Speaker 1: I want to welcome everyone back to part six of
my reading of Crying Wolf Hate Crime Hoaxes in America
by Laird will Cox. Just a quick reminder, Thomas and
I have been watching and reviewing movies freemanby on Thewall
dot com forward slash Movies. Last movie we did was
the nineteen seventy nine classic The Warriors. Did the original
Mad Max before that, and got one schedule coming up,
so watch out for that. All right. We left off
at chapter seven. Other Minorities, Let's get into it. Although
Blacks and Jews are the subject of most of the hoaxes,
members of other ethnic groups have also taken part. A Seattle,
Washington case involving an Asian man demonstrates how complicated hoaxes
can become. In November nineteen ninety, the Seattle Chinese POSTNI
Weekly carried the headline uw Rally against Racism in support
of Park, referring to Daris Park, a twenty three year
old Korean Chinese student who had claimed he was attacked
by six white men wielding baseball bats and tire irons.
Park was quoted as saying hate crimes that is usually
racially motivated crimes have been on the rise and traditionally
Asians have been told to Grinn and Barrett, this rally
is telling them something different. They don't have to be victims.
Park claimed that three whites had held off his two
Caucasian friends while a small crowd gathered to cheer the
attackers on, some of them yelling brain the gook. He
also said that without his knowledge of martial arts, his
attackers would have succeeded. Clearly, Daris Park had become a
local hero in fight against bigotry and prejudice. On November fourteenth,
Park spoke at a united and at an anti hatred
rally sponsored by a University of Washington civil rights group,
channing hey Ho races has Gotta Go and waving banners,
some one hundred and fifty University of Washington students marched
on the university president's office demanding justice. Accounts of the
alleged attack appeared nationwide as well as in the International
Herald Examiner, but there were problems with Park's story. Although
Park claimed that he had reported the attack to police
after visit to a local hospital, police had no record
of a report being filed. In fact, they had contacted
Park after a story about the attack appeared in the
community newspaper. Kevin Kane, a friend of Park who claimed
to have witnessed the attack and who backed up Park's
assertion that he had reported the attack to police, revised
his account under police questioning. I told them I was
not at the station when the police when the report
was filed, he said. But this was not a routine
hate crime hoax. On thirteenth December nineteen ninety Darris Park
and a confederate were charged with three armed bank robberies
in Seattle and battle Ground. Also charged in the bank
robberies were with Park was Joseph Fritz White, who had
also witnessed the attack on Park and initially supported the
account to newspapers and police. On December eighteenth, Seattle police
reported that Park's account of the alleged hate crime was
a gross exaggeration the event, it turned out, involved an
altercation outside a nightclub in which Park and a single
opponent were both armed with clubs, not six racist skinheads,
as Park had reported. On the twenty eighth of January
nineteen ninety two, Park pleaded guilty to bank robbery charges
in their an arrangement where the government agreed to drop
weapons charges. Under federal sentencing guidelines, he could be sentenced
up to eighty years in prison. A Maryland House a
Delegates candidate returned to his Fort Washington home in September
nineteen ninety to find two of his campaign signs burning
in his yard in racial epithets painted on his garage.
David Valderrama, a former Prince George's County or fie Udan's
Court judge of Filipino descent, was running on a was
running on a slate of candidates called the Democratic Unity Team,
which included five blacks, the judge, and one white. He
speculated that the incident was the work of a bigot
or political opponent. Within a few days, another story began
to emerge. As investigating officers began to probe deeper into
Valdorama's story, he stopped cooperating. Lieutenant Colonel Robert Phillips, commander
of the Patrol Division, noted that he failed to keep
appointments for questioning. On the first occasion, he did not
keep the appointment, indicating that his schedule prevented it. On
the second occasion, he said he would not give a
statement on the advice of his attorney. Police also said
that they had fingerprint evidence in a case of alleged
hate mail directed at Valderrama, but when they asked him
to provide his fingerprints or take a polygraph examination, he refused.
In the meantime, the criminal investigation focus began to shift
toward a campaign staffer who also refused to cooperate with investigators.
Investigators had come to suspect someone on the staff because
of the skillfully generated publicity by Valderama's handling of the incidents.
On the fifteenth of September, twelve days after the incident occurred,
the case was closed, although a WUSATV television report said
that Valderama was a suspect in the case. A major
crossburning case in Prince George's County was closed because of
political pressure, according to reports which say that the stumbling
block was the office of State Attorney Alex Williams. Mister
Williams is politically aligned with the person who reported the
crime and the property State Delegate David Valderrama. In San Jose, California,
cheen When's chen Wen's family found swastikas and anti Asian
graffiti scrawled outside their home on December nineteen. On December
nineteen ninety two. The vandals had written bitch in ketchup
on When's daughter's Betty's car and wrote nip, bitch and
KKK on the sidewalk and driveway of the house. Officer
Veronica Damon said the police department is investigating the incidents
as a hate crime, which carries a maximum punishment of
one year in jail in a five thousand dollars fine.
Betting One said, we're standing up against discrimination and racism
once and for all. I think people should be aware
of racial tension in the community. Five days later, however,
newspapers downgraded the hate crime to a prank. Police detective
Sergeant Art Munio said the seventeen year old culprit also
a Vietnamese American and had quarreled with betting When three
months previous and drew swastiks, swastikas, KKK, and slogans on
the family property to anger the girl. Detective Munio said
that investigators felt something wasn't right at the beginning of
the case. Some of the slurs used almost polite language
instead of the ugly terms often used in Bonafied hate crimes.
Sergei rivera Ayala, a native of Mexico and a Spanish
instructor at Syracuse University in New York, claimed that he
had been abducted at Knife Went by two men. Sheriff's
deputies found him lying on the roadside July eleven, nineteen
ninety it, his hands tied behind his back with his
own bandana. He said he had been shopping for milk
at a Courtland grocery store. Deputies didn't believe him, and
he was arrested for a burglary at a nearby home.
Ayala maintained that he had been arrested and victimized by
police solely because of his race. Nine months later, in
April nineteen ninety one, I Yala pleaded guilty to a
reduced crime, a criminal trespass in the second degree, a
Class A misdemeanor, and admitted in writing that the adduction
story was a hoax. Ayalain assigned statement said to the
extent that there has been created the impression that I
was arrested, prosecuted, and persecuted because of my Mexican heritage
and descent. I apologize. In Detroit, Michigan, an Arab American
was charged with arson in a nineteen ninety one incident
in which he blamed anti Arab racism for a fire
at his dairy. Queen Kareem Cory, thirty six, was indicted
on charge of of arson and insurance fraud in July
nineteen ninety three, according to US attorney Stephen Markman. According
to news reports, prosecutor said Curry hired an employee to
set the January nineteen ninety one fire to collect the insurance.
The fire caused up to five hundred thousand dollars in damage.
Days before, someone tossed paint balloons and spuried graffiti on
the restaurant, and authorities set an authorities set appeared to
be an anti Arab attack, and calling at a restaurant's
a stretch, But okay, all right? Chapter eight False charges
of racism and anti Semitism. Given the strong social taboos
attached to anything perceived as racism or anti Semitism, it
is no small thing when false charges of this sort
of leveled. A major difficulty lies in the fact that
both racism and anti semitism are vague and poorly defined
terms in popular usage. I can tell you what they
both are. There are both terms applied to people that
other don't like, there you go. Eric Brindle makes the observation,
this observation about racism, the very charge of racism has
already been rendered nearly meaningless by those who use it
recklessly to describe everything with which they're unhappy, from university
tuition increases to the black dropout rate, to the indictment
of Marion Barry to the appearance of crack in the
inner city. David Wilson, a columnist for The Boston Globe,
noted that to be accused of racism is like being
sprayed by a skunk. He continues, even if a holy
exculpatory response can be made, the party charged with racism
remains subtly tainted, possibly because the charge itself consistent part
of a self fulfilling prophecy. The accused, or narrowly ambushed
and unaccustomed to being insulted and light about, is unlikely
to think kindly of the accuser. Nope, that's a good point.
I think he raises a good point there. You know,
what's the What is usually the main factor in somebody
deciding that, you know, it's not all of a race,
but I'm deciding that I'm going to avoid that race.
Is that racis or that group's behavior. That's it. Normally,
that's it. H nothing else. Anti Semitism is even worse.
It conjures up images of concentration camps, gas chambers, and
Nazi stormtroopers. When John Carroll, a columnist for the San
Francisco Examiner, criticized Israel for his treatment of the Palestinians,
he was deluged with hate mail, which he characterizes easily
the most personally hostile I've ever received. Shocking huhh, I mean,
like since October seventh of twenty twenty three. I mean,
he says, I was called an anti Semite. It's a
cheap libel because it's so impossible to refute. Try it yourself.
I've just called you an anti Semite. What do you do? Now?
What do I do? And? Okay? What? I hope that
you didn't say that some of your best friends are Jewish?
That was revealed long ago as just another euphemism for
anti Semitism. So what else? Remember? I actually praised the
contributions to Jews to the twentieth century culture. That was
seen by more than one correspondent as proof of my
sneaky tactics. Don't do that don't do that, and your retarding.
You can't even point out the unfairness of it. That's
called blaming the victim. So what do you do? You
just shut up, is what you do. You can't prove
a negative. There it is on the record. You're an
anti Semite because someone said so, and and and fuck
off that there's a good response. That's the one I liked.
Sometimes resistant is not all feudal. Here are some accounts
of individuals and in case and in one case the
US Army who fought back when they were falsely charged
with racism and anti semitism. An incident which demonstrates the
credulousness of both the news media and politicians whenever anti
Semitism is invoked, occurred when World War II veteran David
Ribitski seventy one, claimed in nineteen eighty eight that he
had single handedly wiped out up to six hundred Japanese
soldiers in the Battle of New Guinea on December first,
nineteen forty two, a transparently fantastic allegation. I mean, I
have a Rabbitski, there's too much My brain just fried.
The bodies of the Japanese soldiers were lying there on branches,
roots piled up like cordwood atop one another. Some were
still alive, Some are just hitting the shoulder and couldn't
and couldn't move some of the legs. So I would
just shoot them and banonet them, shoot them and banonet them.
I was completely an insane man to think that a
human being would be would do that to another human
being what I did. Rabisky, a communication sergeant at the time,
said the ordeal took some twenty one hours, and then
he used a thirty caliber heavy machine gun, a Browning
automatic rifle, and an M one rifle. He also claimed
that he had been denied a Congressional Medal of Honor
for his heroic feat solely because of anti Semitism. He
said that Army Colonel John W. Mott had told them
that we don't give the medal to Jews. Okay, I'm
not even going to talk about the fact that he
just like completely made this up and that it's like
the number that he the number in the amount that
he said he killed. Okay. According to Rabitsky, this wasn't
his only brush with anti semitism. Victim is a has
been a recurring theme in his life. He said his
family was frequently victimized when he was growing up in Edgerton, Wisconsin.
Two times we had crosses burned on our lawn by
a political organization, he said. My father was beaten up many,
many times for no reason at all. While I was
in the service, my mother was being harassed. For several years.
Ribitsky diligently pursued the Medal of Honor issue, largely through
a sympathetic and uncritical news media and the assistance of
the Anti Defamation League. Due to pressure generated on Rubisky's
behalf by the ADL, including a resolution signed by ninety
two members of Congress, the Army undertook a two year
review of his claim. In nineteen eighty seven. Newspapers around
the nation credulously bought the story. An editorial in the
San Francisco Chronicle opine the ugly possibility that discrimination played
a significant role in denying the Medal of Honor to
heroic American soldiers in both World Wars has been raised
in the extraordinary case of Jewish veteran credited was single
handedly killing more than five hundred inferntrymen. I thought it
was six hundred. I add some zeros to that to
make it realistic, The Madison, Wisconsin Capital Times published an
article headlined World War two soldiers started anti Semitism battle
early in life. Stories dramatizing the anti Semitism angle appeared
in publications ranging from Time Magazine to The New York Times.
What they really needed to do was make a TV
movie about him murdering the six hundred people. That's what
they needed to do. I mean, they were stacked up
like corkwood. They were completely helpless. And this guy a
proud Jewish man because I mean, let's face it, that's
his whole identity is based around that. Obviously, just bayoneting
and shooting and just kidding. I mean, I'd make for
riveting television. How Come they didn't make a movie about that.
In the meantime, it was learned that Rubisky had signed
a book deal a contract with Walter Kozak, a reporter
for National Public Radio, which had heavily publicized Ribitski's plight.
You paid for that. Kozak's sister, Milwaukee attorney Ellen Kozak,
is a friend of the Rubisky family. Ah I bet
on December eighth, nineteen eighty nine, following an unprecedented twenty
three month study of his allegations, the Army concluded that
Ribiski's claim was unfounded. The Army obtained evidence from forensic
specialists and took statements from Ribiski and twenty others who
were at the scene. The Anti Defamation League called the
decision unconscious, unconscionable. Abe Foxman said the ADL would urge
Army Secretary Michael Stone to reverse the ruling in spite
of the evidence. The army investigation found that a photograph
with a message that six hundred fine soldiers died because
of a single American soldier was spurious and forulent. Japanese
and American military records were in agreement that knows such
an attack by the Japanese had ever taken place. Even
members of Rubisky's all World War II and It disputed
his claim and called it a hoax. George hess, a
member of Rubitsky's infantry regiment, said it's the biggest fairy
tale anyone anybody has ever told the US Army to
get a medal. Claire o l said the claim was
one big hoax and that Ribitsky was hiding behind a
smoke screen of anti Semitism. To cover up his flintmasy
unsubstantiated fairy tale. On February ninth, nineteen ninety, two, months
after the Army report, Jewish Week reported that the Anti
Defamation League had finally conceded the Army's position, with that
the story disappeared undounted. Ribitsky vowed to fight on. I
just want to ask you to think about what he
the claim he made, and that he was bragging about it,
and that the US military post World War two would
even consider giving him a medal for what he did.
There's no honor in what he did. As a matter
of fact, he sounds like a serial killer, is what
he was describing that he did. If false charges that
an individual as anti Semitic or racists are damaging, imagine
what false charges that he has a Nazi war criminal
might be like. A Chicago residence had to go through
such an ordeal in nineteen seventy eight. The United States
government eventually wound up agreeing the charges should never been
filed in the first place, and paid thirty thousand and
about fifty percent of his attorney fees. Frank Wallace was
born in nineteen twenty two in Germany. When he was
ten years old, his family moved to Poland, and Secember
nineteen thirty nine, the Germans invaded that country, and five
months later Wallace, who was a small stature, and a
group of other Polish ues were taken to Germany to
work on farms, which he continues to do throughout the war.
Wallas immigrated to the United States in nineteen sixty three,
where he was joined by his wife and three children.
He became a naturalized US citizen in nineteen seventy. His
nightmare began in January nineteen seventy seven, when he was
served with papers by the US Justice Department accusing him
of concealing involvement in war crimes and membership in Nazi
organizations when he applied for citizenship. A year later, Wallace
found himself. Wallace has spelled wa LUs for those who
were not reading a law. A year later, Wallace found
himself in federal court listening to a testimony that implicated
him in the murder of nearly two dozen civilians while
acting as a German Gestapo officer during World War II.
The charges were the results of an investigation begun in
nineteen seventy three by controversial Nazi hunter Simon Weisenthal. According
to Weisenthal, his own unnamed sources and Israeli police had
learned of a former Nazi Gestapo agent who was living
in Chicago. The man was allegedly Frank Wallos. Fucking believable.
During his trial, Wallace listened to utterly fantastic accounts from
eyewitnesses imported from Israel. You think, do you really think
we have a country? Do you really think the United
States is a country? Is a serious country? Is a
sovereign fucking country. Monique Razinski fifty eight, for example, said
he saw Wallace beat a Jewish man to death with
an iron bar next to Gestapo headquarters in Poland in
nineteen forty. Joseph Koenigsburg, a resident of Tel Aviv, said
he saw Wallace kill a lawyer the day after Yam
Kapor in nineteen forty two. Maelik Vos Involved, a Tel
Aviv shopkeeper, testified through a Yiddish language interpreter that he
saw Vallis kill three people in Kiels on August twenty fourth,
nineteen forty two. Among other allegations were that Wallace shot
a mother and her two daughters in just As Shovah,
that he shot three Jews who were too weak to work,
that he marched ten to fifteen children, ages four to nine,
into a building in Keels and killed all of them
with his pistol. He was also accused of killing a
woman who emerged from a hospital, and when her daughter
bent over her body and cried, Mama, mama, killing her too.
All the eyewitnesses were absolutely certain that Wallace was to
Culpritspaper newspapers reported that they pointed to him seated at
the defense table in hissed and polish, here is the murderer,
or I will never forget that face. Are you fucking
kidding me? Do you fucking see this? Do you fucking
see this? You understand that people believe all of this
shit because of eyewitness testimony. There was just one small
problem with all of this. The Justice Department, Simon Weisenthal
and all the witnesses were fucking wrong. I added the
fucking in there. In addition to producing witnesses and documents
that corroborated his own account, there were several major discrepancies
that should have tipped off government attorneys. Among them were
the fact that Wallace was only five foot two inches tall,
far too short. To be allowed to join Gestapo in
the first place. Some witnesses claimed Wallace was over six
feet tall, and he would have had to have been
a Gestapo officer at age nineteen or twenty, which was impossible. Nevertheless,
a civil trial, with rules of evidence far more lenient
than in the criminal trial, presided over by Judge Julius Hoffmann,
found Wallace guilty and ordered deportation Proceedings later, an appeals
court reversed the conviction and ordered a new trial. By
this time, however, Justice Department officials were beginning to realize
that would face a major they would face a major
embarrassment if another trial were to take place. They dismissed
the case, apologize, and awarded Wallace thirty four thousand of
the estimated sixty thousand he had spent on his defense.
Frank Wallace puzzles to this day how the US government
could have been led by the nose by professional Nazi
hunters and their quote unquote witnesses. He says, before January
twenty sixth, nineteen seventy seven, nobody called me in, or
nobody came over to see me and maybe ask me,
mister Wallace, listen, we have a complain against you. What
do you want to say about this? Do you have
any proof that this is not true? As far as
I'm concerned, these are probably professional witnesses, paid witnesses who
do this shit. I don't know if Simon Weasenthal is
still with us, but the guy was a fucking scumbag.
The fact that his name is on any building will
hopefully be changed one day, especially in this fucking country.
To make matters worse. When Wallace had the temerity to
complain of Weisenthal's tactics, Weisenthal sued him for slander, claiming
that Wallace's comments were false and slanderous, and that they
caused Weisenthal to fall into discredit with those persons with
whom he had contact, and he had and had been
held in public contempt, hatred, and ridicule. Weisenthal also charged
at the newspaper that printed Wallace's comments had active irresponsibly
and recklessly with a reckless disregard for the truth. The
suit was eventually dismissed. Fucking scum Canadian teacher Luba Federick
kew Fedderick Q. I'm gonna call her Luba from now on,
running running for the Canadian Parliament in nineteen eighty four,
discovered to our utter amazement that the Venet Breadth Canada,
a major Jewish anti defamation organization, had circulated an internal
memo which accused her of jew bating. The allegation was
reported in the Winnipeg Sun, along with the fact that
she was being investigated by Bene Breth on suspicion of
anti Semitism. The resulting defamation cost her the election and
subjected her to malicious harassment. According to Luba, when the
investigation was publicized, she received obscene and harassing telephone calls,
a swastika was spray painted on her campaign office, and
a number of her political supporters withdrew their support. Luba
sued Bena Brith for libel in nineteen eighty seven. She
claimed that the defamatory statements circulated by the Jewish organization
had destroyed her reputation and ruined her chances for an
election victory. During her trial, the court heard that she
had allegedly charged that her opponent was controlled by the Jews.
The four woman, two men, I mean literally every fucking
pol politician in Washington, every member of Congress, has an
apat guy. This wouldn't even be controversial, except you, said Jews.
The four women, two men jury found that this charge
against Luba was false and that ben a Breath had
acted out of malice and circulating the unfounded charge. The
jury found for Luba and awarded her a total of
four hundred thousand damages. On November twenty fifth, nineteen eighty seven,
Luba said, I feel I've been vindicated. I feel my
name has been cleared in Winnipeg through the Progressive Conservative
Party and throughout Canada. They are a progressive Conservative party,
sounds like ours. I'd like to go on with my
career as a teacher and go on with my personal life.
I want to get back to my students. I missed them.
The Jewish press agonized over the decision. The Jewish Post
and News editorialized that the jury awarded her unaward was
un fair and questioned Luba's motives and filing the libel suit.
She wanted money. She wanted money because she had been damaged.
She wanted money because she was she had been damaged.
She didn't just want money. The paper complained that she
was negligent and not investigating her campaign staff for making
allegedly antisemitic remarks, the paper said. Instead, she went on,
after her election loss to David Orlocow to sue the
League for Human Rights of ben A Breath, implicitly blaming
it for her defeat. If Luba wanted to dispel the
uncertainty that had arisen during her campaign about her servitude
towards Jews, taking court action against a Jewish service group
was a strange way to do it. Yeah, there's only
certain groups that are there's only certain people that are
allowed to use, you know, the courts. Equally disturbing was
the sheer vindictiveness of the jury in last week's defamation. Yeah,
that whole jury, six people. They should probably they should
probably be sent to Israel to be tried. Right. It
is possible that some of them had preconceptions about Jews that,
at a subconscious level, they saw last week's trial as
a battle for justice by a non Jewish victim wrong
by the wealthy, evil Jews characterized in anti Semitic folklore. Yeah,
there's something about folklore. Ben a Birth appealed the decision
as promised, but when they saw that the original decision
was receiving a sympathetic hearing, from the Maniteb Manzoeba Court
of Appeal. They dropped it and settled with Luba for
an undisclosed sum. Luba said the money was secondary. The
apology was what I wanted. If ben a Breth had
apologized in the beginning, we could have avoided a costly
court case. I am happy the matter has been laid
to rest and I can get on with my life.
In February nineteen eighty nine, after the matter was finally settled,
the Canadian Jewish News editorialized in battling the enemies of Judaism, However,
some segments of the Jewish community had permitted an understandable
zeal to triumph over common sense, forgetting that they must
be careful to distinguish between legitimate debate and overt expressions
of bigotry. So she was awarded four hundred thousand dollars,
and this is nineteen eighty seven or nineteen eighty nine,
and it wasn't it wasn't even a dent. Do you
think that benay Breth Canada had to close down because
of four hundred thousand dollars? Huh? Yeah, something to think about.
Right in Bay Harbor, Florida, Arthur Green had dinner at
the LaBelle Epoch restaurant in September nineteen eighty two. Green,
former vice president of Temple Israel of Greater Miami and
an active member of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation, had
been sitting at a nearby table and witnessed a complaint
by another customer over reveal chop. He wrote owner Dennis
Ready about the incident. Ready, who speaks with a heavy
French accent, telephoned Green in response to the letter, and
a heated exchange ensued. Green claimed that Ready called them
a dirty jew and akka word and that all Jews
are alike. You're all out to get something for nothing.
Ready denies this. Green then wrote a letter accusing Reddy
of anti Semitism and threatened to put him out of business.
This is shocking news. Green never sent the letter to Ready,
but posted it on bulletin boards and Jewish condominiums and
circulated it to several prominent Jews. Ready's business was soon
the subject of a boycott. He was admonished by the
South Florida Hotel and Motel Association and lost his Chamber
of Commerce membership. He went bankrupt within a year and
moved to New Orleans. Ready sued for libel, and in
February nineteen eighty six, a Miami Circuit Court jury of
five women and one men awarded him twenty two point
five million for defamation. Green appealed the verdict, and Abruary
nineteen eighty nine, the Third Court of Appeals in Miami
awarded Ready five point five million. The court said that
Dennis Ready was entitled to an unprecedented compensatory and punitive
damage award so as to fit the vicious arrogance of
the defendant's conduct that would never happen to it. I
will say that will never happen today. The court ruling said,
the evidence indicated that the alleged anti Semitic comments attributed
to Dennis Ready by Arthur Green were completely fabricated. Imagine
my surprise. Often a false charge of anti semitism or
racism is made because of values, opinions, or beliefs expressed
in a public forum. In the case of Thomas Spears
of Waterbury, Connecticut, however, his expression of free speech landed
him in court and at the behest of the very
host of the radio talk show he appeared on. Spears
was arrested in January nineteen eighty six, after Talk after
radio show host j Clark, who is Jewish, filed the
complaint with police Hughes Spears of jew baiting because he
frequently criticized Israel. Clark also admitted that he frequently made
personal attacks against Spears on the air. Spears contended that
he was not anti Semitic and that he was merely
anti Zionist and anti Israel. That it doesn't work anymore, dude.
After October seventh, Noop, noop, fucking own it. In ordering
the acquittal of Spears, Superior Court Judge Anthony V. Demayo
said his choice of language might be unpleasant, but I
heard nothing that might be obscene or that could be
characterized as fighting words. All that falls into the category
of political speech. What'sussessed me most about the state's position
is that the reason we are prosecuting this defendant is
that his views differ so vehemently from those of the
talk show host. In nineteen sixty five, of fire killed
twelve people at the Younker's Jewish Community Center. Eighteen year
old Thomas Rupert, although innocent, was convicted of the crime
after serving five years of twenty four life sentences and
a sentence of ten to twenty five years for arson.
Mister Rupert was ordered released the New York State Court
of Appeals ruled that he had been coerced into making
a confession. The fire, thought to be motivated by anti Semitism,
produced enormous pressure on police to produce who put the
pressure on police? Who did that? Huh? Rupert happened to
be in the wrong place at the wrong time. He
steadfastly maintained his innocence. Although released from prison, his life
was horribly damaged by the event. Rupert died in nineteen
eighty four at the age of thirty four of liver
disease and other ailments. Illinois Congressman Paul Finley, a twenty
two year veteran of the US House of Representatives, was
defeated in his last election bid following an intense and
inflammatory campaign against him by various pro Israel groups. They
regarded Finley as highly critical of Israel's policies. Two of
Finley's fellow Illinois politicians were also defeat for reelection on
the same grounds, Senator Charles Pearce Percy and Adley Stevenson
third and since by the power of the forces arrayed
against him. Finley wrote a definitive expose of the Israeli
lobby entitled They Dare to Speak Out. The book is
in no way hateful or even remotely anti Semitic. It
was on bestsellers. You don't get to decide that. Only
they get to decide that. It was on bestseller list
for several weeks and is considered a definitive study of
interest group politics. This, however, did not keep the ADL,
through its Nebraska regional director Robert Wolfson, from defaming the
book and its author. A local activist had mailed out
several thousand copies to Nebraska professionals such as secondary school teachers,
university professors, and attorneys. In a statement, the ADL's Wolfson
said that Finley's book is a work of Holocaust revisionism,
seeking to spread the claim that the Nazi slaughter of
Jews was a hoax. Frederick Cassman, chairman of the Omaha
ADL chapter, said, although purporting to criticize the israel Lobby,
they are actually distributing plainly anti Semitic material. They Dare
to Speak Out makes absolutely no such claim. Finley does
not support, nor does he even mention any form of
Holocaust revision in his book. The adl claim was an
absolute lie, but certainly produced the adverse public adverse publicity
against the book. They sought, you mean, they just flat
out lied? Are you fucking kidding me? They lied? I'm shocked, shocked.
Suffolk County District Attorney Robert Cassese found himself charged with
referring to defense attorney Robert Gottlieb as a little Jew
bastard in October nineteen ninety. The conversation in which he
was alleged to have made the remark was with Attorney
Raynold Morrow in a riverside, New York rest. Gottlieb had
been his adversary in a highly publicized murder case. So
great was the outcry against Casseys, who is Italian, that
its superior. Suffolk County District Attorney James Katterson conducted a
year long investigation of the fair The claim against Casseys
apparently proved to be a fabrication. According to Catterson, I
find not one of many allegations concerning improper remarks or
behavior to be substantiated. I am unable to stantiate one
instance of anti Semitic comment or behavior on the part
of Assistant Attorney Anthony Casseys. The charge of Nazi sympathies
is so devastating that it is a convenient device to
defame political candidates. In nineteen eighty six, a campaign flyers
circulated as a costa Mesa, California residents, claimed that Doug Ayates,
a two time city councilman, was a member of a
secret underground Nazi party. The two page typewritten flyer, written
on the stationary of Mesa Action, a local political action committee,
attack Yates, claiming he was a member of an underground
Nazi party now operating in the Western Hemisphere. That nailed that,
just narrowed it down, that narrated, I mean shoot the
Western hemisphere. Wow. The flyer advised anyone seeing Yates to
contact Rabbi Stinowitz at the Jewish Defense League office in
Los Angeles. JDL leader IRV Rubin said he had never
heard of Rabbi Stinowitz. MESA Action board members deny having
anything to do with the flyer. Doug Yates, a target
of the apparent defamation, said I don't know why I'm
singled out for this kind of activity. Maybe there are
people who think I have a good chance of winning.
Another case of bogus anti Semitic literature occurred in Yorba Linda, California,
in nineteen ninety. On March twenty fifth, residents found hundreds
of flyers exhorting them to kill every Jew and stating
that they were distributed by the Methodist Fellowship. Reverend Kenneth
Chriswell passed sure at the local umc UMC distributed a
letter to the community stating that the literature was falsely
and fraudulently attributed to the Methodist Church. The Orange County
Register reported one side of the flier pictures Jesus Christ,
quotes from the New Testament Gospel Luke and says kill
every Jew. The other side lists supposed reasons not to
trust Jews. The literature was apparently an attempt to link
a Christian denomination with hatred of Jews. A similar incident
had occurred a few months earlier in Fullerdtson, California, where
bogus publications were also placed in mailboxes and doorsteps. Oklahoma
Department of Human Services Director Benjamin Demps Junior might have
thought he was being harassed by the KKK when he
saw a memo referring to him as a flying coon
and pledging a continuation of the good old boy ways
in the department. Most puzzling is that the February nineteen
ninety memo was supposedly signed by a top OHS official.
Investigators soon determined that the signature was taken from another
document sent by the official to an outside group. The
memo was not written in the matter of bona fide
OHS memos, and everyone involved with it has denied knowledge
of it. Affirmative Action Officer Kim Jones Shelton said the
department did not intend to pursue investigation. Another faked memo,
containing a variety of racial and other epithets made a
similar stir in California. Hudson T. Carlile Junior, a member
of the Public Employment Relations Board, had asked for an
investigation after the memo was sent to the state union
leaders over his signature. According to Carlisle, someone is really
sick and attempting to discredit me. They xerox my signature
from another memo and pasted it on this one. The
fake memo, dated December nineteen ninety one, was written on
an official letter had a mailed through a state postal meter.
Carlisle is quoted as referring to his critics in racist, sexist,
anti homosexual, and anti Jewish terms. Chapter nine Whites. Not
all hoaxers are minorities with whites. However, the motive is
usually to implicate someone else in a crime that they
committed themselves, and the account seems more credible if, under
the circumstances, the offender is black or some other minority.
Several of the cases discovered also included false rape accusations
directed towards black anonymous males. Cases where the motive of
the hoax is to falsely implicate minorities in anti white
racism are apparently rare. Benjamin Hull, a lab technician at
Sunridge Foods in Sunnyside, Washington, reported that a group of
Hispanic youths shot off his leg on New Year's Day
nineteen ninety nine ninety one when he surprised them outside
his place of employment. Hull filed disability claims and collected
some ninety five thousand in benefits. Nearly two years later,
Hull pull pled guilty to filing false claims and theft.
He admitted that he shot himself to end pain in
his leg resulting from a nineteen seventy three industrial accident.
Hull was sentence to an additional six months of work
release because of aggravating circumstances in the case. According to
Yakima County Superior Court Judge Susan Hahn, the aggravating circumstance
is his use of a negative social stereotype, especially here
when we fight this every day. Our quality of life
depends on us making significant headway on these problems. Another
case in which a minority was falsely blamed in conjunction
with the cover up of a crime involved the widely
publicized nineteen eighty nine Boston case in which a murder
committed to collect insurance was falsely attributed to an anonymous
black man. On the evening of October twenty third, nineteen
eighty nine, Charles Stewart and his pregnant wife Carol left
a childbirth class at a local hospital and were on
their way home when, according to Charles Stewart, a black
gunman forced his way into their automobile. The gunman forced
them to drive to another location where he demanded cash
and jewelry. Then the gunman shot Carol Stewart in the
head and wounded Charles Stuart in the abdomen. Charles Stewart
called police on a car telephone to report that his
wife had been killed and he had been shot by
a black assailant in the Mission Hill district. The gruesome scene,
including a dramatic tape of rescue efforts by police and paramedics,
stirred a volatile mixture of fear and outrage. As a victim,
Stuart became a media hero. In the meantime, Willie Bennett,
a black man, was arrested after Stuart identified him as
looking most like the murderer. The story began to unravel
when skillful police investigation produced evidence that pointed to Stuart
as to killer out to collect a substantial insurance policy.
Charles's brother, Matthew Stewart, went to police and confessed to
being an accessory. After the fact, he had helped Charles
dispose of incriminating evidence. With police closing in, Charles Stewart
committed suicide by jumping off a bridge into the Mystic
River Willie Bennett. Of course, Willy Bennett was of course exonerated.
What was scary about the case is how journalists initially
bought Charles Stuart's story when there was evidence to doubt
it from the beginning. According to news reports, many Boston
journalists can see that they were aware of rumors and
inconsistencies almost from the start about the husband's account. It's
important to note that the purpose of Stuart's fabrication was
not to commit a hate crime hoax, but to divert
attention from himself. His designation of the killer as a
black man was credible in a community with a high
black crime rate. Statistically, the killer was more likely to
be black than white. Occasionally, one member of a victimized
class will perpetrate a hoax or fabrication against a member
of another victimized class. The most common example is when
a woman claims to women rate by a member of
a minority group. This happened at George Washington University in
the district The Columbian December nineteen ninety when a student,
Mary M. Kashani, reported a rape incident which never occurred
to the campus paper, appropriately named The Hatchet. She told
them an incident which two young black men with particularly
bad body odor had raped a white female student at
knife point, and the hatshert reported the incident without sufficiently
confirming the authenticity of the various sources. According to New
York Times reporter Felicity Barringer, the effect was electric. Students
called their parents, University administrators called trustees. The campus police
called the district the Columbia Police. Then, the day after
the newspaper report, a lawyer from Miriam Kashani, the sophomore
who said she knew the victim and was the newspaper's
main source of information about the attack, called the campus
police to say she made up the report. Miss Kashani,
an active feminist who had been involved in rape crisis
counseling at Tulane University, had also said the rapist had
told the victim, you are pretty good for a white girl.
When confronted about the incident, Miss Kashani used an excuse
often involved in invoked in hoaxes. She said that she
had hoped the story is reported would have I like
the problem of safety for women. Ronnie Thaxtend. Campus black
activists said, I was outraged. I think it was just
another attempt by some white people to discredit young black
males in this country. In December nineteen ninety three, a
fifteen year old Norwood, Massachusetts, white girl falsely claimed that
she had been attacked by four black women who shot
a racial slurs at her. According to news reports, Norwood
Police Detective Sergeant William G. Brookes said the girl who
reported being attacked in December twenty third by four strangers
was actually injured in a pre arranged fight with another
young woman. Brooks said that when the victims of saint
cuts and scratches, she invented the story about being jumped
to explain the injuries to her parents. Police charge a
girl as juvenile with falsely reporting a crime, a misdemeanor
that carries a fine of up to five hundred dollars
or one year in jail. And Hazel Park, Michigan, a
thirty one year old white woman told police that three
bat wielding black men beat her and kidnapped her friend
last November had an automatic teller machine in Ferndale. According
to police, the whole thing was a hoax devised by
the woman, who was married, concocted after her boyfriend beat
her up. In October nineteen eighty nine, two white women
from Sterling Heights falsely reported the two blackmails robbed and
beat them in the Oakland Mall parking lot. The woman
said that the men fired a shot into their car.
Police investigators said the women, both eighteen, were indeed robbed,
but police said the assault occurred as the women were
trying to buy marijuana in a Detroit alley. Police said
the women made up the story to explain the damage
to the car. Things are when you're looking at like
incidents where you have a group that does the overwhelming
amount of crime, especially violent crime, you have to make
shut up. Don't don't do that, Just let it go.
Let the fact cover everything. Chapter ten International. Sometimes racist
and anti Semitic coaxes involved parties we would never think of.
Hoaxes have been a common device used by Iron Curtain
intelligence services and communist organizations to discredit their enemies and
win support from racial, ethnic, and even religious interest groups
since before the Russian Revolution. During the Olympic Games in
Los Angeles in nineteen eighty four, a number of Asian
and African Olympic Committee offices found themselves recipients of racist literature.
The Zimbabwe Committee, for example, received flyers containing some threatening
language and illustrated and illustrated with a drawing of a
white hooded klansman on a rearing horse and a monkey
with a rope tied around his neck. Other delegations received
similar literature. An investigation followed, and the culprit was determined
in short order. US Attorney General William French Smith confirmed
that the racially defaminatory material was not the work of
the klu Kluxlan, but rather the Soviet KGB. The effort
was part of a disinformation campaign to mislead public opinion
and create the impression of widespread racism. According to Smith,
although I can't detail all of what we know about
these documents for fear of helping the authors to refine
their techniques, a thorough analysis including linguistic and forensic techniques,
reveals that they are classic examples of a Soviet forgery
or disinformation operation. In form sources close to the FBI
report that other incidents may also be KGB related. It's
rather interesting considering, if I remember correctly, the Soviets didn't
show up to the La Olympics because the United States
boycotted the nineteen eighty Olympics, which I believe were in Moscow.
I think that's how that worked. Another case involving the
KGB surface recently with the defection of East German intelligence agents.
The West German newspaper Veldt reported in nineteen ninety that
West German security authorities had determined that the KGB or
other Soviet state security services were responsible for numerous desecrations
of synagogues in West Germany over the past forty years.
The article also noted that the KGB worked in close
cooperation with neo Nazi groups. I'm thinking of one that
people call and you know, oh okay. John Barron in
his book KGB Secret Work of Soviet secret agents, discussed
as Communist complicity and anti Semitic hoaxes, He says, under
KGB guidance to check STB started mailing virulent anti Semitic
tracks to French, British and American American officials in Europe.
They bore the imp impromoteur, im premmateure of non existent
Nazi group. Let's also remember that at this time that
he's writing this, the Soviet Union had just fell. This
could all still be I'm not saying that this didn't happen.
This sounds like stuff that could have happened. But we're
also there's a back and forth going on of propaganda.
So additional evidence for the role of the KGB and
other Iron Curtain intelligence agencies and bogus Neo Nazi and
anti Semitic activities is Christopher Andrew and Ole Gordievsky's detailed
nineteen ninety account of the Soviet Secret Police KGB, The
Inside Story. The author cite the case of KGB General
Ivan Ivanovich Agayantz, who in nineteen fifty nine created a
new disinformation section within the First Chief Directorate of the
a KGB. One of his first targets was West Germany,
which a KGB wanted to portray as riddled with Neo
Nazis and anti Semites. To test one of techniques, Agayants
sent a group of KGB off officers to a village
near Moscow, where they dabbed swastikas, anti Jewish slogans and
kicked over Jewish tombstones. A small anti Jewish minority in
the village took the bait and performed copycat anti Jewish
acts on their own. According to the authors, during the
winter of nineteen fifty nine to sixty, Agayants used the
same technique with great success in West Germany. East German
Asians were dispatched to the West to defaced Jewish memorials,
synagogues and shops, and to paint anti Semitic slogans. Local
hooligans and the on Nazis then spontaneously continued the KGB campaign.
Between Christmas Eve nineteen fifty nine and mid February nineteen
sixty eight, hundred and thirty three anti Semitic acts were
recorded by the West German authorities. The campaign then suddenly ceased,
but not before the Federal Republic's international reputation had been
gravely damaged. There are serious suspicion intelligence circles that much
of the current neo Nazi activity in the new United
Germany may have the mark of a rogue Communist intelligence operation.
See what happens when Communism falls the Nazis return. I
think this points a lot towards what Thomas has been
talking about in a few of our series. Yeah, these
you know, East Germany and the Soviet Union were very
anti anti Zionists, were very anti They saw West Germany
as an occupation and a Zionist occupation regime. And you
know what is it fifty sixty years later, it's pretty
much the whole West Landeslav Beietmann, an agent for the
Czechoslovak intelligence agents. The defectives to the United States in
nineteen seventy four. All right, I'm going to read this,
but I will warn you don't trust anything defectors say.
The first thing they do is go to the State
Department and they immediately are basically told what they're allowed
to say. They get their stories. A lot of people
like to talk about uribezmenoff. Notice that none, none of these,
none of these people who come defected talk about a
certain group. Ever. I interviewed a defector once, somebody who
defected from the Soviet Union to the United States. It
was tedious and I wasn't asking hard questions. Now professor
at Boston University and living under the name Lauren's Martin Bittman,
he teaches classes on propaganda and disinformation. According to F.
Mark Wyatt, a retired CIA official who has dealt with defectors,
Bitman was really one of the great experts of the
Communist block, the Soviet Block on disinformation. Bitman's reputation was
built largely on one of the most effective disinformation campaigns
of post war Europe, i e. Keeping the Nazi menace alive,
for propaganda purposes, not unlike some hoaxes in the United States.
According to news reports, his greatest success was Operation Neptune,
a nineteen sixty four ruse intended to damage West Germany's
relationship with its European neighbors. Professor Martin Bittman secretly placed
what he said were four boxes of Nazi archives on
the murky bottom of a lake in Czechoslovakia. Then he
helped the television crew discover the boxes, which contained lists
of purported Nazi spies and collaborators. A documentary about the
apparent discovery of cadre of previously undisclosed Nazi spies raised
anew the issue of prosecutions for war crimes, and the
West German government extended the Statute of limitations for such crimes.
Fake documents published by Eastern Bloc intelligence agencies surfaced in
the scandal involving Austrian president and former UN Secretary General
Kurt Waldheim. He was accused of war crime complicit complicitly
during World War II. In February nineteen eighty eight, the
Yugoslav Press Agency reported that a document linking Waldheim to
Nazi war crimes was a fake. According to news reports.
The document was purported to be a nineteen forty two
telegram advising that a Lieutenant Kurt Waldheim requested the deportation
of more than four thousand Yugoslav citizens during World War II.
The West German magazine Der Spiegel published a document February first,
and said it had been provided by a Yugoslav historian.
A typewriting expert had concluded that the machine used to
type the fake telegram was not available before nineteen forty
eight what I say A year earlier, in April nineteen
eighty seven, the Israeli Jerusalem Post admitted that it had
published a forged letter purportedly from Austrian Prime Minister Alois
Mach to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, suggesting that Austrian
President Curt Waldheim should resign in the wake of a
scandal involving his alleged wartime activities in the German Army.
Mister Mack denied ever writing a letter the Post that
a lengthy inquiry had determined that the letter, which had
published in February was of abrication. The Anti Nazi League
is a major British anti fascist group. It works closely
with Jewish and other minority interest groups. However, to the
consternation of representatives of the Brighton and Hove Hebrew Congregation.
In March nineteen ninety three, the ANL organized a march
in protest against an anti Semitic cemetery desecration that never occurred.
Some three hundred people took part in the march. A
security officer at the cemetery became suspicious when he was
told that the graves in the con Congreations Florence Road
Cemetery had been dabbed with swastikers and that they had
been removed by the gardener. The cemetery, however, does not
employ a gardener. The officer noted that the cemetery has
no record of dabbings for at least thirty years. The incident,
in fact, had never occurred. Jules Grossette, the Dutch actor
whose father was Jewish, reported being abducted by Neo Nazis
in the city of Charleroi, Belgium, in December nineteen eighty seven.
Just did a substack about Charleroy, Pennsylvania, a court which
was originally a Belgian city. Imagine that, according to Corse,
he was seized by two men and a woman who
forced him into a sewer, tied him up, took his
star of David Chane from his neck, and dubbed a
swastika on his check the chest, among other violent humiliations.
The news electrified the Netherlands. Cossette was known for his
anti Nazi views. He was prominent in the theater city
in preventing staging of a play that critics had denounced
as anti Semitic. On December twelfth, a large demonstration was
held in an Amsterdam church in support of Corossett. The
speaker of the Dutch Parliament said the Neo Nazi rats
were coming out of their holes. On the sixth of
January nineteen eighty eight, however, Belgian police announced that Jules
Grossette had admitted to having staged to kidnapping. He had
also cement he had also sent anti Semitic letters to
prominent Dutch Jews. What you're doing there, Rabbi. Also in
the Netherlands, the capital of Amsterdam was fooled for five
days in February nineteen ninety three into thinking that violent
Neo Nazis were active in the community. A monument of
victims of the Auschwitz Auschwitz concentration camp had been smashed,
one of the most one of the worst recent acts
of anti Semitic violence in the small nation. However, according
to news reports, the nation seemed placated after hearing that
a glass cutter identified as Rude s had confessed to
shattering the monument. He claimed he was under orders to
remove all evidence of a construction flaw that would have
been a terrific embarrassment to the company. In Haifa, Israel,
two Jewish men, David Goldner forty one and Gershaun Tenenbaum,
thirty two, were arrested in May nineteen ninety following the
desecration of two Jewish graveyards, an event which received worldwide attention.
Slogan's in perfect Hebrew calling for the destruction of Judaism
and for the founding of a Palestinian state were found
on more than two hundred and fifty headstones. One inscription
read Arabs will kill the Jews. Israeli Religious Affairs Minister
zevelon Hammer said that there may have been a connection
with this incident in the desecration of Jewish graves in France,
which were widely brahmed on right wing hate groups. Goldman
and Tenenbaum reported that their motive was to unite the
Jewish people against the Arab states in Israel. Eight Jewish
settlers were charged in the September nineteen eight nine firebombing
of Israeli property and stoning of other Jewish settlers to
stir up anti Arab settlement in Jewish settlers are fucking nuts.
In one instant, Israeli radio said settlers hold the firebomb
in an Israeli owned car near Guino Schomron somewhere, a
settlement in the West Bank. In response, settlers from the
Jewish enclave of Ariel raided a nearby Arab village and
vandalized property. Ariel had earlier acquired Arab workers to wear
tags identifying themselves as Alien works had to aware i'm
huh on their shirts. There have been numerous instances of
Israeli extremist staging hoaxes to implicate Arabs and terrorism. A
black swastika was painted on the grave of former Israeli
Prime Minister Menachem Began in Jerusalem in November nineteen ninety.
After the vandalism, Israeli newspapers in the state run radio
received phone calls from men who said the attack was
in response to the desecration of the graves of the Righteous.
Police said the vandalism seemed to be the work of
fanatic religious Jews. The British daily The Guardian reported in
April nineteen ninety two that a Berlin woman who reported
her infant son had been kidnapped by neo Nazi skidtheads
later admitted she killed the baby. Police reported the body
of the three month old boy was found in a
pool pond. In Berlin, a group of neo Nazi raiders
set fire to the home of a Jewish restaurant owner
in August nineteen seventy nine. Is called swastikas and anti
Semitic slogans on the walls Judenraus Jews Get Out. The
attack in Berlin's elegant Grunewald residential district fanned fears of
a Nazi revival and was widely reported as evidence for such.
Following an investigation, however, the police determined that the incident
was an arse and plots to collect insurance on the building.
The businessman Gunter Allen, whose house was burned, was in
on the plot. One of the hired arsonists was badly
burned when the gasoline blew up in his face and Halle, Germany,
ten thousand people demonstrated in January nineteen ninety four to
protest a Neo Nazi attack on a teenage girl confined
to a wheelchair. The seventeen year old girl had told
police that three Neo Nazis had carved a swastika on
a left cheek after she refused to repeat slogans such
as hyle Hitler and gas the cripples. For five days,
the incident in the eastern German city captured headlines around
the world. Police reported that they had no clues. Two
days later, it became apparent why there were no clues.
The saxony Anhalt prosecutor's office reported the girl had apparently
inflicted the wound herself. Interrogation had produced discrepancy, discrepancies and
inconsistencies in her story. The faked attack was unpleasant consequences
for bona fide and suspected Neo Nazis, however, as this
so often in the case. As is so often the case,
according to news reports worded, the attacks stun Germans. Leading
politicians demanded quick police action, and President Richard Vaughn Bisector
condemned the assault. Hundreds tried to track down the alleged attackers,
and authorities searched a homes of dozens of suspected Neo Nazis.
An item in the January fifteenth, nineteen ninety four International
Herald Tribune noted that the doctors who examined the wound
also suspect that it was self inflicted. The article also
noted that several recent attacks by Neo Nazis have been
exposed as fraud. Two weeks after the hoax in Halle,
another German girl committed a copycat hoax in Munich. According
to news reports, a fourteen year old Bavarian school girls
sliced herself with a razor and claimed she had been
attacked by Neo Nazis in what appeared to be an
imitation of the wheelchair bound girls hoax to cause national
Outrageich police said. Munich police said a spokesman said twenty
school children had dared each other to fake attacks to
see whether their parents would believe them after hearing about
a case in the eastern city of Halla. Switzerland's Jewish
community was shocked when a nineteen eighty three rash of
anti Semitic graffiti appeared on walls at local synagogues, the
Jewish cemetery and other buildings, death threats and anonymous telephone
calls to Jewish parents stated that your son has been killed.
At the medical school in Basel, Jewish students reported receiving
an anonymous letter saying death to the Jews and no
more Jewish doctors in Switzerland. Swiss police soon had their culprit.
But he was not a neo Nazi. He was not
the neo Nazi many had expected. According to news reports,
a twenty three year old Jewish medical student arrested in
Basel was described by police as the perpetrator of the campaign,
a virulent anti Semitic graffiti, harassment and death threats in
that city last month. The dis disclosure by police that
Philip Gotchel, kind of a prominent Jewish family, was solely
responsible for the acts, called unprecedented in Switzerland, stun Jews
and non Jews alike. The anti Semitic campaign aroused such
concern the Swiss army units were sent to help local
police protect Jewish students. Apparently obsessed with persecution fantasies. I
wonder where he got those from. Gotchell claimed that right
wing students had broken into his family's home. Police said
that it was Gotchell himself that broke the window. Gotchall
was placed under psychiatric care. That's it. That's I mean,
that's basically it. There's one more section here I'm going
to read and yeah, so he added this on at
the end, and I think this was pretty cool. Traits
that suggest commission of a hoax. What if anything, distinguishes
hoaxes and fabrications from real racist and anti semitic incidents?
Are their patterns to be on the watch for. What
are the clues that a hoax might be afoot? Consider these?
One An incident that can't be corroborated with reasonable evidence
or disinterested witnesses, or is accompanied by an account which
contains inconsistencies, or when the alleged victim suddenly refuses to
talk to police. Two. An incident that occurs just when
it's needed to promote awareness or sensitivity to racism or
anti semitisms, to disarmed critics and make them reluctant to
talk back. The conveniently occurring incident should be carefully investigated. Often,
the perpetrator will confide in others or even brag about
the hoax. Extensive questioning may be necessary repeat incidents, especially
with difficult, resentful, and easily offended individuals who frequently complain
of disrespect, slights, insult, or harassment. I wonder who he
could be talking about. Incidents directed at specific individuals are unusual.
Bear in mind, however, that these individuals often create a
self fulfilling prophecy with their behavior and actually antagonize others
to the point where they will retaliate in some manner.
Very important four an incident that is particularly skillfully exploited
by the alleged victim to attain victim status, to manipulate institutions,
to obtain concessions from others, to obtain special privileges, or
to obtain money. Because of the possibility of civil damages
and hate crime cases, it is likely that hoaxes of
this nature will be increasing. Don't they always incidents which
occur in improbable circumstances, such as racist graffiti in a
mostly black dormitory or neighborhood assaults that allegedly occurred in
normally crowded areas with no witnesses, graffiti or vandalism in
a room occupied only by the victim, and so on.
Some hoaxes are surprisingly poorly planned. In the case of graffiti,
carefully drawn symbols or slurs suggests that the author really
wants to get a point across precisely what is meant
in the repulsive character the person behind it, and this,
and this suggests a hoax. Most bonified incidents represent impulsive
striking out not carefully planned. Generally speaking, the more elaborate
the circumstances, the greater likelihood of a hoax. Another trait
that suggests a hoax surfaced in several of the cases
mentioned here. Where authorities suspect a hoax and this fact
becomes known, the likelihood is enhanced somewhat when local anti
racist and radical special interest groups to fame and vilified doubters.
In fact, they may suspect it themselves. Finally, several hoaxers
have reported markings or symbols painted on their bodies by
their alleged assailants. This rarely occurs in bonafide cases for
reasons that are not clear. Body markings on the victim
by the alleged perpetrators are apparently a cause for suspicion,
and nine copycat hoaxes are likely to occur after an
earlier perhaps bonafied incident has taken place that has aroused
great publicity. Often some of the same people will be
involved in the same symbols used. A large number of
similar incidents probably contain some hoaxes. His conclusion, the information
I have pulled together in this report is, in my opinion,
merely the tip of the iceberg. The hoaxes I've recounted are,
with a few exceptions, publicly discovered and publicly reported hoaxes.
Countless more hoaxes undiscovered and unreported have undoubtedly also occurred.
I see no hard evidence of an organized conspiracy to
commit racial and anti semitic hoaxes. Everything points to individuals
or small groups of individuals as to perpetrators of the hoaxes.
The usefulness of hoaxes is sufficiently obvious to potential hoaxers
that a conspiracy is not required to explain the large
number of hoaxes or the similarity of some hoaxes. Why
do people commit hoaxes Three main reasons. The first has
to do with the personal payoff for victimization i e.
Attention sympathy, a sense of importance, feeding persecution, fantasies, and
material payoffs. The second has to do with advancing a
political or social agenda, as in the case of hoaxes
intended to create support for regulations or legislation, or to
help create a climate sympathetic to specific interest groups. The
third has to do with interest fraud, with the insurance
fraud with the racial and anti Semitic element. Almost an afterthought.
Most hoaxes are combinations of the first two types. Carefully done,
the risk of discovery of a hoax is minimal. Most
hoaxes simply remain unsolved hate crimes. Those that are discovered
may not result in criminal action against the hoaxers. When
criminal charges are filed, they can have wide ranging consequences,
from long prison terms in some cases to a slap
on the wrist in others, with most cases tending toward
the latter. What can be done about hoaxes probably very little,
as long as victimization claims are so uncritically accepted and
the payoff for alleged victimization is sufficiently tempting and rewarding.
Crime legislation, although well intentioned, has got to remember he's
a leftist. Hate crime legislation, although well intentioned, has created
a powerful market for the side benefit of alleged hate crimes.
When these crimes are not naturally occurring or are not
occurring in sufficient numbers, a motive to commit hoaxes is created.
Provisions in hate crime legislation for civil damages also creates
a powerful motive to commit hoaxes. Vigilance in discovering hoaxes
and apparent and appropriate publicity may discourage some potential hoaxers.
Punishment for hoaxers equal to bonafide hate crimes, including sentence enhancement,
would probably have a greater deterrent effect, but would also
perpetrate the injustices inherent in the hate crime concept itself.
Probably the most effective thing would be for universities, police agencies,
in the media to entertain a healthy skepticism about alleged
about hate crimes and to establish a category of not
proven in cases where no perpetrator is identified or charged.
Any unsolved case may be a hoax, including those intuitively
thought to be bona fide. Finally, on a personal note,
I think it's important to bear in mind that human
beings are fallible creatures who make mistakes, often not realizing
the consequences of their actions. The older I get, the
more forgiving I become, and the more aware I am
of the harm done by righteous indignation, fanaticism, and vengefulness
in the pursuit of justice. Sorry, buddy, that's just that's human.
A little slack and a little forgiveness all the way
around wouldn't hurt either. It's going to take. It's going
to take that. If we're all going to get along
in this world, well laired, we're not. That's been proven.
Appreciate you, but appreciate this work. But it's been proven.
So he's also got if you get this, there's some uh.
He provides a bunch of uh, well not a bunch,
but a couple correspondences with ADL letter from Jared your Hoover.
Its like the ADL Report. Yeah, but that's it. Another
book in the books hat and we'll see what we're
going to do next. Somebody gave me an idea. It
would be a project. But we'll see what happens. See
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