megann@ihuxi.UUCP (Meg McRoberts) (08/06/85)
Michel Fingerhut sent the following to be posted. He is now living
in Paris, France, where he can be reached by mail, but not the net.
His email address is at the end of this article.
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This is an almost verbatim reposting of an article on a topic which
has become actual again after the settlement of the suit of Mermelstein
against the IHR and of Don Black's resurfacing to deny any connection
between IHR and the Populist party.
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, from which he was later expelled.
In 1955 he founded Liberty Lobby as a right-wing political pressure
group in Washington DC, and has been running it ever since. 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.
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,
convicted and 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
Germany 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...
Populist Party:
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.
Rob Richards, a chief candidate of the party proposed to disband the
state of Israel and send its 4 million inhabitants to an area of 100
sq. miles in Texas.
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.''
Michel Fingerhut
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