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Saturday, 27 September 2008

Dimant in the rough: As an actual, palpable genocidal threat to the Jewish peope looms courtesy a hairy little Hitler-wannabe and his Apocalyptic cohorts, the head of B'nai Brith Canada frets in the National Post about the possible emergence of a genocidaire from, say, Flin Flon:

Re: Misplaced Concern, letter to the editor, Sept. 26.

B'nai Brith Canada is well aware of the difference between a bigot-in-training who defaces signs in Toronto with messages of hate, and a full-blown tyrant who is feted at the United Nations for promoting genocide. However, your letter-writer seems to miss an important point. It is when hate is at the fringes that there is still time to act. When a purveyor of hate is in a position of power, such as the head of a country with nuclear ambitions, the battle is even harder to win. Certainly, the Iranian President will not be losing any sleep over Ms. Cohen's strong denunciation of him. It is ill-advised for society to simply dismiss the actions of a "teenage wannabe neo-Nazi." A similar description could have been applied, perhaps, to another "teenage wannabe" -- an unknown high school dropout named Adolf Hitler.

Frank Dimant, executive vice-president, B'nai Brith Canada, Toronto.

Newsflash, Frank: the Judenhass you’re so freaked about has moved from the “fringes” right smack to the centre; you can’t get any less finge-y than the floor of the UN General Assembly where a robust Hitlerian speech was delivered to a receptive world audience—the essence of Ms. Rosen Cohen’s argument, since it seems to have escaped you. The Iranian President may not be losing sleep over her strong denunciation of him, but Ms. Rosen Cohen and I and you should sure be losing sleep over this genuine neo-Nazi and his soon-to-be-executed plans.

Let’s deal with one “Hitler wannabe” at a time, ‘kay?

Update: Another reason why Dimant's frantic seach for "Nazis" (Keegstra and Zundel and Ross, oh my) is so ridiculous: these days, those serving the eliminationist agenda are far more likely to be hiding in plain view, taking up popular positions on the left. Here's the Globe and Mail's Christie Blatchford describing the short, strange trip of Ms. Lesley Hughes. Until the other day, Ms. Hughes was the Liberal candidate in a Winnipeg riding, but, upon being outed by some tencious "right-wing" bloggers for her, er, interesting views on history and current events (she's an avowed "troofer" who sees Jewish hands in the 9/11 attacks), she was quickly sent packing by her embarrassed bosses:

…Two years ago, she was a supporter of the United Nations Platform for Action Committee (Manitoba), or UNPAC for short, and did a radio interview with the “Femme Fiscale”, a superheroine created by the group, who “flew into the Manitoba Legislature to ask how Budget 2006 would make life better for the province's women.”

She also has written a one-woman play, Bloomberg's Radio, launched in 2002 at the city's famous Fringe Festival.

It was there that the first glimmer of what was to come may have showed itself, for in an interview, Ms. Hughes told the writer Morley Walker, “Both U.S. and Canada have become quasi-security states” because of laws passed since the Sept. 11 attacks.

“We just haven't found that out yet,” she said. “And the mainstream media in North America are doing little to challenge this.”

Then came the story she wrote called “Get the Truth” and which cost her the candidacy, and which read, in part, “Israeli businesses which had offices in the Towers, vacated the premises a week before the attacks, breaking their lease to do it. About 3,000 Americans working there were not so lucky.”

It was no one-hit wonder, either. According to one of the many 9/11 conspiracy websites, Stop Lying, Ms. Hughes was part of a “push for truth” about 9/11 in Winnipeg in the spring of last year.

At an evening called “Code of Silence” hosted by Barrie Zwicker, who has written a book and produced a documentary on the “media coverup” of 9/11, Ms. Hughes was part of a panel discussion on the same subject.

Funny, but eight years ago, when Stockwell Day was running for the leadership of the old Canadian Alliance, Free Press columnist Gordon Sinclair Jr. wrote about an encounter Ms. Hughes, then a freelancer, had with Mr. Day.

She approached Mr. Day to ask what she called “an awkward question.”

The question was, “Jim Keegstra [the Alberta Holocaust denier convicted of promoting hatred against Jews] claims to be a friend of yours” and “that he would vote for you.”

Mr. Day was upset, and Ms. Hughes said, and I can imagine her smarmy smugness, “The part of the country you come from has struggled with a lot of ugly movements.

“I'm thinking here about the whole neo-Nazi thing and racism of a very virulent kind.”

Well, what goes around comes around, even to a good leftie Canuck.

Oh, well. She could always be appointed to the Ontario Human Rights Commission. Her credentials for the job appear to be in order.

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