Posted on 12/12/2001 7:26:26 AM PST by anniegetyourgun
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The chairman of the Jewish Defense League were arrested in connection with a failed bombing plot, federal authorities said.
Irv Rubin, 56, and a member of the militant group, Earl Krugel, 59, were booked early Wednesday at the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles, detention center spokeswoman Donna Davis said.
The arrests late Tuesday were in connection with a bombing plot, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office. He would not describe the alleged scheme except to say, "The bombing was not carried out."
Criminal charges should be filed later Wednesday, Mrozek said.
Law enforcement agencies raided a home identified by television stations as Krugel's late Tuesday night. Footage showed officers carrying out weapons and cardboard boxes.
Calls to the FBI, U.S. Customs and the JDL were not immediately returned.
The Jewish Defense League was originally formed by Meir Kahane to mount armed response to anti-Semitic acts in New York City. It gained notoriety when its members were linked to bombings, most of them aimed at Soviet targets in retaliation for the way that country treated its Jewish population.
Kahane left the JDL and moved to Israel. A power struggle ensued, with Rubin among the contenders for its leadership.
Kahane was assassinated in New York in 1990. El Sayyid Nosair, 36, an Egyptian-born Muslim, was convicted in connection with the shooting.
There were three or four threads.
The first and largest, is here: William Cooper is Dead (my title)
My favorite is here: What really happened to William Cooper
Mark W.
2 - RUBIN BEING FRAMED?
"LOS ANGELES (AP) - The chairman of the Jewish Defense League was arrested in connection with a failed bombing plot, federal authorities said.
Irv Rubin, 56, and a member of the militant group, Earl Krugel, 59, were booked early Wednesday at the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles, detention center spokeswoman Donna Davis said. The arrests late Tuesday were in connection with a bombing plot, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office. He would not describe the alleged scheme except to say, ``The bombing was not carried out.'' Criminal charges should be filed later Wednesday, Mrozek said. Law enforcement agencies raided a home identified by television stations as Krugel's late Tuesday night. Footage showed officers carrying out weapons and cardboard boxes. Calls to the FBI, U.S. Customs and the JDL were not immediately returned. The Jewish Defense League was originally formed by Meir Kahane to mount armed response to anti-Semitic acts in New York City. It gained notoriety when its members were linked to bombings, most of them aimed at Soviet targets in retaliation for the way that country treated its Jewish population. Kahane left the JDL and moved to Israel. A power struggle ensued, with Rubin among the contenders for its leadership. Kahane was assassinated in New York in 1990."
Voice of Judea Commentary:
"Give me a break! 56 year old Rubin plotting to bomb Arabs in America? He was not a bomb make when he was 26 and never was. He is a noisy protester. Nothing more and nothing less.
This is the classic government set-up. The media reports that the governmnet informant supplied the bomb, suggested the target and was supposed to plant the bomb.
The American government needs to show how even-handed they are. G-d forbid they are not anti-Muslim. G-d forbid racial profiling against Arabs! They needed to manufacture "Jewish terrorists". They could not find any. So they found some criminal to set-up Rubin. Similarly, last year, the FBI sent in 40 agents to raid the Hatikva Center in New York and confiscated 100 crates of Torah tapes and books belonging to the Kahane movement. The U.S. government is acting to appease the powerful American Arab lobby and the Islamic coalition partners in Afghanistan. They have now found their Jewish scapegoats to display to the world media. They can now say, "we are not strictly anti-Arab, there is the Phillipines and Irv Rubin."
And so the FBI continues to hunt down innocent Jews. They investigate Mike Guzofsky and Eric Greenberg and attempt to manufacture a case against them, just as the Israelis continue to persecute the Kahanists. In the meantime, the Arabs are killing innocent Jews and Americans."
This is what I was going to originally post before I chickened out.
Granted the JDL doesn't represent Jews any more than the Taliban represents Muslims or those Lebanese whackos don't represent Christians, but who would you say is representative for each group? ADL for Jews? Catholics for Christians? Sorry, but I can't think of any moderate Muslim groups right now off the top of my head.
That's kind of sad isn't it? Their religion has been so completely hijacked that I can't even think of ONE group that is representative of them and can be viewed as being moderate. Maybe there aren't any... Hmmm???
THis is a cult of death for you, submission to the poor and his ideology of poverty. It's not anger and jealousy because they are poor, it is anger because they want every one to be poor and living like animals.
It is, except it is less democratic than christianity. AFter all Hitler came to power after both liberal Christians and Jews pledged blind allegiance to Germany's democracy as opposed to Zion, only to find out that Christians had been hijacked by a death cult that was not about strengthening Germany and the faith, but about spreading the cult worldwide. THe multiple-holocaust ensued quickly, with Hitler sending Jews to gas chambers and massacring Polish Christians.
Lenin and Stalin were also other death cult advocates who betrayed Russia by enlisting poorer Ukrainians to submit RUssia to the cult of the poor aka communism. Although many Ukrainians were sent to death camps, Russia was ravaged and transformed by Ukrainian operatives into a vast sewage system.
Democracy and libertarian Christianity is not the best solution either. Many Christians have been fooled by the promises of communist welfare only to find out it was a death cult with no allegiances at all. Jews believing in democracy and not in the Jewish land have made the same mistakes.
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