Fred Barlam of the Ahwatukee Foothills recently submitted comments to The Inbox claiming to be “a Jew.”
He purports to speak for all Jews in his denunciation of the “fellow Jew” Tom Horne (our Arizona Attorney General whose family actually fled Third Reich Germany to Canada). Furthermore, he lambasts Glenn Spencer (a card carrying member of the Jewish Defense League whose two daughters are both married to Jews) as “anti-Semitic” for stating the obvious fact that Jews run the major media networks and that Jews run Hollywood these days (except Mel Gibson of course). In fact, Glenn Spencer’s American Border Patrol and VCT (Voices of Citizens Together) has had a strong nexus with Jews since the very beginning (including with the famous Jew Hal Netkin). Mr. Barlam’s racist rant is typical of the knee-jerk reactionary xenophobia we have come to expect emanating from those who use inflammatory supremacist pejoratives and racist epitaphs to foment hate and push their twisted world view upon others. Their fear-based approach is the linchpin upon which emotional arguments, rather than rational responses to their issues, are firmly hinged. I do not think Mr. Barlam understands what a Jew or a Semite even is. Little less what being “anti-Semitic” or being “a fellow Jew” truly entails. As a Jew, there are many noble causes one may immerse themselves in during today’s tumultuous political clime in order to help change our world to a better place for Jews, and for all people. Hatefully denouncing people with a varying opinion as “anti-Semitic” or Nazi at every turn is simply not one of them. Not every Jew who has a critical eye of other Jews is a so-called self-hating Jew either. It is high time to stop being a schmendrick living in a Spielberg movie and deal with reality. After all, even Mel Gibson eventually had to stop blaming his personal demons upon others.
J.T. Ready
Democratic candidate for Pinal County Sheriff
Rational Human posted at 1:49 pm on Fri, Mar 9, 2012.
The leftist/democrat/socialist/communist/ tool of choice is the race card. They use it whenever they think the sheeple might be swayed by this powerful accusation. Jews have been milking the holocaust card for decades, and I don't see that stopping anytime soon. They have Europe so buffaloed that it's a crime even to say that the holocaust may have been overblown a bit. Imagine that. An actual crime. No one is saying Jews weren't rounded up and sent to concentration camps as possible enemies of the state, but then didn't we do that to the Japanese people here? Most of the people who died in those camps either starved or died from diseases caused directly by our disrupting of food supplies and supply lines toward the end of the war. Sure, there were atrocities, but the whole thing was way overblown propaganda perpetuated by most major media and Hollywood. You can find a program detailing with the evil Nazis and what they did to the Jews almost every day of the week on TV. Every year there is at least one movie about it released by Hollywood. The gassing that was supposedly done at Auschwitz was a Russian ploy to give them license to be as inhuman to the German people as the German soldiers were to the Russian people. The only camp that purportedly had gas chambers we liberated by Russian soldiers but never American soldiers. It's been shown that those gas chambers were fabricated by the Russians for propaganda purposes. Anyone ever hear that over 20 million Russians died at the hands of the German soldiers when they invaded Russia? No? I guess that little factoid wasn't as important to tell.
truth posted at 4:17 pm on Fri, Mar 9, 2012.
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Rich posted at 10:23 pm on Fri, Mar 9, 2012.
"They have Europe so buffaloed that it's a crime even to say that the holocaust may have been overblown a bit. Imagine that."
Are you listening Mr. Barlam? It might be well to read this and previous comments carefully. Since my wife and children are Jewish, I listen very carefully. The current scapegoats are Hispanic, don't expect it's a forever thing.
sockratties posted at 11:00 pm on Fri, Mar 9, 2012.
It's interesting to read how uninformed the most opinionated of our commentators are. I visited several death camps and Holocaust memorials during many trips to Germany both before and after the wall came down. Those places are real and the legacy belongs to mankind, not just to the Germans. Attempting to ameliorate guilt by avowing that it wasn't really as bad as it's made out to be is like saying Jeffery Delmar was less guilty because he only killed 16 victims and was actually framed for the 17th. The holocaust happened and is well documented by records and photography. Quibbling about numbers and methods puts one on a par with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who states that the Holocaust was fabricated as Western propaganda. We are all capable of inhumanity and must always be on guard against encroachment of political, social and cultural influences that support such atrocities. Hitler would not have succeeded had the German people been less apathetic and better informed. Ultimately the cancer of hate was forced into remission, but at tremendous cost to the German people.
Rational Human posted at 8:12 am on Sat, Mar 10, 2012.
Right, may the race card live forever! Let guilt weigh heavy on the Gentile heart least he should forget his never ending debt to the Jewish race. After all, Jews never committed complete and utter genocide unto another race at God's behest. All men, women, children, infants, and animals were put to the sword so that the Jews could take their land. If I were Jewish I would be ashamed of my written history regarding this butchery. It is in the Bible. Jews defend their actions by saying God ordered the hit.
truth posted at 9:24 am on Sat, Mar 10, 2012.
What about the crusades? GOD WILLS IT. THE CRUSADERS BUTCHERED EVERYTHING AND EVERYBODY THAT WAS IN THEIR WAY. ALL RELIGIONS HAVE A HISTORY OF GENOCIDE.
Rich posted at 7:41 pm on Sat, Mar 10, 2012.
Sock,
Since I as well, have visited as early as the fifties, and have lived in Germany and have seen it, I respectfully disagree. Take ten million people, crowd them together in those camps, with inadequate food, sanitation and medicine, You're going to kill a fantastic number, without doing another thing. It's so easy to say 'hate.' Doesn't cover it. In fact it's a way to cover your own emotions, you're own following of a politician, instead of thinking for yourself, or being you. 'Hate' is an excuse, not for them but for yourself. 'Hate' -bad. It's a nonsense word with no meaning. And yes, the 'holocaust' as it exists today is part hype. I've met people in Europe who claimed part of their family died in the camps, come back to America and met the dead, let alone that the 'dead' inhabit Israel. We kill each other. We're currently doing it to Afghans and urinating on their bodies. I've never figured it out. I do hate people and things. That's normal, natural and human. but it is personal. No one hates what they don't know, if they act as if they do, it's because they are following someone or something rather than reacting personally, and in the final analysis, that is more deadly, more horrible and more evil a thing, than anything caused by the simple emotion of hate. In fact, if you hate someone or something, about the best thing you can do is say so, because only then does it stand a chance of resolution.
Singly, we can't do a lot, shoot up a MacDonald's or something. The real damage is done by us as a group. Until now we can throw rocks at each other big enough to take out a city. Germans don't and never did, hate Jews. We don't hate Mexicans, legal or illegal. The only Afghans I ever met I rather liked. I did hate my father-in-law. However I never once tried to nuke Philadelphia, or even declare war on it. It isn't the individual or hate we need to control. It is the idea that we can get together and impose on other individuals that needs to be controlled, and that, we haven't even come close to a handle on.
sockratties posted at 8:57 am on Sun, Mar 11, 2012.
Rich -
I agree with your comments about hate when referring to personal emotions as you so well described. I think the definition is larger than that. Much of what you refer to as the following of others I would call hate in the connotation used to describe “hate crimes” like painting swastikas on synagogues or even more egregious acts. Ignorant Neo-Nazi thugs don't know their targets but they are consumed by hate. I don't think we disagree except perhaps on definition of terms.
What I called the “cancer of hate” was a pogrom employed by Nazi Germany that succeeded even beyond the dreams of the Third Reich. It used propaganda to dehumanized the Jews by stereotyping them as animals, demons and sub-human. Some of those stereotypes, outrageous as they are, persist today.
After Hitler became German chancellor the Jews were singled out although they were previously fully integrated into German society as citizens. They were made the scapegoat of woes brought on by the loss of WWI and the Great Depression and were depicted as hoarders of German wealth although they were less than one percent of the population. Anti-Jewish laws were introduced that eventually prevented Jews from owning property, working in government jobs, marrying non-Jewish Germans and eventually removing their citizenship. It culminated on “Kristallnacht,” the night of broken glass, when more than a thousand synagogues were destroyed, thousands of Jewish owned businesses were ransacked and over 30,000 Jews were sent to concentration camps. These acts were carried out by German citizens as officials observed. This was the first part of the Third Reich's “Final Solution.” It gave the Nazis the ability to plunder and exploit.
We must acknowledge that no society, culture or nation is immune. Given the right conditions, politics, stimuli and social resources, populations can be manipulated to perform horrendous acts. It could happen here with another target population. Read B. F. Skinner for one theory of how and why populations can be directed and controlled by positive stimulus.