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Hypocrisy Over Hillary
by Robert Lederman
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July 17, 2000What do an alleged anti-Semitic statement by Hillary Clinton, an NYPD sensitivity training course on the Holocaust, the frat association of GW Bush and a historic agreement by German and American corporations to pay five billion dollars in reparations to WWII slave laborers have in common? A lot more than you might think.
Mrs Clinton is defending herself from an allegation that during a heated argument in 1974 she called campaign aide Paul Fray-who is not even Jewish-a, fu*king Jew bastard. The Republicans hope that this alleged slur spoken during a passionate argument will convince JewiJewish New Yorkers not to vote for Hillary Clinton.
As a Jew-and as someone with no intention of voting for Clinton anyway-I can only say, big deal even if did she say it. There is too much emphasis nowadays on epitaphs spoken in anger and slips of the tongue, rather than on what a person consistently does and advocates day after day.
We pillory a bigoted knucklehead like John Rocker-who doesn't even set policy for his baseball team-for making moronically ignorant racial comments, yet tolerate blatantly racist policies by elected officials which violate the Constitution and all norms of human decency. If we look for example at the Bush dynasty or at Rudy Giuliani, we may find a lot more evidence of substantial ethnic and racial prejudice than a few words spoken in anger or stupidity.
According to the NY Post, the NYPD may adopt a sensitivity course, Tools For Tolerance, developed by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in L.A. The course features Holocaust exhibits and lectures designed to help police officers understand that victimizing citizens based on their skin color, religion, sexual orientation or ethnic background is a no-no.
There is only one problem with this idea as applied to NYC. It misses the reality that the number one bias issue involving the NYPD is that the Mayor is a racist who orders the police to profile, harass and falsely arrest minorities or conversely to ignore reports of crimes when it is politically inconvenient to document them. Teaching police officers to talk politely while they violate civil rights in order to prop up the Mayor's fake crime statistics is an absurdity. No one needs to take this course more than the Mayor himself.
Let us never forget that this is the same Mayor who dined and posed for photos with world-famous neo-Nazi Jorg Haider as his unique way of celebrating the birthday of Martin Luther King, and who didn't meet with a single Black elected official until the sixth year of his administration.
This is also the Mayor who brags that he gets all of his policy ideas from the Manhattan Institute, the CIA initiated, Chase Bank funded right-wing think tank that is the preeminent advocate for eliminating affirmative action, throwing people off welfare and privatizing public parks, schools, hospitals and streets in the U.S.
Manhattan Institute also just happens to have been the homebase for Charles Murray while he wrote the Bell Curve, a pseudo-scientific tome advancing the notion that Blacks are genetically and intellectually inferior as a way of justifying the elimination of affirmative action. When the book was published in 1994 the Manhattan Institute gave Murray a public luncheon to celebrate his great literary accomplishment. GW Bush is also surrounded by Manhattan Institute advisors.
[From: NY Times, 6/12/2000. Bush Culls Campaign Theme From Conservative Thinkers -Gov. George W. Bush has said his political views have been shaped by the work of Myron Magnet of the Manhattan Institute.]The Manhattan Institute founder, Reagan CIA chief William Casey, was involved in bringing top Nazis SS officials to the U.S. after WWII and placing them in influential positions in think tanks, the media, universities, science foundations and U.S. government agencies. The current chairman of the board of Manhattan Institute also heads the William J. Casey Institute of the Center for Security Policy in Washington D.C. Many NYPD crowd control, surveillance and counter-insurgency policy directives are derived directly from handbooks compiled by the Gestapo and the SS. During the past six years these policing ideas have been used by the NYPD against everyone from Black political activists and community gardeners to cabbies and street artists.
Many of the CIA-sponsored Nazis and Eastern-European Nazi-collaborators brought to the U.S. were the men who actually carried out the Holocaust. The Human Genome Project is just one of many contemporary Nazi-science derived programs designed to advance the agenda of Eugenics, the racial science Hitler used as his bible. The Rockefeller owned Chase Bank is the main economic sponsor of the Manhattan Institute and is a major partner with the Giuliani administration. The bank was also Adolf Hitler's greatest financial asset, helping him to seize Jewish bank accounts throughout Europe and liquidate gold reserves placed in its vaults for safe-keeping by conquered European nations.
The Rockefeller family was also the top sponsor of Eugenics programs throughout the world and remains so today. Josef Mengele was one of the more infamous recipients of their generosity.
The union-busting Museum of Modern Art, a Rockefeller cultural front which insists on displaying art seized by the Nazis from Jews on their way to the death camps, was recently given a $65 million gift of tax money by Mayor Giuliani at the same time he was arresting artists and cutting art funds to schools, museums and libraries.
Prescott Bush, the grandfather of presidential candidate GW Bush, was a partner in Brown Brothers Harriman, where his job involved acting as an American agent for Nazi shipping companies supplying Hitler in preparation for WWII. In 1942 the U.S. Congress seized these assets as we entered the war under the Trading With The Enemy Act. According to a 7/17/2000 article in the NY Observer, Skull and Bones, the elite secret society that both GW and George Bush belonged to in college and which paved the way for many of their later political and financial associations, has an attractive Nazi shrine.
As CIA chief, Vice President and later President, George Bush helped supply Saddam Hussein with the laboratories, factories, scientists and raw materials to manufacture biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction while German corporations did a lot of the actual construction. These weapons were intended by Iraq to destroy Israel and Iran.
GW Bush, who at the instigation of a number of top academics at the Manhattan Institute has ludicrously billed himself as a compassionate conservative, has a unique take on the idea of compassion. His most outstanding accomplishment as governor of Texas has been to set a record for executions barely equaled by all other contemporary US governors combined.
During the 1930s numerous States in the U.S. wanted to legalize euthanasia for chronic criminals-an idea that GW seems to be positioning himself as a key advocate for. Hitler publicly acknowledged his gratitude to the U.S. for creating the Eugenics sterilization laws that were the model for his Nuremberg laws mandating forcible sterilization and euthanasia for mental defectives and victims of hereditary disease. These laws eventually paved the way for the Holocaust. Among the Nuremberg Laws was a prohibition against racially-mixed marriages, the same ideology at Bob Jones University where GW proudly spoke earlier this year.
The biggest obstacle the Nazis had to instituting racial laws was that it was difficult to determine with certainty a persons racial background. Modern DNA technology and the Human Genome Project will make that a lot easier. Mayor Giuliani has publicly advocated taking every child's DNA at birth.
A number of the top corporate interests in the U.S.-the kind of companies that the Republicans believe should have no governmental regulations restricting their freedom-were active partners with Hitler both before and during WWII and have publicly admitted using millions of Jewish and other minority slave laborers to operate German subsidiaries of U.S. owned factories which were arming the German military.
My point is that if we are going to bring up a three word anti-Semitic insult Hillary Clinton allegedly said in 1974 during an argument then it is far more valid to bring up the very real part that the Bush family, leading corporations allied with the Republicans and think tanks and banks associated with Mayor Giuliani played in helping Hitler try to kill off the entire Jewish population of the world.
Even more relevant today is that many of these same interests are behind current efforts to depopulate Africa, Latin America and other third-world areas by encouraging war, disease, tainted vaccines, the use of toxic insecticides and the introduction of untested genetically engineered foods. Of course, let us not forget where they do a lot of the field testing for these programs-right here in New York City under kinder, softer, gentler Mayor Giuliani and his work shall make you free administration.
On a only slightly different note I find it fascinating that after six-and-a-half years of personally crediting Mayor Giuliani with crime reduction the NY Times has finally acknowledged that his claim to crime-fighting fame may by as illusory as his other supposed accomplishments. A 7/17/2000 article entitled, Some Truths Behind Those Fine Statistic comes to the exact same conclusion I and a few other non-mainstream commentators have been stating since 1994-that Giuliani is an abject liar about his success in stopping crime. Did the NY Times just realize this or were they saving it for a slow news day?
NY Observer 7/17/2000
"The most shocking thing," the source told Mr. Aronson, "and I say this because I do think it,s sort of important–I mean President Bush does belong to Skull and Bones … there is like a little Nazi shrine inside. One room on the second floor has a bunch of swastikas, kind of an SS macho Nazi iconography. Somebody should ask President Bush about the swastikas in there."
Monday, July 17, 2000
N.Y. COPS HEAD WEST TO TEST TOLERANCE COURSE
By Murray WeissTwo city cops and a prosecutor are flying to Los Angeles for a weeklong sensitivity course that the NYPD may adopt for its 38,000-member force, The Post has learned...The center will be bringing its 5-year-old sensitivity course to New York City next January when it opens a $5.2 million training office on East 42nd Street...The tolerance program combines Holocaust exhibits and lectures - including powerful presentations from survivors and a former neo-Nazi recruiter - with interactive, role-playing sessions that end with tough discussions about personal reactions to real-life situations..."It's about understanding the whole experience of victimization in a direct and poignant way....We take at look at today's hatemongers, who have gotten rid of their goose-stepping boots, but their message is as bad," Geft said.
NY Times 4/29/2000
A Fund Is Planned by U.S. Companies for Nazis' Victims
A group of American companies that had factories in Nazi Germany plans to establish a fund that would aid people who suffered persecution under Hitler's rule, a gesture that comes as more American multinational corporations acknowledge having benefited from slave labor during World War II...At least 50 American companies operated factories in Germany during the years that the Nazis were in power, which began in 1933. American companies continued doing business in Germany after war broke out in 1939. Some remained there until late 1941, when the United States entered the war...Ford, General Motors, Exxon-Mobil and Kodak are among a growing number of American multinationals that say they have found evidence that their subsidiaries used forced labor during those years.
Daily News 12/7/98
Chase Banked On Nazis - Report
Chase National Bank — the precursor of today's Chase Manhattan Bank — allegedly helped the Nazis plunder Jewish property in France during World War II, according to a published report. The New York-based bank controlled by the Rockefeller family closed Jewish accounts even before the Germans ordered them to do so and did business with the Nazis while they were sending Jews to the gas chambers, Newsweek magazine reports in this week's edition... subsidiaries of Ford and General Motors have been accused of forcing thousands of Jews, Poles and others to work as slave laborers.
Daily News 2/23/2000
Chase Manhattan Corp. apologized yesterday for aiding Adolf Hitler's Third Reich by converting German marks into U.S. dollars between 1936 and 1941..."We have a responsibility to make this information public and wish to express our sincere apologies to the Jewish community and to the American public." Chase does not, however, intend to make financial reparations for the role it played in aiding Hitler and the Nazis.
US News and World Report 12/14/98
Now, American firms face Holocaust claims Finger-pointing at the Swiss comes full circle U.S. bombing reports from the National Archives indicate that GM's Adam Opel subsidiary supplied 15 percent of the 100,000 trucks produced annually for the Nazi war machine.
NY Times July 17, 2000
Mrs. Clinton Says Report of 1974 Slur Is Not True
CHAPPAQUA, N.Y., July 16 . . Hillary Rodham Clinton summoned reporters to a rare news conference outside her home here today to denounce as "absolutely false" an accusation in a new book saying that she used an anti-Semitic slur in a heated conversation with her husband's campaign manager after Bill Clinton lost his first race for Congress in 1974..."It did not happen," Mrs. Clinton said, adding: "I have never said anything like that. Ever. Ever."
Also see NY Times July 17, 2000 Some Truths Behind Those Fine Statistics by Joyce Purnick
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