||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||| ||| ||| A N T I F A ||| ||| ||| ||| I N F O - B U L L E T I N ||| ||| _____ ||| ||| ||| ||| * News * Analysis * Research * Action * ||| ||| ||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ***** ||/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\||/\||| || * -- AFIB #213 -- * July 25, 1999 * -- AFIB #213 -- * || ||\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/||\/||| * US/NATO OUT OF THE BALKANS! * * FREE MUMIA ABU-JAMAL! * * FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS & PRISONERS OF WAR! * ``Rather than eliminating a major cause of right-wing extremism, the collapse of Communism triggered its resurgence throughout the Northern Hemisphere. Not since the Third Reich had such a virulent and enraged Right made its presence felt in so many countries. Tracing the rise of Hitler, George Mosse observed that `one of the Nazis' principle victories before seizing power' was that they forced centrists and leftists `to argue on terrain occupied by the racist right.' European and American neofascists posing as right-wing populists could claim a similar victory half a century after World War II. Even when they lost elections and were not formally part of the government, far Right politicians had a significant influence on public policy. To a great extent, their scapegoating rhetoric framed key debates and shaped the post-Cold War political agenda.'' -- Martin A. Lee, _The Beast Reawakens_ (New York, Little, Brown & Co., 1997). CONTENTS: Number 213 _____ 1. (PANW) PAN-AFRICAN NEWS WIRE [US]: Were Black Soldiers Massacred During W.W.II? 2. (WNU) WEEKLY NEWS UPDATE ON THE AMERICAS [US]: US Providing Intelligence Against Colombia's Rebels; Colombia, US Push Security Aid. 3. (ISWoR) INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY WITH WORKERS IN RUSSIA [UK]: The Kimovsk Strike! 4. (PARC) PRISON ACTIVIST RESOURCE CENTER [US]: Free Mumia! Quilt by Political Prisoner Linda Evans. 5. (SFLR) SAN FRANCISCO LIBERATION RADIO [US]: NATO and the Nazi Connection. 6. (WWNS) WORKERS WORLD NEWS SERVICE [US]: Racism in Life Imitates Art. 7. (IPS) INTERPRESS SERVICE: US Documents Aid Operation Condor Investigation. 8. (SFE) SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER [US]: Flyers Preach Hate Against Chinese in S.F. 9. (AP) ASSOCIATED PRESS: More than a Dozen Injured from Tear Gas Attack During Gay Pride Parade. 10. (REU) REUTERS: Neo-Nazis Carve Out a Corner of the Web. 11. (CP) COUNTERPUNCH [US]: Ted K., the CIA & LSD. X. (AFIB) Correction. * * * * PAN-AFRICAN NEWS WIRE * The Pan-African Research and Documentation Center 211 SCB Box 47, Wayne State University Detroit, MI 48202 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Saturday, 24 July 1999 - ----- _________________________________________________________________ WERE BLACK SOLDIERS MASSACRED DURING W.W.II? _________________________________________________________________ * * * A soon-to-be released book documents the slaughter of more than 1,200 Black World War II era soldiers by their fellow white comrades and an alleged government cover-up of the incident certainly ranks near the top of the list of atrocities the American government has heaped on its Black citizens in the 20th century. According to the report, Carroll Case, a former bank president and freelance writer in Mississippi, soon will release "The Slaughter - An American Tragedy." It is a book that documents the alleged massacre of some 1,200 Black soldiers from the 364th Infantry Division at Camp Van Dorn near Centreville, Miss. While the Army criticizes the author's research techniques, he seems to have gathered substantial evidence that such a massacre did take place. Such evidence includes eyewitness accounts, letters from soldiers based at Camp Van Dorn and declassified government files. The book says that after white MPs shot "everything that moved, until nothing did," the dead soldiers' bodies were loaded onto train boxcars and taken to a nearby area where they were buried. The next-of-kin simply were told that the victims were killed in the line of duty. One congressman and the NAACP have voiced concern about the revelations in the book. Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) has asked Defense Secretary William Cohen to open an investigation and to release all classified or unclassified documents relating to the 364th Infantry serving at Camp Van Dorn. NAACP officials have written Army officials seeking an investigation and release of any documentation that confirms or disproves the allegations in the book. Official NAACP documents are included in the evidence gathered by Case to prove the 1943 incident. It is well known that Black soldiers were treated as second and third class citizens during the great World Wars. In fact, enemy P.O.W.s ofttimes received better treatment than Black soldiers fighting for the stars and stripes. So, in a racial hotbed like Mississippi, during a time when Black soldiers were integrating the Army, it's quite possible that Black soldiers were put to death, especially if they were considered "riotous" and "mutinous." These allegations deserve the full attention of the Army and Black leadership. It should not be that difficult to prove if there was a massacre; much of the evidence seems to have already been gathered by Case. And if the allegations are untrue, then such efforts to inflame already smoldering race relations should be denounced by leadership as well. The important task is to find the truth of the matter. And if it is true, then the dialogue on race must take on new meaning and with a new dimension - reparations. visit the Khandi Pages http://www.netset.com/~khandi Mumia must be free! Support the MWM! Free the Land! NAIM lives! Pan-African News Wire articles may be freely distributed for non-profit educational and research purposes. We request that the original source be cited when the dispatches are circulated. Distribution for profit is strictly prohibited without the expressed consent of the Pan-African News Wire. ***** * WEEKLY NEWS UPDATE ON THE AMERICAS * ISSUE #494, JULY 18, 1999 NICARAGUA SOLIDARITY NETWORK OF GREATER NEW YORK 339 LAFAYETTE ST., NEW YORK, NY 10012 (212) 674-9499 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://home.earthlink.net/~dbwilson/wnuhome.html http://home.earthlink.net/~dbwilson/nsnhome.html ----- _________________________________________________________________ US PROVIDING INTELLIGENCE AGAINST COLOMBIA'S REBELS _________________________________________________________________ As combat raged throughout the week, the media reported that the administration of US president Bill Clinton is now allowing the US Embassy to "routinely" provide the Colombian armed forces with intelligence information about guerrilla movements as they occur, instead of days later. Armed with this information -- including US satellite images and telephone wiretaps -- the Colombian army is now able to know where and when the rebel troops are moving. The expanded intelligence-sharing arrangement was authorized in March, according to a US General Accounting Office (GAO) report published last month titled "Narcotics Threat >From Colombia Continues to Grow." The information is intended to be used only to fight drug trafficking, but the report quoted US Embassy officials as saying "that the drug traffickers and the insurgents have become virtually indistinguishable." [Clarin 6/13/99; Dallas Morning News 5/16/99; New York Times 7/14/99] In a briefing on July 15 at the US Army School of the Americas (SOA) at Fort Benning, Georgia, Gen. Charles Wilhelm, commander-in-chief of the US Southern Command, acknowledged that US and Colombian military officials had been in constant communication throughout the weekend, appearing to confirm reports that successful bombing raids against the FARC were based on information provided by the US. [NYT 7/17/99] The Colombian military "did a good job" in its recent offensive, said Wilhelm. "I am very confident in saying that government losses in the recent offensive came in double digits. FARC's losses are in triple digits," he said. [Reuters 7/15/99] According to eyewitness accounts from local campesinos, published on July 14 in the Bogota daily El Espectador, military planes bearing "the US flag" were flying overhead during the Colombian army's counter-offensive against the FARC in Meta department. Military sources denied the reports. [El Espectador 7/14/99; El Nuevo Herald 7/15/99 from AFP] El Espectador reported on July 18 that when reporters were taken to view the bodies of rebels killed in the Meta fighting, they were surprised to see "with curiosity two planes with the US flag parked at the Apiay base." The article said one of the US planes appeared to be a "bomber." Gen. Edgar Lesmes explained 24 hours later at the Colombian Armed Forces (FAC) command center that the plane was part of US "logistical and administrative support" for Colombia. [EE 7/18/99] * * * _________________________________________________________________ COLOMBIA, US PUSH SECURITY AID _________________________________________________________________ In meetings in Washington on July 15 and 16, Colombian Defense Minister Ramirez and Armed Forces Chief Gen. Fernando Tapias said they were seeking an additional $500 million in US defense aid over the next two years. Ramirez said Colombia wanted the money to buy more military helicopters, interceptor planes and radar equipment, adding that the Colombian government also "hopes to obtain on loan some of the equipment the [US Armed Forces] Southern Command had at Howard Air Force Base in Panama" before closing operations there in May. [NYT 7/17/99] Having originally restricted US aid to counternarcotics activities, the Clinton administration now says Colombia can use US military aid against leftist rebels across most of the countryside, reasoning that rebel involvement in drug trafficking makes them fair targets for attack. [Dallas Morning News 5/16/99] "We must support the Colombian government as it attempts to reassert democratic control over its drug-producing regions," Gen. Barry McCaffrey, director of the US Office of National Drug Control Policy, said on July 16, before meeting with Tapias and Ramirez. [Reuters 7/15/99] McCaffrey said it was "silly at this point" to try to differentiate between anti-drug efforts and the war against insurgent groups because traffickers and guerrillas work together. "US support for Colombia is inadequate. There should be no closed door to any Colombia request," he said. [MH 7/17/99] McCaffrey is seeking to make available $1 billion in emergency assistance for the drug war in Latin America, most of which would go to Colombia. According to a letter from McCaffrey to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Attorney General Janet Reno, the emergency aid would include $360 million to bolster existing anti-drug operations in southern Colombia, and $130 million "to establish Colombia's ability to interdict in southern Colombia," a region increasingly dominated by the guerrillas. Another $30 million would go to "enhance regional intelligence programs" in order to "increase collection and improve assessments" of information obtained by satellites, radar and electronic intercepts; and $200 million would be earmarked for improving US interdiction efforts in the air and sea lanes north of Colombia. [NYT 7/17/99; MH 7/17/99] McCaffrey has also announced new assistance for a special "anti-drug" battalion; the aid consists of artilleried helicopters, infrared night vision goggles, special rifles designed for jungle use, and an artilleried airplane with the capacity to carry bombs of 200 and 500 pounds. [EE 7/18/99] With the enthusiastic support of congresspeople like Rep. Benjamin Gilman (R-NY), Congress agreed last November to more than triple US assistance to the government here to $289 million, making Colombia the largest recipient of US security aid after Israel and Egypt. 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To subscribe, send a check or money order for US $25 payable to Nicaragua Solidarity Network, 339 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10012. ***** * INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY WITH WORKERS IN RUSSIA (ISWoR) * Box R, 46 Denmark Hill London, SE5 8RZ United Kingdom E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Thursday, 22 July 1999 - ----- _________________________________________________________________ THE KIMOVSK STRIKE! _________________________________________________________________ Dear Friends, Below is a report that can only give heart to the work we are all doing in support of Russian workers. Now let's all pull our socks up and help this spectre of Yasnogorsk, Vyborg and now Kimovsk spread and spread, let it be the hobgoblin of the capitalists. Steve - for ISWoR * * * From the Union of Marxists press-centre Tuesday, 21 July 1999 On the 21st July workers of the Kimovsk plant decided that they would stop work and go on strike. Almost 3,000 workers have not been paid for seventeen months. But they were forced to come to the plant every day and stay 8 hours even if there is no work. The official wages range between 200-300 roubles per month (that is around $8-12 USD). People are starving. "Our patience is over. We've heard what they have done in Yasnogorsk. We can do the same. We must follow the example, we must go on strike. That is the only way to win." On the 21st hundreds of workers gathered outside the administration building and held an unauthorised rally. Police did not dare to intervene. Kimovsk like Yasnogorsk is situated in Tula region lead by the "red" governor Vasily Starodubtsev. The mayor of the town is also a CPRF [Communist Party of the Russian Federation] member. "We do not believe them anymore. We will unite with the workers of Yasnogorsk and thousands and thousands of unpaid workers all over Russia. We will take everything in our hands." A Yasnogorsk delegation led by the workers' candidate Vyacheslv Regusov visited Kimovsk yesterday. Union of Marxists press-centre [EMAIL PROTECTED] The RUSSIA INFO-LIST puts out information and analysis from a wide range of sources. Messages posted to Russia Info-List do not necessarily reflect the views of ISWoR. We are a broad united front of individuals and organisations internationally who support Russian workers struggles, who oppose the IMF-Yeltsinite privatisation project, who oppose racism and fascism, and who want to build international solidarity between workers of all nations. If you have something you would like to distribute on Russia Info-List, or want to help in our practical solidarity work, contact us at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or write the address above. ***** * PRISON ACTIVIST RESOURCE CENTER * P.O. Box 339 Berkeley, CA 94701 Tel: (510) 845-8813 Fax: (510) 845-8816 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.prisonactivist.org - July 1999 - ----- _________________________________________________________________ FREE MUMIA! QUILT BY POLITICAL PRISONER LINDA EVANS _________________________________________________________________ By Rob McBride, [EMAIL PROTECTED] BUY A RAFFLE TICKET - SUPPORT MUMIA'S LEGAL DEFENSE! * * * Friends: Time is running out for Mumia Abu-Jamal. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has denied his final appeal. His lawyers are now taking his case to the federal courts, where his chances are slim because of the limited powers of those courts to review death penalty cases. We ask you to join with political prisoner Linda Evans in raising funds and political support for Mumia by helping with our raffle of a beautiful "Free Mumia" quilt made by Linda. The quilt is multi-colored, approximately 3' x 3'. We are asking you to purchase tickets yourself and/or to sell them to family, co-workers and friends. We would be happy to make tickets available for you to sell in your area. The winning ticket will be drawn at the annual Sparks Fly Celebration of Women Political Prisoners in November, 1999 in San Francisco. Please join with Linda Evans and our sponsoring groups in this effort to raise funds for his defense. $5.00 each, or $10.00 for 3 $3.00 for students and low-income Please call, write or e-mail (addresses below) to buy tickets and get blocks of tickets to sell. Return tickets by November 1, 1999 with checks made to LSPC/Mumia Quilt, 100 McAllister Street, San Francisco, CA 94102. Let us tell you a little about Linda, in case you are not familiar with her history. In the 1960s, Linda was a student organizer against the war in Vietnam and to support Black liberation. As a political/cultural worker, in the women's movement and the lesbian community, she was active in a guerrilla street theater troupe, an all-women's band, and a women's printing and graphics collective in Texas. In the 1980s, Linda worked to develop a clandestine resistance movement. In 1985, she was given a 40 year sentence as a member of the Resistance Conspiracy case. She was convicted, among other things, of "conspiracy to influence, change, and protest policies and practices of the US government ... through the use of violent and illegal means." Linda has been in prison since 1985. During that time, she founded PLACE (Pleasanton AIDS Counseling and Education) -- an inmate to inmate, peer education program. She is also a master quilter, despite the daily restrictions and harassments of prison life. Thank you for supporting this project, one in a long tradition of political prisoners' efforts to free Mumia. Sponsoring organizations: Out of Control Lesbian Committee to Support Women Political Prisoners Jericho Movement for Amnesty and Freedom for All Political Prisoners, http://www.thejerichomovement.com Prison Activist Resource Center California Coalition for Women Prisoners Fireworx, http://www.fireworx.org/ Mumia Quilt c/o Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, 100 McAllister Street, San Francisco, CA 94102. (415) 255-7036 ext. 4. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***** * SAN FRANCISCO LIBERATION RADIO - 93.7 FM * 750 La Playa #852 San Francisco, CA 94121 Tel: (415) 750-1714 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.slip.net/~dove - Friday, 23 July 1999 - ----- _________________________________________________________________ NATO AND THE NAZI CONNECTION _________________________________________________________________ * * * SFLR this past week concluded a two-part discussion on the early connections between NATO and former Nazi General Adolph Ernst Heusinger. The discussion was led by Scott Thompson on his program, "The Bakchos News Hour." Says Scott: "I became extremely interested in NATO about 3 or 4 months ago when NATO began bombing Yugoslavia...My interest in NATO led me to look at how it began. I started reading documents on the web. You can find all kinds of amazing things about NATO on the Internet, including official NATO documents, all kinds of cold war declassified CIA documents and so forth." Scott's research also led him into the dusty, realm of newspaper archives and out-of-print books. "I came upon a number of fascinating books, some of which are very unusual and rare, and you don't see any mention of them. The most interesting of them is a book by a man by the name of Charles R. Allen Jr., somebody you don't hear about at all any more. The book that he wrote was published in 1963 by an unknown press from New York. The title was "Heusinger of the Fourth Reich: The Step by Step Resurgence of the German General Staff." Those familiar with such books as Martin Lee's "The Beast Reawakens" are certainly aware of the kissy-smoochey love affair the U.S. government had with top Nazis after the war. Perhaps most notable of these would be Hitler's chief of intelligence, General Reinhard Gehlen, who went on to become a major player in U.S. spy operations against the Soviet Union. Heusinger differs from Gehlen, however, in that he didn't become merely a U.S. government intelligence asset; Heusinger, incredibly, rose all the way up to head the Permanent Military Committee of NATO in Washington. According to Scott, Heusinger plotted Hitler's military campaigns against Poland, France, Norway and the Netherlands -- and was a chief strategist behind the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Among his duties were the overseeing of military task forces performing what might be politely termed as "special operations." Scott described them as "mobile killing units." "These were the death squads that were in vans, that were sent either ahead or behind the army and liquidated partisans, communists, and mostly Jews," said Scott. It has been estimated by holocaust writers that the death squads, or einsatzgruten, under Heusinger's command killed approximately 1.5 million people. Said Scott: "Heusinger was never accused of this crime. He said that he was simply following orders, he was simply working as a professional soldier in the high command." After the war, Heusinger, escaping trial at Nuremburg, played a crucial role in the remilitarization of what had become the Federal Republic of Germany, or West Germany, eventually becoming head of the Bundeswehr. His elevation into the command of NATO, however, did not come about without protest. "Although he was appointed to the head of NATO, it was over the objections of Norway, Denmark, Italy, and Greece," said Scott. "And obviously the Soviet Union was very worried about him and wanted him actually to be extradicted to the Soviet Union to stand as a war criminal." Much of Scott's information about Heusinger was gleaned from the book "Heusinger of the Fourth Reich." "The guy, Charles Allen, that wrote it had been a fairly distinguished writer at the time. More of a journalist, he had been an editor of the NATION MAGAZINE and of CHRISTIAN CENTURY. He had written for the ATLANTIC MONTHLY, THE NEW STATESMAN, FIGARO, LE MONDE, PUNCH, COLLIERS -- all the leading newspapers and magazines of his day. He was writing because he was worried that we had at that time -- 1963 -- an ex-German General, a Nazi, under Hitler, as the head, the chairman, of the Permanent Military Committee of NATO." Heusinger died in 1982. Scott commented: "People think (NATO General) Wesley Clark is bad; he (Clark) is nothing compared to this guy (Heusinger)." Please support San Francisco Liberation Radio. Your donation can make a difference. ***** * WORKERS WORLD NEWS SERVICE * E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://workers.org - Thursday, 22 July 1999 - ----- _________________________________________________________________ RACISM IN LIFE IMITATES ART _________________________________________________________________ Reprinted from the July 29, 1999 issue of Workers World newspaper By John Catalinotto * * * NEW YORK -- Alton Fitzgerald White is a star of the Broadway musical "Ragtime." In the play, which takes place in the early 1900s, the Black character he plays, Coalhouse Walker Jr., is accosted by a racist firefighter while driving through New Rochelle, N.Y. White had hoped that today this kind of thing only happens on stage. But as he left his Harlem apartment July 16 with some friends, New York cops arrested him and his companions, jailed them, strip-searched them and held White for five hours. He missed his performance. "When I was sitting in that jail cell," said White, "I realized that my perception about good and justice would never be the same, just like Coalhouse, not to the point of violence, but the naivete, it will never be the same." Police later said they were responding to a call about "two Hispanic men dealing drugs in the building." Apparently they rounded up all people of color as they carried racial profiling to its racist limit. Copyright Workers World Service: Permission to reprint granted if source is cited. For more information contact Workers World, 55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011; via e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For subscription info send message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://workers.org ***** _________________________________________________________________ US DOCUMENTS AID OPERATION CONDOR INVESTIGATION _________________________________________________________________ INTERPRESS SERVICE Thursday, 22 July 1999 Source: PeaceNet Conference ips.english By Tito Drago MADRID, Jul 22 (IPS) - Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon received documents from the U.S. government Thursday that support his investigation into Operation Condor, a co-ordinated repressive force of South America's dictatorships in the 1970s. Peter Kornbluh, representing the non-governmental National Security Archive, offered testimony before Garzon and turned over copies of documents Washington had declassified earlier this month. In response to charges made by victims or their family members, Garzon is putting together several summaries on crimes against humanity committed in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay in the 1970s and early 1980s. Based on the evidence and testimony included in one of these legal summaries, the Spanish judge ordered the arrest of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, who was taken into custody last October in London. The request for extradition to Spain presented afterwards will be decided in proceedings set to begin September 27 in the British capital. The U.S. documents received Thursday contain evidence of co-ordinated actions of South American intelligence services, the kidnapping of opposition members in one country and their transfer to another, the disappearances, torture and assassination of various people, and the co-operation of United States agents and diplomats. The National Security Archive (NSA) is a department of the University of Washington specialising in research on national security as well as official and covert activities of U.S. agents in other countries. Attorney Carlos Slepoy, who represents the victims of Argentina's most recent dictatorship (1976-83) before Garzon's court, believes that the NSA's help is important to his case. ''Washington declassified thousands of documents, but the NSA's analysis, and putting the documents in context, is essential in proving the serious nature of the illegal and repressive co-ordination of the dictatorships,'' said Slepoy. The documents selected and summarised by the NSA include one in which U.S. intelligence services, active in Buenos Aires at the time, informed their Washington headquarters about a covert trip of four Argentinean military officers to Ecuador to carry out an Operation Condor mission. Kornbluh told IPS that he had given Garzon certified copies of documents from the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the National Security Council and the U.S. Department of Defence. Many of the documents have words and even entire paragraphs made illegible in order to hide information sources, names and activities of U.S. agents. However, Kornbluh states that international pressure and that actual application of U.S. laws could force Washington to reveal the information that has been crossed out, which would be a new and historic resource for the investigation of human rights violations in South America. Most of the documents given to Garzon come from the State Department, but there are also documents from the CIA, the FBI and the presidential libraries of former presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. One of the documents that stands out is a CIA report addressed to the U.S. government, dated Sept. 3, 1973, in which it states that ''the coup (against the constitutional government of Chilean Salvador Allende) could be Sept. 10, or at the latest, the week of the 10th.'' On Sept. 10, another report indicated that the coup would occur the following day and that the coup's instigators would read a declaration on Sept. 11 over the radio, and included the time: 07:00. Other evidence presented includes an urgent report by the U.S. State Department, from Aug. 18, 1976, which informed then Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, that the secret service of the Chilean dictatorship waw preparing to carry out an assassination overseas. The report warned that the planning and orders for assassinations by governments, inside and outside Operation Condor countries, had serious implications, which should be dealt with quickly and directly. On Sept. 21, 1976, former government minister under Salvador Allende, Orlando Letelier and his secretary, Ronni Moffitt, were assassinated in Washington D.C. Kornbluh said that there is no indication that Kissinger did anything to prevent Operation Condor activities. Copyright 1999, InterPress Third World News Agency (IPS). All rights reserved. ***** _________________________________________________________________ FLYERS PREACH HATE AGAINST CHINESE IN S.F. _________________________________________________________________ SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER Wednesday, July 21 1999, Page A6 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/examiner/ archive/1999/07/21/NEWS7021.dtl Julie Chao OF THE EXAMINER STAFF Not since swastikas appeared on shop windows in the Sunset District two years ago have Asian Americans in San Francisco faced such hateful attacks. Last week, businesses in the Sunset were targeted again, this time with virulently anti-Chinese flyers urging white people to "Rip them off. Spit on them. Flip them off, anything." Community groups scheduled a press conference for Wednesday to call attention to the incident so they can try to determine how widespread the problem is and let people know San Francisco is not as hate-free as one might think. "In light of the current focus on hate incidents elsewhere, (we want) to remind people things happen right here in our own beautiful San Francisco," said Jill Tregor, executive director of the Intergroup Clearinghouse, a San Francisco nonprofit working on hate crime prevention. Although distributing flyers with hate-filled speech is protected by the First Amendment, community advocates are worried such intimidation could lead to actual violence. "All the sociological data show this is how violence really begins," said Diane Chin, executive director of Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA), a civil rights group in San Francisco. "This kind of campaign that dehumanizes a community creates an environment that's right for violence." Not only has the environment recently been ripe for hate violence in Sacramento, where three synagogues were set on fire in May, and Chicago, where a white supremacist fatally shot two people this month, Chinese Americans again have been demonized by the latest national Chinese spy scare, Chin noted. The flyer was dropped in the mailboxes of at least three Chinese-owned businesses on Judah Street in the Outer Sunset, near the ocean. It accuses Chinese people of buying up property, ripping out trees and building more houses. An anonymous group of Chinese Americans who said they lived in the Richmond, Sunset and Chinatown districts sent a handwritten letter in Chinese to CAA and Supervisor Mabel Teng saying they also had received the flyer. Advising people to demand that Chinese people speak English, the flyer itself, titled "What About Us White's," is full of misspellings, typos and bad grammar. It begins: "We are being so screwed! We are being DEIGNED of a every opportunity that is giving to THE CHINESE." Tregor, of the Intergroup Clearinghouse, said a police officer from Humboldt County had told her he'd seen the flyer on the Internet. She speculated someone had downloaded it and distributed it locally. Merchant Losa Lee, who has owned a video store on Judah Street for two years, was angered by the flyer but is not fearful. "We work so hard. We earned our money," she said. "We did not steal it out of their pocket. We did not take it out of their bank. We did not rob their tax money. Most of us are immigrants. We did not even know English, but still we managed to survive. They should look up to us for what we are doing." The Richmond and Sunset neighborhoods have been popular with Asian American home buyers for decades. Teng visited the Outer Sunset last week to meet with Chinese American merchants, who told her they found the neighborhood peaceful and never had any such problems before. "It's not an area known to be plagued with racial conflict," she said. Capt. Michael Yalon of the San Francisco Police Department's Taraval Station said his officers had stepped up patrols in the Outer Sunset. Two years ago, swastikas were etched on shop windows, mostly Asian-owned, on Irving Street in the Inner Sunset, more than 30 blocks from where the flyers were distributed. No charges were ever brought, although the Police Department did identify some suspects. Copyright 1999 San Francisco Examiner ***** _________________________________________________________________ MORE THAN A DOZEN INJURED FROM TEAR GAS ATTACK DURING GAY PRIDE PARADE _________________________________________________________________ By Associated Press, 07/24/99 22:02 SAN DIEGO (AP) A tear gas canister was thrown into the crowd watching a Lesbian and Gay Pride parade Saturday, injuring more than a dozen people, a city fire spokesman said. No arrests were made. About 15 people were treated at the scene for eye and skin irritations. Three others, including a woman with asthma, were taken to a local hospital with minor injuries, fire spokesman Bob Macy said. Thousands of people were watching the 25th annual parade when a big puff of smoke erupted at about 1 p.m., sending people scurrying. ''I thought it was just smoke, some kind of fire,'' said Steve Danaemiller, who was treated at the scene. The parade was delayed about 15 minutes as police unsuccessfully tried to find the attacker. Copyright 1999 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. ***** _________________________________________________________________ NEO-NAZIS CARVE OUT CORNER OF THE WEB _________________________________________________________________ REUTERS, July 25, 1999 12:15 p.m. EDT By MARK JOHN BONN, Germany (Reuters) - German neo-Nazi and far-right groups are increasingly going online to recruit members and spread their message, the country's top internal security official was quoted Sunday as saying. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung reported figures from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) showing a rise in far-right Web sites from 200 in 1997 to 300 last year. It quoted BfV president Peter Frisch as saying the world- wide computer network had a particular attraction for German neo-Nazis because it allowed them to bypass strict national laws against the display of swastikas and slogans inciting racial hatred. "If they use a foreign access provider, they regularly break the German law," he said, referring to the firms which offer the telecommunication links needed to set up an Internet Web site. The Internet has long been used by extremists of all hues throughout the world as a cheap and effective means of publicity and communication. Concern has been growing over the phenomenon since the discovery of "hit-lists" published on the Internet that offer a reward for the murder of those named. In a case reported in Germany last week, a far-right group published the name, address, photograph and daily travel habits of a man they said "bad-mouths Nazis and hangs around with Russians." A reward of 10,000 German marks ($5,370) was offered for physical proof of his murder. The BfV said earlier this year that the number of far-right supporters in Germany had grown 11 percent in 1998 to 53,600. Of those, 8,200 were considered violent while the neo-Nazi faction - those that explicitly glorify Hitler's Nazi regime or refuse to acknowledge the Holocaust - totalled 2,400. Violent incidents involving right-wing extremists fell 10 percent last year, with nearly half happening in the former communist eastern part which makes up less than 20 percent of the population. Authorities attribute the concentration of far-right activity in the east to high unemployment and a deep-rooted mistrust of foreigners among a population that saw hardly any immigration before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Copyright 1999 Reuters News Service. All rights reserved. ***** * COUNTERPUNCH * `Tells the Facts and Names the Names' Edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair 3220 N Street, NW, Suite 346 Washington, DC 20007 Tel: 1-800-840-3683 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.counterpunch.org/ - Thursday, 15 July 1999 - ----- _________________________________________________________________ TED K., THE CIA & LSD _________________________________________________________________ By Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair http://www.counterpunch.org/tedk.html * * * It turns out that Theodore Kaczynski, a.k.a. the Unabomber, was a volunteer in mind-control experiments sponsored by the CIA at Harvard in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Michael Mello, author of the recently published book, "The United States of America vs. Theodore John Kaczynski," notes that at some point in his Harvard years -- 1958 to 1962 -- Kaczynski agreed to be the subject of "a psychological experiment." Mello identifies the chief researcher for these only as a lieutenant colonel in World War II, working for the CIA's predecessor organization, the Office of Strategic Services. In fact, the man experimenting on the young Kaczynski was Dr. Henry Murray, who died in 1988. Murray became preoccupied by psychoanalysis in the 1920s, drawn to it through a fascination with Herman Melville's "Moby Dick," which he gave to Sigmund Freud, who duly made the excited diagnosis that the whale was a father figure. After spending the 1930s developing personality theory, Murray was recruited to the OSS at the start of the war, applying his theories to the selection of agents and also presumably to interrogation. As chairman of the Department of Social Relations at Harvard, Murray zealously prosecuted the CIA's efforts to carry forward experiments in mind control conducted by Nazi doctors in the concentration camps. The overall program was under the control of the late Sidney Gottlieb, head of the CIA's technical services division. Just as Harvard students were fed doses of LSD, psilocybin and other potions, so too were prisoners and many unwitting guinea pigs. Sometimes the results were disastrous. A dram of LSD fed by Gottlieb himself to an unwitting U.S. army officer, Frank Olson, plunged Olson into escalating psychotic episodes, which culminated in Olson's fatal descent from an upper window in the Statler-Hilton in New York. Gottlieb was the object of a lawsuit not only by Olson's children but also by the sister of another man, Stanley Milton Glickman, whose life had disintegrated into psychosis after being unwittingly given a dose of LSD by Gottlieb. What did Murray give Kaczynski? Did the experiment's long-term effects help tilt him into the Unabomber's homicidal rampages? The CIA's mind experiment program was vast. How many other human time bombs were thus primed? How many of them have exploded? There are other human time bombs, primed in haste, ignorance or indifference to long-term consequences. Amid all the finger- pointing to causes prompting the recent wave of schoolyard killings, not nearly enough clamor has been raised about the fact that many of these teenagers suddenly exploding into mania were on a regimen of antidepressants. Eric Harris, one of the shooters at Columbine, was on Luvox. Kip Kinkel, who killed his parents and two students in Oregon, was on Prozac. There are a number of other instances. Apropos possible linkage, Dr. Peter Breggin, author of books on Prozac and Ritalin, has said, "I have no doubt that Prozac can contribute to violence and suicide. I've seen many cases. In the recent clinical trial, 6% of the children became psychotic on Prozac. And manic psychosis can lead to violence." A 15-year-old girl attending a ritzy liberal arts school in the Northeast told us that 80% of the kids in her class were on Prozac, Ritalin or Dexedrine. The pretext used by the school authorities is attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, with a diagnosis made on the basis of questions such as: "Do you find yourself daydreaming or looking out the window?" Ritalin is being given to about 2 million American schoolchildren. A 1986 article by Richard Scarnati in the International Journal of the Addictions lists more than a hundred adverse reactions to Ritalin, including paranoid delusions, paranoid psychosis, amphetamine-like psychosis and terror. Meanwhile, uncertainty reigns on the precise nature of the complaint that Ritalin is supposed to be treating. One panel reviewing the proceedings at a conference on ADHD last year even doubted whether the disorder is a "valid" diagnosis of a broad range of children's behavior, and said there was little evidence Ritalin did any good. In 1996, the Drug Enforcement Administration denounced the use of Ritalin and concluded that "the dramatic increase in the use of [Ritalin] in the 1990s should be viewed as a marker or warning to society." Indeed. Land mines now litter the terrain of our society, waiting to explode. SUBSCRIBE TO COUNTERPUNCH ONLINE! CounterPunch, the nation's leading muckraking newsletter, is published twice a month and is mailed first-class, usually on the first and the fifteenth of each month. Annual subscription rate is $40. You can now subscribe online using a mastercard or visa over a secure server. See: http://www.counterpunch.org/onlinesub.html Copyright 1999. All rights reserved. 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