black-on-white violence got so bad at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island that University President Vartan Gregorian said he was considering asking for federal help. Brown University was actually built on slaving money. It was built on slaving money. Ship money. According to Robert Reikley, according to Robert Reikley, Vice President for University Affairs,

there have been 16 reported cases since classes began in September, a six-week period, Mr. Reikley said. In most cases, he said, Black men have attacked white male students or have sometimes drawn guns or other weapons. In 1991, University of Illinois officials met with police to discuss an alarming series of assaults on white students by black gangs who apparently attacked the students as part of a gang initiation right. On campus, according to news sources, police said the gang initiation right requires the potential gang member to find a large white male and knock him out with one punch.

The two gangs involved in the assaults from Champaign and Urbana traveled in green. groups of four to 20, and members range in age from 15 to 23. According to news reports, officials expressed concern about a backlash resulting from the attacks. The preceding two cases involved college campuses. It would be inaccurate to say they were commonplace, but neither are they rare. Almost every major university has had its incidents such as these. Sometimes they made local papers, occasionally in the national press. sometimes they were undoubtedly spiked. At the University of Kansas, for example, a group of black

students ascended on a white fraternity with clubs and other weapons shouting threats and insults after a black student had allegedly been insulted there. Fortunately, there was no violence in spite of the fact that terroristic threats were apparently made. Neither the campus press or the local daily mentioned the incident. One has to wonder how many times that occurs nationwide in a year. In virtually every case, however, we can be sure the issue of the issue of the incident. We can be sure the issue of sensitivity and issues of sensitivity are raised, along with the fear of backlash and misunderstanding. If one includes crimes in which an awareness of the victim's race or ethnicity is a factor, then most interracial rapes, armed robberies, and assaults might be considered hate crimes.

Blacks are the perpetrators of the vast majority of these offenses relative to their representation of the population. One could even say that the alleged rage that black field towards white society is a race-specific rage, directed at individual victims on the basis of racial identity, and as we see in the Colin Ferguson case,

often has the same tragic consequences to innocent individuals as any 1920s lynchings in Alabama. The, you mentioned interracial rapes up here. I don't know if it's been picked up again, but when Obama, I think the last year that interracial rapes was reported was 2008, right before Obama got into office.

Because it was, if I remember the numbers correctly, it was from 2007. So for 20,000 black men raped white women, and there were zero reported whites raping blacks. Not saying that it didn't happen, but... Oh, wow. He's quoting Sam Francis here. editorial writer Samuel Francis cites the 1992 case of a 15-year-old white girl who was raped by a gang of young blacks who allegedly told her they picked her because she was white and perfect. According to Francis, the story made the tabloid headlines and passed from human memory the next day.

Obviously disillusioned, he adds, hate crimes aren't for white people. They are the special political and legal privileges of racial and religious minorities, and they are weapons by which white people can be. bullied, bludgeon, beaten, prosecuted, and persecuted into shutting up about race and the cultural institutions that attended. When an even-handed approach is denounced and avoided, of course, the issue becomes highly politicized. Powerful racial and ethnic interest groups have compelling reasons to manipulate the rules and to keep up an appearance of perpetual victimhood. Not only is it extremely useful in promoting a political agenda, but it can have a considerable financial benefits to the victims as well. Many hate crime statutes have provisions for recourse in the

civil courts from monetary damages. These allow victims to sue for special general and punitive damages, a powerful incentive for professional victims and hoaxers. Hate crime McCarthyism. Professor Jacobs also observed that since state of mind is pivotal in establishing a hate-motivated offense, trials may turn into inquisitions on the values, attitudes, and opinions of the defendants, not unlike a 1950s McCarthy I'd invest investigation into the values, attitudes, and opinions of subjected diversives by the House

Un-American Activities Committee. I always hate when they, well, first of all, you know, fuck communists, but I always hate when they talk about McCarthy and Hughack because McCarthy was a senator and Hughack was a House committee. He cites a case in which a man

suspected of a hate-motivated offense was grilled about his relationship with a black neighbor. Did he ever have dinner with her, invite her for a picnic, or go with her to a movie? It's quite likely that the magazines and books, it's quite likely that the magazines and books of defendants, reads, presents, or past memberships in, present, or past memberships in organizations, religious and political beliefs, as well as those of family and friends, could become subject to inquisition and discovery. In his reason article, Jacob Sullen quotes Kevin O'Neill, who wrote the American Civil Liberties Union's brief against the Ohio hate speech law.

Although different from hate crime legislation, because it penalizes speech unrelated to criminal conduct, the law raises related civil liberties issues. O'Neill says, our basic concern about hate crimes legislation in general and Ohio's ethnic intimidation law in particular is that it is an effort by government to punish people for their ideas. indeed it is no amount of weaseling or double talk can obscure the fact, obscure that fact. George Irwell himself could not have imagined as diabolical a scenario for

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I want to welcome everyone back to part three of my reading. of Crying Wolf, Hate Crime Hoaxes in America by Laird Wilcox. Just a reminder, Thomas and I are watching and reviewing movies. If you go to Freemann Beyond The Wall.com forward slash movies. There are links to where you can get them. The latest movie we did was, what was the latest movie we did? We did The Warriors, in 1979. Before that, we did Mad Max, the original.

Mel Gibson, 1979. So go check that out. All right. I'm just going to jump in and start going. So we are up to chapter three about the prevalence of hoaxes and fabrications. How common are hate crime hoaxes? Civil rights, Jewish, and anti-racist groups stress the view that they are unusual and represent the misguided work of disturbed individuals.

On the other end of the spectrum is the view held by genuinely. genuine racist and anti-Semites that a massive conspiracy exists to commit hoaxes and publicize them as bona fide hate crimes. The truth, as might be expected, lies somewhere between these two extreme positions. The problem, however, has long been recognized even by anti-racist authors and journalists, although few of them have written about it. Ben Haas, author of the anti-clan classic KKK, noted that, quote, it would be foolish, of course, to say that all violence, attributed to the clan was actually committed by clansmen or as a clan-sponsored activity. Therein lay the fallacy of the disguise. Any gang of hoodlums that could scare up the requisite

robes and hoods could set out to have some sadistic fund or settle personal grudges, and the onus of their misbehavior would automatically fall on the clan. In all likelihood, the actual extent of racist and antisemitic hoaxes can never be known as long as unsolubes unsolved cases are uniformly regarded as actual and not merely suspected hate crimes. Police who investigate alleged hate crimes cases privately report that a surprising large percent are suspicious and likely hoaxes or pranks. In talking with college and university security officials, I encountered responses ranging from a few, not too many, to damn near all of them. Most officials were cautious and reluctant to talk without some assurance of anonymity, and several merely referred me to administrators who were even more paranoid.

When a figure for hoaxes was ventured, however, it was often in the area of 25 to 30%. This figure has a kind of reasonableness about it, allowing that it probably doesn't hold true for every environment. Deliberate misrepresentations, hoaxes, and frauds are surprisingly commonplace in American political life. They are more likely to occur in those issues where taboos, sensitivity, or fear of being called names are operational, or where the moral imperatives of noble social causes and crusades overwhelm individual judgment. Let's look at a few proven hoaxes involving blacks. In these examples, most people are deeply affected by the emotional impact of the message. Few ask whether the message is actually true.

new heading roots a search for black origins as an example perhaps one of the greatest literary hoaxes with strong racial overtones was committed by alex haley author of the spurious book roots which fraudulently purports to trace his ancestry back to a village in africa what is particularly troublesome about this hoax is that although knowledgeable researchers doubted Haley's work from the beginning. It wasn't until December 1978, when Haley settled a plagiarism lawsuit with Harold Corlander, author of the 1967 novel, The African, for $650,000, that it became clear how seriously Haley had fudged his facts. In the meantime, the book had sold 1.5 million copies, and Alex Haley had won a Pulitzer Prize. Ironically, Haley was quoted on April 10, 1977 in the New York

Times. Quote, it would be a scoop to beat all hell if Roots could be proved to be a hoax, and that's one of the reasons why it's so important to me to document as best I could. The Roots hoax had enormous consequences for the story it fabricated was used to inspire mill intensity in a generation of black people, and was a significant factor in the development of black political power in the post-civil rights movement, 1970s and 1980s. its influence persists to this day. Although the hoax had widely had received widespread publicity, it's still widely regarded as an authentic and inspirational legend,

not uncommonly shown in the nation's schools in order to sensitize white students to the black experience. The television miniseries it generated was viewed by an estimated 130 million people and broke existing Nielsen TV ratings. I remember watching that shit in my house. My parents were half-retarded most of the time when it came to bullshit like this. Subsequent research showed that Haley stole passages from other books and fabricated many of the characters.

Even his pre-Civil War U.S. research, which some records were, where some records were available, was faked. When University of Alabama, Professor Gary Mills and his wife Elizabeth, editor of the National Geographic Social Society quarterly, attempted to document Haley's genealogical work, they concluded, quote, the record showed that Haley got everything wrong in his pre-Civil War lineage. 182 pages and 39 chapters on Haley's Virginia family have no basis in fact. So extensive was the hoax that Harvard professor Oscar Hanlon observed, quote, A fraud's a fraud. Historians are reluctant, cowardly, about calling attention to factual errors

when the general theme is in the right direction. That goes for foreign population. policy for race and for this book. New heading. The Liberators, Black Jewish Reconciliation. A more recent example of a hoax involved fake black history is the 1992 public broadcasting system film, The Liberators, which purports to tell of the part played by the all-black 761st Tank Battalion in the liberation of the Dockout Concentration Camp in April 1945.

Viewed by an audience with 3.7 million people, the film was. was nominated for an Academy Award. The film, largely the work of William Miles and Nina Rosenblum, producers of politically correct documentaries on blacks and women, was designed to ease-strained black Jewish relations. Leaders from black and Jewish communities viewed a special showing of the film and spoke of a common history of oppression. Good sentiments aside, they had chosen a fraudulent vehicle to bring the groups closer.

E. Michael Jones talks about this all the time. and also he points out that our current Secretary of State, what's his name, Benjamin Netanyahu's lawyer, Anthony Blinken, is he uses this saying that, I believe he says his father-in-law was a part of this. He was, when they came to liberate the concentration camp he was in, it was a ten. and reached down a black hand to bring him up to his total horseship. Total horseship. In a February 1992 interview in the New Republic, Rosenblum attacked critics of the film as Holocaust revisionists and attributed their criticism to racism.

But according to former Army Captain David Williams of the 761st, the unit was nowhere near Dachau when the camp was liberated. He says, quote, On April 29, 1945, the 7601st was near Straubing, which is about 70 miles from Dachau as the crow flies. Bridges were down, the tanks were all beat up. There wasn't enough gas. Nobody could have just taken a Sherman tank on 140-mile round trip and not have been noticed missing. We would have been court-martialed.

Philip Latimer, president of the 761st Veterans Group, said, all anybody had to do is look at our history. There's no mention of Docout or Bookenwald. Other doubts about the documentary arose and articles questioning its veracity appeared elsewhere. Finally, in February 1993, WNET TV, a PBS affiliate involved in the film's production, decided to withdraw the liberators from circulation, admitting that the 761st Tank Battalion

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went through what your family went through just tell the story you don't need to make shit new heading dr charles drew death by discrimination one of the more enduring hoaxes has been the falsified account of the death of Dr. Charles Drew, a black physician credited with developing the blood bank system. According to the hoax, Dr. Drew bled to death following a 1955 automobile accident because a white-only hospital refused to treat him. This unfounded tale was repeated by National Urban League Director Whitney Young in a 1964 syndicated column and black historian William Lauren Katz.

That doesn't sound black at all. William Lauren Katz? Huh. Wrote of the spurious incident in his 1971 book, Eyewitness, The Negro in American History. Katz has since acknowledged the error. Really? Admitted a mistake?

I find that hard as belief. Dr. Charles Mason Quick, also a black physician, has said he wants to stamp out this perpetual lie about Dr. Drew. Quick says he personally saw three emergency room doctors worked for two hours trying to save Dr. Drew's life. Drew's injuries included brain damage and he died in the emergency room. Cecil Adams, author of the Straight Dope column in Washington, D.C.'s city paper, reported that Dr. John Ford, one of the passengers who was injured in Dr. Drew's car,

reported that we all received the very best of care. The doctor started treating us immediately. Adams also mentioned a similar hoax involving a famous black blues singer. Quoting, The Drew's story is strangely similar to one told about blues singer Bessie Smith. She too supposedly bled to death after an auto accident when a white hospital refused to admit her. The alleged accident, which occurred in Mississippi in 1937, was even the subject of a play by Edward Alby. Just tell the same, just go to the well, the same well over and over again.

And people aren't supposed to notice. And if you do notice, they call you a racist or an anti-Semite. New heading, Dr. Martin Luther King, a case of plagiarism. There has been no greater black icon than Martin Luther King, whose name became synonymous with the civil rights movement in America, yet controversy plagued his life until his terrible assassination in 1968. It became widely known that he was abusive to women and frequented prostitutes as he traveled across the country. Several of his close associates had long ties to the Communist Party,

what was known until long after, what was not known until long after his death, however, was that his degree as doctor was unearned and in fact the product of fraud. King's degree was awarded for a supposedly original thesis entitled A Comparison of the Conceptions of God and the Thinking of Paul Tillick and Henry Nelson Weierman. He is submitted to Boston University in 195

as part of his requirements for a PhD. Over the years, rumors built up about the originality, of the work, and in 1990, the university established a committee to investigate the alleged plagiarism. In October, 1991, the committee released its findings. There is no question but that Dr. King plagiarized in the dissertation by appropriating material from sources not explicitly credited in notes, or mistakenly credited, or credited generally, and at some distance in the text from a close paraphrase or verbatim quotation. In spite of these highly damaging findings, however, the committee said that no thought should be given to the revocation of Dr. King's doctoral degree from

Boston University. Committee members, through their spokesman, John Cartwright, MLK, professor of social ethics, said, I think it is good to get this behind us. New heading, the absence of healthy skepticism. Most Americans take a surprisingly uncritical and unquestioning attitude towards this problem, because if they question it, they get in trouble, they get called names and, you know, lose your banking and, you know, all sorts of things. You're a bad person. They seem to believe that whatever is said or written or done in the service of a good cause must be truth, particularly if that cause is fighting racism and anti-Semitism. Why, after all, would anyone lie, fabricate, exaggerate, or distort when it seems clear that they are pure of heart? And what if they did? Aren't they doing it for a good cause? And what are those who expose these

deceptions? Isn't this evidence of some kind of covert racism or anti-Semitism? Why would anyone talk bad about a good cause? In short, those who lie and distort are the good guys, and those who pursue the facts of the matter are the bad guys. This is a pretty incredible situation, indeed. For example, the elaborate rape hoax concocted by Tawanna Brawley, her mother and Reverend and Al Sharpton was accepted at face value by politicians in the media. It brought about a virtual orgy of white guilt and anti-racist agitation, and we were made to feel that in some metaphysical way, we were all somehow responsible for what happened to this young black girl.

Finally, an intensive investigation revealed the hoax that should have been suspected early on. There are still people who believe that the story must have something to it. You even heard the argument that if it didn't happen to her, it might have happened to someone else somewhere or sometime. It became a question of the identity of the victim and alleged victimizers and not one of facts or evidence. For many people, that Tijuana Brawley was black was all they needed to know. Nothing else carried as much significance as her minority status. New heading. Victimhood pays. In terms of cost-benefit analysis, the actual payoff for victimhood can be very high and the risk of discovery of a hoax is very small.

issue of secondary gain plays an important part in racist and anti-Semitic hoaxes, and the search for an answer to this troubling phenomenon is well served by the question, who benefits? When a hoaxer gets caught, which isn't often, they are fallback positions which can put a positive spin on the incident. The hoaxer's status may be reframed so that blaming the victim can be invoked, whereby the hoax is understandable, or he may become mentally ill, which also removes any responsibility for the hoax. Barry Dov Shus, geez, what a pattern. Responsible for several, apparently anti-Semitic arsons, wanted to keep

awareness of anti-Semitism alive, and until he was caught, accomplished it through a series of arsons in Hartford's Jewish community. I'm not even going to go into that story, but Hearts for Jewish community. The genesis of that and how that was established? Oh, oh. I'm planning on having somebody on who told me the story of that. Maybe I'll bring that up.

Psychiatric treatment was the major part of his punishment. The rest was probation and a suspended sentence. In the case of Sabrina Collins, who fabricated harassment and death threats, the county prosecutor said she needed counseling and treatment, not prosecution for her hopes. I did not uncover a case where a white non-minor. already defendant in a hate crime. Prosecution was treated so generously or relieved of responsibility in such a manner. With hoaxes, the nature of the offense makes discovery difficult. Telephone harassment, for example, usually leaves no forensic evidence unless the problem is severe

enough for police to order a monitoring device. Obviously now, that's almost impossible. This happened in several of the hoaxes mentioned in this essay. A telephone message serviced by the Oklahoma a white man's association was being sabotaged by endless incoming calls tying up the line. The group complained to the police and the telephone company who installed tracing, telephone company installed tracing equipment on the line. An investigation showed that the local Jewish community center, where a computer was apparently automatically dialing call after call, was the very source of the problem. In spite of hard evidence of the contrary, Jewish Community Center director David Bernstein

said, we have no computer. computers here and were not jamming any phones. No criminal charges were filed. In other cases, both Buzz Cody and Lori wrecked, both of whom fabricated anti-Semitic death threats, were entrapped with telephone tracing equipment. In the case of defacing property with racist and anti-Semitic graffiti, investigation is made only slightly easier. Spray-painted graffiti, unlike handwritten or typewritten material, cannot be pinned down. In two cases mentioned in this study, the discovery of the very spray can in the possession of the victims led to their prosecution, but both were acquitted on the basis of insufficient evidence. They just saw it. It was, it was just laying on the ground,

and they picked it up, and they just decided to walk with it. Just a spray can in their hand. I don't know that that was your argument, but that's, I guess, if I was a fucking moron and a piece of shit, lawyer, that's what I'd come up with. The eyewitness account is often an important factor in hoax investigation. In many cases, it was this that led authorities to suspect fabrication. The factor here was inconsistent testimony or different hoaxes by different witnesses, different stories by different witnesses, or physical evidence of lying. Where the possibility of hoax exists, the witness, who is often the victim,

should be interrogated by a person's skill in that area. Surprisingly, the cover story often isn't very well prepared and can be cracked with reasonable effort. In the case of Quentin Banks, who faked a racist assault in death threats. It was a skilled interrogator who caught him in a number of contradictions and broke the case. Inflation pushes up building costs, so it's important to review your home insurance cover to make sure you have the right cover for your needs. Under-insurance happens where there's a difference between the value of your cover and the cost of repairing damage or replacing contents. It's a risk

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incident to intimidate an institution, sensitize a population, polarize an issue, or silence critics. Victimization, genuine or faith, can accomplish more in minutes than months of organizing, agitation, and propaganda. The personal benefits are impressive as well. Many hoaxers have received substantial assistance from sympathizers and well-wishers, as in the case of Patricia Anderson and Lee Williams, who vandalized their own house and received offers of clothing, gifts, and money. Lori Wrecked, who faked death threats and graffiti,

became a celebrity for her victimhood and wound up with a scholarship in an honorary doctor of humane letters before her hoax was discovered. The most important benefits of victimization are psychological, however. The delicious sense of importance and meaning to one's life that victimization brings is often overlooked as a motive and hoaxes of the kind illustrated here. I suspect it plays a very significant role. The paranoid personality with its tendency to interpret everyday experience in vigilant and suspicious terms revels in the attention of recognized victimization.

Victimization gives dignity to the undignified, importance to the unimportant, and a kind of, I told you so, self-fulfilling prophecy that explains failure and disappointment as few things can. Not being liked because becomes less of a question of what is wrong with you than what is wrong with others who don't like you. Some people become important and valued for what they do, their contributions to their loved ones, to their careers into society, others for what is done to them. In the former case, many years of forming character traits and a reputation are required,

and the resulting importance can be seen as a reward for recognized accomplishment. In the latter case, no such accomplishment is required, only that one is victimized. Victimization is instant fame, instant sympathy, and often in some form or another instant compensation. Whatever shortcomings on popularity or character flaws one has are eclipsed by the wickedness of one's alleged persecutors. having the right enemies can often lead to acquiring the right friends. In a prospective article on victimization appearing in the New York Times magazine a few years ago, Joseph Epstein discussed the issue of motivation quite perceptively. Quoting,

Victimhood has not only its privileges, but its pleasures. To begin with, it allows one to save one's sympathy for that most sympathetic of characters, oneself. The pleasures of victimhood, including imbeating. viewing one's life with a sense of drama. The drama of daily life is greatly heightened if one feels a society is organized against one. To feel oneself excluded and set apart is no longer obviously or even necessarily a bad thing. People who count and call themselves victims never blame themselves for their condition.

They therefore have to find enemies. New heading. Hate crimes harmful to bona fide racist hate groups. There's a very important point that needs to be understood here. Bonified racist and anti-Semitic harassment is invariably counterproductive for bona fide racist and anti-Semites. The quickness and skill with which racist and anti-Semitic incidents, including hoaxes, are used to galvanize anti-racist support in a community is amazing. No benefit accrues to racist and antisemites, and the cost are enormous. Not only does law enforcement immediately

start targeting suspects for questioning, but efforts to entrap them in other offenses steps up as well. Who benefits? The honest answer is not white racist and anti-Semitic groups. So damaging to real anti-Semites and racists are desecrations and graffiti that one bona fide anti-Semite Joseph Mlott-Mrose of Salem, Massachusetts, was arrested for attempting to paint over anti-Semitic graffiti on a local synagogue. He claimed that the graffiti was intended to create a false impression of anti-Semitic harassment in the community. Malat Maros was charged with malicious destruction of property over $250 in civil rights violations, both felonies, according to newspaper reports. Inflation pushes up building costs, so it's important to review your home insurance cover to make sure you have the right cover for your needs.

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white power sprint-painted on the garage doors of their house at 7.30 a.m. one morning. This was allegedly the ninth time their home had been the target of anti-Semitic attacks. A public relations professional, Ms. Brett Elspas, immediately went into high gear, and by 8.30 a.m., she was faxing a news released to area television and radio stations. Quoting, by noon we had finished several newspaper interviews and had posed for photos for each. Throughout the day, we did more interviews by phone and two major Los Angeles all-news radio stations and a variety of local, national, and international Jewish publications. And when five television crews showed up at 4 p.m., just one hour before the start of the Jewish Sabbath,

we held an impromptu press conference in our living room. Within a week, the Los Angeles Times has done three major stories and the Daily Breeze, a Torrance Daily, published three major articles based in interviews with a couple. Numerous radio and TV stations had covered the incidents and stories ran in several Jewish newspapers. The incident and resulting publicity were instrumental in rewriting a city ordinance dealing with hate crimes, and an ad hoc committee was formed to deal with graffiti and hate crimes. At the time of this writing, the case remains unsolved. All right.

Chapter 4. On the campus. The college and university campus, because of its young and imaginative population and also because of the immense pressure for political correctness, is a hotbed of hotbed of sensitivity and awareness of ethnicity and race. It is not surprising that a large number of hoaxes and pranks occur there, including some of the more imaginative cases. It's also on the campus that most of the unreported hoaxes occur, i.e., they are discovered to be hoaxes early enough that they simply are never reported in the campus or community Press. Cases. Quentin E. Banks, a black student at Northwest Missouri University in Maryville, reported a racially motivated assault and death threats against himself to university officials in October 1988. Following extensive media attention, rumors of a Ku Klux Klavern among NMU students emerged and the campus shifted into a crisis atmosphere. Even the president of NMU, Dean Hubbard bought the story saying, quote, We believe the Clavern is made up of about five students who are distributing the leaflets and letters on the students' cars and under their doors.

The U.S. Marshal's office and the FBI have told us that this is a violation of the student's civil rights. We'll catch one of them these days at it. At a campus rally, some 200 students, faculty and administrators protested that racism instigated by the Ku Klux Klan didn't belong on campus or in Maryville and that it would not be tolerated. In fact, there was no clavron at an NMU, although as many as 15 black students had reported finding KKK flyers on windshields and dormitory doors. James A. Moran, Grand Dragon of a two-man KKK Claverin in nearby Kansas City, took advantage of the publicity and announced,

will grow and prosper off their paranoia with plans to exploit the situation. Newspaper accounts portrayed the campus as a hotbed of racism as the situation gained the national spotlight. The case unraveled a month later when the principal victim came clean and confessed to having fabricated the entire story. On the strength of the original complaint by Banks, 18, the university had summoned assistance from the FBI and a special unit of the Justice Department.

Later, when President Hubbard began noticing, inconsistencies in Banks' account of the alleged incident, he summoned a special investigator from the Missouri Highway Patrol. During the course of an interrogation by Sergeant Larry R. Stobbs of the patrol, Banks broke down and confessed to his hopes. During the several week period when Bank's story had been believed, he had been a campus hero, talked about, and admired for his victimization. School officials encouraged Banks to address freshman classes on his alleged experiences. I found a flyer. According to Hubbard, the student became the center of much attention following the incidents.

Banks was subsequently suspended for school for two years. He claims that all he did was devise a really big calculated plan to test university policy on non-discrimination. At the University of Kansas at Lawrence, students awoke one January 1992 morning to find flyers from a purported conservative Christian crusade posted throughout the campus. The flyer contained neo-Nazi icons, a border resembling a series of swastik as a flaming sword, and three imperial eagles at the bottom. The content in the flyer was calculated to provoke the radical anti-racist and multicultural forces on the campus. It stated in part, aren't you tired of minority special interest groups being given preferential treatment on this campus? As the radical minority pressure groups indulge in historical revisionism, it is our duty to oppose the orgy of white male bashed. threatening to destroy academic structure of our university.

Join your brothers on Friday, January 17th on Westgo Beach at noon to show the administration and the community of cultural extortionists the power of our voices. We must be heard. When the appointed date came, the area was filled with 200 anti-racist, feminist, gay rights, and multicultural counter demonstrators, all expressing their indignation over the message on the flyer. that couldn't have smelled good at all. Led by Anne Weike, chairwoman of the Lawrence Alliance and Dean of Social Welfare Department at the university,

the group was apparently disappointed that no one from the conservative Christian crusade had decided to appear. Nevertheless, a good consciousness raising time was had by all, including speeches condemning racism, sexism, homophobia and so on. In point of fact, there was no such group as a conservative Christian crusade. A hunt on and off campus failed to turn up a single member or even anyone who said they had heard of the organization prior to the flyers. The KU Department of Religious Studies was not familiar with the group. Campus police checked all local print shops and failed to find any who had printed the flyers. KU police lieutenant John Mullen said, as far as we know, there is no organization whatsoever by that name.

He also said the flyer was a hoax. The writer contacted the few bona fide right-wing students on the campus, and none of them had heard of the group, although they acknowledged they would like to. Quoting, Laird Wilcox, former KU student and founder of the Wilcox collection of contemporary political movement, said that the flyer was obviously designed to stigmatize the ideas associated with and aroused anger and hatred toward them. The quasi-swastika, the burning sword, and the Imperial Eagles are not particularly subtle attempts to evoke Nazi connotations, both on a conscious and subconscious basis, he said. The terms conservative and Christian as well, the reference to skin color and race, white male bashing, and brothers named the groups intended to be stigmatized. The reference of the academic structure of our university completes the suggestion of linkage between the interests of conservative Christian, white males, Nazi imagery, and the university administration and its policies. It's actually a rather clever creation.

Wilcox also said that any thinking conservative Christian or white male activist would realize that the flyer would create a negative response would be entirely counterproductive. Ask yourself who actually benefited from this incident. It certainly wasn't any conservative Christians or white males who wound up being portrayed as Nazi sympathizers and racist. A year and a half later, a year and a half after the incident and ongoing investigation had failed to turn up any trace of the group, conservative Christian crusade. Black students at Williams College in Massachusetts were horrified in February 1993 to find three Rachel slurs written on notebook paper posted on the door of the Black Student Union Building. The event took place five days before the start of Black History Month.

The campus convulsed with social consciousness, spasms, and indebted. indignant speeches condemning racism. 7.7% of the students at Williams are black. The notes posted on the rice door had said, die, n-words, go home, and words, and words are worth less than dirt under this house. I wonder how much of this was really misspelled. The black student union covered the campus with posters deploring the act and challenging students to examine themselves for racist attitudes. Shortly afterwards, Dean Joan Edwards

informed the campus without specifying the student's race that a student had confessed to the act. Although rumors spread on campus, it was a full 10 days before the Williams record, the campus newspaper, reported that Gilbert Moore, a black student, had been suspended. Interestingly, even though Moore had informed the black student union of his acts when he confessed the university authorities, the BSU continued to exploit the incident. as a bona fide case of white racism until the student newspaper reported otherwise. The newspaper had criticized the BSU. On the many days of Christmas, the Guinness Storehouse brings to thee.

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Two other black students, James Kenny and Daryl Carpenter, also found the word N, on the door of the room they share in the same building. Williams reported the incidents. He opined that the slurs were related to Black History Month, currently being observed on the campus. The incident reminded students of an off-campus prank cross-burning three years previously in which two white students were expelled in charge with ethnic intimidation and harassment. As might be expected, the campus was electrified. Williams, a member of the Black Action Society, was quoted in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette

as saying, racism is not something you're born with. It's something you're taught. Students didn't have to wait long for the culprits to come clean. It was Williams himself, who confessed to both incidents before campus police. Police filed criminal mischief a summary offense, and ethnic intimidation charges a misdemeanor against Williams, none of which were likely to involve jail time. An attempted racist frame-up occurred at Ohio Dominion College in Columbus, Ohio, December

1988, when white student Michael A. Smith, 22, found himself under arrest for sending threatening letters to 13 black students and faculty members. The threats were worded in the same way, as was a section of a term paper on prejudice he had submitted to Janice D. Hamlet, a black teacher at the school. Hamlet had pointed out the similarities in the documents, which immediately implicated Smith. The letter, stated death to all ends and dumb Puerto Ricans, I can vouch for the second part. However, two Columbus police detectives who had taken a class from Hamlet took an interest in the case. Hamlet had been outraged by Smith's use of N in his term paper and had tried unsuccessfully

to get him expelled. Forensic examination of the envelopes, the threatening letters had been mailed in turned up Hamlet's fingerprints and in the examination of her typewriter determined that the letters had been written on it. In fact, she had copied part of Smith's essay and mailed it to the 13 blacks and then discovered that they were worded in the same manner. Ethnic intimidation charges against Smith were dropped, and Hamlet was charged with two felony accounts of ethnic intimidation and two misdemeanor accounts of aggravated menacing. The unequal treatment of Smith and Hamlet raised considerable controversy on the campus.

Smith was immediately suspended without a hearing after being accused of sending the flyer. while university officials appointed a fact-finding committee to investigate the charges against Hamlet. Also, Smith was arrested at the school and hauled off in handcuffs to a patrol car. One would think that such a damaging fabrication would have ended Hamlet's career. At last report, however, she had returned to Kent State University to complete a PhD. Michael Smith subsequently filed suit against the university for $6 million and was awarded an undisclosed account in 19, In Atlanta, Georgia, a black freshman at Emory University claimed she had been the victim of racist attacks in her school dorm in April 1990. She had discovered the phrases hang ends and die and die written under a rug in her closet as well as carved on her tampons in a drawer.

Sabrina Collins, 18, also claimed to have received two letters threatening to lynch her. In addition, bleach was poured on some of her clothes and stuffed animals, and the phrase, and hang was written on the wall of her closet. Leach. Huh. Huh. Smollett. Huh. Never mind. Despite an alarm that police installed in Collins' room, the incident continued. Police eventually determined that a threatening letter had a grammatical error. The victim commonly made that it was typed on the sort of typewriter found in her place of employment, and it had no fingerprint on it but hers. In the meantime,

Collins was hospitalized and became mute. Two weeks later, she was released after having recovered her speech. The incident triggered a march by 700 students in a sit-in in front of the administration demanding a crackdown on campus racism. Black leaders in Atlanta got into the act, perpetrating demands against hate crimes. Although it was speculated virtually from the start that Collins might be responsible for the events, considerations of sensitivity kept the lid on this aspect of the case for several months. Finally, police reports were leaked that confirmed suspicions. DeKalb County prosecutor Ralph Bowen

announced that he will not pursue charges against Collins. He said that Collins needs counseling and treatment, not prosecution. It almost seems like a script. The Collins case is interesting in a number of respects. Otis Smith of the Atlanta chapter of the end of ACP, perhaps without realizing, admitted the utility of hoaxes in the following. statement. Quote, It doesn't matter to me whether she did it or not because of all the pressure these black

students are under at these predominantly white schools. If this will highlight it, if it will bring it to the attention of the public, I have no problem with that. According to Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz, quoting, Ms. Collins first submitted her reports of racial harassment shortly after she was formally accused of cheating on a chemistry test. Hmm. Dershowitz noted that the ends justify the means when it comes to racism mentality will inevitably

lead to false accusations being directed at innocent people. A widely publicized case of anti-Semitic graffiti bears special attention because of the manner in which it was handled, although the suspected perpetrator was eventually acquitted of the charges. Students at the State University of New York in Birmingham were shocked to find anti-Semitic slogans spray painted inside the door of the Jewish Student Union office in November 1988. The slogans kill circles and Zion Nazi racists were sprayed the day after the fifth anniversary of Kristelnacht were Nazis terrorized Jews in 1938's Germany.

Jeez. Why? authorities investigating and was it who actually did never mind authorities investigating the incident soon zeroed in a suspect he was james oppenheim former president of the jewish student union according to the benay brith hellel foundation in washington jewish students represent 50% of the school's enrollment one of the highest ratios of any public university in the nation sunni binghamson's Richard E. D. Die responded to the accusation with the statement that Oppenheim is entitled to full participation in all aspects of university life and that this should not be an occasion for prejudicing a person or a group. In September 1989, Oppenheim 20 was arrested by state

police in charge with fourth degree criminal mischief and third degree false reporting of a crime. These relatively minor misdemeanor offenses rarely result in jail time upon conviction. The manner in which the case was handled is a fascinating study. State police investigator Charles Gould, responsible for filing charges, said of Oppenheim, he's not a bad kid. The Binghamton Press Sun Bulletin quoted police investigators as saying, quote, Oppenheim was trying to broaden recognition of anti-Semitism following a mediocre showing at a memorial to the victims of the Nazi Kristallnock program. Student Association President Craig Spiegel read a statement that warned against judging Oppenheim before due process takes a chorus of reminding students that

anti-semitism, racism, sexism, homophobia, and other forms of oppression existed on our campus. Three weeks later, Oppenheim was selected to the Harpur College Council, the Liberal Arts College of Sunni Binghamton. Rabbi Arnold Ferdig described Oppenheim as an emotionally highly committed young man devoted to Jewish causes on the campus. And we cancel our radicals. In addition to being portrayed as sincere, if misguided, Oppenheim had another advantage. His father was an attorney and knew that the evidence against his son could be challenged. Aside from non-specified circumstantial evidence, the primary item was the very can of spray paint with James Oppenheim's fingerprints found hidden in his desk at the Jewish Student Center,

not even a good criminal. This would seem incriminating enough, but the case was made that Oppenheim had just picked up the can and hit it so it wouldn't get lost. The judge accepted this account. In December 1989, Oppenheim was acquitted of all charges. In all fairness, the decision for acquittal should be respected. At the time of this writing, no one else had been apprehended, and there were no other suspects.

The Dartmouth Review, a politically conservative, student weekly newspaper had been a thorn in the side of high-ranking administrators, some professors, and campus leftists at Dartmouth University in New Hampshire for 10 years. Its editors have been harassed and vilified for their values, opinions, and beliefs, and their more extreme critics have gone so far as to accuse them of racism and anti-Semitism. These critics had their fondest dreams fulfilled when a copy of the review appeared on the eve of Yom Kippur on October 3rd, 1990 with their usual credo, a quotation from former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, replaced with a quotation from no less than Adolf Hitler himself.

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Interestingly, like many conservative campus publications, the review had been exceedingly strong in support of Israel against the Palestinians, but that brought them no protection from false charges of anti-Semitism. It will not. Do not bend an inch a centimeter to your enemies, ever. The substitution was immediately recognized as sabotage. Review editors and staff quickly apologized, even taking out ads in the campus newspaper, and began searching for the culprit.

it. Amazingly, Dartmouth University President James Friedman, along with numerous leftist student groups and off-campus activists, persisted in treating the quotation as if it was actually represented the policies of the paper and was the collective responsibility of everyone who wrote for it. A appalling bigotry of this kind has no place at the college or in this country, Friedman said. Review editor-in-chief Kevin Pritchett, who is black and rather sensitive to racism, was not amused. our knowledge is that it was an inside job by one or more staff members. Friedman's tirade against a review was so bituprative that former U.S. Treasury Secretary William E. Simon

responded in an essay in the New York Times to the effect that, quote, Friedman led the campus in a nationally publicized rally against hate that quickly metamorphosed metamorphosed into a instrument of hate. hate directed against student journalists who, as a result, suffered death warnings of threats of violence, as well as mean-spirited accusations. As a result of the furor and as a result of complaints about the reviews editorial content from anti-racist groups, Barry Palmer, chairman of New Hampshire's Human Rights Commission, undertook a review of two years back copies of the paper. Said Palmer, I read every single thing they wrote about teachers, our reviews editorial.

I reviewed editorials and editorial cartoons, and I didn't find any hints of bigotry or prejudice. After reviewing two years of the publication, I began wondering what all the fuss was about. Although no one was ever charged in the hoax, suspicion boiled down to a couple of staff members who have since left the paper. Pedro House Jr. of Cranford, New Jersey, was caught in the act of painting a series of racist and anti-Semitic slurs on a restroom wall inside a building on Union County College's Cranford campus in December 19. 1989. House, who is black, is a postal employee in South Orange, New Jersey, and a part-time student at the college. Cranford Police Captain Harry Wilde said that offensive graffiti was found in the same restroom on eight different days within the past two months. The graffiti had become an issue around which anti-racist groups had rallied on the campus. Police also seized materials allegedly used to mark the drawings and epithets, which included swastikas and quotations about white power,

Adolf Hitler, Jews, and blacks. House had been active in anti-racist movements. John Grace, a black freshman at Middlebury College and Middlebury, Vermont, had been at school less than a week in September 1983 before he got the first racist note taped to his window. The next day, he got a second note, which said, die, N. Blacks on the campus rally to his side. Erica Wanakot, dean of students, began her investigations and uncovered the horrible racist who had victimized Grace. She didn't have to look far. We conducted a vast handwriting check,

and it was pretty clear it was his handwriting. He was confronted with it and admitted he had done it. In addition to the fake notes, Grace had also broken a window. The school, however, did not press charges. Mrs. Wilcott said, he's obviously a young man with a lot of problems. You said a mouthful. Berkeley, California, police reported that there had been four it attacks on white students by black students at Berkeley High School following the appearance of a racist leaflet on the campus in December 1991. The leaflet thanked, thanked blacks for killing one another in gang violence, among other things, and mimic the stereotype of a white supremacist production. Two days later, police had located the flyer's author. He was black journalist Matthew Stelly,

a reporter for the Black Weekly Milwaukee Courier. The leaflet claimed to originate from the KKK. Handed out to students at a Berkeley public transportation station, the leaflet brought an immediate, almost immediate reaction, according to Oakland Tribune reporter Robert Hollis, quoting, that morning, seven or eight black teenagers whose school officials said were angry over the leaflet attacked the number of white students, four of whom were injured. Police arrested one 15-year-old sophomore after he was identified by one of the students. Stelly is quoted as saying he wrote the flyer as a reverse psychology ploy to try and and get these people, gang members, to stop this madness.

Planned carefully, the risk of discovery of a racial hoax is minimal. However, even when a hoax is discovered, it may still serve its intended purpose. An example of this occurred at Pennsylvania State University at State College when an unidentified man placed six help-wanted ads in the student newspaper asking for colored nannies in January 1979. The expected and intended outrage resulted in several demands upon the administration. Quoting, about 75 students met with Provost Edward D. Eddie and demanded that the school increased a number of black students, professors, and programs to and provide more financial aid for blacks.

The newspaper printed an apology in its help-wanted columns, but editor David Skidmore said a second apology would not be run. He said the incident was being used to bring attention to a host of complaints by local black organizations. The six phony ads had been accepted, by a junior staff member and were not approved by the newspaper senior staff. The hoax was discovered after a search for the man who placed the ads. It was learned that the ads originally appeared in a South African newspaper and that they were placed in opposition to South Africa's racial policies. Two break-ins at Rockville, Maryland's Richard Montgomery High School resulted in incredible $650,000

in damages in February 1990. Included in this figure was damaged to the library computers, storage and administration offices. In addition, gas jets were opened in the chemistry laboratory filling the school with natural gas, threatening an explosion. According to news reports, the culprits in an effort to implicate white supremacist skinheads drew swastikas on the walls and books and life-threatening anti-Semitic messages signed by Nazi youth. Investigators soon found those responsible when two students reported another student's account of the destruction.

Arrested were Jason Wesley Knight, who is black, and Stephen Lawrence, Bonner, 18, who is Jewish. Bonner reportedly said that Knight wanted to destroy the school, and Knight's attorney Myra P. Kovach said Mr. Bonner took the lead. The incident, as intended, was originally reported as a hate crime. At San Bernardino Valley College, a campus officer brought KKK flyers to work in order to make others aware that such literature was being circulated. The flyers were left on a table so other officers could familiarize themselves with them.

However, when Arthur Johnson, 37, a black campus security officer, found one of the flyers in the campus mailbox in January 1992, he charged a fellow officers that placed it there as a form of harassment. Later, he confessed to placing the flyer in his mailbox himself. News reports noted that, quote, Johnson's accusations prompted an FBI investigation and sparked complaints about alleged racism. Reach it home by phone, Johnson declined to say much. I want to make all the right moves, said Johnson, a five-year veteran of the campus police force. Let me see what their hand is going to be.

You know, I'm no fool or nothing. You know I had a reason. Chancellor Stuart Bundy commented that the affair had taken a serious toll on the college. That department has been totally demoralized. The board of trustees has been charged as racist, he said. All right. So next time we get together, start on chapter five. And, yeah, I hope you're getting something out of this.

And I think at this point, if nothing, this is really just showing the genesis of where we are now. One of the things I'm looking at in this is that all of these people are, claiming victim status, when they're basically, many of them, like the girl at Emory, it's probably there as part affirmative action. A lot of them probably don't even belong there, and they're playing the victim card when they're not a victim. Some of us, when we talk about the way Europeans, whites, Christians, are being treated. we get accused to playing the victim card.

Yet, you can watch the evening news, you can watch cable news, and they're openly declaring a war on the white population. They're saying they're doing it. I mean, I know imagine if the roles were reversed and pointing out hypocrisy or anything like that is just old at this point. but if that was white people on the TV talking about how you know, black people are no good and

their time has come you can just imagine but no, they're openly calling out whites, Europeans, Christians, white men, conservative women, women who want to stay home and have children. It's not, you're not playing the victim

when you can present over and over again, you know, videos that have been compiled where they just show that white people need to be destroyed. This isn't a victim. We just have to understand where we are, understand who we are, and figure out what needs to be done. There were ads during this.

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See you next time for Part 4. Take care. Bye. I want to welcome everyone back to Part 4 of my reading of Crying, Wolf. Hate Crime Hoaxes in America by Laird Wilcox. Quick reminder about Thomas and I doing movie reviews, watching movies, commenting on them. If you go to my website, Freemam Beyond the Wall.com forward slash movies. You see all the movies that we've recorded and how you can access them.

All right. I'm going to jump in in Chapter 5, and we may not get through this one. This is a long chapter. kind of strange, but, you know, considering the first heading is blacks. So, yep, here we go. Chapter 5. By far, the largest number of hoax incidents involve black victims and non-black, usually white offenders. This is true, both on the campus and in the community.

The most common motive is to capitalize on the psychological benefits of victimization or to promote a specific personal, social, or political agenda. But other motives such as insurance fraud and attempts to cover up other crimes are not uncommon. Some hoaxes are simple pranks. They got out of hand, but the majority involves some degree of planning and deliberate organization. New heading, cases. He already touched on this one, but it's a good one to come back to. I remember this one clearly.

In November 1987, a Black Wopinger's Falls, New York teenager, Tijuana Brawley, claimed to have been kidnapped for several days, raped by white men, smeared with dog feces, placed in a plastic garbage bag, and marked with racial slurs. The case quickly became a cause-seleb with editorials, marches, and politicians and media personalities deploring the incident and the racist climate that obviously led to it. Reverend Al Sharped and a black activist with a shady background became spokesman for the Brawley family and insisted that justice be done and the white men responsible be prosecuted. The incident fueled support for hate crime legislation around the nation as the case was reported nightly on network news. Yeah, I was living in Florida at the time, and it was on the news every damn night. Tijuana Brawley and her handlers basked in nationwide attention and acquired victim status on a scale rarely seen. Discreancies in her story were evident from the very beginning. A claim that she had been raped and brutalized by three white police officers quickly fizzled out underexamine. A detailed investigation determined that she was seen by friends during the period she said she was held captive and that she spent much of this time in an apartment previously rented by her family.

Other elements of her story were gradually eliminated one by one, and police subsequently reported that the Brawley case was a massive fabrication and hoax. What made the Bradley case outstanding was the incredible media-feeding frenzy that took place. Although there was reason for skepticism virtually from the beginning, newspaper and television media were slow to pick up on the implausible nature of the allegations. Only at, newspaper and television media, they were slow to pick up on it. They didn't want to pick up on it. They wanted to capitalize on it for several reasons. It just doesn't have to be one reason ever for anything.

It's several reasons. Only after the doubt was substantial and clearly, pointing in the direction of a hoax was the public informed. New York Post columnist Eric Brindell commented that radical attorney William Cuncelor had said concerning the Brawley case. It makes no difference anymore whether the attack on Tijuana really happened. A lot of black women are treated the way she says she was treated.

A lot of black women are kidnapped by police held in apartments smeared with dog feces, raped over and over again. They're put in a garbage back. Is that what William Consular would have us believe? Three years after the case broke, the Brawley matter was still being litigated. According to news reports, a county prosecutor was defamed by a black teenager who falsely claimed he was one of six white men who abducted and raped her. A judge ruled.

State Supreme Court Judge Ralph Bindsner ruled Tuesday that Tijuana Brawley intentionally inflicted emotional distress on Stephen Paganus, a former assistant district attorney for Duchess County. A special grand jury cleared Mr. Pogonis of any involvement in the Brawley case and concluded Ms. Brawley fabricated the story. As the Brawley incident was capturing headlines in Wappinger Falls, 25 miles away in Kingston, New York, another racial hate crime hoax was brewing. Police had discovered the nude body of 19-year-old Anna Kithcart,

a black woman who had been strangled, beaten, and killed, on both eyes were carved the initials KKK, an obvious reference to the Ku Klux Klan. The community was shocked and it seemed clear that malignant racism had once again struck an innocent black person. But not for long. Within days, police investigation focused on Jeffrey Allen Dawson, a 29-year-old black man with a criminal record. Dawson was arrested after he made incriminating statements about the murder to a wired undercover policeman. Kingston Police Department sources said the murder was apparently drug-related. As for alleged KKK connection, Ulster County District Attorney Michael Kavanaugh said,

nothing would lead us to believe that this murder was committed by members of any racial hate group, such as a KKK. Interestingly, two Brawley family advisors, Reverend Al Sharpton and Alton Maddox Jr., got on the bandwagon in this case, too. Sharp then a Maddox were soon conducting their own investigation in the slaying. Said Maddox, I believe it was a racially motivated crime. Yeah, it was, but not in the way you're talking about. October 1991, two cross burnings reported South Seattle, Washington. The first cross was 30 inches tall, the second cross never actually ignited.

Aaron Briggs, one of the victims, said, it makes me sad that we have not come as far as I thought we had come. Predictably, the KKK-style cross-burning sent a shock through the community. Sensitivities were raised, racism was deplored, and anti-racist forces were energized. Three months later, the monster was captured. Unlike most other cases where the culprit is vilified and condemned, and where no excuse whatsoever will do, the case was reported with kindness and understanding and with a charity and compassion unusual in stories of racist criminals.

Here's why. When they heard the confession of a troubled 16-year-old who admitted he was behind a string of cross-burnings and racial vandalism against black people in southern Seattle, police were stunned and saddened. The youth, who also was black, told police he committed the acts of vandalism to create fear that would attract the media. Captain Douglas Dills, who heads the police section that investigates malicious harassment or hate crimes, said it appears that the youth had a fascination with both national and local media coverage of racism, and racial incidents. The teenager is not only under suspicion in a string of malicious hate harassment crimes, but in several arsons as well.

You know what that tells me? That tells me that he's a victim. Because he had to watch all of that and see it. The newspaper also reported that the youth might have been inspired by a Phil Donahue TV show the day before about hate crimes. According to police, the arrest cleared up a lot of, large number of unsolved cases of allegedly racially motivated crimes in the community, all registered in the statistics kept by anti-racist groups.

One of the most convoluted and bizarre hate crime hoaxes was exposed in Portland, Oregon in October 1992. Hoaxes can be very elaborate and almost always require some degree of planning. But the case of Azalea Cooley, 40, a black lesbian, involved a series of misrepresentations, distortions, and outright lies covering up to eight years, including false claims of disability that left her wheelchair bound and a bogus racial harassment that began as far back as 1985 when she allegedly received death threats. In 1983, Cooley moved in with Susan Sullen, whom she had been dating since 1981.

Wow, it took that long. In 1986, she claimed she had been diagnosed with cancer, and quit her job as a corrections officer. Cooley and Sown, also a corrections officer, continued to live together and were active in community politics. I am completely shocked by that. The most recent reports of racial harassment began on May 3, 1992,

when racist graffiti was painted on Cooley and Sown's house. Following that, the word N was painted on the house. A note card with Hitler lives, death to all ends, was found on the doorstep and a swastika with the words burn and burn was written on Cooley's wheelchair ramp. Over a period of week, some 17 hate crimes incidents occurred, none of which police were able to solve. Hitler lives death to all. Can someone point to any evidence that Hitler had any problem with black people?

Check some of his quotes about them. Cooley and Sone turned to the local anti-bigotry coalition to counsel them through the ordeal. the Metropolitan Human Rights Coalition, and when I say had a problem with them, that he wanted to see them destroyed or dead or anything like that. He, yeah, I mean, having opinions is not the same as, oh, they should all, you know, be punished in some sort of way. Coley and Sone turned to the local anti-bigotry coalition to counsel them through the ordeal. The Metropolitan Human Rights Coalition set up a special hotline to receive tips on the perpetrators. Police questioned several suspected skinheads and neo-Nazisies and even arrested one man who was seen watching the cross burning Coley's yard, but later said they didn't believe he was responsible. Azalia Coley became, to paraphrase a local journalist, a poster child for Portland's victimized classes, i.e., the black, handicapped, and gay lesbian communities.

She reveled in her victimhood and eagerly accepted the role of a martyr. On Sunday, November 1st, 1992, she helped lead a rally and March named Take a Stand Against Hate Through Portland. I thought she couldn't stand or walk. Photos of Cooley being pushed in her wheelchair. Oh, yep. At the head of the march were widely publicized. There's just something about that. She became a symbol of the fight against bigotry and prejudice on a grand scale.

On the very morning of the march, someone set fire to a cross on Kooley's lawn, unbeknown to Kooley and Sown, however, this time police cameras recorded the incident. That same evening, police arrived in search to Kooley Cone residents. They said they found items in the house consistent when materials used in the cross burning. The videotape showed that the person who lit the cross had come from inside the house. Susan Sone, who had filed the original hate crime complaints, was served with a warrant for initiating a false police report. a Class C misdemeanor. She was placed on administrative suspension at the Multnomah County Jail, where she had been a line supervisor for 15 years.

No charges were filed against Cooley at that time. Scott Lively, spokesman for the Oregon Citizens Alliance, a group opposing special civil rights protections for homosexuals known as ballot measure number nine responded to the arrest. He said, this vindicates our position that the No-On-9 campaign has been basing their position on fraud. I think there is high emotion on both sides, but when a black crippled woman in a wheelchair starts burning crosses in her own yard, it's fraud and a sad day for the community. I think it

exposes what we have been saying all along. On November 20th, 1992, the Oregonian, Portland Daily, reported that Azalea Cooley had confessed to staging the cross-burning's death threats and vandalism. Cooley admitted that the hate crimes that happened at our home were my doing. In June 1993, federal judge Helen J. Frye placed Cooley on two years probation for lying to an FBI agent. She was also ordered to spend four months in house arrest. The charges against someone who had filed a defamation lawsuit against sheriff's officers involved in the investigation were still pending at the time of this writing. How was Cooley able to fool so many people for so long? Rachel Zimmerman writing in Willamette Week, a Portland weekly, noted, Cooley fooled so many,

so fully because she was seen as the ultimate victim, an African-American lesbian, wheelchair-bound, and dying of brain cancer, haunted by an anonymous bigot. In hindsight, there were a number of signs suggesting the attacks were a hoax. But those who came to Cooley's aid were blinded, either by naivete, by their own abhorrence of racism,

or by the temptation to hold such a victim up as a symbol, even a martyr. In 1990, Curtis Slewa, founder of the multiracial and quasi- vigilante, Guardian Angels organization, claimed in 1980 that three New York City transit officers abducted him,

drove him around, and threatened him in order to force his organization to end subway patrols. He also claimed that someone painted KKK and white power outside the group's headquarters. The organization founded by Slewa in 1978 had acquired a reputation for sensationalism and as publicity

seeking. As Slewa puts it, we were just little people trying to get recognition for doing good work. In November 1992, Slewa admitted that the kidnapping, the KKK graffiti, and other events were, in fact, faked. He remarked that the constant media attention played a part in the deceptions. It became like an intoxicant, a narcotic, he said. Early life on Slewa? Three men and a youth, all black, were arrested in August 1990 in connection with three cross-burnings in Prince George's County, Maryland.

Ross Farewell, 18, Gerald Simmons, 20, and Reginald Stewart, 21, and the juvenile were charged with the offenses. According to Captain Ron Siernaki of the County Fire Department, a homeowner in the Forest View section of the community discovered the cross burning in the front yard about 3 a.m. after a brick was hurled through the living room window. Earlier, three black hudes had jokingly donned white sheets and set fire to a cross in front of a friend's house

in the 9500 block of Castle Drive in Forestville. The friend came out to see what was going on and then joined the trio as they went on. Captain Sierra Niki went on to minimalized hate crime aspects of the incident, claiming that the act wasn't racially or religiously motivated. They were just being crazy. I guess something that just got out of hand. Can't dismiss this stuff.

In Lawrence, home of the University of Kansas, a small cross was burned and KKK was spray painted in several buildings in Lawrence neighborhoods in October 1990. Police determined that the culprit were probably juveniles, the two-foot high cross, was made from pieces of wood taken from a discarded sofa, tied together with fabric from the sofa, wedged against the ground and building, and set a fire. The Edgewood Home Tenants Association held an emergency meeting last week to express anxiety. It's terrible because so many people are afraid, said 15-year resident Francis Moore, 63 years old. In another case, a cross was burned in front of an all-white fraternity near the University of Kansas, accompanied by a company by, a note containing anti-white comments. Militant anti-racists have been active in the Lawrence community

and at the university in Angela Davis, a former member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party USA, and militant anti-racist activists had recently spoken at KU. Other suspected hoaxes have occurred. What makes the Lawrence case interesting is that obvious hoaxes were treated as bona fide incidents by the media, which in turn encourages hoaxers. Wichita Eagle writer Dave Hendrick wrote a lengthy the article entitled racial tensions, Taint Lawrence's image, never mentioning that the cross-burnings and graffiti were hoaxes. He did note that reports about the cross-burnings and graffiti have been filed from Clan Watch, a division of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama. These fake hate incidents may become part of the statistics they issue periodically.

An unnamed black teenager in Queens, New York, told authorities that a white man had set him on fire. News reports of December 1986 noted that Police at first believed the account reported it as a third racial attacking Queens in a week, but when detectives found inconsistencies to 15-year-old and three of his friends admitted the fabrication, police said. The youth had accidentally burned himself by letting gasoline in a fireplace. That's just Darwin. He fabricated the story in order to avoid punishment and gain sympathy. In Benzillam, Pennsylvania, Albert A. Dawson, a 28-year-old black man,

was arrested in charge with ethnic intimidation in February 1984 for allegedly setting crosses of fire on the lawns of four interracial couples. At the time of the incidents, it was believed that the offenses were committed by white racists. One of the couples, Floyd Darden, 33 who is black, and his wife Janet, who was white, woke up with a burned cross in their yard. The fact that he's black brings a totally different dimensions to the thing Darden said. Another family living directly across the street from Dawson consisted of a young black woman who recently married a white man. Another interracial couple also victimized lived two blocks away. Dawson 28 was freed after posting 10% of his $50,000 bail. Alan Rubinstein, assistant district attorney, said that the crossburning certainly was a racially

most motivated incident. Had Dawson not been apprehended, the image of the KKK or neo-Nazi skinheads would have remained in the public mind concerning the incident. As we have seen, even law enforcement officers are not immune from racial hoaxes. A Philadelphia, Pennsylvania police officer was charged in March 1988 with writing an anti-black slurer on a six-foot banner in a district police station. Police patrolman Ross Barnes, a 14-year veteran, who is black, confessed to the act. Apparently, Barnes was attempting to inject racism as an issue in the transfer of officers within the department. Ronald Oliver, president of the 1,000-member Guardian Civic League, Philadelphia's minority police organization said, for a black person to do that is beyond my capacity. That point

leaves me wondering. One of the most widely publicized cases of terroristic bombing in U.S. history blamed on racist and occurring on the very eve of a congressional vote on hate crimes responding reporting legislation in December 1989 contains the elements of a planned deception. Newspapers and television throughout the nation spoke of the connection between the series of letter bombs which resulted in the murder of a U.S. judge and a lawyer who had handled civil rights cases and they claimed right and the claimed rising tide of racially motivated hate crimes the incidents proved useful in promoting the agenda of the southern poverty law center and the center for democratic renewal both organizations attempted to link

the bombings to right-wing racial extremists as early an early suspect in the mail bombing of u.s. district court judge robert vans and attorney robert robinson war wayne o'farrell of Enterprise Alabama proved the dead end. Hundreds of federal agents descended upon O'Farrell's home and salvage store in a prolonged, detailed investigation that was covered daily in the national media. Nevertheless, investigators failed to find any conclusive evidence linking him with the bombings. When O'Farrell was under investigation, he sold T-shirts to tourists as souvenirs and had his photo taken with visitors to a store. Dottie Lee Snow, a relative of Hank Snow, recorded a song, a tribute to Robert Wayne O'Farrell, which he sold cassette tapes of for $5 each.

Several months later, federal agents arrested Walter Leroy Moody on several unrelated charges. Moody, who had been convicted for bomb possession in 1972, Moody had been convicted for bomb possession in 1972. Moody, it turned out, had been a suspect almost from the beginning. Federal agents had focused on O'Farrell as a diversion. In an attempt to throw investigators off his trail, Moody included racist commentary in his letters to various media to create the false impression that the bombings were racially motivated when, in fact, they were not. According to news reports, Mr. Moody has no history of racial

animus, and both his brother and Michael Bergen, a former Moody lawyer who married a black woman, said they believe that if race was behind the mail bombs, they would be surprised if Mr. Moody would be involved. Moody became a suspect shortly after O'Farre did, although federal agents did not divulge this fact to the media. In fact, federal agents were watching Moody almost two weeks before highly publicized searches of O'Farrell's premises took place. The focus on O'Farrell kept the issue up in the air, and newspapers around the country speculated on what seemed an obvious racist motivation behind the crime. Full public attentions in Moody would have exposed a total absence of racial motivation.

There was no law enforcement need for the O'Farrell deception, for Moody knew he was a suspect as soon as he was placed under surveillance early in the investigation. The federal agents were not particularly surreptitious, said Moody's return. attorney, Michael Hopman, adding that Moody was under constant surveillance from early January until his arrest in July on unrelated charges. Agents made their headquarters a convenience store down the street from Moody's home and followed Moody while wearing jackets with FBI printed on the back. The hate crime angle was allowed to percolate through public consciousness for 11 months, including the period when hate crime reporting legislation was before Congress, which subsequently

passed. Moody was apparently kept under surveillance. to be arrested at the appropriate time. On June 28, 1991, Moody was found guilty on all 71 counts related to the bombings. During his trial, federal prosecutors conceded that his motives were devoid of any racial considerations. Prosecutors said that Moody was obsessed with his failure to get his 1972 conviction for possessing a bomb overturned,

leave a criminal record that prevented him from attaining his dream of practicing law. Moody blamed the KKK for the bombings. In July 1987, Portsmouth, Virginia, black community leaders began receiving vitriolic racist hate mail, including obscenities, racist remarks, and threats. Calls for actioning as the white hate group were demanded. It was cited as one more example of the rising tide of hate crimes. The incident took a dramatic turn when the police investigation found that fingerprints on the letters belonged to James W. Holly III, the city's first black mayor, who denied the charges and claimed that he had been framed.

Fortunately for Holly, at the time of the incident, there were no hate crime statutes, so he wasn't charged with a criminal act. In all, some 30 letters directed to eight individuals, all but one of them black leaders in the community had been mailed. The mayor's fingerprints were on file with federal authorities because of a 1973 assault charge, of which he was acquitted. tests showed copies of newspaper clippings contained in the mailings were made by the copier on the sixth floor of the city hall where the mayor had his office. Five months later, voters held a recall election and 57.7% of the electorate voted to retire the 60-year-old dentist and longtime civil rights leader. Holly continued to maintain that he had been framed. In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a Black City alderman initiated a hoax in June 1990 that nearly put a hundred-year-old

meat company out of business. Alderman Michael McGee, who had recently formed a black paramilitary group called the Black Panther Militia, charged a sausage packed by white-owned U-singer's famous Sausage Incorporated, was tainted with rat poison. McGee said the militant African underground squad was responsible. When the company recalled 80,000 pounds of meat from 150 stores and examination found none of the meat tainted, according to news reports. Milwaukee Mayor John O'Nor Norquist and others said they believe McGee's story was fabricated because the alderman brought the warning to news media instead of reporting to it immediately to police. It's a hoax. It's phony Norquist charge. What he's really doing is scaring the hell out of people, which feeds racism and bigotry. The controversy arose when a group of businessmen opposed a McGee-sponsored bill to rename a city street after Martin Luther King Jr. A portion of the street in question is already named for him. The businessman opposed renamed.

naming the rest of the street, saying the change would inconvenience their businesses. Letters appearing to be of KKK origin, exhorting blacks to continue killing each other, circulated in Washington, D.C. for a several week period in 1991. Entitled, a salute to all gang bangers. The letters thanked black gang members for having killed over 4,000 blacks since 1975. The letters read, keep killing each other for nothing. You are killing each other for our property. You were killing what could be future black doctors, lawyers, and businessmen that we won't have to compete with.

And the good thing about it is that you are killing the youth. One edited version was printed in the Washington Afro-American newspaper. Observers noted that one version of the letter misspells the name of the Clux Klan, Klux with the S. Washington, D.C. talk show host Robert Breeden said on WPGC Radio, I don't think the letter is from the clan, but it should give those who are involved in black-on-black violence something to think about. I think the letter was written by some black person

who, like myself, is fed up with the violence and is trying to do whatever it takes to get through to these young people. In Brooklyn, New York, a 16-year-old teenager, said she had been the victim of a racial hate crime at the hands of two 17-year-old white ewes as she was walking on a city street late one Sunday evening. According to police sergeant Adele James,

They yelled ethnic slurs and said she didn't belong there. They went through her purse, removed lipstick, ripped their blouse, and smeared lipstick on her chest and neck. Then they struck her in the face and fled the scene. The teenager was taken to Coney Island Hospital, where she was treated by physicians and released, according to news reports. Four days later, on October 3rd, 1992, newspapers reported that the teenager had recanted her story. It didn't happen, said Captain William Plaquenmeyer.

She was looking for sympathy from her boyfriend and made up a story. police investigators began to suspect the hoax when important elements of her story didn't check out. In the meanwhile, New York mayor, David Dinkins, excited the case as an example of hate crime to illustrate the need for state anti-bias laws, David Dinkins. I mean, New York has had some prized mayors. I'm being facetious. Jenkins took the cake. He was replaced by Rudy Giuliani. who as much of a scumbag as he would become,

and now he seems to, I don't know, trying to redo his image or something like that, Giuliani did clean up the city. It only took building an army and putting an army on the streets in order to do it, which is, I think if you're going to have multicultural society, that's the way you're going to have to do it. You're just going to have an overwhelming police presence

that's ready to shoot anybody that could settle on. also being able to drive up property prices helps a lot renting rent prices, things like that. Yep. Not that I condone that, but I don't condone living in cities either. So hate crime hoaxes are sometimes used to cover up crimes to draw attention away from criminal activity

or to create a victim cover for an individual fearing discovery and criminal prosecution. Duran Birdsong and the 16-year-old black youth testified in May 1988 that David Price and 18-year-old black man was shot and killed by a carload of white men who were yelling racial epithets while driving through a Louisville, Kentucky neighborhood. Police Chief Bobby Crouch described the shooting as a racial hate crime. The charges rocketed through the Louisville, Kentucky community and quickly brought calls for justice in an end to white racist terrorism. There were problems with this account, however. police showed that Price had been shot from a distance of three to six feet away, not 30 or 40 feet away, as Birdsong had testified. Also, it was learned that Price was a drug dealer. Later in September 1988 in federal court, Birdsong recanted his previous story and testified that Price was shot in the back by Keith Pointer, a 17-year-old black youth and fellow drug dealer.

According to news reports, while police still believe there was a carload of men yelling at blacks in the area, they now believe Price, who is. black may have been shot accidentally. No shots were fired from the alleged carload of whites. This was a fiction. Birdsong originally concocted to protect the pointer. Birdsong stuck with the fabrication during four statements to the FBI, finally told his mother to call police, and he told them what had actually happened. Heavy smoke poured from the west wing of the Manor Baptist Church and School in San Leandro, California in September 1992, destroying the church offices and damaging the library. Police and fire investigators initially believed the arson was a racially motivated hate crime.

Graffiti was sprayed on the walls before the church was doused with kerosene and gasoline and set of fire. Almost immediately, though, attention shifted to Sean Reagan. 30, former principal of the church school and church treasurer. He had been accused of embezzling 20,000 in church funds. Reagan had resigned from his post in June 1992. The reason, according to church officials, was his poor performance. Reagan told investigators that he sprayed the graffiti to make them think the arson was racially motivated. According to San Leandro Police Lieutenant James O'Meara, part of Reagan's motive was emotional. Revenge and anger toward the people and fearful that he was going to be exposed.

In July, 1991, 73-year-old Helen Cluel, who was a man, lived alone in an Upper East Side building, was found stabbed, beaten, and strangled in her apartment. According to news reports, the police, after finding a note in Mrs. Cuell's apartment that contained references to the KKK and racial and ethnic slurs, classified the killing as a bias incident. But Captain William Rowe, the commander of the fourth detective division, said the police had been unable to link the contents of the notes of the crime. A few days later, police had their culprit in custody. The note which read KKK hates Jews. ends and spies had apparently been written by Charles Ocasio, a Hispanic, who lived with his mother

at the same floor as the victim. Police Detective Joseph Burrell observed that the apartment house is a very secure building. He said, most investigators had a gut feeling it was someone who lived in the building or had access to it. The note was intended to kind of throw us off the track. It just didn't fit. Albany Oregon's mayor, Gene Bellhumor, reported to police in June 1993, that he had been the victim of a racial hate crime. Bell Humor is white, his wife and children from her previous marriage are black. His 17-year-old son awakened him with the story that two boys had flattened three of the tires on the family car and stole a hood ornament.

A racial hate note was attached to the windshield, which made the defense a hate crime under Oregon law. Police were looking for two teenagers. However, when they interrogated Bell Humor's son, the next day, the boy admitted to police having fabricated the hate crime story after driving the car into a judge. ditch and flattening three tires. Three black ewes on a bicycle stealing spree in June 1991 claimed to have been attacked by a group of white men before they were apprehended by police in Cleveland, Ohio. So three black youths were stealing bikes on a spree and they were just attacked.

At the time of the theft, police were called, who chased and apprehended five black youths. Four others got away. Cleveland Police Sergeant Patrick Reynolds said they had fabricated the story to conceal their crimes. The blacks were among a larger group who had previously stolen bicycles from the same bike shop. When they returned to the bike shop, an employee thinking they were going to make a second attempt, ran out after them. The fabricated account of the attack by white men was easily debunked in this instance. According to Cleveland prosecutor Mark McLean, after the police talked to everyone, it was clear there was no racially motivated. attack. The 14-year-old black teenager claimed they've been shot in a racially motivated drive-by

shooting near Clear Lake California in July 1988. This raised the consciousness of the community to the issue of hate crimes and related matters. One month later, however, Clear Lake Police Chief, Robert Seudo reported that the black youth admitted that he had accidentally shot himself in the hand with a revolver he claimed to have found in a park. No hate crime had ever occurred. Akron, Ohio, two black teenagers reported in March 1889 that a carload of white ewes had beaten them. The attack had occurred as they were walking along a city street, they said. The white ewes began taunting them and then attacked them. Both boys suffered facial injuries and the 14-year-old's jaw was broken in four places,

and four teeth had been knocked out. I mean, this is just, this story is always the reverse. I mean, when, when do you have to have? when, when do you ever, if you can name one case where white ewes drove by and started taunting and then jumped out and started beating some black kids just for no reason other than they're black, you're proven my point. When does this ever happen? If this happened all the time, we'd be talking about that all the time. It'd be on the news every fucking night. The day of the attack, police began investigating the theft of a 1979 Chevrolet from a parking lot. Police discovered

that the attacked black teenagers that stolen the car and wrecked it when the 16-year-old drove into a pole. The facial injuries were apparently caused by the accident. They were charged with receiving stolen property and making a false police report. In August of 1988, a biracial couple living in the Troy, New York,

Martin Luther King Apartments, reported finding their apartment walls painted what racial slurs in the initials KKK. Don Rowe is white. Her 63-year-old husband Pleasant is black, and they have six children. I'm not even going to begin to ask questions about that.

The couple reported that they had been taunt to what racial slurs to the point that they often stayed inside with the curtains drawn. Police investigate in the incident, however, told another story. Detective Robert Paul came to suspect that the victims had been feuding with someone. He said there had been no signs of forced entry. Neighbors had not noted anything unusual around the apartment at the time of the alleged hate crime. He noted that the housing complex is racially mixed and that biracial couples are not uncommon. There had been no other racial incidents there.

Police declined to characterize the case as a hoax when pressed, but it was clear that there was suspicion that the KKK was not haunting the complex after all. It had the potential to be another Rodney King case. Four white Berkeley, California police officers were accused of severely beating Ronald Griffin, 25, a black man who was taken to a local local. hospital with a broken upper and lower jaws and several teeth knocked out. A police officer identified by the victim as the one primarily responsible for the May 1992 incident was placed on administrative leave.

According to Griffin, he had been walking along a Berkeley street when two officers pulled up, asked him to identify himself, and drove away. He said that two squad cars came by later with two additional officers, put him in one of the cars and drove him to an unknown location where he was handcuffed, beaten, beaten unconscious with a baton, and abandoned. The media initially sensationalized the case. However, it was soon learned that Griffin had been recently released from Sam Quentin after serving four years for attempted murder and robbery.

His arrest record also included narcotics dealing, narcotics dealing, burglary, and auto theft. On several occasions, Griffin either fled or resisted arrest, and in one case almost rammed his car into a patrol car. Four days later, lawyers for Griffin announced that plans for a lawsuit against a police, was dropped due to lack of supporting evidence. The police department interviewed all officers who were on duty when the alleged beating occurred and reviewed all radio transmissions during the period.

After a thorough investigation, they announced that Griffin's account was a fabrication. According to news reports, police here say they now have solid evidence that the Richmond Blackman, who was claimed that he was beaten up 10 days ago by four white Berkeley cops made up the entire episode to cover his involvement in a three-city crime. crime spree. Sources said police believe Griffin attempted to rob a drug dealer and his jaw was broken when his victim hit him with a gun butt. Finally, as to hoax unraveled, it was learned that the day before Griffin made his charges against police, he had allegedly fired a gun at a tenderloin dope dealer. He was trying to hold up. The bullet hit and killed an innocent Mexican immigrant

bystander. The gun recoiled, striking him in the jaw, which accounted for Griffin's injuries. The hell was he shooting? I'm not going to say that. Griffin, along with a companion, was subsequently charged with murder, two-arm robberies, and car theft. He was returned to San Quentin prison where he was being held on parole violation. Reverend James Dixon, a black minister in Houston, Texas, had received a hate letter in January 1992, which said, boy, you are one troublemaker. What do you think we should do about this?

The words, this is the clan were printed in large letters and in an insuburn. illustration of a clansman in robin hood was included. Media accounts said the letter contained several racist statements, but they had to draw a robe in a hood because no one knows what the clan would look like. Charles Lee, Texas Grand Dragon of the miniscule white chameleon Knights of the Ku Klux clan denied his organization was involved. The letter might be a hoax to arouse publicity for Dixon. Lee said that this kind of thing only brought notoriety and police harassment for the clan. but a few days later, another letter appeared. This one apologizing for the first one.

The writer said he was not a member of the KKK and that he had intended the letter as a joke and apologized for the letter. Constable Jack Abersia said the author of the apology also wrote the original letter based upon similarities in the letters. By this time, the copycat phenomenon had kicked in and yet another letter was received

containing racist threats and apparently not related to the other two letters. Michael Lowe, Grand Dragon of another tiny Houston based KKK faction was interviewed by the Houston Chronicle. He said his clan group is opposed to the use of threatening letters or violence. Warren Deleuere, publisher of a left-wing alternative paper, West Virginia Advocate, was found dead in his garage in July 1992, a victim of a gunshot wound. Deliour's outspoken attacks on the KKK were a matter of public record as he challenged its members to come out from behind their robes, hoods, and masks. Consequently,

the KKK found written on the walls of his home with a marker seemed certain to implicate the clan in his death. A police investigation soon cleared up the attempted hoax. Police spokesmen were quoted as saying that the 60-year-old publisher destroyed over failing health and criticism of his newspaper committed suicide. Forensic evidence and examination of the scene compelled police corporal D.B. Burkart to observe that the results indicate Mr. Duhir died, the results of a self-inflicted gunshot wound with his own gun. A source said that there was an error of mystery about DeLure, and I think he wanted to get out the same way. Kenneth Dowardy, an employee at the University of San Diego, told police in February 1992 that three white skinheads had attacked him at an automated

teller machine after he had deposited his paycheck. His original account was that he fought a single skinhead but was overwhelmed when two other skinheads beat and kicked him while shouting racial epithets. Darity, a Black Gulf War Navy veteran, claimed no one in the parking lot would come to his help, and a nearby bicycle shop refused to allow him to make a 911 call to police. Finally, he said he flagged down a patrol car, but the officers refused to take a report of the hate crime. Media accounts of the incident brought an orgy of sympathy and offers of financial assistance. A San Diego Police Department internal investigation, however, concluded that Daugherty had made up the entire incident, according to Assistant Police Chief Dave Warden.

after an exhaustive investigation into the matter, we believe that his claims were outright fabrications. We have conclusive evidence it did not happen. No one's already a claim to have talked with or who witnessed the incident could confirm the attack, including the clerk at the bicycle shop. Police could not locate a single witness from the allegedly crowded parking lot, nor the police officer that was supposedly flagged down. In New York City, Louis Watkins, 25, a black man claimed he had been beat. in January 1992 by five white men in a white van. One man allegedly got out and pushed him to the

ground. Then others got out and began kicking Watkins using racial slurs and referring to an earlier abduction and rape of a 15-year-old white girl by two black men. New York Mayor David Dinkins took the opportunity to the issue an unusually harsh statement condemning racism in the absolutely senseless, absolutely appalling act of bias violence. The police investigation became high priority, A few hours later, however, Mayor Dinkins retracted a statement after police officials voiced doubts about that the attack even occurred. Watkins, it turned out, had made two previous unfounded reports of beatings at the hands of white men and white bans. Dickens Press Secretary Leland T. Jones commented, It's hard to condemn something that didn't happen.

If the price of a retraction is a biased incident that did not occur, we'll pay the price, because we are pleased that an incident as terrible as this was reported to have. have been did not occur. Richard Savino, a white Staten Island, New York homeowner, was visiting his parents in Delaware, New York when police called with news that his house trailer was on fire. Savino had been trying to sell the trailer for six months. On one occasion, he had shown it to a black couple. Subsequently, his car was vandalized and racial slurs were painted on the trailer.

He also claimed to have received threatening telephone calls. At the time of the fire, the slogan, now sell to ends, was fast. spray painted on a wall. The police classified the incident as a bias-related hate crime. However, other residents in the neighborhood were puzzled at the course of events. The development has black, Indian, Chinese, and Hispanic residents. The president of the Meadowbrook Civic Association said, we don't think it's a bias situation. We have a multiracial community here. On October 31, 1991, police arrested Savino himself for the crime. He was charged with arson, conspiracy, insurance fraud, reckless endangerment of property, and false

reporting of an incident, according to police sergeant Edward Burns. A black man, Oliver Mason III, had allegedly received a racial hate letter and was served a dead mouse and broken glass in an omelet at an Annapolis Maryland restaurant. He was hospitalized briefly after the incident. Mason had also complained of being a victim of racism at the Annapolis Holiday Inn where he operated a gift shop. Mason was hospitalized again on April 25th, 1991, after he was found in a men's restroom with an electric cord around his neck and the words, sorry, N, written on the door. That's kind of polite. Mason told police someone had looped the cord around his neck. Juicy, Smilett. Mason was subsequently arrested in charge

with filing a false report and hindering a police investigation. Police spokesman Florence Stephan and said, investigators had determined that Mason had written the hate letter he had reportedly receiving. In a 1986 case, a St. Charles, Missouri black girl, Bridget Clark, 14, told her parents had two white men had thrown acid on her and shouted racial slurs as she walked home from school. The black community was in an uproar. A police investigation revealed that the acid was actually the results of an accident at a summer job where the girl spilled chemicals on her arm causing first-degree burns. She made up the story on her way home. Her mother Shirley Clark said. According to news reports, Mrs. Clark said Bridget, who had been doing cleaning work at Dusha in high school through a federal jobs program, would be transferred to work at another school. The headlines in the February 6, 1993, all right, a bunch of people have contacted me. Is it Olifay, Kansas? Or am I just saying it wrong on purpose because a bunch of people contacted me?

The headlines in the February 6, 1993, Olitha, Kansas Daily News, were stark and explicit. Vandal Scraw's racist message on House. Under the photograph of a black woman standing besides the hate message, Ends go home, was the caption. Edna Mitchell was surprised and sad on Friday morning to find a racist remark written on the front of her Spring Hill home. It makes you feel violated, she said.

Rosemary Jackson Mitchell's sister was with her when they discovered the graffiti. said, my seven-year-old daughter was screaming and crying, Mama, how can somebody do this? They were dumb enough to leave their footprints and their spelling was wrong. Later, media accounts told of the Mitchell family being driven from Spring Hill. She reported harassing telephone calls. They called and told us they were going to kill our kids. They said we were getting too much publicity, Mitchell said.

Local authority sprang into action. Spring Hill Police stopped children on their way home from school for questioning. Mayor Mary Lavery said she was shocked, dismayed. In the 20 years, Lavery had lived in Spring Hill. This is the first time she had heard of a racial incident. An anti-racist witch hunt was brewing. Coincidentally, in nearby Olitha, Kansas, employees of the Olathe Water Department had been disciplined for possessing and sharing racially offensive religious literature. The story percolated in the local news media for a couple of weeks and was reported statewide in the large circulation. Kansas City star. Olathe and AACP leader, Sue Cartwright, said the distributors of dangerous literature should be reprimanded, fired. Responding to the opportunity for further notoriety, a tiny KKK grouplet from a rural Kansas community passed out flyers

and a couple dozen houses in the city. Community leaders were aghast. All of a sudden, the community was sensitized, and townspeople were speculating about who might be responsible about the Mitchell incident. And then the bubble. burst. On March 9th, police charged Mitchell with two counts of making false police reports a class a misdemeanor in Kansas. Authorities accused her of inventing several stories as she was being harassed in the community, including her account of the racial slur on the wall of her home. Spring Hill Police

Sergeant Hugh Grossman said, we took this seriously, we wanted to find out who did it because it was such a terrible thing for the city to live down. We were just surprised at the outcome. Charles A. Lewis, a Black Bay oral candidate in Jacksonville, North Carolina, found the word. no vote N in pink spray paint on his house on August 9th, 1991. A front-page story in the local newspaper depicted Lewis as a victim of a racial hate crime and photographed him standing in front of his vandalized home. Lewis portrayed the incident as an attempt to discourage his candidacy. If they can discourage me from running by acts of aggression or other forms of hatred,

that's what they will do. But it won't stop us. Does you have a mouse in his pocket? There is more to the story. contacted police with the claim that he was being blackmailed. Some woman had made up a story to the effect that Lewis had paid two men to deface his house, he claimed, and she was threatening to tell unless he paid her $2,000. Police initially believed Lewis and set up a sting operation to entrap the woman. Under electronic surveillance, Lewis met with the woman and paid her

$500. Police moved in and arrested the blackmailer. However, the same woman had gone to the County Sheriff's office and confessed that she was planning to extort money from Lewis. She insisted that Lewis had asked friends to paint the racial slur on his house so he could capitalize on victim status. Police contacted the men who confirmed the story and arrested Lewis when he visited one of the men. Lewis subsequently confessed to the hate crime hoax. Lewis, who had previous convictions for larceny and bad checks remained in the race, and incredibly, despite his confession to the police, continued to profess his innocence. He lost the election.

I find that Ards believe. I think today he'd probably fucking win. At California's March Air Force-based, the dormitory doors of the 22nd Security Police Squadron was covering what racial and sexual slurs and red marker. The slogans found on October 8, 1992 included, Stay What Your Own Kind and KKK. Although both white and black air police

black air police officers slept in a dormitory, only the rooms of, Blacks were defaced. Within a week, military police had charged a black military policeman, Airman First Class Ivory Lee Scott 28, an 18-month Air Force veteran with seven counts, including damaging government property, making racial and sexual slurs, obstruction of justice by tampering with three witnesses, and two counts of making false statements in another matter. The arrest followed a week-long investigation by Wing Commander, Brigadier General Don Jensen, who uncovered the hoax.

They had to bring a brigadier general in to uncover the hoots. Give me a fucking break. Police informants are often unstable and unreliable, particularly in matters involving alleged hate crimes, even in cases where they're not trying to save their own necks. They may fabricate stories for no other reason than to feel important. Such a case occurred involving the notorious anti-black and anti-Jewish Aryan Nations organization in Idaho. To the credulous mind, there is little that one could say of

Aryan nations that wouldn't be believed. Few organizations have received more publicity entirely out of proportion to their objective importance than this small group. Not that the group hasn't sought out of such publicity, mind you. Nevertheless, the media has sensationalized a group to the point where any news about them becomes big news. Based on the account by a former informant, FBI agents approached Marshall Mend, a Jewish real estate man in Cordillane, Idaho, with the news that a group of white racists had conspired to do him in, along with Bill Wasthmuth, a former Catholic priest. Both men had been active in campaign against Aryan nations and other white racist activists in their community.

The informant Dan Bordner, who had infiltrated Aryan nations, had been dropped by the bureau after FBI agents came to doubt his credibility, also claimed that a synagogue bombing had been planned for nearby Spokane. Later, the FBI acknowledged the plot, that the plot was sheer fiction. David Hill of the FBI office in Seattle said the bottom line is we found there was no substance to the allegations. Apparently, however, Bordner, acting as an informant, actually tried to get a conspiracy of that nature going. According to February 1992 news reports, sources close to the investigation said FBI electronic surveillance at area nations revealed no instance where anyone in the group talked about the plot except the informant Dan Bordner. Nobody else ever mentioned the threat, one source said.

When the FBI gave Bordner lie detector tests, he flunked big time. Floyd Cochran, at whose home the group met and who freely admits his membership in Aryan Nations, said that the whole thing was a fiction of Mr. Bordner. Cochran's home was searched by the FBI and the strength of Bordner's allegations. No incriminating evidence of any kind was turned up. The FBI suspects that Bordner fabricated the account in order to promote a future book. I think I'm going to stop right there. this is the part I warned you about in the beginning where it's just going to be one thing after

another but I think it's important because it really just goes to show you that when something really does happen when there is like actual like violence against a black person by someone white and it's racially motivated it's so out of the friggin ordinary I mean, it is truly the exception that proves the rule that most people just don't fucking care. They just want to go to work and be left alone and not be hated. That includes everyone, pretty much. But some people get off and make money and get notoriety and get famous on saying that they're being victimized. where a lot of people nowadays can say they are victimized.

There's a whole fucking slew of this country, section of this country. Right now that doesn't have power, there's flooding, there's everything, and government, the people who should, the government who, the one fucking job that they have, they're not willing to do because they hate those people. They hate Appalachians. And the fact that there are black people included in the victim group doesn't matter to them. The fact is it's freaking white Appalachians and they hate them. That's a real victim group. Don't be afraid to fucking call yourself a victim when you are a victim.

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A reminder about Thomas and I doing movie reviews. If you go over to freemen beyond the wall.com forward slash movies, you'll see the links to all the movies we've reviewed. We watch and sort of mystery science theater of them, but try to be able to be able to. little more serious about it and funny sometimes. All right. This is part five. We're going to finish up chapter five and then get into chapter six. I'm not sure if we can finish chapter six today, but get as much done as we can.

All right. Here we go. Of all the possible hate crime hoaxes, one would think that an incident in which a man is deliberately set on fire would be impossible to fake. Yet such a hoax apparently happened in Loveland. Ohio in September 1993. Rithing in pain with burns over 75% of his body, Milton Metcalf, lay in front of a Loveland bar Tuesday and screamed, I was trying to help them. His payoff, according to police, a cup of gasoline in the face and a match tossed at him. Police were checking

the possibility the attack was racially motivated. Metcalf is black. He described his attackers as white. According to Metcalf, 30, he was trying to help two. men and a pregnant woman whose pickup truck was at a gas. He went home and got a gas can, had it filled, and brought it to the trio. Metcalf told police that the truck would not start. The men asked him to get a cup of gas to prime the carburetor. When he complied, one of the men poured it on him and the other tossed a lighted match. Metcalfe on fire ran across to Zappa Sports Bar. Bartender Angela Clagsgins said Angela Klaskins

said We heard a loud bang It sounded like a gunshot We looked at the door And there was a great big fireball He was screaming They were trying to pour it They were trying to pour it down my throat

They poured gas on me and set me on fire Richard Pryor flashbacks here Loveland with a population of 9900 Is 97% white And 2% black According to the 1990s census Police and citizens initially speculated on the racial aspect of the crime. A few days later, another story began to emerge.

Police had discovered a half-filled gas can behind a Loveland shopping center and accounts by witnesses cast suspicion on Milton Metcalf's story. Hearing of these developments, the local NAACP demanded an investigation. Frank Allison, president of the Cincinnati chapter, said, Think if the victim was white, it would have been handled differently. Finally, the whole story began to come apart. Police revealed that Metcalf had been convicted in April, 1993, for filing a false police report that he had been abducted by two men with a baby.

A detailed police investigation determined that the incident was a hoax concocted by Metcalf. Also, it was learned that the late model Ford pickup Metcalf had described had no carburetor and could not be primed with gas. Finally, although many people had seen Metcalf in the area of the Clark Station, no one had noticed a truck. Milton Metcalf, critically burned, and the apparent self-inflicted victim of a hoax that backfired subsequently died from his injuries.

Hatred and bigotry, it seems, no, no boundaries and no limit to viciousness. Or so it seemed, in May 1993, when 12-year-old Jake Thompson, a black fifth grader, reported that no less than 10 white and Hispanic boys, aged 10 to 13, had beaten his. him in the ground, beaten him to the ground, pushed his head inside a toilet and flushed it, and then wrote, ends must die on a boy's restroom wall at Ensignal Elementary School in

Santa Clara, California. I don't know, a swirly, and then, you know, end must die. Yeah, I wouldn't have bought this one from the start. The case was originally handled by skeptical school officials who were cautious about buying the improbable story. Police learned of the incident a few weeks later while visiting the school on another matter and opened a case. The case attracted the attention of a sympathetic news media who, it is charged, blew the case way out of proportion in civil rights groups who held for the boy's head, send them a message was the slogan as powerful interest groups pushed for prosecution of the youngsters

and demanded the indictments of the youngest defendants ever to go on trial for felony hate crimes, forcing many of their parents to hire attorneys to represent the children and others to rely on understaffed and underfinanced public defenders. If convicted, the children could be sentenced to a draconian eight years in California Youth Authority custody. I'm surprised in trying and send them to friggin' San Quentin. A Kafka-esque aura to the case began to emerge as discrepancies and inconsistencies developed, including the date of the hate crime, which changed back and forth. Evidence appeared that cast doubt upon Jake Thompson's story. According to news reports, at a hearing held last August, a school monitor testified that when he saw Jake after the alleged

assault, he showed no signs of bruising or injury. As the case progressed, the judge began dismissing defendants as the evidence for their participation evaporated. Hugh Roberts, attorney for an 11-year-old defendant who was released in the case said, this is a terribly overcharged case made more difficult by community and media response. Deputy District Attorney Mark Buller admitted that as the cases evolved, we know information now that we didn't know then. Albi Jekimowitz,

attorney for a 12-year-old Hispanic boy charged in the case claimed that Buller was pushing the case because of political and social pressure. When the case came to trial, the San Jose Mercury reported, recanting his original story to police, a boy testified in court Wednesday that the alleged beating of a black classmate was a hoax. Instead, the seventh grader said Jake Thompson planned the whole incident shortly after school began that day, then later ripped his own shirt and wet his hair to make it appear as if he had been beaten.

The boy told how Jake had asked him to lie and repeatedly called his house to make sure their stories matched. On the witness stand Tuesday and Wednesday, two of the prosecution's witnesses changed their stories and contradicted Jake's account of the May 4th incident. As Jake Thompson's story fell apart, Judge Paul R. Teal had no choice but to acquit the remaining four defendants. This, however, was not the end of the story. There was still a possibility for money to be made. In November 1993, attorneys for Jake Thompson filed a $3 million civil suit against Morgan Hill Unified School District, charging that they were negligent and failed to supervise and control the conduct of students.

In Chicago, a black man who had told police of an attack by a white motorcycle gang in May 1985 recanted parts of his stories after witnesses disputed his assertion that he had been beaten with chains by gang members. According to witnesses, Otis Jackson's car was overturned by people whom Jackson had endangered by driving recklessly. Jackson 25 also withdrew claims that the whites had harassed him at a stoplight that a friend would, was in the car with him and that the white gang had stolen $300. Jackson initially said the gang members had pushed a Molotov cocktail through a hole in the rear window. Witnesses contradicted Jackson saying that there was no motorcycle gang involved in the incident. According to media reports, witnesses have accused Jackson of trying to run down people on pedestrian walkways before his car hit a tree. A crowd became angry after Jackson had driven

in reverse at speeds of 40 miles an hour and overturned the car after he had run off. the walkways. The car exploded because the motor was running. Jackson had told police he was driving in response to escape the motor's motorcyclists. He explained, I changed my story to them because I was high. I don't know why. I gave some bad information. I was high. Jackson had been fired from a security job after it was learned that he was a convicted felon awaiting trial on charges of possessing two loaded handguns, one of which was stolen in a burglary. Hoaxes often take bizarre forms. In 1988, 50-year-old Gary A. Tucker stirred law enforcement officials with a deathbed confession that he had taken part in a 1963 church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young

black girls. Media sources reported, a Justice Department official in Washington said the local United States Attorney's Office and the FBI in Alabama had sent very optimistic reports to Washington indicating that Mr. Tucker might well be telling the truth. According to federal officials, Tucker, really knew his dates and places and knew the players in the bombing. Later, David Barber, Jefferson County District Attorney, said that Tucker was a confessor to a crime he did not commit. Investigated as noted that Tucker didn't even know the location of the church and gave three different descriptions of the car which he was driving. Barber and Frank Donaldson, U.S. Attorney for Northern Alabama, said their only explanation for the hoax was Tucker's

physical and mental condition. Tucker was a cancer patient at the VA Hospital in Tuscaloosa, Alabama at the time of his confession. Tucker's relatives said that he had been diagnosed several years earlier as a paranoid schizophrenic. His explanation to us was what he realized he was what was that he realized he was dying and wanted to get it off his conscience. We were real disappointed at how it turned out because we want that case solved. Insurance fraud has been the motive for more than one hate crime hoax. In March 1991, a Fayetteville, Georgia black couple was arrested in charge with fraud by arson, having spray-painted racial slurs on the interior walls before setting their $400,000 home on fire.

White racists were blamed. Marcellus and Sandra Jackson were soon arrested and held on $350,000 bond. They had been behind in their mortgage payments and faced foreclosure. Their real estate agent, Lynn Mitchell, was also arrested as a co-conspirator. According to Sheriff Randall Johnson, the fire was Jackson's third attempt in a month to burn the house down. Geez, can't even do that right. Sheriff's Captain Bruce Jordan said, by the second fire, we were considering the possibility

that it was not racially motivated and may have been a financial conspiracy. Nine months later, on December 6, 1991, Marcellus Jackson was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Witnesses said that Jackson set the fire himself to collect insurance on the house. They also testified the Sandra Jackson, real estate agent Lynn Mitchell,

and neighbor Cesar Gators, conspired to defraud the mortgage company that financed Jackson's house, is just go on and on and on. And, you know, as a reminder, you could say, oh, but these are the exceptions. No, this is the rule. Where are the real ones? Where are the real ones? When something like this happens and it happens for real, it's so far out of the ordinary.

The home of Larry Williams and Patricia Anderson, a black couple in Arvada, Colorado, was systematically ransacked November 29, 1990, and 29 swastikas were drawn with a felt marker on the walls for a black couple. Okay. The police report noted that the ransacking had been done in an unusually neat, careful manner.

Nothing was broken and nothing was missing, William speculated. I guess they were... They were trying to drive home a message that they don't want us in this neighborhood. We are the only blacks here. Exactly two weeks later, Williams and Anderson return home to find their home on fire and their blue thunderbird missing from the garage. Police reported that the fire had been deliberately set in four places. The house sustained mostly smoke damage.

A care warrant and dazed Williams said, I just can't believe this. The FBI entered the case requesting a copy of the earlier police report. Police report. Arvada police, Lieutenant Jeff Walker, said, it's routine for them to look into ethnic hate crimes like this. We want to make it perfectly clear that we are not going to tolerate a situation where a family is singled out and treated this way.

Because it doesn't happen. Two days after the fire, the Rocky Mountain News at Denver Daily reported that Williams and Anderson have been deluge with an outpouring of sympathy. Police Sergeant Merle Westling of the Arvada Police Department said, we've had calls from people wanting to donate clothing, gifts, money to help rebuild the house. I'm even told that there was a contractor over there this morning who said he'd donate some time to get the place straightened up. The Thunderbird was soon located in Denver. Police reported that someone had put a rock on the gas pedal and let it run into a parked dump truck.

Police fingerprinted the car for clues. Arvada police chief Pat Alstrom said that the investigation is high priority, as is any crime with a possible racial and ethnic hatred motive. Why is that different than any other crime? Why? Why? Because of World War II? That's the only reason. Y'all realize that, right?

That's the only reason. Hate crime. Hatred motive. Racial. Yeah. And investigate they did. Police learned that the family. was in severe financial straits and that the House was insured. Moreover, police were suspicious

from the outset when inconsistencies developed in their account of the incidents. Within a few days, Patricia Anderson was arrested, along with Lee Andrew Williams, brother of Larry Williams, who was not charged in the case. Lee Williams and Anderson subsequently entered guilty pleas. In May 1991, Lee Williams was given 10 years for one count of first-degree arson. Patricia Anderson received five years probation for attempted theft and false reporting. In July 1999, an arson fire seriously damaged the clothes encounter's clothing shopping, Kansas City, Missouri's fashionable Westport shopping area. The owner, Angela Washington Thomas, a black woman, claimed that it was a racially motivated

active hate. At the time of the fire, Thomas told of racial harassment, including threatening telephone calls, dating from when she opened the store in July 1989. She told the reporter. This was a purposeful act of hate. I'm borderline shock that this could happen. I'd rather it was of something I did personally to someone than because I'm black. Thomas's claim of racial intimidation brought immense local and national media attention.

Anti-racist groups were lamenting the plight of the brave young woman and calls for harsher penalties for hate crimes echoed throughout the community. It also brought the FBI into the case, which proved that the actual perpetrator to be the actual perpetrator's undoing. According to FBI spokesman, Max Geiman, the FBI conducted an inquiry, but a determination was made after a preliminary investigation that the allegations of racism were not supported. Lauren D. Johnson, a former Kansas City, Kansas firefighter, proved to be the key to the case. he had been bragging to a friend that he had been involved in the arson. This friend told a friend who called police. As the investigation began to focus on him, Johnson admitted his part in the crime. The store was failing and it was burned to collect insurance.

Thomas and Johnson were convicted. Due to an effective attorney and their willingness to implicate one another in the crime, both received relatively lenient sentences. Thomas was sentenced to 60 days of monitored house arrest. in order to pay $13,000 restitution. Johnson was sentenced to 90 days monitored house arrest and 7,800 in restitution. Each was also placed on five years probation.

That is the end of Chapter 5, and wow, does it have a lot of footnotes. Just that chapter has 100 footnotes. Crazy. Chapter 6. Heading. Jews. there can be no question that fake antisemitic hate crimes are caused for grief and consternation in the Jewish community.

Jewish concern with persecution is justifiable. Deep-rooted Jewish sensitivity to anti-Semitism makes hoaxes committed by Jews particularly shocking. I guess he's not going to do that. These hoaxes are almost always the product of individuals seeking to achieve a sense of importance through victimhood to advance a particular agenda to seek monetary advantages through insurance claims or damage settlements, or perhaps more commonly, juveniles engaged in pranks. I remind you of a friend of mine who told me that when he was growing up from the youngest age, as soon as he could understand, his mom told him, we are Jews, everyone wants to kill us. This is exactly, I'm telling you the story in the language he told me.

Not quoting perfectly, but I'm not embellishing either. So it came time. His mom was a teacher at the school he went to, and he had always kept secret that he was a Jew. When it came time for his bimitvah, he was getting ready, and his mom invited his classmates, and he had a meltdown. He said, Mom, they don't know I'm Jewish. Now that they know I'm Jewish, they're going to try to kill me. He's 12 to 13 years old at the time.

what what happens to a people who are raised to believe that everybody wants to kill them but they're also God's chosen people and that they're very special I would say it's a recipe for incredible narcissism

not everyone but that's the way it would seem to me that's the way it would seem to me think about like a ruler. Think about the ruler of a country. Say a monarchy that gets passed down. And you're raised, you're raised as a prince, but you're also in a country where there are factions that would want to harm you. People would want to take over the throne. Is there a chance that knowing that you're a prince and that this is your birthright combined with the fact that a lot of people want to kill you,

would that cause you to act a certain way, especially as a ruler? If you had positions of power, if you had positions of influence. So think about that really, really hard. Because I'm willing to accept some people are victims of their own environment and upbringing. that does not excuse behavior. One issue that needs to be addressed is whether or not there's an organized campaign to commit racist and anti-Semitic hoaxes. For years, rumors have circulated that a particular organization have been engaged in this activity. Right-wingers are particularly fond of this notion in that it tends to confirm the conspiracy theories about the group.

What right-wingers? Most of the right-winger, as I know, I'm recording this on October 7th, 2024. Most of the right-wingers I know probably have their Israeli flag at half-mast today. Oh, I'm sorry, the United States flag at half-mast today. Who are these right-wangers? It's important to avoid paranoid thinking on this issue and to reject the kind of reasoning that suggests that every disturbing event must have a plot of some kind behind it, and a series of such events must be the product of a planned conspiracy.

I do agree with that. I do agree with that. I mean, it's not like, you know, some idiot who, some rabbi who decides he needs some attention and spray paint swastik is on the side of his temple and everything is part of a wide conspiracy. Now, just looking for, looking for attention. Well, going to be a victim. Extremists on both sides of this issue tend to think in terms with predictably unfortunate results. I found no credible hard evidence of a bona fide conspiracy or organized campaigns to commit anti-Semitic hoaxes.

The best evidence is that the hoax incidents are unconnected and the product of individuals and not of organizations. I don't think of a conspiracy, I don't think a conspiracy is required to explain a pattern of anti-Semitic hoaxes. In addition to the psychological pleasures of victimhood, the advantages to Jewish activists and anti-racist of anti-Semitic incidents are obvious, so much so that it would be reasonably, it would be reasonable, so much so that it would reasonably occur to potential hoaxers upon simple reflection with no communication between them. Who benefits from mindless acts of anti-Semitic graffiti and vandalism is therefore all to see, and it is most assuredly not anti-Semites? Some hoaxes have involved plots in a manner of speaking, and several of them have

involved recognizable conspiracies to commit the particular hoax. but linkage with other hoaxes is very unlikely, except in the limited psychological sense of the copycat phenomenon. The copycat effect is important, however, because it can account for not only bona fide racial and antisemitic incidents, but for additional hoaxes as well. On the other hand, there is some evidence of a deliberate effort to cover up or minimize incidents that prove to be hoaxes, usually to avoid giving anti-Semites ammunition in the words of one journalist. So they seek to commit this hoax so they can get attention, they can get sympathy, get whatever, funding. And then if the hoax is found out, they don't want you to find out about the hoax because then it gives people, what, people will realize that your behavior, you have bad behavior when it comes to this. Is that what it is?

giving anti-Semitic anti-Semites ammunition in the words of one journalist. Okay. If somebody discovers that somebody reads this book and realizes, wow, look at all these hoaxes. Why are they doing this? There's something wrong. And starts to question Jewish motives because all of this surrounds one identity. I mean, it's, there's this meme online.

It's like, what's the main cause of anti-Semitism? And if you listen to Bill Maher show recently, one of the panelists said Gentiles. Well, thank you for that. Another panel, and Bill Maher just, oh, people are jealous because we're successful. To which I pointed out on Twitter. Okay, so the Biden administration is overwhelming. majority Jewish. The director of project for FEMA, not the head of FEMA, like I said, I made a mistake on Twitter and

corrected it. The head of field operations kind of thing is Jewish. The head of the head of DHS, the Department of Homeland Security is Jewish. Okay. Would you say that we have a successful government. People may be successfully getting jobs and keeping them, but if you look at this government and you think, wow, this government is terrible, they can't protect us, we need to take care of ourselves. And then it's pointed out to you that there is an real overrepresentation of people who call themselves Jewish, who are in this government, and especially in leadership roles, what's your success metric? I'm not trying to be anti-Semitic here.

I'm asking a question. I mean, if it was Chinese people, if Biden's cabinet was overwhelmingly Chinese, if the head of DHS was Chinese, if the FEMA field director was Chinese, people would be like, wow, first of all, there's a lot of Chinese people in our government. Second of all, they'd be like, I don't, seems like they're not doing a really good job. But there's this one group that you're not because of everything that I'm reading here, that you're not allowed to, I mean, just the whole thought process behind why you would make up hate quote unquote hate crimes there it's very hard for me to believe other than people are so

indoctrinated against looking at you know calling out groups group behavior that and you know group behavior when you call it group behavior, it doesn't have to be everyone. It doesn't have to be everyone. And Israelis will tell you, Zionists will tell you that everyone in Gaza is, they're a danger to them. Is everyone in Gaza a danger to them? I don't think so. But yet when it comes to this one group and people lose their minds. over it. Yeah, and people contact me and they're like, well, you know, I can't, you know,

you just know, it's like, well, what do you want me to do? What do you want me to do? It's like I've said before. I think I said it on one of my sub-sack videos. I'm not, I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I have good pattern recognition. I can memorize stuff. Is that racist? Continuing. I have encountered several cases where the news coverage of an incident was explicitly minimized once it was discovered to be a hoax. This, of course, is what is known as spin control, and some anti-racist and human rights group are pretty good at it. The number of publicized hoaxes, such as those documented in this report, is undoubtedly

a small fraction of those that actually occur. The Anti-Defamation League itself may have been party to a significant mess representation on the cover of the 1985 issue of the ADL Bulletin, where a cover photograph designated desecration of a Jewish home in Kingspoint, New York, was clearly a fake. The swastika depicted does not follow the contours of the panel door and appears to stand out and away from it. It was painted onto a photo or a transparency and then refotographed.

The issue of the bulletin also featured a major article entitled, anti-Semitic vandalism, two-year trend reversed. The article noted that California with a population of 23,000 had experienced 99 incidents in 1984 or one incident per 230,000 citizens. Okay, so in 1984, they had, their population was 23 million. At the end of this, I'm going to look up and see what their population is now. And however much that has increased. what percentage would you assume was from Americans?

In February 1994, the ADL was involved in a major host controversy when Donald Mitz, a member of the ADL's National Commission and candidate for Mayor of New Orleans, was accused of creating and distributing openly racist and anti-Semitic flyers in order to create sympathy for his candidacy and raise funds for the election. Oh, I'm just stopping so that you can take that all in. The New York Times reported that a Maine Mince advisor had been charged with a misdemeanor count, accusing him of trying to distribute some of the flyers. An investigation by the New Orleans Human Relations Commission issued a preliminary report, concluding that at least two of the flyers originated in the Mints campaign.

Mints vigorously denied that he or anyone in his campaign was responsible for the flyers. He conceded, however, that his campaign had mailed thousands of. of the flyers to juice throughout the nation in a fundraising effort. Bob Tucker, campaign manager for Mince's opponent, Ernest Morial, said, Mr. Mintz self-inflicted a racial wound where there was none, and he did it to raise funds nationally. Mintz subsequently lost the election. He didn't even drop out. He lost the election. If I seem like I have an attitude more when I'm talking about these crimes as opposed to black crimes, when I look at those.

black crimes, how many of them were perpetrated by mayoral candidates for some of the major cities in the country? I think it's a little more important when it's people with real power seeking to do this. Lori A. Rec 35, a legal secretary vigorously supported court-ordered desegregation in Yonkers, New York at a city council meeting in January 1988. She was heckled and booed by many of the 800 people attending the meeting. A few days later, Reck, who was Jewish, began reporting death threats. As a consequence of wide media coverage of her alleged victimization, rec became a media heroine for her courage and determination in face of racist attacks.

In May 1988, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree by the College of New Rochelle in recognition of her victimization. That's another sentence right there. She told friends that she had received encouragement and support from all over and had even been offered a scholarship to attend law school at Toro College. Ms. Rec became a very important lady. The ADL had been in the forefront in support of Miss Rec. In November 1988, she once again reported a death threat on the telephone

and claimed to have found racist and anti-Semitic graffiti near her apartment. door. It read, N-lover, Jew, we haven't forgotten you. We will show the world your cause with your corpse. A bullet waits for you. Unbeknown to misrecht, the FBI had installed the TV camera outside her apartment,

and it's probably a TV camera, probably undercover camera. That wording seems a little weird. And attached security equipment to her telephone line to catch the perpetrator. The equipment showed that no threatening call had been received, and the hidden camera recorded Ms. Reciting the racist and anti-Semitic threat on the wall next to her own apartment. Rec admitted in court to lying to FBI agents.

She faced a potential sentence of five years in person and a $250,000 fine. Instead, she received five years probation, no jail time, no fine. Notice up top when we were talking about the black people, like the ones who, um, but try to commit fraud. These are people who actually did time in jail. Let's see if any of these in this group gets jail time. Of any significant. I mean, we have one person getting 10 years up there.

So not undeserved. I'm going to say, I mean, it's definitely deserved it. A November 24, 1985 AP dispatch from New York City reported vandals threw rocks through windows of eight Jewish-owned shops, Mayor Edward Koch said the city would offer $10,000 reward. Ed Koch, wow. Memories come flooding back. The Jewish Community Relations Council offered a 5,000 reward as well. The windows were broken in the predominantly Orthodox Jewish areas of Borough Park and Flatbush in Brooklyn.

Two weeks later, windows and another seven stores were broken in the enclave of 100,000 Orthodox Jews, and 300 synagogues. Think about that. That's a lot of synagogues in one section of the city. Newspapers around the nation reacted to with shock and outrage and compared the incident to Crystal Knacht when Nazis terrorized Jews in pre-World War II, Germany, even though no swastikers or anti-Semitic graffiti were found on the buildings. There are mistakes in that sentence.

I will not stop to correct them. because let's remember a normie leftist is actually writing this. Pressure from the Jewish community brought increased. You can just listen to, I have plenty of episodes covering this and what actually happened. Pressure from the Jewish community brought increased police patrols and calls for greater vigilance against anti-Semitism, although no anti-Semitism had been proven. Nine of the 12 detectives in the police department's bias unit had been assigned to the case. Within two weeks, Mordecai Levi, a leader of the Jewish Defense Organization, a militant Zionist group with a reputation of terrorism, announced that the group was organizing night patrols.

However, on December 9th, the mystery was solved, according to press reports. A 38-year-old Jewish man with a history of psychological problems was arrested in connection with the smashing of windows of Jewish-owned shops in the Borough Park and Flatbush sections of Brooklyn. Police had arrested Gary Dworkin, who lived nearby, on 43rd Street in Brooklyn. He was subsequently charged with 13 counts of criminal mischief, some of which were felonies, including one count of discrimination. Media accounts emphasized his emotional instability, implying that that was the reason for his behavior. Brooklyn District Attorney Elizabeth Holtzman issued a statement that his vandalism was directed at Israelis and Hasidic Jews.

In February 1979, one Michael James Gutman applied for a permit to hold the neo-Nazi rally in the shadow of Philadelphia's Independence Hall. Gutman claimed the National Socialist White People's Party would provide its own protection if police didn't. The application reported in the Philadelphia Daily News created an enormous stir in the city's Jewish community, one of the largest in the nation. According to the news, the application stated that signs reading Hitler was right and gas commie Jews would be shown and that the avowed purpose of the rally was to show the

world ends and Jews are cowards. The news also reported that the Jewish Defense League had announced last week that it would meet force with force. Two days later, the Park Service rescinded the permit. According to terms of the agreement reached with attorneys representing survivors of the Holocaust who had challenged the permit in a federal court hearing here, the permit was withdrawn when the man who received it identified as James Goodman could not be found to testify today. An investigation revealed that the man posing as James Goodman may have been using a stolen identification card. Philadelphia police said that Mordecai Levi, associated with the Jewish Defense League, had once been arrested in New York City using information from the same stolen card.

In August 1983, a series of fires in West Hartford, Connecticut terrorized the Jewish community and evoked media comparisons to the night of broken glass when Nazis terrorized Jews in pre-World War II Germany, like I said before. Fires were set at Young Israel Synagogue, the Emanuel Synagogue, and the home of Rabbi Solomon Kruppka. In September, the home of Connecticut State Representative Joan Kemmler, who is Jewish, was set on fire. Kemmler had spoken out against the unknown perpetrator of the three previous fires. Police involvement in the matter was intense. nationwide media attention focused on the incident, which had launched several legislative proposals to curb bigotry and violence. Police Chief Francis Reynolds doubled patrols in the predominantly Jewish section of town.

West Hartford Mayor Charles R. Matties announced a $50,000 reward. Indeed, police staked out entire square blocks of West Hartford hoping to charge someone with arson. An article by Barbara Sullivan in the Chicago Tribune was typically, of the coverage. She quoted an elderly white-haired man who sobbed, I had relatives in the Holocaust, I never thought I'd see this happen again. Scott Fiegelstein of the Connecticut Regional Office of the Anti-Defamation League is quoted as saying, we have to be realistic because of our history. We have to take utmost caution. Perhaps good has come out of all of this because it's drawn people together, but how sad it's come from something's too terrible. The most important part of that statement is

perhaps good has come out of all of this because it's drawn people together. The Jewish Defense League announced that they would have armed patrols operating West Hartford. The Hartford Current published an apology for their insensitive coverage of this and another incident in which an anti-Semitic note was found on the doorstep of a West Hartford home. The paper editorialized. The current, for its part, must continue to walk that delicate line between informing the public and not playing into the arsonist's hand. The paper must be careful not to inflame an already touchy situation.

An early suspect in the case was Barry Dov Schuss, a 17-year-old Jewish student. An FBI psychological profile of the arsonist clearly pointed to Schuss as did several other indicators. Finally, on December 14th, newspapers reported that Schuss had confessed to all four arsons. In fact, Schuss had confessed to his rabbi, Solomon Kroft. Grupka several days before his family and the police were notified. Grupka claimed that the relationship between a clergyman and congregant is privileged. Gropka disavowed any responsibility for not notifying the police, which would have saved taxpayers thousands of dollars in calm, tense nerves.

Damage control in this case was a masterpiece. Jack Schuss, the boy's father, said that he had some problems in the past and had been receiving treatment from time to time. An editorial in the Hartford Current spoke of a troubled and alienated 17-year-old. The editorial quoted Rabbi Kripka. It's time not to be judgmental, but to feel. The feeling now is how we would as a family react. We have to be very sympathetic to his family.

Obviously, you're thinking the same thing. At this point, it's just saying it is just so, if it had been a Gentile, would they be saying the same thing? All right. Would we be being sympathetic to his family? Or would be blaming them for raising the next Hitler? It's really tiresome. It was revealed that until Schuss confessed to his crimes,

they did not have enough evidence to arrest him, even though several times circumstances pointed directly to him. In fact, Schuss was a suspect virtually from the beginning. At one point during the investigation, police kept 33 officers in the neighborhood where the fires occurred. The Hartford Current reported that six homes were watched 24 hours a day and about a dozen suspects were given lie detector tests. At least 15 officers were assigned to door-to-door interviews. More than 300 people eventually were questioned about the fires.

Following his arrest on four counts to second-degree arson, each of which carries a minimum 20-year sentence, a motion was made to try shoes as a youthful offender. even though he had planned to set at least four additional fires before he was apprehended. On February 27, 1984, Hartford Superior Court Judge John D. Brennan gave Barry Dove Schuss a suspended sentence and placed on five years probation. In a statement to the court, Schuss said that a possible reason for setting the synagogue fires was to show vulnerability of the police or the synagogue to anti-Semitic violence. even the rich and famous are not immune to anti-Semitic hoaxes. No less of a personage than Morton, Danny Jr. was caught in such a fabrication in May 1989. Downey claimed that he had been accosted by either one, two, or three neo-Nazi skinheads in the men's restroom at the San Francisco airport.

That's because that's, I mean, neo-Nazis in San Francisco, that's where I think. And it's first place I'd jump to if I think, oh, neo-Nazi skinheads. San Francisco, Minneapolis, Greenwich Village, New York. Yeah, that sounds about right. They then pinned him against a toilet stall, drew a swastika on his face, and cut a small swatch from his scalp. According to Downey, then they gave the Nazi Sieg-Hyle salute and left. According to Newsweek magazine, airport police weren't buying it. Officers on the scene said Downey only had a couple of lines on his face, not the full swastick he displayed to the press,

and none of the dozen or so people near the bathroom saw anything, said an airport sergeant. Draw your own conclusions. Downey later admitted that incident was publicity and it was prearranged. One of Downey's former producers at the WWOR TV in San Francisco said, Morton knew his show was in trouble and he was trying to make a splash in the San Francisco market. What does that say about San Francisco? I don't know. Swastikas, while regarded as specific to anti-Semitism,

have become a universal symbol of racism and ethnic bigotry. Have they? In San Francisco, two non-Jewish minority fire inspectors reported finding a wooden plaque with a swastika painted on it in their office in January 1988. A San Francisco Chronicle account reported, their discovery was deemed a striking instance of racial harassment in the troubled department and led to the resignation of fire chief Edward Phipps.

The incident was troubling in other aspects as well. Fire captain Michael McKinley found certain contradictions and inaccuracies and statements given by fire inspectors Walter Batiste and David's son. He asked them to submit to a polygraph machine. He said that key witnesses who disputed their statements have passed lie detector tests. Batiste and Son were granted disability, for stress since they allegedly found the plaque. Captain McKinley said they had been sent registered letters asking them to come back for more

questioning, but neither replied. The men sought the assistance of private attorneys in the matter, and the case was dropped from public view. Oh, wow. Co-op City. I have a relative that lives there. Still lives there. Been there many times.

In New York City, residents of Co-op City. massive housing cooperative in the Bronx, found anti-Semitic graffiti and swast stickers daub daub daub daubbed dab dabbed on 51 apartment doors and walls in March 1984. The incident received wide publicity including comparisons with Nazi Germany. A $3,500 reward was offered for the perpetrators. Later, two Jewish teenagers tried to collect a reward by turning in someone else and were arrested. The two youths, age 14 and 15, were charged as juveniles with conspirators. criminal mischief and falsely reporting a police incident. They are also suspected of other racist and anti-Semitic incidents dating back over a several-month period,

all of which had been attributed to racists. As usual, the crimes receive far more attention than the revelations of fraud. On July 15, 1987, a Rockfield, Maryland Jewish woman and her Roman Catholic husband awoke at 4.45 a.m. to find a fire in the shape of a swastika burning on their lawn. neo-Nazi, skinheads, and KKK were widely speculated as the perpetrators responsible for the outrage. Elise Rothschild of the Montgomery County Human Rights Commission spoke of the fire as an act of terror and said that there has to be an outcry from everybody in the country that we will not tolerate this type of behavior. It is totally not acceptable. It's incredible that like this happened in Rockville, Maryland, and immediately they go to the whole country.

has to be a part of this. Lieutenant Carville Harding, the Montgomery County Fire Marshal, reported that the perpetrator came forward and confessed at the urging of his father. Gary L. Stein, a 19-year-old Jewish man, confessed to the crime and implicated a longtime friend John F. Finnegan as the actual perpetrator. According to Harding, Stein claimed that his buddy did it. On July 1989, the Asbury Park Press reported that two unnamed Jewish teenagers had been arrested on the morning of July 15th for throwing firecrackers at passing cars. The two Uds were apprehended after a chase. A subsequent investigation quickly linked them to an

incident in which swastikas and anti-Semitic remarks were painted on a home and car, according to Marlborough Township Police. The two were charged with seven counts of criminal mischief, four counts of burglary, and two counts of theft. Mark Greiner, president of Temple, Rodelf Torah, of Western Monmouth remarked, There is enough anti-Semitism from non-Jews. I would hope people brought up in a Jewish home would protect the religion. Something obviously went wrong. Had the swastika painting and anti-Semitic graffiti been the act of non-Jews,

the incident would certainly have been prosecuted as a hate crime. This was not done, however. According to Detective Sergeant Robert Holmes, it's tough to prove their actions are anti-Semitic if they are both Jewish. The Asbury Park Press quoted unnamed community leaders and scholars familiar with anti-Semitism to the effects that the teenagers probably acted out of personal reasons rather than religious hatred. Jackson Toby, director of the Institute for Criminalological Research at Rutgers University, noted that the incidents might have been motivated by an attempt to arouse and blow the minds of the local Jewish community.

He added, if you want to get people excited, start talking about prejudice and racism. They know. Three men allegedly entered a Milwaukee synagogue and poured a caustic substance on Buzz Cody, the sexton. The December 1985 incident occurred just a few hours before the start of Hanukkah, a major Jewish holiday. Holiday. Cody, a former Roman Catholic who had converted to Judaism 12 years previous, said that one of the men demanded that he unlocked the sanctuary's ark where four of the synagogue's 11 main Torahs are kept. He said the men demand and open it up, we want your holy Koran. And referred to the group with the initials PDL, possibly referring to Palestinian Defense League.

Cody described the men as being dark complexion and speaking with Middle East accents. The synagogue senior rabbi Francis Barry Silberg said that Cody was obviously willing to sacrifice himself for his faith and his duty and the integrity of the synagogue. Alert police detectives suspected a hoax from the beginning. Milwaukee Police Lieutenant William Vogel said, I can't justify it with the investigative results as they have been presented to us. When you're talking about something involving a radical group, they don't operate in this manner. The skepticism prompted the Milwaukee Journal to editorialize that the police uncertainly seemingly demeaned the episode seriousness, which could be interpreted as reflecting police insensitivity.

In July 1985, the Jewish Community Center in Milwaukee had been defaced with nine red spray-painted swastikas. A year before that, in June 1984, the congregation Beth L. Nairnir-Tamid in nearby Mechwan was defaced and several red spray-painted swastikas. Several red spray-painted swastikas. The incident was followed by anonymous telephone calls in the area, one of which said that the Defense League is at war with the Jewish community.

On December 19, 1985, Cody's apartment was allegedly vandalized, The walls were covered with anti-Semitic symbols, again in red spray paint, including a large swastika in the letters, PDL. Police could find no forced entry. Rabbi Silberg said the victim has been re-victimized. An investigation turned up no such as organization as Palestinian Defense League or PDL. On May 15, 1986, Cody was charged with two counts of obstructing an officer in connection with reports he had made to police after receiving threatening. phone telephone calls, which police had determined were not true. A trace were installed by the phone company has shown that at least two of the calls were placed from Cody's private line. Later that same day, possibly fearing discovery and disgrace, Buzz Cody tragically committed suicide.

Police Captain Ronald Mel referring to the alleged December 1985 attack on Cody said there was no shred of evidence to support the allegation. No further PDL incidents followed Cody's death. Sixteen months after arson destroyed Woodside Synagogue in Silver Spring, Maryland, no arrest had yet been made. At the time of the April 8, 1986 fire, community leaders rallied to the aid of the Orthodox Jewish congregation and supported a wave of demands that urgent action be taken to stem anti-Semitism and hate crimes.

Lieutenant Carville Harding, a Montgomery County fire inspector, thinks he knows the culprit's identity, although he lacked sufficient probable cause to arrest the subject. Harding told Washington Jewish Week that we feel we know the motive, but if we tell you, you'll know who the person is. This is very touchy, he said. Harding also said the arson was not an act against people of the Jewish faith. Synagogue sources said one member who had since left the area was brought in for questioning and is still a suspect. Dr. Sheldon Jacobson, a Jewish dentist, discovered a fire in the form of a large swastika burning on his lawn at his Hewlett Neck, New York home in August 1979. It was thought that the incident was another in a series of racial offenses that had allegedly occurred in the area

in the last several weeks. A few days later, police had their culprit. He was Douglas Kahn, a Jewish teenager who had been angered about because Jacobson's dog had defecated on his front lawn. He retaliated by pouring gasoline in the form of a 20 by 20 foot swastika on Jacobson's lawn and lighting it. Khan, who had worked as a guard at Kennedy Airport, was later convicted a fourth-degree criminal mischief placed on three years probation and ordered to pay $650 in restitution. How many hate crimes can one bear? That's what Nathan Cobran was asking himself all summer in 1991, and there's no end in sight. Coburn and Jewish man from Concord, California claimed to have been the victim of anti-Semitic telephone calls, letters, arson, and verbal threats on 20 separate occasions between May 17th and Labor Day, 1991, all threatening his life. Moreover, he claimed that the ordeal has damaged his health. On August 6th, when an unidentified woman told him he would die, he stopped eating. According to Corbyn, my nerves were shot and my stress level was very high. On August 8th, Coburn became almost totally paralyzed. He was taken to a

hospital and released the same day. However, after an article on the Northern California Jewish Bulletin appeared deotailing his courageous battle with anti-Semitism, followed by another sympathetic account in the August 17th Contra Consta Times, his spirits lightened. He received some 50 calls of support. According to Coburn, people were telling me that they weren't Jewish, but they knew what I was going through. All kinds of people called. Hispanics were calling blacks, the whole ethnic tossed salad. It was amazing. The harassment of Coburn began on May 17th when Halim Abdul Sanjai, a Muslim who lived in the same apartment building, allegedly threatened Kroberin because he was Jewish. Sanjani was arrested. He was jailed a second time July 12th when he resisted Concord police who were serving a restraining order on Cobran's behalf.

Over the next several weeks, Coburn claimed to have received numerous telephone death threats and awakened twice to find his backyard fence on fire. On August 16th, Coburn received a letter that read, Drop charges or I Kill You, Jew boy. Sanjani, 28, who was originally charged with resisting arrest and hitting an officer, found himself also charged with making terroristic threats and interviewing with Coburn's civil rights. He faced several years in prison. Having acquired status as a heroic victim of bigotry and prejudice, Coburn became widely known in the San Francisco Bay Area.

His case was used as an illustration of the hatred toward Jews that lurks about in our society. However, on September 21st, 1991, Bay Area residents were presented with a different story. The Oakland Tribune reported, A Concord man who claims to have been the victim of 22 anti-Semitic attacks since May told investigators yesterday that he fabricated 10 of the alleged incidents. Police said, Nathan Coburn, 36, said he was the victim of terroristic phone calls, hate letters, and two arson fires that were set in his patio. He blamed most of the attacks on his former neighbor,

28-year-old Halim Abdul-Sajani. Yesterday, Coburn admitted to investigators that he ignited two fires in his patio, left two terroristic messages on an answering machine, and wrote six hate letters to himself. Concord Detective Stuart Rawlison discovered Coburn's fabrication the night of September 9th after Coburn claimed to have received a threatening anti-Semitic note, one of six he had admitted to falsifying, and that he had chased an assailant through a parking lot. Detective Rawlison, who had been watching the apartment all night, hadn't seen any of the alleged incidents. Rawlison also previously suspected that Coburn was lying about some of the incidents.

The ADL, which had bashed in the publicity against anti-Semitism and hate crimes, brought by Cobran's fabrications, was caught holding the bag. Richard Hirschout, executive director of the ADL's Central Pacific Regional Office, who had several contacts with Cobran, spoke of the developments in a shocked and shaken voice, he said. the tragedy of Nathan Coburn in no way discounts or diminishes the reality of increased anti-Semitism and the increased throughout society in hate crimes. The false charges against Zijani were subsequently dropped. Coburn was ordered to appear for arraim in January 31, 1992, in Contra Costa Superior Court. He was charged with one count of perjury, two counts of arson, and six counts of preparing false documentary evidence. All are felonies.

In addition, he was charged with nine misdemeanor count. of making false police reports. Coburn was convicted in 1992, Deputy District Attorney Terry Barker said he should receive the maximum sentence for committing hate crimes eight years in state prison. She commented, I argue that these were hate crimes and they were done out of a motive against Mr. Sejani because of his race. It was sophisticated because there was a lot of planning involved. It was a hideous misuse of the system and of emergency personnel.

In July, he was sentenced to one year in the county jail, in spite of a pleas for his attorney that his sentence be suspended. Nancy Diner and ADL official who attended the sentencing said that Coburn's hoax will not change the way it investigates anti-Semitic crimes. One year. That's all we've gotten so far in all these readings. We haven't gotten definitive on every case. That's what we have so far, one year.

And, I mean, what you think he's going to serve the whole year? Usually, if they serve the whole year, they give you a year and a day. In February 1994, a Jewish student at the Kansas City area Leewood Middle School was apprehended after he distributed anonymous anti-Semitic notes, apparently only to other Jewish students. According to media sources, the perpetrator was identified and is thought to be responsible for placing anonymous Jewish notes with pencil-drawn swastikas and phrases such as, Go Home Jew, in the books and lockers of six students over two weeks. The incident caused a major furor among parents of students at the school,

and some threatened to use the legal system to force release of the student's name. Leawood Police Chief Stephen Cox criticized members of the community and the media for creating a feeding frenzy over the incident. He said, the child is already an intensive counseling, and so are the parents. Because they are responding appropriately, I see no need whatsoever for any further involvement or sanctions, though through either the criminal justice system or the school system. What is very harmful now is the continued turmoil at the school. children accusing each other, divisive efforts to identify the child. I would urge these people to carefully consider their own motives before taking such action.

I mean, how many times can you say it? I mean, if it was genuine, quote unquote, some Gentile or black, or, I mean, all Gentiles, doing this. Everyone will want to know, but no, no, we need to protect, protect this one. Because, oh, what do you think some of the leading cause of people going, I don't know about this group of people? Behavior? I don't know.

One of the stranger cases of fake anti-Semitic violence was staged in 1991 by a former volunteer firefighter in Sugarloaf Mountain, Colorado, who said he was mistaken as a Jew. Terry Hutter, who claimed that a mysterious fire set at his home, was one of the several alleged hate crimes committed against him since 1994 by people who wrongly believed he was Jewish. The fire was contained before the home was destroyed, but another fire completed the destruction a month later. The Boulder, Colorado Daily Camera reported. Investigators discovered that in a videotape of the fire, Hutter inadvertently was recorded talking about setting the fire. Hutter and another man involved in the tape conversation, Curtis Covey, didn't realize they were being recorded.

In April 1992, Terry Hutter pleaded no contest to a judge. charge a third-degree arson. He was sentenced to eight years probation and mandatory psychiatric counseling. He couldn't even get... A Chicago area case of anti-Semitism vandalism in a West Rogers Park townhouse was originally thought by police to be a hate crime. On February 5th, 1994, however, police had arrested Shah's Steele, 17, and his 14-year-old girlfriend. The two were charged with vandalism and with Burglarize in the same house, Belmont Area Police Sergeant Rick Batritch. said that the youth who apparently knew the owner of the townhouse and that the two painted the graffiti to link the burglary with the other unsolved anti-Semitic incidents in the area.

They did this to throw some attention off themselves, he said. It was one of the worst anti-Semitic cemetery desecrations in recent memory. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Investigator initially believed that the June 1991 incident at home of Peace Cemetery in East Los Angeles, one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the area, may have been a hate crime. According to news reports, more than 25 tombstones were knocked over in Nazi swastikers, KKK, Kukk's clan, KKKs, and devil worship slogans were painted on some walls and tombs. And just throwing everything out there. I was just, ugh. Within days, the case was solved. The owner of CDTA security, Roger Ricardo Sapien, 27 of Rosemede, wanted to obtain the

security contract on the Jewish cemetery. According to authorities, Sapien, with the aid of two Confederates, apparently committed the vandalism in order to discredit the firm now providing security there. Information on the case took detectives to Sapien's home where they found the guard dogs recently stolen from the cemetery. The three were booked for investigation of vandalism, a religious cemetery, a felony, and Sapien was charged with theft of the dogs. Cooper City, Florida.

I know those plus. In Cooper City, Florida, Jerome and Jamie Brown-Roddle, a Jewish couple, returned home to find their home trashed and burglarized. April 1993 incident included anti-Semitic graffiti in the form of swastikas painted on the walls. News reports indicated that outraged community leaders, police, and residents moved quickly to stem what they thought was the start of a trend in hate crimes. Within two weeks, an interfaith council to promote unity among ethnic and relationships. religious groups was organized. A detailed eight-month joint investigation with the Cooper City Police, the FBI, and the Florida State Department of Insurance fraud was conducted. According to police detective Bobby Cates, in the weeks prior to the burglary, Jamie Rodel purchased several expensive

items. She then conspired with several people to stage the burglary and vandalism. She also filed a claim with Allstate her insurer for $47,000 in losses and damages. The insurance company paid Rodel 30,000. After she collected the money, Jamie Rodel left her husband and began living an expensive lifestyle with a boyfriend. In December 1993, she was charged with fraud and grand theft. She was freed on $2,000 bail. Her estranged husband was not charged in the case. Suasdica painting vandals were suspected of setting fire to the basement of a downtown Denver restaurant, June 10th, 1990. The restaurant's Jewish owners were beside themselves with outrage at the ugly graffiti, Hitler Reborn, Die Jew.

Lee Waldman, owner of the eggshell restaurant, also noted the business was down 40%. According to the Rocky Mountain News. Denver police intelligence officers suspected skinhead involvement. Denver mayor Frederico Pena, 1990, yeah, ordered an investigation into recent racist attacks in the city, and the news carried several alarmist articles on growing racism and antisept. Lee Waldman said, I think there's a lot more anti-Semitism in Denver than people realize. I think he sounds like he was very hopeful of this.

City leaders responded with outrage, stepped up police activity, and called for new anti-racist legislation. Of course, it did. As the investigation proceeded, however, it became more and more apparent the skinheads were not involved in the event and the possibility of a hoax loomed on the horizon. Denver police had heavily infiltrated local gangs and skinhead groups and had kept meticulous track of racist and anti-Semitic incidents in the community. The news noted that most incidents were committed by adolescents, perhaps bored and ignorant of the consequences of their acts, and not by organized hate groups, a fact that is often ignored. A one paragraph article finally noted

that swastik is spray painted on the walls for the restaurant may have been an effort to mislead. In a later article on hate crime hoaxes, news reporter Kevin Flynn noted that, after all the grandstanding and headlines, the spray painting of swastik is in the egg-shel arson is now believed to have been a hoax and not to have involved neo-Nazi skinheads at all. Investigators believe the swastikas were meant to divert suspicion. In one prominent case, the suspected perpetrator of a hate crime hoax and insurance fraud was acquitted on the basis of insufficient evidence. Susan and Curtis Klein, a young Jewish couple, returned to find their Germantown,

Maryland townhouse vandalized. Swastikers were painted on the living room carpet, bedroom mirrors, walls, and hallways. Most of their clothes were ripped and most of their furniture was either painted black, ripped, scratched, or smashed. The deliberateness and effort required to commit the March 1991 vandalism was highly unusual in alleged hate crimes. Someone would have had to spend the better part of an hour attending to the detailed graffiti and vandalism. In the bedroom of their eight-year-old son, the words Jew boy were sprayed on a mirror. According to Mr. Klein, the officer said this is the worst case of vandalism he's ever seen in a private home. He added, we grew up being taught about the Holocaust and being told never again, and here we are now.

I don't think we've gotten through the state of shock. The apparent hate crime was committed just a day before, the apparent hate crime was committed just a day before Jeffrey Lee Eskew, a self-styled skinhead was acquitted of breaking and entering malicious destruction and religious vandalism at an Orthodox Jewish boys school in Montgomery County, Maryland. The response to the anti-Semitic vandalism was overwhelming. 500 people volunteered to help Curtis and Susan clean up their home. A raffle was organized to raise money for the clines. Area businesses donated food and soft drinks for the volunteers, and local hauling company offered to provide a truck to haul debris. Newspapers printed an address where donations could be sent to the Klein family.

Police skepticism crystallized early in the investigation, aside from the unusual, time-consuming deliberateness of the attack. the most obvious clue was the issue of secondary gain. The Klein's became local heroes and symbols of the struggle against anti-Semitism. Moreover, according to the news reports, Mr. Klein claimed that 90% of their belongs were slash, broken, shredded, or marred with black spray paint that was used to write hate graffiti throughout the house. A review of hate crimes against property and anti-Semitic vandalism suggests the cases where

the perpetrators go to this much effort to send the message are extremely rare. For a person to take time to shred clothes, for example, implies a deep personal motive for the vandalism, suggesting that it might have been someone with a personal animus against the victim. Investigators could not locate anyone who fit this description. On the other hand, cases like this often proved to be hoaxes. According to Montgomery police spokesman Harry Gehring, we have not established a motive, we have no suspects, it's strange, why was this family targeted? There were other Jewish families in the area.

Before long, the media began reporting that Curtis Klein was a suspect in the case, although no charges have been filed. The Klein's attorney Barry Helfand and Alan Goldstein were accused police of leaking information to the press. Goldstein spoke of it in conspiratorial terms, saying the police were trying to poison the public's mind. It was also learned that Klein had been charged with stealing approximately 1,300 from a Germantown beauty salon where he used to work. On advice from his attorneys, Klein refused to answer any questions. On July 6, Montgomery County Police charged Klein with felony theft, destruction of property, and filing a false crime report in order to collect more than $31,000 from his insurance company. Anti-Defamation League Regional Director David Friedman,

who had taken an interest in the case, expressed sadness as a direction the case had taken. Klein denied the charges and said he had been a victim of hate violence. His wife was not charged. A district court statement of charges detailed several inconsistencies in Klein's account. Montgomery County Detective Kevin Stone said that the entry was apparently not forced. Curtis Klein reported to work as a hairdresser about 10.15 a.m. on the day of the incident gave him ample time to vandalize the house. A neighbor said the Klein's dog, who had always barked the strangers, didn't bark that morning.

Although many of the Klein's belongings were destroyed or damaged, some items that were obviously Jewish were not harmed. somewhat the opposite of what might be expected in a bona fide hate crime. Police immediately searched for a spray paint can, but it was three days later that the Klein's turned in a can, they said, was found under the debris. The can had been purchased at the hardware store, closest to the Klein residence, and a clerk said that Curtis Klein had been in the store on the morning of the vandalism. Klein at first claimed that $6,750 worth of jewelry had been stolen, but later said it was not missing. The statement also said that the clients were in debt, including 5,000 owed to the IRS and

7,000 to relatives. Their combined income was 41,000, from which 580 monthly was for car payments, and 765 for rent on the townhouse. Police said they had taken out a renter's insurance policy less than three months before the incident, had broken their lease, and made plans to move shortly before the vandalism. In September 1991, the case came to trial. prosecution witnesses testified, Frank Bell property specialist for the USAA Property and Casualty Insurance Company said that Klein had claimed compensation for a glass-topped dining room table. Bell testified that a chunk was broken from the table when he inventory damages on March 25th. However, a police photograph taken to the table during the investigation on March 21st showed

that it was unbroken at that time, suggesting that it had been broken afterward. Nevertheless, the evidence against Klein, although seemingly strong, was circumstantial. Hardware store clerk Jay Russell could not identify Mr. Klein as the man who purchased a spray paint, although he remembered him in the store that morning. Claiming that the evidence presented by the state was speculative, Judge William C. Miller found for the defense and acquitted Curtis Klein of all charges. Respect to the failure of the Klein's dog to bark of the alleged vandal, Miller said, the only thing the court can infer is that this dog is not a very good watchdog.

A week later, Maryland's assistant state's attorney, James trustee dropped the charges in the alleged theft of $1,300 from Klein's former employer. Client had been accused of destroying and falsifying receipts between November 1st and November 16th, 1990, police said. Klein's attorney, Barry Heflin, said, my client has already admitted to the police. My client had a nervous breakdown over this case. In spite of his admission, I'd have won the case. He has been reimbursed by his former, by his former employee.

He has reimbursed his former employee. He has reimbursed his former employees. But it was not over yet. Once again, the mysterious anti-Semitic vandal struck the hapless Klein family. In July 1992, 15 months after the first anti-Semitic incident, Susan Klein said she opened the door of her new apartment and faced a black Nazi swastick painted on the walls. As in the March 1991 incident, couches, chairs, drapes, and clothing were slashed. D drawers were strewn about. China closet and kitchen cupboard doors were open and everything seemed to have been spotted by.

by black spray paint. Jew was painted across a table and a picture of a rabbi was slashed. Police said they found no sign of forced entry. Ms. Klein pressed concern that police would consider her husband a suspect once again. I mean, I just don't know where to go.

I mean, it's just frustrating. I mean, everyone will throw in your face the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh. It's fucking horrible. I think I you don't want to live in a country like that you don't want to live in a country where shit like that happens you don't want to live in a country that has disorder like that

you want order you don't want that to happen no matter what but that seems to be as fucking horrible as that is it seems to be a crazy exception a tragic exception we have a hoax problem

in this country it just seems that, I mean, when you look around and you see just basically how abusive this government is, dropping thousands and thousands, tens of thousands of Haitians into one town, not responding properly to storms, you would expect people to respond with violence, frankly. Not something, not something I'm calling for. But you would almost expect, wow, this is going to cause people to But they don't. I mean, people just don't do this. Yet we have to put up with this and see no one go to jail for it. And people actually be using the excuse that, well, you know, at least it raised awareness. Awareness for what? All right. So we finished chapter six and on to chapter seven where it says other minorities.

and I guess we'll jump into some first one looks like Asian like Asian. There were ads in this and you can avoid those ads by subscribing. If you do Substack or Patreon, you get an RSS feed. You get the episodes early and ad free. Gumroad, you can play it right on Gumroad or download the file. And if you do it on my website or on Subscribe Star, you get the file. So yeah, and that's it. We'll be back for chapter seven.

I think there's only three chapters left, so this will be over pretty soon. But I hope that I hope you're getting a lot out of this. I hope you're seeing a lot. So that's it. Take care. Until the next time. Thanks. I want to welcome everyone back to part six of my reading of Crying Wolf, Hate Crime, Hoaxes in America by Layered Will.

Cox. Just a quick reminder, Thomas and I have been watching and reviewing movies. Freeman Beyond the Wall.com forward slash movies. Last movie we did was the 1979 classic The Warriors. Did the original Mad Max before that, and got one schedule coming up. So watch out for that. All right. We left off at Chapter 7 other minorities. Let's get into it. Although blacks and Jews are the subject of most of the hoaxes, members of other ethnic groups have also taken part. A Seattle-Washington case involving an Asian man demonstrates how complicated hoaxes can become. In November 1990, the Seattle Chinese Post, an ethnic weekly, carried the headline, UW rally against racism in support of Park, referring to Daris Park, a 23-year-old Korean-Chinese student who had claimed he was attacked by six white men wielding baseball bats and tire irons. Park was quoted as saying

Hate crimes. That is usually racially motivated crimes. Have been on the rise and traditionally Asians have been told to grin and bear it. This rally is telling them something different. They don't have to be victims. Park claimed that three whites had held off his two Caucasian friends while a small crowd gathered

to cheer the attackers on. Some of them yelling, brain the gook. He also said that without his knowledge of martial arts, his attackers would have succeeded. Clearly, Daris Park had become a local hero in the fight against bigotry and prejudice. On November 14th, Park spoke at an anti-hatred rally sponsored by a University of Washington Civil Rights Group, chanting, hey, ho, racism has got to go, and waving banners. Some 150 University of Washington students marched on the university president's office demanding justice.

Accounts of the alleged attack appeared nationwide, as well as in the international Harold Examiner. But there were problems with Park's story. Although Park claimed that he had reported the attack to police after visit to a local hospital, police had no record of a report being filed. In fact, they had contacted Park after a story about the attack appeared in a community newspaper. Kevin Kane, a friend of Park, who claimed to have witnessed the attack and who backed up Park's assertion that he had reported the attack to police, revised his account under police

questioning. I told them I was not at the station when, the police when the report was filed, he said. But this was not a routine hate crime hoax. On 13th December 1990, Daris Park and a Confederate were charged with three armed bank robberies in Seattle and Battleground. Also charged in the bank robberies with Park was Joseph Fritz, White, who had also witnessed the attack on Park and initially supported the account to newspapers and police. On December 18th, Seattle Police, police reported that Park's account of the alleged hate crime was a gross exaggeration.

The event, it turned out, involved an altercation outside a nightclub in which Park and a single opponent were both armed with clubs, not six racist skinheads, as Park had reported. On the 28th of January, 1992, Park pleaded guilty to bank robbery charges in their arrangement where the government agreed to drop weapons charges. Under federal sentencing guidelines, he could be sentenced up to 80 years in prison. a Maryland House of Delegates candidate returned to his Fort Washington home in September 1990 to find two of his campaign signs burning in his yard in racial epithets painted on his garage. David Valderrama, a former Prince George's County Orphans Court Judge, a Filipino descent,

was running on a slate of candidates called the Democratic Unity Team, which included five blacks, the judge, and one white. He speculated that the incident was the work of a big, or political opponent. Within a few days, another story began to emerge. As investigating officers began to probe deeper into Alderama's story, he stopped cooperating. Lieutenant Colonel Robert Phillips, commander of the patrol division, noted that he failed to keep appointments for questioning. On the first occasion, he did not keep the appointment, indicating that his schedule prevented it. On the second occasion, he said he would not give a statement on the advice of his attorney.

police also said that they had fingerprint evidence in a case of alleged hate mail directed at Valderrama, but when they asked him to provide his fingerprints or take a polygraph examination, he refused. In the meantime, the criminal investigation focus began to shift toward a campaign staffer who also refused to cooperate with investigators. Investigators had come to suspect someone on the staff because of the skillfully generated publicity by Valderrama's handling of the incidents. On the 15th of September, 12 days after the incident occurred, the case was closed, although a WUSAT TV television report said that Valderrama was a suspect in the case. A major cross-burning case in Prince George's County was closed because of political pressure according to reports, which say that the stumbling block was the Office of State Attorney Alex Williams. Mr. Williams is politically aligned with a person who reported the crime on the property, state delegate David Valderrama.

In San Jose, California, Chen Wens family found swastikas and anti-Asian graffiti scrawled outside their home on December 19, December 1992. The vandals had written bitch and ketchup on Wend's daughter's Betty's car and wrote Nip Bitch and KKK on the sidewalk and driveway of the house. Officer Veronica Damon said the police department is investigating the incident as a hate crime, which carries a maximum punishment of one year in jail.

in a $5,000 fine. Betting one said, We're standing up against discrimination and racism once and for all. I think people should be aware of racial tension in the community. Five days later, however, newspapers downgraded the hate crime to a prank. Police detective Sergeant Art Munoz said the 17-year-old culprit, also Vietnamese American, had quarreled with Betty Nguyen

three months previous and drew swastikas, KKK, and slogans on the family property. to anger the girl. Detective Munoz said that investigators felt something wasn't right at the beginning of the case. Some of the slurs used almost polite language instead of the ugly terms often used in bona fide hate crimes. Sergei Rivera Ayala, a native of Mexico and a Spanish instructor at Syracuse University in New York, claimed that he had been abducted at knife point by two men. Sheriff's deputies found him lying on the roadside July 11, 1990, his hands tied behind his back with his own bandana. He said he had been shopping. for milk at a Cortland grocery store.

Deputies didn't believe him, and he was arrested for a burglary at a nearby home. Ayala maintained that he had been arrested and victimized by police solely because of his race. Nine months later, in April 1991, Ayala pleaded guilty to a reduced crime of criminal trespass in the second degree, a class A misdemeanor, and admitted in writing that the abduction story was a hoax. Ayala, an assigned statement said, to the extent that they're has been created the impression that I was arrested, prosecuted, and persecuted because of my Mexican heritage and dissent. I apologize. In Detroit, Michigan, an Arab American was charged with arson in a 1991 incident in which he blamed anti-Arab racism for a fire at his dairy queen.

Karim Kori, 36, was indicted on charges of arson and insurance fraud in July 1993, according to U.S. Attorney Stephen Markman. According to news reports, Prosecutor said Curry hired an employee to set the January 1991 fire to collect the insurance. The fire caused up to $500,000 in damage. Days before, someone tossed paint balloons and sprayed graffiti on the restaurant and authorities said appeared to be an anti-Arab attack. I ain't calling at a restaurant's a stretch, but okay. All right.

Chapter 8. false charges of racism and anti-Semitism. Given the strong social taboos attached to anything perceived as racism or anti-Semitism, it is no small thing when false charges of this sort are leveled. A major difficulty lies in the fact that both racism and anti-Semitism are vague and poorly defined terms in popular usage. I can tell you what they both are. There are both terms applied to people that others don't like.

There you go. Eric Brindle makes this observation about racism. The very charge of racism has already been rendered nearly meaningless by those who use it recklessly to describe everything with which they're unhappy. From university tuition increases to the black dropout rate to the indictment of Marion Barry to the appearance of crack in the inner city. David Wilson, a columnist for the Boston Globe, noted that to be accused of racism is like being sprayed by a skunk. He continues, even if a whole... holy exculpatory response can be made, the party charged with racism remained subtly tainted, possibly because the charge itself consists in part of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The accused, ordinarily ambushed and unaccustomed to being insulted and lied about, is unlikely to think kindly of the accuser. Well, that's a good point. I think he raises a good point there. You know, what's the... What is usually the main factor in somebody deciding that, you know, it's not all of a race, but I'm deciding that I'm going to avoid that race, is that races or that group's behavior? That's it. Normally, that's it.

Nothing else. Anti-Semitism is even worse. up images of concentration camps, gas chambers, and Nazi stormtroopers. When John Carroll, a columnist for the San Francisco Examiner, criticized Israel for his treatment of the Palestinians, he was deluged with hate mail, which he characterizes easily the most personally hostile I have ever received. Shocking, huh? I mean, like since October 7th of 2023, I mean, huh. He says, I was called an anti-Semite. It's a cheap libel because it's a cheap libel because it's so impossible a refute. Try it yourself. I've just called you an anti-Semite. What do you do now?

What do I do? And? Okay. What? I hope that you didn't say that some of your best friends are Jewish. That was revealed long ago as just another euphemism for anti-Semitism. So what else? Remember, I actually praised the contributions of Jews to the 20th century culture. That was seen by more than one correspondent then as proof of my sneaky tactics. Don't do that. Don't do that. And you're retarded. You can't even point out the unfairness of it.

That's called blaming the victim. So what do you do? You just shut up is what you do. You can't prove a negative. There it is. On the record, you're an anti-Semite because someone said so. And, and, and, and, fuck off. There's a good response.

That's the one I like. Sometimes resistant is not all futile. Here are some accounts of individuals and in one case, the U.S. Army, who fought back when they were falsely charged with racism and anti-S.emitism. An incident which demonstrates the credulousness of both the news media and politicians whenever anti-Semitism is invoked occurred when World War II veteran David Rabitsky, 71, claimed in 1980s. that he had single-handedly wiped out up to 600 Japanese soldiers in the Battle of New Guinea on December 1st, 1942, a transparently fantastic allegation.

I mean, I have a... Rubitsky? There's too much. My brain just fried. The bodies of the Japanese soldiers were lying there on branches, roots piled up like cordwood

atop one another. Some were still alive. Some I just hear. hit in the shoulder and couldn't move, some in the legs. So I would just shoot them and ban at them. Shoot them and bayonet them. I was completely an insane man. To think that a human being would do that to another human being, what I did. Robesky, a communication sergeant at the time, said the ordeal took some 21 hours, and then he used a 30-caliber heavy machine gun, a browning automatic rifle, and an M-1 rifle. He also claimed that he had been denied a Congressional Medal of

honor for his heroic feat solely because of anti-Semitism. He said that Army Colonel John W. Mott had told him that we don't give the metal to Jews. Okay. I'm not even going to talk about the fact that he just, like, completely made this up, and that it's like the number that he, the number in the amount that he said he killed. Okay. According to Rubitsky, this wasn't his only brush with anti-Semitism. Victimization has been a recurring in his life. He said his family was frequently victimized when he was growing up in Edgerton, Wisconsin. Two times we had crosses burned on our lawn by a political organization, he said. My father was beaten up many, many times for no reason at all. While I was in the service, my mother was being

harassed. For several years, Rubitsky diligently pursued the Medal of Honor issue, largely through a sympathetic and uncritical news media and the assistance of the Anti-Defamation League. due to pressure generated on Rubisky's behalf by the ADL, including a resolution signed by 92 members of Congress, the Army undertook a two-year review of his claim in 1987. Newspapers around the nation credulously bought the story. An editorial in the San Francisco Chronicle opine, the ugly possibility that discrimination played a significant role in denying the Medal of Honor to heroic American soldiers in both World Wars has been raised in the extraordinary case of Jewish veteran credited with single-handedly killing. more than 500 infantrymen. I thought it was 600. I had some zeros to that to make it realistic.

The Madison-Wisconsin Capital Times published an article headlined, World War II soldiers started anti-Semitism battle early in life. Stories dramatizing the anti-Semitism angle appeared in publications ranging from Time Magazine to the New York Times. What they really needed to do was make a TV movie about him murder. murdering the 600 people. That's what they needed to do. I mean, they were stacked up like corkwood.

They were completely helpless. And this guy, a proud Jewish man, because, I mean, let's face it, his whole identity is based around that, obviously, just bayoneting and shooting and just kidding. I mean, I'd make for riveting television. How come they didn't make a movie about that? In the meantime, it was learned that Rubitsky had signed a book to a contract with Walter Kozak, a reporter for National Public Radio, which had heavily publicized Rabitsky's plight. You paid for that.

Kozak's sister, Milwaukee attorney Ellen Kozak, is a friend of the Rubikski family. Ha ha, ha, I bet. On December 8, 1989, following an unprecedented 23-month study of his allegations, the Army concluded that Rabitsky's claim was unfounded. The Army obtained evidence from forensic specialists and took statements from Ribusky and 20 others who were at the scene. The Anti-Defamation League called the decision unconscionable. Abe Foxman said the ADL would urge Army Secretary Michael Stone

to reverse the ruling in spite of the evidence. The Army investigation found that a photograph with a message that 600 fine soldiers died because of a single American soldier was specious and fraudulent. Japanese and American military records were in agreement that no such an attack by the Japanese had ever taken place. Even members of Rubisky's old World War II unit disputed his claim and called it a hoax. George Hess, a member of Rubikski's infantry regiment, said, it's the biggest fairy tale anyone, anybody has ever told the U.S. Army to get a medal. Claire O. L. said the claim was one big hoax and that Rubitsky was hiding behind a smoke,

of anti-Semitism to cover up his flintzy unsubstantiated fairy tale. On February 9th, 1992, two months after the Army report, Jewish Week reported that the Anti-Defamation League had finally conceded the Army's position. With that, the story disappeared. Undoubted, Rabitsky vowed to fight on. I just want to ask you to think about what he, the claim he made, and that he was bragging about it. and that the U.S. military, post-World War II, would even consider giving him a medal for what he did.

There's no honor in what he did. As a matter of fact, he sounds like a serial killer. Is what he was describing that he did. If false charges that an individual is anti-Semitic or racist or damaging, imagine what false charges that he is a Nazi war crime. criminal might be like. A Chicago residence had to go through such an ordeal in 1978. The United States government eventually wound up agreeing the charges should never been filed in the first place and paid 30,000, about 50% of his attorney fees. Frank Wallace was born in 1922 in Germany. When he was 10 years old, his family moved to Poland. In September 1939, the Germans invaded that country.

And five months later, Wallace, who was of small stature and a group of other Polish youths were taken to Germany to work on farms, which he continues to do throughout the war. Wallace immigrated to the United States in 1963, where he was joined by his wife and three children. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1970. His nightmare began in January 1977 when he was served with papers by the U.S. Justice Department, accusing him of concealing involvement in war crimes and membership in Nazi organizations when he applied for citizenship. A year later, Wallace found himself, Wallace has spelled a W-A-L-U-S for those who were not reading along. A year later, Wallace found himself in federal court listening to a testimony that implicated him

in the murder of nearly two dozen civilians while acting as a German Gestapo officer during World War II. The charges were the results of an investigation begun in 1973 by controversial Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. According to Wiesenthal, his own unnamed sources and Israeli police had learned of a former Nazi Gestapo agent who was living in Chicago, the man was allegedly Frank Wallace. Fucking believable. During his trial, Wallace listened to utterly fantastic accounts from eyewitnesses imported from Israel. Do you really think we have a country? Do you really think the United States is a country? Is a serious country? Is a sovereign fucking country? Money?

Rizzynski, 58, for example, said he saw Wallace beat a Jewish man to death with an iron bar next to Gestapo headquarters in Poland in 1940. Joseph Cunningsberg, a resident of Tel Aviv, said he saw Wallace kill a lawyer the day after Yom Kippur in 1942. Malik Wosenwald, a Tel Aviv shopkeeper, testified through a Yiddish language interpreter that he saw Wallace kill three people in Kielse on August 24, 1942. Among other allegations were that Wallace shot a mother and her two daughters in Chesterjova, that he shot three Jews who were too weak to work, that he marched 10 to 15 children, ages

4 to 9 into a building in Kielsen, killed all of them with his pistol. He was also accused of killing a woman who emerged from a hospital, and when her daughter bent over her body and cried mama, mama killing her too. All the eyewitnesses were absolutely certain that Wallace was the culprit. Newspapers reported that they pointed to him, seated at the defense table in Heston, Polish, here is the murderer, or I will never forget that face. Are you fucking kidding me? Do you fucking see this?

Do you fucking see this? You understand that people believe all of this shit because of eyewitness testimony. There was just one small problem with all of this. The Justice Department, Simon Wiesenthal, and all the witnesses were fucking wrong. I added the fucking in there. In addition to producing witnesses and documents that corroborated his own account, there were several major discrepancies that should have tipped off government attorneys. Among them were the fact that Wallace was only 5 foot two inches tall,

far too short to be allowed to join Gestapo in the first place. Some witnesses claimed Wallace was over six feet tall. and he would have had to have been a Gestapo officer at age 19 or 20, which was impossible. Nevertheless, the civil trial, with rules of evidence far more lenient than in criminal trial, presided over by Judge Julius Hoffman, found Wallace guilty in order deportation proceedings. Later, an appeals court reversed the conviction in order to new trial. By this time, however, Justice Department officials were beginning to realize that would face a major, They would face a major embarrassment if another trial were to take place.

They dismissed the case, apologized, and awarded Wallace 34,000 of the estimated 60,000 he had spent on his defense. Frank Wallace puzzles to this day how the U.S. government could have been led by the nose by professional Nazi hunters and their quote-unquote witnesses. He says, before January 26, 1977, nobody called me in or nobody came over to see me and maybe asked. me, Mr. Wallace, listen, we have a complaint against you. What do you want to say about this? Do you have any proof that this is not true? As far as I'm concerned, these are probably professional witnesses, paid witnesses who do this shit.

I don't know if Simon Wiesenthal is still with us, but the guy was a fucking scumbag. The fact that his name is on any building will hopefully be changed one day, especially in this fucking country. To make matters worse, when Wallace had the temerity to complain of Wiesenthal's tactics, Wiesenthal sued him for slander, claiming that Wallace's comments were false and slanderous, and that they caused Wiesenthal to fall into discredit with those persons with whom he had contact and had been held in public contempt, hatred, and ridicule. Wiesnthal also charged that the newspaper that printed Wallace's comments had acted irresponsibly

and recklessly with a reckless disregard for the truth. The suit was eventually dismissed. fucking scum. Canadian teacher, Lubba Feder Kew. Fetterkew. I'm going to call her Luba from now on. Running for the Canadian Parliament in 1984, discovered to her utter amazement that the B'nai Brith Canada, a major Jewish anti-defamation organization, had circulated an internal memo which accused her of Jew baiting. The allegation was reported in the Winnipeg's son, along with the fact that she was being investigated by B'nai Brith on suspicion of anti-Semitism. The resulting defamation caused her the election and subjected her to malicious harassment.

According to Luba, when the investigation was publicized, she received obscene and harassing telephone calls, a swastika was spray-painted on her campaign office, and a number of her political supporters withdrew their support. Lubba sued B'nai Brith for libel in 1987. She claimed the defamatory statements circulated by the Jewish. organization and destroyed her reputation and ruined her chances for an election victory. During her trial, the court heard that she had allegedly charged that her opponent was controlled by the Jews. The four women, two men, I mean, literally every fucking politician in Washington,

every member of Congress has an APAC guy. This wouldn't even be controversial, except you said Jews. The four women, two men, jury found that this charge against Lubah was false and that Benabrith had acted out of malice in circulating the unfounded charge. The jury found for Lubba and awarded her a total of 400,000 in damages on November 25, 1987. Luba said, I feel I've been vindicated. I feel my name has been cleared in Winnipeg through the Progressive Conservative Party and throughout Canada. There you go. Progressive Conservative Party. Sounds like ours. I'd like to go on with my career as a teacher and go on with my personal life. I want to get back to my students.

I missed them. The Jewish press agonized over the decision. The Jewish post and news editorialized that the jury awarded her award was unfair and questioned Luba's motives and filing the libel suit. She wanted money? She wanted money because she had been damaged. She wanted money because she had been damaged. She didn't just want money. The paper complained that she was negligent in not investigating her campaign staff for making allegedly anti-Semitic remarks.

The paper said, instead she went on after her election lost to David Orla Kow to sue the league for human rights of Benay Brith, implicitly blaming it for her defeat. If Lubal wanted to dispel the uncertainty that had arisen during her campaign about her servitude towards Jews, taking court action against a Jewish service group was a strange way to do. do it. Yeah. There's only certain groups that are, there's only certain people that are allowed to use, you know, the courts. Equally disturbing was the sheer vindictiveness of the jury in last week's defamation. Yeah, that whole jury, six people. They should probably, they should probably be sent to Israel to be tried, right? It is possible that some of them had preconceptions about Jews, that at a subconscious level. They saw last week's trial as a battle for justice by a non-Jewish victim, wronged by the

wealthy evil Jews characterized an anti-Semitic folklore. There's something about folklore. B'nai Brith appealed the decision as promised, but when they saw that the original decision was receiving a sympathetic hearing from the Manitoba, Manitoba Court of Appeal, they dropped it and settled with Luba for an undisclosed sum. Luba said, the money was secondary, the apology was what I wanted. If Ben Abrith had apologized in the beginning, we could have avoided a costly court case. I am happy the matter has been laid to rest, and I can get on with my life. In February 1989, after the matter was finally settled, the Canadian Jewish news editorialized in battling the enemies of Judaism, however, some segments of the Jewish community have permitted an understandable zeal to

triumph over common sense, forgetting that they must be careful to distinguish between legitimate debate and overt expressions of bigotry. So she was awarded $400,000. And this is 1987 or 1989, and it wasn't, it wasn't even a dent. Do you think that B'nai Brest, Canada had to close down because of $400,000? Huh. Yeah. Something to think about, right? In Bay Harbor, Florida, Arthur Green had dinner at the La Belle Epoch restaurant in September. 1982. Green, former Vice President of Temple Israel of Greater Miami and an active member of the Greater Miami

Jewish Federation had been sitting at a nearby table and witnessed a complaint by another customer over a veal chop. He wrote owner Dennis Reddy about the incident. Reddy who speaks with a heavy French accent, telephone Green in response to the letter and a heated exchange

ensued. Green claimed that Reddy called them a dirty Jew and a K-K-word and that all Jews are alike, you're all out to get something for nothing. Reddy denies this. Green then wrote a letter accusing Reddy of anti-Semitism and threatened to put him out of business. This is shocking news. Green never sent the letter to Reddy, but posted it on bulletin boards in Jewish condominiums and circulated it to several prominent Jews. Ready's business was soon the subject of a boycott.

He was admonished by the South Florida Hotel and Motel Association and lost his Chamber of commerce membership. He went bankrupt within a year and moved to New Orleans. Reddy sued for libel, and in February 1986, a Miami circuit court jury of five women and one men awarded him $22.5 million for defamation. Green appealed the verdict, and in February 1989, the third court of appeals in Miami awarded Reddy $5.5 million. The court said that Dennis Reddy was entitled to an unprecedented compensatory and punitive damage award so as to fit the vicious arrogance of the defendant's conduct. That would never happen today. I will say that will never happen today. The court ruling said the evidence indicated that the alleged anti-Semitic

comments attributed to Dennis Reddy by Arthur Green were completely fabricated. Imagine my surprise. Often a false charge of anti-Semitism or racism is made because of values, opinions, or beliefs expressed in a public forum. In the case of Thomas Fee, of Waterbury, Connecticut, however, his expression of free speech landed him in court, and at the behest of the very host of the radio talk show, he appeared on. Spears was arrested in January 1986 after radio show host Jay Clark, who is Jewish, filed the complaint with police. Clark accused Spears of Jew baiting because he frequently criticized Israel. Clark also admitted that he frequently made personal attacks against Spears on

the air. Spears contended that he was not anti-Semitic and that he was merely anti-Zionist and anti-Israel. That, yeah, it doesn't work anymore, dude. After October 7th, nope, nope, fucking own it. In ordering the acquittal of Spear's superior court judge, Anthony V. DeMaio, said, his choice of language might be unpleasant,

but I heard nothing that might be obscene or that could be categorized as fighting words. All that falls into the category of political speech. What sets me most about the state's position is that the reason we are prosecuting this defendant is that as views differ so vehemently from those of the talk show host. In 1965, a fire killed 12 people at the Yonkers Jewish Community Center. 18-year-old Thomas Rupert, although innocent, was convicted of the crime.

After serving five years of 24 life sentences and a sentence of 10 to 25 years for arson, Mr. Rupert was ordered, released. The New York State Court of Appeals ruled that he had been coerced into making a confession. The fire thought to be motivated by anti-Semitism produced enormous pressure on police to produce a... Who put the pressure on police? Who did that? Huh? Rupert happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

He steadfastly maintained his innocence. Although released from prison, his life was horribly damaged by the event. Rupert died in 1984 at the age of 34 of liver disease and other ailments. Illinois Congressman Paul Finley, a 22-year veteran of the U.S. House of Representatives, was defeated in his last election bid following an intense and inflammatory campaign against him by various pro-Israel groups. They regarded Finley as highly critical of Israel's policies. Two of Finley's fellow Illinois politicians were also defeated for re-election on the same grounds, Senator Charles Pierce Percy and Adley Stevenson III. And sentenced by the power of the forces are raid against him, Finley wrote a definitive exposea of the Israeli lobby entitled They Dare to Speak Out. The book is in no way hateful or even remotely anti-Semitic. It was on bestseller.

You don't get to decide that. Only they get to decide that. It was on bestseller list for several weeks and is considered a definitive study of interest group politics. This, however, did not keep the ADL. its Nebraska regional director, Robert Wolfson, from defaming the book and its author. A local activist had mailed out several thousand copies to Nebraska professionals, such as secondary school teachers, university professors, and attorneys. In a statement, the ADL's Wolfson said that Finley's book is a work of Holocaust revisionism

seeking to spread the claim that the Nazi slaughter of Jews was a hoax. Frederick Casman, chairman of the Omaha ADL chapter, said, although purporting to criticize the Israel lobby, they are actually distributing plainly anti-Semitic material. They dare to speak out makes absolutely no such claim. Finley does not support, nor does he even mention any form of Holocaust revision in his book. The ADL claim was an absolute lie, but certainly produced the adverse publicity against the book they sought. You mean they just flat out lied? Are you fucking kidding me? They lied?

I'm shocked. Shocked. Suffolk County District Attorney Robert Casace found himself charged with referring to defense attorney Robert Gottlieb as a little Jew bastard in October 1990. The conversation in which he was alleged to have made the remark was with attorney, Reynolds Morrow, in a Riverside, New York restaurant. Gottlieb had been his adversary in a highly publicized murder case. so great was the outcry against Casace, who was Italian, that its superior Suffolk County District Attorney James Catterson conducted a year-long investigation of the fair. The claim against Cossace apparently proved to be a fabrication. According to Catterson, I find not one of many allegations concerning improper remarks or behavior to be substantiated.

I am unable to substantiate one instance of anti-Semitic comment or behavior on the part of assistant attorney Anthony Casse. The charge of Nazi sympathies is so devastating that it is a convenient device to defame political candidates. In 1986, a campaign flyer circulated to Costa Mesa, California residents, claimed that Doug A. Yeats, a two-time city councilman, was a member of a secret underground Nazi party. The two-page typewritten flyer written on the stationary of Mesa Action, a local political action committee, attack Yates claiming he was a member of an underground Nazi party now operating in the Western Hemisphere, That nailed, that just narrowed it down. That narrowed it.

I mean, shoot, the Western Hemisphere. Wow. The flyer advised anyone seeing Yates to contact Rabbi Stinovitz at the Jewish Defense League Office in Los Angeles. JDL leader Irv Rubin said he had never heard of Rabbi Stinovitz. Mesa Action board members deny having anything to do with the flyer. Doug Yates, the target of the apparent defamation said, I don't know why I'm singled out for this kind of activity.

Maybe there are people who think I have a good chance of winning. Another case of bogus antisemitic literature occurred in Yorba Linda, California in 1990. On March 25th, residents found hundreds of flyers exhorting them to kill every Jew and stating that they were distributed by the Methodist Fellowship. Reverend Kenneth Chriswell, pastor at the local UMC, distributed a letter to the community stating that the literature was, falsely and fraudulently attributed to the Methodist Church. The Orange County Register reported,

One side of the flyer pictures Jesus Christ, quotes from the New Testament, Gospel Luke, and says, kill every Jew. The other side lists supposed reasons not to trust Jews. The literature was apparently an attempt to link a Christian denomination with hatred of Jews. A similar incident had occurred a few months earlier in Fullerton, California, where bogus publications were also placed in mailboxes and doorsteps. Oklahoma Department of Human Services Director Benjamin Dempz Jr. might have thought he was being harassed by the KKK when he saw a memo referring to him as a flying coon and pledging a continuation of the good old boy ways in the department. Most puzzling is that the February 1990 memo was supposedly signed by a top OHS official.

Investigators soon determined that the signature was taken from another document sent by the official to an outside group. The memo was not written in the matter of bona fide OHS memos, and everyone involved with it has denied knowledge of it. Affirmative Action Officer Kim Jones Shelton said the department did not intend to pursue investigation. Another fake memo containing a variety of racial and other epithets made a similar stir in California. Hudson T. Carlisle Jr., a member of the Public Employment Relations Board, had asked for an investigation after the memo was sent to the state union leaders over his sign over his signature. According to Carlisle, someone is really sick and attempting to discredit me. They Xerox my signature from another memo and pasted it on this one. The fake memo dated December 1991 was written on an official letterhead and mailed through a state postal meter.

Carlisle is quoted as referring to his critics in racist, sexist, anti-homosexual, and anti-Jewish terms. Chapter 9. Whites. Not all hoaxers or minorities. With whites, however, the motive is usually to implicate someone else in a crime that they committed themselves, and the account seems more credible if, under the circumstances, the offender is black or some other minority. Several of the cases discovered also included false rape accusations directed towards black anonymous males. Cases where the motive of the hoax is to falsely implicate minorities in anti-white racism are apparently rare. Benjamin Hull, a lab technician at Sunridge Foods in Sunnyside, Washington, reported that a group of Hispanic youth shot off his leg on New Year's Day in 1991 when he surprised them outside his place of employment. Hull filed disability claims and collected some 95,000 in benefits. Nearly two years later, Hull pled guilty to filing false claims and theft.

He admitted that he shot himself to end pain in his leg resulting from a 1970, industrial accident. Hull was sentenced to an additional six months of work release because of aggravating circumstances in the case. According to Yakima County Superior Court Judge Susan Hahn, the aggravating circumstance is his use of a negative social stereotype, especially here when we fight this every day. Our quality of life depends on us making significant headway on these problems. Another case in which a minority was falsely blamed in conjunction with the cover-up of a crime involved the widely publicized 1989 Boston case, in which a murder committed to collect insurance,

was falsely attributed to an anonymous black man. On the evening of October 23, 1989, Charles Stewart and his pregnant wife, Carol, left a childbirth class at a local hospital and were on their way home when, according to Charles Stewart, a black gunman forced his way into their automobile. The gunman forced them to drive to another location where he demanded cash and jewelry.

Then the gunman shot Carol Stewart in the head and wounded Charles Stewart in the abdomen. Charles Stewart called police on a car telephone to report that his wife had been killed and he had been shot by a black assailant in the Mission Hill District. The gruesome scene, including a dramatic tape of rescue efforts by police and paramedics, stirred a volatile mixture of fear and outrage. As a victim, Stewart became a media hero. In the meantime, Willie Bennett, a black man was arrested after Stewart identified him

as looking most like the murderer. The story began to unravel when Slurlopold. schoolful police investigation produced evidence that pointed to Stewart as to kill her out to collect a substantial insurance policy. Charles's brother, Matthew Stewart, went to police and confessed to being an accessory after the fact. He had helped Charles dispose of incriminating evidence. With police closing in, Charles Stewart committed suicide by jumping off a bridge into the Mystic River. Willie Bennett, of course, exonerated. Willie Bennett was, of course, exonerated. What was scary about the case is how journalists initially bought Charles Stewart's story when there was evidence to doubt it

from the beginning. According to news reports, many Boston journalists can see that they were aware of rumors and inconsistencies almost from the start about the husband's account. It's important to note that the purpose of Stewart's fabrication was not to commit a hate crime hoax, but to divert attention from himself. His designation of the killer as a black man was credible in a community with a high black crime rate. Statistically, the killer was more likely to be black than white. occasionally one member of a victimized class will perpetrate a hoax or fabrication against a member of another victimized class. The most common example is when a woman claims to have been raped by a member of a minority group. This happened at George Washington University in the District of Columbia in December

1990 when a student, Mariam Koshani, reported a rape incident which never occurred to the campus paper appropriately named the hatchet. She told them an incident in which two young black men, with particularly bad body odor, had raped a white female student at Knife Point, and the Hatcher reported the incident without sufficiently confirming the authenticity of the various sources. According to New York Times reporter Felicity Berenger, the effect was electric. Students called their parents, university administrators called trustees, the campus police called the District of Columbia Police. Then the day after the newspaper report, a lawyer for Merriam Kashani,

the sophomore who said she knew the victim and was the newspaper's main source of information about the attack called the campus police to say she made up the report. Ms. Kashani, an active feminist, who had been involved in rape crisis counseling at Tulane University, had also said the rapist had told the victim, you are pretty good for a white girl. When confronted about the incident,

Ms. Kashani used an excuse often involved in invoked in hoaxes. She said that she had hoped. hope the story is reported would highlight the problem of safety for women. Ronnie Thaxton, campus black activist, said, I was outraged. I think it was just another attempt by some white people to discredit young black males in this country. In December 1993, a 15-year-old Norwood, Massachusetts white girl falsely claimed that she had been attacked by four black women who shouted racial slurs in her, according to news reports. Norwood police detective Sergeant William G. Brooks said the girl who reported being attacked

in December 23 by four strangers, was actually injured in a pre-arranged fight with another young woman. Brooke said that when the victim sustained cuts and scratches, she invented the story about being jumped to explain the injuries to her parents. Police charged a girl as juvenile with falsely reporting a crime,

a misdemeanor that carries a fine of up to $500 or one year in jail. In Hazel Park, Michigan, a 31-year-old white woman told police that three bat-wielding black men beat her and kidnapped her friend last November at an automatic teller machine in Ferndale. According to police, the whole thing was a hoaxed by the woman who was married concocted after her boyfriend beat her up. In October 1989,

two white women from Sterling Heights falsely reported that two black males robbed and beat them in the Oakland Mall parking lot. The woman said that the man fired a shot into their car. Police investigators said the women, both 18, were indeed robbed, but police said the assault occurred. As the women were trying to buy marijuana in a Detroit alley, police said the women made up the story to explain the damage to the car. But things are, when you're looking at, like, incidents where you have a group that does the overwhelming amount of crime, especially violent crime, you don't have to make shit up. Don't.

Don't do that. Just let it go. Let the facts cover everything. Chapter 10, international. Sometimes racist and anti-Semitic hoaxes involved parties we would never think of. Hoaxes have been a common device used by Iron Curtain intelligence services and communist organizations to discredit their enemies and win support from racial, ethnic, and even religious interest groups since before the Russian Revolution. Oh! During the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1984, a number of Asian and African

Olympic Committee offices found themselves recipients of racist literature. The Zimbabwe Committee, for example, received flyers containing some threatening language and illustrated with a drawing of a white-hitted clansman on a rearing horse and a monkey with a rope tied around his neck. Other delegations received similar literature. An investigation followed in the culprit was determined in short order. U.S. Attorney General William French Smith confirmed that the racial racial racial defamatory material was not the work of the Ku Kluxland, but rather the Soviet KGB. The effort was part of a

disinformation campaign to mislead public opinion and create the impression of widespread racism. According to Smith, although I can't detail all of what we know about these documents for fear of helping the authors to refine their techniques, a thorough analysis, including linguistic and forensic techniques, reveals that they are classic examples of a Soviet forgery or disinformation operation. and forum sources close to the FBI report that other incidents may also be KGB related. It's rather interesting considering, if I remember correctly, the Soviets didn't show up to the L.A. Olympics. Because the United States boycotted the 1980 Olympics,

which I believe were in Moscow. I think that's how that worked. Another case involving the KGB surfaced recently with a defective of East German intelligence agents. The West German newspaper Velt reported in 1990 that West German security authorities had determined that the KGB or other Soviet state security services were responsible for numerous desecrations of synagogues in West Germany over the past 40 years. The article also noted that the KGB worked in close cooperation with neo-Nazi groups.

I'm thinking of one that people call. and you know, oh, okay. John Barron in his book KGB, Secret Work of Soviet Secret Agents, discussed his communist complicity and anti-Semitic hoaxes. He says, under KGB guidance to Czech STB, started mailing virulent anti-Semitic tracks to French, British, and American officials in Europe.

They bore the impromptor imprimmature of non- existing Nazi group. Let's also remember that at this time that he's writing this, the Soviet Union had just fell. This could all still be, I'm not saying that this didn't happen. This sounds like

stuff that could have happened, but we're also there's a back and forth going on of propaganda. Additional evidence for the role of the KGB and other Iron Curtain Intelligence agencies and bogus neo-Nazi and anti-Semitic activities is Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky's detailed 1990 account of the Soviet secret police KGB, The Inside Story. The author cite the case of KGB general

Ivan Ivanovich, Agayans, who in 1959 created a new disinformation section within the first chief directorate of the KGB. One of his first targets was West Germany, which the KGB wanted to portray as riddled with neo-Nazis and anti-Semites. To test one of his techniques, Agaianz sent a group of KGB officers to a village near Moscow, where they dabbed swastikers, anti-Jewish slogans, and kicked over Jewish tombstones. A small anti-Jewish minority in the village took the bait and performed copycat anti-Jewish acts on their own. According to the authors, during the winter of 1959 to 60, Aga Yance used the same technique with great success in West Germany.

East German agents were dispatched to the West to deface Jewish memorials, synagogues, and shops, and to paint anti-Semitic slogans. Local hooligans and neo-Nazis then spontaneously continued the KGB campaign. Between Christmas Eve, 1959, and mid-February 1960, 833 anti-Semitic acts were recorded by the West German authorities. The campaign then suddenly ceased, but not before the Federal Republic's international reputation have been gravely damaged. There are serious suspicion intelligence circles that much of the current neo-Nazi activity in the new, United Germany, may have the mark of a rogue communist intelligence operation. See what happens when communism falls? The Nazis return. I think this points a lot towards what Thomas has been talking about in a few of our series.

that yeah these you know east germany and the soviet union were very anti anti-zionists you know we're very anti-they saw west germany as an occupation and a zionist occupation regime and um you know what is it 50, six years later? pretty much the whole West. Llandoslav Beatman, an agent for the Czechoslovak intelligence agency, defected to the United States in 1974. All right, I'm going to read this, but I will warn you.

Don't trust anything defectors say. The first thing they do is go to the State Department, and they immediately are basically told what they're allowed to say. They get their stories. A lot of people like to talk about Yuri Besmanoff. Notice that none of these, none of these people who come defected talk about a certain group ever. I interviewed a defector once, someone who defected from the Soviet Union to the United States. It was tedious.

And I wasn't asking hard questions. Now a professor of Boston University in living under the name Lawrence Martin Bitman. He teaches classes on propaganda and disinformation. According to F. Mark Wyatt, a retired CIA official who has dealt with defectors, Bittman was really one of the great experts of the communist bloc, the Soviet bloc on disinformation. Bitman's reputation was built largely on one of the most effective disinformation campaigns of post-war Europe, i.e. keeping the Nazi menace alive for propaganda purposes, not unlike some hoaxes in the United States. According to news reports, his greatest success was Operation Neptune, a 1964 ruse intended to damage

West Germany's relationship with his European neighbors. Professor Martin Bittman secretly placed what he said were four boxes of Nazi archives on the murky bottom of a lake in Czechoslovakia. Then he helped the television crew discover the boxes which contain lists of purported Nazi spies and collaborators. A documentary about the apparent discovery of a cadre of previously undisclosed Nazi spies, raised anew the issue of prosecutions for war crimes, and the West German government extended the statute of limitations for such crimes. Fake documents published by Eastern Bloc intelligence agencies surfaced in the scandal involving Austrian president and former U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim. He was accused of war crime complicitly during World War II.

In February 1988, the Yugoslav Press agency reported. that a document linking Waldheim to Nazi war crimes was a fake. According to news reports, the document was purported to be a 1942 telegram advising that a lieutenant, Kurt Waldheim, requested the deportation of more than 4,000 Yugoslav citizens during World War II. The West German magazine Der Spiegel published a document February 1st and said it had been provided by a Yugoslav historian. A typewriting expert had concluded that the machine used to type the fake telegram was not available

before 1948. What I said. A year earlier in April 1987, the Israeli Jerusalem Post admitted that it had published a forged letter purportedly from Austrian Prime Minister Alois Mock

to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher suggesting that Austrian President Kurt Waldheim should resign in the wake of a scandal involving his alleged wartime activities in the German army. Mr. Mock denied ever writing a letter. The Post said a lengthy inquiry had determined that the letter, which had published in February, was a fabrication.

The Anti-Nazi League is a major British anti-fascist group. It works closely with Jewish and other minority interest groups. However, to the consternation of representatives of the Brighton and Hove Hebrew congregation in March 1993, the ANL organized a march in protest against an anti-Semitic cemetery desecration that never occurred. Some 300 people took part in the march. A security officer at the cemetery became suspicious when he was told that the graves in the congregations, Florence Road Cemetery, had been dubbed with swastikers and that they had been removed by the gardener. The cemetery, however, does not employ a gardener. The officer noted that the cemetery has no record of dobbings for at least 30 years.

The incident, in fact, had never occurred. Jules Crosette, the Dutch actor whose father was Jewish, reported being abducted by neo-Nazis in the city of Charleroi. Belgium in December 1987. Just did a substack about Charleroy, Pennsylvania. Which was originally a Belgian city. Imagine that. According to Corsay,

he was seized by two men and a woman who forced him into a sewer, tied him up, took his star of David Chain from his neck, and dubs a swastika on his chest, among other violent humiliations. The news electrified the Netherlands. Cressette was known for his anti-Nazi views. He was prominent in a theater of sit-in preventing staging of a play that critics had denounced as anti-Semitic.

On December 12th, a large demonstration was held in an Amsterdam church in support of Croset. The Speaker of the Dutch Parliament said the neo-Nazi rats were coming out of their holes. On 6th of January, 1988, however, Belgian police announced that Jules Cossett had admitted to having staged a kidnapping. He had also sent anti-Semitic letters to press. prominent Dutch Jews. What you doing there, Rabbi? Also in the Netherlands, the capital of Amsterdam was fooled for five days in February 1993 into thinking that violent neo-Nazis were active in the community. A monument of victims of the Auschwitz concentration camp had been smashed, one of the worst recent acts of anti-Semitic violence in the small nation. However, according to news reports,

The nation seemed placated after hearing that a glass cutter identified as Rood S had confessed to shattering the monument. He claimed he was under orders to remove all evidence of a construction flaw that would have been a terrific embarrassment to the company. In Haifa Israel, two Jewish men, David Goldner, 41, and Gershont Tenenbaum 32, were arrested in May 1990 following the desecration of two Jewish graveyards, an event which received worldwide attention. slogans in perfect Hebrew calling for the destruction of Judaism and for the founding of a Palestinian state were found out more than 250 headstones. One inscription read, Arabs will kill the Jews. Israeli religious affairs minister Zevalon Hammer said that there may have been a connection with this incident in the desecration of Jewish graves in France, which were widely brahmed on a white right-wing hate groups. Goldman and Tenenbaum reported that their motive. was to unite the Jewish people against the Arab states. In Israel, eight Jewish settlers were charged in the September 1989 firebombing of Israeli property

and stoning of other Jewish settlers to stir up anti-Arab settlement. Jewish settlers are fucking nuts. In one instance, Israeli radio said, settlers held a fire bomb at an Israeli-owned car near Gino Shomron somewhere a settlement in the West Bank. In response, settlers from the Jewish enclave of Ariel raided a nearby Arab village and vandalized property. Ariel had earlier acquired Arab workers to wear tags identifying themselves as alien workers. That's where them, huh? On their shirt?

There have been numerous instances of Israeli extremist staging hoaxes to implicate Arabs in terrorism. A black swastika was painted on the grave of former Israeli Prime Minister Manachem Begin in Jerusalem in November 1992. After the vandalism, Israeli newspapers in the state-run radio received phone calls from men who said the attack was in response to the desecration of the graves of the righteous. police said the vandalism seemed to be the work of fanatic religious Jews. The British Daily, The Guardian, reported in April 1992 that a Berlin woman who reported her infant son had been kidnapped by neo-Nazi skidheads later admitted she killed the baby. Police reported. The body, the three-month-old boy was found in a pond. In Berlin, a group of neo-Nazi raiders set fire to the home of a Jewish restaurant owner in August 1979,

called swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans on the walls. Juryna Rouse, Jews get out. The attack in Berlin's elegant Grunewald residential district fanned fears of a Nazi revival and was widely reported as evidence for such. Following an investigation, however, the police determined that the incident was an arson plot to collect insurance on the building. The businessman Gunter Alon, whose house was burned, was in on the plot. One of the hired arsonists was badly burned when the gasoline blew up in his face.

In Hala, Germany, 10,000 people demonstrated in January 1994 to protest a neo-Nazi attack on a teenage girl confined to a wheelchair. The 17-year-old girl had told police that three neo-Nazis had carved a swastika on her left cheek after she refused to repeat slogans such as Heil Hitler and gasped the cripples. For five days, the incident in the eastern German city captured headlines around the world. Police reported that they had no clues. Two days later, it became apparent why there were no clues. The Saxony-unhaled prosecutor's office reported the girl had apparently inflicted the wound herself. Interrogation had produced discrepancies and inconsistencies in her story. The fake attack was unpleasant consequences for bona fide and suspected neo-Nazis.

However, as is so often in the case, as is so often in a case. According to news reports, where did the attack stun Germans? leading politicians demanded quick police action, and President Richard von Weissker? Condemned the assault. Hundreds tried to track down the alleged attackers, and authorities searched a home of dozens of suspected neo-Nazis. An item in the January 15th, 1994 International Herald Tribune noted that the doctors

who examined the wound also suspect that it was self-inflicted. The article also noted that several recent attacks by neo-Nazis have been exposed as fraud. Two weeks after the hoax in Hale, another German girl committed a copycat hoax in Munich. According to news reports, a 14-year-old Bavarian schoolgirl sliced herself with a razor and claimed she had been attacked by neo-Nazis in what appeared to be an imitation of the wheelchair-bound girl's hoax that caused national outrage. Munich police said, a spokesman said 20 school children had dared each other to fake attacks to see whether their parents would believe them after hearing about it in the eastern city of Hala. Switzerland's Jewish community was shocked when a 1983 rash of anti-Semitic graffiti appeared

on walls at local synagogues, the Jewish cemetery, and other buildings. Death threats and anonymous telephone calls to Jewish parents stated that your son has been killed. At the medical school in Basel, Jewish students reported receiving an anonymous letter saying death to the Jews and no more Jewish doctors in Switzerland. Swiss police soon had their culprit, but he was not a neo-Nazi. He was not the neo-Nazi. He was not the neo-Nazi many had expected. According to news reports, a 23-year-old Jewish medical student arrested in Bezell was described by police as the perpetrator of the campaign of virulent anti-Semitic graffiti harassment and death threats in that city last month. The disclosure by police that Philip

Gatchell, son of a prominent Jewish family, was solely responsible for the acts called unprecedented in Switzerland, stunned Jews and non-Jews alike. The anti-Semitic campaign aroused such concerned the Swiss army units were sent to help local police protect Jewish students. Apparently obsessed with persecution fantasies, I wonder where he got those from. Gatchell claimed that right-wing students had broken into his family's home. Police said that it was Gatchel himself that broke the window. Gatchel was placed under psychiatric care. That's it. I mean, that's basically it. There's one more section here. I'm going to read. And, um, Yeah. So he added this on at the end, and I think this is pretty cool.

Traits that suggest commission of a hoax. What, if anything, distinguishes hoaxes and fabrications from real racist and anti-Semitic incidents? Are there patterns to be on the watch for? What are the clues that a hoax might be afoot? Consider these. One, an incident that can't be corroborated with reasonable evidence or disinterested witnesses or is accompanied by an account which contains inconsistencies or when the alleged victim suddenly refuses to talk to police. Two, an incident that occurs just when it's needed to promote awareness or sensitivity to racism or anti-Semitism to disarm critics and make them reluctant to talk back. The conveniently occurring incident should be carefully investigated.

Often the perpetrator will confide in others or even brag about the hoax. Extensive questioning may be necessary. repeat incidents, especially with difficult, resentful, and easily offended individuals who frequently complain of disrespect, slight, insults, or harassment. I wonder who he could be talking about. Incidents directed at specific individuals are unusual. Bear in mind, however, that these individuals often create a self-fulfilling prophecy with their behavior and actually antagonize others to the point where they will retaliate in some

manner. Very important. 4. An incident that is particularly skillfully exploited by the alleged victim to attain victim status, to manipulate institutions to obtain concessions from others to obtain special privileges or to obtain money. Because of the possibility of civil damages and hate crime cases, it is likely that hoaxes of this nature will be increasing, don't they always? Incidents which occur in improbable circumstances such as racist graffiti in a mostly black dormitory or neighborhood, Assaults that allegedly occurred in normally crowded areas with no witnesses.

Graffiti or vandalism in a room occupied only by the victim and so on. Some hoaxes are surprisingly poorly planned. In the case of graffiti, carefully drawn symbols or slurs suggest that the author really wants to get a point across. Precisely what is meant in the repulsive character of the person behind it, and this suggests a hoax. Most bona fide incidents represent impulsive, striking out, not carefully planned. generally speaking, the more elaborate the circumstances to greater likelihood of a hoax. Another trait that suggests a hoax surfaced

in several of the cases mentioned here. Where authorities suspect a hoax and this fact becomes known, the likelihood is enhanced somewhat when local anti-racist and radical special interests groups defame and vilified doubters. In fact, they may suspect it themselves. Finally, several hoaxers have reported markings or symbols painted on their bodies by their alleged assailants.

This rarely occurs in bona fide cases. For reasons that are not clear, body markings on the victim by the alleged perpetrators are apparently a cause for suspicion. And nine, copycat hoaxes are likely to occur after an earlier, perhaps bona fide incident has taken place that has aroused great publicity. Often some of the same people will be involved in the same symbols used. A large number of similar incidents probably contains some hoaxes. His conclusion.

The information I have pulled together in this report is, in my opinion, merely the tip of the iceberg. The hoaxes I have recounted are, with a few exceptions, publicly discovered and publicly reported hoaxes. Countless more hoaxes, undiscovered and unreported, have undoubtedly also occurred. I see no hard evidence of an organized conspiracy to commit racial and anti-Semitic hoaxes. Everything points to individuals or small groups of individuals as to perpetrators of the hoaxes. The usefulness of hoaxes is sufficiently obvious to potential hoaxers that a conspiracy is not required to explain the large number of hoaxes or the similarity of some hoaxes. Why do people commit hoaxes? Three main reasons.

The first has to do with the personal payoff for victimization, i.e. attention, sympathy, a sense of importance, feeding persecution fantasies, and material payoffs. The second has to do with advancing a political or social agenda as in a case of hoaxes intended to create support for regulations, or legislation, or to help create a climate sympathetic to specific interest groups. The third has to do with interest fraud, with the insurance fraud, with the racial and anti-Semitic element almost an afterthought. Most hoaxes are combinations of the first two types. Carefully done, the risk of discovery of a hoax is minimal. Most hoaxes simply remain unsolved hate crimes. Those that are discovered may not result in criminal action against the hoaxers. When criminal charges are filed, they can have wide range of consequences, from long prison terms

in some cases to a slap on the wrist and others, with most cases tending toward the latter. What can be done about hoaxes? Probably very little as long as victimization claims are so uncritically accepted, and the payoff for alleged victimization is sufficiently tempting and rewarding. Hate crime legislation, although well-intentioned has... I got to remember he's the leftist. Hate crime legislation, although well-intention, has created a powerful market for the side benefit of alleged hate crimes. When these crimes are not naturally occurring or are not occurring in sufficient numbers, a motive to commit hoaxes is created. Provisions in hate crime legislation for civil damages also creates a powerful motive to commit hoaxes.

Vigilance in discovering hoaxes and apparent and appropriate publicity may discourage some potential hoaxers. punishment for hoaxers equal to bona fide hate crimes, including sentence enhancement, would probably have a greater deterrent, but would also perpetrate the injustices inherent in the hate crime concept itself. Probably the most effective thing would be for universities, police agencies, and the media to entertain a healthy skepticism about hate crimes, and to establish a category of not proven in cases where no perpetrator is identified or charged. Any unsolved case may be a hoax, including those intuitively thought to be bona fide. Finally, on a personal note, I think it's important to bear in mind that human beings are fallible creatures who make mistakes, often not realizing the consequences of their actions, the older I get, the more forgiving I become, and the more aware I am of the harm done by righteous indignation, fanaticism, and vengefulness in the pursuit of justice. Sorry, buddy. That's just, that's human.

A little slack and a little forgiveness all the way around wouldn't hurt either. It's going to take that if we're all going to get along in this world. Well, Laird, we're not. That's been proven. Appreciate you, but appreciate this work, but it's been proven. So he's also got, if you get this, there's some, uh, he provides a bunch of, uh, well, not a bunch, but a couple correspondences with

ADL, um, letter from Jared Ger Hoover. It looks like, uh, yeah, the ADL report. Yeah. But that's it. Another book in the books.

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