This is a speech by Benjamin H. Freedman, given in 1961 at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C. and sponsored by Common Sense, a newspaper of the time.

Background on Benjamin H. Freedman – Born in 1890, Freedman was a successful businessman in New York City and principal owner of the Woodbury Soap Company.  After World War II, he began speaking out against organized Jewry, although he kept his own Jewish faith.

Over the rest of his life, he spent at least $2.5 million of his own fortune (most of it, a lot of money at that time) attempting to expose the power structure of Zionism and how it dominated the United States.  Before leaving the Zionists, Mr. Freedman was a well-connected and high-level insider inside many Jewish organizations.  He counted amongst personal acquaintances people like Franklin Roosevelt, JF and Joseph Kennedy, Woodrow Wilson, and others.

While some of the vocabulary might be dated, the speech still rings true:

Listen to his speech now through streaming audio.

by Rev. Ted Pike

The Anti-Defamation League is not backing down from its outrageous claim that millions of Americans are conspiring against Obama! ADL’s recent report, Rage in America: Anti-Government Conspiracies, claims millions of anti-Obama Americans, consumed with “toxic rage,” will say almost anything necessary to bring the President down.

But spokeswoman Myrna Shinbaum says the backlash against ADL is simply a misunderstanding: “The comments are coming from people who have not read the reportThey’re reacting to the media spin and not its substance.” (Jewish Telegraph Agency, ” “http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/conservatives
_rap_adl_report_on_anti-government_anger/15941? Conservatives Rap ADL Report on Anti-Government Anger, Dec. 1)

What “media” is misrepresenting ADL? It’s certainly not the mainstream liberal media that usually works in lockstep to give ADL initiatives maximum publicity. With only a handful of exceptions, the media has said nothing, pro or con, about Rage in America. Why? Big media is embarrassed by ADL. If its claim that millions of Americans are conspirators were not so sinister, it would be laughable.

The “media” to which Shinbaum refers is a string of recent articles: Jonathan Tobin in Commentary, Joseph Farah in World Net Daily, Rev. Ted Pike at www.truthtellers.org, Joel Sprayregen in American Thinker, and Rabbi Nachum Shifren in News with Views. These commentaries-now viral online-have probably embarrassed ADL more than anything since the 1988 Spotlight expose of ADL’s illegal surveillance of over 10,000 unsuspecting Americans. (See my video, “http://truthtellers.org/alerts/hatelawsvideopage.htm” Hate Laws: Making Criminals of Christians at www.truthtellers.org for complete documentation.)

But ADL is unrepentant. It has an agenda and schedule to keep-persecuting Christians and conservatives under its hate crime laws worldwide.

In a recent fund-raising appeal, ADL national director Abe Foxman complained of a worldwide “explosion of anti-Semitism that is shocking in its intensity and unprecedented in its reach into the mainstream.” ADL wants to bull its way forward, persuading all nations of the world to criminalize any criticism of matters Jewish. The cleverest legal means is their brainchild: hate crimes laws.

To eventually imprison enormous numbers of those who oppose ADL’s new world order, ADL must prepare the public to view Christian conservatives as anti-Semitic and violence-prone. This has begun with ADL’s Office of Global Anti-Semitism in the US State Department. In its latest report to Congress, the Office says “classic anti-Semites” include at least 100 million Christians who affirm the New Testament account that the Jews masterminded the crucifixion of Christ. (See “http://truthtellers.org/alerts/newtestamentantisemitic.html” U.S. State Department Says New Testament is ‘Anti-Semitic’?) This is an extremely threatening charge by the U.S. government against Bible-believing Americans and Christians everywhere. In Canada, it is a hate crime to publicly state that the Jews were responsible for Christ’s death. It is punishable by a minimum fine of $5,000 and prison if the offense is repeated.

For the past five years, ADL has united 56 nations of Europe into an “anti-hate” confederation (the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, OSCE) dedicated to ending “homophobia,” xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and ultimately free speech online. Yet in a recent report, ADL laments that its European hate law agenda is not progressing as rapidly as planned. At last month’s OSCE conference in Warsaw, ADL berated member states for failing to vigorously enact and enforce more hate laws. It also criticized them for neglecting to gather statistics ADL can dramatize as proving that an “epidemic of hate” exists in Europe, necessitating even more hate laws. ADL calls this year’s OSCE report a “revealing portrait of the failure of too many governments to recognize the unique problem of hate crime.” “The League’s analysis of the data found that a total of 23 governments failed to gather hate crime data or make it publicly available. ADL also highlighted nine countries that reported fewer than 10-and in some cases zero-hate crimes. Only eight of the 56 governments submitted informationon incidents of anti-Semitism.” (See “http://www.truthtellers.org/alerts/gestapobeingcreated.html” Global Hate Crimes Gestapo Being Created)

It may well be that some political leaders in recalcitrant countries not under the strictest ADL control are gradually awakening to the dangers of hate laws through hearing the horror stories of hate law persecution in other nations. They also may be receiving a comprehensive education on the twisted reasoning, abuses, and ultimate conspiracy of ADL hate laws from the premier international site opposing hate laws, www.truthtellers.org.

ADL’s participation in every aspect of a hate crimes bureaucracy is vital to creating ADL’s ideal: a totally repressive gestapo, mercilessly indicting dissident speech in a manner that is fiercely punitive. This is what ADL’s northern branches, B’nai B’rith Canada and the Canadian Jewish Congress, have brought to Canada since 1971, when ADL’s hate law was passed — after a decade of ADL lobbying. Running Canada’s hate bureaucracy has been entirely their project — one which they direct at every stage and of which they are immensely and very publicly proud.

How to Kill America’s Hate Law

What is the most effective way to keep America’s new ADL hate law from being enforced? It’s simple. The more credibility ADL loses-as happened in the last two weeks-the harder it will be for the League to persuade the government to pursue hate crime indictments. If ADL’s credibility is destroyed, hate laws will become unenforceable. In America, virtually no one but ADL cares about sending Christians and conservatives to prison as “anti-Semites” and “homophobic” hate criminals. Without ADL management of hate crime bureaucracies and orchestration of prosecution, even the militant homosexual lobby will have to be content to coexist with the Christian community rather than prosecute it. (Despite ADL propaganda, the heterosexual majority has not tended toward hateful violence against homosexuals.)

The most practical, attainable way to pull the teeth of the new federal hate law is not through legal action, supplicating liberal judges to declare it unconstitutional. They may actually be delighted to receive such appeals and use them to uphold the Constitutionality of the hate law and even broaden it to cover verbal violence against sodomites.

The most direct way to neutralize the hate bill is to destroy, by every truthful means, the reputation of the Anti-Defamation League. Tens of thousands of patriots should tell as many as possible about ADL’s 96-year record of subverting America’s values and freedoms.

An excellent way to start is for groups, especially churches, college clubs and political organizations, to view my 82-minute video Hate Laws: Making Criminals of Christians at “http://www.truthtellers.org” www.truthtellers.org. This fast-moving, easily understood documentary presents the history of ADL, particularly how it took away free speech in Canada. It also reveals how, through influencing US legislative bodies as well as policies of the US justice system, it intends to end freedom in America.

Despite its staggering international power and immediate threat to very high profile potential critics, such as Glenn Beck, Joseph Farah, Michael Savage, etc., never in ADL’s history has the average citizen been more secure from ADL’s smear, “Anti-Semite!” This is a unique time because ADL faces a myriad of what it considers anti-Semitic attacks, especially on the internet and in the United Nations. It simply cannot diversify to individually assault thousands of grassroots Americans, who can speak out.

Do you still think you can’t make a difference in dismantling ADL’s power? Consider this anecdote from nature. Once in our garden, I heard a tremendous commotion of scornful cries from little birds. A hawk had just pounced on one of them. Instantly, chickadees, wrens, robins and jays mobbed him, mercilessly berating the raptor at close range. The hawk panicked and flew away, leaving his victim unharmed. Each bird alone was a potential meal. Yet acting together, overwhelming the hawk with protest, the small birds prevailed.

Do you have the courage of a chickadee?

Thousands of Americans, grieved by the specter of a national hate crimes bureaucracy being set up in America, can unite to tarnish ADL. Then, what may be happening in many OSCE countries will happen in America. Without a credible ADL goading the Attorney General, FBI and police against Christian “hate criminals,” the federal hate law will become a despised relic of legislative history-rusting and decrepit like monuments of the former Soviet Union.

The people will never allow it to be used against them.

by Rev. Ted Pike

Joel Sprayregen is a former ACLU staff attorney and National Vice-Chair of the Anti-Defamation League. He was appalled at ADL’s recent 27-page online attack on the Christian/conservative right, “Rage Grows in America: Anti-Government Conspiracies.”

Writing in American Thinker Online, November 29, he says, “You can…understand the consternation, and not just mine, which greeted the ADL’s hyped “Report” declaring that ‘rage’ expressed against President Obama is un-American.” He says, “ADL’s perfervidly purple prose belies an abysmal ignorance of American political traditions.” Sprayregen documents this tradition on the authority of Jefferson, Holmes, etc., who not only tolerated but actually encouraged fervent, even heated dissent.

“ADL’s naked partisanship,” he says, is revealed by the fact that “In the time of anti-Bush rage, the ADL held its tongue.” But, he says, “You can’t fool all the people all the time…The failure of mainline media to scrutinize Obama and his mentors – which truly is unprecedented…incentivizes many who love this country to sound off…The ADL could not have chosen a more infelicitous moment to try to shield Obama from anger generated by his policies.”

Sprayregen says he was National Vice-Chair of “the then-respected Anti-Defamation League.” But in past years “…ADL stumbled so egregiously. As observed by many, including myself, who have left the organization, the ADL has declined into an autocracy where no opinion counts other than that of its long-time National Director, Abraham Foxman, whom the New York Times described as “a one-man Sanhedrin for life.” When Foxman hatches a crackpot idea like the “Rage Report,” no one can restrain him.”

He says, “Foxman is driven to justify his half-million-dollar-plus salary (matched in virtually no other Jewish organization)… To generate publicity for himself, he launches (and then summarily drops) foolish initiatives, such as his attack on Christian Evangelicals, Israel’s most consistent supporters… I found only one press column praising the ADL statement: that of Los Angeles Times writer Timothy Rutten… When I googled Rutten, I found that last year, he received an ADL First Amendment award.”

Sprayregen’s article adds to rapidly mounting testimony by yet another Jew (and ADL insider) informing the world that ADL is a loose cannon on the deck of liberalism. It could threaten Zionist interests also because ADL is the PR bulldog of Israel to the world. Jewish liberals view it, as Jewish Week confirmed last week, as “an active part of… the right-of-center pro-Israel establishment.” Yet Foxman, Sprayregen contends, counterproductively attacks the century-long arch supporters of Israel: evangelical Christians. This includes WorldNetDaily owner Joseph Farah who, not unlike ADL, provides a pipeline for Israeli policy directives to millions of evangelicals.

Where Is ADL Taking Us?

What does Sprayregen’s exposure of Foxman’s instability and persecutive inclinations mean to Christians/conservatives — indeed to all Americans?

It means many things because ADL has so profoundly altered American social attitudes, especially in regard to tolerance of homosexuality and support of pro-homosexual legislative initiatives. These, whether on the local, federal, or international level, will unfailingly be found to have been generated primarily by ADL and its parent organization, B’nai B’rith International.

ADL hate crimes laws have taken free speech from the citizens of Canada, England, Australia, etc.; and now America is shackled with a national hate law fully capable of doing the same. Recently signed by Pres. Obama, it was very largely conceived and brought into existence by the same Abe Foxman who wrote the recent “Rage Report” which portrays millions of Americans as “conspirators.”

Since 1984, with publication of my book Israel: Our Duty, Our Dilemma, I have been sounding the alarm against the ADL — warning of ADL’s anti-Christian, anti-freedom malevolence — just as Sprayregen and other Jewish ADL critics are now alleging. Yet virtual silence of any criticism of ADL has prevailed among frightened Christian and Jewish leaders until now. At last, Joseph Farah, Orthodox rabbi Nachum Shifren, Commentary magazine editor Jonathan Tobin, and Joel Sprayregen are finally breaking the national silence in terse and even biting rebuke. This is a historic moment. Never since its founding in 1913 have one evangelical and three Jewish leaders stood up in public criticism of ADL. Let’s make sure that ADL’s irresponsibility in issuing its “Rage Report” will result in a new era of responsibility for vigilance, scrutiny and criticism of ADL by all in positions of religious and political authority.

Danger from ADL Will Continue

What will happen to ADL if criticism and controversy over the “Rage Report” continues? Foxman could resign. ADL, under new leadership, could ostensibly learn some of the “tolerance” it has presumed to teach others for most of the past century.

Yet, ADL will remain an enormous threat to freedom. The statement by California Senator Jack Tenney in the 1971Congressional Record remains apropos: “The CIA and FBI are tinker toys compared to the ADL.”

ADL remains frighteningly powerful, eliciting recent effusive praise from guest speakers at ADL functions: Janet Napolitano, head of the Department of Homeland Security; Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations; and Eric Holder, U.S. Attorney General. In fact, legislative events of the past year have demonstrated beyond doubt that, at least concerning passage of ADL’s hate crimes laws, most Democrats in Congress as well as Attorney General Holder are securely in the palm of ADL’s hand.

ADL will continue to surveil Christian/conservative Americans along with fringe groups, providing under-the-table intelligence to the U.S. government unavailable through lawful means. Sometimes it will get caught, as Sprayregen says, “for illegally gathering evidence against unsuspecting Americans…stored in its massive files (twice in recent years the ADL has paid damages for illegal surveillance).” (For a complete education on ADL’s massive spy operation on 10,000 Americans, watch my gripping 82-minute video at www.truthtellers.org “Hate Laws: Making Criminals of Christians.”)

Evil tends to be immoderate. This time ADL has gone too far. In 2005, ADL’s National Executive Board member Philadelphia district attorney Lynne Abraham also went too far. Erupting in rage two days after Christian conservatives defeated ADL’s hate bill in Congress, she took revenge on the religious right by arresting 11 Christians. She charged them with seven crimes, threatening 47 years in prison and $90,000 in fines each. Included was the “hate crime” of witnessing to homosexuals at a gay pride rally. But ADL paid a big price then, as I hope they will pay in the days and weeks ahead. As a result of Abraham’s rash persecution, ADL provided a red hot issue which propelled me onto national talk radio. Since then, thanks to ADL, I have given roughly 700 interviews, with 125 hosts, almost entirely in warning against ADL and its hate laws.

Once, in an interview by author and radio talk show host Michael Collins Piper, he related how on a street corner in Washington, D.C. he saw someone who looked very familiar. Yes, it was Abe Foxman. Piper, who has exhaustively researched and written about ADL, started walking toward him, saying, “Hey, I know you — you’re Abe Foxman!” Foxman, doubtless recognizing Piper, turned and started walking briskly away and then fled.

This is the man who brings Christians/conservatives to silence and submission by threatening to label them anti-Semitic. He did this to Dr. Richard Land, President of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, several weeks ago. Land had transgressed ADL’s ban on using any Nazi terminology to describe the pro-abortion provisions of the healthcare reform bill. Confronted by Foxman, Land was utterly intimidated, vowing, according to ADL, that from then on ADL can always count him “on board” their “tolerance” social agenda. Dr. Land should know this includes promotion of homosexuality, abortion, pornography, and hate laws. (See ADL Welcomes Christian Leader’s Apology For Insensitive Remarks On Healthcare Debate)

Yet, as Piper’s encounter reveals, Foxman showed himself a coward, one who can’t face an eminent critic on the street corner or, as Sprayregen alleges, even criticism from his own staff. That is part of the reason he and ADL tirelessly promote hate laws which ban criticism of homosexuals, Muslims, and Jews. Above everything else, ADL abhors criticism of itself.

Foxman and the ADL need to be identified, exposed, and shamed in order to deflate their persona from the gargantuan proportions and reputation they have falsely attained over the past century. Foxman is like a phobia: If you run from it, it only attains credibility, becoming a giant in hot pursuit. But if you relax, turn around and mockingly defy it, it will dissipate. In the same way Foxman, the terror of the religious right, will shrink to nothing more than a mouse squeaking in the corner.

by David Calderwood

Recent LRC Blog posts surrounding the classical liberal roots of Marxist class analysis reminded me that we have rarely had a clearer portrait of the two dominant heads of the exploiting class hydra. In the past two years, even with central bank stonewalling and opaque government deals it is obvious that the main exploiters are those individuals managing the political system and those individuals who own the financial system’s central conduits.

When the Treasury Department’s managers and the Federal Reserve System’s managers collude behind closed doors, and the lowliest scam that emerges is a lottery-winner level of financial fraud…one that the SEC miraculously can’t fathom…it is pretty obvious who is getting rich at our expense.

Before everyone gets all “conspiracy theory” on me, let’s recognize the obvious, which is that people with similar aims and who benefit from the same set of conditions need not have each other on speed dial in order to coordinate their actions.

Just as the market spontaneously organizes the efforts of individuals laboring in a voluntary system to generate vast productivity, the political system coordinates the efforts of the exploiting class to inexorably change the rules so their exploitive efforts produce more loot. The clown in the White House need not hold a conference call with the heads of the major banking families and the clowns running Congress in order to get all their plans set.

This raises an interesting conjecture.

Has the centuries-long spontaneously-organized labor of the major banking cartel families been the dominant force that gifted us with this hydra political economy that is stealing us blind?

Here’s my line of thought:

We know from Professor Hoppe and other Mises Institute contributors that monarchies tended to be less war-loving than the modern state. Wars generate stunning levels of financing demand, so from this we can infer that the owners of banking cartels would see a transition from monarchy to modern klepto-democratic states as a means of growing themarket for their services.

Shifting education to the public sector where Fabian socialism could be taught as a state religion was also highly constructive to financiers’ profits. Once individual citizens are trained to think about the abstraction we call “government” as something magically distinct from the people who manage it, the state is seen as an extension of society rather than a vehicle for exploitation of producers by parasites.

Unprecedented capital then flows from producers into the hands of the political system’s managers and their financiers (especially once production is so crippled that people begin borrowing to artificially maintain their standard of living).

This process required no more explicit coordination than has the advancement of the computer industry since the invention of the printed circuit. All that was necessary was a relative few people who gravitated to loci of power due to their willingness to exploit others, combined with a great increase in wealth allowing productive individuals to support a vast increase in the burden of individuals exploiting them.

Regardless of the specific desires of individuals in the exploiting class, their paths were largely parallel. Exploiter-class occupations proliferated, with celebrity posts in “news” media, entertainment, and the state apparatus itself. During the latter stage of this two-century development, even some of the banking cartel managers came out of the shadows to gain notoriety and celebrity, to be treated like they have a direct line to Divinity.

State and financial institutions spread like rot in a landfill, attracting exploitation-minded people like roadkill attracts flies.

Across the spectrum of human endeavor, once exploiting-class individuals got a toehold in something, in little time their cancer spread and choked most of the voluntary life from previously healthy market-based activities. The involvement of the state’s coercion in education turned to dominance and with the seeming removal of market discipline from schooling it became a free-for-all for the exploiters.

Is it shocking that grade school kids can identify mass murderers like Lincoln or Sherman but have never heard names like Bastiat, de La Boétie, or Say? Is it a surprise that college coeds wear Che Guevara t-shirts but would respond, if you told them about the man who explained in 1922 unequivocally why the USSR would fail, “Ludwig von-what?”

It’s no wonder that exploitation of the productive became the dominant process at universities. The majority of people teaching in many departments “sell” things that have no market value. Of course they attack the pillars of peace,property ownership, and non-coercion that might impede their desire for more power, prestige, or whatever else their exploitation might yield. The tick, the flea, and the mite have different aims and occasionally compete for host resources, but all wish to stop the horse’s tail from swatting at them.

So here we stand at the edge of the abyss, observing what this perverse anti-market’s coordination has wrought. Over a century of systematic crippling of individual liberty and the free market it generates have strip-mined whole societies of capital. In this final act productive people even mortgaged everything they own to the financiers and are being driven from their homes as politicians sell their tax liabilities to…political entrepreneurs.

What should we expect now?

First we should see the exploiters blame their nemesis, liberty, for the very ills they and their forbearers bequeathed us through war, inflation, regulation, and above all, debt.

Second, it seems that the true exploiter-class captains are ideology-free. They’re not Marxists. They believe in only one form of private property: theirs.

We should expect the great financiers and banking cartels to divest themselves of their highly profitable financial cons that are now ready to collapse. Trillions of dollars worth of debt and paper assets will flow from the banksters into the “hands” of the public through Treasury Department guarantees, bailout schemes, pension and 401(K) plan purchases, and the like just in time to see it all collapse in value.

Then, once the collapse is complete and all defaults have occurred, those same captains of finance (perhaps helming firms sporting new façades) will swoop in and buy it all back up at fire-sale prices when there’s blood running in the streets. For instance, look for all those mortgages in default to be bundled up and sold for a fraction of a penny, so the banking cartels will succeed in owning vast swaths of real estate, ready to sell it back to the dispossessed at a healthy markup.

They, their grandparents, and their great-great-grandparents have done it before. How do you think they accumulated most of the world’s wealth, by inventing useful things? The only entrepreneurship they know is the political kind.

This murderous form of exploitation will end or at least shrink considerably someday. This won’t occur, however, until there’s a widespread appreciation of the malignant alliance between finance and the state, and a new period ofprosperity is begun by eliminating the exploiting class’ revolving door (starting here) between them.

by Steve Watson

Related: Purging The Undesirables: ADL Attempts To Pin A Yellow Star On Grass Roots America

The Anti-Defamation League has published a fresh report directly targeting Alex Jones as an “extremist” and “The King of conspiracy”, lumping in the information contained on this website with the actions of racists and white supremacists.

There is, as usual, one major problem with the ADL’s report – it is devoid of any empirical fact and based entirely on the group’s desire to create the impression that huge swathes of politically disgruntled Americans are violent conspiratorial-minded bigots that they must expose and counter.

“With conspiracy talk-show host Alex Jones leading the way, one of the most disturbing trends in 2009 has been the resurrection and proliferation of some of the same anti-government conspiracy theories that so riled up domestic extremists in the 1990s.” the ADL writes.

The organisation defines three major issues as “conspiracy theories” that exist only in the mind of paranoid delusional extremists. They are:

• Imposition of Martial Law. The federal government is plotting to declare martial law in the near future as a way to strip Americans of their freedoms and institute the New World Order. The government may utilize or even manufacture a crisis, such as the swine flu epidemic, in order to have an excuse for imposing martial law.
• Gun Confiscation. The government is plotting to embark upon a massive program of gun confiscation, going door to door to take firearms away from American citizens so that they will be unable to resist the New World Order. Police, the military and even foreign troops may be used in the gun confiscation efforts.
• FEMA Concentration Camps. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has constructed hundreds of concentration camps in the United States, designed to hold “dissidents” and other American citizens following some imminent crackdown such as a declaration of martial law.

Let’s take each one of these topics and provide some much needed context that is sorely missing from the ADL’s slapped together hit piece.

With regards to martial law and the idea that a crisis could be used to impose it, the ADL should consider speaking with Democratic Congressman Brad Sherman of California’s 27th congressional district and Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma.

Sherman has been a member of the House of Representatives since 1997 and also serves on the Committee on Financial Services along with Texas Congressman Ron Paul, whom the ADL ludicrously refer to in their report as “a far right icon”.

In early October 2008, Sherman told the House that he personally knew of several Congressional representatives who have said they were threatened with the prospect of all out martial law should they vote in opposition to the $700 billion bailout that was eventually passed just over one year ago.

“The only way they can pass this bill is by creating and sustaining a panic atmosphere. That atmosphere is not justified.” Sherman stated.

“Many of us were told in private conversations that if we voted against this bill on Monday that the sky would fall, the market would drop two or three thousand points the first day, another couple of thousand the second day, and a few members were even told that there would be martial law in America if we voted no.” The Congressman continued.

A few weeks later, Senator James Inhofe named Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson as the source of the threat of martial law. Inhofe revealed that Paulson made the threat during a conference call on September 19th, around two weeks before the legislation was eventually approved by both the Senate and Congress.

Congressman Brad Sherman and Senator James Inhofe, two extremist conspiracy theorists according to the ADL’s definition.

For years, Congress has operated under “martial law” provisions which force members to vote on legislation without having time to adequately read and review it.

In addition, the U.S. has been in a declared state of national emergency for over 8 years. During that time it has emerged in several officially released reports, FOIA acquired documents and leaked government memos that preparation and planning is in the works for martial law style scenarios.

Most recently Barack Obama declared a second national state of emergency with regards to the swine flu epidemic. A national emergency allows normal legal procedures regarding a certain issue to be sidelined, should the federal government deem it necessary. Yet to even suggest that might be a fact means you could be a mass murderer in the ADL’s eyes.

Perhaps the most well known threat of martial law came in 2003 from General Tommy Franks, the former commander of the military’s Central Command.

Franks outlined the scenario by which martial law would be put in place, saying, “It means the potential of a weapon of mass destruction and a terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event somewhere in the Western world – it may be in the United States of America – that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event. Which in fact, then begins to unravel the fabric of our Constitution. Two steps, very, very important.”

The threat of martial law is real, even if the imposition of martial law is yet to become a reality, yet to the ADL it is “extremist” to point out these straight forward facts.

The second paranoid delusional theory according to the ADL is gun confiscation.

The ADL says it is an extremist’s fantasy that police and military could be used to confiscate guns in the wake of a national emergency. However, this is exactly what happened in New Orleans in the wake of hurricane Katrina in 2005, as the following video comprised of news footage, eyewitness statements and police press conferences outlines:

Again, the threat of gun confiscation is real.

Legislation to impose unprecedented controls on gun ownership is real.

It was real when George W. Bush was president and it is still real now Barack H. Obama is president.

Over the last couple of years intense debate has raged over the very meaning of the second amendment as new gun laws have been legislated and passed.

I’m not an extremist for pointing this out, all I have done is read the newspaper.

The third “extremist conspiracy theory”, according to the ADL, is the existence of FEMA camps. An anti-government delusional or a real and pressing issue? Unlike the ADL, we will provide some evidence rather than what “someone wrote on a forum” to help you decide.

Recent Legislation introduced into Congress mandates the establishment of “national emergency centers” to be located on military installations.

The purpose of such facilities is to provide “temporary housing, medical, and humanitarian assistance to individuals and families dislocated due to an emergency or major disaster,” the expansion of which under FEMA is codified under HR 645, otherwise known as the National Emergency Centers Act.

Ominously, the bill states that the camps can be used to “meet other appropriate needs, as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security,” an open ended mandate which many fear could mean the forced detention of American citizens in the event of widespread rioting after a national emergency or total economic collapse.

The issue of containment camps re-gained national attention three years ago when it was announced that Kellogg, Brown and Root had been awarded a $385 million dollar contract by Homeland Security to construct detention and processing facilities in the event of a national emergency.

The language of the preamble to the agreement veils the program with talk of temporary migrant holding centers, but it is made clear that the camps will also be used “as the development of a plan to react to a national emergency.”

Following the story, first given wide attention by Prisonplanet.com, the Alternet website put together an alarming report that collated all the latest information on plans to initiate internment of political subversives and Muslims after the next major terror attack in the US.

The article highlighted the disturbing comments of Sen. Lindsey Graham, who encouraged torture supporting then Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to target, “Fifth Columnists” Americans who show disloyalty and sympathize with “the enemy,” whoever that enemy may be.

It is important to stress that the historical precedent mirrors exactly what the Halliburton camp deal outlines. Oliver North’s Reagan era Rex 84 plan proposed rounding up 400,000 refugees, under FEMA, in the event of “uncontrolled population movements” over the Mexican border into the United States.

The real agenda, just as it is with Halliburton’s gulags, was to use the cover of rounding up immigrants and illegal aliens as a smokescreen for targeting political dissidents. From 1967 to 1971 the FBI kept a list of persons to be rounded up as subversive, dubbed the “ADEX” list.

As recently highlighted by author Naomi Wolf, the National Counterterrorism Center holds the names of close to one million “terror suspects” with the number increasing by 20,000 per month.

Discussions of federal concentration camps are no longer the rhetoric of paranoid Internet conspiracy theorists, they are mainstream news.

Furthermore, a much discussed and circulated report, the Pentagon’s Civilian Inmate Labor Program, has recently been updated and the revision details a “template for developing agreements” between the Army and corrections facilities for the use of civilian inmate labor on Army installations.”

The plan is clearly to swallow up disenfranchised groups like prisoners, immigrants and Muslims at first and then extend the policy to include ‘Fifth Columnists,’ otherwise known as anyone who disagrees with the government or exercises their Constitutional rights.

Respected author Peter Dale Scott speculated that the “detention centers could be used to detain American citizens if the Bush administration were to declare martial law.”

Daniel Ellsberg, former Special Assistant to Assistant Secretary of Defense, called the plan, “preparation for a roundup after the next 9/11 for Mid-Easterners, Muslims and possibly dissenters. They’ve already done this on a smaller scale, with the ’special registration’ detentions of immigrant men from Muslim countries, and with Guantanamo.”

Furthermore, In 2002, FEMA sought bids from major real estate and engineering firms toconstruct giant internment facilities in the case of a chemical, biological or nuclear attack or a natural disaster.

Okanogan County Commissioner Dave Schulz went public in 2003 with his contention that his county was set to be a location for one of the camps.

Furthermore, in May 2006, we exposed the existence of a nationwide FEMA programwhich is training Pastors and other religious representatives to become secret police enforcers who teach their congregations to “obey the government” in preparation for the implementation of martial law, property and firearm seizures, mass vaccination programs and forced relocation.

This program is continuing under the Obama administration with churches declaring that Barack Obama’s presidency is appointed by God and that Obama himself is “God’s minister”.

Of course, the authors of the ADL report will not thoroughly read this article. They will not check the links to mainstream news articles and official government documents.

They will simply take it as more evidence to use to smear Alex Jones, his readers and the truth community. They will continue to lump in patriotic Americans and freedom lovers everywhere with the activities of a minority of racists and psychopaths that they choose to highlight.

More and more people are uniting in protest against the erosion of liberty, embracing a peaceful revolution of information, their causes overlapping, whether it be anti-war protesters, those against the bailout of private offshore corporations or second amendment activists, the list goes on.

However, the ADL will continue to tell you that America is about to explode into a cess pit of violence, rage and hatred. The ADL will always tell you this because it has to, otherwise it will no longer have a purpose, it will no longer receive funding, and like any organization it will go out of business.

Once again, the anachronous ADL has proven that far from railing against discrimination and division, it is engaged in actively promoting and encouraging it by spreading libelous lies and concocting character assassinations in order to ensure its own survival.