As I described in several ZGrams before, in my early youth I lived in
Argentina during the last years of power of the fascist dictators Juan and
Evita Peron. Life in those years in Argentina was peaceful, orderly and
safe. In fact, to my small family, consisting of my grandmother, mother,
younger sister and myself, having scrambled out of the chaos of a war-torn
Europe and several years of brutal pioneering in the jungles in a religious
German colony in Paraguay, it was near paradise.
Argentina was as European in culture, government and social interaction
as any South American country in those years - the only possible exception
being Uruguay. Racial tension was totally absent and Jews, with very few
exceptions I remember - one being the disorderly but harmless Senor Bart
I have described before who claimed to have been Lenin's friend - were equally
not part of the landscape of the early and mid-1950s.
I think back on those years with nostalgia. I always thought that life must
have resembled life in the South of the United States described so poignantly
in "Gone with the Wind" just prior to the Civil War - a life of
huge plantations and gracious hospitality and barbecues with congenial friends
and neighbors under a very fat moon and a star-studded sky.
I remember one such barbecue where a group of young people were kept from
going home by a torrential rain that made the roads impassable, and I worried
that I could not notify my mother - nobody had a telephone - that natives
not of our race and class had taken us in like wet cats. There were about
fifteen of us - most of us girls, and all in our middle and late teens.
I thought that my mother might worry because we were gone for almost a week.
It never even crossed her mind that we might be in danger or might be harmed
by anyone - including our "dates", some of whom were adult males
who would, in our society, be seen as inappropriate escorts because they
were older than we. My mother did not lose a minute's worth of sleep because
she knew that men, without exception, were chivalrous, protective company
and girls knew proper conduct - and that was that. No fuss.
Then Marxist Revolution came to Argentina. I don't think it was ever officially
called that, but that was the effect. Evita was dead; Peron was deposed;
and the peasants knelt in the dirt, holding up their candles to the Virgin,
praying for deliverance. Soon afterwards I married and moved to another
country, and only knew of Argentina's sad demise from safety into chaos
from missives from my mother.
She kept on mentioning the Communists in letter after letter. I don't remember
that she ever wrote one word about the Jews, but what she said, repeatedly,
was that the country was now sliding into systematic anarchy she thought
that she had left behind in Russia. She often wrote that she was glad she
would not live to see the end. She had her wish; she died four years before
the official Marxist take-over, replete with imported terror described in
the somewhat shortened letter below. It was sent by an Argentine nationalist
who may be contacted through an address in Pasadena I list at the end of
his report.
Read what is happening in Argentina with the systematic implementation of
"hate laws":
"Jewish Lobby Demands Punishment for Controversial Speech
The political system ruling Argentina since 1983, which most enthusiasts warmly referred to as "Democracy", has delivered an assortment of surprises to the South American nation. Interestingly enough, one of the "blessings" of the newly-embraced Democracy is institutionalized censorship.
Democratic Argentina has legislation, in particular the piece known as Antidiscrimination Law, which enables the ruling elite to prosecute and/or demand the prosecution of "thought criminals", without regard to constitutionally protected freedom of the press. As expected, the first people "chosen" to enjoy the benefits of Law 23592 are the members of the Jewish community. . . "
The author of this article then goes on to say in very bitter words that
this law appears to have been enacted to further the interests of subversive
and self-serving minorities rather than
". . . to protect the majority of Argentines (most Argentines are of European descent) from actions hostile to the European ethnicity's that form the racial fiber of Argentina.
As members of an identifiable racial group, shielded from criticism by repressive governmental measures, the Jews are very close to become a privileged caste in Argentina. Law 23592 was inspired by already existing legislation in Canada, France, Germany, and other Western countries where the freedom of expression of the citizens have been seriously curtailed in (exchange) for exceptional rights for alien minorities.
As expected, the passing of that law was a big triumph for the Jewish lobby, cheered jubilantly by every known Hebrew special interest group. Some nationalists claim that the passing of Law 23592 was single-handedly an operation conceived and promoted by Argentine Jewry with support from American Jewry and the World Jewish Congress.
The last well-known casualty of the one-sidedness of Law 23592 is General (retired) Suarez Mason, who was deported in 1989 from his residence in (the) United States (in the San Francisco area) to Argentina, to face one of the most politically-charged trials to have taken place in that country. The charges against Suarez Mason arose from his activities combating armed leftist insurgence during the period of 1976-1979. The Jewish Lobby, along with the extreme Left, refers to the entire period of 1976-1983 as the Dirty War, in a manner similar to which the same parties refer as Holocaust to the entire period of the III German Reich, 1933-1945.
It is worthy of notice that the internal war in Argentina became dirty, at least in the eyes of the above mentioned parties, only when the armed forces engaged in full in the fight against terrorism. The period previous to 1976, in which leftist terrorism was responsible for 590 kidnappings, 676 homicides and more than 10,000 other violent acts, has yet to receive an equally stigmatizing name.
The DAIA (Delegation of Israeli-Argentine Associations, the local B'nai B'rith) has filed a demand for criminal charges against Suarez Mason for "inciting racial and religious hate and persecution", in violation of the above mentioned law. As evidence, the Jewish organization has presented an interview that Suarez Mason had kindly granted to Noticias magazine. The petition that requests that citizen Suarez Mason receive the maximum possible penalty, is signed by Ruben Beraja, a rich banker, president of DAIA, president of the Jewish Latin American Congress and vice-president of the World Jewish Congress, (an) organization in which he is second only to flamboyant millionaire Edgar Bronfman (information on Mr. Beraja's career appears on the November 1996 issue of the Bulletin OJI 641-Part 1 of the Jewish Latin American Congress). Jose Kestelman, DAIA secretary, co-signed the petition.
When questioned about instances where torture was administered, allegedly under his command, to political prisoners, Suarez Mason answered that 'maybe we should have legalized it to cover some excesses, as the Jews do (...) Of course, the Jewish power is worldwide, that's why no one criticizes them'.
The state of Israel has indeed maintained torture, as a method to obtain confessions from Palestinians and others, under the protection of the law, through decisions of the Israeli Supreme Court. The number of those who have suffered painful physical and psychological punishments while under Zionist captivity is in the thousands. A few dozens deaths during the exercise of torture have been reported. . . "
This Israeli action, of course, completely flies in the face of the UN
Declaration of Human Rights and all kinds of UN resolutions. I am deleting
here a personal comment by the writer regarding a national activist he speculates
might have cooperated with the Mossad. The letter ends as follows:
". . . On Friday November 15, 1996, Suarez Mason was called to give testimony to Federal Judge Claudio Bonadio. Suarez Mason denied having intended to insult the Jewish community. Judge Bonadio is now gathering information to determine whether the complaints made (to) the Jewish Lobby have indeed merit to justify the opening of a criminal case against Suarez Mason . . . "
This information was sent from Guillermo Coletti, P.O. Box 61221, Pasadena
CA 91106, USA. The date given is December 2, 1996.
Ingrid
Thought for the Day:
"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
(John Stuart Mill)