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.''
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 AT&T Information Systems ihnp4!drutx!trb (303) 538-3442