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Thread ID: 17384 | Posts: 7 | Started: 2005-03-18
2005-03-18 11:14 | User Profile
[WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF WE REFUSED A ROOM FOR COLOUREDS???]
White supremacists visit BR Synagogues get increase in security
By PENNY BROWN ROBERTS
Advocate staff writer
A white supremacist group trying to boost support in Louisiana gathered in Baton Rouge this weekend, prompting heightened security at the city's two Jewish synagogues.
The National Alliance, based in West Virginia, hosted a dinner and book-signing Friday evening for David Irving, a British historian who denies the Holocaust.
After getting word of the event through the Anti-Defamation League, the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office and the Baton Rouge Constable's Office put deputies and constables at Beth Shalom Synagogue, 9111 Jefferson Highway, and B'Nai Israel Synagogue, 3354 Kleinert Ave.
There were no incidents.
"Given the politics of the group and the particular fact that there was the author of a Holocaust denial book in town, our office felt that additional security was appropriate," Sheriff's Lt. Col. Greg Phares said Monday. "The Sheriff's Office joined the Constable's Office in providing additional security at both temples for the Friday night services."
The National Alliance initially reserved a room at Drusilla's Seafood for the gathering, but restaurant management turned the group away after learning it was a white supremacist organization, said Rabbi Barry Weinstein of B'Nai Israel Synagogue. About a dozen followers gathered instead at Café Américain.
Louisiana State Police spokesman Lt. Lawrence McLeary said the dinner "wasn't a rally. It was a small group meeting."
He said State Police and local law enforcement also conducted "intelligence gathering" about the National Alliance, although neither the Sheriff's Office nor the Baton Rouge Police Department would confirm any such investigation.
"In the interest of public safety, any time a controversial group comes around we do intelligence gathering," McLeary said. "But there was nothing going on that required any type of enforcement from our end."
FBI Supervisory Senior Resident Agent Lee Huss said the federal agency was not involved because it doesn't "target or monitor a group's activities. Our investigations deal with individuals based on probable cause that they've committed a crime."
The National Alliance is one of the largest and most-active white supremacist organizations in the country. According to its Web site, the alliance's goal is to establish a "racially clean area of the earth for the development of our people ... We will do whatever is necessary to achieve this white living space and to keep it white."
In February, the National Alliance made arrangements for an airplane to fly over the Daytona International Speedway in Florida during the Daytona 500 carrying a banner that read, "Love your race," and advertised the alliance Web site.
Messages left Monday on the organization's media hot line were not returned. Calls to chapters in Houston, Dallas and Mississippi also were not returned.
Irving gained notoriety in 1977 for his book "Hitler's War," in which he claimed the Nazi leader had little knowledge of -- and no part in -- the Jewish genocide. He frequently has been quoted as saying "more women died on the back seat of Edward Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick than ever died in a gas chamber at Auschwitz."
The National Alliance has stepped up recruitment efforts in Louisiana in recent months -- holding meetings and distributing leaflets, said Cathy Glaser, Anti-Defamation League regional director in New Orleans.
Louisiana currently is not listed among the organized chapters on the alliance's Web site, but Mississippi, Texas and Arkansas are.
Glaser said the Anti-Defamation League learned of the Baton Rouge dinner and book-signing through Irving's Web site and that "there was some concern at that point about who would be coming to the event."
"We've seen more and more alliance activity in New Orleans, Walker and all over Louisiana -- a lot of leaflets," said Glaser, who coordinates the Anti-Defamation League in Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas.
"I think there's a real attempt at this point to get organized in the state," Glaser said. "It seems like they've really been trying to promote their cause in Louisiana."
Weinstein said the National Alliance is being monitored very closely in the state for that very reason.
"Baton Rouge is a very fine, solid, wholesome community, and we don't want them here," he said. "I'm just really excited that it amounted to nothing. Hopefully, they'll go away and find someplace else."
Rabbi Stan Zamek of Beth Shalom Synagogue added that he is "saddened that a hate group gets any kind of audience in our city, but we're also encouraged it was so small. I'm sure that the people of Baton Rouge will reject the National Alliance's message."
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2005-03-18 20:56 | User Profile
[QUOTE]White supremacists visit BR[/QUOTE] The legislature's in session again?
2005-03-18 21:28 | User Profile
[QUOTE=confederate_commando] "We've seen more and more alliance activity in New Orleans, Walker and all over Louisiana -- a lot of leaflets," said Glaser, who coordinates the Anti-Defamation League in Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas.
[B]"I think there's a real attempt at this point to get organized in the state," Glaser said. "It seems like they've really been trying to promote their cause in Louisiana."[/B]
Weinstein said the National Alliance is being monitored very closely in the state for that very reason.[/QUOTE]
Wow, how much more blatant disrespect and disregard can Glaser and Weinstein show towards the US Constitution!! How much more before Americans understand that these people care absolutely NOTHING for the rights of ordinary Americans under the Bill of Rights?!
Just because there was an author doing a book signing for 2 dozen people that it becomes a federal offense and SWAT teams are mobilized against the threat of "white supremacists"? Were specific threats made against Jews there? Ah, guess this offence falls under "thought crime".
It's quite obvious where it's all headed just by reading the article.
2005-03-18 21:30 | User Profile
A book signing prompts the state police to investigate. A call from the ADL gets deputies sent to synagogues. And they seek to gather intelligence any time a "controversial" group meets. Now that's what I call a free republic.
2005-03-18 21:37 | User Profile
[QUOTE=confederate_commando]"Given the politics of the group and the particular fact that there was the author of a Holocaust denial book in town, our office felt that additional security was appropriate," Sheriff's Lt. Col. Greg Phares said Monday. "The Sheriff's Office joined the Constable's Office in providing additional security at both temples for the Friday night services."[/QUOTE]
This makes me want to puke. First, Jews know they'll get maximum sympathy and coverage by making it appear that -- oy! -- vee need protection just to attend holy services! When it's all a damn lie. Second, by simply dialing the line, they can get the freakin' sheriff to go along with it. Gee, Greg, would special protection be afforded my white ass walking through a black neighborhood, you know, because of the politics of THAT group?
2005-03-19 02:17 | User Profile
[QUOTE][WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF WE REFUSED A ROOM FOR COLOUREDS???][/QUOTE] The NA and other groups that this happens to (and it seems to happen a lot) should consider legal action against the restaurant and those who induced the breach of contract. It's a textbook case of breach of contract and tortious interference with contract. (Of course, Louisiana is a civil law state, so I'm not sure there is such a tort there. I do know it's the only state where a good-faith purchaser of stolen goods can get good title.)
2005-03-20 00:51 | User Profile
It's my understanding they're starting to do this. The Las Vegas billboard is one example. That NA would have to go to court just to assert the free speech rights everyone else takes for granted is pretty pathetic.