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COMMENTARY Voice of the people (letter)
AMERICAN NAZIS
Irving Louis Horowitz, Hannah Arendt Distinguished Professor of
Sociology & Political Science, Rutgers University
08/17/1999 Chicago Tribune
Page 12
The constant theme struck by President Clinton is the danger to
Americans of guns. But this theme disguises a far more serious
issue: the continuing existence of Nazi theory and practice in
the form of the American Aryan Nations.
Clinton washes out the ideological core of Nazism by speaking of
the shooting of two Jewish women and three small Jewish children
in a Los Angeles-area Jewish community center as "another
senseless act." He claims simply that "our nation has been shaken
and our hearts torn by an act of gun violence." Granada Hills is
not Columbine High School, where such sentiments may have been
well placed. This is the work of a known American Nazi, with a
history of violence. Buford Furrow's attempted mass murders were,
in his own words, aimed as a "wake-up call to America to kill
Jews." This is not the act of a stock day trader frustrated with
fiscal losses, or a high school student embarrassed and
humiliated by fellow students. This is the act of a dedicated,
determined genocidist for whom the attempted murder of children
and older women is the fulfillment of a Hitlerian dream to purge
America and the world of Jewish people.
To shift the burden of this hideous concrete political act into
an abstract pathological act is to deprive the new pattern of
violence against Jewish people and its religious-cultural
institutions of just such specificity, and hence of its meaning.
Indeed Nazis in America are hardly limited in their capacity to
access weapons of destruction. Should the forces of law and
public order fail to protect the innocent and punish the guilty,
Jews would be within their rights to take up arms in their own
self-defense. It may only be the deeply held Jewish faith in the
inviolability of law and public order that inhibits them from
taking such measures.
This trained myopia within our political establishment to speak
frankly about the scourge of anti-Semitism has its roots in the
belief that government will uniformly behave within the legal
framework of power. But the Holocaust is an example of the state
as itself the essential source of illegality.
Before we join the chorus supporting Clinton in extending gun
control, we would be well-advised to insist that some recognition
be taken of the Nazi ideology and nativist roots of Jew hatred.
Until then, the right to bear arms should not be easily
denigrated or, for that matter, arbitrarily denied. For Jews,
such a right may turn out to be a power correlate of the
post-Nazi moral imperative: never again.
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