Michael Brown Story Killed All Focus To Semitic Hate Crimes in Gaza
William Wraithwrite | 07.12.2014 21:47 | Analysis | Policing
Heat was really coming to boil over massive and blatant war crimes perpetrated by Israelis against Palestinian civilians in Gaza this summer of 2014. But suddenly media attention had dramatically shifted in August as many have become convinced what happened in Ferguson Missouri was a “hate crime” because it involved a white police officer and a black death. A massive amount of psychic energy has fervently bought into the notion that Darren Wilson, whatever his human vulnerabilities, was motivated by one primary reason—the other perpetrator, who apparently slugged him in his police car, was a black person, and that he, the white cop, therefore had a dark soul motivated to kill this man because not only was he potentially violent but he was black. And yet what exactly is a “hate crime” if what happened in Gaza this summer doesn't equally qualify? How it was this imminently important story more or less just slipped away from activists’ attention here in the United States?
Michael Brown Story Killed All Focus To Semitic Hate Crimes in Gaza
By William Wraithwrite
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In the first week of August heat was really coming to boil over massive and blatant war crimes perpetrated by Israelis against Palestinian civilians in Gaza this summer of 2014.
Even Benjamin Netanyahu was busy contacting our supposedly U. S. Congress-people back then in early August to shield his-self, and his likes, from war crime allegations and potential tribunals, as were being demanded by exploding numbers of protests around the entire world. (See: net stories and also see: “Netanyahu Asks US to Help Israel Avoid War Crimes” at:
http://nypost.com/2014/08/06/netanyahu-asks-us-to-help-israel-avoid-war-crime-charges/ and
Report: Netanyahu Asks US Lawmakers To ‘Help Israel Avoid War Crimes Charges’”
http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/08/07/report-netanyahu-asks-us-lawmakers-to-help-israel-avoid-war-crimes-charges/ Also note the photos at Mondoweiss at: http://mondoweiss.net/2014/07/worldwide-protest-israeli.
It is important to check out those photos to get a real appreciation of just how angry was the entire world.
A strong message was finally being sent to Zionists world-wide, that even a dumber-down, and more or less well-propagandized world of Christian sheeple, and plenty other orientations as well (especially now with an Internet with alternative communication) people could only tolerate so much of the hideous double standard from Israel’s too long list of criminal acts. And what happened in Gaza this summer amounted to no less than blatant and deliberate terrorism on a grand scale. And ironically ‘terrorism’ was defined by none other than Benjamin Netanyahu himself some years earlier in a book he supposedly wrote—namely terrorism is the “killing of innocent civilians” (see: “Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies Can Defeat the International Terrorist Network, 2001 Edition Chapter 1, page 8.” (Likely you can find it in your public library.)
Meanwhile law professor and prolific human rights activist Majorie Cohn was quick to legally document war crime charges, and she was interviewed by Scott Horton on his radio show (ScottHorton.Org) about her recent publication of these Israeli crimes in the professional law journal The Jurist (see: “US Leaders Aid and Abet Israeli War Crimes, Genocide & Crimes against Humanity” at:
http://jurist.org/forum/2014/08/marjorie-cohn-israel-crimes.php ). Yet surprisingly this interview has become “lost”, that is has mostly disappeared from Internet search engines such as on Google and Yahoo—no doubt showing the ‘vestige’ (as in the word ‘investigate’) to its potential damaging effect, that is to the too often false image of what Israelis and right-wing Jews worldwide want to project about themselves versus a much different reality.
The fact this interview “disappeared” from a very prominent and highly respected foreign news analysis website, is major violation of free speech (ACLU where are you), and is in itself an important clue to understanding motives and issues taking place (and “you” do want to find it and listen to this interview—if you are a true truth seeker). A few lesser known search engines still make it available (search DuckDuckGo.com can’t find now but it is out there somewhere).
Media attention had dramatically shifted in August, for many people, especially those of the rainbow coalition (a huge political chunk of the U.S. population), as well as for plenty other liberal as well as conservative suasions, as many have become convinced what happened in Ferguson Missouri was a “hate crime” because it involved a white police officer and a black death. A massive amount of psychic energy has fervently bought into the notion that Darren Wilson, whatever his human vulnerabilities, was motivated by one primary reason—the other perpetrator, who apparently slugged him in his police car, was a black person, and that he, the white cop, therefore had a dark soul motivated to kill this man because not only was he potentially violent but he was black. That is to say the black and white features of skin color is all that really matters to many who demand the entire world accept this premise as forgone conclusion—another incident strictly based on white racism.
And maybe this scenario is true?
I do not claim to know. And yet what I question are the motives of some people who were, and are, so zealously motivated to convince me one way or another, as if these opinion shapers know beyond a shadow of a doubt absolute truth.
For example I do not respect news sources who continuously show pictures of Michael Brown as a young boy when it turns out he weighed over two hundred fifty pounds and was 6’ 4” the day he died—already there is distortion of information being presented while same sources keep referring to him in stock terms such as innocent teenager, as if young age automatically equals innocence—that is while many people know plenty of violence happens from young people; although all people are somewhat innocent in the sense that they all are not all knowing, all calculating, and all evil.
Few, if any, people actually know beyond a shadow of a doubt the full story. The Internet offers us various versions and arguments as many are at odds with each other. For example some argument Michael Brown had a long list of previous crimes including felonies, while others argue he did not have any serious previous crime history. Some argue the autopsy shows the officer’s version was correct (including a report in the Washington Post) whereas other arguments claim differently.
It is in this ambiguity of how the arguments have been brought to our attention, that is of the public, that has made this case so media consuming—and certain groups and websites have taken this issue on as a major cause—which is neither praiseworthy or disturbing on this fact alone—but people have a right to question the motives of some of these sources as well as to what all drives them who claim to only want to find truth.
And yet what exactly is a “hate crime” if what happened in Gaza this summer doesn’t equally qualify? How it was this imminently important story more or less just slipped away from activists’ attention here in the United States?
What happened this summer by the Benjamin Netanyahu government, in respect to its deliberate deceit and deliberate violation of every imaginable idea of human right is very important for the entire world to focus (especially here in the United States that basically was the one nation that could have made a difference, and yet our government, that is to say our supposedly elected leaders (and yet all are more or less vetted by AIPAC influence) allowed these levels of crimes to ensue—while they played puppet and parrot to lame excuse about Israel’s right to defend itself).
To now suddenly ignore this immensity of recent history getting sidetracked primarily to one domestic issue of related racism stories is tragedy—because it allows those who perpetrated these massive hate crimes to get away with what should never be allowed—especially by a so-called Jewish nation of people who claim to be so concerned about human dignity and rights.
Surely how police agents operate in any society is an extremely important political subject.
But Americans need to pay attention not just to national police issues as brutality, profiling, racism, injustice, violence, etc., but also to who and why some organizations may be playing up such hyper-awareness of specific events, that is certain self-ordained individuals are groping to find a pattern from a nation of close to 320 million people, with about eight percent of this entire population having felony convictions of which blacks have about twenty percent (being thirteen percent of the population).
Obviously numbers or facts alone do not paint an entire humanist picture. But examining statistics that some circles do not find much solace or intellectual comfort, isn’t the same as trying to make up imaged patterns for any particular crime, such as hate, murder or injustice. But if you consider there are about one million police officers in the United States, and although there are no exact figures on the number killed by police, numbers discussed as tentatively surmised range from estimates of 500 to 1500 a year. So assume 1,000 people are killed by police in a given year (a fair assumption) we get a statistic that says one in one thousand officers will kill someone in a given year.
Eugene Robinson, black columnists of the Washington Post Syndicated Group says the FBI’s “justifiable police killings” over the last years is roughly 400 a year with an average of 96 white police officers killing blacks. But let’s say white police officers kill 200 black people annually. Then one million police officers nationally (many but not all are white) divided by 200 deaths equals 5000 (or one in 5000 police officers kill a black person per year). That means 4,999 out of 5000 do not and there is little focus on this disparity.
And yet this is a very different picture then what some people want to suggest. Rather they give the impression racism is a super rampant truth here in the United States and that white police officers are killing black men willy-nilly left and right. In another words there is a certain amount of alarmist deception going on that few people are talking about—especially from those websites that claim to be so hoity-toity truth seeking.
Those who are fanning the flames and are not willing to tamp down on their own biases or pre-conceptions often because of various “political” motives (or because their personalities dictate truth through their own perceptual lens), and so they engage in the act of cherry picking stories across the entire nation to suggest more extremist versions of racism across the country—painting a distorted picture—but claiming they have discovered truth and that white people must now surrender to their obvious superior understanding of life.
However Juan Williams, a famous black journalist and columnist, was willing to talk about this and he said: “Black on black homicide was the number #1 killer of black males between the ages of 15 and 34. Randomly looking at some Internet websites I came across a statement from a 2007 U.S, Bureau of Justice Statistics report that said in 2005 there were 7,999 black homicides and 93% was committed by blacks of the same race. This amounts to 21 blacks killing blacks each day of that year.
Ferguson became a place where some so-called experts wanted the American public’s focus to ingrain itself—that is to focus on what they would market as an example of hate crimes committed by people who they readily label, and think of as, white male extremists (that is goyim or non-Jewish whites who they want to point out are Thee most racist of people in America and who are endlessly oppressing minorities), people like what one assumes to belong to KKK, Neo-Nazis, or other so-labeled white hate groups, etc.
[Note: my argument is not to denigrate or slight any unjustified death. Certainly racism in police work is an important vein of research and activity to pursue for people who feel violated or threatened, especially as blacks—and who feel such ideas corroborate with life experiences—they should put their spiritual and psychic energy to causes they feel most imminent.]
But it is important to notice there has been a major re-focusing to racist issues here in the United States (not just by mainstream media but alternative media) from what people “know” were blatant and obvious war crimes of killing and maiming of thousands (and many children) in Gaza by white Caucasian Jews. Instead we got a marketing campaign that alleged hate crime were rife in Ferguson Missouri (even if the facts on the ground were more ambiguous and yet more appealing for allegations and passions).
Racism has always been an issue here in the United States and it could be true it is more prevalent than what too many assume—especially for those who feel profiled as blacks. This is not being disputed.
For a short while even activists here in the United States were back on the street (generally a torpid lot) and were protesting war crimes in Gaza that week of July the 27th (in which the entire world held huge parades abounding everywhere). It really was quite amazing.
But where did all that indignity and righteous anger dissipate?
Suddenly along came to the media radar Michael Brown’s death just when the world was in a real uproar about repeated violence and blatant attacks on civilians and children —knowing intuitively such attacks were deliberate crimes. The Ferguson killing reports seemed spontaneous anger and allegation and no one suggests otherwise.
At the end of July, here within the United States, high numbers, representing a wide spectrum of the American society, were back to marching in parades—as American apathy momentarily died—and then it suddenly was about to hopscotch to another funeral entirely.
Police brutality had been on the radar before with cases like the much publicized story of Trayvon Martin’s death in Florida, in which there was a huge activist push to convince this country of white racism in and police departments, and the country as a whole, as some liberal websites concluded “killed for being black”; and yes suspicious events and circumstances allowed for such a conclusion of injustice haunting too many black people everywhere.
From then racism stories about police were to take a life of its own as the media world and think tanks could now pin prick any needle from a haystack to focus on those particular stories that gave examples of injustice (even if mathematical statistics would throw water on those who continued to create alarmist pictures of police murder happening everywhere).
There are white people killed by white police officers and seldom is this questioned unless those killed are homeless or mentally ill. This statement might seem indifference to the truth of racism, but it could be possibility for think tanks to focus on white males killed by white officers in the statistical ball park of 320 million people so they could make a case of blatant violation (and even video recordings) and show to the world a succession of incidents to give impression few white people are safe.
Again this is not to argue there is no serious racism in America or racist murder.
And yet one argument hardly ever asked publicly is how much racism do white police officers deal from people of color?
Perhaps police deal with a great deal of hostility and hatred of authority in general (this phenomenon certainly exists) and white officers may deal with a lot of hatred by black people? How come this issue is seldom discussed in the media?
In fact there are a lot of people who hate police from all colors and a lot of people who hate any kind of authority asserting itself. Some of that hatred of police may be justified or some of it may be more based on personality trait, selective thought, and criminal identity.
One could then argue that some political activists and journalists, who constantly focus on creating a picture of rampant white police racism against black victims, are actually attempting to increase black hatred and racism of white police? And also it is possible to imagine that some who do so also hate police or hate white people or hate both—but this is not the road many want to explore.
Even within the so-called white community there are plenty of whites that hate other whites that they see as different from themselves. Some equally hate forms of authority they assume represent groups they despise.
And frankly hatred as an emotion is little distinguished from hatred as an act. Instead people are often manipulated to feel guilt for either as the feeling of hostility may be healthy at times. Still it makes for great fodder for guilt-trips.
Somehow we, the American public, are presumed to not assume defiance and attitudes of disrespect acted out in the real world, including very ugly forms of defiance and disrespect acted out toward police and especially at white police? Naiveté too comes to be vulnerability as those who cry wolf often enough have their own issues.
Eric Hoffer wrote a book back in the 1970s, The True Believer in which he describes many mass movements arise from fanaticism, frustration and self-righteousness (there are videos on the Internet that discuss this book as worthy of comprehending); and yet when it comes to any and all issues raised by the rainbow coalition, be it feminist issues about ever growing violence against women and the need for more laws or racist issues there is seldom questions raised about the mindset of some of those people who yell and scream about their righteous causes. Rather it is presumed any distortion of reality from the rainbow is more likely to emanate from white people who supposedly are always in denial on matters.
So then if certain people are eagerly plotting to riot and burn down businesses (even if those businesses are owned by fellow black business owners) then supposedly that is OK for those rioting criminals who pretend being saintly activists to engage such as worthy because they claim they have no alternative way of getting justice?
We are not invited to suspect some attracted to protests against authority, are not equally within themselves authoritarian personalities, who readily engage a life and philosophy of anarchism, in which they do not believe in any form of acceptable authority save their one life of willfulness? Instead if they claim to fight for the underdog and the victim then it must be truth.
Maybe the public has a right to be skeptical of some peoples’ assertions about blatant racism everywhere irrespective of how strongly they may believe what they claim—and this is equally true of those who report and opine on such matters?
And this fervency of demanding the world get on its knees and admit blatant racism everywhere here in the United States was also fanned by some websites that gave limited attention to racist events in Israel?
For example, the Daily Kos, a major Democratic Party website of sorts, and one heavily focused almost exclusively on convicting Darren Brown in the court of public opinion, did report on Gaza atrocities this summer, but their editorial team didn’t expend any great effort or passion either getting much riled up about those ugly facts on the ground, even if they needed no priming or cosmetic filtering. Kos offered little opinion like refuting, for example, the false claims by the Israeli government as to why they felt they had to attack Gaza and Hamas.
Nevertheless this highly activist website has gone to great lengths to bring the Ferguson story into question at every conceivable level to show it was white police racism and to keep the country’s mind focused there? Why the double standard? Furthermore and equally important the editorial group at the Daily Kos doesn’t seem at all bothered that Hilary Clinton would become the next Democrat President candidate—a person who upsets a lot of real progressives knowing what that would likely mean.
This is not arguing focus on Ferguson is not worthy or justified but why so much disparity between hundreds of thousands who suffered in Gaza for 50 days of aggression by Israel versus one death in Ferguson. So this then is not only a fair question to ask from a website that has so much influence on Democrats and Liberals with it constant emails but one that assumes to be so adamantly self-righteous at times.
Despite then, the clean and courageously stated criminal allegations made against the Israeli government (where even many lawyers dare not tread) by law professor Marjorie Cohn’s indictment of Israel this summer but the story was fast falling off the radar and today it has pretty much disappeared under a cloud. You can see the dramatic shift of events by going into DemocracyNow.Org archives to the first few weeks of August. There we see the heat on Israel’s monstrosities and then what happened in much of the media was almost a complete 180; however Amy Goodman at Democracy Now did manage to get some very important interviews. See http://www.democracynow.org/2014/9/1/a_slaughter_of_innocents_henry_siegman
http://www.democracynow.org/2014/8/11/sadistic_grotesque_noam_chomsky_on_how
Americans got pulled into another controversy, that worked, whether intended or not, as deflection away from United Nations efforts with civilians being bombed because of Zionist racism in Palestine.
Where is all that vociferous anger this terribly managed State Department debacle demanded? Some lost soul named John Kerry, who once was an idealist Lieutenant in Vietnam, was now caught complaining “…that was a hell of a pin-point operation…” attesting to those who cannot see the obvious, that not only is Israel not honest with the American culture, it is far from honest in dealing with our Government as well, because Netanyahu went out of his way to engage in the most blatant civilian crimes imaginable, and he did it with the assumed audacity he and his likes would get away with it, as how mafia Dons basically act.
Their willful criminality was meant to tell the world nobody ever tells the Israeli people anything about how to be or what to do. We must ask ourselves what kind of class of people assumes to rise to such a level of arrogance and hostility.
Perhaps we might start with religious presumptions? To this end of this long essay we will close on the idea that examining closely a comparison to the many cases of violence cited in the Old Testament and these latest series of criminal acts that took place this summer, show little difference in spirit—thus shows the Bible cannot possibly be a legitimate form of moral or political authority.
Barack Obama’s White House, or whoever really controls it these days, and most of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives deliberately looked the other way when all those egregious acts of bombs and killing of children and innocent people, the destruction of important infrastructure, many homes lost took place (over 50 days), not to mention United Nations people being routinely attacked, etc., all this truth from this summer would be side-swept away by an obsession with some to suddenly decide the most important and dire issue for Americans to think about was to re- focus to domestic violence by police (and this push of alignment was reinforced by some political think tanks and certain news stations).
Not surprisingly The Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that has come under much criticism over their controversial tactics, style, and conclusions, came out shortly after the Brown killing to denounce it right off, arguing it was, in one way or anther, tied to other forms of racism presumably by white supremacists, Neo-Nazis and other “goyim” white radical groups. And it’s important to understand this was happening at the “peak” of when the entire world was vigorously protesting against Israel, to say, Israel and Zionism did in fact suddenly have a major public relations problem to deal quickly as it became suddenly a tether of deep anxiety (and guilt and rightly so).
The Southern Poverty Law Center seems a de facto a Zionist organization like the Anti-Defamation League. It is not officially so but it acts as if it were a cousin to the NeoCon powers in Washington, creating hysteria about racism and hate crimes with great attention on getting people to think about labeling some goyim white groups as the most racist and most likely to engage in hate crimes (not to argue they do not exist). Yet even the Weekly Standard had to take issue to with this organization’s politics and conclusions. Wow!
So if one surveys the SPLC website (self-purported team investigating hate crimes) there is very little about hate-crimes of deception committed by official news media personnel such as those who invariably argue for war against Muslims (using Islamo-phobia) or those who continuously suggest that Muslims are fanatics, barbarians, invariably violent, etc. so as to continue to justify a “clash of cultures” that benefits the culture of Israel and Saudi Arabia.
Was it not a hate crime for the New York Times to allow Judith Miller and her crony ethnic look-alike Michael R. Gordon (see: http://antiwar.com/blog/2014/08/03/beware-the-new-york-timess-michaelr-gordon/
to lie the American public into an illegal war in Iraq—given how many tens to hundreds of thousands of Iraqis would then suffer in very serious ways—that is given such reporting comprised of deliberate lies and not simply naiveté as explained?
It must noted the Southern Poverty Law Center has a minor smidgeon of articles on obviously blatant cases of some minor number of Jews who have spread racist ideas, but when you really think of the vast numbers of Muslims that have been killed and affected by American foreign policy (and the media’s complicity) one would think that the SPLC and the ADL would have massive data-bases of racist Jews and racist Americans who support right-wing and too often Zionist actions in the Middle East? But instead both these groups focus almost all their energy on labeling other goyim groups as hate groups and then inviting the likes of the FBI or Homeland Security (and Israel intelligence as well) to spy on these many American peoples they have fingered.
If you believe that the SPLC and the ADL are objective then do yourself a study—read and listen to what David Duke has actually written and said in his own words at his website DavidDuke.Com and then survey and read what these supposedly hate-identifying websites have claimed about him. Even if you are convinced David Duke is a racist or Klan member or a hypocrite. Do your own study and even if you don’t like Mr. Duke you can readily see that that both these organizations are far from honest or objective.
And there are at least two important reasons why this kind of reverse racism is important. One is that if there is ever any real reason for The People to rise up against tyrannical government it is likely within some of the Patriot and Tea Party groups could have some ability to rebel against such a strong and well-armed government as the United States. Whereas the fact that too often America’s foreign policy serves Israel’s interests over our own invites some to want to continue illegal wars and aggression abroad even if it is not ethical or financially wise. And these special interests will espouse massive scale spying on Americans if they are critical.
Instead some of these so-called hate-fighters are more motivated to get the government to confiscate the citizen’s right to own guns—an exceedingly foolish idea—as no government should ever be trusted to the point that they are allowed to outlaw guns from the populace—and yet that is exactly what some so-called progressives are in effect doing—finding every case of gun violence to focus so as to create a political movement to outlaw weapons.
Another reason why it is alarming is that certain groups, such as some progressive Jewish people, who claim to represent minorities “against” white goyim men is to convince minorities and women of the rainbow coalition they are Thee experts on racism and hate crimes, and they are on the side of people of color, and all people who feel discriminated against, be it ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, etc., that is they have the moral stature to define who are the haters, and when it is legitimate to call something a hate crime, etc.
Any yet despite their public relations, such as education on hate crimes against homosexuals, these groups are not completely objective or lacking in their own biases or political motives—rather Americans in general have a right and a duty to question their motives.
We Americans live in a schizophrenic world. We are asked to tolerate mass murder of Afghans, Iraqis, Syrians, etc., and to not have any tolerance that simply hurts the ears of sensitive souls. It’s one thing to argue one’s feelings have been hurt by critical statements of others, such as those professors who criticize Israeli policy and practice on American campuses (a practice ADL and other groups have attempted to outlaw as a standard of hate crimes—that is how one subjectively feels) such as some Jewish students claiming to feel intimidated on American campuses by other Middle Eastern peoples who express strong opinions contrarian to what these intimidated one’s want to think or believe or want they want others to think or believe (thus attempting to shutter out free speech on campuses against all who criticize Israel here in the United States): … and it is another thing entirely to feel the hatred of the Israeli government and their think tank culture operating here to manipulate our war weapon machine to engage enormous violence abroad or sell Israelis weapons they use on innocent people. Most people would choose to have their feelings hurt rather than their homes destroyed, their families bombed, and their friends tortured.
Still you can read the likes of Caroline Glick’s “It’s Time to Beat the Jew Haters” because that is still free speech, and then think about the possibility that just maybe some Jewish people can also actually be people who engage in the “hating” of other peoples—a concept we are not much invited to contemplate, that is from a people who claim to be so often history’s victims of hated. They actually having capacity to hate an to engage in hate crimes—in the same manner we can imagine that some of those who complain about hatred against blacks are also equal to have appetite to hate white people?
And something else seldom discussed—the true self-esteem levels and hatred-of-self and others of various ethnic cultures. Too seldom do people acknowledge there are some Afro-Americans are not especially likeable or social, that is they carry an attitude of being bad and egotistical or even exhibit behaviors of being hateful people that is they are not all truly not much fun to be around. Why is this so seldom discussion in those so-called dialogues about racism?
And it can be somewhat ethnocentric to assume that just because one gets loud enough, or angry enough, or demanding enough, or act bully enough then one is inevitably right—which seems to be the style of some who claim to know so much about one-sided are racial issues.
Instead we get the constant insinuation that people are strictly prejudice about color of skin when it may be, at least at times, really more a matter of attitude and behavior. Some seem to have a hard time understanding the way they act toward others and the attitudes they present are greater barriers then their skin color.
Still was it not a hate-crime for Paul Wolfowitz and his Neo-Con-artist Pentagon usurpation of Intelligence to create a separate office within the Pentagon for the purpose of manufacturing phony intelligence to get an illegal war of aggression in the Middle East met—illegal destruction of people and culture? Think of the hundreds of thousands who have died violently, the many residue bombings within over the years as the U.S. has solved nothing (and the killing and torture continues), or the many homeless refugees, not to mention the many tortured in Iraq alone.
This war did not happen because of the “several” false excuses the American public was told, such as Hussein was behind 9/11 or he had weapons of mass destruction, etc., but because, as confirmed, took place because it was what right-wing Israel, AIPAC and the Neocons wanted, war, and more war, and now they are still arguing for even more against Syria and Iran (see “STEPHEN M. WALT
I don’t mean to say I told you so, but…” at: http://foreignpolicy.com/2010/02/08/i-dont-mean-to-say-i-told-you-so-but/
Consider the fact Barack Obama, who was basically succored to opportunities in Harvard, University of Chicago teaching, and later funded by progressive Jewish liberals (and rightly so as he had such potential), the fact is he did little to truly move on many progressive causes. Besides siding with Wall Street and continuing the previous Bush Administration’s horrific foreign policy and Security Police State issues, he did, as the Democratic Party top-down expected truth, that is what AIPAC wanted—that is when Benjamin Netanyahu and his likes engaged in war crimes this summer—acted the Manchurian candidate to puppet the idiocy Israel had a right to protect its citizens—as if that was the real issue.
And this is our problem—we cannot get anyone elected Zionist lobbyists do not approve. Barack Obama’s (and all in both chamber of the legislative branches) violated the American trust in their cowardly acquiescence to Israel’s war crimes—as blatant as they were. Then became all too willing to scream about war crimes committed by ISIS—the second wave of attention grabbing news stories that too would cover in forgetfulness what Israel was again about to get away with.
When we thought we had a good candidate all we really had was another puppet with a silver tongue. Even white men like myself, who had voted for Obama, as Kucinich was edged out, had expected, or had at least hoped, for better than the mediocrity of Rahl Emanuel being appointed Chief of Staff and who deliberately defied doing anything important in regards to closing Guantanamo.
Instead of a White House taking back the Bill of Rights and stopping the growth of the Police State, we got the opposite, people deceived by the Democratic Party that soon forgot its roots. And instead of a long overdue re-evaluation of America’s relationship with Israel we again became sidetracked with domestic issues and the convenience of ISIS creating beheading headlines to equally co-opt headlines.
Every violation any black person has ever felt or imagined from a white police officer would be put to trial. The entire profession of policing would suddenly become the issue of prominence. Over all police brutality, profiling, abuse, etc., was larded into an incident between one white police officer and one black male—building from a crescendo from New York City profiling to Florida Trayvon Martin death, later to Eric Garner of Staten Island to a continuous focus that will not end as certain political activists have found a weapon to incite anger over any incident thus dominate the national conversation—because when you have a national population of 320 million there we always be a few flagrant cases of unjustified violence.
Whereas the henpeck order of American’s moral ladder as projected and perceived by mass propaganda, we seem to accept the idea white men, that is white goyim men, as opposed to white Jewish people, have the least political, social, moral, and ethical capital. This is to say some feel minority people and women are superior to goyim white men, intellectually, socially, morally, politically etc., and therefore they have moral capital to discuss racism and to criticize others. Whereas white men (the eternal enemy in the great divide and conquer) have the least moral capital and so what they think doesn’t really mean all that much because many are suspect in motive as lacking on face.
But we don’t think this reverse racism is racist? And yet there are plenty people, who, when given an opportunity to choose sides between a white male’s versus a black male’s statement of events, when one is arguably victimized and both statement conflict, will side with the black person and assume the white person guilty (and vice a versa). But we are not so ready to call this racism? And yet such racism is more prevalent that what some think (and in some camps a lot more).
[Note: These arguments are not meant to suggest racist issues are not highly relevant on their own. Nor is this paper an attempt to suggest media focus on the Michael Brown killing was some deliberate attempt to sideline focus on Gaza (things can happen and still not be premeditated). Still it is true that when more people could have been more strenuously focused on what happened in flagrance at Gaza (and more importantly thinking about what we could do about it), we were now, once again, invited to focus attention elsewhere, so attention to a long history of injustices in Israel could once again be skirted from scrutiny and confrontation.]
American wars of aggression of late in the Middle East could also be labeled forms of hate crime. Much of these misadventures were the result of distorted or fallacious arguments made up by Neo-Cons and their correspondent media pundits as public relations people. Since 9/11 indiscriminate war, as murder, has happened on a massive scale.
The militarization of police departments finally came to a head at the Ferguson showdown. Finally more news organizations were focused on how local police departments now are supplied with implements of war to crack down on huge populations of people, and to be able to do so with much muscle and violence.
But this phenomenon is primarily a reality of the Department of Homeland Security and its important to remember the creation, of an American version of the Stalinist Cheka, was Senator Joseph Lieberman’s creation.
But even as biased websites like DemocracyNow.Org came to discuss the militarization of police departments they still failed to discuss the millions of hollow point bullets obtained by the DHS and the thousands of machine guns? People here have a hard time imagining that what has happened in other countries such as the massive concentration prisons in Russian or the massive starvation elsewhere could never happen here—apparently because of American exceptionalism—and yet American foreign policy has supported death squads elsewhere and forms of oppression.
So many people critical of our government have been looking warily on the Department of Homeland Security as the Police State gains after 9/11 for a very long time, and still have questions as who really was behind those attacks, not believing the media-hyped stories. And yet the militarization of police departments only comes up in the context of protests and riots involving issues of race—why is that—why is there no discussion that the SPLC is inviting our government to spy on white, goyim groups that they claim represent hate and danger to the general public?
Why is there no parallel being drawn to the evolution of the Soviet Cheka and the evolution of the DHS here today? Why is it so hard for people to understand the level of personal records being stored in massive databases?
Also why are some of the biggest critics of people like Edward Manning, Glenn Greenwald, Julian Assange and Bradley Chelsea Manning thought as normally liberal or centrist lawyers like University of Chicago’s law professor Geoffrey Stone and Harvard’s Alan Dershowitz (who ironically just wrote: Terror Tunnels: The Case for Israel’s War Against Hamas)?
Skepticism has its legitimate place in intellectual history. It is fact the United States foreign policy in the Middle East is dominated by Zionist and Saudi Arabian interests. It is equally a fact American mainstream media is highly influenced by Jewish interests, as are major political campaigns. Chuck Hagel should not have been put in position in which it was suggested he apologize for saying he is an American Senator not an Israeli one. Nor should he be victim to the “political” foreign policy of the State Department.
And yet there is something even more disturbing than what happened this summer in Gaza and that is how the Old Testament itself advocated for war and violence. If you compare the list of legitimate war crimes Israelis engaged this summer to the longer list of violence advocated in the Old Testament, you see very similar patterns of war crime. Google: “Cruelty and violence in the Old Testament” at: www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/cruely/ot_list.html and compare current allegations of war crimes with the Bible.
It is time for mankind to recognize some ancient religions of the Middle East for what they really were and still primarily represent. The modern world can no longer hope for moral authority from a source of authority that has proven itself too different than what rational justice assumes.
If Sheldon Adelson can publicly say he would have already bombed Iran (he would willingly kill thousands and thousands of human people en masse) as he now vows to help finance Hilary Clinton’s campaign, are we not to notice his willingness to kill so many peoples, especially given the Iran threat was so deceitfully a massive propaganda campaign, and is not in an of itself a hate-crime? (See MediaRoots.Org video clip “Ferguson: Riot Double Standard” and especially six & half minutes into this clip with her interview with Max Blumenthal on Germany’ left-wing’s inability to cognitively deal with free speech at Media Roots and all Max Blumenthal has to say on the matter). By the way where are the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League on Sheldon’s speech?
It may well be time for the world to consider officially banning the Bible from having any authority in politics whatsoever. This idea should be brought to the attention of the United Nations to argue and debate, because any religion that advocates violence as does the Bible then it literally condones terrorism. And any organization or government that places credence on these kinds of fanatical religious institutions should be considered fanatical in and of themselves.
Israel—you are coming down your mountain—you and your Yahweh!
Amen
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A few other essays by William Wraithwrite:
YOU CANNOT DIE IN HELL: Using Indefinite Detention for Political and Religious Purposes http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2014/03/515855.html
The Demonization of Dissent in the United States http://www.indymedia.ie/article/102642
Israeli Smack-Down of Christian Political Philosophy: A Deeper Analysis of the Latest Israeli Atrocities in Palestine
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/08/05/18759603.php
See also: “When God Became the Terrorist: Traces Of The Authoritarian Nature of the Three Abrahamic Religions” at:
https://indymedia.org.uk/en/2013/07/511565.html free ebook
Plus check out related:
The Islamophobia of "Homeland" - Deepa Kumar on Reality Asserts Itself (4/5) at: http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=12531
By William Wraithwrite
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In the first week of August heat was really coming to boil over massive and blatant war crimes perpetrated by Israelis against Palestinian civilians in Gaza this summer of 2014.
Even Benjamin Netanyahu was busy contacting our supposedly U. S. Congress-people back then in early August to shield his-self, and his likes, from war crime allegations and potential tribunals, as were being demanded by exploding numbers of protests around the entire world. (See: net stories and also see: “Netanyahu Asks US to Help Israel Avoid War Crimes” at:
http://nypost.com/2014/08/06/netanyahu-asks-us-to-help-israel-avoid-war-crime-charges/ and Report: Netanyahu Asks US Lawmakers To ‘Help Israel Avoid War Crimes Charges’”
http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/08/07/report-netanyahu-asks-us-lawmakers-to-help-israel-avoid-war-crimes-charges/ Also note the photos at Mondoweiss at: http://mondoweiss.net/2014/07/worldwide-protest-israeli. It is important to check out those photos to get a real appreciation of just how angry was the entire world.
A strong message was finally being sent to Zionists world-wide, that even a dumber-down, and more or less well-propagandized world of Christian sheeple, and plenty other orientations as well (especially now with an Internet with alternative communication) people could only tolerate so much of the hideous double standard from Israel’s too long list of criminal acts. And what happened in Gaza this summer amounted to no less than blatant and deliberate terrorism on a grand scale. And ironically ‘terrorism’ was defined by none other than Benjamin Netanyahu himself some years earlier in a book he supposedly wrote—namely terrorism is the “killing of innocent civilians” (see: “Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies Can Defeat the International Terrorist Network, 2001 Edition Chapter 1, page 8.” (Likely you can find it in your public library.)
Meanwhile law professor and prolific human rights activist Majorie Cohn was quick to legally document war crime charges, and she was interviewed by Scott Horton on his radio show (ScottHorton.Org) about her recent publication of these Israeli crimes in the professional law journal The Jurist (see: “US Leaders Aid and Abet Israeli War Crimes, Genocide & Crimes against Humanity” at:
http://jurist.org/forum/2014/08/marjorie-cohn-israel-crimes.php ). Yet surprisingly this interview has become “lost”, that is has mostly disappeared from Internet search engines such as on Google and Yahoo—no doubt showing the ‘vestige’ (as in the word ‘investigate’) to its potential damaging effect, that is to the too often false image of what Israelis and right-wing Jews worldwide want to project about themselves versus a much different reality. The fact this interview “disappeared” from a very prominent and highly respected foreign news analysis website, is major violation of free speech (ACLU where are you), and is in itself an important clue to understanding motives and issues taking place (and “you” do want to find it and listen to this interview—if you are a true truth seeker). A few lesser known search engines still make it available (search DuckDuckGo.com can’t find now but it is out there somewhere).
Media attention had dramatically shifted in August, for many people, especially those of the rainbow coalition (a huge political chunk of the U.S. population), as well as for plenty other liberal as well as conservative suasions, as many have become convinced what happened in Ferguson Missouri was a “hate crime” because it involved a white police officer and a black death. A massive amount of psychic energy has fervently bought into the notion that Darren Wilson, whatever his human vulnerabilities, was motivated by one primary reason—the other perpetrator, who apparently slugged him in his police car, was a black person, and that he, the white cop, therefore had a dark soul motivated to kill this man because not only was he potentially violent but he was black. That is to say the black and white features of skin color is all that really matters to many who demand the entire world accept this premise as forgone conclusion—another incident strictly based on white racism.
And maybe this scenario is true?
I do not claim to know. And yet what I question are the motives of some people who were, and are, so zealously motivated to convince me one way or another, as if these opinion shapers know beyond a shadow of a doubt absolute truth.
For example I do not respect news sources who continuously show pictures of Michael Brown as a young boy when it turns out he weighed over two hundred fifty pounds and was 6’ 4” the day he died—already there is distortion of information being presented while same sources keep referring to him in stock terms such as innocent teenager, as if young age automatically equals innocence—that is while many people know plenty of violence happens from young people; although all people are somewhat innocent in the sense that they all are not all knowing, all calculating, and all evil.
Few, if any, people actually know beyond a shadow of a doubt the full story. The Internet offers us various versions and arguments as many are at odds with each other. For example some argument Michael Brown had a long list of previous crimes including felonies, while others argue he did not have any serious previous crime history. Some argue the autopsy shows the officer’s version was correct (including a report in the Washington Post) whereas other arguments claim differently.
It is in this ambiguity of how the arguments have been brought to our attention, that is of the public, that has made this case so media consuming—and certain groups and websites have taken this issue on as a major cause—which is neither praiseworthy or disturbing on this fact alone—but people have a right to question the motives of some of these sources as well as to what all drives them who claim to only want to find truth.
And yet what exactly is a “hate crime” if what happened in Gaza this summer doesn’t equally qualify? How it was this imminently important story more or less just slipped away from activists’ attention here in the United States?
What happened this summer by the Benjamin Netanyahu government, in respect to its deliberate deceit and deliberate violation of every imaginable idea of human right is very important for the entire world to focus (especially here in the United States that basically was the one nation that could have made a difference, and yet our government, that is to say our supposedly elected leaders (and yet all are more or less vetted by AIPAC influence) allowed these levels of crimes to ensue—while they played puppet and parrot to lame excuse about Israel’s right to defend itself).
To now suddenly ignore this immensity of recent history getting sidetracked primarily to one domestic issue of related racism stories is tragedy—because it allows those who perpetrated these massive hate crimes to get away with what should never be allowed—especially by a so-called Jewish nation of people who claim to be so concerned about human dignity and rights.
Surely how police agents operate in any society is an extremely important political subject.
But Americans need to pay attention not just to national police issues as brutality, profiling, racism, injustice, violence, etc., but also to who and why some organizations may be playing up such hyper-awareness of specific events, that is certain self-ordained individuals are groping to find a pattern from a nation of close to 320 million people, with about eight percent of this entire population having felony convictions of which blacks have about twenty percent (being thirteen percent of the population).
Obviously numbers or facts alone do not paint an entire humanist picture. But examining statistics that some circles do not find much solace or intellectual comfort, isn’t the same as trying to make up imaged patterns for any particular crime, such as hate, murder or injustice. But if you consider there are about one million police officers in the United States, and although there are no exact figures on the number killed by police, numbers discussed as tentatively surmised range from estimates of 500 to 1500 a year. So assume 1,000 people are killed by police in a given year (a fair assumption) we get a statistic that says one in one thousand officers will kill someone in a given year.
Eugene Robinson, black columnists of the Washington Post Syndicated Group says the FBI’s “justifiable police killings” over the last years is roughly 400 a year with an average of 96 white police officers killing blacks. But let’s say white police officers kill 200 black people annually. Then one million police officers nationally (many but not all are white) divided by 200 deaths equals 5000 (or one in 5000 police officers kill a black person per year). That means 4,999 out of 5000 do not and there is little focus on this disparity.
And yet this is a very different picture then what some people want to suggest. Rather they give the impression racism is a super rampant truth here in the United States and that white police officers are killing black men willy-nilly left and right. In another words there is a certain amount of alarmist deception going on that few people are talking about—especially from those websites that claim to be so hoity-toity truth seeking.
Those who are fanning the flames and are not willing to tamp down on their own biases or pre-conceptions often because of various “political” motives (or because their personalities dictate truth through their own perceptual lens), and so they engage in the act of cherry picking stories across the entire nation to suggest more extremist versions of racism across the country—painting a distorted picture—but claiming they have discovered truth and that white people must now surrender to their obvious superior understanding of life.
However Juan Williams, a famous black journalist and columnist, was willing to talk about this and he said: “Black on black homicide was the number #1 killer of black males between the ages of 15 and 34. Randomly looking at some Internet websites I came across a statement from a 2007 U.S, Bureau of Justice Statistics report that said in 2005 there were 7,999 black homicides and 93% was committed by blacks of the same race. This amounts to 21 blacks killing blacks each day of that year.
Ferguson became a place where some so-called experts wanted the American public’s focus to ingrain itself—that is to focus on what they would market as an example of hate crimes committed by people who they readily label, and think of as, white male extremists (that is goyim or non-Jewish whites who they want to point out are Thee most racist of people in America and who are endlessly oppressing minorities), people like what one assumes to belong to KKK, Neo-Nazis, or other so-labeled white hate groups, etc.
[Note: my argument is not to denigrate or slight any unjustified death. Certainly racism in police work is an important vein of research and activity to pursue for people who feel violated or threatened, especially as blacks—and who feel such ideas corroborate with life experiences—they should put their spiritual and psychic energy to causes they feel most imminent.]
But it is important to notice there has been a major re-focusing to racist issues here in the United States (not just by mainstream media but alternative media) from what people “know” were blatant and obvious war crimes of killing and maiming of thousands (and many children) in Gaza by white Caucasian Jews. Instead we got a marketing campaign that alleged hate crime were rife in Ferguson Missouri (even if the facts on the ground were more ambiguous and yet more appealing for allegations and passions).
Racism has always been an issue here in the United States and it could be true it is more prevalent than what too many assume—especially for those who feel profiled as blacks. This is not being disputed.
For a short while even activists here in the United States were back on the street (generally a torpid lot) and were protesting war crimes in Gaza that week of July the 27th (in which the entire world held huge parades abounding everywhere). It really was quite amazing.
But where did all that indignity and righteous anger dissipate?
Suddenly along came to the media radar Michael Brown’s death just when the world was in a real uproar about repeated violence and blatant attacks on civilians and children —knowing intuitively such attacks were deliberate crimes. The Ferguson killing reports seemed spontaneous anger and allegation and no one suggests otherwise.
At the end of July, here within the United States, high numbers, representing a wide spectrum of the American society, were back to marching in parades—as American apathy momentarily died—and then it suddenly was about to hopscotch to another funeral entirely.
Police brutality had been on the radar before with cases like the much publicized story of Trayvon Martin’s death in Florida, in which there was a huge activist push to convince this country of white racism in and police departments, and the country as a whole, as some liberal websites concluded “killed for being black”; and yes suspicious events and circumstances allowed for such a conclusion of injustice haunting too many black people everywhere.
From then racism stories about police were to take a life of its own as the media world and think tanks could now pin prick any needle from a haystack to focus on those particular stories that gave examples of injustice (even if mathematical statistics would throw water on those who continued to create alarmist pictures of police murder happening everywhere).
There are white people killed by white police officers and seldom is this questioned unless those killed are homeless or mentally ill. This statement might seem indifference to the truth of racism, but it could be possibility for think tanks to focus on white males killed by white officers in the statistical ball park of 320 million people so they could make a case of blatant violation (and even video recordings) and show to the world a succession of incidents to give impression few white people are safe.
Again this is not to argue there is no serious racism in America or racist murder.
And yet one argument hardly ever asked publicly is how much racism do white police officers deal from people of color?
Perhaps police deal with a great deal of hostility and hatred of authority in general (this phenomenon certainly exists) and white officers may deal with a lot of hatred by black people? How come this issue is seldom discussed in the media?
In fact there are a lot of people who hate police from all colors and a lot of people who hate any kind of authority asserting itself. Some of that hatred of police may be justified or some of it may be more based on personality trait, selective thought, and criminal identity.
One could then argue that some political activists and journalists, who constantly focus on creating a picture of rampant white police racism against black victims, are actually attempting to increase black hatred and racism of white police? And also it is possible to imagine that some who do so also hate police or hate white people or hate both—but this is not the road many want to explore.
Even within the so-called white community there are plenty of whites that hate other whites that they see as different from themselves. Some equally hate forms of authority they assume represent groups they despise.
And frankly hatred as an emotion is little distinguished from hatred as an act. Instead people are often manipulated to feel guilt for either as the feeling of hostility may be healthy at times. Still it makes for great fodder for guilt-trips.
Somehow we, the American public, are presumed to not assume defiance and attitudes of disrespect acted out in the real world, including very ugly forms of defiance and disrespect acted out toward police and especially at white police? Naiveté too comes to be vulnerability as those who cry wolf often enough have their own issues.
Eric Hoffer wrote a book back in the 1970s, The True Believer in which he describes many mass movements arise from fanaticism, frustration and self-righteousness (there are videos on the Internet that discuss this book as worthy of comprehending); and yet when it comes to any and all issues raised by the rainbow coalition, be it feminist issues about ever growing violence against women and the need for more laws or racist issues there is seldom questions raised about the mindset of some of those people who yell and scream about their righteous causes. Rather it is presumed any distortion of reality from the rainbow is more likely to emanate from white people who supposedly are always in denial on matters.
So then if certain people are eagerly plotting to riot and burn down businesses (even if those businesses are owned by fellow black business owners) then supposedly that is OK for those rioting criminals who pretend being saintly activists to engage such as worthy because they claim they have no alternative way of getting justice?
We are not invited to suspect some attracted to protests against authority, are not equally within themselves authoritarian personalities, who readily engage a life and philosophy of anarchism, in which they do not believe in any form of acceptable authority save their one life of willfulness? Instead if they claim to fight for the underdog and the victim then it must be truth.
Maybe the public has a right to be skeptical of some peoples’ assertions about blatant racism everywhere irrespective of how strongly they may believe what they claim—and this is equally true of those who report and opine on such matters?
And this fervency of demanding the world get on its knees and admit blatant racism everywhere here in the United States was also fanned by some websites that gave limited attention to racist events in Israel?
For example, the Daily Kos, a major Democratic Party website of sorts, and one heavily focused almost exclusively on convicting Darren Brown in the court of public opinion, did report on Gaza atrocities this summer, but their editorial team didn’t expend any great effort or passion either getting much riled up about those ugly facts on the ground, even if they needed no priming or cosmetic filtering. Kos offered little opinion like refuting, for example, the false claims by the Israeli government as to why they felt they had to attack Gaza and Hamas.
Nevertheless this highly activist website has gone to great lengths to bring the Ferguson story into question at every conceivable level to show it was white police racism and to keep the country’s mind focused there? Why the double standard? Furthermore and equally important the editorial group at the Daily Kos doesn’t seem at all bothered that Hilary Clinton would become the next Democrat President candidate—a person who upsets a lot of real progressives knowing what that would likely mean.
This is not arguing focus on Ferguson is not worthy or justified but why so much disparity between hundreds of thousands who suffered in Gaza for 50 days of aggression by Israel versus one death in Ferguson. So this then is not only a fair question to ask from a website that has so much influence on Democrats and Liberals with it constant emails but one that assumes to be so adamantly self-righteous at times.
Despite then, the clean and courageously stated criminal allegations made against the Israeli government (where even many lawyers dare not tread) by law professor Marjorie Cohn’s indictment of Israel this summer but the story was fast falling off the radar and today it has pretty much disappeared under a cloud. You can see the dramatic shift of events by going into DemocracyNow.Org archives to the first few weeks of August. There we see the heat on Israel’s monstrosities and then what happened in much of the media was almost a complete 180; however Amy Goodman at Democracy Now did manage to get some very important interviews. See
http://www.democracynow.org/2014/9/1/a_slaughter_of_innocents_henry_siegman http://www.democracynow.org/2014/8/11/sadistic_grotesque_noam_chomsky_on_how Americans got pulled into another controversy, that worked, whether intended or not, as deflection away from United Nations efforts with civilians being bombed because of Zionist racism in Palestine.
Where is all that vociferous anger this terribly managed State Department debacle demanded? Some lost soul named John Kerry, who once was an idealist Lieutenant in Vietnam, was now caught complaining “…that was a hell of a pin-point operation…” attesting to those who cannot see the obvious, that not only is Israel not honest with the American culture, it is far from honest in dealing with our Government as well, because Netanyahu went out of his way to engage in the most blatant civilian crimes imaginable, and he did it with the assumed audacity he and his likes would get away with it, as how mafia Dons basically act.
Their willful criminality was meant to tell the world nobody ever tells the Israeli people anything about how to be or what to do. We must ask ourselves what kind of class of people assumes to rise to such a level of arrogance and hostility.
Perhaps we might start with religious presumptions? To this end of this long essay we will close on the idea that examining closely a comparison to the many cases of violence cited in the Old Testament and these latest series of criminal acts that took place this summer, show little difference in spirit—thus shows the Bible cannot possibly be a legitimate form of moral or political authority.
Barack Obama’s White House, or whoever really controls it these days, and most of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives deliberately looked the other way when all those egregious acts of bombs and killing of children and innocent people, the destruction of important infrastructure, many homes lost took place (over 50 days), not to mention United Nations people being routinely attacked, etc., all this truth from this summer would be side-swept away by an obsession with some to suddenly decide the most important and dire issue for Americans to think about was to re- focus to domestic violence by police (and this push of alignment was reinforced by some political think tanks and certain news stations).
Not surprisingly The Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that has come under much criticism over their controversial tactics, style, and conclusions, came out shortly after the Brown killing to denounce it right off, arguing it was, in one way or anther, tied to other forms of racism presumably by white supremacists, Neo-Nazis and other “goyim” white radical groups. And it’s important to understand this was happening at the “peak” of when the entire world was vigorously protesting against Israel, to say, Israel and Zionism did in fact suddenly have a major public relations problem to deal quickly as it became suddenly a tether of deep anxiety (and guilt and rightly so).
The Southern Poverty Law Center seems a de facto a Zionist organization like the Anti-Defamation League. It is not officially so but it acts as if it were a cousin to the NeoCon powers in Washington, creating hysteria about racism and hate crimes with great attention on getting people to think about labeling some goyim white groups as the most racist and most likely to engage in hate crimes (not to argue they do not exist). Yet even the Weekly Standard had to take issue to with this organization’s politics and conclusions. Wow!
So if one surveys the SPLC website (self-purported team investigating hate crimes) there is very little about hate-crimes of deception committed by official news media personnel such as those who invariably argue for war against Muslims (using Islamo-phobia) or those who continuously suggest that Muslims are fanatics, barbarians, invariably violent, etc. so as to continue to justify a “clash of cultures” that benefits the culture of Israel and Saudi Arabia.
Was it not a hate crime for the New York Times to allow Judith Miller and her crony ethnic look-alike Michael R. Gordon (see:
http://antiwar.com/blog/2014/08/03/beware-the-new-york-timess-michaelr-gordon/ to lie the American public into an illegal war in Iraq—given how many tens to hundreds of thousands of Iraqis would then suffer in very serious ways—that is given such reporting comprised of deliberate lies and not simply naiveté as explained?
It must noted the Southern Poverty Law Center has a minor smidgeon of articles on obviously blatant cases of some minor number of Jews who have spread racist ideas, but when you really think of the vast numbers of Muslims that have been killed and affected by American foreign policy (and the media’s complicity) one would think that the SPLC and the ADL would have massive data-bases of racist Jews and racist Americans who support right-wing and too often Zionist actions in the Middle East? But instead both these groups focus almost all their energy on labeling other goyim groups as hate groups and then inviting the likes of the FBI or Homeland Security (and Israel intelligence as well) to spy on these many American peoples they have fingered.
If you believe that the SPLC and the ADL are objective then do yourself a study—read and listen to what David Duke has actually written and said in his own words at his website DavidDuke.Com and then survey and read what these supposedly hate-identifying websites have claimed about him. Even if you are convinced David Duke is a racist or Klan member or a hypocrite. Do your own study and even if you don’t like Mr. Duke you can readily see that that both these organizations are far from honest or objective.
And there are at least two important reasons why this kind of reverse racism is important. One is that if there is ever any real reason for The People to rise up against tyrannical government it is likely within some of the Patriot and Tea Party groups could have some ability to rebel against such a strong and well-armed government as the United States. Whereas the fact that too often America’s foreign policy serves Israel’s interests over our own invites some to want to continue illegal wars and aggression abroad even if it is not ethical or financially wise. And these special interests will espouse massive scale spying on Americans if they are critical.
Instead some of these so-called hate-fighters are more motivated to get the government to confiscate the citizen’s right to own guns—an exceedingly foolish idea—as no government should ever be trusted to the point that they are allowed to outlaw guns from the populace—and yet that is exactly what some so-called progressives are in effect doing—finding every case of gun violence to focus so as to create a political movement to outlaw weapons.
Another reason why it is alarming is that certain groups, such as some progressive Jewish people, who claim to represent minorities “against” white goyim men is to convince minorities and women of the rainbow coalition they are Thee experts on racism and hate crimes, and they are on the side of people of color, and all people who feel discriminated against, be it ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, etc., that is they have the moral stature to define who are the haters, and when it is legitimate to call something a hate crime, etc.
Any yet despite their public relations, such as education on hate crimes against homosexuals, these groups are not completely objective or lacking in their own biases or political motives—rather Americans in general have a right and a duty to question their motives.
We Americans live in a schizophrenic world. We are asked to tolerate mass murder of Afghans, Iraqis, Syrians, etc., and to not have any tolerance that simply hurts the ears of sensitive souls. It’s one thing to argue one’s feelings have been hurt by critical statements of others, such as those professors who criticize Israeli policy and practice on American campuses (a practice ADL and other groups have attempted to outlaw as a standard of hate crimes—that is how one subjectively feels) such as some Jewish students claiming to feel intimidated on American campuses by other Middle Eastern peoples who express strong opinions contrarian to what these intimidated one’s want to think or believe or want they want others to think or believe (thus attempting to shutter out free speech on campuses against all who criticize Israel here in the United States): … and it is another thing entirely to feel the hatred of the Israeli government and their think tank culture operating here to manipulate our war weapon machine to engage enormous violence abroad or sell Israelis weapons they use on innocent people. Most people would choose to have their feelings hurt rather than their homes destroyed, their families bombed, and their friends tortured.
Still you can read the likes of Caroline Glick’s “It’s Time to Beat the Jew Haters” because that is still free speech, and then think about the possibility that just maybe some Jewish people can also actually be people who engage in the “hating” of other peoples—a concept we are not much invited to contemplate, that is from a people who claim to be so often history’s victims of hated. They actually having capacity to hate an to engage in hate crimes—in the same manner we can imagine that some of those who complain about hatred against blacks are also equal to have appetite to hate white people?
And something else seldom discussed—the true self-esteem levels and hatred-of-self and others of various ethnic cultures. Too seldom do people acknowledge there are some Afro-Americans are not especially likeable or social, that is they carry an attitude of being bad and egotistical or even exhibit behaviors of being hateful people that is they are not all truly not much fun to be around. Why is this so seldom discussion in those so-called dialogues about racism?
And it can be somewhat ethnocentric to assume that just because one gets loud enough, or angry enough, or demanding enough, or act bully enough then one is inevitably right—which seems to be the style of some who claim to know so much about one-sided are racial issues.
Instead we get the constant insinuation that people are strictly prejudice about color of skin when it may be, at least at times, really more a matter of attitude and behavior. Some seem to have a hard time understanding the way they act toward others and the attitudes they present are greater barriers then their skin color.
Still was it not a hate-crime for Paul Wolfowitz and his Neo-Con-artist Pentagon usurpation of Intelligence to create a separate office within the Pentagon for the purpose of manufacturing phony intelligence to get an illegal war of aggression in the Middle East met—illegal destruction of people and culture? Think of the hundreds of thousands who have died violently, the many residue bombings within over the years as the U.S. has solved nothing (and the killing and torture continues), or the many homeless refugees, not to mention the many tortured in Iraq alone.
This war did not happen because of the “several” false excuses the American public was told, such as Hussein was behind 9/11 or he had weapons of mass destruction, etc., but because, as confirmed, took place because it was what right-wing Israel, AIPAC and the Neocons wanted, war, and more war, and now they are still arguing for even more against Syria and Iran (see “STEPHEN M. WALT
I don’t mean to say I told you so, but…” at:
http://foreignpolicy.com/2010/02/08/i-dont-mean-to-say-i-told-you-so-but/ Consider the fact Barack Obama, who was basically succored to opportunities in Harvard, University of Chicago teaching, and later funded by progressive Jewish liberals (and rightly so as he had such potential), the fact is he did little to truly move on many progressive causes. Besides siding with Wall Street and continuing the previous Bush Administration’s horrific foreign policy and Security Police State issues, he did, as the Democratic Party top-down expected truth, that is what AIPAC wanted—that is when Benjamin Netanyahu and his likes engaged in war crimes this summer—acted the Manchurian candidate to puppet the idiocy Israel had a right to protect its citizens—as if that was the real issue.
And this is our problem—we cannot get anyone elected Zionist lobbyists do not approve. Barack Obama’s (and all in both chamber of the legislative branches) violated the American trust in their cowardly acquiescence to Israel’s war crimes—as blatant as they were. Then became all too willing to scream about war crimes committed by ISIS—the second wave of attention grabbing news stories that too would cover in forgetfulness what Israel was again about to get away with.
When we thought we had a good candidate all we really had was another puppet with a silver tongue. Even white men like myself, who had voted for Obama, as Kucinich was edged out, had expected, or had at least hoped, for better than the mediocrity of Rahl Emanuel being appointed Chief of Staff and who deliberately defied doing anything important in regards to closing Guantanamo.
Instead of a White House taking back the Bill of Rights and stopping the growth of the Police State, we got the opposite, people deceived by the Democratic Party that soon forgot its roots. And instead of a long overdue re-evaluation of America’s relationship with Israel we again became sidetracked with domestic issues and the convenience of ISIS creating beheading headlines to equally co-opt headlines.
Every violation any black person has ever felt or imagined from a white police officer would be put to trial. The entire profession of policing would suddenly become the issue of prominence. Over all police brutality, profiling, abuse, etc., was larded into an incident between one white police officer and one black male—building from a crescendo from New York City profiling to Florida Trayvon Martin death, later to Eric Garner of Staten Island to a continuous focus that will not end as certain political activists have found a weapon to incite anger over any incident thus dominate the national conversation—because when you have a national population of 320 million there we always be a few flagrant cases of unjustified violence.
Whereas the henpeck order of American’s moral ladder as projected and perceived by mass propaganda, we seem to accept the idea white men, that is white goyim men, as opposed to white Jewish people, have the least political, social, moral, and ethical capital. This is to say some feel minority people and women are superior to goyim white men, intellectually, socially, morally, politically etc., and therefore they have moral capital to discuss racism and to criticize others. Whereas white men (the eternal enemy in the great divide and conquer) have the least moral capital and so what they think doesn’t really mean all that much because many are suspect in motive as lacking on face.
But we don’t think this reverse racism is racist? And yet there are plenty people, who, when given an opportunity to choose sides between a white male’s versus a black male’s statement of events, when one is arguably victimized and both statement conflict, will side with the black person and assume the white person guilty (and vice a versa). But we are not so ready to call this racism? And yet such racism is more prevalent that what some think (and in some camps a lot more).
[Note: These arguments are not meant to suggest racist issues are not highly relevant on their own. Nor is this paper an attempt to suggest media focus on the Michael Brown killing was some deliberate attempt to sideline focus on Gaza (things can happen and still not be premeditated). Still it is true that when more people could have been more strenuously focused on what happened in flagrance at Gaza (and more importantly thinking about what we could do about it), we were now, once again, invited to focus attention elsewhere, so attention to a long history of injustices in Israel could once again be skirted from scrutiny and confrontation.]
American wars of aggression of late in the Middle East could also be labeled forms of hate crime. Much of these misadventures were the result of distorted or fallacious arguments made up by Neo-Cons and their correspondent media pundits as public relations people. Since 9/11 indiscriminate war, as murder, has happened on a massive scale.
The militarization of police departments finally came to a head at the Ferguson showdown. Finally more news organizations were focused on how local police departments now are supplied with implements of war to crack down on huge populations of people, and to be able to do so with much muscle and violence.
But this phenomenon is primarily a reality of the Department of Homeland Security and its important to remember the creation, of an American version of the Stalinist Cheka, was Senator Joseph Lieberman’s creation.
But even as biased websites like DemocracyNow.Org came to discuss the militarization of police departments they still failed to discuss the millions of hollow point bullets obtained by the DHS and the thousands of machine guns? People here have a hard time imagining that what has happened in other countries such as the massive concentration prisons in Russian or the massive starvation elsewhere could never happen here—apparently because of American exceptionalism—and yet American foreign policy has supported death squads elsewhere and forms of oppression.
So many people critical of our government have been looking warily on the Department of Homeland Security as the Police State gains after 9/11 for a very long time, and still have questions as who really was behind those attacks, not believing the media-hyped stories. And yet the militarization of police departments only comes up in the context of protests and riots involving issues of race—why is that—why is there no discussion that the SPLC is inviting our government to spy on white, goyim groups that they claim represent hate and danger to the general public?
Why is there no parallel being drawn to the evolution of the Soviet Cheka and the evolution of the DHS here today? Why is it so hard for people to understand the level of personal records being stored in massive databases?
Also why are some of the biggest critics of people like Edward Manning, Glenn Greenwald, Julian Assange and Bradley Chelsea Manning thought as normally liberal or centrist lawyers like University of Chicago’s law professor Geoffrey Stone and Harvard’s Alan Dershowitz (who ironically just wrote: Terror Tunnels: The Case for Israel’s War Against Hamas)?
Skepticism has its legitimate place in intellectual history. It is fact the United States foreign policy in the Middle East is dominated by Zionist and Saudi Arabian interests. It is equally a fact American mainstream media is highly influenced by Jewish interests, as are major political campaigns. Chuck Hagel should not have been put in position in which it was suggested he apologize for saying he is an American Senator not an Israeli one. Nor should he be victim to the “political” foreign policy of the State Department.
And yet there is something even more disturbing than what happened this summer in Gaza and that is how the Old Testament itself advocated for war and violence. If you compare the list of legitimate war crimes Israelis engaged this summer to the longer list of violence advocated in the Old Testament, you see very similar patterns of war crime. Google: “Cruelty and violence in the Old Testament” at: www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/cruely/ot_list.html and compare current allegations of war crimes with the Bible.
It is time for mankind to recognize some ancient religions of the Middle East for what they really were and still primarily represent. The modern world can no longer hope for moral authority from a source of authority that has proven itself too different than what rational justice assumes.
If Sheldon Adelson can publicly say he would have already bombed Iran (he would willingly kill thousands and thousands of human people en masse) as he now vows to help finance Hilary Clinton’s campaign, are we not to notice his willingness to kill so many peoples, especially given the Iran threat was so deceitfully a massive propaganda campaign, and is not in an of itself a hate-crime? (See MediaRoots.Org video clip “Ferguson: Riot Double Standard” and especially six & half minutes into this clip with her interview with Max Blumenthal on Germany’ left-wing’s inability to cognitively deal with free speech at Media Roots and all Max Blumenthal has to say on the matter). By the way where are the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League on Sheldon’s speech?
It may well be time for the world to consider officially banning the Bible from having any authority in politics whatsoever. This idea should be brought to the attention of the United Nations to argue and debate, because any religion that advocates violence as does the Bible then it literally condones terrorism. And any organization or government that places credence on these kinds of fanatical religious institutions should be considered fanatical in and of themselves.
Israel—you are coming down your mountain—you and your Yahweh!
Amen
[Note: If you feel this message is important, then by all means, email, fax, print, manually mail, propagate, tweet, twitter, and publish to all that Paul Revere and Thomas Paine would gather.]
A few other essays by William Wraithwrite:
YOU CANNOT DIE IN HELL: Using Indefinite Detention for Political and Religious Purposes
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2014/03/515855.html The Demonization of Dissent in the United States
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/102642 Israeli Smack-Down of Christian Political Philosophy: A Deeper Analysis of the Latest Israeli Atrocities in Palestine
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/08/05/18759603.php See also: “When God Became the Terrorist: Traces Of The Authoritarian Nature of the Three Abrahamic Religions” at:
https://indymedia.org.uk/en/2013/07/511565.html free ebook Plus check out related:
The Islamophobia of "Homeland" - Deepa Kumar on Reality Asserts Itself (4/5) at:
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=12531
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