ZGram - 8/28/2003 - "The truth is 'hate speech' only to those who have something to hide" - Part I

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ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny:  Now more than ever!

August 28, 2003

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

One of the most helpful websites, to me, is Michael Rivera's 
www.whatreallyhappened.com - largely because there is a consistent 
"voice" running like a red thread through all artices that I consider 
to be the Authentic American voice:  A genuine desire to know 
whatever truth there is to be found in our largely hypocritical 
world, and healthy outrage at injustice. 

In the following two ZGrams, belonging together, I will show you what 
I mean.  Rivera is the author.

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The truth is "hate speech" only to those who have something to hide

This article was originally was written in response to efforts to 
conceal the Israeli spy scandal, the largest spy ring ever uncovered 
in the United States, behind cries of "hate" and "anti-Semite". I am 
not "anti-Jewish", I am anti-espionage. There's a difference. I don't 
blame the Jewish people for the crimes of the Israeli government and 
the Mossad any more than I blame Americans for the crimes of the 
United States Government and the CIA. Israel's supporters constantly 
spin any criticism of Israel's actions as hate against the Jewish 
people. Indeed so desperate are Israel's supporters to dismiss 
criticism of Israel while being unable to refute the actual facts 
that they have taken to describing Jewish critics of Israel as 
"self-hating Jews."

The current focus on the Israeli spy ring is about crimes committed 
against our nation by a foreign government, plain and simple, and 
whether one opposes those crimes or is accessory to those crimes by 
seeking to conceal them. There can be a no more dangerous path than 
for our government, our media, and our citizens than to ignore the 
presence of the largest spy ring ever uncovered within our nation 
simply because it is connected with a "protected" nation presumed to 
be above reproach or criticism.

I urge you to all to continue to contact your representatives and 
your local media and demand a full and public hunt for the spies in 
our midst. Those who seek to protect those spies by suppressing this 
story must be suspect.

In the wake of the revelation of yet another spy scandal involving 
the Mossad, involving the arrests of the largest spy ring ever 
uncovered inside the United States, and the existence of a huge 
system that allowed Israel to track telephone calls by media, 
politicians, law enforcement, indeed all Americans, as well as the 
means to eavesdrop on actual calls by using the wiretapping system 
built into the telephone system by an Israeli owned company, any and 
all reports of this scandal have been met with the charges of "hate 
speech" and "anti-Semite". Recent weeks have seen supporters of the 
self-proclaimed Democracy of Israel resorting to endless hacker 
attacks and online smear campaigns against web sites and authors 
whose only "crime" is to not go along with Israel's agenda or of 
refusing to bury embarrassing scandals.

These phrases, "hate speech" and "anti-Semite", are well-worn devices 
to shut up a critic of Israel without having to answer the 
criticisms. Indeed they have been used so much that they have become 
red warning flags that the person using those phrases has something 
to hide and needs to shut down the discussion by any means possible. 
By screaming "hate speech" or "anti-Semite", Israel's supporters hope 
to shut down the debate without actually examining the issues 
involved.

I've run this web site for over 8 years. You can check through the 
pre 9/11 version of What Really Happened for yourself to see if I 
have had any excessive preoccupation with Israel during that time. 
Only since 9-11 have I paid any attention to Israel, and that solely 
because the ACTIONS of the government of Israel have called attention 
to Israel. In the wake of the spy arrests this is a story that 
Americans need to know about, to know that someone else may be 
listening when that phone is picked up, if the phone tapping system 
was actually paid for with the money we send Israel every year, to 
know what intelligence service may be blackmailing our government and 
media, and to what purpose. It is the deepest irony that the 
Anti-Defamation League that has blacklisted this vary web site for 
"hate", recently settled a lawsuit after being caught spying on 
Americans. 

Israel's supports respond to any criticism by screaming, "He hates 
Jews!".  The truth is that I don't hate the Jewish people. I know a 
lot of Jewish people and count as my friends the ones who are as 
respectful of me as I am of them. My first wife was Jewish. My 
closest business associate is Jewish.

What I hate are certain actions of INDIVIDUALS IN THE GOVERNMENT OF 
ISRAEL. I hate the idea of someone spying on our nation's citizens. I 
don't like our own government to do it; why should I be any less 
opposed to a foreign government doing it? Why is it not reasonable to 
hate those who pry into our government, then use the information to 
coerce that government into actions contrary to the good of our own 
people? I hate that sort of behavior. All civilized people should. I 
would hate the perpetrators of the spy ring and the phone taping 
scandal if they were Russian, British, Lithuanian, Brazilian, 
whatever. That's a perfectly normal response to this crime.

Hate gets a bum rap. In our politically correct society we are taught 
that it's bad to hate at all, but I disagree. Hate can be a good 
thing. There are lots of things I hate and I am not ashamed to admit 
it. I hate liars. I hate thieves. I hate drug dealers. I hate corrupt 
politicians. I hate child molesters, especially those hiding their 
crimes behind the church. These are hates that are good for the 
people to have. Maybe if more people allowed themselves to hate 
liars, thieves, druggies, and the corrupt, our nation wouldn't be in 
the mess it's in. Think about that for a while. Hate can be good. 
Hate could actually save our country.

I hate those who presume to decide for us what we can and cannot see, 
hear, or read. I am firmly opposed to and have openly defied efforts 
by our own government to withhold from the people information the 
people need to make good decisions with. When the Israeli lobby 
coerces Fox News to erase the story about Israel's spy ring, should I 
be less outraged at the concealment simply because the censors are 
Israeli? To NOT speak out about a crime because the perpetrators are 
Israeli is racist. Because this is EXACTLY what we are dealing with. 
Crimes. Espionage. Illegal wiretaps. Interference with 
investigations. Under the definitions in the USA Patriot bill, the 
organized campaign by AIPAC and others to force Fox News to drop the 
espionage story is itself (technically) an act of terror.

To those who insist that the Israeli spy scandal should be ignored 
because it makes all of the Jewish people look bad, I ask if we 
should have ignored Jeffrey Dahmer's cannibalism because it made the 
people of Milwaukee look bad?

Speaking of racism, the ideal held forth in the Constitution and 
Declaration of Independence is that no one race is superior to 
others; that no one race should rule by virtue of being a specific 
race. We even fought a civil war partly on that principle, and while 
the United States has not always lived up to that ideal, we have 
never surrendered it as our goal. So, when Arial Sharon openly 
bragged on October 3rd that, "We, the Jewish people, control America, 
and the Americans know it", why should I not find this statement 
objectionable, and anti-American? Why should I not feel something 
less than affection for the man who made that statement? Why should a 
reasonable citizen of this nation not wonder to what extent Sharon 
was speaking the truth, especially in light of the manner in which 
Fox News was forced to erase the Carl Cameron stories?

As seen in the subtitle above, the truth is "hate speech" only to 
those with something to hide. In the wake of the exposure of this 
latest spy scandal, the government of Israel might have expressed 
some public regret or shame over treating its purported friend, from 
whom it gets more foreign aid than is given to the entire continent 
of Africa, in such a shameful manner. Instead what we have seen is 
censorship of the American news by a foreign power, apparently with 
the permission of a compromised or complicit US Government, and the 
shrill cries of "hate speech" and "anti-Semite" hurled at anyone who 
dared presume to notice or comment on what Israel has been caught 
doing.

If you want to know why Israel is so much in the news it isn't 
because of "hate" and it isn't because of "anti-Semitism", it's 
because foreign owned companies were caught bugging the phone system 
(including that of the White House) and foreign citizens have been 
arrested as part of the largest spy ring ever found in the United 
States and in the since-censored news story, the US Government admits 
to the existence of evidence linking those arrested spies to 9-11. 
That is NEWS, no matter what nationality is involved.

The good side to the Fox News incident is that for the first time, 
Americans got a good look at just how much power and influence over 
what we see and hear is being exercised.  It doesn't even matter who 
did it; that it was done at all is the lesson for our time. In recent 
weeks, the same government that goes after kids for pirating music 
turned a totally blind eye to the massive hacking campaign directed 
at web sites critical of the official 9-11 story. People need to pay 
attention to that as well.

It is not "hate" to point out facts the American people should be 
paying attention to, especially on the threshold to what might turn 
out to be a world war started by deception.

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Tomorrow:  Part II of "The truth is "hate speech" only to those who 
have something to hide"