black@pundit.DEC (America first, without apologies.) (10/03/85)
Today's Manchester Union-Leader and the Boston Globe carry a story on the
front pages about the death of one Arkady Katkov in Beirut, Lebanon. The late
Mr. Katkov was from the Soviet Union, and served as a counselor in the Soviet
Embassy. He met an untimely death allegedly at the hands of a few Moslem
extremists. Neither article made any mention of his family or hometown.
This is another example of the barbarism that occurs on a regular basis
in the Mideast. Mr. Katkov and his associates are just more innocent victims
in a useless war that can never end.
Now here's one for you that didn't even make the back page of the
Dogpatch Weekly Bugle.
Remember a week or so ago I related the story of Tscherim Soobsokov, the
fellow who was murdered in Paterson, NJ, by the Jewish Defense League? Well,
the beat goes on. Shortly thereafter, this same heroic organization torched
and bombed the home of Elmars Sprogis, on Long Island, NY. Mr. Sprogis, a
Latvian, was accused by the JDL of being a Nazi. A neighbor, Robert Seifried
Jr., lost his foot in the explosion while trying to rescue Sprogis and his
wife.
I ask again, why is it that the death of an obscure Soviet citizen in a
Bombed-Out Backwater Boondock makes front-page headline news from coast to
coast, while terrorism in our own front yard is a non-event?
This rash of bombings, arson, and murders has apparently been
precipitated by the movie "The Execution," a story about a group of vigilante
Jews who take the law into their own hands and kill an alleged Nazi. This
movie was filmed in part at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. The
center also provided "technical assistance."
Rest assured that if the Klan had made such a movie, any theater showing
it would be picketed and/or firebombed. If the Klan committed an act of
arson, bombing, or murder on the average of one a week, as the JDL has
recently, the nation would be under martial law. It seems that the JDL can
act with total immunity, without fear of investigation, prosecution, or
reprisal.
I think it's time for a change.
--Don Black
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