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"It is an old, old story. It is one repeated over and over
again in history. When the wolves of hate are loosed
on one people, then no one is safe. ... This too
is a harvest of those so-called Christian ministers
who have chosen to preach hate instead of compassion.
Let them now find pious words and raise
their hands in deploring the bombing of a synagogue."
— Ralph McGill,
A Church, A School
Atlanta Constitution, Oct. 13, 1958 |
Updated - Madison, Wisconsin — It's been clear for years Donald Trump is a
racist and anti-Semite who used the
far-right to cobble together an improbable Electoral College majority.
Recall the first days of
Trump's term in 2017 when this gang of idiots babbled on about Holocaust Remembrance Day,
it got worse three months later.
Any analyses on
we,
America,
political culture,
coming together,
healing are so much blather. Any
both-sides, false equivalence nonsense should be challenged.
The people who commit these
acts of terror and spew hate know their kindred garbage in the White House.
All are the enemy of
decent, intelligent Americans.
The Trump administration should be renounced and repudiated as collaborators.
Pittsburgh is the work of the Republican Party's decades-long, divide-and-conquer and demonization effort.
This is not
us, not America, this is one Party under Trump who has summoned forth killers to take center stage on Trump's grand show, unbowed by his "
bad hair" day incurred after the massacre.
Trump got what he wanted, and noone can say they didn't see this coming.
Trump this morning tweeted his thoughts on how the perpetrators of the massacre were given aid — by the media:
Republican-supporting Americans. Do you get it?
Writes Jonathan A. Greenblatt this morning in the
NYT:
More than 100 years ago, the lynching of a Jewish factory superintendent, Leo Frank, in Marietta, Ga., shocked the Jewish community and the nation. It directly led to the formation of the A.D.L. to fight anti-Semitism.
The Pittsburgh massacre should be a similar shock to us today, waking us up to the anti-Semitism and hate in our midst and reminding us all that the fight against them must be diligently fought at every turn by each and every one of us.
Every one of us.
Reminds me of what our friend,
Mikey Weinstein, said when asked, "Are we facing the same level of hate that we faced in the late 1950s and early 60s?"
Said Mikey:
No, we’re not. It’s far worse. … [For example,] the situation with this thing with [Col Donald] Higgins is Higgins
might probably try to argue that the Jews blew their own synagogue up
themselves. The most base, evil, cold, calculated, old-school type of
anti-Semitism, Mike, is simply telling lies about Jews.
That was nine years ago.
Weinstein runs the
Military Religious Freedom Foundation which publishes its hate mail.
You want to know how bad it is today? Consider a typical piece of hate mail, given a response by Mike Farrell.
The
exchange is reproduced below, and was published Oct 26, one day before the massacre at the Pittsburgh Synagogue:
Note From MRFF Editor: Mikey Weinstein and MRFF
get called bigoted names often; however, antisemitism is especially
common. While one might find themselves getting numb to hate referencing
Nazi’s and the Holocaust, let us all remember how bad things once were.
On this day, “26 Oct 1942, Nürnberg, Germany: 95 scientists gathered to
review the result of Dr. Sigmund Rascher’s freezing experiments using
concentration camp prisoners as subjects.” – (source):
ww2db.com/event/today/10/26/1942
______
From: (withheld)
Subject: Halloween’s Evilest Demon
Date: October 26, 2018
To: Mikey Weinstein
Mr.Wienstien,
I want to say a few straight things from the heart to you sir.
My
husband (who a proud airman and even more prouder Christian) and I and
our children belong to a Bible believing congregation of spirit filled
Christian patriots not more than 2 miles from the military base we are
stationed at.
For years we have watched you and your tribe
attack Christian military men who spread The Redeeming Word of our Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ.
Course you never would attack a jew
man or moslem military man because you and your little tribe of bullies
only target us Christians.
We airmen and our
church brother snd sisters are sick of the likes of you and yours taking
our free religious rights away from us because we worship Jesus. Your
just a villain who picks on Christians in the armed services. Turn the
other cheek? My butt we will when it comes to you.
This
Halloween should be dedicated to you and the MFRF because you all are
the evilest of demons and you don’t even wear a costume.
I
have seen the many pictures of you and you wear your evil well sir. You
should be ashamed of yourself. In the service of satan. And with a smile
too.
Plus being jew you would think you would
love Christians who saved your tribe from the Nazis who had just had had
enough of them.
Your a disgrace to your jew clan and AF Academy our military and our America. Not your America sir. Our Great America.
Jesus
will take care of you and MFRF henchmen when you die sir. Nothing you
will say will save you from the flames of Lake of Fire.
We
pray we get to watch and enjoy Christ’s revenge from Heaven. You reap
what you sew sir. And you reap the burning of your flesh in satan’s hell
forever. LEAVE US CHRISTIANS ALONE DEMON!
Do
not try to talk your evil back to us with your clever voice of satan Mr.
Wienstien. This e-mail will reject your satan heresy sir.
Response from MRFF Advisory Board Member Mike Farrell
From: Mike MFO <
mfocontact@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Halloween’s Evilest Demon
Date: October 28, 2018 at 11:18:51 AM MDT
To: Michael L Weinstein <
mikeyw4444@icloud.com>
Dear (name withheld),
I’m sorry, I don’t know how to pronounce your name. I note it
has an x in it. You’re not, by any chance, related to Malcolm? Somehow I
don’t think so.
While I appreciate your credentials, having
presented yourself as the wife of a “proud airman and even more prouder
(sic) Christian,” I suggest you reconsider the grammar. But that aside,
speaking “from the heart,” as you claim to do, is appreciated.
In that vein, let me point out that you’ve misspelled Mr.
Weinstein’s name. I’m sure it was an innocent mistake, but I know as a
good Christian you’d want to be sure you were putting things correctly.
Assuming you consider me part of Mr. Weinstein’s “tribe,” as
you suggested, let me try to clarify a few things in the hope you’ll
take the information back to the Bible believing congregation of spirit
filled Christian patriots to which you, your husband and your children
belong.
First, if you’ve actually watched our work “for years,” as
you say, you’ve seriously missed the point of what we’re doing. I urge
you to pay attention more closely. You see, we have no problem with
“Christian military men who spread the Redeeming Word of our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ.” That’s their privilege, as long as they do so in
the proper time, place and manner as prescribed by military regulations.
You see, if you had in fact watched our work carefully, you’d
know we don’t “attack” people for their beliefs, as you have claimed
here. We do have a problem, of course, when people who believe their
particular faith is the one and only true belief system and demand
everyone else believe just as they do or suffer the fires of whatever
hell their belief provides. That contradicts every American’s
constitutional right to believe as she or he chooses. It is against the
law and when it happens we see that it is stopped.
Further, when you suggest, as you have here, “you never would
attack a jew (sic) man or a moslem (sic) military man because you and
your little tribe of bullies only target us Christians,” you’re entirely
wrong. I hate to have to say that, but it’s what happens when you don’t
pay close attention. (And, speaking of attention, you really should pay
more of it to spelling and grammar.) To your point, we oppose the
imposition of any belief system, whether the ones you’ve misspelled here
or the many others, on the women and men in the military. The freedom
to believe as one chooses, whether it be commitment to a religion or no
religion, a faith, a creed or something of one’s own construction, is a
fundamental American right, and our mission is to defend that right.
So you see, when you say you and your church brethren and
sisters “are sick of the likes of you and yours taking our free
religious rights away from us because we worship Jesus,” you are again,
I’m sorry to say, wrong on every point. We’re not taking your “free
religious rights away” and we have no problem with your worship of
Jesus. Now, you may think we’re taking your rights away if you think
it’s your right to shove your beliefs down the throat of others, but I
can’t imagine a “spirit filled Christian” who speaks “from the heart”
would do such a thing. Can you?
And that’s the critical question, isn’t it? It’s one that is
raised when you call Mr. Weinstein “a villain who picks on Christians in
the armed services” when he does nothing of the kind. Because he calls
out bigots who demean those who don’t share their belief system and some
of those bigots happen to call themselves Christians doesn’t make Mr.
Weinstein a villain, it just exposes fake Christians for what they
actually are: hypocrites.
Speaking of which, Ms. Spirit Filled Christian Patriot who
Speaks from the Heart, your comment about your “butt” when referring to
turning the other cheek makes abundantly clear that you are one of those
faux-Christians who proclaim their devotion to Jesus while picking and
choosing which of his teachings you’ll honor and which you’ll ignore.
How does Jesus feel, do you suppose, when someone who claims
to be a “spirit filled Christian” could even think of the words, “Plus
being jew you would think you would love Christians who saved your tribe
from the Nazis who had just had had enough of them.” Have you no shame,
Ms. x? No, you clearly have none. You, who claim to be a believer in
Jesus, can find it in what passes for your heart to infer that it was
the Jewish people and their behavior, or, truth be spoken, their very
existence, that caused the Nazis to lose patience with them and
eliminate millions of them – each one of whom was a brother or sister of
Jesus himself – from the face of the earth.
Your casual inhumanity, madam, is disgusting. It is the kind
of mindlessness that not only tolerates but creates the madness acted
out by yet another crazed, hate-filled person in Pittsburg, PA,
yesterday who slaughtered human beings because he, too, “had had enough
of them.” I suspect he, too, was filled with spirit. One wonders, in
comparing their results, how different his spirit is from your own.
So now, having clarified just who you are and where you stand, I can properly file your hopelessly anti-grammatical, grossly misspelled message and your embarrassingly incoherent attacks on Mr. Weinstein and the MRFF in the round file with the rest of the painfully stupid messages we get from self-righteous people like you who claim to be passionately devoted to Christ yet because they have no comprehension of the true meaning of Christianity, treat it like a cult.
Mike Farrell
(MRFF Board of Advisors)
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