Those of us who are on the cutting edge of this Internet Freedom of Speech struggle are very aware of a critter called "HateWatch."
HateWatch is a website that started at Harvard University which, at first, palmed itself off as being part of the Harvard Library - but when people checked into this claim, whoever dreamed up and ran this website quickly dissociated himself from Harvard and became reincarnated as a "non-profit watchdog organization". HateWatch was somehow associated with Nizkor, but what the exact relationship was, I don't know. It might have been just the usual tribal kinship, with players interchangeable.
Its touted purpose was to hunt down and "expose" so-called "hate websites" - which meant originally all prime Revisionist sites and many of the Identity Christian sites. When people complained that it only listed White patriot and Christian groups and didn't list grotesquely violence-advocating websites such as the Anti-Racist-Action, the Jewish Defense League and others, these sites were briefly added as token concessions, but were later removed, I have been told.
In the beginning, I checked into this site off and on because I had the dubious distinction of being the first female "extremist" listed, and I was curious what kind of a smear job would be done on me. What I learned very quickly right at the beginning was that this website did us one enormous favor: It grouped, listed and linked a great many patriot sites for the convenience of the uninitiated. If you wanted to find out what websites were considered substantial enough to merit slander and attack by our opposition, all you needed to do was to go to HateWatch and copy the links.
Briefly, Hate Watch also ran an audio "service" where they interviewed those folks whom they considered "haters". I did receive a couple of calls from someone who called himself Dr. Goldman - which may have been the ever-so-nefarious Andrew Mathis, for all that we know - but I wasn't interested and told him so, and nothing came of it. Same for Ernst, who was "pitched", as the jargon has it, but when he hammered the callers at every call, they pulled in their tails and ran off.
Then, later still, HateWatch initiated a forum where Nizkorites, Holocaust Enforcers, professional howlers, whiners, snitches, turncoats and certain well-known psychopaths could be found. What seeped out of that forum was not exactly fragrant. As these online community chat forums go, this one was a particularly slimy and unpleasant one, but since I don't participate in newsgroups and agenda-driven special interest forums generally, I only got a whiff when people shipped me threads.
I never replied to the smears - a strategy that has served me well and that I recommend highly to others. It will drive the enemy wild!
Now I happen to know that groups like the Simon Wiesenthal Center, B'nai Brith etc are not exactly overjoyed with "Watchdog websites" and more general opposition web pages such as Nizkor and HateWatch because these websites do so much for us - they provide convenient navigation links to us. Even though the people manning these websites claim to be in favor of free speech, they are anything but genuine free-speechers who find to their distress they cannot have it both ways: eat their cake and have it, too. I have wondered for some time why the official Holocaustologists aren't leaning more on those dubious websites who schlepp more traffic to us in the end than, I suspect, to their own causes. Readers see very quickly that these "hate watchers" cannot compete with reason and logic, and many a convert has come our way.
Therefore, it was not all that much of a surprise when I received the following press release (?) from HateWatch:
To the Patrons of HateWatch:
After much consideration, we at HateWatch have decided to take a short hiatus from our web based activities. Though we still strongly believe in the need to monitor extremists and hate groups on the Internet, we have felt for some time that a break was needed. This is not to say that HateWatch is going away permanently, on the contrary. We expect to return and to continue our role as a resource for accurate and unbiased information for academics, the media and concerned citizens on the evolving threat of hate group activity on the Internet.
As for the online community chat, this has been a bigger success than I had envisioned. I hope that those of you who regularly participate will continue on with this most important dialogue. The last day for the chat site will be Friday March 12.
I would like to thank our staff, interns, volunteers and the countless others who made HateWatch the respected organization that it has become. It is because of their dedication that HateWatch has succeeded. If you would still like to contact us, please email me at goldman@hatewatch.org or call 617-876-3796. Again, thank you for all of your support and we look forward to bringing HateWatch back to the online community very soon.
David Goldman
Director of HateWatch
http://hatewatch.org
As with the strange absence of the opposition lawyers in the latest Human Rights Tribunal round in Toronto, this one is a bit of a puzzle. Just what is going on? Why are they closing shop? Trouble with authorities? Fickle donors? Strategic retreat so as to regroup - to do what?
Or could they simply not take the heat and steady grind? Were they lacking dedication and staying power? Or had they hoped for easy victories which failed to materialize? Anybody with some specific information, please e-mail me. I know I'll almost miss these folks since so much of our traffic came straight from "watchdog" sites.
And talking of Watchdogs, I have a second item that will be of interest to you if you are familiar with the excellent work done some time ago on the characteristics and traits of the Defamers and Hoaxers, as well as on their strategies.
"The Hoaxer Report" by Laird Wilcox is a classic. It is a title widely known in patriotic circles -and, I am glad to say, a "must read" for those who don't yet understand that ***systematic character assassination*** is one of the prime weapons of our enemies - and hoaxing is part of that game. In fact, just this morning I received this thought-provoking potential "hoaxer" story from Novosibirsk, Russia:
"On the topic of vandalism in the Synagogue in Novosibirsk:
"Mysterious vandals showed deep sympathy and care of Jewish "holy objects". Before the "pogrom" with respect and trepidation exemplary for "wild anti-Semites", they moved Torah and other fetishes (to) a barely noticeable and secure place. They were somewhat strange vandals. Were not they? <end>
To come back to Laird Wilcox, he has penned another insightful work. Even though I haven't read this book yet, the press release is a real teaser.
Here is what Wilcox writes:
Just who are the "Watchdogs?" They're the people who refuse to debate the issues in an open forum, who spy on their opponents, who defame and degrade them at every opportunity, who work vigorously to censor and outlaw their opposition, and whose real agenda will shock you! They are not just civil rights groups!
The Anti-Defamation League, Southern Poverty Law Center, Center For Democratic Renewal and Political Research Associates are highly ideological agenda-driven interest groups. The ADL has stolen police files and its agents have posed as right-wingers.
The SPLC targets victims who cannot fight its lawsuits and has amassed $100 million in reserves through questionable fundraising practices.
The Center For Democratic Renewal and Political Research Associates have documented instances of cooperation with far-left extremists, including Marxist-Leninists, in the U.S. and abroad.
Fighting "racism, sexism and homophobia" is merely part of a deeper agenda.
All "Watchdog" organizations use the technique of "links and ties" to establish dubious connections between their adversaries. For example, if some but not all members of an organization offend them, the entire organization is characterized as a "hate group."
This is unfair and is used to stigmatize and stereotype -- practices the "Watchdogs" claim to oppose. Although they all oppose the "McCarthyism" of the 1950s, they practice it to the hilt when their own interests are involved.
"Watchdogs" are the witch hunters of today, costing their victims jobs, careers and reputations. Their goal is to eliminate dissent and not to promote real diversity -- diversity of values, opinions and beliefs in the traditional American way of fair play and open debate.
This extensively documented 102-page report containing over 330 footnotes tells the real story behind the anti-racist "Watchdog" organizations and why they are a serious threat to civil liberties and freedom of speech. Journalists and law enforcement agencies should exercise caution in accepting their claims on face value. <end>
To order a copy, write to: Laird Wilcox, Editorial Research Service, PO Box 2047, Olathe, KS 66051 @ $19.95 each postpaid. Three or more copies @ 14.95 each. Make checks payable in U.S. funds to Laird Wilcox.
Thought for the Day:
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."
(George Washington)