Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 19:41:50 -0500
From: Paul Kneisel <tallpaul-AT-nyct.net>
Subject: The Internet Anti-Fascist: Tue, 5 March 2002 -- 6:20 (#656)



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             The Internet Anti-Fascist: Tuesday, 5 March 2002
                         Vol. 6, Number 20 (#656)
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Action Alert:
    01) People's Weekly World, "Send a letter condemning the attack on CUT's
        office," 22 Feb 02
Announcements and Documents:
    02) New York State Greens, "Open letter to the German greens, both as
        individuals, and as a body," 16 Feb 02
News On Hitler-Apologist David Irving
    03) AP, "Holocaust Historian Goes Bankrupt," 4 Mar 02
    04) D.D. Guttenplan and Martin Bright ([London]Observer), "David
        Irving's secret backers: The model, the Saudi prince and the U-boat
        commander," 3 Mar 02
Book/Movie/TV Reviews:
    05) David Germain (AP), "Sept. 11 Breeds Rush of War Movies," 27 Feb 02
News Concerning Racism:
    06) Reuters, "Germany Wins Back Its Internet Name," 1 Mar 02
    07) National Action Network - Michigan Chapter, "Angry White Mob
        Encircles And Menaces Sheffield Press Conference," 28 Feb 02
    08) David R. Kazak (Daily Herald), "Racist views spark anger," 28 Feb 02

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ACTION ALERT:

01) Send a letter condemning the attack on CUT's office
     People's Weekly World
     22 Feb 02

At about two in the morning on February 2nd the night security officer at
the CUT building in Sao Paulo was ordered to open the door by men dressed
in civil police uniforms. He was then locked in a room while a truck
without license plates was driven into the CUT's parking area. The men,
armed with machine guns and other weapons, stole thirty computers, a safe
and numerous documents from the building which houses the CUT's national
headquarters, the Sao Paulo office as well as offices of many other
federations affiliated with the CUT.

The robbery is the latest in a series of crimes affecting the CUT,
including the murder of dozens of CUT trade unionists.

Please send letters of protest to the following: Fernando Henrique Cardoso,
President: governo-AT-brasil.gov.br Colin Powell, U.S. Secretary of State
secretary-AT-state.gov
Juan Somavia, Director-general of the ILO cabinet-AT-ilo.org

Sample letter -- sent by UE President John H. Hovis, Jr. Please feel free
to use it as a model or draft your own.

Fernando Henrique Cardoso, President
Federative Republic of Brazil
Via Fax: 011 55 61 411 2222
Dear President Cardoso:

On behalf of the officers and members of the United Electrical, Radio and
Machine Workers of America (UE) I am writing to express our displeasure at
the lack of a satisfactory response to the recent attack on the offices of
the Central Unica dos Trabalhadores (CUT).

We have been advised that at approximately two o'clock in the morning of
February 2, 2002 the offices of the CUT were broken into by ten men dressed
in civil police uniform. They reportedly removed thirty computers, a safe
and numerous documents from the building which houses the CUT's national
headquarters in Sao Paulo, its Sao Paolo office, as well as the offices of
other federations affiliated to the CUT.

As I am sure you are aware, this raid is the latest in a series of crimes
affecting the CUT, including the murder of dozens of CUT trade unionists.
Although we were pleased to learn that some of the computers have been
recovered and arrests have occurred, we are concerned that this matter may
be dismissed as a simple robbery by local officials.

Whatever the ultimate conclusion, the recent assassinations of trade union
leaders, such as Aldanir dos Santos, a member of the CUT's national
executive committee who was brutally murdered last December, and Celso
Daniel, the Mayor of Santo André who was Lula's campaign manager, certainly
convey an ominous message and suggest that a more serious investigation is
warranted.

We ask that you take all possible measures to ensure both that a prompt and
vigorous investigation is conducted and that future violence directed
against leaders of the trade union movement and the Workers Party is
halted.

We look forward to your response.

Sincerely,

John. H. Hovis, Jr.
General President
cc: Colin Powell, U.S. Secretary of State (Fax: 202-647-2283)
Juan Somavia, Director-general of the ILO (Fax: 011 41-22-799-8533)

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ANNOUNCEMENTS AND DOCUMENTS

02) Open letter to the German greens, both as individuals, and as a body
     New York State Greens
     16 Feb 02

We read with great dismay of your party's recent decision to support the US
bombing campaign against Afghanistan, and in fact to participate by ending
German military personnel.  We are dismayed that both your party
organization and your Parliamentary group would choose to seek the short-
term advantage of remaining in the governing coalition, over the long-term
goal of fighting for your/our principles.

Our disappointment mounts when we recall the global leadership provided by
the German Greens in recent years.  Many of us, in New York, and elsewhere,
began our activism as greens with your shining example as inspiration.  We
are greatly disappointed that you have chosen to abandon your and our long-
  standing commitment to non-violence and mutual respect among nations. This
is a tragic betrayal of Green principle.

Our dismay and disappointment threaten to turn to despair as the
realization dawns that you may be doing this in our name.  As active Greens
in New York, as direct witnesses to both the events themselves and to their
longer-term consequences, and yes, as some of the immediate victims of the
atrocities of September 11th, we implore you not to perpetuate the cycle of
violence. This war can have no good consequences, only vastly increased
suffering, and more terror and other forms of "blowback." In addition, your
party's support of Bush's war increases the likelihood of new attacks on
other countries, (Somalia, Iraq. . . ) Please do what you can to reverse
your party's recent decision to support Bush's war.

  We have watched the discouraging development of the US war aims, from
"justice," to "vengeance," and on to the same old
petrochemical/geopolitical fantasy which has become such a part of our
world in recent years.  The attacks of September 11th were not acts of war,
but crimes, albeit of great magnitude, and should be prosecuted as crimes,
in some relevant jurisdiction.  The invocation of Article 5 of NATO is
foolish and incorrect, and most likely the act of men who have ulterior
motives. War is not the answer, not in our name, not in your name, and not
in the name of our Earth.

Don't be fooled--after the patriotic/militaristic binge, comes the
hangover, and the morning after when nothing has changed, except that the
world seems somehow grayer and less welcoming.  Please, change your
direction, renounce this war, and reclaim your leadership position among
the Green Parties of the planet.  We reach out especially to those German
Greens who may have originally opposed the war, and to those who are having
second thoughts as the war goes on.

Thank you, from ground zero,
New York State Greens.

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NEWS ON HITLER-APOLOGIST DAVID IRVING

03) Holocaust Historian Goes Bankrupt
     AP
     4 Mar 02

LONDON -- Historian David Irving, who questioned the extent of the
Holocaust, was declared bankrupt Monday after failing to pay legal costs to
an American professor and her publisher.

Irving sued American academic Deborah Lipstadt and publisher Penguin in
April 2000 over her 1994 book, "Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault
on Truth and Memory." Irving said the book destroyed his livelihood and
fueled hatred against him.

After Irving lost the case, the High Court ordered him to pay Lipstadt's
and Penguin's legal costs — estimated at $2.78 million — including an
interim payment of $210,000.

Penguin's lawyers said Monday it took action after Irving failed to pay.

"Our client has been very patient, but Irving was clearly not going to meet
the interim payment, which is a fraction of their total costs," said lawyer
Mark Bateman.

A bankruptcy order clears the way to seize assets to settle unpaid debts.

High Court Judge Charles Gray ruled that Irving had "misrepresented and
distorted" historical evidence and that he was "anti-Semitic and racist and
that he associates with right-wing extremists who promote neo-Nazism."

Irving, the author of nearly 30 books, insists he does not deny that Jews
were killed by the Nazis, but challenges the number and manner of Jewish
concentration camp deaths.

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04) David Irving's secret backers: The model, the Saudi prince and the U-
        boat commander
     D.D. Guttenplan and Martin Bright ([London]Observer)
     3 Mar 02

They are a colourful group bound in a dubious cause: a London pensioner, a
Saudi prince with an estate in Ascot, a former Nazi U-boat commander and a
glamorous blonde model.

All are part of the international support network for David Irving, the
writer branded a racist, an anti-Semite and a falsifier of history by a
High Court judge.

Their backing allows him to continue to propagate his views on the
Holocaust and support his lavish lifestyle despite his court defeat.

Irving, who operates out of a Mayfair flat and spends much of the year in
Florida, has always kept his finances a closely guarded secret.

Now an Observer investigation has begun to unravel the web of contributors
and companies that keep Irving's crusade on the march. Until now they have
been anonymous.

British contributors also fear they might be held liable for a substantial
portion of the £2 million in costs incurred by Irving's opponents.

The revelations come on the eve of a bankruptcy hearing triggered by the
failure of Irving's libel action against American academic Deborah Lipstadt
and Penguin Books.

In April 2000 the court awarded costs to Lipstadt and her publishers and
ordered Irving to pay £150,000 on account to Penguin. Irving is in court
tomorrow because of his failure to pay. His defeat in the High Court has
not deterred him from pursuing his libel action against the writer Gitta
Sereny and this newspaper, even though that case hinges on many of the same
issues. The law permits bankrupts to sue for libel and keep any money
awarded from such suits.

Irving's most recent newsletter advertises 'The Next Battle' - his suit
against The Observer - as well as a Special £150,000 Appeal: 'To defeat
Lipstadt permanently and inflict the Six Million Dollar loss on her
backers...' The reference to dollars is deliberate. Of the 4,017 names on
Irving's active contributors list, 2,495 are in the United States and
Canada. One was Henry Kersting, a tax-avoidance specialist from Hawaii.
According to Irving, Kersting was a former German U-boat commander who was
'just deeply concerned with politics. He wasn't anti-Jewish'.

In an exclusive interview, Irving said Kersting, who died two years ago,
made all his donations in cash. 'He was a strange character. He would phone
me in Key West and say "I'm sending over another 10 flowers," or "I'm
sending over five flowers by Fedex". And then the Fedex van would come the
next day and there was $5,000 in cash. Or $10,000 in cash.' On another
occasion Kersting asked Irving to meet him in Amsterdam, where he gave him
a paper bag containing $50,000 in cash.

Irving is reluctant to comment on living contributors whose names are known
to The Observer, including one from Sweden and another from Switzerland who
between them loaned £17,500.

He refused to even discuss Albert W. Hess, who lives in Florida and loaned
Irving $45,000 to fund his activities. A supporter of Udo Walendy, the
German neo-Nazi and publisher of the German translation of the British
Holocaust denial tract Did Six Million Really Die?, Hess was himself a
featured speaker at one far-right Florida gathering.

The Observer can also reveal the financial details of Irving's mysterious
'fighting fund'. Irving's newsletter Action Report solicits donations, but
fans who prefer to make their contributions in the form of a loan or
investment are then directed to either Focal Point Publications or Parforce
UK Ltd - a registered company set up by Irving's Danish wife, Bente Hogh,
and his accountant, Alan Kentto, to publish his books. This puts it out of
the reach of creditors.

Frederick Atkin, a former insurance company employee, loaned Irving £5,000.
Atkin, 69, told The Observer that he was motivated by 'pure greed': 'It was
an investment as far as I was concerned. He always seemed above board to
me.' Another Briton, Nigel Hogg of Whitley Bay in Northumberland, invested
£5,000 with Irv ing's publishing company and was repaid in full with
interest. He was not prepared to comment on his connection with Irving or
whether he supported his views: 'This is a private matter. I am not a
current funder of David Irving.'

The British donors rely on Irving's absolute discretion. Under the law any
third parties who help to fund a libel action can potentially be made to
help pay the costs if the action is not successful.

'If I was ever to get an order against me by the court for having been
maintained by outsiders,' Irving said, 'then... I have firmly established
in my own mind the principle [that] on the date that such an order is made
I'll come straight back here and destroy all the files, rather than reveal
the names of the people who donated to me.'

But he confirmed that all money paid to him potentially ends up in his
fighting fund.

'It all comes through the same pipeline,' Irving explained. 'Cheques are
written to Focal Point. Some of the cheques are now written to Parforce UK
Ltd. As I am Focal Point I don't really take much trouble to separate the
investment side in my head from the litigation funding side because, at the
end of the day, it's all the same pot.'

In July, Irving thought he'd finally found his ideal benefactor: Prince
Fahd bin Salman of Saudi Arabia. The son of the governor of Riyadh and
eldest nephew to King Fahd invited Irving to Harewood, his estate in
Surrey. Just a month earlier Fahd had accompanied his father on a trade
mission to Britain when he met the Queen and the Prime Minister.

The meeting with Irving was arranged by Michele Renouf, the mysterious
blonde model who had been a constant presence at Irving's side during the
trial. Renouf is an Australian taxi-driver's daughter who styles herself
'Lady Renouf' thanks to a six-week marriage to Sir Francis Renouf, the late
New Zealand financier.

The prince agreed terms via a telephone call from Riyadh a few days later.
Renouf confirmed Irving's account of the negotiations in an email to The
Observer: 'Tragically, the following day, the generous and fit prince died
suddenly,' she added.

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D.D. Guttenplan is the author of The Holocaust on Trial, now available in
paperback from Granta Books.

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BOOK/MOVIE/TV REVIEWS

05) Sept. 11 Breeds Rush of War Movies
     David Germain (AP)
     27 Feb 02

LOS ANGELES -- Long before Sept. 11, movie studios had rediscovered their
love of the soldier. A rush of military dramas shot before the terrorist
attacks are now riding a wave of public patriotism at its highest level
since World War II.

By chance, Hollywood already had chosen to revisit notions of duty, honor,
camaraderie and sacrifice in a range of combat arenas, from World War II
and Vietnam to Somalia and Bosnia.

The courage-under-fire themes of "Black Hawk Down," "Behind Enemy Lines,"
"Hart's War," and the upcoming "We Were Soldiers" and "Windtalkers" would
do John Wayne proud.

While generally projecting the U.S. military in a good light, the films are
not so much exercises in flag-waving as they are acclamations of the
fraternity of fighting.

"These guys went over there with ideals and pride and desire to be the
vanguard of freedoms most of us take for granted," said Mel Gibson, who
stars in "We Were Soldiers" as Lt. Col Hal Moore, commander of the first
big battle against the North Vietnamese in 1965.

"Once they got there, they were under siege, backs to the wall. They didn't
eat or drink or sleep. Basically, it became that they were fighting for
each other. It's not mom or apple pie you're fighting for, it's the guy
next to you."

The call to arms for fresh war films came after a period of indifference
toward the soldiery during the self-absorbed 1980s and early '90s.
Cartoonish action heroes ruled the adventure genre, and the big war movie
of the '80s was "Platoon," which presented Vietnam troops in an ugly light.

"Platoon" came after more than a decade of disillusionment with federal
authority after the Watergate scandal and Vietnam pullout. Then, the
military came to seem less relevant after the Soviet Union crumbled and the
Pentagon (news - web sites) closed bases.

"It was not the most popular thing in the world to be a soldier then," said
Rod Lurie, a 1984 West Point graduate who directed last year's military
prison drama "The Last Castle." "Soldiers were even looked upon as second-
class citizenry."

In the mid-1990s, ceremonies, books and news coverage of the 50th
anniversary of D-Day and the end of World War II rekindled appreciation for
veterans. Tom Brokaw's World War II best-seller "The Greatest Generation"
and Steven Spielberg's Normandy invasion epic "Saving Private Ryan" put
human faces on that war for a generation that had not lived through it.

"The other part of it was, a lot of our fathers and parents who stood for
those things the greatest generation has now become known for were
beginning to die, quite honestly," said David Ladd, a producer on "Hart's
War," which stars Bruce Willis as a fourth-generation West Point colonel
plotting sabotage while imprisoned by the Nazis.

"You saw a lot more honor paid to the men who made the sacrifices, which
had gone out the window for awhile in the years before that."

Hollywood put a rush of patriotic combat films into production. Most of the
footage in the current battle films was in the can before Sept. 11, but the
attacks and the war on terrorism have heightened public interest in stories
about soldiers of virtue.

The '80s and '90s were a "fairly frivolous time," when Americans were more
concerned with their stock portfolios than with political issues or
military threats, said "We Were Soldiers" director Randall Wallace, who
also wrote Gibson's "Braveheart."

"Great things did not seem to be at stake to people," Wallace said. "Sept.
11 reminded us there is such a thing in the world as evil, and there is the
necessity for such things as duty, honor and sacrifice."

Before "We Were Soldiers," such nouns rarely applied to films about
Vietnam. "M-A-S-H" satirized the U.S. military in Vietnam under the guise
of a Korean War setting. "Apocalypse Now" turned Vietnam into a surreal
zone of madness and bestiality. "Platoon" depicted U.S. soldiers as drug
abusers, back-stabbers and butchers of the innocent in a scene reminiscent
of the My Lai massacre, in which Vietnamese civilians were killed by
soldiers under the command of Lt. William Calley.

"Platoon" "took every bad instance that occurred in the Vietnam War,
officers smoking dope with their men, sergeants killing each other,
soldiers burning buildings. It was nonsense," said Moore, who retired in
1977 as a lieutenant general.

"Apocalypse Now," based on Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness," "wasn't
even about Vietnam. It was something else. I walked out."

Moore and journalist Joseph Galloway co-wrote the battle memoir "We Were
Soldiers Once ... And Young," the basis for the film, which recounts their
experiences during the ferocious three-day siege in the Ia Drang Valley.

Unlike past Vietnam movies, "We Were Soldiers" presents a close-knit unit
of soldiers with a paternal commander. The troops are brave and honorable,
earnestly loyal and willing to lay down their lives for a comrade.

"Hal and Joe felt that Vietnam guys particularly had really suffered at the
hands of Hollywood," Gibson said. "I think the movies have always managed
to focus on the exception, not the rule. There's no doubt that what Lt.
Calley did over there was an atrocity. Atrocities happen in war. It's
lamentable, and there's no way to justify it.

"But it was the exception among the rule. Everyone in Vietnam wasn't a
drug-taking, baby-fragging wacko. They were mainly men and women doing
their duty."

Says Moore: "The basic message of our book was hate the war but love the
American warrior."

Films such as "We Were Soldiers" and "Black Hawk Down" border on anti-war
sentiments with their grimly realistic images of men dying in battle, Moore
said. The films are valuable, especially after Sept. 11, as reminders that
freedom and prosperity still may require the sacrifice of American lives in
battle, he said.

"These movies are pro-military. I would hope they help show the people of
America the necessity for strong military forces. And when they see movies
that show soldiers realistically fighting and dying for their country, I
would say to the American people, they can be proud they have such men."

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NEWS CONCERNING RACISM

06) Germany Wins Back Its Internet Name
     Reuters
     1 Mar 02

BERLIN -- Germany can have its name back.

After a two-year fight with a German Internet consulting company, the
German government announced on Friday it had won the right to the web
address www.deutschland.de.

The government said in a statement it had reached a compromise with
Medianet GmbH to use the deutschland.de address and would make the site its
main portal for information about the country.

The manager of Medianet said his company simply gave up the fight for the
address it had used as a portal since 1995 to avoid a long and costly legal
battle.

"Naturally we are not happy about it," Marc Schneeweis said. "It was just
becoming too expensive."

Because Internet entrepreneurs often acted more quickly than governments in
registering web addresses, many country Internet address have no official
connection.

For example, America.com is a Florida commercial service which says it is
"dedicated to being America's number one e-mail provider." Rossiya.ru is
also an Internet company, as are China.com and India.com.

Earlier this year Germany won back the rights to several addresses that
bounced to neo-Nazi sites when the user typed in several variants for the
German Interior Ministry.

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07) Angry White Mob Encircles And Menaces Sheffield Press Conference
     National Action Network - Michigan Chapter
     28 Feb 02

Angry White Mob Encircles And Menaces Sheffield Press Conference Held Today
to Call for Federal And State Investigations of Macomb County Prosecutor
Carl Marlinga's Ethnic Intimidation Charges Against Pregnant Black Mother
Who Miscarried After Being Assaulted by Whites at Warren School DETROIT,

An angry white crowd gathered today to hurl insults and threats while the
Rev. Horace L. Sheffield, III, President of the National Action Network -
Michigan Chapter, held a 10 a.m. press conference to call for federal and
state investigations of the decision by Macomb County Prosecutor Carl
Marlinga to charge with ethnic intimidation the black pregnant victim of a
recent assault by whites at the nearly all-white Wilde Elementary School in
Warren, Michigan -- instead of the white aggressors and perpetrators. The
black victim, Melvina Johnson, who was cut off by whites in their cars as
she tried to leave the area, called a ``nigger,'' and beaten and kicked by
two white women, miscarried as a result of the beating and kicks to her
midsection by her white attackers. Prosecutor Marlinga has refused to
charge the white attackers of Ms. Johnson, who, ironically, called the
Warren police to assist her as she bled from the attack.

The Metro Detroit area is the most racially segregated region in America,
and Warren, just outside Detroit, has a long history as a bastion of white
racist segregationism, assault and intimidation against African-Americans.

Rev. Sheffield was joined at the press conference by Ms. Johnson, her
attorney, Randy Rodnick, and Chuck Busse, a white Warren City Councilman
who opposes the charges against Ms. Johnson.

Rev. Sheffield also announced 2 public hearings to expose and create a
dialogue on racial profiling and police and prosecutorial abuses in Warren.
The first will be held on Monday, March 4, 2002, at 8:30 p.m., and will be
broadcast live on WCHB AM 1200 from Rev. Sheffield's New Galilee Missionary
Baptist Church, 11241 Gunston (near Gratiot) on Detroit's east side. The
second public hearing will be held in two weeks in the City of Warren
(date, time and place to be announced next week).

The National Action Network letters sent today to Prosecutor Marlinga,
Michigan Attorney General Jennifer Granholm, and U.S. Attorney Jeffrey
Collins, will be faxed to interested media. Also, please see the NAN -
Michigan press release of yesterday, February 27, 2002, for quotes and
additional information regarding this matter.

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08) Racist views spark anger
     David R. Kazak (Daily Herald)
     28 Feb 02

Kane County Republicans and neighbors sought distance Wednesday from Scott
Sutterlin, the state Senate candidate from Geneva who said this week he
thinks white and black people should remain separate.

Sutterlin, along with Ken Toftoy of Yorkville, is running against Aurora
Republican Chris Lauzen for the state Senate in the March 19 primary.
Lauzen represents the 25th District, which covers all of Kane County west
of the Fox River, as well as parts of Kendall and LaSalle counties.

Local and state political experts said Sutterlin's race for Lauzen's seat
likely is dead after he defended this week his 1994 comments to a national
TV audience, in which he said black people should have been sent back to
Africa "a long time ago."

"Needless to say, the Republican Party does not agree with anything he
said," said Bill Keck, the GOP chairman in Kane County. Keck further
distanced himself from Sutterlin by saying he's upset his views might
reinforce a stereotype that the Republican Party is an all-white party.

"Certainly we're not," Keck said. "And we don't want that projected. We're
not that type of party. Maybe that's what his vision is, but it's certainly
not ours."

Some neighbors in Sutterlin's west Geneva neighborhood who had posted
Sutterlin yard signs said upon learning of his comments they would remove
those signs.

Throughout the day Wednesday, signs all across Geneva supporting Sutterlin
became increasingly hard to find.

Brad Smircich, who lives near Sutterlin, said he was shocked by the
candidate's words, which were exposed by the Daily Herald Wednesday.

"He just said he was running for election," Smircich said. "He said he was
for families and wanted to know if he could put up a sign. I said 'Sure.'

"It's coming down," Smircich said.

Lynda Rivers, the Geneva Township Republican Party chairman, said Wednesday
that Sutterlin, though on the Republican ballot in the March primary, has
never attended a local party meeting or done volunteer work for the party.

The township party organization, she said, attempted to screen candidates
running on the GOP ticket earlier this year, but Sutterlin never responded
to the invitation.

"I believe we would have been able to get to his viewpoints if he'd come
before us, but he didn't," Rivers said.

Sutterlin, who was contacted twice Wednesday, declined to comment further
on either his candidacy or his comments.

On Tuesday, he admitted to saying "we need to separate the races" in 1994
on the "Geraldo" show, which at the time was taping a Ku Klux Klan rally in
Janesville, Wis.

Sutterlin, now 45, used the name Scott Alm when he appeared on the show.
Alm is his adopted name, which he gave up in lieu of his biological
father's name seven years ago.

He said he was at the rally at the invitation of the show, not to support
the KKK. Instead, he thought he was going to get a chance to voice support
for conservative Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan (news - web sites).

Even so, Sutterlin affirmed Tuesday the comments he made, saying that even
today he agrees with them "in general." According to a transcript of the
show, Sutterlin said:

"We should have sent (black people) back to Africa a long time ago, and
maybe paid their way and set them up again.

"In my opinion, we have to do something like that because we are different
people. We think and behave differently.

"They're people from the jungle, and we are people from Europe. And there's
nothing wrong with that," he said.

Charles Wheeler III, an associate professor of public affairs at the
University of Illinois-Springfield, said Sutterlin's comments show he's not
qualified to be an elected official.

"An elected official has to represent all constituents and do it fairly,"
he said. "Somebody who is a self-avowed racist can't do that."

Wheeler said he didn't think Sutterlin's attachment to the Republican Party
would be harmful to the GOP.

"You can call yourself whatever you want to call yourself," he said. "But
the reaction (by party officials) whenever one of these people with
extremist views is uncovered is usually a repudiation by the mainstream
members."

That repudiation came swiftly Wednesday as Keck released a strongly worded
statement to the news media regarding Sutterlin. In it he said:

"Sutterlin's comments are at best ignorant and at worst hateful," Keck
wrote. "Either way, they are hurtful and disappointing, and there is no
place for them in the Republican Party, or anywhere else for that matter."

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