Could you ask for a better name?:
The Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Public_Enlightenment_and_Propaganda
glenster
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Funny How These Hitler Quotes Align Closely With How The WTS Operates
by LostGeneration inon another thread i was trying to recall a quote from hitler that was as follows:.
make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.
check out the rest of these and see how they apply to how the wts operates:.
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'occasional eccentricity and abnormal attitudes' of Jehovah's Witnesses in regard to the Anti-Islam Videographers First Amendment Right to Insult Religion cited
by Sol Reform inmarci a. hamilton gives poor grades to both the obama administration's and romney in failing to articulate long-settled first amendment principles of the usa.. .
september 20, 2012 marci a. hamilton.
why the united states must either get behind the anti-islam videographer's first amendment right to insult religion (and politics and politicians and every other power, large or small), or lose what matters most.
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^ Nakoula was subsequently jailed, and as of September 28, 2012, he faces up to
three years in prison for lying to federal probation officials regarding his role
in the making of the video.Following the violent reactions to the video, Nakoula and his family went into
hiding, and the Cerritos home is listed for sale.[2] His attorney has said he has
received threats to his safety.[10] On September 15, 2012, federal authorities
Nakoula in for an interview about possible probation violations related to the
film's distribution on the Internet.[35][36][37] On September 27, 2012, U.S.
federal authorities arrested Nakoula in Los Angeles charging eight counts of
probation violation.[38][10] Prosecutors stated that some of the violations in-
cluded making false statements regarding his role in the film and his use of the
alias "Sam Bacile".[39] None of the charges relate to his use of the Internet.
[10] Following a hearing before a judge, Nakoula was ordered to jail without bail
on September 27, 2012, with the judge citing probation violations including lying
to probation officials, "danger to the community", and "lack of trust in the de-
fendant".[40] He faces up to three years in prison.
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Do You Think"Any" Jehovah`s Witness Understands The Concept Of Cognitive Dissonance ? Are They Capable Of Comprehending The Meaning ?
by smiddy ini would appreciate your thoughts on the matter , with examples demonstrating their ignorance of the concept.. smiddy.
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"Do You Think 'Any' Jehovah`s Witness Understands The Concept Of Cognitive
Dissonance? Are They Capable Of Comprehending The Meaning?"Yes. Most things the JWs leaders cook up in their bid to be exclusive (spokes-
people of a literal 144,000) is obscure to most people, which I assume is
deliberate, and followers are, unsurprisingly, told to avoid critical (apostate)
material.It's like asking if Popoff's followers could understand that a radio receiver
could be in someone's ear. I consider them victims of liars, not idiots regard-
ing information presented to them. There is a dismaying lack of curiosity to re-
search distinctive policies at the library or Internet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Popoff#Exposed_as_a_fraud_by_James_RandiBotting, Heather; Gary Botting (1984). The Orwellian World of Jehovah's Wit-
nesses. University of Toronto Press. p. 90. ISBN 0-8020-6545-7. "Most Witnesses,
although capable of intelligent, reasonable thought, have as part of the payment
for paradise delegated authority to the organization for directing their lives...
and finally abrogate all responsibility and rights over their personal lives—in
effect, allowing the society to do their thinking for them."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah's_Witnesses#cite_note-303The JWs leaders now allow a distant time for the creation of the Earth although
they teach intelligent design as proof of God. Again, the information revealing
the JWs leaders' mischaracterization of research material is (by intelligent de-
sign--booya) obscure to most people.I don't think the JWs leaders set a date for a literal Adam and Eve. I suppose
they still teach a literal great flood, but even realizing what's wrong with that
involves some research a lot of JWs just don't do.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschatology_of_Jehovah's_Witnesses#The_.22generation_of_1914.22_.281976.E2.80.93present.29
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"Quackery" banned !!! Gay conversion therapy now illegal...
by irondork inhallelujah!
http://news.yahoo.com/calif-first-ban-gay-teen-conversion-therapy-081605486.html.
sacramento, calif. (ap) gov.
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'occasional eccentricity and abnormal attitudes' of Jehovah's Witnesses in regard to the Anti-Islam Videographers First Amendment Right to Insult Religion cited
by Sol Reform inmarci a. hamilton gives poor grades to both the obama administration's and romney in failing to articulate long-settled first amendment principles of the usa.. .
september 20, 2012 marci a. hamilton.
why the united states must either get behind the anti-islam videographer's first amendment right to insult religion (and politics and politicians and every other power, large or small), or lose what matters most.
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"Also, what does 'occasinal eccentricity and abnormal attitudes" of Jehovah's
Witness have to do with this thread?""...in regard to the Anti-Islam Videographer’s First Amendment Right to Insult
Religion cited":Rutherford's JWs literature and sound trucks had very insulting politicized
religious propaganda about other religions and the US and other governments. He
was 'centric and intolerant but court cases about it favored his followers' free-
dom to be so.Likewise the "Innocence of Muslims" and Muslim homophobia and antisemitism and
anti-Western propaganda.All as abnormal and misguidedly insulting but set free as the thing sewn up in
Frankenstein's monster's head.I'm not sure what the "occasional eccentricity" is.
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'occasional eccentricity and abnormal attitudes' of Jehovah's Witnesses in regard to the Anti-Islam Videographers First Amendment Right to Insult Religion cited
by Sol Reform inmarci a. hamilton gives poor grades to both the obama administration's and romney in failing to articulate long-settled first amendment principles of the usa.. .
september 20, 2012 marci a. hamilton.
why the united states must either get behind the anti-islam videographer's first amendment right to insult religion (and politics and politicians and every other power, large or small), or lose what matters most.
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Antisemitism
Mein Kampf was significant in 1925 because it was an open source for the
presentation of Hitler's ideas about the state of the world. The book is
significant in our time because a retrospective review of the text reveals the
crystallisation of Hitler's decision to completely exterminate the Jewish
presence in Europe. While historians diverge on the exact date Hitler decided to
exterminate the Jewish people, few place the decision before the mid 1930s.
First published in 1925, Mein Kampf shows the ideas that crafted Hitler's
historical grievances and ambitions for creating a New Order.
The racial laws to which Hitler referred resonate directly with his ideas in
Mein Kampf. In his first edition of Mein Kampf, Hitler stated that the destruc-
tion of the weak and sick is far more humane than their protection. However,
apart from his allusion to humane treatment, Hitler saw a purpose in destroying
"the weak" in order to provide the proper space and purity for the strong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf#AntisemitismThe idea of the Northern origins of the Aryans was particularly influential in
Germany. It was widely believed that the "Vedic Aryans" were ethnically identical
to the Goths, Vandals and other ancient Germanic peoples of the Völkerwanderung.
This idea was often intertwined with antisemitic ideas. The distinctions between
the "Aryan" and "Semitic" peoples were based on the aforementioned linguistic and
ethnic history.
Semitic peoples came to be seen as a foreign presence within Aryan societies, and
the Semitic peoples were often pointed to as the cause of conversion and destruc-
tion of social order and values leading to culture and civilization's downfall by
proto-Nazi and Nazi theorists such as Houston Stewart Chamberlain and Alfred
Rosenberg.
According to the adherents to Ariosophy, the Aryan was a "master race" that
built a civilization that dominated the world from Atlantis about 10,000 years
ago. This alleged civilization declined when other parts of the world were colon-
ized after the 8000 BC destruction of Atlantis because the inferior races mixed
with the Aryans but it left traces of their civilization in Tibet (via Buddhism),
and even in Central America, South America, and Ancient Egypt. (The date of 8000
BC for the destruction of Atlantis in Ariosophy is 2,000 years later than the
date of 10,000 BC given for this event in Theosophy.) These theories affected
the more esotericist strand of Nazism.
A complete, highly speculative theory of Aryan and anti-Semitic history can be
found in Alfred Rosenberg's major work, The Myth of the Twentieth Century. Rosen-
berg's well-researched account of ancient history, melded with his racial specu-
lations, proved to be very effective in spreading racialism among German intel-
lectuals in the early twentieth century, especially after the First World War.
These and other ideas evolved into the Nazi use of the term "Aryan race" to re-
fer to what they saw as being a master race, which was narrowly defined by the
Nazis as being identical with the Nordic race, followed by other sub-races of the
Aryan race. They worked to maintain the purity of this race through eugenics
programs (including anti-miscegenation legislation, compulsory sterilization of
the mentally ill and the mentally deficient, the execution of the institutional-
ized mentally ill as part of a euthanasia program).
Heinrich Himmler (the Reichsführer of the SS), the person ordered by Adolf
Hitler to implement the Final Solution, or The Holocaust,[43] told his personal
masseur Felix Kersten that he always carried with him a copy of the ancient Aryan
scripture, the Bhagavad Gita because it relieved him of guilt about what he was
doing – he felt that like the warrior Arjuna, he was simply doing his duty with-
out attachment to his actions.[44]
Himmler was also interested in Buddhism and his institute Ahnenerbe sought to
mix some traditions from Hinduism and Buddhism[45] – Gautama Buddha's original
name for the religion we now call Buddhism was The Aryan Path.[46] Himmler sent
a 1939 German expedition to Tibet as part of his research into Aryan origins.
In 1936 biologists Julian Huxley and Alfred Court Haddon famously ridiculed the
Nazi idea of the superior Aryan race, writing:"Thus our German neighbors have ascribed to themselves a Teutonic type that is
fair, long-headed, tall, slender, unemotional, brave straightforward, gentle, and
virile. Let us make a composite picture of a typical Teuton from the most prom-
inent of the exponents of this view. Let him be physically as blond and mentally
as unemotional as Hitler, physically as long-headed and mentally as direct as
Rosenberg, as tall and truthful as Goebbels, as slender and gentle as Goering,
and as manly and straightforward as Streicher."
—"We Europeanse" p. 171
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_race#Nazism_and_Neo-NazismNazism developed several theories concerning races. The Nazis claimed to
scientifically measure a strict hierarchy of human race; the "master race" was
said to be the most pure stock of the Aryan race, which was narrowly defined by
the Nazis as being identical with the Nordic race, followed by other sub-races of
the Aryan race.
At the bottom of this hierarchy were "parasitic" races (of non-"Aryan" origin)
or "Untermenschen" ("sub-humans"), which were perceived to be dangerous to socie-
ty. In Nazi literature, the term 'Untermensch' was applied to the Slavs (even
though the Slavs had been normally regarded by non-Nazis as one of the sub-races
of the Aryan race), especially including Russians, Serbs and ethnic Poles. Nazi
ideology viewed Slavs as a racially inferior group, who were fit for enslavement,
or even extermination.[2] About 2 million non-Jewish Poles were killed by Nazi
Germany.[3][4] Lowest of all in the Nazi racial policy were Gypsies and Jews,
who were both eventually deemed to be "Lebensunwertes Leben" ("Life unworthy of
life") and to be exterminated during the Holocaust (see Raul Hilberg's descrip-
tion of the various phases of the Holocaust). Not to be forgotten, Hitler did
have people of Jewish descent working for him. Coined as mischling (or 'Part-
Jews'), they were often employed in the Wehrmacht, although they were not allowed
to be soldiers after 1940. One mischling, Werner Goldberg, was even called "The
Ideal German Soldier" by German newspapers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism_and_raceIdeology and scale
In other genocides, pragmatic considerations such as control of territory and
resources were central to the genocide policy. Yehuda Bauer argues that:
The basic motivation [of the Holocaust] was purely ideological, rooted in an
illusionary world of Nazi imagination, where an international Jewish conspiracy
to control the world was opposed to a parallel Aryan quest. No genocide to date
had been based so completely on myths, on hallucinations, on abstract, nonprag-
matic ideology – which was then executed by very rational, pragmatic means.
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UFO's what do the JW believe
by zeb ini ask that because i saw a flight of ufo's saturday morning.
at apx 1100h.. im not going to go into lengthy descriptions at all i know what i saw.
but what does the gb say about ufo's.. i ask as they think they are the most important thing in the universe thats all..
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'occasional eccentricity and abnormal attitudes' of Jehovah's Witnesses in regard to the Anti-Islam Videographers First Amendment Right to Insult Religion cited
by Sol Reform inmarci a. hamilton gives poor grades to both the obama administration's and romney in failing to articulate long-settled first amendment principles of the usa.. .
september 20, 2012 marci a. hamilton.
why the united states must either get behind the anti-islam videographer's first amendment right to insult religion (and politics and politicians and every other power, large or small), or lose what matters most.
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We shouldn't be prejudiced in our opinions, even of things we criticize, and we
shouldn't gratuitously provoke harm. But once people insist their religion is
proven, should be law of the land, and require non-believers of their religion
anywhere in the world to be punished for someone's definition of blasphemy/
apostasy of that religion, don't expect continuity of logic.The Obama administration asked YouTube to review whether to continue hosting
the video at all under the company's policies. YouTube said the video fell within
its guidelines as the video is against Islam, but not against Muslim people, and
thus not considered "hate speech".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innocence_of_Muslims#Blocking_of_the_YouTube_videoYet in some of the Muslim countries where the outcry against the video has been
loudest, the notorious anti-Semitic libel known as "The Protocols of the Elders
of Zion" is freely sold and published.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/readersrespond/bs-ed-muslims-free-speech-20121001,0,4593239.story
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_of_ZionMein Kampf
In Mein Kampf, Hitler used the main thesis of "the Jewish peril", which speaks
of an alleged Jewish conspiracy to gain world leadership.[6] The narrative
describes the process by which he became increasingly anti-semitic and militar-
istic, especially during his years in Vienna. Yet, the deeper origins of his
anti-semitism remain a mystery. He speaks of not having met a Jew until he ar-
rived in Vienna, and that at first his attitude was liberal and tolerant. When he
first encountered the anti-semitic press, he says, he dismissed it as unworthy of
serious consideration. Later he accepted the same anti-semitic views, which be-
came crucial in his program of national reconstruction.
Mein Kampf has also been studied as a work on political theory. For example,
Hitler announces his hatred of what he believed to be the world's twin evils:
Communism and Judaism. The new territory that Germany needed to obtain would
properly nurture the "historic destiny" of the German people; this goal, which
Hitler referred to as Lebensraum (living space), explains why Hitler aggressively
expanded Germany eastward, specifically the invasions of Czechoslovakia and Po-
land, before he launched his attack against Russia. In Mein Kampf Hitler openly
states that the future of Germany "has to lie in the acquisition of land in the
East at the expense of Russia."
In his work, Hitler blamed Germany’s chief woes on the parliament of the Weimar
Republic, the Jews, and Social Democrats, as well as Marxists. He announced that
he wanted to completely destroy the parliamentary system, believing it in princi-
ple to be corrupt, as those who reach power are inherent opportunists.(One ME country is listed as restricting the sale or having special circum-
stances in regard to it, and it isn't for restricting sales):Turkey: It was widely available and growing in popularity, even to the point
where it became a bestseller, selling up to 100,000 copies in just two months in
2005. Analysts and commentators believe the popularity of the book to be related
to a rise in nationalism, anti-US and antisemitic sentiment "because of what is
happening in the Middle East, the Israeli-Palestinian problem and the war in
Iraq".[24] Dogu Ergil, a political scientist at Ankara University, said both
left-wingers, the far-right and Islamists, had found common ground—"not on a com-
mon agenda for the future, but on their anxieties, fears and hate".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf#Current_availabilityMein Kampf in the Arabic language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf_in_the_Arabic_languageThe Quran
The Quran contains seven references to "the people of Lut", the biblical Lot,
but meaning the residents of Sodom and Gomorrah (references 7:80–84, 11:77–83,
21:74, 22:43, 26:165–175, 27:56–59, and 29:27–33), and their destruction by Allah
is associated explicitly with their sexual practices:“And (We sent) Lot when he said to his people: What! do you commit an indecency
which any one in the world has not done before you? Most surely you come to males
in lust besides females; nay you are an extravagant people. And the answer of his
people was no other than that they said: Turn them out of your town, surely they
are a people who seek to purify (themselves). So We delivered him and his fol-
lowers, except his wife; she was of those who remained behind. And We rained upon
them a rain; consider then what was the end of the guilty.”[7:80–84 (Translated
by Shakir)]The sins of the people of Lot became proverbial, and the Arabic words for homo-
sexual behaviour (liwat) and for a person who performs such acts (luti) both
derive from his name.[7] There is, however, only one passage in the Qur'an which
can be interpreted as prescribing a legal position towards homosexual behaviour:“And as for those who are guilty of an indecency from among your women, call to
witnesses against them four (witnesses) from among you; then if they bear witness
confine them to the houses until death takes them away or Allah opens some way
for them. And as for the two who are guilty of indecency from among you, give
them both a punishment; then if they repent and amend, turn aside from them;
surely Allah is oft-returning (to mercy), the Merciful.”The Hadith and Seerah
The hadith (sayings and actions of Muhammad) show that homosexuality was not
unknown in Arabia.[9] Given that the Qur'an is vague regarding the punishment of
homosexual sodomy, Islamic jurists turned to the collections of the hadith and
seerah (accounts of Muhammad's life) to support their argument for Hudud punish-
ment; these are perfectly clear but particularly harsh.Ibn al-Jawzi[disambiguation needed] records Muhammad as cursing sodomites in
several hadith, and recommending the death penalty for both the active and pas-
sive partners in same-sex acts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_in_IslamIslam and antisemitism
The words "humility" and "humiliation" occur frequently in the Quran and later
Muslim literature in relation to Jews. According to Lewis, "This, in Islamic
view, is their just punishment for their past rebelliousness, and is manifested
in their present impotence between the mighty powers of Christendom and Islam."The Quran associates Jews above all with rejection of God's prophets including
Jesus and Muhammad, thus explaining their resistance to him personally. (Cf.
Surah 2:87–91; 5:59, 61, 70, and 82.) It states that they are, together with out-
right idolators, the worst and most inveterate enemies of Islam, and thus will
not only suffer eternally in Hell but in this world will be the most degraded of
the Peoples of the Book, below even Christians, everywhere. (Cf. Surah 5:82; 3:
54–56.)They listen for the sake of mendacity (Surah 5:41), twisting the truth, and
practice forbidden usury, and therefore they will receive "a painful doom" (Surah
4:161).Mein Kampf has been published and, according to the Middle East Media Research
Institute (MEMRI), was 6th on the Palestinian best-seller list in 1999.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_antisemitismAntisemitism (defined as being anti-Jews) in the Arab world
Egypt
The Egyptian government-run newspaper, Al-Akhbar, on April 29, 2002 published
an editorial denying the Holocaust as a fraud. The next paragraph decries the
failure of the Holocaust to eliminate all of the Jews:With regard to the fraud of the Holocaust… Many French studies have proven that
this is no more than a fabrication, a lie, and a fraud!! That is, it is a
'scenario' the plot of which was carefully tailored, using several faked photos
completely unconnected to the truth. Yes, it is a film, no more and no less.
Hitler himself, whom they accuse of Nazism, is in my eyes no more than a modest
'pupil' in the world of murder and bloodshed. He is completely innocent of the
charge of frying them in the hell of his false Holocaust!! The entire matter, as
many French and British scientists and researchers have proven, is nothing more
than a huge Israeli plot aimed at extorting the German government in particular
and the European countries in general. But I, personally and in light of this
imaginary tale, complain to Hitler, even saying to him from the bottom of my
heart, 'If only you had done it, brother, if only it had really happened, so that
the world could sigh in relief [without] their evil and sin.'Cartoons appearing in the daily Al-Wafd in 2003 depict Jews as Satanic figures
with hooked noses and equates them with Nazis.In an article in October 2000 columnist Adel Hammoda alleged in the state-owned
Egyptian newspaper al-Ahram that Jews made Matza from the blood of (non-Jewish)
children.[26] Mohammed Salmawy, editor of Al-Ahram Hebdo, "defended the use of
old European myths like the blood libel" in his newspapers.Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabian media often attacks Jews in books, news articles, at their
Mosques and with what some describe as antisemitic satire. Saudi Arabian govern-
ment officials and state religious leaders often promote the idea that Jews are
conspiring to take over the entire world; as proof of their claims they publish
and frequently cite The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as factual.One Saudi Arabian government newspaper suggested that hatred of all Jews is
justifiable. "Why are they (the Jews) hated by all the people which hosted them,
such as Iraq and Egypt thousands years ago, and Germany, Spain, France and the
UK, up to the days they gained of power over the capital and the press, in order
to rewrite the history?"[37]Saudi textbooks vilify Jews (and Christians and non-Wahabi Muslims): according
to The Washington Post, Saudi textbooks claimed by them to have been sanitized of
anti-Semitism still call Jews apes (and Christians swine); demand that students
avoid and not befriend Jews; claim that Jews worship the devil; and encourage
Muslims to engage in Jihad to vanquish Jews.Syria
On March 2, 1974, the bodies of four Syrian Jewish girls were discovered by
border police in a cave in the Zabdani Mountains northwest of Damascus. Fara
Zeibak 24, her sisters Lulu Zeibak 23, Mazal Zeibak 22 and their cousin Eva Saad
18, had contracted with a band of smugglers to flee Syrian to Lebanon and even-
tually to Israel. The girl’s bodies were found raped, murdered and mutilated. The
police also found the remains of two Jewish boys, Natan Shaya 18 and Kassem Abadi
20, victims of an earlier massacre.[39] Syrian authorities deposited the bodies
of all six in sacks before the homes of their parents in the Jewish ghetto in
Damascus.In 1984 Syrian Defense Minister Mustafa Tlass published a book called The
Matzah of Zion, which claimed that Jews had killed Christian children in Damascus
to make Matzas (see Damascus affair). His book inspired the Egyptian TV series
Horseman Without a Horse (see below) and a spinoff, The Diaspora, which led to
Hezbollah's al-Manar being banned in Europe for broadcasting it.Arab newspapers
Many Arab newspapers, such as Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah, the Palestinian Authority's
official newspaper, often write that "the Jews" control all the world's govern-
ments, and that "the Jews" plan genocide on all the Arabs in the West Bank. Oth-
ers write less sensational stories, and state that Jews have too much of an in-
fluence in the United States government. Often the leaders of other nations are
said to be controlled by Jews. Articles in many official Arab government news-
papers claim that The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, reflects facts, and thus
points to an international Jewish conspiracy to take over the world.
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"Rutherford's love letter to Hitler" remix
by glenster inhttp://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/scandals/115448/9/golden-age-goodies.
http://modernhistoryproject.org/mhp?article=mcfadden1932&e=fedresboard.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/16502353/congressional-record-june-10-1932-louis-t-mcfadden.
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^ You're welcome. And again, thanks to leolaia for her detective work about it
over the last few years.It was past my bedtime when I posted that--I've improved some clumsy phrasing
since then. I plan to add the article to p.6 of my "GTJ Brooklyn" sites.
http://glenster1.webs.com/gtjbrooklyn6.htm
http://gtw6437.tripod.com/id20.htmlCorrection
(p.6: "Can the American Government Endure?,"....
should be
(pp.5-28: "Can the American Government Endure?,"....from such turn away
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2dK9rumZCI
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"Rutherford's love letter to Hitler" remix
by glenster inhttp://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/scandals/115448/9/golden-age-goodies.
http://modernhistoryproject.org/mhp?article=mcfadden1932&e=fedresboard.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/16502353/congressional-record-june-10-1932-louis-t-mcfadden.
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glenster
I edited and supplemented the information supplied by leolaia
about Rutherford's antisemitism.Why does Penton add the phrase "before the end of the year"
to p.18 of "The Crisis"? Did Rutherford make a prediction in
his speech that was edited out of the book version?
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/scandals/115448/9/Golden-Age-GoodiesHere's what I have so far:
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Antisemitism--the Rutherford-McFadden connection
This clarifies what kind of antisemitism Rutherford taught.
Thanks to leolaia at jehovahswitness.net for pointing it out
and supplying some of the research material.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/scandals/237993/1/Rutherfords-love-letter-to-HitlerLouis Thomas McFadden (1876-1936) was a Republican U.S. Representative from
Pennsylvania in Congress from 1915 to 1935.
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000434On June 10, 1932, McFadden made a 25-minute speech--a Federal Reserve conspir-
acy theory rant--before the House of Representatives.
http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/flaherty/flaherty10.html
http://modernhistoryproject.org/mhp?Article=McFadden1932&E=FedResBoard
http://www.scribd.com/doc/16502353/Congressional-Record-June-10-1932-Louis-T-McFadden"The Crisis," released in early 1933, was a booklet containing three radio
talks that Rutherford had given in the United States. ("Watchtower," Nov.1, 1991,
pp.26-27)"The campaign with the Crisis booklet led to a ban in Bavaria on April 13.
This was followed by bans in Saxony on April 18, in Thüringen on April 26, and in
Baden on May 15. Other German states followed." (Watchtower "1974 Yearbook," p.
109)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Crisis-Booklet-1933-Watchtower-Jehvoah-NICE-/390421183706Joseph Rutherford propagandized against mainstream clergy and Jews as notable
figures behind the corrupt "Big Business" of the world. In his 1933 booklet "The
Crisis," he described "Big Business" using the word "octopus" in the way common-
ly used at the time as an anti-semitic canard--that Jews were trying to control
the world like an octopus covering the Earth.
http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv329/Leolaia/mcfad2.jpg
http://wtarchive.svhelden.info/english/books-and-tracts/
dciscorp.com/qwotes/reexamine/1933%20The%20Crisis.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitic_canard#Accusations_of_plotting_to_control_the_world(Since there were a number of African Americans among the jws, I also wonder if
Rutherford partly meant to direct any of their resentment for social inequities
away from European Americans such as himself and most jws and toward the Jews.)(p.6: "Can the American Government Endure?," is a printed version of a lecture
Rutherford gave to veterans in Washington, DC, and over the radio, on June 26,
1932, and which was preceded the day before by 300 jws giving jws brochures and
books to members of the Bonus Army.)
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/scandals/115448/9/Golden-Age-Goodies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_ArmySegments of "The Crisis":
p.5
"For more than a hundred years America has stood in the very foremost rank
of the governments of the earth. In natural resources America is today the
richest country under the sun. The United States and Britain constitute the
two pillars of the great seventh world power, which power is described in di-
vine prophecy as the double or twofold government. Both nations claim to be
Christian, and they form the chief part of the realm called 'Christendom',
but, in fact, Satan is their invisible ruler and god."The founders of the American nation desired greater freedom than they pos-
sessed. That they might be free and independent of cruel and oppressive
rulers they fled from Europe and established the American republic, to which
nation men have long pointed with pride. When the nation was young many of
her statesmen were patriots, because they loved their fellow man and honest-
ly and valiantly contended for a just government. Today there is no true
patriotism among the rulers of the nation. It is now impossible for the
people to elect men to public office and to expect them to enact just laws
and to administer the affairs of the government for the general welfare.p.6
"The three visible elements of men that rule the nation are, to wit, the
the commercial, the political, and the religious, and of those three the
commercial is the most powerful. Among the earlier statesmen of America
there were some God-fearing men who foresaw the advance of a mighty and
selfish power and gave warning that the greedy would some day destroy the
liberties of the people. That warning was unheeded, and the selfish commer-
cial element, which is otherwise called 'Big Business', has stealthily and
constantly moved forward to its goal. With grasping arms like the tentacles
of a mighty octopus it has laid hold upon practically all of the visible
wealth of the Nation. At the same time the men who by laborious efforts
have developed the country and produced the wealth of the land have been un-
justly treated and robbed, and today they are crying for bread, and that in
a land of boundless plenty. Many Americans in sorrowful tones are now ask-
ing the question: Can the nation of America long endure while such unjust
conditions exist?"Big Business has no regard for the rights of the common people. The
Civil War of 1863 was fomented and carried forward for the purpose of creat-
ing a condition by which Big Business could obtain a strangle hold upon the
nation. To free the land from the traffic of human flesh and blood was the
ostensible reason for that war, but the real reason was to enable a selfish
company to control the finances and all the business interests of the nation.
In 1917 Big Business, for ultraselfish reasons, needless-p.7
ly and wantonly forced the American nation into the World War, which resulted
in the greatly increased wealth and power of a few men and made serfs and
paupers of many millions of people."Today Big Business owns practically everything visible. By the manipula-
tion of the finances of the nation Big Business has acquired title to almost
all of the real estate, while hundreds of thousands of honest toilers are
losing their homes and their land. A few ultrarich men fix the prices of
the food produced by the farmers, and which food products are reaped down by
laborers; and by reason thereof the farmers are robbed and the laborers are
caused to starve, and that within the borders of the richest nation of the
world."Big Business owns the ships that ply the seas, and that fly through the
air. It owns and controls the railways and other ways and means of trans-
portation. Big Business has acquired the preferred securities of the public
carrier corporations, while some of the common people hold the less desir-
able stocks and securities. When the railways were recently pressed for
money to pay the interest on their preferred securities Big business caused
the American government to advance a hundred million dollars to the banks
upon the pretext of helping the banks to thaw out their frozen assets and
to stimulate business immediately, but instead of so using that money Big
Business immediately absorbed the entire hundred million and ap-p.8
plied it to the payment of interest on the preferred securities which it
held."Big Business, which is composed of a very few men, owns and controls
the telegraph lines, the radio, the electric and power lines, and it owns
and controls the mines that produce the fuel and the building material
which all the people are compelled to use. It owns and controls the banks
and most of the money in them. It is in possession of the greater portion
of the gold that rightfully belongs to the government. The factories and
the great mercantile establishments are owned and controlled by the same
selfish interest."Big Business has in its employ the most astute lawyers of the nation,
who write the contracts always in the interest of their clients, and the
common people must take the ragged end. Every branch of government is con-
taminated and improperly influenced by Big Business. It controls the two
major political parties of America and names and elects at will the public
men to office who will best serve its selfish interests. Big Business con-
trols the army and the navy, the guns and the ammunition, and the police
power of the nation."Practically all of the business corporations of America are owned or
controlled by Big Business. Thre employees of these mighty corporations
have a hook in their nose, so to speak, and they dare not call themselves
their own. They must obey the selfish men who are the mighty lords of fi-
nance or else lose their jobs. They need their salaries to feed and clothe
themselvesp.9
and their families; hence they are at the mercy of Big Business and are
therefore serfs."Big Business either directly or indirectly owns or controls almost all of
the newspapers and magazines of America, and which agencies serve as propa-
gandists for Big Business and for their immediate political and religious
allies. The same selfish interests own and control the professional clergy-
men, and these men make merchandise of the World of God in order to keep the
people in ignorance and in subjection to the ruling powers. Thus it is
plainly seen that the power of the government is centralized in the hands
of a very few.p.18
"I venture the opinion that"
(before the end of the year)
"the American government will be ruled by a dictator, aided by a company of
advisors that are selected and directed by the chiefs of Big Business.
Such will be a military rule and one which the people will be compelled to
submit to.p.21
"Hence Satan and his entire organization must fall, and that includes the
American government.p.28
"The American government has been weighed in the balance and found wanting.
Together with all other nations, it soon shall fall.(Compare to McFadden's testimony during the hearings for H.R. 7986 in March
1934, which uses a lot of the same ideas nearly word for word, given below.
Thanks to leolaia at jehovahswitness.net)Rutherford's "Declaration of Facts," released at a convention in Berlin on June
25, 1933, made clear he led a group that distanced itself from Jewish money,
which he described in terms of contempt. Rutherford made clear he held the Jews
as the main backers of deplorable "Big Business" (economic antisemitism)."It is falsely charged by our enemies that we have received financial sup-
port for our work from the Jews. Nothing is farther from the truth. Up to
this hour there never has been the slightest bit of money contributed to our
work by Jews. We are the faithful followers of Christ Jesus and believe
upon Him as the Savior of the world, whereas the Jews entirely reject Jesus
Christ and emphatically deny that he is the Savior of the world sent of God
for man's good. This of itself should be sufficient proof to show that we
receive no support from Jews and that therefore the charges against us are
maliciously false and could proceed only from Satan, our great enemy. The
greatest and the most oppressive empire on earth is the Anglo-American em-
pire. By that is meant the British Empire, of which the United States of
America forms a part. It has been the commercial Jews of the British-Ameri-
can empire that have built up and carried on Big Business as a means of ex-
ploiting and oppressing the peoples of many nations. This fact particularly
applies to the cities of London and New York, the stronghold of Big Business.
This fact is so manifest in America that there is a proverb concerning the
city of New York which says: The Jews own it, the Irish Catholics rule it,
and the Americans pay the bills."The present government of Germany has declared emphatically against Big
Business oppressors and in opposition to the wrongful religious influence in
the political affairs of the nations. Such is exactly our position."Instead of being against the principles advocated by the government of
Germany, we stand squarely for such principles, and point out that Jehovah
God through Christ Jesus will bring about the full realization of these prin-
ciples and will give to the people peace and prosperity and the greatest de-
sire of every honest heart."A careful examination of our books and literature will disclose the fact
that the very high ideals held and promulgated by the present national gov-
ernment are set forth in and endorsed and strongly emphasized in our publi-
cations and show that Jehovah God will see to it that these high ideals in
due time will be attained by all persons who love righteousness."Let us remind the government and the people of Germany, that it was the
League of Nations compact that laid upon the shoulders of the German people
the great unjust and unbearable burdens. That the League of Nations compact
was not brought forth by the friends of Germany." ("Yearbook 1934," pp.134-
138, English Edition)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Nations#Resolving_territorial_disputes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Nations#Failure_of_disarmament
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Nations#Global_representation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_FactsIn the letter Rutherford included with the copy of the "Declaration of Facts"
sent to Hitler, Rutherford made clear his stance approved of Hitler's "positive
Christianity"--notably in that it "opposes the Jewish materialist spirit domes-
tically and abroad":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_Christianity"We demand the freedom of all religious confessions in the state so long
they do not endanger its existence or conflict with the ethical and moral
beliefs of the German race. The Party, as such, represents the viewpoint
of positive Christianity without associating itself with a specific confes-
sion. It opposes the Jewish-materialist spirit domestically and abroad and
is convinced that a lasting recuperation our people can only happen from the
inside out...."
http://www.docbob.org/wordpress/tag/hitlerAs leolaia at jehovahswitness.net pointed out, Rutherford wanted Hitler to know
Rutherford opposed the 1933 American Anti-Nazi boycott of German businesses in
favoring the German Nazi policy against Jewish businesses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Nazi_boycott_of_1933
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_boycott_of_Jewish_businessesRep. McFadden used the same sort of ideas as Rutherford's "The Crisis" in his
propaganda against Jews regarding government and business. McFadden's testimony
during the hearings for H.R. 7986 in March 1934 not only used many of the same
ideas as Rutherford's "The Crisis" but did so nearly word for word to the point
of plagiarism. (Thanks to leolaia at jehovahswitness.net)
http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv329/Leolaia/mcfad1.jpg
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/scandals/237993/2/Rutherfords-love-letter-to-HitlerSegments of McFadden's speech:
"I would like to say that for more than a hundred years America has stood
in the very foremost rank of the governments of the earth. In natural re-
sources America is today the richest country under the sun."The three visible elements of men that rule the Nation are the commercial,
the political, and the religious, and of these three, the commercial is the
most powerful. Among the earlier statesmen of America, there were some God-
fearing men who foresaw the advance of a mighty and selfish power and gave
warning that the greedy would some day destroy the liberties of the people.
That warning was unheeded, and the selfish commercial element, which is oth-
erwise called 'Big Business', has stealthily and constantly moved forward to
its goal. With grasping arms like the tentacles of a mighty octapus it has
laid hold upon practically all of the visible wealth of the Nation...."'Big Business' has no regard for the rights of the common people. In
1917, 'Big Business', for ultra selfish reasons, needlessly and wantonly
forced the American Nation into the World War, which resulted in the great-
ly increased wealth and power of a few men and made serfs and paupers of
many millions of people. Today, 'Big Business' owns practically everything
visible. By the manipulation of the finances of the Nation, 'Big Business'
has acquired title to almost all of the real estate, while hundreds of
thousands of honest toilers are losing their homes and their land. A few
ultra rich men fix the prices of the food products that are reaped by labor-
ers; and, by reason thereof, the farmers are robbed and the laborers are be-
ing starved; and that within the borders of the richest Nation of the world.
"'Big Business' owns the ships that ply the seas, and that fly through the
air. It owns and controls the railways and other ways and means of transpor-
tation...."'Big Business' has in its employ the most astute lawyers of the Nation,
who write the contracts always in the interest of their clients, and the com-
mon people must take the ragged end. Every branch of government is contamin-
ated and improperly influenced by 'Big Business'. It controls the two major
political parties of America and names and elects at will the public men to
office who will best serve its selfish interests. 'Big Business' controls
the Army and the Navy, the guns and the ammunition, and the police power of
the Nation..."Practically all of the business corporations of America are owned or con-
trolled by "Big Business". The employees of these mighty corporations have a
hook in their nose, so to speak, and they dare not call themselves their own.
They must obey the selfish men who are the mighty lords of finance or else
lose their jobs..."'Big Business' either directly or indirectly owns or controls almost all
of the newspapers and magazines of America, and which agencies serve as prop-
agandists for 'Big Business' and their immediate political and religious al-
lies. The same selfish interests own and control the professional clergymen,
and these men make merchandise of the Word of God in order to keep the people
in ignorance and in subjection to the ruling powers. Thus it is plainly seen
that the power of the Government is centralized in the hands of a very
few...."'Big Business' and their mouthpieces, namely, the commercialized clergy
referred to are reprehensible before God for hindering the truth concerning
the present conditions in America and the means which might provide a remedy
for the people, by God's help. There should be some action taken to further
stop such intolerance in the use of radio (and that during this session of
Congress) to prevent the further entrenchment of such powers. That is the
reason why I have introduced this bill and am asking for consideration of it
at this time."(Compare to the June 26, 1932 Rutherford speech printed in the 1933 book "The
Crisis," some of which is reprinted above, which McFadden used a lot of the same
ideas from nearly word for word. For instance, there's that "Jews contol the
world" economic antisemitic "octopus" again. Strange they'd let the Nazis flour-
ish if they controlled the world, isn't it? Thanks to leolaia at jehovahswit-
ness.net)"In 1934, he made several anti-semitic comments from the floor of the
house and in newsletters to his constituents wherein he cited the Protocols
of the Elders of Zion, claimed the Roosevelt administration was controlled
by Jews, and objected to Henry Morgenthau Jr., a Jew, becoming Secretary of
the Treasury. Drew Pearson claimed in his "Washington Merry-Go-Round" col-
umn that, in a publication by the American fascist Silver Shirts, McFadden
had been 'extensively' quoted 'in support of Adolf Hitler.' In September
the Nazi tabloid Der Stuermer praised McFadden. He was also lauded by the
publications of William Dudley Pelley, leader of the Silver Shirts, on sev-
eral occasions. On election day that year he lost to Charles E. Dietrich by
'about 2,000 votes.' This was the only election between 1912 and 1950 when
the district elected a Democrat."According to McFadden's Jewish Telegraphic Agency [[obituary]: ‘In Janu-
ary 1935, he announced his candidacy for president with the backing of an
organization called "the Independent Republican National Christian-Gentile
Committee" on a platform to "keep the Jew out of control of the Republican
Party!"’ Not garnering much support for his presidential bid, he tried to
win back his congressional seat. He lost the nomination by a wide-margin
to Col. Albert G. Rutherford who went on to win the general election." (Wiki-
pedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_of_Zion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Legion_of_America
http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Louis_Thomas_McFadden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Thomas_McFaddenMcFadden submitted H. R. 7986 to Congress on Feb.14, 1934, to protect the
freedom of speech on the airwaves."There should be some action taken to further stop such intolerance in the use
of radio (and that during this session of Congress) to prevent the further en-
trenchment of such powers. That is the reason why I have introduced this bill and
am asking for consideration of it at this time."
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/scandals/142454/2/WTBTS-Official-Testified-in-the-US-Congress-that-Rutherford-is-Inspired
http://books.google.com/books?id=TxudLzYPpAEC&pg=PA330&lpg=PA330&dq=McFadden+H.R.+7986&source=bl&ots=5o98jAZ0oj&sig=-6eH4_wBiVdCNO5_kCf9EFxaA14&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CshhUIbmMYeV0QGP0IGgAw&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=H.R.%207986&f=falseRutherford, who broadcast a notably controversial and propagandistic religious
radio program, prepared a "Petition and Protest" for JWs to distribute throughout
the country to support the proposed bill. They obtained 2,416,000 signatures.
"The Golden Age," March 28, 1934, p.397 had the following remarks on the petition
and bill H.R. 7986:"Free Radio Essential to People's Liberties
"The petition circulated by Jehovah's witnesses and others, calling upon
Congress to safeguard the right of the people to hear over the radio whatso-
ever they wish to hear, received a wide response. It manifested that the
people want to have the truth told. The clergy, to shield themselves in
their inconsistent position before the people, not only have sought to mis-
represent and oppose Judge Rutherford, but have also misrepresented the peti-
tion which was signed by nearly two and a half million persons.... Petition
or no petition, this is the issue, and it is up to Congress to take appropri-
ate action. Bill H.R. 7986, now before the Congress for consideration, meets
the needs of the case exactly, and if passed, will prevent further interfer-
ence with the free use of the radio or unjust discrimination against some and
in favor of other broadcasters." (Thanks to leolaia at jehovahswitness.net)
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/scandals/142454/2/WTBTS-Official-Testified-in-the-US-Congress-that-Rutherford-is-InspiredRutherford had thousands of Jehovah's Witnesses petition and lobby for public
support for passage of this Congressional bill into law ("The Golden Age," March
28, 1934, p.397), and Arthur R. Goux, the Secretary of the Watchtower Bible &
Tract Society, testified in the Congressional hearings in support of the bill.Rutherford's views on "Big Business" and Jews were strikingly similar to those
of McFadden, so when McFadden failed in his bid for re-election, "The Golden Age"
published an article that praised him as "courageous and honest and capable" and
asserted that McFadden was used by God and his loss at the election was the work
of Satan:"Naturally the Devil and his ally, the Roman Catholic Church, would do
everything possible to prevent the return to Congress of any man who would
dare to stand for liberty and righteousness in this evil time. We are as-
sured that God, who gave him such great privileges of usefulness last winter
[when McFadden submitted H. R. 7986 to Congress], is not forgetful or indif-
ferent and the time will come when Louis T. McFadden will look back and re-
joice that he was permitted to be absent when scenes about to be enacted
shall occur." ("The Golden Age," Jan.16, 1935, p.237) (Thanks to leolaia at
jehovahswitness.net)
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/230379/1/Judge-Rutherford-Was-Extremely-Politically-NeutralIn the next quote from a 1935 "The Golden Age," "The Gentile Front" refers to
the Nazis:"The Gentile Front seems to be bad propaganda. It maintains the so-called
'Protocols of Zion' are of Jewish origin, despite the fact that this has
been proved false wher-ever the courts have looked into it. Nothing could be
more devilishly narrow-minded, more fiendish, more contemptible, than the so-
called 'New Germany' to which The Gentile Front looks up and upon which The
Golden Age looks down with loathing inexpressible. The Jews are money lov-
ers, granted; but they are not pig-headed wild beasts." ("The Golden Age,"
Oct.9, 1935, p.25)
http://archive.org/stream/1935TheGoldenAgeMagazine/1935_goldenAge_djvu.txt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_of_ZionRutherford used his politicised religious sermons to teach the economic anti-
semitism of greedy Jews and tried to bond with Hitler on the point to curry fa-
vor, but he drew the line at Hitler's accusations of them being animals to elim-
inate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism#Economic_antisemitism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_HolocaustMaybe this says it: if the issue were LGBT people in 2012, it's like Rutherford
would be a more outspoken president of Chick-fil-A, McFadden would be an anti-
LGBT people activist he supports, and Hitler would be the president of Iran that
the Chick-fil-A president asked to consider what they had in common.(The first two are activists and propagandists to have the world consider LGBT
people sinners and the latter calls them criminals punishable by imprisonment,
corporal punishment, or execution, so the first one wrote a declaration to appeal
to the latter on the LGBT people aspect.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick-fil-A_same-sex_marriage_controversy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Iran"The Golden Age," various issues 1930-1934
(I put
Full text of "1934 The Golden Age magazine"
in the Google search engine to get this result.)
http://archive.org/details/1930-1934TheGoldenAgeMagazine
