[net.religion] A few facts about some not-so-well-known connections

mf@cornell.UUCP (mf) (04/28/85)

Articles in these newsgroups have discussed apparently unrelated
issues.  For instance, a recent posting mentioned that the weekly
national newspaper of the Populist Party was "The Spotlight."  Other
postings spoke of Identity and revisionism.  No *other* connection than
the person(s) posting them and the white-supremacist racism underlying
them?  Well...

About Spotlight:

Spotlight happens to be (also) the newspaper of the Liberty Lobby of
Willis Carto, for which he writes both under his own name and under
several pseudonyms.  A regular, and even dominant, feature of its pages
is revisionists' efforts to deny the Holocaust and Nazi apologetics.
It carries ads for such avowedly anti-Jewish organisations as the
National States Rights Party and the Christian Defense League, for Nazi
regalia and insignia and for such survival products and services as
"survival knives," gun silencers, tear gas guns and "new identities."

About Carto and LL:

Willis Carto, born in 1926 in Indiana, had helped edit "Right" (a mid-
fifties S.F. newsletter for an information clearinghouse for
antisemitic activities), was, inter alia, director of the far right
Congress of Freedom and, briefly, organiser for the John Birch
Society.

In 1955 he founded Liberty Lobby as a right-wing political pressure
group in Washington DC, and has been running it ever since.

The publishing arm of this and other related organisations is Noontide
Press, which can boast of such titles as "The Protocols of the Learned
Elders of Zion," "The six millions reconsidered" and "Antizion."  The
treasurer of its holding company is Carto's wife and until 1981 its
firm office manager was one Lewis Brandon.

About Brandon and IHR:

Lewis Brandon is an alias for William D. McCalden, a British neo-fascist
who in 1975 had founded Britain's National Party, a break-away from the
notorious neo-Nazi National Front.  In 1979, he founded the Institute
for Historical Review, which is the moving force in the movement to deny
the Holocaust.  Its initial meeting was opened by Carto.

Among the speakers at the 1980 convention were the Swede Felderer,
institutionalised in his country, and the French Faurisson, convicted
in his country of libel and promoting racism.

One participant of the 1982 conference was Issa Nakhleh, head of the
Palestine Arab Delegation, an extremist pro-PLO group originally formed
by the notorious Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who broadcast from Nazi
Germani to the Arabs in the Middle East.  In the US, Nakhleh has
associated in recent years with Western Front, an antisemitic
organisation.

About Identity:

In 1982, the "International congress of Aryan Nations" took place in
Idaho, organised by Richard G. Butler, leader of the Aryan Nations
organisation and whose church is affiliated with Identity.  At this
meeting, such figures as Don Black of Alabama (grand wizard of the
knights of the KKK), Robert Miles (a leader of Identity), and various
representatives of neo-nazis and other racist groups took part.

Butler has connections to German neo-nazi activist Manfred Roeder, who,
in turn, has worked with, or visited, such US organisations as National
Alliance of Washington DC, Liberty Bell Publ. and Spotlight...

On how to read:

As you'll note in the populist party's platform, the following
expressions were used:  "Bildbergers, Trilateral Commission,
International Bankers."  This is not new terminology: the Spotlight
used it almost verbatim in 1978 (with "Wall Street multinationalists"
replacing " International Bankers").  At one point, it mentions
``racial minority [...] control[ling] the media.''  Many of the
consumers of this material who have only a foggy notion of the
realities behind the names can supply the "bottom line" for
themselves:  the Jews.  Reader inference is a major psychological
technique used by its proponents.

Other targets of this group are the Blacks: for ``[e]very race has both
the right and duty to persue [sic] its destiny free from interference
by another race,'' read: the Whites have the rights, and the Blacks the
duty, to keep separate, i.e., no miscegenation.

As to Third-World, they are simply ``backward peoples'' and the
gays--``immoral and perverted.''

jayt@ssc-vax.UUCP (Jay T McCanta) (04/30/85)

> 
> (As a personal aside - these neo-Nazis have claimed, after they've
> been caught, that their crimes are "political" in nature, and justify
> the killing of innocent people, the robbing of banks, etc., as
> necessary in their political battle.  Phooey.  These people are the
> same as the mob.  A thug is a thug, and just because one thug hangs a
> flag outside his house doesn't excuse him in any way from the fact
> that he committed those crimes.  I feel that way about fanatics of
> both the left and the right who commit crimes in a "political" or
> "religious" crusade.)
> 

Thug?  These people are looking to replace our present form of goervment
through illegal means.  I call that TREASON.  Why are they not charged
as such.

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trb@drutx.UUCP (BuckleyTR) (05/05/85)

Here's a couple more items to add to a very good article that was
recently posted:

> From ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!mf
>
> About Spotlight:
>
> Spotlight happens to be (also) the newspaper of the Liberty Lobby of
> Willis Carto, for which he writes both under his own name and under
> several pseudonyms.  A regular, and even dominant, feature of its pages
> is revisionists' efforts to deny the Holocaust and Nazi apologetics.
> It carries ads for such avowedly anti-Jewish organisations as the
> National States Rights Party and the Christian Defense League, for Nazi
> regalia and insignia and for such survival products and services as
> "survival knives," gun silencers, tear gas guns and "new identities."
---

It should also be pointed out that Carto has been in cahoots with
Lyndon LaRouche (who is simultaneously called an ultra-conservative
and a marxist) for several years, and that LaRouche controls Liberty
Lobby.

---
> About Carto and LL:
>
> Willis Carto, born in 1926 in Indiana, had helped edit "Right" (a mid-
> fifties S.F. newsletter for an information clearinghouse for
> antisemitic activities), was, inter alia, director of the far right
> Congress of Freedom and, briefly, organiser for the John Birch
> Society.
---

Carto was thrown out of the John Birch Society, much to the Society's
credit.  The Society has continually denounced Liberty Lobby and
Spotlight as fascist and anti-Semetic.  As well, the past chairperson
of the Society, the late Congressman Larry McDonald, submitted an
article to the Congressional Record denouncing the Liberty Lobby and
Spotlight.

John Rees, contributing author to the Society's weekly news magazine,
"The Review of the News" and author of his own "Intelligence Digest"
distributed in Washington, has authored numerous columns about the
Liberty Lobby, Lyndon LaRouche, and the neo-Nazi organizations and
their ties together.  These articles bring to light the real horror of
these militant, racist, and anti-Semetic right-wing totalitarian
groups.

(As a personal aside - these neo-Nazis have claimed, after they've
been caught, that their crimes are "political" in nature, and justify
the killing of innocent people, the robbing of banks, etc., as
necessary in their political battle.  Phooey.  These people are the
same as the mob.  A thug is a thug, and just because one thug hangs a
flag outside his house doesn't excuse him in any way from the fact
that he committed those crimes.  I feel that way about fanatics of
both the left and the right who commit crimes in a "political" or
"religious" crusade.)

It should also be noted that Carto and LaRouche continue to belittle
the John Birch Society by saying that the Society is "unwilling to
accept the true problem" (i.e. that there is a grand Jewish
Conspiracy, which the Liberty Lobby preaches).


Tom Buckley
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(303) 538-3442

root@trwatf.UUCP (Lord Frith) (05/08/85)

>> necessary in their political battle.  Phooey.  These people are the
>> same as the mob.  A thug is a thug, and just because one thug hangs a
>> flag outside his house doesn't excuse him in any way from the fact
>> that he committed those crimes.  I feel that way about fanatics of
>> both the left and the right who commit crimes in a "political" or
>> "religious" crusade.)
> 
> Thug?  These people are looking to replace our present form of goervment
> through illegal means.  I call that TREASON.  Why are they not charged
> as such.

This is no joke.  News articles calling for the replacement or overthrow
of our current government through illeagal means, or means outside of those
already provided by the consititution can be taken seriously and might well
liable YOU the news poster.

Inciting revolution in public IS a federal crime.
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