ZGram - 2/17/2004 - "American Priorities"

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

February 17, 2004

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

I have been threatening for some time that I would commission a 
Zundel doll, more socially useful than Barbie and Ken, wearing a hard 
hat with a five-letter word:  THINK! 

Think, America!  Think!

Here are some kindergarten ABCs - still mouthing the long-debunked 
fraud about the "European horror", but thought-provoking nonetheless:

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Subject: US Taxpayers Pay $38 Mil To Holocaust Museum In 2003

US Taxpayers Pay $38 Mil To
Holocaust Museum In 2003

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum -
A Decade of Increasing Taxpayer Funding

Special Report
By Janet McMahon

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Since it first opened 10 years ago, one of Washington, DC's
most popular attractions has been the United States Holocaust 
Memorial Museum, located adjacent to the National Mall.

Created by a unanimous Act of Congress in 1980, the Museum describes 
its primary mission as "to advance and disseminate knowledge about 
this unprecedented tragedy; to preserve the memory of those who 
suffered; and to encourage its visitors
to reflect upon the moral and spiritual questions raised by the 
events of the Holocaust as well as their own responsibilities as 
citizens of a democracy."

As its Web site, http://www.ushmm.org, explains, the museum was 
"built on land donated by the federal government and funded with more 
than 200,000 private donations.  As required by law, all funds for 
planning, constructing and equipping the museum were raised 
exclusively from private, tax-deductible contributions."

That was then, however.

Now American taxpayers provide
some 67 percent of the Holocaust Museum's annual budget, this year to 
the tune of $38.4 million. Its funding for fiscal year 2004 was 
increased to $39,997,000. By comparison, this year
the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts received less than 
$34 million in federal funding. That figure was cut to $32,560,000 
for fiscal year 2004.

On Oct. 12, 2000, moreover, then-President Bill Clinton signed 
legislation granting the museum permanent status as a federal agency, 
in effect locking in federal support. As a museum press release 
explained at the time, "Permanent status permits Congress to provide 
funding without having to review the federal role. Every U.S. 
government entity requires congressional authority before funds can 
be allocated; but not every federal institution is given permanent 
status."

It is Congress, of course, which allocates taxpayer dollars - 
specifically, in the case of the Holocaust Memorial Museum, the House 
Appropriations Committee's subcommittee on interior and related 
agencies. In addition to the Department of Interior, "other agencies" 
for which the subcommittee is responsible include the National 
Endowments for the Arts and for the Humanities, the National Gallery 
of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the Woodrow Wilson International 
Center for Scholars, and the Kenndy Center.

Washington Report readers who wish to keep track of how many of their 
tax dollars go to support the Holocaust Museum are therefore advised 
to pay attention to news reports on federal arts and humanities 
funding - and to continue reading beyond the first few paragraphs.

It's not only the legislative branch which supports the Holocaust 
Memorial Museum, however. On Sept. 3 the Anti-Defamation League - 
which a few years ago was ordered to cease spying on American 
citizens - proudly announced that it had been awarded a $100,000 
grant from the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community 
Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to support a joint ADL/Holocaust 
Memorial Museum training program for law enforcement professionals.

According to the ADL press release, the program "brings law 
enforcement officers to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in 
Washington, DC for an intensive program that challenges them to 
examine their relationship with the public and to explore issues of 
personal responsiblity and ethical conduct."

Americans well might wonder why, at a time when a memorial to World 
War II veterans who died for this country only now is being 
undertaken, when a national museum dedicated to Native Americans is 
just being completed, and when ground is far from being broken for a 
museum devoted to African Americans-the latter two groups having 
suffered here, at the hands of this country - the U.S. government 
places a higher priority on a museum dedicated to the victims and 
survivors of a European horror.

http://www.wrmea.com/archives/December_2003/0312009.html

Comment
Steven Silverman
1-22-4
Another example of Zionist manipulation of the goodwill of its 
American cash cow. Shame on our people...if we can't be gracious 
enough to the US for giving us the land to use and pay for our own 
memorial, we shouldn't have one there.

I am weary of the criticism of Jews as being money leaches and 
manipulators. Unfortunately, some of it is warranted. It's time for 
Jews to wake up. Most of my own family doesn't get it. I do. And 
that's a start.

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