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This is a serious attempt to quelch free speech. Please take time from your busy schedules to scan the article, and email to ALA (address at bottom) supportive words!
Librarians Against Israel
Posted 12/24/2002
By N. Leonard Tolkan
Go to the website of the American Library Association, an organization with more than sixty-six thousand members in the United States and elsewhere. Follow the links to the ALA`s so-called `Social Responsibilities Round Table` the SRRT. Continue following the internal links from there to the SRRT`s misnamed International Responsibilities Task Force, and then go to a copious listing of `alternative` literature. You will now be able to choose from a smorgasbord of articles calling for the annihilation of Israel.
If there exists even one pro-Israel article linked from the American Library Association`s website, I could not find it, despite laboriously repeated search attempts. Not a single one.
To be sure, the overwhelming majority of the ALA`s membership does not seek the Jewish state`s obliteration. But a hardcore group of haters, especially within the ALA-SRRT, works with obsessive determination to bring that about. And these Israel-bashers have been pushing their agenda since the mid-1980`s.
Sometimes resisting, but more often caving in to the will of the haters, the ALA Council has passed a horrendous series of edicts which in turn are distributed to the PLO, the United Nations, the U.S. State Department, foreign governments, and other national and international entities in order to maximize the harm to Israel.
And those on the ALA Council who have voted for the anti-Israel resolutions have done so knowing full well that for the haters egging them on with such fervor, the issue is really not what Israel does or does not do. It is Israel`s very existence itself that they object to.
The American Library Association has condemned no other nation with anywhere near the frequency and vitriol it has reserved for Israel. Indeed, there would have been even more condemnations of Israel were it not for the fact that for several years now the ALA Council has had a problem obtaining voting quorums.
But the bigots may have overcome that obstacle to their mischief. Last June they succeeded in getting the Council to establish a quorum, still to be approved by the entire ALA, which cuts in half the number of members needed to pass resolutions.
A pro-Israel librarian, whose name it is safer to keep anonymous, characterized the ALA`s latest foray into anti-Israel, pro-Arafat advocacy as ``hogwash,`` but then added that because of the move to lower quorums, ``I am personally more pessimistic on our chances of overturning this mess, though we need to keep our voices heard...``
Some of the condemnations of Israel are displayed on the SRRT-International Responsibilities Task Force portion of the ALA website, including a 1992 Council resolution that was revoked the following year; a 1998 SRRT-sponsored resolution that the Council rejected; and last June`s condemnations of Israel for purportedly destroying ``Palestinian libraries, archives and other cultural institutions.
The latter alleged destruction, distinct SRRT and ALA Council resolutions assert, ``...represents a significant loss for the Palestinian people and the world.``
Can it be that the ALA people are unaware of the vile and blatant anti-Semitism -- including Holocaust denial and calls for genocide, ethnic cleansing and jihad against Jews -- that prevails in Palestinian ``libraries, archives and cultural institutions``?
Doctors Against Child Sacrifice (DOCS), an organization composed of about three hundred pediatricians, has cogently described the literature directed at young people in areas ruled by Arafat`s criminals as a ``form of societal child abuse.``
Interestingly, the text of one of two anti-Israel resolutions, passed in 1992, is conspicuously absent from the ALA website. Apparently that one -- which never was rescinded -- has proved a bit too embarrassing, even for seasoned Israel bashers.
The malicious document said, in part: ``Resolved, the American Library Association protests the deportation of Omar al-Safi...a librarian at Bir Zeit University in the Israeli-Occupied West Bank.`` It also referred to al-Safi as ``our colleague.``
Suffice it to say that the Omar al-Safi resolution was an astonishing blunder, a faux pas about which the ALA now hopes the public at large, particularly after the tragedy of 9-11, will remain ignorant.
But the al-Safi resolution should be neither obscured nor forgotten by the American people, because its passage exposes so much that is wrong and vicious about the American Library Association.
First, Omar al Safi was a terrorist nom de guerre for a convicted felon, with a long and violent criminal record, who was never deported by Israel.
Second, there is nothing to indicate that he was ever a professional librarian, although he seems to have occasionally worked in the library of Bir Zeit, a university that owes its existence to Israel`s administration of the territories. The Jordanians never allowed it to be founded; after June 1967 Israel did.
Finally and most importantly, al-Safi was a member of and recruiter for the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), a ruthless terror gang that still calls for the murder of all Jewish Israelis and which only recently took ``credit`` for the death of an Israeli child.
One of the many atrocities carried out by that group of sadistic thugs that most readers will surely remember was the 1974 massacre in Maalot of twenty-two Israeli schoolchildren plus several adults.
Thus, the American Library Association -- a major organization of professionals who, to a very large extent, work with schoolchildren, and whose conventions are, in part, funded by U.S. taxpayer money -- passed a resolution in support of a terrorist from a group with a long history of targeting children for murder.
It must also be pointed out that al-Safi has not been the only terrorist murderer linked to the ALA`s anti-Israel campaigns. An invited guest at a 1992 ALA convention was Khader Hamide, a member of and fundraiser for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The PFLP, which is the parent group of the DFLP murderers, gained particular notoriety in the 1970`s due to its penchant for gunning down civilians in airports and hijacking commercial passenger planes around the world.
Among its many crimes against humanity, the PFLP planned the 1972 Japanese Red Army machine-gun rampage at Ben-Gurion (formerly Lod) Airport, which left sixteen Puerto Rican Christian pilgrims dead, among the other innocents who were butchered. More recently, the PFLP assassinated Israeli Minister of Tourism Rehavim Ze`evi.
In 1999, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Khader Hamide -- the PFLP killer and honored ALA guest speaker -- be deported from the United States.
While these revelations are undoubtedly disgusting, what is especially alarming is the fact that this past June the SRRT also tried to get the American Library Association Council to pass a resolution that urged librarians to focus on the acquisition of politically correct -- i.e. radical, anti-Israel, anti-U.S. and anti-democracy -- materials for their collections. (Fidel Castro`s dictatorship has been lauded by this bunch.)
And while the resolution has not been formalized as official ALA policy, evidence is emerging that far-left librarians have been implementing it in their own unofficial fashion. Especially troubling is what appears to be an unspoken policy of de facto censorship that hinders the public`s access to centrist, conservative and pro-American books and material.
Recently, attorney J. Edward Pawlick did democracy a great service by reporting the results of searches in 35 Massachusetts libraries for eleven important conservative books. Their paucity or absence in library collections led Pawlick to assert, ``The professional librarians appear to be the leaders of the censorship effort.`` He further stated, ``If they wish to censor, they don`t have to burn anything. They just refuse buy the book. It`s very tidy and very clean.``
Nor is the problem limited to Massachusetts. Conservative patrons of public libraries throughout the country have long complained that books by liberal authors -- particularly new releases -- are promptly ordered and never in short supply, while books by conservatives or on conservative themes seem to make it onto the shelves months after publication, if then.
I am not a professional investigator, but simply someone who has worked as a librarian. The worrisome information presented here is the full extent of my knowledge of this problem, and I have no answers or solutions. But surely these revelations lead to questions that need answering:
1. What is the full extent of the relationship between elements within the American Library Association and terrorist organizations, and exactly which terror groups are involved?
2. Considering the fact that U.S. taxpayers, to a remarkably large extent, pay for the transportation, accommodations, and compensation time of library personnel attending the semi-annual ALA conventions, has the American Library Association been violating the law by engaging in activities championed by those of its members animated by an anti-Israel agenda -- activities that include sending the anti-Israel resolutions to the U.S. State Department, the U.N., and Arafat?
3. How many more biased condemnations of the only democracy in the Middle East will the ALA`s Israel bashers and group masochists (sadly, there are some Adam Shapiro/Noam Chomsky types involved) manage to push through?
4. Will the American people be complacent while members of the ALA vocally campaign against tighter security measures in the war against terrorism (the ALA was a fierce opponent of the U.S. Patriot Act that Congress passed by an overwhelming majority), while encouraging the censorship of books, periodicals, and audio-visuals which do not conform to a leftist agenda?
5. The latest ALA Council`s implicit condemnation of Israel (more often than not, the condemnations have been explicit) calls for an ``investigative`` group to be sent to the Palestinian-controlled territories. Who will be footing the bill for that and what will be its composition? Will the ``librarian-investigators`` endanger the lives of Israelis?
6. What are the chances that any funds the ALA transfers to Arafat`s people, purportedly for ``rebuilding Palestinian libraries and cultural institutions`` will end up in one of Arafat`s private Swiss bank accounts? And how much of that money will be used to purchase bullets and bombs for the murder of innocents?
The time is long past due for Americans to view both the American Library Association and their local public libraries with greater scrutiny.
N. Leonard Tolkan is the pseudonym of a veteran librarian who, for obvious reasons, chooses to remain anonymous.
Readers wishing to contact the ALA may do so by calling its toll-free number: 1-800-545-2433. (Ask for the executive offices.) The president of the ALA is Maurice (Mitch) Freedman (freedman [at] wlsmail.org.) and the president-elect is Carla D. Hayden (chayden [at] epfl.net).
Posted 12/24/2002
By N. Leonard Tolkan
Go to the website of the American Library Association, an organization with more than sixty-six thousand members in the United States and elsewhere. Follow the links to the ALA`s so-called `Social Responsibilities Round Table` the SRRT. Continue following the internal links from there to the SRRT`s misnamed International Responsibilities Task Force, and then go to a copious listing of `alternative` literature. You will now be able to choose from a smorgasbord of articles calling for the annihilation of Israel.
If there exists even one pro-Israel article linked from the American Library Association`s website, I could not find it, despite laboriously repeated search attempts. Not a single one.
To be sure, the overwhelming majority of the ALA`s membership does not seek the Jewish state`s obliteration. But a hardcore group of haters, especially within the ALA-SRRT, works with obsessive determination to bring that about. And these Israel-bashers have been pushing their agenda since the mid-1980`s.
Sometimes resisting, but more often caving in to the will of the haters, the ALA Council has passed a horrendous series of edicts which in turn are distributed to the PLO, the United Nations, the U.S. State Department, foreign governments, and other national and international entities in order to maximize the harm to Israel.
And those on the ALA Council who have voted for the anti-Israel resolutions have done so knowing full well that for the haters egging them on with such fervor, the issue is really not what Israel does or does not do. It is Israel`s very existence itself that they object to.
The American Library Association has condemned no other nation with anywhere near the frequency and vitriol it has reserved for Israel. Indeed, there would have been even more condemnations of Israel were it not for the fact that for several years now the ALA Council has had a problem obtaining voting quorums.
But the bigots may have overcome that obstacle to their mischief. Last June they succeeded in getting the Council to establish a quorum, still to be approved by the entire ALA, which cuts in half the number of members needed to pass resolutions.
A pro-Israel librarian, whose name it is safer to keep anonymous, characterized the ALA`s latest foray into anti-Israel, pro-Arafat advocacy as ``hogwash,`` but then added that because of the move to lower quorums, ``I am personally more pessimistic on our chances of overturning this mess, though we need to keep our voices heard...``
Some of the condemnations of Israel are displayed on the SRRT-International Responsibilities Task Force portion of the ALA website, including a 1992 Council resolution that was revoked the following year; a 1998 SRRT-sponsored resolution that the Council rejected; and last June`s condemnations of Israel for purportedly destroying ``Palestinian libraries, archives and other cultural institutions.
The latter alleged destruction, distinct SRRT and ALA Council resolutions assert, ``...represents a significant loss for the Palestinian people and the world.``
Can it be that the ALA people are unaware of the vile and blatant anti-Semitism -- including Holocaust denial and calls for genocide, ethnic cleansing and jihad against Jews -- that prevails in Palestinian ``libraries, archives and cultural institutions``?
Doctors Against Child Sacrifice (DOCS), an organization composed of about three hundred pediatricians, has cogently described the literature directed at young people in areas ruled by Arafat`s criminals as a ``form of societal child abuse.``
Interestingly, the text of one of two anti-Israel resolutions, passed in 1992, is conspicuously absent from the ALA website. Apparently that one -- which never was rescinded -- has proved a bit too embarrassing, even for seasoned Israel bashers.
The malicious document said, in part: ``Resolved, the American Library Association protests the deportation of Omar al-Safi...a librarian at Bir Zeit University in the Israeli-Occupied West Bank.`` It also referred to al-Safi as ``our colleague.``
Suffice it to say that the Omar al-Safi resolution was an astonishing blunder, a faux pas about which the ALA now hopes the public at large, particularly after the tragedy of 9-11, will remain ignorant.
But the al-Safi resolution should be neither obscured nor forgotten by the American people, because its passage exposes so much that is wrong and vicious about the American Library Association.
First, Omar al Safi was a terrorist nom de guerre for a convicted felon, with a long and violent criminal record, who was never deported by Israel.
Second, there is nothing to indicate that he was ever a professional librarian, although he seems to have occasionally worked in the library of Bir Zeit, a university that owes its existence to Israel`s administration of the territories. The Jordanians never allowed it to be founded; after June 1967 Israel did.
Finally and most importantly, al-Safi was a member of and recruiter for the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), a ruthless terror gang that still calls for the murder of all Jewish Israelis and which only recently took ``credit`` for the death of an Israeli child.
One of the many atrocities carried out by that group of sadistic thugs that most readers will surely remember was the 1974 massacre in Maalot of twenty-two Israeli schoolchildren plus several adults.
Thus, the American Library Association -- a major organization of professionals who, to a very large extent, work with schoolchildren, and whose conventions are, in part, funded by U.S. taxpayer money -- passed a resolution in support of a terrorist from a group with a long history of targeting children for murder.
It must also be pointed out that al-Safi has not been the only terrorist murderer linked to the ALA`s anti-Israel campaigns. An invited guest at a 1992 ALA convention was Khader Hamide, a member of and fundraiser for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The PFLP, which is the parent group of the DFLP murderers, gained particular notoriety in the 1970`s due to its penchant for gunning down civilians in airports and hijacking commercial passenger planes around the world.
Among its many crimes against humanity, the PFLP planned the 1972 Japanese Red Army machine-gun rampage at Ben-Gurion (formerly Lod) Airport, which left sixteen Puerto Rican Christian pilgrims dead, among the other innocents who were butchered. More recently, the PFLP assassinated Israeli Minister of Tourism Rehavim Ze`evi.
In 1999, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Khader Hamide -- the PFLP killer and honored ALA guest speaker -- be deported from the United States.
While these revelations are undoubtedly disgusting, what is especially alarming is the fact that this past June the SRRT also tried to get the American Library Association Council to pass a resolution that urged librarians to focus on the acquisition of politically correct -- i.e. radical, anti-Israel, anti-U.S. and anti-democracy -- materials for their collections. (Fidel Castro`s dictatorship has been lauded by this bunch.)
And while the resolution has not been formalized as official ALA policy, evidence is emerging that far-left librarians have been implementing it in their own unofficial fashion. Especially troubling is what appears to be an unspoken policy of de facto censorship that hinders the public`s access to centrist, conservative and pro-American books and material.
Recently, attorney J. Edward Pawlick did democracy a great service by reporting the results of searches in 35 Massachusetts libraries for eleven important conservative books. Their paucity or absence in library collections led Pawlick to assert, ``The professional librarians appear to be the leaders of the censorship effort.`` He further stated, ``If they wish to censor, they don`t have to burn anything. They just refuse buy the book. It`s very tidy and very clean.``
Nor is the problem limited to Massachusetts. Conservative patrons of public libraries throughout the country have long complained that books by liberal authors -- particularly new releases -- are promptly ordered and never in short supply, while books by conservatives or on conservative themes seem to make it onto the shelves months after publication, if then.
I am not a professional investigator, but simply someone who has worked as a librarian. The worrisome information presented here is the full extent of my knowledge of this problem, and I have no answers or solutions. But surely these revelations lead to questions that need answering:
1. What is the full extent of the relationship between elements within the American Library Association and terrorist organizations, and exactly which terror groups are involved?
2. Considering the fact that U.S. taxpayers, to a remarkably large extent, pay for the transportation, accommodations, and compensation time of library personnel attending the semi-annual ALA conventions, has the American Library Association been violating the law by engaging in activities championed by those of its members animated by an anti-Israel agenda -- activities that include sending the anti-Israel resolutions to the U.S. State Department, the U.N., and Arafat?
3. How many more biased condemnations of the only democracy in the Middle East will the ALA`s Israel bashers and group masochists (sadly, there are some Adam Shapiro/Noam Chomsky types involved) manage to push through?
4. Will the American people be complacent while members of the ALA vocally campaign against tighter security measures in the war against terrorism (the ALA was a fierce opponent of the U.S. Patriot Act that Congress passed by an overwhelming majority), while encouraging the censorship of books, periodicals, and audio-visuals which do not conform to a leftist agenda?
5. The latest ALA Council`s implicit condemnation of Israel (more often than not, the condemnations have been explicit) calls for an ``investigative`` group to be sent to the Palestinian-controlled territories. Who will be footing the bill for that and what will be its composition? Will the ``librarian-investigators`` endanger the lives of Israelis?
6. What are the chances that any funds the ALA transfers to Arafat`s people, purportedly for ``rebuilding Palestinian libraries and cultural institutions`` will end up in one of Arafat`s private Swiss bank accounts? And how much of that money will be used to purchase bullets and bombs for the murder of innocents?
The time is long past due for Americans to view both the American Library Association and their local public libraries with greater scrutiny.
N. Leonard Tolkan is the pseudonym of a veteran librarian who, for obvious reasons, chooses to remain anonymous.
Readers wishing to contact the ALA may do so by calling its toll-free number: 1-800-545-2433. (Ask for the executive offices.) The president of the ALA is Maurice (Mitch) Freedman (freedman [at] wlsmail.org.) and the president-elect is Carla D. Hayden (chayden [at] epfl.net).
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The article does not actually indicate where the "offending" material is. How you actually get there is not obvious. Here is a list of the links within the ALA website to ALA Areas of Interest and Activity (http://www.ala.org/work/).
Advocacy for Libraries
Awards, Grants, and Scholarships
Censorship
Copyright and Intellectual Property
Continuing Education
Diversity
Education and Accreditation
Employment
Equity of Access
Ethics
Fundraising
Intellectual Freedom/Censorship
International Relations
Legislation
Literacy
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Technology
What are the accusations?
<<<< If there exists even one pro-Israel article linked from the American Library Association`s website, I could not find it, despite laboriously repeated search attempts. Not a single one. >>>>
There doesn't seem to be any anti-Israel articles either. The articles are about libraries and freedom of Information.
<<<< Sometimes resisting, but more often caving in to the will of the haters, the ALA Council has passed a horrendous series of edicts which in turn are distributed to the PLO, the United Nations, the U.S. State Department, foreign governments, and other national and international entities in order to maximize the harm to Israel. >>>>>>
There are two resolutions which are at issue. They are described below.
<<<< And those on the ALA Council who have voted for the anti-Israel resolutions have done so knowing full well that for the haters egging them on with such fervor, the issue is really not what Israel does or does not do. It is Israel`s very existence itself that they object to. >>>>
Although there are no specifics, Mr. Tolkan is alluding to resolutions by the ALA without saying what they are and insinuating that the unnamed resolutions were really foisted on the ALA by unamed haters of Israel. This is all very McCarthyist, unsupported accusations based on unverifiable rumors followed by unspecified insinuations.
<<< The American Library Association has condemned no other nation with anywhere near the frequency and vitriol it has reserved for Israel. >>>
This is not true. "--- it (the ALA) has engaged in issues of human rights and intellectual freedom around the world since its establishment in 1876." In past years it has criticized censorship in Chile, South Africa, the Soviet Union, and, according to Miller "was one of the first and strongest voices to defend Salman Rushdie." Taking on Israel, however, is another matter."
http://www.webshells.com/adlwatch/news21.htm
<<<< Indeed, there would have been even more condemnations of Israel were it not for the fact that for several years now the ALA Council has had a problem obtaining voting quorums. >>>>
Indeed, Mr Tolkan is admitting that this whole accusation is based on old news, nothing current, nothing stemming from the present violence and conflict. A lot happens in several years.
<<<<But the bigots may have overcome that obstacle to their mischief. Last June they succeeded in getting the Council to establish a quorum, still to be approved by the entire ALA, which cuts in half the number of members needed to pass resolutions. >>>>
Perhaps this is the issue that Mr. Tolkan is really upset with, that after some years of relative quiet, the ALA may speak out on current issues.
<<<< A pro-Israel librarian, whose name it is safer to keep anonymous, characterized the ALA`s latest foray into anti-Israel, pro-Arafat advocacy as ``hogwash,`` but then added that because of the move to lower quorums, ``I am personally more pessimistic on our chances of overturning this mess, though we need to keep our voices heard...`` >>>>>
One should be suspicious of people who wish to remain anonymous when they accuse as open an organization as the ALA. Perhaps the ALA is too open for some of its accusers.
<<<<< Some of the condemnations of Israel are displayed on the SRRT-International Responsibilities Task Force portion of the ALA website, including a 1992 Council resolution that was revoked the following year; a 1998 SRRT-sponsored resolution that the Council rejected; and last June`s condemnations of Israel for purportedly destroying ``Palestinian libraries, archives and other cultural institutions. >>>>>
A link would have been helpful in assessing these charges. Is Mr. Tolkan suggesting that a condemnation of Israel's destruction of Palestinian libraries, archives and cultural institutions, a threat to the existence of Israel?
<<<< The latter alleged destruction, distinct SRRT and ALA Council resolutions assert, ``...represents a significant loss for the Palestinian people and the world.`` >>>>>
In a free democracy, any organization has the right to make public stands, just as individuals, such as Mr. Tolkien, have the right to refute them. That is what the free marketplace of ideas is about. The fact is that there is substantial proof that the losses to the Palestinians were significant.
<<<< Can it be that the ALA people are unaware of the vile and blatant anti-Semitism -- including Holocaust denial and calls for genocide, ethnic cleansing and jihad against Jews -- that prevails in Palestinian ``libraries, archives and cultural institutions``? >>>>>
Here is the rub. Mr. Tolkan is claiming that because there is allegedly objectionable material in Palestinian libraries, Israel has the right to destroy them and deny Palestinians libraries.
<<<< Doctors Against Child Sacrifice (DOCS), an organization composed of about three hundred pediatricians, has cogently described the literature directed at young people in areas ruled by Arafat`s criminals as a ``form of societal child abuse.`` >>>>
Mr Tolkan's solution, "Deny young Palestinians access to literature." Note the smear in which areas under the PA are said to be ruled by "criminals."
<<<<Interestingly, the text of one of two anti-Israel resolutions, passed in 1992, is conspicuously absent from the ALA website. Apparently that one -- which never was rescinded -- has proved a bit too embarrassing, even for seasoned Israel bashers. >>>>
The resolution can be found at: http://www.ala.org/work/international/ResolutionOmarAl-Safi.html
More information on this issue and an ALA resolution on Israeli policies of censorship are found at:
http://lawlibrary.ucdavis.edu/LAWLIB/jul92/0088.html
and
http://www.webshells.com/adlwatch/news21.htm
<<<< ---- although he seems to have occasionally worked in the library of Bir Zeit, a university that owes its existence to Israel`s administration of the territories. The Jordanians never allowed it to be founded; after June 1967 Israel did. >>>>>
Mr. Tolkan throwing in a plug for his side.
(Note: There is too little information to make any kind of assessment of Omar al-Safi other than that he belonged to an organization that has resisted Israelis occupation of Palestinian land.)
<<< In 1999, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Khader Hamide -- the PFLP killer and honored ALA guest speaker -- be deported from the United States. >>>>
For more an Khader Hamide, see: Do Immigrants Have First Amendment Rights? by Jeanne A. Butterfield (http://www.merip.org/mer/mer212/212_butterfield.html)
<<< While these revelations are undoubtedly disgusting, what is especially alarming is the fact that this past June the SRRT also tried to get the American Library Association Council to pass a resolution that urged librarians to focus on the acquisition of politically correct -- i.e. radical, anti-Israel, anti-U.S. and anti-democracy -- materials for their collections. (Fidel Castro`s dictatorship has been lauded by this bunch.) >>>>
Are libraries to be limited to pro-Israel materials only be limited to materials that have approval by the American political right?
<<<< And while the resolution has not been formalized as official ALA policy, evidence is emerging that far-left librarians have been implementing it in their own unofficial fashion. Especially troubling is what appears to be an unspoken policy of de facto censorship that hinders the public`s access to centrist, conservative and pro-American books and material. >>>>>
<<< Recently, attorney J. Edward Pawlick did democracy a great service by reporting the results of searches in 35 Massachusetts libraries for eleven important conservative books. Their paucity or absence in library collections led Pawlick to assert, ``The professional librarians appear to be the leaders of the censorship effort.`` He further stated, ``If they wish to censor, they don`t have to burn anything. They just refuse buy the book. It`s very tidy and very clean.`` >>>>>
The list of books can be found at: http://www.massnews.com/2002_editions/05_May/052802_mn_library2.shtml
It is not clear whether certain books are missing from libraries because of unwritten policies of censorship or more likely because the limited budgets of libraries for purchasing any books.
<<<< Nor is the problem limited to Massachusetts. Conservative patrons of public libraries throughout the country have long complained that books by liberal authors -- particularly new releases -- are promptly ordered and never in short supply, while books by conservatives or on conservative themes seem to make it onto the shelves months after publication, if then. >>>>
It is hard to address such a statement without any facts. The question could be made as to what is considered "liberal." There could be as much bias against left-wing releases.
<<<< The worrisome information presented here is the full extent of my knowledge of this problem, and I have no answers or solutions. But surely these revelations lead to questions that need answering: >>>>
Translated: The "revelations" presented here should lead to an inquistion.
<<< 1. What is the full extent of the relationship between elements within the American Library Association and terrorist organizations, and exactly which terror groups are involved? >>>>
Are you or have you ever been a terrorist?
<<<< 2. Considering the fact that U.S. taxpayers, to a remarkably large extent, pay for the transportation, accommodations, and compensation time of library personnel attending the semi-annual ALA conventions, has the American Library Association been violating the law by engaging in activities championed by those of its members animated by an anti-Israel agenda -- activities that include sending the anti-Israel resolutions to the U.S. State Department, the U.N., and Arafat? >>>>>
Shouldn't U.S. taxpayer money be used only for pro-Israel activities and activities endorsed and encouraged by the the ADL and AIPAC?
<<< 3. How many more biased condemnations of the only democracy in the Middle East will the ALA`s Israel bashers and group masochists (sadly, there are some Adam Shapiro/Noam Chomsky types involved) manage to push through? >>>>
Shouldn't the truth be suppressed if it is damaging to Israel and its agenda?
<<<< 4. Will the American people be complacent while members of the ALA vocally campaign against tighter security measures in the war against terrorism (the ALA was a fierce opponent of the U.S. Patriot Act that Congress passed by an overwhelming majority), while encouraging the censorship of books, periodicals, and audio-visuals which do not conform to a leftist agenda? >>>>
Shouldn't organizations which support minority or dissenting positions, be suppressed? Shouldn't the fact that some libraries may not contain every book on a right-wing watch dog's favorites list, be considered evidence of censorship?
<<<< 5. The latest ALA Council`s implicit condemnation of Israel (more often than not, the condemnations have been explicit) calls for an ``investigative`` group to be sent to the Palestinian-controlled territories. Who will be footing the bill for that and what will be its composition? >>>>
Considering the billions spent to defend Israel, the expentiture of a few thousands, especially if it is funded privately, to observe how the money is spent, should not be a matter of objection.
<<<< Will the ``librarian-investigators`` endanger the lives of Israelis? >>>>
Not likely, but will the ongoing policies of Israelis endanger the lives of Americans?
<<<< 6. What are the chances that any funds the ALA transfers to Arafat`s people, purportedly for ``rebuilding Palestinian libraries and cultural institutions`` will end up in one of Arafat`s private Swiss bank accounts? And how much of that money will be used to purchase bullets and bombs for the murder of innocents? >>>>>
The truth is that much of the money which has been sent to Palestine, has been earmarked for specific projects and is subject to close scrutiny. The same cannot be said for the billions that are spent on Israel.
<<< The time is long past due for Americans to view both the American Library Association and their local public libraries with greater scrutiny. >>>>
Senator McCarthy used to say things like that.
<<< N. Leonard Tolkan is the pseudonym of a veteran librarian who, for obvious reasons, chooses to remain anonymous. >>>>
If his accusations had any grain of truth, he would not have to hide. The issues he has addressed have been subjected to heated and open discussion. There are no conspiracies. What is clear is that an anonymous individual wishes to smear the reputation of an organization dedicated to free speech and the free dissemination of ideas.
An té a bhíos fial roinneann Dia leis.
(Irish Proverb - God shares with the one who is generous.)
INDEPENDENT MEDIA EXCLUSIVE: More details have emerged regarding the connection of Michael Rivero and whatreallyhappened.com (WRH) to the racist Special Forces Underground (http://vikingphoenix.com/politics/Election2000/Issues2000/NationalSecurity/resister.htm) militia. References to secret organization's clandestine structure complicate the Rivero's innocent explanation of cursory involvement (http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=48669&group=webcast). As made abundantly clear in the following the excerpts from issue three of the SFU newsletter The Resister, the group's psuedo-Libertarian agenda casts Democracy and Human Rights, by modern definition, as immoral perversions:
http://www.icomm.ca/survival/resister.don/resistr3.htm
The Resister Issue 3
The Purported Newsletter of the Special Forces Underground
Volume I, Number 3. Winter 1995
Post Office Box 2723, Hagerstown, Maryland, 21741 Copy 0365 of 1000 Copies
from OPEN LETTER TO OUR READERS
...The Special Forces Underground is a description not a title. The opposition loves titles. Their narrow clerk-minds thrive on trivia and they must have something (preferably an acronym) to pigeonhole and categorize. Our organization does have a name. We prefer to let the opposition work for it.
...Foreign aid is nothing less than forced redistribution of this nation's wealth to impoverished socialist gangs and Third World savages. The belief of the internationalists is that we "owe something" to the rest of the world; most recently, food to starving irrelevancies in Somalia, political stability to ex-French slaves in Haiti, and guns to religious hoodlums in Bosnia: We deny this...
...Altruism permits no construct of a self-respecting self- supporting man. Altruism permits no view of man except as sacrificial animal, victim and parasite. Politically, altruists demand democracy knowing the consequence is statism. Socially, altruists demand egalitarianism knowing the consequence is tribalism. Economically, altruists demand collectivism knowing the consequence is slavery. Altruism is anti-life, anti-liberty and anti- property.
from Democracy: The Politics of Tyranny
...The United States has been descending into the sewer of democracy since the ratification of the 17th Amendment on May 31, 1913. Before every presidential election there are demands by special interest groups to void the Electoral College and resort to popular election of the President.
...This headlong rush into democracy is evident by the "value" placed on public opinion polls by politicians of both parties (a practice begun by the crypto- communist Franklin D. Roosevelt); as if the opinions and "feelings" of factions, gangs and tribes were a counterweight to the inalienable rights of a single rational man...
Issue four outlines the necessity for a well organized citizen's militia to safeguard the country from the corrupting onslaught of democratic values:
http://www.icomm.ca/survival/resister.don/resistr4.htm
The Resister Issue 4
The Purported Newsletter of the Special Forces Underground
Volume I, Number 4. Spring 1995
Post Office Box 47095, Kansas City, Missouri, 64188 Copy xxxx of 1250 Copies
from LETTER TO OUR READERS
...And the reason the formation and exercise of a militia today is questionable, is because the unorganized militia of previous generations, wishing they could have their cake and eat it, did nothing while their so-called representatives appealed to their irrational whims and sold them down the socialist river.
...Where was the militia when the Supreme Court usurped the power to interpret the Constitution? Where was the militia when the Anti-Trust laws were passed? Did the militia mobilize to oppose any of the following?
...Democracy; the Federal Reserve Bank; direct taxation; popular election of Senators; universal suffrage; compulsory education; prohibition; the formation of federal law enforcement, regulatory, or social agencies; the War Powers Act; labor laws; social security; the formation of the U.N.; the Marshal Plan; so-called 'civil rights;' Lyndon Johnson's blatantly Marxist "Great Society" programs; environmental laws; lowering the voting age; equal opportunity; affirmative action; forfeiture laws; or any other statist, socialist, or Marxist legislation? The answer is: NO
Issue five reveals that the principled strength of Anglo Saxon culture is the remedy required to treat the bastardization of America:
http://www.icomm.ca/survival/resister.don/resistr5.htm
The Resister Issue 5
The Purported Newsletter of the Special Forces Underground
Volume II, Number 1. Summer 1995
Post Office Box 47095, Kansas City, Missouri, 64188 Copy xxxx of 1500 Copies
from On Extremism by J.F.A. Davidson
...The term "extremism" is nothing other than a smear; a smear used by self-proclaimed moderates, who have no principles, to defile those who adhere to principled thought and action. It is a terror phrase intended to instill a sense of guilt and uncertainty in the irrational mob by reference to undefined and constantly fluctuating ideological package-deals. One such package-deal is so-called "white-supremacy." Although racism is implied, the true target of this smear is western culture, (meaning specifically, of course, Anglo Saxon culture).
...The deprecation of western culture by moderates notwithstanding, the simple fact they attempt to deny is that if the cumulative impact of minority contributions to western culture were suddenly eliminated from the whole, the advance of western culture would have not been delayed one single day.
Also from issue five is this challenge to the notion that Michael Rivero's collaboration with the SFU was limited only to posting the newsletter "as received."
from Another Hitch-Hiker
...For the record, we do not, repeat, do not solicit membership or recruit. Special Forces Underground is a voluntary association, which means you have to find us, we do not go looking for you. There are a limited number of individuals in the entire special operations community who have unilateral authority to accept volunteers.
from THE PARTISAN - Militia Organizations and Effective Communications
by M.O. Warren
...As a private group, you have to make the most effective use possible of the media available to you. Examples include meetings (rallies, demonstrations, and public meetings--to include town meetings, etc.), television (both stories by local and national media--as well as local cable access channels), radio (call-in shows, interviews, news pieces), newspapers (letters to the editor, advertisements, feature stories, etc.), facsimile machines (press releases, etc.), and electronic on-line services (both commercial and bulletin board type).
...How your spokesman, your message, and your group are perceived is
critical. Your spokesman should be a well groomed, well dressed, articulate, personable, and unflappable individual. He should not be a threatening, wild eyed, sputtering fanatic. People will immediately turn your group off if your spokesman isn't a normal, credible person they can identify with. This extends logically, although to a lesser degree, to the entire group. Having a credible spokesman standing in front of a bunch of threatening fanatics negates any acceptance your spokesman has gained for your group...
...Group spokesmen should be carefully selected. Realizing you have only a finite number of choices among your membership, you might have to train your spokesman. Many local colleges have communications courses (including public speaking). Unfortunately, some training will have to be on the job, with the attendant risk.
...Questions to the Middle-Aged Mutant Ninja Animator: Michael Rivero:
rivero [at] accessone.com
If questions were directed to Michael Rivero's e-mail account, then it suggests that some responsibility for communicating the group's message rested with Michael Rivero.Has WRH's front man become the Special Forces Underground heir-apparent - subtely broadcasting the anti-democratic message via whatreallyhappened.com? Is WRH the well groomed front for "a bunch of threatening fanatics" disgusted by racial equality?Perhaps Michael Rivero should take a page from Senator Trent Lott's book and come forward to fully divulge his involvement with the SFU militia and reflect on the group's troubling agenda - hopefully punctuated by sincere apology.
- S. Boyle: sboyle2003 [at] yahoo.com
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One day after posting What Really Happens on whatreallyhappened.com? I received several replies, none more interesting than the following:
http://dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=42061
To: sboyle2003 [at] yahoo.com
From: Nudimmud [at] Justice.com
Subject: Your Article about WhatReallyHappened on Uk.IndyMedia.org
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002
Dear Sir,
Accept my statement as a statement from the heart. The position you take is harmful to humanity and your attack on a beacon of light is a manifestation of your inner fear. All attacks are a manifestation of fear.
Your efforts to cast a negative image on WhatReallyHappened.com and as you "claim," his "employers," or the people you claim she is "working closely with" reveal the truth in your heart and your lack of knowledge about what you presume to know.
You are bitter and you serve the nemesis of humanity with total impunity. This makes you a dangerous fool. Ultimately death in blindness is every fool's meal.
If it is glory you and your "friend" Damian Penny seek, allow me to suggest that you join the effort against the perennial slavery of humanity. Otherwise step aside and allow the light to shine.
**A word of caution:
Be extremely careful of your choice of words from this day forward for your crass and bitter comments have unleashed a power you will never comprehend-in your blindness.
Lord Nudimmud
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I replied by explaining the motivation behind my investigation of Michael Rivero and his site whatreallyhappened.com - that being essentially the same as offered in the "offending" post. This prompted "Lord Nudimmud" to respond with the following:
...Look around you and understand that the reality you live is the fabricated result of a plan by beings who have been using you as a slave all your life. They have been doing so for thousands of years.
At stake is the freedom of humanity, thus, your own freedom.
The Operator of WRH has dedicated close to 10 years to his pursuit of truth. You should honor him for that. He is not your enemy. His dedication to his cause is a manifestation of the driving force within him. That force is what you must connect with. That force is the energy of GOD manifesting in his passion for his cause.
Soon the truth will be revealed to you. You will see it. It will come to you. When it does, my name will echoe in your mind and you will learn the history of who I am.
Regards,
Lord Nudimmud
Naturally, I was quite curious about my anonymous spiritual mentor, so I used Google to search for Nudimmud [at] Justice.com Only one entry was returned, and it just happened to show that Lord Nudimmud authored What the NWO Controllers want and what they will get are two different things! (http://www.bankindex.com/read.asp?ID=1307), published by - you guessed it - http://www.BankIndex.com (see What Really Happens on whatreallyhappened.com? for relevance).
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=767eca46.0212240205.4eaad0e7%40posting.google.com
Lord Nudimmud's word choice and melodramatic tone from the concluding lines caught my attention:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?W24A31AE2
Humanity will fight back this paradigm of slavery and this evil will be vanquished. This model did not work in the past and it will never work, for no mind can be put to sleep permanently.
With every passing moment more and more people are learning about the lies perpetrated on humanity by the nefarious NWO clique. More importantly, now they know who is behind all the misery, death and sorrow of millions of innocent people! The fight between good and evil is finally out in the open.
No hole in the earth will be deep enough and no star shall be far enough to hide you. The wrath of the prime creator is coming????.
Written by Lord Nudimmud
Posted 10/11/2002
On a hunch, I returned to Google to see where else the terms "NWO," "slavery," and "prime creator" might have been used in combination. This time three results were returned, and that's including Lord N's BankIndex article (http://makeashorterlink.com/?C15A42AE2).The other two links directed me to a compendium entitled The Universal Seduction (ISBN 1-59109-209-4, ISBN 1-59109-332-5 - http://www.theuniversalseduction.com/toc1.html) authored by Angelico Tapestra, a pseudonym for a group of "world recognized authors, investigative journalists, mathematicians, engineers, scientists, and scholars." (http://www.theuniversalseduction.com/) Now this very interesting.
Looking over the list of contributing author's (http://www.theuniversalseduction.com/authors.html), I discovered that they included Michael Rivero, notables William Cooper of http://www.williamcooper.com and Jeff Rense of http://www.rense.com, as well as a cast of colorful characters versed on such topics as aliens, mind control, numerology, and of course, conspiracies.
Marguerite McCall (http://www.authorsden.com/visit/author.asp?AuthorID=2493), also known as Carole Fox-Breeding
(http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q16A25AE2) and author of Danielle (ISBN: 1591092426 - http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewwork.asp?AuthorID=2493&id=6882) and Under The Guise of Angels (http://www.greatunpublished.com/bookstore/critics_corner/reviews/rv_gu00046.html) served as Chief Editor and Chairperson of the group and the book's Publisher through her company, The Rose Garden, LTD. Of course naming the company the Rose Garden was not coincidental.
http://www.theuniversalseduction.com/articles/message.html
...In June of the year 2000, a group of individuals who shared a common concern for humanity came together via the Internet seeking to discover what is actually transpiring not only on the earth, but also in the cosmos. They began to share their insights and research with each other, culminating in the publication of "The Universal Seduction: Piercing the Veils of Deception," Volumes I and II (TUS 1&2).
The group, which later became known as "The Rose Garden Club" (RGC) was, from the beginning, non-hierarchical and democratic in nature, loosely organized and coordinated. This was done so that the group--as a whole--could not be manipulated or subverted to the desired ends of a few. There was also a communal willingness to communicate and cooperate with each other in order to gain a balanced perspective. Even though each and every member was not always in total agreement on all issues, an amenable camaraderie prevailed where everyone was agreeable to the concept of examining all relevant points of view. As such, there never was an "official"club position, nor is there today---other than a common concern and desire for freedom and human dignity.
Here are some of the areas into which we have been looking:
***The potential enslavement through the manipulation of the economies of nations.
***The behind-the scenes or secret attacks on Constitutional governments.
***Ominous developments in space-age weaponry, technology and warfare, including mind and weather control.
***UFO's--sightings, space contacts, abductions, underground bases and cover-ups.
***Beneficial developments in technology, science, metaphysics, nature and religion either inadequately covered by mainstream media or not yet in full use.
***Important truths with little or no previous dissemination for mass public consumption.
***Any covert or overt activity which threaten Humanity.
Now this is hardly a controversial declaration, but the threads tracing back to Lord Nudimmud's warning made me wonder; was he an overzealous, overprotective fan, a Rose Garden Club member, or someone else? I raised these suspicions directly with Lord N., but he has yet to deign me a response.
NOTE: Thought to have first appeared in Sumerian literature circa
2500-2200 BCE, Lord Nudimmud (http://www.jameswbell.com/geog0050enames) is an god of great importance whose name translates to "Begetter" (NU=to lie down with; DIM=spouse; MUD=to give birth), but is better known by the name of Enki (EN = Lord; KI = Earth) "Lord of the Earth."The story of Nudimmud is preserved in the Seven Tablets of the History of Creation (http://www.cwru.edu/UL/preserve/Etana/KING.SEVENv1/KING.SEVENv1.219.237.pdf), a Babylonian text derived from earlier Sumerian writings. Nudimmud (Enki, Ea), the son of Anu (Ishtar, Antu), grandson of Anshar (Kishar), and father to Marduk is without equal among his brother gods. Many myths center of Nudimmud and his task to defeat the mighty Tiamat and a host of other evil gods.
Looking back at BankIndex article, the concluding warning can be read in two ways; first, as reference to a prophesied Biblical Armageddon now close at hand (be prepared to meet thy maker and be judged); or second, as reference to the author's divine inspiration and righteous cause (be prepared to suffer the real-world consequences of snooping around WRH). For the record, I very much doubt that Michael Rivero has anything to do with this self-annoited "patriot" and god-complex sufferer.
Coincidentally, Richley H. Crapo contends in An Anthropologist Looks at the Judeo-Christian Scripture (http://cc.usu.edu/%7Efath6/bible.htm) that Yahweh, the Hebrew word (generic) and name (personic) for god owes its entomological origins to the Sumerian Nudimmud. So Lord N's pseudonym may be a vieled promotion of the "arrogant Jew" stereotype.
- S. Boyle, Thursday December 12, 2002
mailto:sboyle2003 [at] yahoo.com
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PS: Lord Nudimmud eventually responded to my questions with two seemingly contradictory emails:
To: sboyle2003 [at] yahoo.com
From: Nudimmud [at] Justice.com
Re: A few questions
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002
There is no need to look too deeply into things. I am simply a friend of truth. I have no "working" relationship with the sites or groups you mention. To understand what Lord Nudimmud means, you must know what he is responsible for. Perhaps then you will understand what's at stake.
.....
To: sboyle2003 [at] yahoo.com
From: Nudimmud [at] Justice.com
Re: A few questions
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002
Dear Mr. Boyle,
If you wish to keep this dialogue going, I will ask that you refrain from making conclusions that are simply untrue.
You are wrong about the connections you try to establish with militant groups and your conclusion is once again, wrong. Your obsession with WRH is blinding you. Your fear drives your actions and your actions are without deep reflection.
Ok, so first Lord N claims to have no relationship to the sites or groups I mentioned even though he authored a piece for BankIndex.com, and then later claims that Michael Rivero's connection to the racist Special Forces Underground is unfounded. Now how is it that Lord N has first-hand knowledge of a situation when he claims to be "simply a friend of truth" and not personally connected? Either he's making broad assumptions or lying. None-the-less, the magnamimous Lord N illuminates the "truth" for this hapless hack:
You must be able to differentiate between the God of the Jews and Nudimmud .....They are not the same! They do however share the same "Father." Perhaps you should read Gardner's works, or Sitchin's "entirely," before trying to piece information together you know absolutely nothing about.
One day of research can't possibly make up for thousands of years of fabricated lies and deception by the "blues."
Until you understand the relationship between "The Gods" (Neil Freer can help you here) and the current reality of humanity, your writing will continue to harm innocent readers. What humanity needs now is clarity. You should honor truth and all avenues that lead to it.
When you have read the authors I mention above, I may reveal more to you. As I have answered your questions and e-mails, allow me to request the same of you. Why do you hate WRH so much? What do you fear?
Regards,
Lord Nudimmud
Rest assured Lord N, I am looking into the matter - Blues, Gods, and Michael Rivero, et al.
- S. Boyle, December 26, 2002
(snip)
Throughout the interview, Barry wore a kilt and no shirt -- his usual attire at home.
(snip)
I've seen my psychiatrist about it all, and I must say that I'm feeling much better now! My dog Alf still likes it 'ruff' though...
not to cave in to the pro-Israel lobby. She hung up on me.