- Joel Sprayregen is a former ACLU staff attorney and National
Vice-Chair of the Anti-Defamation League. He was appalled at ADL's recent
27-page online attack on the Christian/conservative right, "Rage Grows
in America: Anti-Government Conspiracies."
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- Writing in American Thinker Online, November
29, he says, "You can...understand the consternation, and not just
mine, which greeted the ADL's hyped "Report" declaring that 'rage'
expressed against President Obama is un-American." He says, "ADL's
perfervidly purple prose belies an abysmal ignorance of American political
traditions." Sprayregen documents this tradition on the authority
of Jefferson, Holmes, etc., who not only tolerated but actually encouraged
fervent, even heated dissent.
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- "ADL's naked partisanship," he says, is revealed
by the fact that "In the time of anti-Bush rage, the ADL held its
tongue." But, he says, "You can't fool all the people all the
timeThe failure of mainline media to scrutinize Obama and his mentors -
which truly is unprecedentedincentivizes many who love this country to
sound off...The ADL could not have chosen a more infelicitous moment to
try to shield Obama from anger generated by his policies."
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- Sprayregen says he was National Vice-Chair of "the
then-respected Anti-Defamation League." But in past years "ADL
stumbled so egregiously. As observed by many, including myself, who have
left the organization, the ADL has declined into an autocracy where no
opinion counts other than that of its long-time National Director, Abraham
Foxman, whom the New York Times described as "a one-man Sanhedrin
for life." When Foxman hatches a crackpot idea like the "Rage
Report," no one can restrain him."
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- He says, "Foxman is driven to justify his half-million-dollar-plus
salary (matched in virtually no other Jewish organization) To generate
publicity for himself, he launches (and then summarily drops) foolish initiatives,
such as his attack on Christian Evangelicals, Israel's most consistent
supporters I found only one press column praising the ADL statement: that
of Los Angeles Times writer Timothy Rutten... When I googled Rutten, I
found that last year, he received an ADL First Amendment award."
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- Sprayregen's article adds to rapidly mounting testimony
by yet another Jew (and ADL insider) informing the world that ADL is a
loose cannon on the deck of liberalism. It could threaten Zionist interests
also because ADL is the PR bulldog of Israel to the world. Jewish liberals
view it, as Jewish Week confirmed last week, as "an active
part of the right-of-center pro-Israel establishment." Yet Foxman,
Sprayregen contends, counterproductively attacks the century-long arch
supporters of Israel: evangelical Christians. This includes WorldNetDaily
owner Joseph Farah who, not unlike ADL, provides a pipeline for Israeli
policy directives to millions of evangelicals.
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- Where Is ADL Taking Us?
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- What does Sprayregen's exposure of Foxman's instability
and persecutive inclinations mean to Christians/conservatives -- indeed
to all Americans?
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- It means many things because ADL has so profoundly altered
American social attitudes, especially in regard to tolerance of homosexuality
and support of pro-homosexual legislative initiatives. These, whether on
the local, federal, or international level, will unfailingly be found to
have been generated primarily by ADL and its parent organization, B'nai
B'rith International.
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- ADL hate crimes laws have taken free speech from the
citizens of Canada, England, Australia, etc.; and now America is shackled
with a national hate law fully capable of doing the same. Recently signed
by Pres. Obama, it was very largely conceived and brought into existence
by the same Abe Foxman who wrote the recent "Rage Report" which
portrays millions of Americans as "conspirators."
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- Since 1984, with publication of my book Israel:
Our Duty, Our Dilemma, I have been sounding the alarm against the
ADL -- warning of ADL's anti-Christian, anti-freedom malevolence -- just
as Sprayregen and other Jewish ADL critics are now alleging. Yet virtual
silence of any criticism of ADL has prevailed among frightened Christian
and Jewish leaders until now. At last, Joseph Farah, Orthodox rabbi Nachum
Shifren, Commentary magazine editor Jonathan Tobin, and Joel
Sprayregen are finally breaking the national silence in terse and even
biting rebuke. This is a historic moment. Never since its founding in 1913
have one evangelical and three Jewish leaders stood up in public criticism
of ADL. Let's make sure that ADL's irresponsibility in issuing its "Rage
Report" will result in a new era of responsibility for vigilance,
scrutiny and criticism of ADL by all in positions of religious and political
authority.
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- Danger from ADL Will Continue
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- What will happen to ADL if criticism and controversy
over the "Rage Report" continues? Foxman could resign. ADL, under
new leadership, could ostensibly learn some of the "tolerance"
it has presumed to teach others for most of the past century.
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- Yet, ADL will remain an enormous threat to freedom. The
statement by California Senator Jack Tenney in the 1971 Congressional
Recordremains apropos: "The CIA and FBI are tinker toys compared to
the ADL."
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- ADL remains frighteningly powerful, eliciting recent
effusive praise from guest speakers at ADL functions: Janet Napolitano,
head of the Department of Homeland Security; Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General
of the United Nations; and Eric Holder, U.S. Attorney General. In fact,
legislative events of the past year have demonstrated beyond doubt that,
at least concerning passage of ADL's hate crimes laws, most Democrats in
Congress as well as Attorney General Holder are securely in the palm of
ADL's hand.
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- ADL will continue to surveil Christian/conservative Americans
along with fringe groups, providing under-the-table intelligence to the
U.S. government unavailable through lawful means. Sometimes it will get
caught, as Sprayregen says, "for illegally gathering evidence against
unsuspecting Americansstored in its massive files (twice in recent years
the ADL has paid damages for illegal surveillance)." (For a complete
education on ADL's massive spy operation on 10,000 Americans, watch my
gripping 82-minute video at www.truthtellers.org "<http://truthtellers.org/alerts/hatelawsvideopage.htm>Hate
Laws: Making Criminals of Christians.")
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- Evil tends to be immoderate. This time ADL has gone too
far. In 2005, ADL's National Executive Board member Philadelphia district
attorney Lynne Abraham also went too far. Erupting in rage two days after
Christian conservatives defeated ADL's hate bill in Congress, she took
revenge on the religious right by arresting 11 Christians. She charged
them with seven crimes, threatening 47 years in prison and $90,000 in fines
each. Included was the "hate crime" of witnessing to homosexuals
at a gay pride rally. But ADL paid a big price then, as I hope they will
pay in the days and weeks ahead. As a result of Abraham's rash persecution,
ADL provided a red hot issue which propelled me onto national talk radio.
Since then, thanks to ADL, I have given roughly 700 interviews, with 125
hosts, almost entirely in warning against ADL and its hate laws.
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- Once, in an interview by author and radio talk show host
Michael Collins Piper, he related how on a street corner in Washington,
D.C. he saw someone who looked very familiar. Yes, it was Abe Foxman. Piper,
who has exhaustively researched and written about ADL, started walking
toward him, saying, "Hey, I know you -- you're Abe Foxman!" Foxman,
doubtless recognizing Piper, turned and started walking briskly away and
then fled.
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- This is the man who brings Christians/conservatives to
silence and submission by threatening to label them anti-Semitic. He did
this to Dr. Richard Land, President of the Southern Baptist Ethics and
Religious Liberty Commission, several weeks ago. Land had transgressed
ADL's ban on using any Nazi terminology to describe the pro-abortion provisions
of the healthcare reform bill. Confronted by Foxman, Land was utterly intimidated,
vowing, according to ADL, that from then on ADL can always count him "on
board" their "tolerance" social agenda. Dr. Land should
know this includes promotion of homosexuality, abortion, pornography, and
hate laws. (See <http://www.adl.org/PresRele/ChJew_31/5623_31.htm>ADL
Welcomes Christian Leader's Apology For Insensitive Remarks On Healthcare
Debate)
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- Yet, as Piper's encounter reveals, Foxman showed himself
a coward, one who can't face an eminent critic on the street corner or,
as Sprayregen alleges, even criticism from his own staff. That is part
of the reason he and ADL tirelessly promote hate laws which ban criticism
of homosexuals, Muslims, and Jews. Above everything else, ADL abhors criticism
of itself.
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- Foxman and the ADL need to be identified, exposed, and
shamed in order to deflate their persona from the gargantuan proportions
and reputation they have falsely attained over the past century. Foxman
is like a phobia: If you run from it, it only attains credibility, becoming
a giant in hot pursuit. But if you relax, turn around and mockingly defy
it, it will dissipate. In the same way Foxman, the terror of the religious
right, will shrink to nothing more than a mouse squeaking in the corner.
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- Let the Anti-Defamation League teach you how they have
saddled 45 states with hate laws capable of persecuting Christians, and
spearhead attempts to pass the federal hate crimes bill: http://www.adl.org/99hatecrime/intro.asp.
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