[HPN] [Fwd: Giuliani link w. Haider like GW w. Bob Jones]

ARON KAY pieman@pieman.org
Tue, 29 Feb 2000 01:07:39 -0500


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Dana Beal wrote:

> Bigot Connection Has G.W., Giuliani Squirming!
> By Robert Lederman
>
> Perhaps you heard GW Bush's actual statement to the media on
> 2/27/2000 rather than the excerpted version quoted in most
> newspapers. According to GW he "didn't know" Bob Jones
> University, a renowned center for fundamentalist right-wing
> Christian culture, taught racist or anti-Catholic views. He didn't
> know they equated the Pope with the anti-Christ and the
> Catholic Church with a Satanic cult. He didn't know they
> advocated and practiced segregation. He didn't know they lost a
> famous U.S. Supreme Court case in which the IRS had revoked
> the schools’ tax exempt status because, according to the IRS,  it
> practiced racism [see link below]. He didn't even know that the
> university's president, Bob Jones Jr., had called Bush's own
> father a devil. End of story, that is, if you believe GW Bush.
>
> There are two possible conclusions one can draw from Mr.
> Bush's statement. The first is that Bush and his campaign staff
> are so incompetent, uninformed and insensitive that he is clearly
> unqualified to be President of the U.S. The second and far more
> likely conclusion is that Bush and his advisors fully understood
> what Bob Jones University represents and deliberately arranged
> for him to speak there in order to win approval among voters who
> would find his appearance at such an institution a good reason to
> vote for him.
>
> Bush endorser and rumored candidate for U.S. Attorney General
> in a GW Bush Presidential administration, NYC Mayor Rudolph
> Giuliani, recently tried a similarly lame attempt at plausible
> deniability. After celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday
> on 1/17/2000 by dining and then posing for photos with
> Austria's ultra right neo-Nazi Jorge Haider, Giuliani denied
> knowing who Haider was. This absurd denial was generally
> accepted by the media despite the fact that on the very night of
> the dinner Haider had a contingent of New York City police
> officers protecting him; despite the fact that influential Jewish
> leaders had pressured the Mayor to reroute the 1999 NYC
> Marathon so that Haider, who has publicly praised Hitler and the
> SS, wouldn't run through a predominantly Jewish neighborhood
> filled with Holocaust survivors; despite the fact that Haider
> finally did run in the Marathon surrounded by undercover NYC
> police; and despite the fact that CORE, the conservative
> organization that sponsored the King day “celebration” Giuliani
> and Haider attended had only weeks before held a well
> publicized panel discussion concerning Haider’s Hitler
> connection.
>
> These Haider issues, in addition to many reports on Haider's
> notoriety in Europe, had been the subject of extensive NYC
> newspaper and television coverage in the weeks immediately
> preceding the Giuliani/Haider controversy . Additionally, the
> Mayor, who has almost as large a security contingent as the U.S.
> President, has an advance team that does both security and
> political checks before any appearance. This team of experts
> would certainly have known of Haider's participation in the King
> Day dinner and of his identity. Like his pal GW Bush, Giuliani
> managed to fend off weeks of questions and criticism before
> feeling compelled to make even a weak statement distancing
> himself from Haider.
>
> At issue isn't whether or not Bush, Giuliani or any other elected
> official has the right to associate with Nazis, bigots or racists.
> They unquestionably do. Neither is the issue a matter of guilt by
> association. If Bush had merely been in a room with Bob Jones
> Jr. or if Giuliani had merely been in a room with Haider there
> would be no controversy. Unfortunately, these were not
> incidental associations. The issue that needs to be addressed is
> should these candidates for higher office be allowed to lie to the
> public by claiming that they didn't know who these people were
> or what they represent at the time of their association.
>
> Both Bush and Giuliani like to use the term compassionate to
> describe themselves and their policies. Bush, the Texas governor
> who signed the final papers authorizing almost 25% of all the
> executions performed in the U.S. during the past few years,
> claims Jesus Christ is his role model. Bush’'s grandfather, former
> US Senator Prescott Bush, was so instrumental in funding Adolf
> Hitler and the Third Reich that the U.S. Congress was forced to
> freeze some of the Bush family's banking assets [see: Office of
> Alien Property Custodian, vesting order # 248. Order signed by
> Leo T. Crowley, Alien Property Custodian, executed October 20,
> 1942; Fed Reg Doc 42-11568, Filed Nov. 6, 1942 11:31 AM; 7
> Fed Reg. 9097November 7, 1942]. The Bush family fortune and
> its attendant right-wing political connections are the sole reason
> GW Bush is presently in a position to run for President. During
> his administration Bush's father, former President and CIA chief
> George Bush, actively supported dictators and far-right political
> organizations that practiced murderous human rights abuses
> against indigenous peoples in Latin America and elsewhere.
>
> Giuliani also receives funding from far right groups and has been
> endorsed by Congressmen that speak before racist and Klan
> related organizations, including Bob Barr and Trent Lott.
> Giuliani was the U.S. Justice Department official under Reagan
> who claimed he'd investigated the regime of murderous Haitian
> dictator Baby Doc Duvalier and found it to be free of human
> rights abuses. He then arranged for Haitian political refugees to
> be forcibly returned to Haiti and certain death. Giuliani was also
> instrumental in helping the Reagan administration create the
> so-called war on drugs, a policy responsible for imprisoning
> close to one million non-violent black and Latino Americans; a
> policy which numerous elected officials and judges admit
> sentences blacks and Latinos differently than whites.
>
> Giuliani's career as NYC Mayor has been marked by continual
> accusations of racism. These charges have been made by the
> widest possible spectrum of critics from every race, religion and
> social class including ministers, judges, rabbis, priests, elected
> officials, former NYC Mayors, and even top NYPD officials
> including former Police Commissioner Bill Bratton. Giuliani has
> lost more civil rights cases while Mayor than any other elected
> official in U.S. history. His administration is currently under
> investigation by both the Federal and State governments for a
> variety of civil rights abuses and policies that specifically target
> minorities.
>
> For a man that professes to be a friend to the Jewish community
> Rudy Giuliani also has some interesting connections to Nazi
> Germany and Fascism. Leica Camera, a corporation that admits
> having used Jewish slave labor during the WWII, sponsored
> Giuliani’s one man photo show in NY. Chase Bank, which has
> admitted to helping Hitler loot Jewish bank accounts throughout
> Europe, is a major ally and contributor of the Mayor’s. While
> Giuliani has slashed funding for arts organizations throughout
> NYC he's given the Rockefeller's art museum, The Museum of
> Modern Art, more than 65 million in tax dollars as a gift. The
> museum insists on showing art looted from Jewish collectors by
> the Nazis and refuses to return it to the families of its rightful
> owners. The same Rockefeller family funded Mengele's
> experiments in Auschwitz and was a major promoter throughout
> the world of race-based Eugenics.
>
> The Mayor proudly admits that The Manhattan Institute is the
> source of most of his policy decisions. This CIA-initiated right
> wing "think tank" advocates a modern version of Eugenics, the
> exact philosophy that Hitler claimed as the source of many of his
> own race-based policies. GW Bush recently spoke at a
> Manhattan Institute event and endorsed their policies.
>
> This past Fall Giuliani ordered a toxic organophosphate nerve
> gas derived from the nerve gasses invented and used by the Nazis
> to be repeatedly sprayed on eight million New Yorkers. While
> the Mayor insisted the toxic gas was “completely safe” it later
> came to light that his own Chem-bio handbook which is
> distributed to thousands of NYC police stations and ambulances
> describes Malathion as follows: "Page #76. Malathion is a
> commonly used organophosphate insecticide that causes the
> same biological effects as nerve agents. Malathion itself is
> relatively non-toxic, but it is quickly metabolized in the body to
> maloxin, which is the toxic material. This causes effects similar
> to those caused by nerve agents...Malathion can be absorbed by
> ingestion or through the skin." Minority neighborhoods received
> massive doses of this chemical in the Fall of 1999 and the Mayor
> has publicly said the spraying may be continued in the Spring of
> 2000, despite the fact that the Federal EPA has just reclassified
> Malathion as a human carcinogen.  Malathion is also known to
> cause birth defects, miscarriages, DNA damage and sterility, side
> effects which nicely accomplish the goals of Eugenics.
>
> If people like GW Bush and Rudy Giuliani want to hold public
> office in this nation it's reasonable for these issues to be
> exhaustively aired. Claiming that they are being raised by
> political opponents can hardly be a satisfactory defense since
> these issues will never be raised by a candidates’ political allies.
>
> Let Bush, Giuliani and their like start talking about what they
> really believe in, about who they really owe allegiance to and
> about what they actually intend to do when in office. Then no
> one will have any right to complain or call them liars. If
> Americans want to elect such men to the highest public offices
> once everyone knows their true positions we will have no one to
> blame but ourselves.
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