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Please tell us about your change of address and your friends about the newsletter. __________________________________________________________________________ The Internet Anti-Fascist: Friday, 10 November 2000 Vol. 4, Number 91 (#486) __________________________________________________________________________ Action Alert: 11 & 18 Nov: U.S. multi-cities: U.S. Election Protest Demonstrations Announcement: AntiFascistisk Aktion-Sweden, "Next stop Gothenburg!," 8 Nov 00 FBI Arrests Nationalist Leader Alex Curtis Tom Metzger (White Aryan Resistance), "W.A.R. Alert," 10 Nov 00 Pauline Repard and Kelly Thornton (San Diego Union-Tribune), "Officials have conducted yearlong investigation; arraignment Monday," 10 Nov 00 Ongoing News Coverage on Compensation for Holocaust Victims Andy Altman-Ohr (Jewish Bulletin of Northern California), "Bay Area Holocaust lawsuit targets Vatican Bank and CIA," 7 Nov 00 Ongoing News Coverage on Net Sale of Nazi Items AP, "Experts testify in French Yahoo! case over Nazi memorabilia." 6 Nov 00 Bloomberg, "Panel: Yahoo! can block access to Nazi items -- Experts say portal can block French users from accessing U.S. auction sites," 6 Nov 00 Katrina Nicholas (Sydney Morning Herald), "Nazi bans in Europe do not sway auction sites," 8 Nov 00 Rightwing Quote of the Week: Concerning the Second Forgery of the "Protocols ...." What's Worth Checking: 10 stories -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACTION ALERT: U.S. Election Protest Demonstrations <http://geocities.com/countercoup/> Saturday 11 & 18 Nov Pro-Democracy Protests: 1PM If election "irregularities" in one state are allowed to invalidate the nation's popular vote, then democracy is in real trouble. This site is a listing of protest locations for Saturday 11/11 & 11/18, 1PM. Check the list and email <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >to nominate a site in your city. Response to this idea has been enormous. Traffic to the site is doubling each day. Show up to the protests with (or without) signs, bullhorns, and cell phones to call friends and your local media. Call the media NOW so they know this is happening and start talking about it: cbs 212-975-4321, abc 212-456-7777, nbc 212-664-4444, cnn 404-827-1500 [While these actions are not directly related to fascism they are of interest to a significant section of the anti-fascist movement and so fit in the general editorial guidelines. -- tallpaul] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ANNOUNCEMENT: Next stop Gothenburg! AntiFascistisk Aktion-Sweden 8 Nov 00 The EU Top meeting during the summer of 2001 will be held the 14th to 16th of June in Gothenburg, Sweden. A wide range of Swedish extra-parliamentary groups, networks, organisations and unions are all planning events, actions, seminars and demonstrations in Gothenburg during this time. AntiFascistisk Aktion-Sweden is among them. In order to keep you informed of all the latest developments and provide useful information, AFA-Sweden has established a special GBG 2001 website. Surf to <www.motkraft.net/gbg2001> Amsterdam, Cologne, Prague: Next stop Gothenburg! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- FBI ARRESTS NATIONALIST-LEADER ALEX CURTIS W.A.R. Alert Tom Metzger (White Aryan Resistance) 10 Nov 00 This afternoon, Alex Curtis, well-known Racial Activist from San Diego California was arrested by FBI Agents at his home. At this time I am not sure of the charge. I will give further information as time passes. Curtis is being held at the downtown Federal detention Center in San Diego. The FBI raided the Curtis Home this afternoon Thursday carrying away all books, computers and records. More will follow. I suggest heightened security precautions at this time since it is never known if a general sweep has begun. Please report any Federal contact ASAP. - - - - - Officials have conducted yearlong investigation; arraignment Monday Pauline Repard and Kelly Thornton (San Diego Union-Tribune) 10 Nov 00 White supremacist Alex Curtis was arrested at his Lemon Grove home yesterday on suspicion of federal hate crimes after a yearlong investigation. Critics label the 25-year-old as "a rising star" in the racist movement on a national level. FBI agents and San Diego police arrested Curtis about 3:45 p.m. They took him to the FBI office in Kearny Mesa for questioning, then booked him into federal jail downtown. An arraignment is scheduled for Monday. A sealed indictment handed down by the U.S. District Court yesterday alleges several hate crimes and civil rights violations, FBI spokeswoman Jan Caldwell said. She declined to detail the allegations yesterday. San Diego police Chief David Bejarano, U.S. Attorney Gregory Vega and San Diego FBI Chief Bill Gore are scheduled to announce the arrest at a news conference this morning. The Southern Poverty Law Center, a watchdog group based in Montgomery, Ala., has named Curtis one of the six most prominent young hate leaders in the country. The Anti-Defamation League considers him "a rising star among bigots." Local spokesman Morris Casuto said increased police attention to hate crimes reflects the potential threat by such individuals to the community. In his zeal to create an all-white nation, Curtis encourages individuals to violence. "I attack my enemies, such as the U.S. government and Jews, without compromise," Curtis recently told a San Diego Union-Tribune reporter through e-mail letters. He also staunchly advocates terrorism by single attackers. Curtis described himself as having few friends and working occasionally at minimum-wage jobs. Like other nationally known white supremacists, Curtis favors modern technology to spread his message rather than old-fashioned rallies. From his parents' house, Curtis publishes a racist magazine and runs a Web site. He also updates daily a telephone hotline with race-related news from around the world. He told a reporter that his parents don't share his views. Last night, a friend at the Curtis home said the family did not want to talk about the arrest. When Curtis was a student at Helix High School in 1993, he was expelled after being linked to vandalism of two classrooms decorated in part to honor minority writers and soldiers. The teachers arrived to find swastikas painted in the rooms and phrases such as "The Ku Klux Klan is watching and we're not happy about what we see." In 1997, Curtis was convicted of using a La Mesa Police Department insignia on 1,000 hate fliers distributed in La Mesa. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ONGOING NEWS COVERAGE ON COMPENSATION FOR HOLOCAUST VICTIMS Bay Area Holocaust lawsuit targets Vatican Bank and CIA Andy Altman-Ohr (Jewish Bulletin of Northern California ) 7 Nov 00 In a fight to win restitution for people like 84-year-old Allan Herskovich of El Cerrito -- a native of what was formerly Yugoslavia who lost his parents and other family members at Auschwitz -- two lawyers are taking on a couple of formidable opponents, the CIA and the Vatican Bank. Tom Easton and Jonathan Levy, who represent Herskovich and 27 other plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed last year, continued their push two weeks ago by asking a federal judge in San Francisco to get the Vatican Bank to divulge its ownership. A hearing on the ownership question had been set for Oct. 31 in San Francisco, but the defendants requested leave to prepare over-length briefs of up to 40 pages, asking that the lawsuit be dismissed. Those briefs will be filed by Nov. 10. The plaintiffs have requested extra time to answer these over-length briefs and a hearing is not expected for several months, according to Easton, who is based in Bend, Ore. In August, Easton and Levy, a Cincinnati attorney, filed a related lawsuit against the CIA and the U.S. Army to obtain access to some 250 papers they say will reveal important information about who wound up with assets that were stolen from Holocaust victims. Easton and Levy contend that the Vatican Bank and other private banks profited illegally from the Holocaust by accepting and laundering valuables stolen by the Nazis and the Nazi-backed Ustashe regime, which went on a reign of terror in Yugoslavia. The Vatican Bank and the Franciscan Order were named in the original lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco in November 1999. In September, a federal judge ruled that the Swiss National Bank could be added to the lawsuit. Plaintiffs' lawyers say restitution for thousands of Ustashe regime victims and their heirs could amount to "hundreds of millions of dollars." All of the legal wrangling seems to be too much to digest for Herskovich, who still runs the electric shaver shop he opened in Richmond in 1957. "All I know is that I've never gotten a nickel [in restitution] from anybody," said the man who went on to open 13 other shaver shops around the Bay Area. In Zagreb, now Croatia, Herskovich's father owned a textile manufacturing business that his lawyers contend was valued at $1.5 million prewar U.S. dollars by Yugoslavia's communist government in 1948. However, most of the family's property was looted. "I see people getting [restitution] from many different countries, but I've never gotten anything," Herskovich said. "I don't know one fellow who came from my country who has gotten anything." Herskovich is one of several Bay Area residents and native Yugoslavs named in the class-action lawsuit. The others are David and Zdenka Baum Ruchwarger Levy of San Mateo; Fred Zlatko Harris of Pleasant Hill; and a non-Jew from Berkeley, Desa Tomasevic Wakeman, a Serb who spent time in a concentration camp near Zagreb and lost family in the diabolic Jasenovac death camp. Easton and Jonathan Levy contend that gold, silver and jewels plundered from Jews and others in Croatia and Bosnia -- mainly Serbs and Roma/Sinti people (formerly referred to as Gypsies) -- went from the hands of the Ustashe into the Vatican Bank and other financial institutions. The lawyers' inquiries center on Father Krunoslav Draganovic, a Croatian Catholic priest who was a member of the Ustashe, a nationalist movement that ran the country under Nazi occupation. Draganovic, who died in 1983, is believed to have stolen millions of dollars in loot. Soon after the war, he moved to Rome, established ties with the Vatican and its bank, and, while using a seminary as a front, ran the infamous "ratline," an escape route to South America for Nazi war criminals. Draganovic was also in the pay of the CIA for several years, Levy contends. He and Easton are seeking CIA and Army documents that reveal new details of Draganovic's career. Other documents, he said, will show that without the help of Britain and the United States, the Ustashe would have been destroyed. He contends that Western intelligence helped propel former Ustashe members into positions of influence in countries such as Argentina, Paraguay and Venezuela. "The documents, even the ones we have now, are very troubling," Levy said recently. "What's been released looks like it's just the tip of the iceberg." Levy said the CIA files have been withheld on the grounds of national security, to which he added, "It's just incomprehensible that there are any national security issues on records that are 40 or 50 years old." He expects a settlement soon in which the CIA and Army hand over some, if not all, of the requested records. The other part of Levy's fight right now is the lawsuit against the Vatican Bank. In responding to the plaintiffs' motion for disclosure of ownership, the Vatican Bank said in court papers that the motion was "burdensome, premature and in the public domain," according to Levy. "Who owns it is very important in the way the lawsuit proceeds," he added. "It's a very mysterious organization. In their legal papers, they quoted an Italian professor saying there are 30 sources that say what the ownership of the Vatican Bank is, but he didn't list a single one." Levy said the owner might always be the current pope, in this case Pope John Paul II. "If that's the case, then we'd have to determine in what capacity the pope owns the bank," Levy said. "Or maybe their charter lists God as the owner." In any case, the question of ownership will not be answered soon. The Vatican Bank's motion to dismiss, on six different counts, will likely put that request on the bank burner. A hearing on the motion to dismiss will then be scheduled several months down the line. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ONGOING NEWS COVERAGE ON NET SALE OF NAZI ITEMS Experts testify in French Yahoo! case over Nazi memorabilia AP 6 Nov 00 PARIS, France -- In the latest step in a legal battle over racism in cyberspace, a team of Internet experts told a judge Monday that it was possible to block some French Web surfers from U.S. giant Yahoo!'s auction site, though one specialist expressed concern about Net freedom. The trans-Atlantic case began nearly seven months ago, when two Paris-based anti-racism groups sued Santa Clara, California-based Yahoo!, angry that French people had access to more than 1,000 objects of Nazi memorabilia on the site at auctions.yahoo.com. The groups, the Union of Jewish Students and the Licra anti-racism organization, argued that Yahoo! was breaking the law in France, where it is illegal to sell or display objects that promote racism. A Paris judge ordered Yahoo! to pay fines to the two groups, and later asked a team of experts to search for ways to filter French users from the site and all other sites deemed racist. Yahoo!'s lawyers have argued that it would be impossible to keep French people off the site, as cyberspace has no borders. The company is also worried the case could set a global precedent that would leave Web sites vulnerable to legal attacks from abroad. In Paris on Monday, three technology experts said the Yahoo! site could indeed be partially controlled -- but at least one of the specialists expressed caution about setting such a precedent. After months of research, French expert Francois Wallon and American Vinton Cerf testified that it would be possible to detect 70 percent of Web surfers who use an easily identifiable French Internet service provider to access the auction site. Britain's Ben Laurie was also on the team but was unable to attend the hearing. "Identification would be more difficult for the other 30 percent who use an international access provider such as AOL," Wallon said. The experts suggested that users be required to fill out an online form stating their nationality -- while recognizing that people could easily lie. Cerf, a founding father of the Net, expressed doubts about whether such attempts were worthwhile. "The Internet is very open, and all technical solutions are permeable," Cerf said. "Those who want to reach a blocked site will learn how to bypass the keywords that block it." But the experts said that attempting to block every racist site from French users would clearly be impossible. "There are 100 million Internet sites in the world," he said. "In five years, there will be a billion. Even if we only block some of them, the list is long. And if we block too many of them, we risk blocking the whole system." Paris Judge Jean-Jacques Gomez is expected to rule on the case November 20. - - - - - Panel: Yahoo! can block access to Nazi items -- Experts say portal can block French users from accessing U.S. auction sites. Bloomberg 6 Nov 00 PARIS -- Yahoo! has the technical means to prevent French Internet users from accessing its U.S. auction sites that trade Nazi-era items, a panel of experts including Vinton Cerf, the man widely regarded as the "father" of the Internet, told a Paris court. The experts outlined a method they said can block French users' access to the sites in 70% to 80% of cases. The court will rule on the six-month old case Nov. 20. The Tribunal de Grande Instance ruled in May that Yahoo! must "take all necessary measures to prevent the sale of Nazi objects on all French territories." It appointed the panel in August to help determine whether the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company could technically prevent such access from abroad. "It's very simple to filter a query containing key words, such as 'nazi,' if users are identified as coming from France," Francois Wallon, the French court-appointed expert said at Monday's hearing. Anti-racist groups have asked the court to enforce a French ban on the sale and trading of items glorifying Nazi Germany. The case pits advocates of a self-regulated Internet against those who argue national laws should also apply to the Web. Not fool-proof Some panel members, however, disagreed as to whether the method, although technically feasible, would be sufficient. "Such a technique is either too narrow or inadequate," Cerf told reporters after the hearing. "This isn't foolproof It would be a slippery slope." As a researcher in 1973, Cerf was instrumental in developing the Internet's architecture. He now works as senior vice president for Internet architecture and technology at WorldCom, the second-biggest U.S. long- distance phone company. The experts said about 70% to 80% of French Web users can be recognized through their IP, or Internet protocol, address. The filter would act to prevent those users from opening Yahoo!'s auction site if the users input previously defined keywords. Yahoo!'s French Web site doesn't allow Nazi items to be traded. But Nazi- era memorabilia are found on Yahoo!'s U.S. site, including flags, stamps, military items and speeches. The third panel member is Ben Laurie, a technology expert from the U.K., who was not present at the hearing. The Paris-based International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism filed the complaint along with the Union of Jewish French Students and the Movement Against Racism and for Friendship Between Peoples. Yahoo! shares fell as much as $3.37 to $65.37. - - - - - Nazi bans in Europe do not sway auction sites Katrina Nicholas (Sydney Morning Herald) 8 Nov 00 Auction site Sold.com.au has no plans to remove Nazi memorabilia from sale despite a French court battle between Yahoo and two Paris anti-racist groups over the issue. Sold.com.au, the online auction arm of Fairfax's f2, had nine Nazi items for sale yesterday, including a swastika banner, Nazi coins, stamps depicting Hitler, a kapo armband (a kapo was a prisoner who oversaw other prisoners) and SS dog tags and tie pins. The coin and stamp set has drawn the greatest number of bids while, with an opening price of $195, the Nazi banner is the priciest item. Meanwhile, eBay.com.au, the US online auction giant's local site, has 14 Nazi items for sale, including Nazi death cards, a sword presented by Heinrich Himmler and SS shoulder tabs and armbands. An offended Jewish Sold.com.au customer said he complained to Sold but as yet had received only a routine reply e-mail from its customer service. Sold.com.au chief executive Mr Martin Hoffman said that while the site did not go out of its way to promote "those sorts of things", it took the view that "if it's legal to be sold then it's fine for it to be auctioned online". He said he knew of no complaints from Sold.com.au customers. Mr Hoffman said there were different laws over the sale of Nazi memorabilia in European countries. Last Monday the case between Yahoo and anti-racism groups continued with a team of Internet experts telling a Paris judge it was possible to block some French Web surfers from Yahoo's US auction site. Yahoo had argued that this was impossible. The transatlantic case, to resume on November 20, began seven months ago after the Union of Jewish Students and the Licra anti-racism organisation sued Yahoo, angry that French people could access more than 1,000 Nazi objects on the site. They said Yahoo was breaking the law in France, where it is illegal to sell or display objects promoting racism. Mr Danny Ben-Moshe, executive director of the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation Commission, said there was an "extra onus" on auction sites to regulate sale items to better prevent such material from falling into the wrong hands. "We know that the neo-Nazism movement focuses heavily upon Nazi memorabilia and imagery in terms of winning recruits and the reality is that this sort of stuff feeds this process," he said. "The Internet makes these peoples' lives a whole lot easier in that regard. "This sort of material needs to go to places like museums where it can be put in its proper historical context." EBay Australia marketing director Mr Bay Warburton said while illegal items such as body parts and drugs were not allowed, Nazi items were assessed according to their historical value and worth as genuine collectables. "So as long as something's at least 50 years old and is not being used to glorify or promote, then it's okay. A 1980s neo-Nazi T-shirt would not be acceptable, for instance." -------------------------------------------------------------------------- RIGHTWING QUOTE OF THE WEEK: For those who believe that fascism is only a thing of the past The 4 Nov issue of Alex Curtis's "Nationalist Observer Racial Reader" recirculates the tale of documents stolen from the Jewish world that add additional highlights to the issue of the Elders of Zion. We should hardly expect that one forgery will not be backed up with a second forgery. For the interest of readers, the invented document to which Curtis and his readers refer is included below. -- 1 ytallpaul Second Centennial Meeting of the Learned of Elders of Zion August 25, 1998, New York, NY. "Gentlemen. Welcome to the Second Centennial Meeting of the Learned of Elders of Zion. We have achieved all of the objectives expressed at our first meeting 100 years ago. We control governments. We have created dissension among our enemies and made them kill each other. We have effectively silenced criticism of our affairs and we are the richest race of men on this earth. Many of you are very busy men. Let us get to the crux of the matter. As masters of business, politics, law and most importantly... media, we are ready to implement our most important and ambitious program. One that will finally and totally remove from existence the impediments of our absolute control of this earth. I speak OF THE DEATH OF THE WHITE RACE. The complete removal of all means of reproduction of the so- called Aryan race. Men, we now control the destiny of this race. It is now time to make sure the White race becomes extinct through miscegenation and having a virtually zero birth rate. We have all enjoyed the vision repeated all over this world every day of THE LAST WHITE CHILDREN playing with little dark children and knowing that they are being set-up for their eventual destruction. We can ruin THE ANCIENT PURE BLOODLINE OF AN ARYAN CHILD by convincing him or her of the altruism of begetting interracial children. We must expose the race-mixing of the urban centers to the suburbs and rural areas of this country. More aggressive programs to integrate these areas are now underway through HUD. It is worth any price to annihilate the next generation of White children. We want every White father to feel the sting of having their children marry colored mates and produce biracial children. We must use our power to discourage White men and women who still persist in getting together from producing more pure White children. They will be ostracized by not becoming part of the New Society of all races. This will dissuade most of them. We will deal with the less cooperative goyim by murder and imprisonment. Finally, we will SEE THE END OF THIS WHITE RACE. Impressionable White children will have their minds molded into the agents of their own destruction. Already, our efforts have succeeded in making the "men" of this race grovel at our feet. Men, you and your ancestors have worked hard to make sure we would have the power to hold the destiny of this race in our hands. Now we have it. Perish Aryan Goyim (cattle)!" [Applause] End of speech. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- WHAT'S WORTH CHECKING stories via <ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/story6/> Peter Finn (Washington Post), "In Germany, A Politician's 'Pride' Elicits Cold Shivers," 3 Nov 00, "Germany's never-ending struggle with its soul reached a new plateau this week when a leading opposition figure dared to say: "Ich bin stolz, Deutscher zu sein" ("I'm proud to be a German"). Unremarkable most anywhere else. But in history-haunted Germany, even the simplest expression of patriotism elicits a cold shiver in some quarters. Laurenz Meyer, general secretary of the conservative Christian Democratic Union, made his declaration during a national debate on immigration and quickly found himself the target of a fusillade of retorts. It is like that whenever Germany goes off on one of its periodic confrontations with its deepest political uncertainty: the past, and how to transcend it without forgetting it. <1931.txt> Padraig Yeates (The Irish Times), "Unions should expel racist members - Cassells," 8 Nov 00, "Unions and employer bodies should expel members who engage in racist behaviour, the general secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Mr Peter Cassells, has said. <1932.txt> Peter J. Sampson (Bergen County Record), "Pal Park officer suspended as 'racist'," 3 Nov 00, "In another black eye for police and community relations, a five-year veteran of the force has been accused of proclaiming himself a racist during a dispute with a Korean woman over a parking summons. Responding to the complaint, the Borough Council's Police Committee last Friday suspended Officer Kevin Byrnes without pay pending a hearing Nov. 20." <1933.txt> Hasan Suroor (The Hindu), "Life term for racist attack ," 2 Nov 00, "It is a tale of two Pakistani families - one a victim of a bizarre racist attack and another a victim of an equally bizarre act of violence against itself. Though the incidents happened sometime ago, their perpetrators had their comeuppance only Wednesday when the courts found them guilty and sentenced them to life imprisonment. In one of the most vicious cases of racism, which has raised questions about the safety of non-white prisoners, a Pakistani teenager was bludgeoned to death by his white cellmate after heaping racial abuses on him. Wahid Mubarek, 19, was charged with shoplifting early this year, and sent to a young offenders' institution in Feltham to serve a 90-day sentence. He was put in the same cell as Robert Stewart, 20, who had a history of violence and has since then been described as a "racist psychopath". It has turned out that he used to write letters threatening immigrants saying they had taken over the country; and apparently prison officers knew about this, thanks to a system of censoring all outgoing prisoners' mail. On March 21, the day Mubarek was to be released and his family was preparing to welcome him back, Stewart attacked him with a table leg while he was sleeping and bludgeoned him to death. When the body was found, he said Mubarek had had an accident, though later he admitted that he had killed him, but that he didn't know why." <1934.txt> Rajiv Chandrasekaran (Washington Post), "Rise of Islamic Fundamentalism Shakes Secular Southeast Asia: Political Gains and Rebel Threats/Clash of Values Threatens Stability," 7 Nov 00, "In the northeastern Malaysian state of Terengganu, known for its white-sand beaches and offshore oil fields, karaoke bars have been forced to disconnect beer taps and toss out liquor bottles. Unisex hair salons have been told to close. And men and women no longer are allowed to stand in the same supermarket lines lest males witness females purchasing personal hygiene products. The new rules are part of a crackdown by conservative Islamic politicians who won control of the important industrial province in recent parliamentary elections. They are on a mission to transform largely secular Malaysia - long regarded as a model of multiethnic harmony in Southeast Asia - into an Islamic state where alcohol sales, gambling and the public mingling of men and women are outlawed." <1935.txt> Middle East Media and Research Institute, "Leading Egyptian Newspaper raises Blood Libel," 6 Nov 00 - Special Dispatch No. 150, "The Blood Libel - the claim that Jews use the blood of Christians to make the Matzah (unleavened bread) eaten at Passover - is an ancient accusation against the Jewish people. In modern times, this claim has surfaced in the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict. In 1984, long-time Syrian Defense Minster and Ba'athist leader, Field Marshal Mustafa Tlass, wrote a book entitled 'The Matzah of Zion' about the 1840 Damascus Blood Libel which he described as an historical event that was researched and verified by several European Universities. More recently, in November 1999, Al-Usbu' Al-Adabi, a weekly of the Syrian Arab Writers Association, published an article mentioning the 1840 Damascus Blood Libel." <1936.txt> Amnesty International, "A.I. welcomed recent announcements to investigate a series of killings in Jammu and Kashmir as a first step toward ending years of widespread impunity," 2 Nov 00, "On Tuesday October 31, Jammu and Kashmir's Chief Minister, Dr Farooq Abdullah, announced a judicial probe into the massacre of 35 Sikhs at Chittisinghpora on 20 March 2000 and the subsequent killing of five suspects, allegedly at the hands of the security forces, at Pathribal 10 days later. The organization is encouraged by the government's acceptance of the report of the Pandian Commission into the police shooting of demonstrators at Brakhpora on 3 April 2000. The government's declared intention to prosecute those held responsible for the deaths...." <1937.txt> Judi Pospeschil (Peoria Journal Star), "Militaman guilty of intimidation: Knox jury asks for dictionary copies, U.S. Constitution during deliberations," 4 Nov 00, "Western Militia leader Dan Shoemaker, accused of threatening to kill police if they tried to stop an armed march he announced for mid-June, was convicted late Friday by a Knox County jury on eight of the 13 counts against him. Shoemaker, 47, of Galesburg was convicted on two counts of aggravated intimidation, three counts of threatening a public official and three counts of unlawful use of weapons." <1938.txt> Jeff Testerman (St. Petersberg Times), "Church official admits to swindle: Prosecutors say a Ponzi scheme enabled Greater Ministries International to collect millions of dollars," 3 Nov 00, "James R. Chambers on Thursday admitted bilking Christian investors out of more than $1-million dollars and became the first of seven defendants to plead guilty to taking part in an elaborate swindle run by officials of the Tampa-based church, Greater Ministries International." <1939.txt> Jodi Pospeschil (Peoria Journal Star), "Lawmen testify at militia leader's trial Defense argues that man was entrapped," 3 Nov 00, "Militia leader Dan Shoemaker is not easily dissuaded once he makes up his mind to do something, the Knox County sheriff testified Thursday." <1940.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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