From: covici@ccs.covici.com (John Covici)
Reply-To: covici@ccs.covici.com
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human,misc.legal,alt.activism
Subject: Re: ADL/Hate Crime Laws
Date: 24 Jul 92 6:38:19 GMT
Organization: Covici Computer Systems

I thought a bit of sanity would be helpful on the subject of ADL /
"hate crimes".  As can be seen in the article, these people don't 
care for the first amendment at all!

From Our European Bureau 
WIESBADEN, July 13 (EIRNS)--At a
gargantuan event in Brussels last week,
the World Jewish Congress, under the
baton of Seagrams bootlegging heir
Edgar Bronfman, brought together
Israeli lobby leaders and figures from
around the world for a three-day
conference. 
   Among the campaign initiatives one
may expect to see coming out of the
meeting are: (1) a renewed organizing
drive for ``hate crimes'' legislation
of the type the U.S. Supreme Court just
struck down as unconstitutional; (2) an
intensifying effort to portray black
Americans, especially the black press,
as anti-Semitic; and (3) also, perhaps,
a wild-eyed attack against ``Germany,
the Fourth Reich,'' which was to be
seen not so much in conference
speeches, but in literature there. 
   Numerous speakers called for
strengthening the ``hate crimes''
legislation that is proliferating in
the United States. The theme was
introduced by Simcha Dinitz, former
Israeli ambassador to the U.S., and
picked up by leading Israeli lawyer
Hadassah Ben-Itto, who criticized the
U.S. Constitution's First Amendment for
being too permissive--that is, it
allows people to think and express ``bad
thoughts.'' 
   - Complain of First Amendment -
   Ben-Itto complained that because
of the First Amendment, the U.S. has
never abided by an international United
Nations protocol of the mid-1960s,
mandating actions against publications
and individuals that promote racial
prejudice and the like. 
   The issue received a big boost
from New Jersey Attorney General Robert
Del Tufo, who boasted of his state's
strong ``hates crimes'' legislation,
and slavishly praised the
Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith
as having been ``invaluable in putting
together a comprehensive program in New
Jersey'' for police-community
relations. Del Tufo recently got the
ADL Distinguished Public Service Award. 
   July 7 saw three hours of tirades
against what the speakers called
``black anti-Semitism'' in the U.S.;
among the speakers were ADL National
Director Abraham Foxman and New York
Post editorial-page editor Eric
Breindel. The leitmotif was that
anti-Semitism in the black American
community is vast, as expressed in
``rap music,'' radical black student
groups on college campuses, and so on. 
   The Nation of Islam was singled
out for especial attack and, in fact,
the ADL recently put out a report on
``black demagogues and anti-Semitism,''
which is based on an upgraded
monitoring of black communities'
activities in the United States. 
   Also of interest, especially for
Americans in this election year, was
the performance by the Rev. Jesse
Jackson, who, having apparently decided
to get friendly with the ADL, rather
than cross swords as he did four years
ago, used his presentation to push Wall
Street financier Felix Rohatyn's plan
for the U.S. economy: an
austerity-based ``infrastructure''
program with all the emphasis on the
austerity. 
   Jackson declared that his
``Rainbow Coalition and Felix Rohatyn,
the New York financier, have worked out
a plan to identify sources of stable,
patient capital for rebuilding'' He
described the plan as being ``modeled
on the philosophy behind the World
Bank''--translated that means the
brutal austerity philosophy that has
killed off the Third World. 
   Finally, literature circulated at
the conference took up the cudgels
against ``Germany, the Fourth Reich,''
and against Croatia as a new center of
the ``Fascist International.'' This
line was prominent in the British
intelligence sheet Searchlight, often
used by the ADL. Searchlight carried a
raver of a story, ``Germany's Secret
Balkans Plan,'' which portrayed
supposed neo-Nazi mercenary actions in
Croatia--described as part of Germany's
``imperialist masterplan'' for the
Balkans. 


I will be posting more on the ADL shortly.

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         John Covici
          covici@ccs.covici.com