MILLIONS OF MARCHING MIGRANTS–A VIEW OF THEIR GREEK BEGINNINGS (AND UNSAVORY CONNECTIONS)

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As told to us by a Reliable Source
J. Michael Springmann

The Beginning.

As the author noted in Goodbye, Europe? Hello, Chaos? Merkel’s Migrant Bomb, Greece “has been the main focus for migrants. Swarming out of Turkey, thousands of settlers made for the Hellene islands. In January and February of 2016 alone, more than 120,000 alleged asylum seekers poured into the Peloponnese and nearby isles…”
As soon as the tsunami started in 2015, mirabile dictu, newly-invented NGOs “suddenly” appeared on Lesvos, Chios, Kos, and other Greek islands. These mysterious organizations then did something entirely inexplicable: they immediately dismissed all the aid workers who had been helping the genuine refugees. Moreover, almost NONE of these NGOs had Arabic or French speakers on staff. (N.B., French is a tongue widely used in the Middle East.) Yet, all spoke English, a language which only educated people in Southwest Asia understand.
Goodbye, Europe? Hello, Chaos? frequently alludes to questionable outside forces helping to promote the migrant wave. The book discusses involvement of the European Union (EU), Germany, and Israel, among others. Our interlocutor added some more pieces to the jigsaw puzzle, helping add some clarity to the picture.

Outside Influence.

In Greece, the start of the migrant flood coincided with the election of Alexis Tsipras as Greek prime minister in January 2015. A man who had campaigned on Greek sovereignty and resistance to outside pressure, Tsipras acceded to the harsh economic austerity measures which the EU, Germany, and the International Monetary Fund laid down in July 2015. This was followed by, our interlocutor said, a U.S.-imposed Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with Israel. According to the Jerusalem Post, the SOFA ” offers legal defense to both militaries while training in the other’s country.” Voltaire.net noted that Greece has a similar arrangement with only one other country, the United States. As the author was told, this threw 70 years of Greek support for Palestinians and that country’s status as a trusted 3rd party in the Middle East-North Africa region (MENA) out the window. Israel has been training in Cyprus, most likely the part which Greek Cypriots control. Additionally, our contact said the Israeli air force immediately took over the Kasteli air force base in Crete. The Jerusalem Post wrote that Israeli warplanes, in a test, staged mock attacks against the Russian S-300 anti-missile system installed on the Greek island of Crete. Moreover, the author was told, Greek navy ships are now under German control and mostly lie idle in harbor, while NATO and Frontex vessels (European border and coast guard agency) cruise Hellenic waters. Deutsche Welle, the German international broadcaster, reports that German “humanitarian” vessels help bring more migrants into Europe. Isn’t there a link?

How Do The Migrants Make It?

On Lesvos, one of the two or three beaches they regularly land on, is close to our contact’s house. Nearly every night (it was most often night) boats full of aliens would arrive, everyone would disembark, and then destroy the boats, rendering them “shipwrecked” under the law of the sea. After changing clothes, the migrants would follow their mobile phone instructions and march into Mytilini port. No one had to give directions, they knew the way. Despite the tragic photos circulated by the media at the time, most of these “refugees”/migrants looked healthy, were fit, and were even well-dressed. (Meanwhile, enterprising old men waited on the beach to collect the abandoned engines and, in some cases, the inflatables, for re-sale. Greece is now flooded with powerful outboard engines.)

Here’s A Few Questions

WHO provided this endless supply of engines? This endless supply of inflatables? (now in six figures). NOT “smugglers” because smugglers return WITH their boats.
Moreover, why is Greece regularly castigated for keeping the migrants in tents at “hot spots”. (These are, according to Human Rights Watch, violence-prone “centers…[originally] established for the reception, identification, and processing of asylum seekers and migrants.”) The Greek government, our interlocutor commented, makes no protest and takes the abuse like a “good bunny”. In fact, the hot spots are closed NGO-territory-only and the Greek government, including police and firemen, cannot enter unless invited. It is the wealthy, fake NGOs that keep migrants in worthless tents, eating disgusting meals at €7 (about US$8.50) a meal, while Greek street charities (particularly the Orthodox church) dish out healthy, fresh meals with a liter of water per person at €0.35 cents (US$0.40) a serving. (It was clear from the start that a lot of EU people and businesses – not necessarily Greek – have made a fortune from this, at the expense of EU taxpayers.)

And does child and organ trafficking take place at these camps? So many children are unaccounted for, and there is no way for anyone to monitor boats going in and out of the camps.
Another question: would a parent, surviving in a Turkish refugee camp, send an 8-year old child off to Europe ALONE “in hope of a better life”? (This is the shopworn story told in Europe and the U.S.) Well, as our contact said, “I am a parent. My answer to that is ‘Never! We stick together! Ok…some parents may have sold these children at their point of origin, but….. Greeks and MENA people are fanatically family-minded.'”

Politics and Money. Increasing Questions.

Continuing, our interlocutor analyzed Germany’s internal politics and delved into the vast sums of money going to the migrants, raising more questions.
Thoroughly drubbed in last year’s elections, to save themselves politically, German chancellor Merkel’s CDU and the Socialist Party of Germany (SPD), headed by Martin Shulz, have announced that Germany’s rejected migrants will be sent back to their point-of-origin, such as Greece and Italy, thus reviving the Dublin Treaty. (Under the Dublin accords, asylum-seekers must apply for that status in the first EU country reached.) Our source noted that, despite EU claims, until last year Greece received no money for the migrants. (After these are released from the “hot spots”, they go to Greek army barracks where they are housed in [personally-observed]spare but humane and well organized conditions.). Now, our contact asserts that Greece has received several million Euros to house migrants rent-free in fully equipped and furnished apartments in Athens, Thessaloniki, and elsewhere around the country.
One of these apartments is in our interlocutor’s building, in a “good” part of central Athens, next to the Hilton. The flat is larger than our contact’s and has everything: a washing machine, air conditioning, etc. Utilities are paid for. Medical care is free. Food is delivered twice weekly from UNRWA, plus a small sum of spending money (which UNRWA always tries to make smaller). Supposedly these are temporary accommodations, just for three months, but the last group spent 10 months there before decamping for Thessaloniki where they found jobs. (WHAT jobs? At what pay?) And an additional question, how is the UN Relief and Works Agency, tied to Palestinian aid, involved in this?
This is at a time when half of Greek families are surviving on one grandparent’s pension, more than half have no access to medical care, when many Greeks have no electricity, and too many are homeless. Half have no jobs (with 67% of the youth being unemployed). The old economy overwhelmingly consisted of tiny private sector family businesses).
And, Finally, One More Question
The rape reports which started coming out of Germany and Sweden during the past years puzzled most Greeks because – except for a very few incidents – NOTHING like that happened there. So it was only now, this past Christmas, that in Lesvos these things began taking place.
As the author commented in Goodbye, Europe? Hello, Chaos?, migrant attacks on women appeared carefully coordinated, likely using their ubiquitous and expensive cell phones. Will that be repeated now in Greece?
Look at this.
Things seem to be replicating themselves. Here’s some news from Lesvos, our source said, from friends returning to Athens after Christmas holidays:
Around 100 migrants were arriving every day by boat, and sometimes several boats a day. Instead of landing on the usual beaches, they were arriving directly at the port of Mytilini because of the weather. Supposedly, smugglers brought them BUT, no “smugglers” were arrested, and the boats would return to Turkey right away.
All of the migrants were men: no women, no grannies, no children. They were all about 35-40 and spoke English. As they were led through the town, they would pop into cafes and bars and talk to the girls: “‘Hey beautiful, shall we drink something together?” without their minders stopping them. Three girls living in the city center said that every time they went out, they were being hit on.
Is this really post-traumatic stress disorder? Is it really a culture clash? Or is it an effort to change Europe’s way of life? Is this happening because journalists are not doing their job?
Our contact asked how NOT ONE journalist worldwide made even one tiny day trip to the Turkish side of the sea from mid-2015 onward….not one person in the whole world, it seemed, had even one drop of curiosity about the “smugglers”. It wasn’t as if the two-hour commuter ferry Ayvalik-Mytilini had stopped running. And, speaking of that ferry, that is how the real migrants before 2015 used to arrive, WITH their passports.

And Finally…

According to the U.S. Department of State, “Geoffrey R. Pyatt, a career member of the Foreign Service, class of Career Minister, was sworn in as the U.S. Ambassador to the Hellenic Republic in September 2016.
`He served as U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine from 2013-2016, receiving the State Department’s Robert Frasure Memorial Award in recognition of his commitment to peace and alleviation of human suffering in eastern Ukraine.”
The lack of peace and appearance of human suffering in the Ukraine came from the Obama Administration’s policies, formulated and implemented both by Pyatt and Victoria Nuland, former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs.
Is there a U.S. plan for Greece to match that for the Ukraine?

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MIGRANTS? SOMEBODY LOSE SOME MIGRANTS?

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During the first week of November 2017, RT and later numerous British sources announced that Her Britannic Majesty’s Home Office (Interior Ministry) had “misplaced” some 56,000 foreigners liable for deportation – including convicted criminals and illegal immigrants. One woman intimately familiar with Europe’s studiously ignored wave of illicit aliens waggishly remarked, “they aren’t lost; they’re all here in Germany, riding the trains.”

What Hath Merkel Wrought? And Why?

And that’s Europe’s chief problem: the nations on the Continent, nearly all members of the European Union (EU), Germany in particular, still don’t recognize that the foreigners, those now present and with more still on the way, are a problem. Mutter der Nation Merkel invited the migrants there to “save” them from the American/Israeli Forever War against Arabs and Muslims. Please take note that German Chancellor Merkel did not, repeat not, attempt to stop that war. She has never spoken out against it. She has never demanded that refugee camps be set up in or near the violence-torn countries. She has never attempted to aid the economies of those wretched lands, except perhaps through German military expenditures for soldiers and airmen stationed in or near them.

But, Angela Merkel did want cheap labor to help German exports. She did want to change the cultural makeup of the country, helping wipe out German values. Look and think on that latter point, especially given Merkel’s remarks when she was an official of one-time East Germany, the German Democratic Republic. “If we reform the GDR, it won’t be in terms of the Federal Republic.” (Then, “West Germany”.)

As noted in Goodbye, Europe? Hello, Chaos?, the migrants are, to a large extent, not well educated, come from a culture differing in interpersonal behavior from Europeans, and often are not attuned to punctuality. Additionally, their religion is radically different from those of Germany and the rest of the EU.

What Does This Mean?

The German culture stems from the beliefs and values of its people. The role that these principles play are evident in a German’s everyday life. Here are a few of the key values that the Germans possess.

Education

… a good education is very important to German societies. Not only do they have a deep respect for education, but credibility, social status, and the level of employment a person may reach depends on his educational achievement.

Manners

…Displaying politeness and courtesy are ways of showing respect. Boundaries are drawn through social distance, eye contact, touch, and facial expressions. Different types of relationships require different codes of behavior. Failing to follow these protocols is considered rude and may alienate those who are unaware of them.

Punctuality

…Germans pride themselves on their punctuality… Being late to an appointment disturbs their sense of order and is seen as rude… The German sense of “keeping to the schedule” can be seen in and out of the business world. For those who are virtually always on time, there are rarely acceptable excuses for tardiness or delays that may disturb the “schedule.”

Religion

German religion has gone through many changes throughout history. Yet, it continues to be a major part of Germans’ lives. The two most practiced religions are Lutheran Protestant (45%) and Roman Catholic (37%). (Source for foregoing: DePauw University. For more information and analysis on culture clashes between Germans and migrants, see: www.michaelspringmann .com and www.amazon.com/Goodbye-Europe-Hello-Chaos- Merkels/dp/0990926222/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1506524567&sr=8-1)

The Result?

Mama Merkel paid the price for her arrogance and contempt for German culture. She and her right-wing party, the Christian Democratic Union (along with its ally, the Bavarian Christian Socialist Union), lost very badly in the General Election held September 24, 2017. Their percentage of the vote fell sharply, dropping from 41% of the polls in 2013 to barely 33% in 2017. (Normally, the shift of a few percentage points is a big issue.) They lost 63 seats in the Bundestag (parliament), The Alternative for Germany party, the only viable political group opposing migration, grabbed about 13% of the vote, gaining 94 seats, a radical change for a party founded in 2013.

Yet the Chancellor’s response reflected her inability to handle reality. She said that she would listen to those who voted for the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, and work to win them back “by solving problems, by taking up their worries, partly also their fears, but above all by good politics.” She didn’t say she would stop the conflicts creating the migrant wave or seek to damn the flood of aliens.

Money Might Be the Root of All Evil But It is Also a Major Cause of Immigration

Frau Merkel seems to also ignore the great effect German generosity has in pulling migrants from all corners of the globe to the Federal Republic. According to The Local.de, “An asylum seeker arriving in Germany has the right to housing and up to €390 euros per month to cover food, clothing and other expenses.” (This is considerably better than US support of asylum seekers.) German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière characterized this as a “siren call for migrants”. Additionally, “The benefits for refugees in Germany are quite high compared to other EU countries. This is part of the pull effect towards Germany,” de Maizière, a close ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel, said in an interview with the Rheinische Post regional daily. (Quoted in The Local.de, Sept4ember 10, 2017.)

So far, Merkel’s done nothing to change the Willkommenskultur (Welcome Culture). And more information about her failed policies and their dreadful consequences is coming to light.

Here’s but one example. On October 16, 2016, an Afghan migrant, Hussein Kavari, raped and drowned Maria Ladenburger, daughter of a high-ranking EU official. The Afghan attacker caught the young medical student as she was bicycling home from a party in the university city of Freiburg. One year later, more explosive news about Karvari came out. RT wrote on November 8, 2017 that Kavari, who claimed to be underage [and, presumably seeking mercy from the court] is really in his 20s and may be as old as 30. (He had kept a previously-extracted tooth that yielded up his true age.) More astonishingly, “The suspect arrived in Germany as an unaccompanied asylum-seeker in 2015, with no identity papers, and had been living with a Germany foster family since.” (When arrested, Kavari claimed he was only 17!)

Migrant Makeup and the Push for More

The “male and unaccompanied issue”, handled in Goodbye, Europe? Hello, Chaos?, is still a major problem in Germany, and becoming more complicated. According to The Local.de, “asylum seekers are more likely to be male than female, although the balance changes somewhat from year to year. In 2016 two in every three asylum seekers were male… Government figures show that two age groups are particularly likely to be asylum seekers in Germany. The first is young people aged between the ages of 18 and 30, of whom the large majority are male. The second group is very young children under the age of four. Almost one in every four asylum applications lodged this year have been on behalf of children under the age of four. By contrast children aged 4 to 6 made up only 3 percent of all applications.” (September 1, 2017.)

The Local.de went on to say in the same issue that 2016 was a record year for asylum applications: ” When hundreds of thousands of refugees arrived in the autumn of 2015 they didn’t all apply for asylum at once. Because there was already a long backlog with the immigration authorities, many waited until 2016.

That meant that last year smashed the record for asylum requests – 745,545 applications were lodged during the course of the year. 2015 was the second highest number of applications in German history, with 476,649 being made…”

Not recognizing the reasons for the 2017 electoral backlash against its policies (crashing to 20% of the vote, the worst in its post-war history), the German Socialist Party (SPD) has proposed alienating still more people. Touting the discredited idea that the only way to expand Germany’s population is by migration, Germany’s traditional working-class party believes that 250,000 more aliens should be brought to the country annually. The SPD proposes a point system that would enable additional people to qualify for German citizenship. Its draft law, the party notes, would not affect the rights of anyone seeking asylum in the country. (Cf. The Local.de November 7, 2017.)

Censorship: Free Speech Is Relative

Yet, there appears to be no real change from the German government’s crackdown on speech critical of migrants. In 2016, the Washington Post reported that “German authorities, meanwhile, have reached a deal with Facebook, Google and Twitter to get tougher on offensive content, with the outlets agreeing to apply domestic laws, rather than their own corporate policies, to reviews of posts.” (Perhaps that is why Twitter has refused to advertise Goodbye, Europe? and why Facebook does such a poor job of promoting that volume. The work disparages Europe’s, especially Germany’s, migrant policy. )

The Post also noted ” Critics call it the enforcement of political correctness, raising the question of what constitutes hate speech and sparking a national debate over free expression…Some Germans are questioning whether their online comments about migrant crimes [such as the 2015 New Year’s Eve attacks in Cologne] could be taken down, or whether they could be charged with incitement, for publicly pondering whether refugees could have been among the assailants.”

Also, “… the incidents have fed a strain of anger and suspicion here beyond the traditional migrant critics in the right wing. It’s not politically correct to say anything against migrants. We don’t have freedom of opinion anymore…tweeted a German user from Hanover going by the handle Pulvermann.”

Furthermore, ” Proponents are hailing the government effort as a way to foment respect while also controlling the most savage voices in society.” Yet, this is not going down as easily as Merkel and her people might wish. “…[E]ven leaders on the political left are questioning whether the bid to weed out hate is going too far. Stefan Körner, chairman of Germany’s liberal Pirate Party, argued that democracies ‘must be able to bear’ a measure of xenophobia. He condemned the government’s deal with social media outlets to get tougher on offensive speech, saying that ‘surely it will lead to too many rather than too few comments being blocked. This is creeping censorship, and we definitely don’t want that.’”

Even the media, the Post said, is censoring itself. “The surge of incendiary comments online has been so strong that one of Germany’s largest media outlets, Der Spiegel, disabled its readers’ comment function for articles related to refugees.”

Proponents of more controls on freedom of speech in Germany assert that uncontrolled speech about migrants causes violent crime against migrants, so the Post says. Perhaps, it’s the other way around. Failure to address an issue of major importance, an issue striking at the heart not only of the state but of its people encourages crime against migrants because the government is seen as working on behalf of aliens to the detriment of the citizenry.

CONCLUSION: The surge in European, especially German, hatred of the Right, particularly those groups opposing unrestricted migration, further demonstrates the failure of the Left. Much like the recent presidential election in the US, Europeans no longer accept polls that go against what they perceive as their interests. And that is why democracy is dying, not as the Washington Post claims on its masthead, in darkness, but in bright sunlight.

PALESTINIAN PRANKS PERVERTS

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Some years ago, a Palestinian-American and employee of the US government traveled to Israel on official business. The perverts at the airport, fearing he might write something favorable to the PLO while in Izzie-land, made him disrobe. At first, they put him in a booth behind a curtain. Then they wanted his winter coat, even though it was cold in the airport. Next, they asked for his jacket. Later, it was shoes, socks, shirt, and pants. Ignoring his pleas for his clothes, the Zio-Nazis demanded his underwear. After his refusal, two burly guards came in and said, give them over or we take them. Stark naked, the US official got his revenge. He ran out in the arrival hall and began demanding his attire. Horrified, the Izzie immigration inspectors began opening suitcases and throwing clothes at him. Can’t we all just say…

SIRHAN SIRHAN: A “REEL BAD” ARAB?

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On July 20, 2017, William F. Pepper, Ed.D., J.D., spoke at the National Press Club about his previous day’s filing of a 200-page petition regarding Sirhan Sirhan.  Sirhan, jailed since 1968, is the alleged killer of Robert F. Kennedy, late New York U.S. senator and Democratic presidential candidate.  Organized by Andrew Kreig, J.D., editor of the Justice Integrity Project (http://www.justice-integrity.org/), the well-attended conference enabled Dr. Pepper to discuss his long-sought evidentiary hearing.

As Sirhan’s lawyer for many years, Pepper conceded that the legal remedies for his client in the United States have been exhausted–at both the State and federal levels.  California, where Kennedy had been murdered in a Los Angeles hotel kitchen, did not assure a fair trial.  Essentially, ineffective assistance of counsel got the accused wrongly convicted.  Grant Cooper, his attorney, under threat of a sealed felony indictment, did almost nothing to defend Sirhan.  He failed to investigate the matter, obtain the autopsy report, or examine ballistics tests.  He spent most of the court proceedings arguing that Sirhan was guilty and, that because of diminished capacity, should not be given the death penalty.

Sirhan also got no relief in the federal system, neither with with the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, nor with the extremely liberal and contrarian U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, nor with the U.S. Supreme Court, which declined to review the case.

Now, Pepper is staking Sirhan’s chances on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), an Organization of American States (OAS) body. His goal is either a new trial or an evidentiary hearing. The filing alleges that the California and U.S. justice systems violated Sirhan’s right to a fair trial, as required under the OAS Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man. By treaty, the IACHR may review U.S. cases and those from 34 other nations when domestic remedies have been exhausted.

Pepper, who had been a friend of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, is known for his winning defense of King’s supposed murderer, James Earle Ray, during a 1993 mock trial on HBO.  In a celebrated wrongful death proceeding in 1999, Pepper obtained a symbolic award based on 10 years of dogged pursuit of relevant evidence and witnesses.  He is doing the same now with Sirhan.

Noting that the U.S. media is controlled, by high level businessmen, bankers, and other influential figures who move in and out of government, such as John J. McCloy one-time U.S. High Commissioner for Germany and member of the Warren Commission, Sirhan’s lawyer said that the “conclusive evidence” reported as news was, in realty, extremely weak.  There was never a hearing on the facts, he commented.  Such an investigation would have shown that Sirhan, the claimed criminal, was nowhere near Kennedy when the shooting started.  Thomas Noguchi, Los Angeles’ chief medical examiner at the time, swore that Kennedy was struck by three shots fired within inches of his body, from behind.  Sirhan got off two shots at Kennedy from a six-foot distance, in front. Sirhan was immediately tackled and pinned down while still pulling the trigger on his handgun.  However, Sirhan fired only eight shots total yet a carefully-examined sound recording heard thirteen rounds.  Moreover, the shots came from different directions.

Yet, the Los Angeles Police Department, Pepper revealed, failed to preserve the physical evidence from the crime scene, such as ceiling tiles, doors, and door frames with bullets buried in them.  The cops’ excuse?  There was no space in which to store them.  Pepper went on to say that the Los Angeles police had long-standing and very close ties to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

The suspicion is, Pepper remarked, that Sirhan appeared to fit the parameters of the infamous CIA drug and consciousness-altering program, MK-ULTRA.  (Its former director, Sid Gottlieb, destroyed most of the operation’s records in 1973.)  Dr. Daniel Brown, Harvard Medical School, spent nearly 70 hours examining Sirhan through hypnosis and questioning, concluding that the Palestinian Christian had undergone a variety of procedures coupled with drugs to make him controllable.  Notably, Pepper said, this could have occurred while Sirhan had mysteriously disappeared for two weeks before the assassination.  Seen as a patsy, he was prepped as a distraction while the real murderer fired the close-up shots killing Kennedy, Pepper continued.  Sirhan had apparently had a handler, a woman in a polka dot dress, the attorney remarked.  She disappeared after she pinched the scapegoat on the neck, apparently triggering Sirhan’s belief that he was really shooting at a paper, man-shaped target from a firing range.

COMMENT.  Despite Andrew Kreig ‘s extensive and most vigorous efforts, only a few members of the press turned up at the conference: an intern from the Washington Times, a representative from Al-Mayadeen TV, Beirut, along with a knowledgeable White House correspondent for an alternative news site.  This appeared to validate Dr. Pepper’s view of the heavily-managed American media.  And it bodes ill for what seems to be the attorney’s goal in filing with the OAS–to generate enough adverse publicity to force the United States to re-examine the questionable trial of Sirhan Sirhan.  Indeed, a casual search of the Internet turns up a number of references about “conspiracies” revolving around the problematically convicted man.

Perhaps everyone involved in this matter should take a look at Dr. Jack Shaheen’s writings on Arabs, notably Reel Bad Arabs:  How Hollywood Vilifies A People.

LEFT FORUM FOLLIES

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Zionists Demolish First Amendment

The Left Forum’s theme at its convention June 2-4, 2017 was:  The Resistance.  That group’s raison d’etre and self-description on its website was:

The Left Forum brings together national and international politics, people, ideas, and activism for a just, equitable, free, sustainable world beyond capitalism. 

Surprisingly, for what happened, the City University of New York (CUNY) helps manage the Forum, using its Graduate Center’s Department of Sociology.

Yet, the Convention proved a colossal failure.  It did not, repeat, not, bring together ideas and activism for any sort of just, free world.  In fact, it blocked ideas and speakers some anti-democrats didn’t like. Taken over by conspiracy-minded Zionists, the Forum canceled panels one Israelite opposed, violating  the most basic tenets of freedom of speech in the United States.  Simply put, “Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.”  [U.S. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo in Palko v. Connecticut.  302 U.S. 319 (1937)] NB:  Cardozo was a Jew.)

What Happened?

CUNY’s creature rejected three panels outright and then canceled one previously-approved  panel on “Thought Crimes”.   Organized under the thematic track of “Deep State”, the panels were:

  • Political Correctness: The Dangers of Thought Crime Police
  • “Terrorism”: Fake Enemies, Fraudulent Wars
  • False Flags: Staged, Scripted, Mass Psy-Op Events
  • 9/11 Truth: Ground Zero for a Resistance Movement

What?  No?  That can’t be!

It happened.  It happened despite speakers’ vigorous denunciations of the Forum’s decision.  It happened despite appeals to the New York City Human Rights Commission.  It happened despite appeals to the New York City Mayor’s Office.

But Why Did It Happen?

It happened because a small-minded, remarkably arrogant Zionist, whose name may really be Spencer Sunshine, objected to some of the speakers.  Of no known address or employment, he wrote a series of scurrilous e-mails and a letter to the Left Forum Board:  Stanley Aronowitz (professor, City University of New York), Maria Carnemolla (Democracy at Work), Samantha Desire (Brooklyn-based organizer), Kristin Lawler (associate professor, College of Mount Saint Vincent), Rob Robinson (formerly homeless and now a member, US Human Rights Network), and Richard D. Wolff (visiting professor, New School University in New York).  Extremism really has strange bedfellows.

What Were Sunshine’s Issues?

He didn’t  like some of the speakers because they were Muslim.  He didn’t like some of the speakers because they were journalists.  He didn’t like some of the speakers because they were performance artists in Times Square. He also claimed many were “Holocaust Deniers”.  (One of the prospective speakers thus branded had apparently caused this by quoting remarks by retired South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, an apartheid opponent.  And Israel is an apartheid entity.)  Other speakers which Sunshine had damned with his remarks were university professors.  Some were in fact, Jews themselves.  (Yet, NOT Zionists.)

But, did Sunshine produce any evidence?  Did Sunshine provide any facts?  Nope.  He didn’t have to.  In the United States, in the 21st Century, that’s not required when Zionists, acting on behalf of Israel, America’s oldest enemy and greatest debtor (Hausfrauleaks, December 29, 2015), charge “anti-Semitism” and  “Holocaust Denial”.  In a country with a working Constitution,  such blatant lies, such offensive behavior would be summarily dealt with.  But not in New York City in 2017.  Worse, our Ray of Sunshine got a Zionist newspaper, the Forward, to print more of his offensive lies.  True to type, the journal flatly refused to permit any of the goyim affected to rebut such vilification.

Sunshine himself might well be a Nakba Denier.  (Nakba is the Arabic word for catastrophe, referring to the Zionists’ ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948.)  Sunshine also might well be a libeler.  He certainly didn’t provide any proof or justification for his outrageous, untrue remarks, published without any sort of privilege.

…a libel per se is “any publication which exposes a person to distrust, hatred, contempt, ridicule, obloquy….or which has a tendency to injure such a person in his office, occupation, or business, or employment…  Briggs v. Brown, 55 Fla. 417, 46 So. 325, 330 (1908).

Someone (the inaptly-named Sunshine or a confederate?) organized a telephone hate campaign as well.  People who protested the Board’s censorship reported phone calls denouncing them as “Holocaust Deniers”.  One even received death threats.  Others were sufficiently intimidated that they spoke via Skype rather than in person.

How Did The Forum Justify This?

However, some might ask, what justification did the Forum’s Board of Directors provide for its banning of free speech?  Did the Board explain its actions?  Well, eventually, Marcus Grätsch, a German co-Director of the operation, asserted that the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, had threatened to pull out of the convention if the panels weren’t canceled.  (The organization is a Teutonic foundation named after the Communist Jew who helped plunge Germany into civil conflict following WWI.  Although headquartered in Berlin and affiliated with what’s left of the East German Communist Party [Die Linke, the Left], it has a New York office claiming to work with North American  progressives in universities, unions, social movements, progressive institutions, and think tanks.)  Yes, that’s correct.  The words come from the foundation’s website The organization also reportedly has ties to the neo-Nazis now ruling the Ukraine .

Miurabile dictu, despite this concatenation of crazies, the show did go on!!!

In a remarkable feat of mis-direction and cleverness, the organizers continued with the banned panels, stating they were running the “Left Out Forum”.  Expending US$1,500 of their own funds, they secretly rented a room at the Left Forum venue plus a backup location to permit Freedom of Speech, as guaranteed by the First Amendment to the federal Constitution.  To prevent further trouble by liberty-hating  Zionists, the exact location was embargoed until 9 a.m. June 4, one hour before the first panel took place.  Despite the secrecy and organized opposition, the Left Out Forum panels were well-attended, averaging about 40-70 guests per panel.  This compared well with other events in which this author participated.

The forbidden, prohibited panels also generated a remarkable level of scrutiny.  People at a table selling books dealing with the “Deep State” reported a constant swirl of John Jay College of Law security guards around them.  This writer, while sitting at the stand, was accosted by someone wearing “Gabe” on his name tag.  He asked if the author were a “Holocaust Denier”.  At the “Thought Police” panel in the “Left Out Forum”, a well-dressed man wearing a yarmulke turned up and took a seat.  After some minutes, he disappeared.  This seemed somewhat peculiar.  However, in dealing with Zionists, anything is possible.  They think differently.  In Israel, for example, many roads are reserved for Jews.  Palestinians are not permitted to travel on them.

What?

It’s a fact.  Here’s a quote from B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories:

Israel’s restrictions on Palestinians’ freedom of movement in the West Bank are enforced by a system of fixed checkpoints, surprise flying checkpoints, physical obstructions, roads on which Palestinians are forbidden to travel, and gates along the Separation Barrier. The restrictions enable Israel to control Palestinian movement throughout the West Bank as suits its interests, in a sweeping breach of Palestinians’ rights.

What happened to the Left Out Forum is really only a difference in degree from Zionist action in Occupied Palestine.

Now, we all know that New York is a strange place filled with far too many strange people.  And they seem to gravitate towards positions of authority.  But, how should Progressives deal with them?

If This Happens Again?

In this writer’s opinion, the proper option is to strike back at the first attempt by extremists to restrict freedom of speech.  File a complaint with the New York City Commission on Human Rights–and publicize it.  Send copies to newspapers within New York and outside.  Stage a demonstration at the Mayor’s Office.  File a civil rights lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.  In doing so, it’s also important to take the Left Forum to task for its blinders.  One banned panelist suggested that the organization increase its focus on more immediate issues.  He gave examples such as false claims of terrorism and support for endless war, handy to divide the opposition and persuade it to accept loss of civil rights in the name of security.  This also justifies attacks on civilians and allows authoritarians to push their agendas.   Think about 16 years of wholesale murder of Muslims by good, practicing Christians.  He noted that the Left Forum wouldn’t or couldn’t focus on Israel’s terrorist actions.

Untouched Speakers

What the Forum did focus on was selective complaints, attacking some but ignoring others.

Our little shaft of Sunshine didn’t object to Miko Peled, the Israeli-American who writes about and speaks out against Israeli discrimination against Palestinians.  Yet, he was a speaker on the Forum’s permitted panel, “A Single Democracy in Palestine”.  Nor did Sunshine spread his rays over Allison Weir, a speaker on the allowed panel “Deep State 2.0:  Against Anti-Semitism But Critical of Zionism”.  Why not?  They’re both people the Israelites love to hate.  However, they have a vast national and international following.  They have websites and go on public speaking tours all over the United States.  The Zios, in this writer’s opinion, knew that Peled and Weir, if attacked, have sharp teeth and could bite hard.  The Left Out Forum organizers were local activists who recruited an international assembly of knowledgeable speakers.  They didn’t have deep pockets, their own far-reaching website, or thousands of followers.  They were easy targets.

And did the Zionists, by their denial of free speech engender greater love for Israel?  Did they demonstrate that they were true Jews who faithfully followed their religion?  According to the BBC:

A religious Jew tries to bring holiness into everything they do, by doing it as an act that praises God, and honours everything God has done. For such a person the whole of their life becomes an act of worship…

Judaism is a faith of action and Jews believe people should be judged not so much by the intellectual content of their beliefs, but by the way they live their faith – by how much they contribute to the overall holiness of the world.

Maybe, it’s all in how you define worship and describe holiness.