Wednesday, June 01, 2005

Paul Kimball has his hands full documenting the anti-Semitic leanings of radio host Jeff Rense. Now another drooling anti-Semite, David Icke, is scheduled to appear on Whitley Strieber's Internet radio show.

Icke's schtick is clever in that he takes pains to distance himself from known Nazi sympathizers, opting instead for a peculiar mix of New Age love and Homeland Security paranoia; his racism is disguised (albeit thinly) by his tenet that interdimensional predators known as "reptilians" have infiltrated world government at the highest levels. Interestingly, "reptilian" is more or less synonymous with "Jewish" in Icke's frothing-at-the-mouth cosmology.

Icke professes to espouse peace and love, but his writings are laced with the same vibes that typify the conspiracy yarns of personalities such as the late Bill Cooper. In a nutshell (pun not intended), it's "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" liberally blended with choice scenes from "V." How many times do we have to hear it?
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6 comments:

Mac said...

Jon,

Rense not anti-Jewish? Please take a look at http://rensewatch.blogspot.com

8:07 AM
Mac said...

One of the many things Rense and Icke have in common is the idea that neo-Nazi/Holocaust "revisionist" extraordinaire Ernst Zundel is some kind of martyr. Good lord.

1:02 PM
Professor Pan said...

It's a shame that Rense posts such anti-Semitic garbage because he sometimes has interesting stuff on his site. But it's tarnished by the ZOG graphics, tributes to the martyr Ernst Zundel (egads!), and absurd "Jews Rule the Earth!" propaganda.

I lost some good friends for pointing out the resemblance between Zundel's logo and the Nazi Swastika. And though I've tried to start a dialogue with Jeff, he completely ignores me.

Thanks to Kimball for doing this -- it's about time.

4:37 PM
Paul Kimball said...

Mac et al:

The Zundel case is complicated, and illustrates the danger of the state (in this case, Canada and Germany) putting into place laws that curtail freedom of speech. I believe that some of those laws are justifiable (Canada's is one), but that they must be applied very sparingly, and only in truly egregious cases. Zundel, for example, was largely unknown until the government went after him with criminal charges. This is why people like Rense, and Zundel himself, refer to Zundel as a "martyr" and a "prisoner of conscience." It's ridiculous, of course - Zundel is on record as stating that he doesn't believe in unfettered freedom of speech, and supports book burning, but by going after him in the courts, as opposed to countering his bogus claims through logic, he has been given a platform far greater than he could have ever hoped for. But as many writers have pointed out, people like Zundel will use the freedom of speech shield whenever they can to defend their noxious beliefs.

Check out his website - the great chuckle is that he posts, on the main page, a quote from the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights about free speech! It would be funny if it wasn't so sad.

Paul Kimball

6:31 PM
Mac said...

Bsti--

I couldn't agree with you more regarding organized religion -- which I consider the great unrecognized oxymoron of our time.

As for Bill Cooper, Rense, et al: Critiquing Israeli foreign policy is one thing. Blatant Naziism is another.

8:57 PM
Paul Kimball said...

Bsti:

"Who else is reporting on Israel's doings."

This is simply a ridiculous statement. No matter what the cult of conspiracy people will tell you, the mainstream media report a great deal about what is going on in Israel, and with the Palestinian Authority. It is fair and balanced, in that one view "here" is offset by another view "there." For example, in Canada, the CBC, the state-owned broadcaster, is generally regarded as being more "pro-Palestinian," and critical of Israeli policy. This is offset by newspapers like the National Post, and broadcasters like Global, which are generally seen as having a "pro-Israel" bias.

The same dichotomy exists in the United States, although you won't see it if your search is confined to raving about the conservative Fox News, which seems to be the MO of the cult of conspiracy.

Paul Kimball

10:06 PM

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