Posted on 11/28/2007 5:15:26 AM PST by George W. Bush
November 20th, 2007A Personal Message from Aaron Zelman
Under the current laws of the United States of America, tax-exempt educational organizations like Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (of which I happen to be the founder and executive director) are strictly prohibited from engaging directly in electoral politics. That's why it's important to make sure you understand thoroughly that the following opinions are entirely mine, at the present moment, and do not necessarily reflect those of JPFO.
I have before me an article in which the Anti-Defamation League's "Assistant Director of Civil Rights", Steven Freeman is attempting to take Republican Congressman -- and dark horse Presidential Candidate -- Ron Paul to task for receiving a small campaign contribution from an otherwise obscure individual who turns out to run a white supremist website.
Aside from noting that, rather like the American Civil Liberties Union, the ADL's devotion to civil rights is rather hypocritically selective -- for example, they can't abide the rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment, and can barely tolerate anyone who employs his or her right to free speech in order to defend the private ownership of weapons -- there are one or two questions this sudden concern evokes.
Apparently there's a small handful, out there, of similar websites which, for some reason defying all logic, offer support to a man who is, in fact, their mortal ideological enemy. Paul, as I interpret what he has said over the past 20 years, is for individual freedom above all other considerations. Obviously racists and neofascists are collectivists, meaning that to them, it is the group that comes first, far above and beyond the interests of any "mere" individual. They are, therefore, socialists of one stripe or another (never forget that Hitler considered himself a socialist), and the enemies of freedom.
"Nazi" is an acronym for "National Socialist Workers' Party".
Why these socialists should admire Paul is a puzzlement. But then, they are what they are -- racists and neofascists -- so none of their lunatic thought processes should be taken very seriously, nor should the object of their irrationality be held in any way responsible for them.
Of course the ADL's real objective here is to force a candidate whom they see as their ideological enemy (once again, much more a matter of the eye of the beholder than of any character flaw their enemy may possess) to do a little dance for them whenever they feel like it. They want to push him through the ceremonial meat-slicer of renunciation, regret, and remorse that so many others have been pushed through in recent years. The trouble is that, like every other form of blackmail, it never ends. The instant he complies with their demands, he becomes their property, their toy, their organ-grinder's monkey, no longer a threat to the anti-Constitutional establishment they are part of.
It's clear that, before the ADL starts accusing anybody else of being unduly influenced by political undesirables, they have a few questions of their own to answer under the harsh light of public scrutiny. For example, to how many self-proclaimed Marxists might some tiny minority of donations to the ADL be traced? It's statistically inevitable that such a thing has happened, probably more than once. To my (admittedly incomplete) knowledge, they have never renounced such supporters or sent any money back. Does this make ADL a communist front group? I certainly don't think so, but by ADL's own standard, it does.
Much more importantly, the ADL has a little housecleaning of its own to do before they start pointing fingers. How can anybody take anything about them seriously as long as they continue to defend a blatantly unconstitutional federal law -- the late Senator Thomas Dodd's infamous 1968 Gun Control Act -- that is very little more than a translation into English (one performed at Dodd's written request by the Library of Congress) of Adolf Hitler's evil weapons legislation of 1938?
Go to http://www.jpfo.org/images02/handbill-adl.jpg to see for yourself a photograph of the actual letter that Dodd received from Lewis C. Coffin, Law Librarian of the Library of Congress, cheerfully replying to Dodd's request for a translation of the original Nazi legislation which the ADL presently supports. You might enjoy this http://www.jpfo.org/images02/handbillpoliticians.jpg too. ADL's shameful approval and compliance have helped turn a once-insignificant bureaucracy into a new Gestapo and a once-free America into a police state.
Furthermore, in light of the incontrovertible fact that every one of history's massive genocide campaigns was preceded by the forcible removal of weapons from private hands (as what politician wouldn't want to make sure the individuals he or she was planning to murder in cold blood couldn't fight back?), how can the ADL justify any kind of gun control laws -- more accurately termed "victim disarmament" -- at all?
Surely Abe Foxman, current national director of the ADL ought to know better. As a boy, most of his relatives were murdered by the Nazis precisely because they had been deprived of the means to defend themselves.
By contrast, see http://www.jpfo.org/alerts/alert20040304.htm a webpage dedicated to the impressive accomplishments of a 2003 JPFO movie Innocents Betrayed where Paul himself is quoted as saying, "Innocents Betrayed has an important message for America. It shows why gun control must always be rejected, and it shows it very convincingly."
It's long past time for the ADL to do a little dance of their own, a dance of renunciation, regret, and remorse for the hundreds, or the thousands, or perhaps even the millions of innocent individuals that the policies they advocate are responsible for having injured or killed.
They must apologize to the shopkeeper, robbed, maimed, and killed because government, at one level or another, under policies the ADL has helped to shape -- allowed him nothing with which to defend himself.
They must apologize to the helpless woman who was raped and murdered because she wasn't permitted the physical means of self- defense.
They must apologize to the families of those who died needlessly because pressure groups like the ADL would rather see them all dead in a darkened alley somewhere than see them alive with a gun in their hand.
Go look at that handbill again. Send it out (along with this message, of course) to everyone you know, to all your friends and associates, to every enemy of freedom you have an e-mail address or URL for. ADL's hypocrisy must be exposed for what it is. Encourage everyone you know to write to the ADL and ask about their repulsive double standard. Ask them exactly what sort of moral compass Abe Foxman has that can allow that double standard to influence his own organization.
Visit ADL at http://www.adl.org/contact_us.asp .
Please understand, we are all living -- or at least we ought to be -- in a Bill of Rights culture, and that the ADL and racist groups have a right to express their opinions freely, although I personally think they're both festering boils full of pus on the derriere of the American body politic. But for the ADL to refer to itself as a civil rights organization is pure humbug. It is the Anti-Defamation League, and not Congressman Ron Paul, who are guilty by association -- with themselves.
ADL, burn in Hell.
Permission granted to distribute without additions or deletions.
Copyright © Aaron Zelman 2007
I'm not sure they're endorsing Ron Paul, at least not yet. But clearly they do have some sympathy for him, especially given what the GOA call his "immaculate record" on gun rights over the course of his career.
And it's been a long time since I've seen a JPFO aricle at FR. We used to see messages from them at least once a week, from GOA even more often. Sadly, FR seems to have very few gun rights absolutists left as the Bush era draws to a close.
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Boy, it’ll be fun to see the spin on this one.
Better call ATC now, and declare an emergency.
“JPFO takes on the ADL. And, incidentally, many of the Paul-haters on this very forum.”
Good article. Because Paul opposes nation building and wants to avoid foreign entanglements (in agreement with our nation’s founding fathers, BTW), I knew it was just a matter of time before he’d be slandered as “anti-Semitic.”
-bflr-
Racism
A nation that once prided itself on a sense of rugged individualism has become uncomfortably obsessed with racial group identities.
The collectivist mindset is at the heart of racism.
Government as an institution is particularly ill-suited to combat bigotry. Bigotry at its essence is a problem of the heart, and we cannot change people’s hearts by passing more laws and regulations.
It is the federal government that most divides us by race, class, religion, and gender. Through its taxes, restrictive regulations, corporate subsidies, racial set-asides, and welfare programs, government plays far too large a role in determining who succeeds and who fails. Government “benevolence” crowds out genuine goodwill by institutionalizing group thinking, thus making each group suspicious that others are receiving more of the government loot. This leads to resentment and hostility among us.
Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than as individuals. Racists believe that all individuals who share superficial physical characteristics are alike: as collectivists, racists think only in terms of groups. By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so-called “diversity” actually perpetuate racism.
The true antidote to racism is liberty. Liberty means having a limited, constitutional government devoted to the protection of individual rights rather than group claims. Liberty means free-market capitalism, which rewards individual achievement and competence - not skin color, gender, or ethnicity.
In a free society, every citizen gains a sense of himself as an individual, rather than developing a group or victim mentality. This leads to a sense of individual responsibility and personal pride, making skin color irrelevant. Racism will endure until we stop thinking in terms of groups and begin thinking in terms of individual liberty.
Ron Paul
What’s the over/under on the ADL operative freepers showing up on this thread?
Maybe you should ping a few Paul haters just to get them frothing at the mouth
Ehhh, it is FR anniversary day. I kinda want to get along with everyone for a change today.
You should've put (Ron Paul) in the headline, they would've swarmed like fly's, only to be disappointed. Blackbird.
>The notion that any single group could ever speak for all Jews is just a misconception among Gentiles. They are actually an incredibly diverse group of people.<
I read last week that 87% of them are Democrats.
LOL
i realise this is a Ron Paul thread George, but allow me to drift far off topic a bit, as you have struck some recollections.
Walter Williams, a potential Paul Running mate, and probably the best for the job with the possible exception of Judge Anthony Napolitano...although i do think that Williams has advantages over Judge Napolitano...was eating at an establishment when who should walk in but one of the original moonbats, Cynthia McKinney. McKinney came up to Williams' table and berated him over the fact that he believes that people should be able to own machine guns. She said words to the effect of Why do you people even want to own a machine gun?
Williams, in his manner calmly replied Ma'm, i want to own a machine guy cause you guys own them. You all give yours up, and i'll give mine up.
Classic, and well reasoned.
The notion that any single group could ever speak for all Jews is just a misconception among Gentiles.
Wonder why that is. There's no real unified voice among Christians, why would they think that the Jews would have such a thing? Have to disagree about Islam though. They're not exactly Monolithic. Did you know that that Muslims look at Nation of Islam (Calypso Louie and the gang) as we would the Jehovah's Witnesses or the Mormons? That's why Malcolm X rejected them after his pilgrimage to Mecca...and that's why Malcolm X died.
Suni and Shiite are much like Protestants and Eastern Orthodox respectively. Suni's believe that the Koran can be interpreted by all...as long as they come up with the same interpretation...
On the Other hand, the Shia tend to give more interpretive authority to the Mullah, or Ayatolla, as the Iranians call them. It's not hardly a perfect analog with Protestant and Orthodox, but in terms of how they understand their holy books and ecclesiastical authority, it is an educational description.
Boy, this paragraph really nails it. Dr. Paul is apparently smarter than we give him credit for. He's not going to pull a George Allen or Trent Lott, this is why they are attacking him (via third-party, they can't attack his integrity or his record) to get him to apologize for something he doesn't need to apologize for.
Now I'm sure the Paul bashers will say JPFO is a secret arm of Code Pink or something.
Paul is at $9.65 million - I swear when I was on my lunch break just a few hours ago it was $9.3....I think he’ll hit the $12 million by the end of Friday.
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