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To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (33691)	11/8/2004 10:30:27 AM
From: Patricia Trinchero	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

Read a history book...................do you think he just walked in and started running everything? JEws living in the country voted in the elections just like everyone else. AS time progressed Hitler used the Jews as scapegoats................a great way to get control of people is to create fear...........find an enemy and use it as a means for all the trouble and fear...........most lemmings follow. Read about Hitler's rise to power and you will see that it is impossible for no Jewish people to have vote him in during his early rise. Hitler made a couple attempts to gain control of the Nazi Party...........it is logic. If you don't want to believe it you are living in denial about the rise of Fascist Germany and the development of fascism in the U.S. today.

To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (33691)	11/8/2004 1:39:12 PM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Do you think the radical right will be kind to Jews? Christian Identity millennialism has a distinctively racist tinge. Members believe that Armageddon will be a race war of "Aryans" against Jews and nonwhites. The "Aryans" are not merely whites of northern and western European descent; they are the real biological Israel, for according to Identity the biblical tribes of Israel migrated in ancient times from the Middle East to Western Europe. The Jews, in their view, have nothing to do with the Israelites. They are instead considered demonic impostors-"Satan's spawn," descended through Cain from a sexual union between Eve and the devil in the Garden, the primal sin. This strange theology has seeped into virtually every corner of the radical right. It may be found among Klansmen and militia members, survivalists and neo-Nazis. And small wonder. Identity provides the perfect religious frame for the far right's political agenda. Every purported conspiracy and cabal, whether of international bankers, Trilateralists or the UN, can be brought within Identity's "great conspiracy" -- Satan's plot to take over the world and deprive "Aryans" of their birthright, a plot that Identity believes began in the Garden of Eden and will end only at Armageddon. Plot can be nested in plot, in an ascending pyramid of conspiracies that ends with the devil himself. Identity also gives believers the assurance that they constitute a divine warrior elite, the only ones vouchsafed true knowledge of history. This sense of divine assurance compensates for Identity's inability to create a mass base for itself. No on knows precisely how many Identity believers there are-the movement is broken up into dozens, perhaps hundreds, of churches and Bible study groups-any more than the overall size of the radical right can be known. I estimate that the hard-core -radical right numbers 100-200,000, of whom perhaps 20-30,000 are committed Identity believers. So small a movement cannot expect to make its presence felt on the American religious scene in conventional ways. Even its growth rate is unlikely to change its marginal status. But Identity's very marginality seems to assure its members of their special position. Convinced that most other Christians have been duped or coopted by the conspiracy, they remain certain of their own incorruptibility. The neglect and scorn of others confirms their sense of cbosenness, as well as their disdain for the main currents of American life. Identity seems poised to benefit from the interest in the militia movement. Significant Identity figures have participated in or supported militias, though most militia members have come from other religious backgrounds. The militias can serve as bridge movements, carrying those already familiar with Rush Limbaugh, Pat Robertson and the John Birch Society to involvement with militant conspiratorialism, racism and anti-Semitism. Whatever their motivations, the fearful and alienated who join militias quickly become integrated into the far right's network of videotapes, pamphlets and audiocassettes. The danger presented by the militias is thus twofold. The most obvious danger is that resentful armed cadres can intimidate and polarize small localities, as Posse Comitatus groups did in the rural Midwest in the 1970s and '80s. (Posse Comitatus contended that no legitimate political authority exists above the county level.) The more far-reaching danger is that militias will channel members to move from the outer reaches of acceptable politics to a darker world of apocalyptic racism and anti-Semitism. religion-online.org The radical right jacked the election. The real blitz of targeted hate has already started. dneiwert.blogspot.com