Featherly Wrote:I don’t recognize myself

I occasionally like to glance at comments posted (always anonymously) on a diploma mill website forum.  On this forum and others having to do with the subject, links have often been provided to those readers so they can access the Cheyenne Herald (not by me, by someone else).  On another forum, national leaders in ridding the US of unaccredited diploma mills [degree sellers] do use their names.  I used to also review those comments but it’s been a long time since I have – seems like there are too many things to do to spend a lot of time on others’ words.

This forum, though, is different.  It represents all that is ignorant and dangerous about such anonymous posting.  And even though it’s been quite awhile since Warren National University chose to cease operations because it could not gain accreditation, the postings of a drooling, basement-bedroom-dwelling Nazi sympathizer from Illinois continue in defense of a “school” he never “attended” nor purchased a degree from.

A common theme with anonymous posters is that they post repetitively but use a variety of names.  They will post venomous statements, then respond to themselves as though they have like-minded nuts in the ether who agree with them.

There are similar forums in Cheyenne and the same anonymous tripe is often what you would find on those.

On  onlinedegreereviews.org, references to the Cheyenne Herald and me personally come and go.  There has been an ongoing outpouring of sympathy for the demise of Warren National University (and by transference, Kennedy-Western), mostly from the Illinois Nazi lover.

All of the postings supportive of WNU appear to be the rantings of that Nazi sympathizer or maybe a couple others.  They just make things up and post them as though they were truth or facts.  That is the sadness of anonymous posters.  How those creeps defend their anonymity is also amusing.  They write that for their own protection and so they can “speak” the truth, they have to remain anonymous.

No, they choose to remain anonymous because they are cowards.  Some of the anonymous postings on that website forum since the first of this year follow:

“WNU/KWU were both licensed and authorized by the State of Wyoming Board of Regents to issue legal post secondary degrees upon successful completion of a set course of studies.”

“Finally, the State of Wyoming, bowing to political pressure, forbade all unaccredited schools from operating in their state.”  (Jesus of Suburbia 4/10/10)

About the Cheyenne Herald:  “This paper is a joke.  Nobody in Cheyenne reads it. This is NOT Cheyenne’s ‘hometown paper.’  It is just some piece of trash written by some bigot with a king size chip on his shoulder.  The entire operation is the works of one man.  And if you read any of that trash you will quickly note that the malcontent has some kind of mental illness.  Note that in no place in this paper does he allow opposite opinions.  In fact, the only time he quotes anyone who disagree with him, he will use colorful terms like ‘Basement Dweller.’ ...” .  Colorful terms?  I mean them to be insulting.  Not colorful.  Funny, my high school English teacher said I had a chip on my shoulder.  But, I’m not a bigot.  And I’m told my mental illness is doing well with the meds.

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Why did the Jewish Congress build up the Nazi Party?

In my book, Shakedown, I briefly mention the bizarre history of Canadian "human rights" organizations propping up anti-Semitic groups -- including that the Canadian Jewish Congress helped build up the "Canadian Nazi Party" in the 1960s.
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In 1965 and 1966, the Canadian Jewish Congress helped organize the fledgling Canadian Nazi Party. That sounds crazy, but it's true, and I wrote about it in Shakedown, my new book about Canada's human rights commissions.

In a letter to the editor in the Citizen last week, the CJC's current co-president, Rabbi Reuven Bulka, called my book's description of the CJC's role "fiction." He said all the CJC did for the Nazis was buy them a bottle of rum.

It's true that the CJC did buy drinks for Nazis in the 1960s. That's pretty strange in itself, and I'd like to hear more of Rabbi Bulka's thoughts on spending Jewish charitable donations that way. But the CJC did a lot more than that: they hired an ex-cop named John Garrity to go to work for the Canadian Nazi Party.

Garrity helped organize that rag-tag band of losers, though they never amounted to anything except for fodder for the press.

There were only a dozen active Nazis when Garrity joined them and they weren't really a political party. He called them "harmless misfits," and they were -- their leader, John Beattie, was a nervous, gaunt, unemployed 24-year-old clerk who spent much of his time dodging angry Jews who tried to beat him up. (One of Garrity's jobs was to help Beattie escape street fights.)

Garrity brought more than just rum to the Nazis. He brought with him pretty much the only organizational talent the group had. They put him in charge of membership. Garrity called himself the "Heinrich Himmler" of the party, and a "Nazi leader for the Jewish Congress."

I'd like Rabbi Bulka's thoughts on that, too.

Of course, Garrity helped his paymasters at the CJC, too, giving them information about the names of party members and donors. And when Garrity finally quit the Nazis, he wrote a tell-all about his adventure in Maclean's magazine.

Garrity larded that report with personal insults toward Beattie and the Nazis. But he did acknowledge that they had never done, or even contemplated doing, anything illegal. All of the violence he witnessed was directed at Beattie, usually by Jewish vigilantes. "Sadly, it is the ... anti-Nazi extremists who, in their attempts to destroy Beattie, provide him with most of the publicity he craves. If it weren't for the riots and the assaults and the public protest meetings they hold, there'd be no real news in Beattie," Garrity wrote.

And that is the importance of this story and why I put it in my book about human rights commissions. Beattie hadn't done anything illegal. He was just a loser who believed in a discredited ideology. But the CJC wanted to bring in political censorship laws and I believe they needed to build up the threat to persuade Parliament to abridge Canada's freedom of speech.

Garrity puffed up a group of Nazi nobodies into a national menace, first through organizational support and then through spectacular media publicity. And, sure enough, Parliament enacted section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, which censors offensive speech.

That's become a pattern. Twenty years after the Canadian Nazi Party vanished, CSIS, Canada's spy agency, inserted an operative named Grant Bristow into another rag-tag racist group called the Heritage Front.

Unlike Garrity, Bristow didn't play second-fiddle.

He became the boss, turning the Heritage Front into Canada's leading white supremacist group. This time it wasn't just Jewish money that was spent propping up neo-Nazis -- all taxpayers paid for it.

Which brings us to the present day -- and back to Rabbi Bulka and the section 13 censorship law. Canada's largest customer of section 13 is Richard Warman, who has been the complainant in all but two cases heard by the tribunal this decade. The CJC was so impressed that they gave Warman an award.

But, in a stunning human rights tribunal ruling last month, Warman himself was rebuked for posting anti-Semitic comments on Stormfront, a neo-Nazi website, including a message calling Jews "scum." Warman has stated that he was attempting to gather information on real Nazis, but the tribunal called his actions "disappointing and disturbing," and ruled that he risked encouraging more hateful messages himself.

Warman's actions appalled the tribunal, but apparently not the CJC. Just as the CJC did with Garrity, Nazi opponents continue to stir up neo-Nazi incidents -- as if there aren't enough real threats to Jews as it is.

Perhaps Rabbi Bulka can explain that one, too.

I'm pleased that the Citizen gave me so much room to reply. In doing my research I found out a lot more about the CJC's role in building up the Nazi Party -- one of the craziest stories I've ever come across. I think it's fascinating from so many angles: politically; religiously; legally; historically. It really is stranger than fiction. I think there's enough material there to form an entire book in itself -- especially when added to the CJC's discreditable conduct in the Grant Bristow affair, and their ongoing, unseemly relationship with Stormfront member Richard Warman. Incredibly, the CJC still stands by Warman even after the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal condemned him for his anti-Semitic propaganda. You'd think that would be something the Jewish Congress might care about.

My only quibble with the Citizen is with the headline they put over the op-ed: "Neo-Nazis are best simply ignored". I don't believe that and that's not the message of my op-ed. It's a false dichotomy to set up the only two alternatives as "ignoring" Nazis, or doing what the CJC does (building them up, then getting the government to prosecute them). I think there are plenty of other options, such as rebutting and debating neo-Nazis, campaigning against them, teaching against them, politicking against them, etc. That takes more work than the lazy CJC would do -- they're too busy campaigning against global warming.