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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (39871)	8/9/2005 9:31:50 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93284

Entertainers Urged to Apologize for Nazi Comparisons CNSNews ^ \| 8/9/05 \| Susan Jones A leading Holocaust Studies institute wants entertainers Harry Belafonte, Dick Gregory, and Woody Allen to retract their recent statements comparing the Bush administration, Israelis, and black conservatives to Nazis. As Cybercast News Service reported, Belafonte over the weekend used a Hitler analogy when asked what impact prominent blacks such as former Secretary of State Colin Powell and current Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had on the Bush administration's relations with minorities. "Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich. Color does not necessarily denote quality, content or value," Belafonte said in an exclusive interview with Cybercast News Service. That's incorrect, said Dr. Rafael Medoff, director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, which describes itself as a research and education institute focusing on America's response to the Holocaust. "Some entertainers simply don't know much about history," said Medoff. "The fact is that there were no Jews in Hitler's hierarchy; the policies of America and Israel are not similar to those of Hitler; and African-American conservatives are not comparable to Nazis." The Wyman Institute (located at Gratz College in suburban Philadelphia) is urging the three entertainers to publicly retract their "inaccurate and hurtful" remarks about Hitler and the Holocaust. "Such analogies pollute public discourse by trivializing the brutal horrors committed by the Nazis," Medoff said. "Hitler was a maniacal dictator whose regime systematically annihilated six million Jews, and launched a world war that caused the deaths of more than forty million people. How can any reasonable person put Hitler and the Nazis in the same sentence as American or Israeli leaders, or black conservatives?" Comedian Dick Gregory, also interviewed by Cybercast News Service, said that African-American conservatives "have a right to exist, but why would I want to walk around with a swastika on my shirt after the way Hitler done messed it up?" Earlier this summer, comedian and filmmaker Woody Allen told the German magazine Der Spiegel: "The history of the world is like, he kills me, I kill him -- only with different cosmetics and different castings: so in 2001 some fanatics killed some Americans, and now some Americans are killing some Iraqis. And in my childhood, some Nazis killed Jews. And now, some Jewish people and some Palestinians are killing each other." (Der Spiegel, June 20, 2005)

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (39871)	8/9/2005 9:37:55 AM
From: paret	Respond to of 93284

Don't let the facts get in the way of a left wing rant.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (39871)	8/9/2005 10:09:53 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93284

Is Belafonte referring to the Hitler who required every officer and aid to prove they had not one drop of Jewish blood in their family by submitting a comprehensive and accurate list of their family trees? "Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich..." Belafonte said in an exclusive interview with Cybercast News Service.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (39871)	8/9/2005 10:58:57 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93284

NYT Answers Critics, Hires OJ To Investigate Air America BNN ^ \| 9 August 2005 \| Buckley F. Williams Fellow fake news institution The New York Times today issued a bold response to critics who claim that they have not shone their "flashlight of truth" on the Air America/Gloria Wise scandal. To further cement their status as the "Paper of Record", the Times has hired football legend and acquitted double murderer O.J. Simpson to lead an investigation into the matter. "As you all know, Mr. Simpson has demonstrated a dogged determination to sniff out the truth wherever it may be," stated a newspaper spokesman. "Even today, more than ten years after his ex-wife's death, he continues his quest for the killers. Some people might say that that we cannot afford to wait that I long. I disagree. If it takes ten, twenty or even thirty years that is alright with us. As long as the truth comes out in the end. A long time from now." For his part, Simpson has taken to this new challenge with the characteristic enthusiasm that marked his Hall of Fame football career. "Am I excited about this new opportunity? Most absolutely. I will go wherever this quest takes me," said Simpson. "Be it a golf course in New York, South Carolina or the Florida Keys I will pursue the truth. I'll play eighteen, thirty-six even fifty-four holes a day if that's what it takes. Bad back and all. It's all about helping the kids." Simpson noted that although he is new to the case he does have "a gut feeling that Marcus Allen is involved in some way."

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (39871)	8/9/2005 11:46:46 AM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

You have far rightwing opinions which are in no way accurate. Some of our greatest heros have been those who have made peace, not made war. War is hell. Peace and prosperity is what we should all want.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (39871)	8/9/2005 11:53:44 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

War On Terror: An American Muslim pressure group has come out strongly against police profiling of young Muslim men behaving suspiciously at train stations. But the group doesn't have our best interests at heart. news.yahoo.com The terror-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, says two New York officials' push for such targeted profiling on city subways is offensive and ignorant. "Terror comes in all shapes and sizes," insists Wissam Nasr, director of CAIR's New York branch. Never mind that eight young Muslim men bombed London's tube. Or that 19 young Muslim men attacked New York in 2001. Or that every suspect on the FBI's list of most wanted terrorists is a Muslim man, with nearly half going by the name Mohammed. CAIR's national spokesman, Ibrahim Hooper, says police should ignore such obvious terror traits and search riders at random, while paying close attention only to people "sweating." Never mind that during New York's balmy summer months, that would include folks who don't remotely fit the terrorist profile. CAIR should know better than anyone who does fit the terrorist profile. Three of its own officials were recently convicted of terror-related crimes. One even worked for Hooper. He's now in prison for conspiring to kill Americans. A lawsuit filed against CAIR by the family of former FBI official John P. O'Neill, who was killed on 9-11, charges that the group, which evolved from a known Hamas front, is "a key player in international terrorism." Congress is investigating CAIR and has repeatedly invited its executive director to deny the mounting terror charges under oath. But Nihad Awad, a Palestinian American, refuses. If CAIR is not tied to terrorism, why not clear the air at a televised hearing? Tellingly, CAIR after 9-11 refused to single out al-Qaida or Osama bin Laden for condemnation. After the London bombings, it endorsed an anti-terror edict so broad it was meaningless -- and one that was loaded with qualifiers. Instead of condemning attacks against British or American or Israeli non-Muslims, it hedged by denouncing "all acts of terrorism targeting civilians" and "innocent lives" -- leaving non-Muslims to wonder if they fall into those categories, knowing that jihadists don't necessarily consider them innocent or civilian. (The vaguely worded edict was written by Hooper pal Taha Jaber al-Alwani, who happens to be an unindicted co-conspirator in the ongoing terror case against Sami al-Arian, the alleged U.S. leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad.) We wonder who and what CAIR, which calls itself a civil-rights defender, is really protecting when it fights targeted profiling at train stations and airports. CAIR may talk a good patriotic and moderate game. But it has a secret agenda to Islamize America. Before 9-11, its founder and chairman, Omar Ahmad, also a Palestinian American, told a Muslim audience: "Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Quran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth." Before coming to Washington, Hooper himself is on record stating: "I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic." Hooper is also on record claiming CAIR receives no "support from any overseas group or government." But land records revealed in the book "Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington" put the lie to that claim. It turns out that an anti-Israeli foundation run by the crown prince of Dubai owns the very deed to CAIR's headquarters located almost in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol. The foundation has held telethons to support families of Palestinian suicide bombers. Against these facts, it's hard to trust anything CAIR says regarding the fight against terror. It's plain the group has ulterior motives. Politicians from Washington to New York should ignore its aggressive lobbying against targeted profiling, a move that could save thousands of constituents' lives. If anyone should be profiled, it's CAIR.