Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 19:19:50 -0500
Subject: The Internet Anti-Fascist: Tue, 8 January 2002 -- 6:3 (#638)


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           The Internet Anti-Fascist: Tuesday, 8 January 2002
                           Vol. 6, Number 3 (#638)
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Action Alert:
    01) England: 12 Jan: Stop The Nazi National Front march
Web Site of Interest:
    02) State Hate Crime Cases
Book/Movie/TC Reviews
    03) Michael Speier (Variety), "FX commits memorable 'Sins:' Sins of the
Father," 4 Jan 01 Obituary:
    04) Glenn McKenzie (AP), "Gunmen Murder Nigeria Justice Chief," 24 Dec
        01
Fascist Crimes In the News
    05) AP, "Swedish Neo-Nazi Sentenced," 4 Jan 02
    06) Alan Cowell (New York Times), "After Black Teenager Is Slain, Norway
        Peers Into a Mirror," 3 Jan 01
    07) AP, "Reputed racist arrested in Indiana for Oregon kidnapping," 4
        Jan 01
Commentary:
    08) Michael Moore, "Hail George,Conqueror of Evildoers!" 2 Jan 01
Real Political Correctness:
    09) ACLU, "Five Georgia Residents Sue to Block Extremist City-Sponsored
        Prayer Breakfast," 3 Jan 02
Contra-Pierce
    10) William Pierce: Journalists and Hypocrites

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ACTION ALERT:

01) Stop The Nazi National Front march
     Assemble: 12 noon, Saturday 12 January, outside Bromley South train
        station
     Supported by Bromley Trades Council

The Nazi National Front have outrageously been given permission to hold a
demonstration in Bromley! They claim their march is against sex offenders
in the local area. The reality is that they are attempting to use this
issue to whip up  violence. The NF are not interested in local issues. They
want to divide our community and cause racial violence on the streets.

The NF were responsible for causing the fighting on the streets in Oldham,
Burnley and Bradford in last years riots.

Now they want to do this in Bromley.

Look at the record of the NF:  David Copeland, who was a member of the
British National Party and planted the nailbombs that killed three people
in London, took part in NF demonstrations in Dover in 1998.

Terry Blackham, leader of the NF has over twenty criminal convictions for
violence.  He was sentenced to four and a half years in jail for gun
running.  He is organising the demonstration in Bromley.

Stephen Irwin the 'Trick or Treat' killer who shot dead 8 people in a pub
in Northern Ireland was jailed for life in 1995.  He took part in NF
demonstrations in London in November 2000.

Local people will unite to ensure the Nazis are kept off the streets of
Bromley.

   --  Anti Nazi League
       PO Box 2566, London N4 1WJ
       Phone:  020 7924 0333
       Fax:  020 7924 0313
       <http://www.anl.org.uk>
       <anl-AT-anl.org.uk>

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WEB SITE OF INTEREST:

02) Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism
     State Hate Crime Cases
     <http://www.hatemonitor.org/law.html>

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BOOK/MOVIE/TV REVIEWS:

03) FX commits memorable 'Sins:' Sins of the Father
     Michael Speier (Variety)
     4 Jan 01

HOLLYWOOD -- Taking a giant leap forward in the telepic arena, FX scores
extremely high marks with "Sins of the Father."

Demanding, tense and exploding with an unflinching reality not often
provided by made-for-TV movies, this true story contains terrific
performances and tough dialogue. Long known as the network chockfull of
reruns -- "Ally McBeal" and "The Practice" repeats keep it alive -- the
cabler's brass should be proud of this accomplished, important piece of
work that rivals anything produced by original programming king HBO.

Based on Pamela Colloff's Texas Monthly article, "Sins" revisits the life
of Bobby Frank Cherry, one of several men indicted for the bombing of
Birmingham, Ala.'s 16th Street Baptist Church in 1963 (pic was filmed in
Toronto). Director Robert Dornhelm (an Emmy nominee for last year's "Anne
Frank") and scribe John Pielmeier take a very different point of view from
that of Spike Lee's 1997 documentary "4 Little Girls." They focus not on
the victims, but on the relationship between Cherry (Richard Jenkins), who
became a disturbed shut-in, and his emotionally tattered son, Tom (Tom
Sizemore).

Returning home to build a house for his old man, Tom is prepared to visit
the ghosts that have made him what he is today. Unable to keep a family and
becoming somewhat of a drifter in middle age, he still has a soft spot for
his father, who taught him the ways of the Ku Klux Klan and abused Tom's
mother (Brenda Bazinet) until she died of cancer.

The church murders were never officially solved, and FBI (news - web sites)
agent Dalton Strong (Colm Feore), who followed the case in the 1960s,
reappears as a consultant, still hounding the family for answers (he even
shows up at the funeral of Tom's no-good brother, shot by cops during an
escape attempt).

All Strong wants is a little help, but Tom holds firm, maintaining his
father's innocence, even though he's starting to remember certain events
that finger him as an obvious participant in the crime.

Adding to Tom's emotional seesaw ride is his decision to befriend Garrick
(Ving Rhames), a local carpenter who reads the Bible daily and is all about
forgiveness, but can't seem to get past the rumors that have engulfed Bobby
for almost 40 years. Only after Tom confronts, via flashback, his own
demons and the suppressed memory of physical and emotional neglect does he
"see the light" and testify before a grand jury (which led to a competency
hearing in December 2000).

Dornhelm has fashioned a narrative that is both entertainment -- the
tension is engrossing and the emotional payoffs are large -- and an
essential historical diary entry.

Performances are aces all around, with both Sizemore and Jenkins showcasing
genuinely pent-up hostility, rage and confusion. It's a treat to watch
Sizemore's transformation from the dutiful son who will do anything for his
dangerous father to the doubtful soul who will turn him in, and Jenkins
matches him scene for scene, still able to scare the wits out of his
"little boy" yet somehow convincing him that he's not such a bad guy.

Supporting players are just as sound, with Rhames solid as a balanced voice
of conscience and Bazinet terrifically understated as a beaten-up and
beaten-down victim whose fear is overwhelming. Newcomer Lachlan Murdoch --
not the News Corp. scion -- shows an indisputable maturity that makes his
role more than just a then-and-now caricature.

Victor Du Bois' editing never tires and adds layers of conflict that is
amplified by Derick Underschultz's compelling lensing.

    Tom Cherry ........... Tom Sizemore
    Bobby Frank Cherry ... Richard Jenkins
    Garrick Jones ........ Ving Rhames
    Dalton Strong ........ Colm Feore
    Young Tom ............ Lachlan Murdoch
    Virginia Cherry ...... Brenda Bazinet
    Mama Jones ........... Jackie Richardson

Filmed in Toronto by Artisan Pictures. Executive producers, Robert Cooper,
Tracey Alexander; co-executive producer, Barbara Bloom; supervising
producer, Judy Ranan; director, Robert Dornhelm; writer, John Pielmeier;
camera, Derick Underschultz; editor, Victor Du Bois; production designer,
Sandra Kybartas; music, Harald Kloser; casting, Ronnie Yeskel, Richard
Hicks.

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OBITUARY

04) Gunmen Murder Nigeria Justice Chief
     Glenn McKenzie (AP)
     24 Dec 01

LAGOS, Nigeria -- Nigeria's president deployed troops Monday to defuse
mounting political tension in the country's southwest after his justice
minister was killed in an attack at home.

The slain justice minister, Bola Ige, 71, who was also the country's
attorney general, was one of the most outspoken campaigners for democracy
under Nigeria's former military rulers.

He died of a shot to the chest Sunday after several assailants broke into
his home in the city of Ibadan in southwestern Osun State, government
officials and family members said Monday. The motive was not immediately
clear.

President Olusegun Obasanjo canceled a trip to Zimbabwe and called an
emergency Cabinet meeting. Afterward his spokesman, Tunji Oseni, issued a
statement saying "no effort will be spared" to end Nigeria's "culture of
violence in politics." Later Monday, the president ordered army troops into
the streets of Osun state amid fears of violence, and state television
announced a nighttime curfew in the state.

Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation with 120 million people, is
regularly rocked by violent feuding along political, ethnic and religious
lines.

Bose Ehindero, a relative of Ige who answered the phone at the official's
residence Monday morning, said Ige and his wife, Tinuke Ige, were in their
bedroom when the assailants burst in on them.

He was shot despite pleas from his wife, an appeals court judge, to spare
his life, Ehindero added.

A team of police officers assigned to protect Ige were away from their
posts eating dinner at the time, Ehindero said.

The Lagos daily newspaper ThisDay speculated the killing was linked to a
violent political feud between the state's governor and his deputy.

Last week, an Osun state legislator, Odunayo Olagbaju, was bludgeoned to
death outside his home in the city of Ife, provoking riots in the city.
Five people were reported killed. Olagbaju had been a supporter of Osun
Deputy Gov. Iyiola Omisore.

A few days ago, Ige reportedly escaped a mob attack in Ife in which his hat
was knocked off and his glasses broken. Ige had apparently backed Osun
State Gov. Bamidele Adebisi Akande, ThisDay said.

Ige was the founder of one of Nigeria's three registered political parties,
the Alliance for Democracy. Just weeks ago, he was chosen to serve in 2002
on the prestigious U.N. international law commission.

Obasanjo quickly recruited Ige into his government following 1999 elections
that ended military rule, even though the two had campaigned for opposing
parties. Like Obasanjo, Ige had spent time in prison under the junta and
was a Yoruba, the predominant ethnic group in Nigeria's southwest.

Ige led the World Council of Churches' anti-racism campaign in the early
1970s and later became governor of Oyo State during Nigeria's previous
period of civilian rule, 1979-83.

He was generally well-liked by many of his fellow Yorubas but distrusted by
some northerners for the years he spent campaigning against the northern-
dominated military.

As justice minister, he also drew criticism from some northern Muslims for
statements against moves by several states to implement Islamic law.

Ige also gained the wrath of state governments in the Niger Delta, where he
was seen as responsible for a ruling that restricts the states' earnings
from offshore oil drilling.

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FASCIST CRIMES IN THE NEWS

05) Swedish Neo-Nazi Sentenced
     AP
     4 Jan 02

STOCKHOLM -- The neo-Nazi publisher of a booklet derogatory to Jews was
sentenced Friday to six months in jail for violating Sweden's hate speech
law.

A district court on Gotland, an island 60 miles east of the Swedish
mainland, said the booklet, titled "The Jewish Question," constituted
"agitation against an ethnic group."

The publisher, Fredrik Sandberg, 25, faced up to two years in prison.

The material originally was written by a Nazi party member and published in
1936. The National Socialist Front, a neo-Nazi organization, published a
new, 60-page edition two years ago and sold it on its Web site.

Several copies were confiscated by police and the organization was ordered
to stop selling the material.

A spokesman for the organization, Bjoern Bjoerkqvist, called the ruling "a
blow" to free speech.

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06) After Black Teenager Is Slain, Norway Peers Into a Mirror
     Alan Cowell (New York Times)
     3 Jan 01

SLO — In the perfect land, could there be self-doubt? The sad story and
violent death of Benjamin Hermansen suggest that there could.

For many years Norway, long on forests and fiords, short on people, has
peered down from an aerie of virtuous prosperity, offering praise, cash and
counsel to those less blessed with social cohesion and oil riches. "It is
typically Norwegian to be good," a former prime minister, Gro Harlem
Brundtland, once remarked famously. This year the United Nations Human
Development Report, indeed, ranked this Scandanavian nation as the best
place in the world to live.

But the case of Benjamin Hermansen, a 15-year-old African-Norwegian boy who
was stabbed to death on a sidewalk by neo-Nazis, has offered a disturbing
challenge to this tranquil country's vision of itself, raising the question
of what it means to be Norwegian and European in a demographically changed
continent. The questioning has intensified since the trial of those accused
of being his killers began last month. "People realized that Norway is not
the country they thought," said Nadeem Butt, the director of the
government-financed Center Against Racism. "Most of the people thought
racism is not a problem. That has changed quite radically. People do
understand now that this is a problem."

For the last few months Scandinavia has pursued its own version of Europe's
strained debate about immigration and race, and has lurched in parts to the
political right as a result. In Denmark, an anti-immigrant party did well
in elections in November. In Norway, elections last September ousted the
Labor Party after 80 years of dominance and ushered in a coalition
supported from outside by the anti-immigrant Progress Party.

But it is the killing of Benjamin, the son of a Norwegian mother and
Ghanaian father, that has most deeply challenged the country's view of
itself.

Immigration and racial tension are not new in Scandinavia. For many years,
foreigners have been drawn here by accommodating asylum laws and
comprehensive welfare systems. But many countries are only now grappling
with the fact that they have become mixed societies with the emergence of a
second generation made up of the immigrants' children.

Today, there are two Oslo worlds. In western Oslo, shoppers bustle, some
clad in sleek furs, and restaurants fill with families paying for
specialities like salted lamb ribs with turnip mash. In eastern Oslo, dingy
streets fill with some of the 130,000 immigrants, asylum seekers and other
foreigners who live here.

These worlds come together in the clinical light spilling onto the pale
Norwegian wood benches of Court Room 227 at Oslo's City Court. Here, three
neo-Nazis accused of killing Benjamin provide a a graphic image of the
hostility aroused by immigrants, who account for about one- quarter of the
500,000 population in the capital of this overwhelmingly white-skinned
nation. (Nationally, the figure is around 200,000 immigrants from the
developing world in a land of 4.4 million).

One defendant, Joe Erling Jahr, 20, has sought to exonerate the others —
Ole Nicolai Kvisler, 22, and Veronica Andreassen, 18 — saying he alone
wielded the kitchen knife that killed the boy in what he depicted as an
accident in a scuffle after the three neo-Nazis cruised the streets of
Oslo's multiracial Holmlia suburb last January.

All three have denied setting out to murder Benjamin on the night of Jan.
26, 2001. But the hearings so far have offered a glimpse into a lurid world
of hatred among a group that, according to court testimony, talked of
attacking an immigrant and of vague, unsettled business with "foreigners."

On that icy night, Benjamin Hermansen and a friend, who cannot be publicly
identified under Norwegian law, met at about 11.45 p.m. so that Benjamin,
who had not been at school that day, could hear what happened in class,
according to Nicolai Bjoenness, the lawyer for the boy's mother, Marit.

His mother wanted him to stay home. Benjamin had argued with her about
going out so late, but in the end left, promising to go no farther than
their neighborhood and to meet up only with his friend.

Benjamin had already endured pain. His Ghanaian father committed suicide
when he was only 4, Mrs. Hermansen has said.

A few months before the father's death, he had been assaulted by neo- Nazis
skinheads at a soccer tournament in Denmark and had gone public to tell his
story on Norwegian television.

Despite the late hour, the two teenagers — both dark skinned — met in a
well-lit area outside a closed food store. Benjamin was about 500 yards
from the home he shared with his mother, according to her lawyer.

In a different part of town, according to court testimony, other events
were unfolding. Three neo-Nazis associated with a gang called the Bootboys
had left a shared apartment adorned with Nazi memorabilia and were cruising
the area in a car. At least one of them had a knife.

The cruising neo-Nazis came upon the two teenage boys who, sensing trouble,
"started to walk away," said Mr. Bjoeness, the lawyer. "They saw that the
people in the car had shaven heads and so they said to each other: `Are you
thinking what I'm thinking? Nazis.' " The shaven-headed men left the car.
The teenagers ran. The men with shaven heads pursued them. Benjamin
Hermansen's friend ran faster, and he escaped.

One of the skinheads overtook the 15-year-old, "and there's a fight and at
this time, Benjamin tumbles over a blue fence and one of the men jumps onto
him and stabs him with the fatal wound to the heart," Mr Bjoenness said.
The assailant ran off. Benjamin rose, staggering toward his home, but
collapsed after some 30 yards. "He was dead when he fell," Mr. Bjoenness
said.

Since Dec. 3, those events have unfolded anew in the hearings here, where
all three defendants have denied the charges of voluntary manslaughter.

The murder has brought one more agony to Benjamin's mother. Profoundly
distressed, she declined to be interviewed for this article. "I am not a
pillar of strength and calm," she told a Norwegian newspaper in May. "There
are days when I just stare at the wall."

There are days now when she stares at the defendants in Court Room 227.
Sometimes, the trial, which is expected to end soon, proceeds with familiar
courtroom languor. At one recent session, Veronica Andreassen chewed gum,
Ole Nicolai Kvisler scribbled notes, and Joe Erling Jahr slumped, his head
bowed.

Prosecutors say that Benjamin had been stabbed in the chest, back and arm
with two different kinds of knives. But Mr. Jahr has maintained that he
alone wielded the knife.

Ms. Andreassen, his co-defendant, testified that he "went quiet at first"
after the three returned to their shared apartment to read on a television
text news service that Benjamin had died of the knife wounds. "But then he
suddenly began to laugh and said he could start wearing red laces in his
boots," she said. "That's supposed to be a symbol that you have killed
someone."

Public opinion appears to have swung behind the boy. Benjamin Hermansen has
become such an emblem of the struggle against neo- Nazi racism that Michael
Jackson, the rock star, dedicated his newest album to "Benny."

That came during unsettled times here. Many Norwegians are questioning not
only race relations within their society but also a welfare state that, for
decades, has drawn on some of the world's highest taxes — and highest per
capita oil exports from fields in the North Sea — to provide succor and
security from cradle to grave.

"We are no longer satisfied with our welfare system," said Harald
Stanghelle, the political editor of the daily newspaper Aftenposten.
"There's a lack of confidence in social democracy. We were used to having
very good schools, hospitals, care for the aged. But now we see that the
quality of these basic institutions is not so good."

Certainly, tensions in this once placid society seem on the rise. Some
immigrants, like Erselan Perot, 30, an Iraqi Kurd who claims that he was
beaten in a racial attack in a West Oslo nightclub this month, say they
sense that hostility toward Muslim outsiders has increased since Sept. 11.
"People are a lot more negative toward us," he said in an interview.

While Norwegians insist that their racial debate is far less corrosive than
the equivalent discussion in Denmark, there is little doubt that the
growing presence of foreigners — increasing by up to 16,000 asylum seekers,
economic migrants and reunified family members every year — has produced a
groundswell of unease reflected in the Benjamin Hermansen case.

"Norway is still a very white society and having immigrants is quite a new
thing," said Oystein L. Pedersen, a spokesman for the Center Against
Racism. "Norwegians still feel a threat from different cultures."

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07) Reputed racist arrested in Indiana for Oregon kidnapping
     AP
     4 Jan 01

PORTLAND -- A man wanted in the kidnapping of an Oregon woman was
arrested after police discovered he was living at the home of a Ku Klux
Klan leader near Osceola, Ind.

Indiana police arrested James David Torkelson, 23, outside Richard Loy's
home on Tuesday. Loy's home is a headquarters of the National Knights of
the KKK, police said.

Officers had been surveilling Loy's home after receiving tips that
Torkelson was in the area.

Torkelson is accused of the Nov. 1 beating and kidnapping of Lindsey
Ulrich, 18, in Portland after she refused to participate in a planned
attack on anti-racist skinheads.

A group of five people, including Torkelson, allegedly took Ulrich to her
Clackamas County apartment, where they held her for four days before she
escaped and called police, said Portland police Sgt. Neil Crannell.

The five are charged with assault, kidnapping, robbery and coercion, as
well as various criminal conspiracies to commit those crimes, said Norm
Frink, a chief deputy district attorney for Multnomah County.

Gary Carson Brown, 32, is being held in Multnomah County pending trial.
Three other suspects remain at large, Frink said.

Torkelson was born in South Bend, Ind., and has relatives in a nearby town.

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COMMENTARY:

08) Hail George,Conqueror of Evildoers!
     Michael Moore
     2 Jan 01

Dear George W. Bush:

Hats off to you, sir, for a job well done! The Soviets tried for ten years
to do what it took you only two months to accomplish in Afghanistan. How
did you do that? It's funny how a couple months ago there were all these
Taliban, and now -- there aren't any! You must be some kind of super
magician -- almost as good at disappearing acts as ol' Osama (or, as they
say on the Fox Nuisance Channel, "Usama" -- I like their spelling better,
like "We put the 'USA' in USAma!"). He did exist, didn't he? I would hate
to have gotten myself all worked up over the wrong evildoer! I loved that
last tape of his, the home video of his sleepover with that sheik. What a
party animal, that guy!

And how 'bout that Northern Alliance! Thanks to them, my weekly supply of
heroin will finally be reinstated. Whoo-hoo -- and just in time for New
Year's Rockin' Eve! Those Taliban simply did NOT have the best delivery
system for the stuff, kinda like why you never see Beaman's gum anymore --
poor distribution and shelf placement. According to the New York Times, the
Northern Alliance has put all the poppy farmers back to work, and they are
promising a "bumper crop" by spring. But Mr. Bush, I am most impressed with
how you have used those who died on September 11th to justify your lining
the pockets of your rich friends and campaign contributors. Your "Economic
Stimulus Bill" -- pure genius! You actually got the House of
Representatives to pass a bill eliminating the law that said corporations
have to pay at least a token minimum tax every year.

See, most people forget that back in your daddy's day (when he was VP)
thousands of companies were able to lawyer their way out of paying any
taxes at all! Then a law was passed to stop that. Now you got the House to
agree to give all these corporations back ALL the minimum taxes they have
paid since 1986!! That's $140 billion of givebacks ($1.4 billion to IBM, a
billion to Ford, $800 million to GM, etc.). And you got this passed, all
under the guise of "September 11th!" How do you get away with this without
the American public whoopin' your behind? Man, you are THE MAN!

Hey, and tell your top sheriff, Big John Ashcroft, that his refusal to let
the FBI look at the files of gun background checks that the Justice
Department keeps -- to see if any of the terrorists or suspected terrorists
have purchased weapons in the past two years -- took some balls! Even
though checking those files might turn up information that could protect us
in possible future attacks, Ashcroft was more concerned with not upsetting
the NRA than in helping his own FBI catch the bad guys. Now that's what I
call getting your priorities straight. Big John may have lost his Senate
seat last year to a dead guy, but he sure as heck ain't gonna lose me as a
huge admirer!

Well, I better go before someone from the Office of Homeland Security
mistakes me for someone who needs to be "interviewed!" Rest assured I'm
doing my part for the country by shopping my sorry ass off in this week
before Christmas. Buy! Buy! Buy! Tora! Tora! Tora! Bora! Whoo-hoo, Prince
O' Peace!! Fight Team Fight! Go get 'em, George, Jr. -- we're counting on
you to kill all evildoers!

   --  Yours,
       Michael Moore
       Third in Line to the King of Afghanistan
       <http://www.www.michaelmoore.com>

P.S. You'll beat that Enron rap, just like you beat your other raps!  Chin
up!  Who needs "energy traders" anyway? I never saw that job on the list
from my high school counselor!!

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REAL POLITICAL CORRECTNESS:
It's from the rightwing authoritarians and always has been

09) Five Georgia Residents Sue to Block Extremist City-Sponsored Prayer
        Breakfast
     ACLU
     3 Jan 02

ATLANTA -- Acting on behalf of five East Point residents, the American
Civil Liberties Union of Georgia today filed suit in federal court here
against Mayor Patsy Joe Hilliard and the City of East Point for their
unconstitutional sponsorship, promotion and funding of the "East Point
Mayor's Annual Prayer Breakfast."

"East Point's prayer breakfast is an extreme example of a city government
choosing one religion over all others and making non-Protestant members of
the community feel like outsiders in their own city," said Debbie
Seagraves, Executive Director of the ACLU of Georgia. "In a city as diverse
as East Point, and at a time when our nation is struggling for unity, I
would hope that the mayor would understand that this is a divisive thing to
do."

Each year's prayer breakfast has intertwined politics and religion under
the cloak of city government sponsorship, the ACLU said in its complaint.
Last year's prayer breakfast, for example, included a “litany” by the Mayor
quoting "the words of King Solomon." The Mayor and other city officials
asked Jesus Christ for his blessing, his "vision" and "wisdom."

And for the last six years, employees of East Point have designed, prepared
and printed the fliers to promote the official prayer breakfast, working on
city time and using the city's own letterhead. City funds are used to help
pay for the event, and private donations are made to the city itself. The
mayor promotes the event on official stationery, and employs the city's
director of finance to disburse funds through public accounts.

“Numerous residents complained to the ACLU and we tried to work with the
mayor to ensure that the prayer breakfast could move forward without
government sponsorship or entanglement, but the mayor simply refused,” said
Gerry Weber, Legal Director of the ACLU of Georgia.

The ACLU's lawsuit seeks a court order to prevent this year's prayer
breakfast from taking place. A hearing on the matter has been scheduled for
Monday, January 7th at 3:00 p.m. ACLU cooperating attorneys Frank
Derrickson and Ralph Goldberg represent the residents.

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Contra-Pierce

10) William Pierce: Journalists and Hypocrites
     <http://www.anti-fascism.org/page-special.html>

In his essay "Journalists and Canadians"* Bill Pierce, terror-fuhrer of the
National Alliance, proclaims that the theorist of neo-Nazism is "not much
of a believer in giant conspiracies, involving many people and crossing
ethnic boundaries."

No, Pierce & Company only believe in giant conspiracies when they're
constrained by the particular type of ethnic boundaries that exist in the
hypocritical delusions of the anti-Semites.

Pierce's supporters present themselves as great defenders of private
property, particularly when it lends itself to the below-the-belt
defamations of the anononazis. His followers, like Scot Bradbury, like few
things better than to target some critic as a communist. The cyberthuggery
is then picked up by a variety of other formally-unknown people posting the
same libels via anonymous accounts.

But this changes when the property-owner is Jewish.

Pierce is incensed over the Asper family who, he claims, owns more than 60%
of Canadian media via the CanWest Global Communications Corporation. Worse,
according to Pierce, Asper instructed his media to print nothing critical
of Israel.

One can certainly oppose Asper (if the account is true.) In doing so this
humanist opposition would flow from general principles rooted in free
speech; for Pierce the opposition is only because Asper is a Jew.

In reality, Pierce opposes Asper for doing what Pierce does with the
National Alliance; Pierce and only Pierce speaks for the group.

Nor does Pierce's fascist opposition stand the test of history when we
remember the Nazi press of Goebbels or the lynch-mob leadership of Julius
Streicher's newspaper.

Elsewhere we see one fascist definition of "free speech:" the demand that
non-whites, women, Jews, gay people, and "communists" be fired from their
positions in the media so that "free white men" can take their rightful
positions. And Pierce himself has not been shy in calling for the death of
those like Alan Ginzburg whose speech bothers Pierce.

Remember that Pierce does not come from the unimportant and uneducated
lunatic wing of U.S. politics; he comes from the important and educated
lunatic wing.

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* Radio broadcast, 5 January 2002


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