Anti Semites Attack believers in alternative medicine

What's behind anti-Semites' increasing drive to recruit Canadian New
Agers?

Nazis used to be made of sterner stuff. According to a 1934 interview
conducted by German conservative Herman Rauschning [Herman Rauschning
NEVER even met Adolf Hitler, nevermind interviewing him/--HW*], Adolf
Hitler said former Marxists made the best Nazis because they saw politics
as a violent activity. "The petit bourgeois Social Democrat and the trade
union boss will never make a National Socialist," the murderous dictator
said, "but the communist alway will. Well, so much for the voice of
experience. Today, instead of communist revolutionaries, anti-Semites
seem to be making a conscious effort to recruit New Agers, believers in
alternative medicine, and UFO Conspiracy theorists.

[*David Irving mentioned in an evening talk in 1992 that the use of
Herman Raushning as an 'authority' is a Red-Flag to a serious reader --
that the whole of the material is probably tainted. As for Raushning
interviewing AH, David Irving also noted there is only ONE record of his
being at ONE gathering of many hundreds of guests, and NO indication
whatsoever that he spoke to AH even once.--HW]

The two men most responsible for this unique outreach drive appear to be
Eustace Mullins and David Icke, A native of Virginia, Mr. Mullins is the
author of Biological Jew , which makes the outlandish claim that a
"religious ceremony of drinking the blood of an innocent gentile child is
basic to the Jew's entire concept of his existence as a parasite." Mr.
Icke, a former sportscaster and former spokesman for the British Green
Party, believes the world is secretly ruled by an evil society of Jewish
shape-shifting lizard aliens. Both have attempted in recent months to
speak at alternative health conferences in Toronto, Montreal and Salmon
Arm, B.C., only to be rebuffed after public outcries forced organizers to
retract their invitations.

I t is thought that Mr. Mullins and Mr. Icke target the alternative
health crowd because it is already deeply suspicious of medical
authorities and might easily be persuaded Jews are behind various
conspiracies. "Hard core health nuts want to hear Mr. Mullins condemn
modern medicine in exactly the same way white supremacists want to hear
him condemn Jews -- as an evil force that preys on the innocent,"
National Post writer Donna Laframboise observed in a recent story.

An example of this paranoia would be The Medical Mafia, an influential
book in the alternative medicine movement by former Quebec physician
Guylaine Lanctot. The work does not mention Jews, but it is
conspiracy-minded and is heavily advertised on one of Mr. Icke's Web
sites. In an interview conducted through that site, Ms. Lanctot argued
that various medical systems " all serve financiers and not the people.
That's the basic thing. The bottom line is that the medical systems are
controlled by financiers to serve financiers. Since you cannot serve
people unless they get sick, the whole medical system is designed to make
people sicker and sicker. "

Other books advertised on the site include such conspiracy tomes as:
Racketeering in Medicine: the Suppression of Alternatives, by James P.
Carter; and The Holocaust lndustry, by Norman Finkelstein, who claims to
be the son of Holocaust survivors. An excerpt from The Holocaust
Industry reads, "In recent years, the Holocaust Industry has become an
outright extortion racket,"

A visit to another of Mr. lcke's Web sites can best be described as a
journey into the bizarre. He calls former U.S. president George Bush a
"serial killer" and a "paedophile," and claims Hitler was a member of the
Jewish Rothschild banking family. But he also writes "We can choose
freedom or fall under the control of a global fascist state, a global
Nazi Germany."

Asked if Mr. Icke could be considered part of the anti-Semitic movement
when he has expressed negative opinions about Hitler, David Birnbaum, the
Canadian Jewish Congress' executive director in Quebec replies, "That's a
good question. Our sense is that people like David Icke and Eustace
Mullins would be laughable if they weren't so insidious." Mr. Birnbaum
adds, "They are quite smart at couching their, hateful ideas in
alternative lifestyles and propositions that make them more palatable."

It is true, adds Mr. Birnbaum, that Mr. Icke is no Ernst Zundel (the
Canadian publisher of anti-Jewish tracts), but the Jewish Congress
spokesman also believes the two men share a great deal in terms of goals
and ideas. As well, Mr. Icke is dangerous because he can reach out to New
Agers who "might be of good faith."

Mr. Birnbaum declares his organization believes in free speech, but also
says it has tried to prevent Mr. Mullins and Mr. lcke from speaking to
alternative-medicine conventions because "free speech comes with limits
and responsibilities. You can't incite hate, and these jokers, come close
to disobeying that rule."

On the other hand, many free-speech advocates contend that if the two men
are, indeed, "jokers" and if they do not actually incite hatred, then
they should be allowed to vent their spleens for democracy's sake.
Moreover, as free-speech advocates Alan Charles Kors and Harvey A.
Silverglate write in The Shadow University, it is onlv through "free and
unfettered debate among free individuals that informed change for the
better can emerge.
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