__________________________________________________________________________ The Internet Anti-Fascist: Tuesday, 31 March 2000 Vol. 4, Number 28 (#409) __________________________________________________________________________ CONTENTS More On the Psychodynamics of Rightwing Authoritarianism tallpaul, "The Unkindest Cut of All: More On What Really Motivates the Defender of 'White Culture'?" Web Sites of Interest 7 cites on Nazis and the Holocaust More On Mattel and the Issue of Online Censorship Declan McCullagh (Wired News), "Mattel Suit Takes GNU Twist," 28 Mar 00 Robert Lemos (ZDNet News), "ACLU slams Cyber Patrol tactics," 24 May 00 Rightwing Quote of the Week What's Worth Checking: 10 stories -------------------------------------------------------------------------- MORE ON THE PSYCHODYNAMICS OF RIGHTWING AUTHORITARIANISM The Unkindest Cut of All: More On What Really Motivates the Defender of "White Culture?" What can we make of Randal H. Mason's post to a white-power Usenet news group containing a forged news article form the Houston Chronicle on Black women castrating white men? Both Mason's original post and the Houston Chronicle's response are included below. The Mason forgery is an excellent example of how Usenet serves as a repository of material similar to folklore and mythology and how, by examining this material using classical psychoanalytic methods, we can gain greater insight into the psychological dynamics behind different political tendencies. Earlier[1] I published hard data on the use of sexualized language found in Usenet posts by rightwing authoritarians, with particular emphasis on language reflecting phallic narcissism and aggression. Intense phallic aggression should result from two fears, lead to two fears, or both. The first fear is that the aggressor will be aggressed upon by others in the same aggressive manner. The normal unconscious manifestation of this would be a strong fear of anal rape. The second fear is that the aggressor will be aggressed on in a manner to prevent him from engaging in future aggressions. In classical psychoanalytic theory this would be a fear of castration. The two develop as reaction formations against fears or as fears manifesting guilt over aggression. In the former case, the dynamic would be something like "I fear being victimized so I will become the oppressor." The second fear is "I aggress upon then so I fear they will aggress against me." At a deeper level of interpretation, the dynamic would be "I fear castration/rape therefore I will be the castrator/rapist" and "I try to castrate and rape them so they try to castrate and rape me." The homophobia associated with the rightwing authoritarian can also develop in a two-fold manner. The reversal of initial fears can lead to anxiety over aggressive but unconscious homosexual wishes. This is obvious in the reactive desire "I will rape them before they can rape me" immediately leading to "I am not the homosexual; they are." One first has the fear of homosexual victimization, then the defense against this fear, and then a defense against the active homosexual ideation in the first defense. This is similar to the threefold unconscious dynamic Freud described for paranoia: I love him; I hate him; he hates me. A similar dynamic develops on a psychological level closer to the fully conscious mind, reflecting various cultural identities and fears. The weak are targets so the person who fears aggression must not appear weak. He must appear "the manly man," he must not be the "sissy" or the "wimp." To appear so is to invite the very aggression feared. He must stave off aggression by being visibly more aggressive than any possible opponents. Equally, the "sissification" of his opponents serves to convince himself that they are not dangerous. Yet the unconscious fears repeatedly slip out. In certain cases the rightwing authoritarian is so obsessed that everyone around him is homosexual or that every opponent he faces represents the homosexual conspiracy. Or, as with the forged post below, the fantasies that break forth into the real world are of people out to -- in the most literal Freudian fashion -- castrate them. FOOTNOTE [1] "What Really Motivates the Defender of 'White Culture'? An initial exploration via a new net-based psychoanalytic methodology," TINAF Vol. 3, Number 99 (#363), Friday, 3 December 1999 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- WEB SITES OF INTEREST: "An Interim Report to Congress" Required By the Implementation of the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act (P.L. 105-246) <http://www.nara.gov/iwg/report.html> Law and the Holocaust: Biddle Law Library <http://www.law.upenn.edu/bll/holocaust/holocaust.htm> The Holocaust -- Lecture Notes and Study Guide: U. of Arizona <http://www.law.upenn.edu/bll/holocaust/holocaust.htm> Literature On the Holocaust: maintained by Al Filreis <http://www.english.upenn.edu/%7Eafilreis/Holocaust/holhome.html> Ghetto Fighters' House -- Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum <http://www.gfh.org.il/> Holocaust Internet Sites: N. Harris College Learning Resource Center <http://www.nhmccd.cc.tx.us/contracts/lrc/kc/holocaust-internet.html> Women and the Holocaust <http://www.interlog.com/~mighty/> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- MORE ON MATTEL AND THE ISSUE OF ONLINE CENSORSHIP Mattel Suit Takes GNU Twist Declan McCullagh (Wired News) 28 Mar 00 BOSTON -- Mattel's claim of victory Monday in a lawsuit over its Cyberpatrol filtering software may be premature. The toy giant said during a court hearing here that it had acquired intellectual property rights to a program that reveals Cyberpatrol's secret list of off-limits websites and settled the case. Mattel said it planned to use its new copyright in court to ban Internet copying of the "cphack" utility. But cphack's authors released it under the GNU General Public License, which appears to permit unlimited distribution of the original cphack program, even if Mattel now owns the copyright. "Once you do that you can't revoke it," said Bennett Haselton of Peacefire, a group opposed to filtering software that temporarily put up its own cphack mirror site. The Free Software Foundation's GPL agreement says that "the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the program." Translation: A copyright holder can't change his mind. "GPL is software that cannot be revoked," said Eben Moglen, a law professor at Columbia University and FSF general counsel. "Anyone downstream who possesses a copy of the software may redistribute it. "It's a very amusing case," Moglen said. "If people are going to respond to free software they don't like by trying to wipe it out, they're in for some real trouble." A spokeswoman for Mattel reached late Monday said she didn't know what the effect of the GPL would be. But she said cphack authors Eddy Jansson and Matthew Skala had signed a contract with Mattel and if there was any deception, "they'd be in big trouble." - - - - - ACLU slams Cyber Patrol tactics Robert Lemos (ZDNet News) 24 May 00 The American Civil Liberties Union criticized Internet filtering software maker Microsystems Software Inc. and its parent company Mattel Inc. on Friday for attempting to limit free speech on the Internet. The civil rights group's charges stem, not from the Mattel lawsuit accusing two international hackers with violating the copyright agreement of its Cyber Patrol software, but with the tactics of Mattel's lawyers in pursuing a temporary restraining order in the case. "The problem is that (Cyber Patrol and Mattel) are censoring free speech," said Chris Hansen, senior staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union. "They served a host of ISPs (Internet service providers) and Web sites with the subpoena." The subpoenas -- which were sent out by e-mail last Saturday -- attempt to stop the distribution of two utilities: One which lets children turn off the Cyber Patrol's filtering, and the other which allows users to look at the complete list of filtered sites. "They've sent out spammed copies to try and get ISPs to take down the sites that are hosting the software," said Hansen, who added that many ISPs will do so because they believe it's not their fight. "We have decided it is our fight," he said. ACLU steps in The ACLU announced on Friday that the organization's attorneys would be representing three U.S. Web site operators who posted copies of the programs and have been subpoenaed by attorneys for Mattel and Microsystems. A week ago, U.S. District judge Edward F. Harrington granted Mattel a temporary restraining order, prohibiting the publishing of the programs on the U.S. Internet. The three Web operators -- Waldo Jaquith of waldo.net, Lindsay Haisley of fmp.com and Bennet Hasleton of peacefire.org -- were subpoenaed along with two dozen others because they posted the programs, or linked to a site which had done so, on the Internet. The programs -- called cphack.exe and CP4break.zip -- have been "mirrored" on a large number of Web sites following Mattel's civil suit filed against the hackers Eddy L.O. Jansson of Sweden and Matthew Skala of Canada. The next phase in the case will begin Monday, when Mattel will try to win a preliminary injunction against the hackers and their supporters, further prohibiting the posting of the programs on the Internet. The ACLU intends to argue that its clients should not be included in the case. Irwin Schwartz, a partner with Schwartz and Nystrom LLC., which is representing Mattel, stressed that the main case has little to do with free speech. 'No first amendment issues here' "There is no first amendment issue here," he said. "The first thing is that this has nothing to do with government censorship." Pamela Samuelson, professor at the School of Information Management and Systems, University of California at Berkeley, disagreed. "I think that the people who wrote it were not doing it to steal but to engage in study and analysis and developing a non-infringing program," she said. "Learning something that Mattel and others would rather they didn't learn." While the issue will be fought in the courts, Web sites protesting filtering will have their speech curtailed, said ACLU's Hansen, likening the two dozen e-mailed court documents to filtering the Internet by subpoena. "Mattel doesn't need this court order," he said. "All it has to do is put all the mirror sites on its blocked list." Then, no user of its software will be able to download the bypass utilities from another site, he said. Underscoring that point, the Peacefire site owned by Haselton is currently filtered by Mattel's Cyber Patrol. "We have looked for ways to not block Peacefire. But off its main page we have found that it has information on how to hack into multiple products," said Sydney Rubin, spokeswoman for Microsystems. "We have blocked Peacefire because there is almost no way not to block it." -------------------------------------------------------------------------- RIGHTWING QUOTE OF THE WEEK: For those who believe that fascism is only a thing of the past From: "Randal H. Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: alt.politics.nationalism.white Subject: Houston Castrations! Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 11:02:23 -1000 I found this article posted on the net. Some really disturbing disgusting stuff. According to this article a black woman in texas has been picking up young white men in bars and having them take her home for sex, once there she drugs the mans drink. She takes off his pants while he is still awake and procedes to give him oral sex, then when he wakes up his testicles and the head of his penis are cut off and gone. What the hell is happening in this world? - - - - - African American woman wanted in string of castrations Houston Chronicle 23 Feb 00 FORT WORTH - Reports have been coming into local police stations from victims in hospitals about a growing number of disturbing crimes in the area. An African-American woman who goes by the name Sandy has been meeting white men in bars, druging them, and then castrating them according to local reports. There have been 9 such incidents since December 22, 1999. Those interviewed did not want their name published, so the first victim interviewed will be refered to as John. According to John, a student at the University of North Texas, "I was at a bar with some friends getting some drinks when a good looking thirty something year old woman squeesed close to me at the bar. I told her excuse me and she told me no problem. She asked me my name and I told her, then she asked if I was having a good time at the bar, i said yes. She asked me if I wanted to have a better time" At this point "Sandy" as she has called herself to every victim, drove 'John' to his off campus apartment. Once there she went to his kitchen and started making drinks. "I said I don't usually drink this much and that I was fine, but she insisted that I have one of her special made drinks. She said she could make the best Gin N Tonic in all of Texas. Finally I accepted and when she sat next to me at the couch I drank with her." The couple started getting into sexual activity. "She undressed me, and then we moved to the bedroom. I was feeling very hazy, but I thought it was the alchohol. Every time I tried to remove her panties she would stop me and say not yet." After about 20 minutes 'John' passed out. "I just felt really tired and I couldn't hold my eyes open. The next thing I knew I woke up with a pain in my crotch." What happend next has been labeled in the Houston area as the most horrific crime in recent memory. "I felt my crotch and it stung, and my fingers were bloodied. I looked down there and saw that there was a lot of white cotton balls taped on top of my penis. When I removed them I realized that the head of my penis was gone." Not only was the head of 'Johns' penis missing, but so were both his testicles. Next to his bed taped to his closet door was a photo copied black and white message which was originally folded four times. The message was found with each of the 9 victims who experienced almost the exact same incident. The said "Call 911 immediatly or you will die. This will be a message to all white men in this country that you can't fuck with black people any longer!" Dr. Edward R. Chow treated 'John' and 3 other victims this month in the incident. He mentions "Whoever did this is one sick individual. Not only did they remove both the testicles and scrotal sack, but also the head of the penis, which is much harder to repair. None of the victims will be able to father children, or even achieve an orgasm for the rest of their lives." He mentions that the weapon used in the severing was a "Fish gutting knife, like those found in hunting stores.... It is amazing that none of the victims have died." Police have no leads yet as to the criminal or criminals involved. If caught she could face up to 25 years in prison. Police say they are looking for a 5"5' woman, approx 120 pounds, long brown wavy hair, with a mole near the bottom left of her chin. She goes by the name Sandy and frequents bars around the Univeristy of North Texas. She is in her mid thirtys, and all victims she has chosen have been between the ages of 21-26. Any information leading to the conviction of 'Sandy' will recieve a $10,000 reward put up by the familys of the victims. Any leads please call the Houston Police. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- WHAT'S WORTH CHECKING stories via <ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/story5/> Monika Unsworth (Irish Times), "All-Ireland anti-racism move urged," 22 Mar 00, "An all-Ireland approach is needed to tackle issues of racism and cultural diversity, a report launched in Belfast yesterday has found. The Equality Commission's chief commissioner, Ms Jean Harbinson, said the importance of racial issues was increasingly being recognised. Growing European and international interest in promoting the issue had led to a greater confidence in addressing it." <1486.txt> Guardian/Observer, "Police Arrest 100 In Race Hate Crackdown," 23 Mar 00, "A police crackdown on known racists has so far led to 100 arrests and 16 people being charged. Scotland Yard detectives detained people on suspicion of offences ranging from racially aggravated criminal damage, distributing racist literature, harassment, grievous bodily harm and threats to kill after a series of dawn raids across the capital. Met officers also made two arrests in Reading, Berkshire, in connection with the BBC TV series MacIntyre Undercover, in which reporter Donal MacIntyre infiltrated the world of alleged football hooligans." <1487.txt> Irish Times, "Fanning the flames ," 26 Mar 00, "Instead of welcoming the much needed labour supply which its growing Moroccan immigrant community provides, the Spanish town of El Ejido is becoming synonymous with racism, as two recent killings spark a violent right-wing backlash. Paddy Woodworth reports from Andalusia on escalating racism, a story which echoes changing Irish attitudes to 'outsiders' No one is quite sure exactly where or what El Ejido is, not even the people who live there. It is still in the process of inventing itself, violently torn between northern Africa and southern Europe, and apparently unable to contain both identities. El Ejido is where the immigration issue really bites." <1488.txt> Tracy Wilson (Los Angeles Times), "Witness Describes [Skinhead] Killing of Woman -- Court: Testimony comes in conspiracy and perjury trial of Beverlee Sue Merriman, whose son Justin is accused of raping and murdering 20-year-old Katrina Montgomery," 25 Mar 00, "After raping Katrina Montgomery in front of two teenage gang members, Justin Merriman stabbed the 20-year-old woman in the throat and beat her over the head with a crescent wrench as the two watched in horror, one of them testified Friday." <1489.txt> Mary Robinson (Daily Star), "Time to fight racism with action, not words," 23 Mar 00, "The rise in Europe of a far-right nurturing nostalgia for the Nazi past; the recent attacks on migrants in southern Spain; anti-foreigner attitudes in several of the economically better-off African countries; institutionalized racism in some police forces and prison systems: this grim and, sadly, incomplete list is a stark reminder that bigotry and bias are alive and well as we marked on Tuesday the first International Day against Racial Discrimination of the new century. Tackling racism and xenophobia must be one of our top priorities. It is clear that the affirmation in the first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 'Everyone is born free and equal in dignity and rights' has not become a reality. Where one is born and one’s status often determine the rights one can effectively claim and the dignity one enjoys. International standards have been set for the prevention and elimination of discrimination, but social and political realities undermine the promise of human-rights law." <1490.txt> Richard Stewart (Houston Chronicle), "KKK wizard photo angers Byrd family: Magazine features man who defaced grave," 24 Mar 00 , "The family of Jasper dragging death victim James Byrd Jr. said Friday that they are upset by a glossy magazine's photo of a Ku Klux Klan imperial wizard who placed a KKK sticker on Byrd's grave. ... Byrd, a 49-year-old black man, was killed on June 7, 1998, when he was chained by the ankles to a pickup and dragged for three miles. His dismembered body was found on a road in front of a black cemetery east of Jasper. Three white men were convicted of capital murder, and two were sentenced to die for the slaying. The April edition of Details magazine shows a photograph of 19-year-old James Roesch, imperial wizard of the Knights of the White Kamellia, and his wife, April, standing beside Byrd's grave in Jasper City Cemetery." <1491.txt> AP, "Hate crime victim sues white supremacy groups," 27 Mar 00, "A black man who was beaten and stabbed by a group of skinheads has filed lawsuits against white supremacy groups he contends sparked the attack by advocating violence. Randy Wordell Bowen, 24, of Murrieta, filed civil rights lawsuits last week in U.S. District Court and Riverside Superior Court. Bowen named the Hammerskin Nation, the Western Hammerskins and the group's chapters in Riverside, Hemet and San Diego. The lawsuit is an attempt to hold the groups responsible for encouraging crimes against minorities, said Andrew Roth, an attorney representing Bowen." <1492.txt> AP, "Man challenges federal judgment," 27 Mar 00, "A Christmas Valley man who waged a hate-mail campaign against two women he thought were lesbians is fighting the federal judgment against him. Howard J. 'Bud' Burrows said in court papers that he is judgment proof and therefore isn't required to pay the $257,000 that U.S. Magistrate Judge Dennis J. Hubel order him to last month. Hubel ruled Feb. 22 against Burrows, 70, and his wife, Jean, 66, after hearing arguments and witnesses in a lawsuit filed by one of the women, Jo Anne Simpson." <1493.txt> AP, "Anti-Gov't [Patriot Leader] Activist Faces Trial," 20 Mar 00, "An anti-government activist who employed the tactics of the Montana Freemen by allegedly producing phony checks and issuing the verdicts of a self-created 'court' against IRS agents and federal judges could face one of those judges this week. Peter Kay Stern, a retired engineer and chief justice of a self-described 'common-law' court, was scheduled to stand trial today before District Judge Lacy H. Thornburg on charges that include threats to kidnap two of Thornburg's judicial colleagues. Stern has been held without bond since his arrest in September. A federal magistrate ruled there was 'evidence of threats and weaponry which could be used to kill law enforcement'." <1494.txt> AANEWS (American Atheists), "Death Toll Rises In Uganda Cult Inferno: Ten Commandments Sect One Of Growing Number Of Religious Movements," 21 Mar 00, "Uganda's Daily Mirror newspaper is reporting that the death toll has passed 500 from last Friday's mass sucide/murder spree involving a religious cult. Members of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandmants of God reportedly entered their church and doused themselves with gasoline and ignited a conflagration. Police authorities say that they are investigating the fire as a suicide and murder, since some of the victims have been identified as children. The sect is one of a number of cult groups mushrooming throughout Uganda and the East Africa region. Many offer followers a charismatic leader or prophet who teaches a synchretic blend of fundamentalist Christian, new age and traditional animist beliefs, often with apocalyptic overtones. The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God was led by a former opposition politician, Joseph Kibweteere, with the assistance of several excommunicated Roman Catholic nuns and priests." <1495.txt> * * * * * In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. __________________________________________________________________________ FASCISM: We have no ethical right to forgive, no historical right to forget. 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