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April 9, 2001Stand up for Jay Leno and free speech by sending a supportive letter or postcard prominently marked:
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to: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno 3000 W. Alameda Burbank Ca. 91523The controversy surrounding NYC Mayor Giuliani's Art Decency Commission continues to grow. Cronies of the Mayor are organizing a coordinated attack on the Tonight Show's Jay Leno for daring to publicly state what every person in the media, academia, the civil rights legal community and the art world knows - Giuliani's art panel has striking similarities to the censoring of artistic expression by Adolf Hitler.
Leno outraged the Mayor by literally comparing him to Hitler during the Tonight Show's 4/6 broadcast and knowledgeably expounding on Hitler's "Degenerate Art Show" of confiscated modern German Art. Exactly paralleling Giuliani's efforts, Hitler targeted political art that criticized him, the Nazi party or aspects of German society, including churches, which had enabled the Nazi's rise to power.
Giuliani has a long history of losing it over being compared to Hitler. Besides ordering my arrest 41 times for painting him as a Hitler-like dictator he's verbally attacked the NY State Attorney General, various Congressmen, former NYC Mayors, City Council Members, police officials, ministers, demonstrators and reporters who dared to make the same comparison.
There's no mystery as to why Giuliani is so sensitive about being compared to the German dictator. Virtually all of Giuliani's controversial policy ideas are derived from the Manhattan Institute (MI) -a right wing think tank founded by Reagan's CIA chief William Casey.
MI has direct connections to former Nazis, scientific racism's modern classic, "the Bell Curve", eugenics experiments and the Holocaust. MI is funded by the Rockefeller family's Chase Manhattan Bank - one of the world's leading financial institutions which has publicly admitted to financially aiding Hitler and helping him seize billions of dollars from occupied European nations. This website has numerous articles documenting all of these connections.
On Tuesday night 4/10 at 11 PM on the Alan Colmes show I will be debating the Decency Commission with one of its members on radio station WEVD 1050 AM.
NBCTV is about to be inundated with letters demanding that Leno apologize to Giuliani and to the Jewish people. In order to silence his critics the Mayor routinely claims that comparing his policies to those of the Third Reich is an insult to Jews. He can be expected to rally an impressive lineup of Jewish New Yorkers with close ties to his administration as a chorus complaining about Leno's frank words.
Allow me, as a New Yorker who is proud to be Jewish, to put this in perspective:
To call someone a Hitler just because you don't like him or because he's cruel is ridiculous.
On the other hand, to call someone a Hitler who directly models many of his policies on those of the Nazis;
- Who celebrates Martin Luther King's birthday by dining and posing for photos with Jorg Haider -the head of the Austrian neo-Nazi Party;
- Who forces the NYPD into degrading itself into a racial-profiling Gestapo and then repeatedly insults the grieving families of their dead, innocent, unarmed or falsely-arrested victims;
- Who gives the Rockefeller family -major Hitler supporters and half owners of IG Farben and Auschwitz - $65 million dollars in a single year for their private art collection (the Museum of Modern Art) while NYC school children bring letters home to their parents begging them to pay for pencils and crayons;
- Who insists on spraying eight million constituents with nerve gas his own Chem-Bio Handbook claims was invented by the Nazis;
- Who attacks serious art by Black Catholic artists as "indecent" while publicly parading about in women's clothes and using hundreds of thousands of tax dollars to pay for armed guards for his mistress;
- Who has hundreds of artists falsely arrested and tens of thousands of works of fine art destroyed without ever finding a single defendant guilty...who then goes before the U.S. Supreme Court petitioning them to remove all First Amendment protection for paintings, photographs and sculptures because they, "do not express ideas"...
To call or compare such a man to Hitler
is simply to tell it like it is.I'll leave you with a few quotes for those who those who have forgotten some of the many earlier Giuliani-Hitler controversies. Ask yourself this...If so many people from all walks of life see a valid comparison between Giuliani and Hitler can they all be wrong? Can they all - including Jewish elected officials and government leaders making this comparision - be anti-Semitic?
NY Post 4/8/2001
LENO RIPPED FOR 'FASCIST' JAB AT RUDY
William Fugazy, who heads an anti-bias group, yesterday called on NBC and comedian Jay Leno to apologize for labeling Mayor Giuliani a "fascist" on "The Tonight Show." Fugazy, head of the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations and a longtime ally of the mayor, said he was so incensed that his group will file a formal complaint with NBC tomorrow regarding the "disgraceful" remarks...Leno then went on to compare Giuliani's actions with Adolph Hitler's campaign in the first years of the Third Reich to rid German museums of "degenerate art," much of it created by the world's most respected artists.
Newsday 8/18/89
Holocaust `Reminder' Claimed
A concentration camp survivor who witnessed the murders of his parents and five siblings at Auschwitz claimed that during questioning after his arrest on bribery charges he was placed before a blackboard bearing a Nazi slogan by former U.S. Attorney General Rudolph Giuliani's office as part of an attempt to "break" him...Written on the blackboard was the German phrase "Arbeit Macht Frei." The slogan, "Work Shall Set You Free," adopted by the Nazi party, appeared over the gates at Auschwitz.
N.Y. Daily News 10/25/1998
"I take a different view of someone comparing me to Adolf Hitler than when someone calls me a jerk." Mayor Giuliani.
Newsday 8/19/89
Foes Slam Giuliani On Death Camp Slur
Rudolph Giuliani came under attack from his political rivals yesterday for the alleged harassment of an Auschwitz death camp survivor by Giuliani's office when he was U.S. attorney.
AP 1/19/2000
Giuliani Criticized by Koch
NEW YORK (AP) -- Former Mayor Ed Koch criticized Mayor Rudolph Giuliani on Wednesday for sharing a dais at a Martin Luther King Day event with an Austrian political leader who once praised the policies of Adolf Hitler. ``Is that a place to celebrate Martin Luther King Day, to be on the same dais as the leader of the neo-Nazi Party in Austria?'' Koch said at a news conference. ``Why didn't he denounce Joerg Haider? Why didn't he order Joerg Haider out of the hall?.
NY TIMES 6/24/98
"I don't regard associations of my people that support me as fascists as a light matter ....But it's ultimately the results that matter."Giuliani
Newsday 6/27/98
Apology For Holocaust Allusion
City welfare chief Jason Turner apologized Friday for unwittingly using a Nazi death camp slogan to defend Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's workfare program.
N.Y. Post 10/15/98
NY State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer
...the current mayor thinks he's a dictator and does not have sufficient respect, not only for other branches of government, but also for the citizenry and its opportunities to speak out and be heard.
NY Times 4/14/99
"If we don't strike a balance between aggressive enforcement and common sense," Savage said, "it becomes a blueprint for a police state and tyranny." Former Policeman's Benevolent Association (the police union) President, James Savage on Giuliani's policies
CBS News 9/9/99
"There's no point in not spraying because there's no harm done in spraying, so, even if we're overdoing it, there's no risk to anyone in overdoing it, and the more dead mosquitoes the better".-Mayor Giuliani
Daily News 5/10/2000
Dangerous Skeeter Fix Pesticide is a carcinogen
The pesticide malathion, deemed safe last year and used widely throughout New York City to fight the West Nile virus outbreak, will likely be reclassified as a low-level carcinogen, two members of Congress said yesterday.
NY POST 4/21/2000
PROTESTERS WANT RUDY BOOTED
Throughout the rally, protesters waved Haitian flags and signs depicting Giuliani as "the new Hitler."
CBS News 9/2/99
Mayor Giuliani on the four cops who shot to death an unarmed Orthodox Jew, Gidone Busch
"When they make the decision to shoot they have to shoot to kill".
"An exhibition of paintings is not as communicative as speech, literature or live entertainment, and the artists' constitutional interest is thus minimal."
-Giuliani appeal brief against street artists having First Amendment protection, Giuliani v Lederman et al and Giuliani v Bery et al, filed with the U.S. Supreme Court 2/24/97.Newsday 9/27/93
Rudy's Screen Test
Informed of law firm's clients?The last time he ran for mayor, Rudolph Giuliani quit a major Manhattan law firm when controversy erupted over the firm's representation of the government of Panamanian Gen. Manuel Noriega. Four years later, as he presses forward with his second campaign against David Dinkins, Giuliani is again aligned with a major law firm- Anderson Kill Olick & Oshinsky - and it too represents a number of controversial clients. Some of the more controversial ones, including a company that has been identified as controlled by organized crime, were already on board when the former mob-busting U.S. attorney decided to join the firm in 1990. Other clients, including two companies suspected of helping equip Iraq with materials to make chemical weapons, came later...One of the other companies listed last year as a client on Anderson Kill's "Matter File Listing" is German farm-equipment manufacturer Karl Mengele & Sons, the family firm of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele. The U.S. Justice Department has said that the Mengele firm, founded by the father of the sadistic death-camp doctor, supplied economic support to the "Angel of Death" during the decades when he was a fugitive...
Newsday 2/11/95
Not a Loyal Nazi, Miller Quits Police Spokesman Job Saying he wouldn't be "a loyal Nazi,"
John Miller quit yesterday as Police Commissioner William Bratton's top spokesman, refusing to comply with what he said was Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's edict to purge his staff of loose-lipped cops.
Daily News 12/7/98
Chase Banked On Nazis - Report
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. And while the U.S. was at war with the Nazis, Chase also apparently helped German banks do business with their overseas branches, the magazine reported. Chase Manhattan is now the largest bank company in the U.S. with more than $300 billion in assets...
NY Times 4/8/2000
Demonstrators of Old Spread Their Message in a New Era of Protest
Robert Lederman, 49, a street artist who has protested for years against Mayor Giuliani's policies, often arrives with dozens of placards caricaturing the mayor as Hitler, complete with the Fuhrer's mustache.
Daily News 4/8/2001
Decency Panel Ripped For Cloaking Meeting
If Mayor Giuliani's decency commission is to decide what type of art is proper, then it should do so in public _ not behind closed doors, four civil rights groups charged. In a letter faxed to the commission's chairman, Leonard Garment, the New York Civil Liberties Union and three other civil rights groups charge that the new group's plan to meet behind closed doors this week is illegal under state laws requiring public access to government meetings. The groups say such an action would be illegal under the New York Open Meetings Law and several recent court decisions.
Also see: Daily News Mayor Names Fig Leaf Advisers (3/30/01) Daily News The Men Who Would Decide (3/30/01) Rudy Rips Art Community (3/3/01) Catholic League Prez Opposes Rudy Art Plan (2/21/01)
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Robert Lederman is an artist, writer and activist and is also the President of the street artist advocacy group, A.R.T.I.S.T.
Click here for an archive of A.R.T.I.S.T. related news articles on the Freedom Forum websiteHis essays and Op-Eds have appeared in hundreds of alternative publications as well as the Daily News, Penthouse, Africa Sun Times, Street News and The Shadow.
Lederman was falsely arrested 41 times for his anti-Giuliani activities and was never convicted of any of the charges. As a result of the arrests, he's won four Federal lawsuits and overturned three laws.
He is best known for having created hundreds of paintings of Mayor Giuliani as a Hitler like dictator which were carried in demonstrations throughout the eight years of the Giuliani administration. Images of his paintings and articles about his arrests and lawsuits have appeared on all of the major television networks hundreds of times as well as frequently appearing in the NY Times, Daily News, NY Post, Newsday, Newsweek, People, The Washington Post, LA Times and NY Magazine.Robert Lederman,
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