Obama Web Page Says “Jewish Lobby” Will Suffer Fate of Hitler
by Bill Levinson
Tony Wicher’s “My Favorite Antisemite” at the Official Website of Barack Obama 2008 Presidential Campaign attacks the Zionist Thought Police and then quotes Desmond Tutu, who suggests that the “powerful Jewish Lobby” will fall like Hitler, Mussolini, Idi Amin, and other dictators. When circulating this story to your associates, please keep the following in mind:
- (1) This is Barack Obama’s official campaign site, and it is under his editorial control.
(2) Tony Wicher’s material cannot be written off as a hit and run smear job by a Republican or Clinton operative. His point score, a measurement of his activity at my.barackobama.com, puts him in the top ten percent or higher, and he has been active on the site since February 2007 (more than a year)
(3) A comment at the bottom of this entry was removed for being “offensive” or “disrespectful,” thus showing that Obama’s moderators saw it. They apparently did not think a comparison of the “powerful Jewish lobby” to Hitler was offensive or disrespectful.
Screen shots and relevant excerpts appear below.
- My Favorite Antisemite (from “The Rootless Cosmopolitan”)
By Tony Wicher – Oct 11th, 2007 at 11:33 pm EDT
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The utterly charming thing about the Zionist Thought Police is their apparent inability to restrain themselves, even from the very excesses that will prove to be their own undoing. Having asked sane and rational people to believe that Jimmy Carter is a Holocaust denier simply for pointing out the obvious about the apartheid regime Israel maintains in the occupied territories, the same crew now want us to believe that Archbishop Desmond Tutu is an anti-Semite. No jokes! That was the reason cited for Tutu being banned from speaking at St. Thomas University in Minneapolis. “We had heard some things he said that some people judged to be anti-Semitic and against Israeli policy,” explained university official Doug Hennes.
He [Tutu] has spoken forcefully on human rights struggles around the world, and his statements about the West Bank are based on what he has seen there. The diminutive Bish is a moral giant of our times, and the fact that he is condemning Israel for maintaining an apartheid system on the West Bank should serve as a wake-up call to liberal Americans who prefer not to think about these things. Yes, of course Bishop Tutu makes people uncomfortable; that’s what he’s always done, like a good cleric, challenging his flock to consider their own actions and omissions against the morality they profess to embrace. Instead, thanks to the atmosphere created by the right-wing nationalists of AIPAC and the ADL etc., many mainstream institutions would now prefer to shoot the messenger, if only to avoid incurring the wrath of those who have stripped the very term “anti-Semitic” of its meaning (by using it as a bludgeon in defense of behavior utterly abhorrent in the Jewish tradition as much as anything else), and as such, commit a great crime against Jews and Judaism.
Mr. Wicher then quotes Tutu, who compares the “Jewish lobby” to Hitler and Stalin.
- “But you know as well as I do that, somehow, the Israeli government is placed on a pedestal [in the U.S.], and to criticize it is to be immediately dubbed anti-Semitic, as if the Palestinians were not Semitic. I am not even anti-white, despite the madness of that group. And how did it come about that Israel was collaborating with the apartheid government on security measures?
“People are scared in this country [the U.S.] to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful – very powerful. Well, so what? This is God’s world. For goodness sake, this is God’s world! We live in a moral universe. The apartheid government was very powerful, but today it no longer exists. Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Pinochet, Milosovic, and Idi Amin were all powerful, but in the end they bit the dust.
Material at the end of this page suggests that Barack Obama’s moderators were fully aware of this page’s content, and that they do not consider comparison of the “Jewish Lobby” to Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini “offensive” or “disrespectful.”
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By boatsie Oct 16th 2007 at 4:29 am EDT (Updated Oct 17th 2007 at 9:40 pm EDT)
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By Tony Wicher Oct 20th 2007 at 2:42 am EDT
Somebody removed a comment on my post? I wonder what the comment was? I never read it.
As shown here, Tony Wicher is obviously not a fly by night agent provacateur. He is a prominent and esteemed member of Barack Obama’s online community.
Every other nation on earth gets to worship their own god on their own mountains – Israel is the only nation on earth not allowed to worship their own God. With the Islamic Waqf persecution of the Jewish State on the Temple Mount by not allowing Bibles or prayer on the God of Israel’s mountain – they are the Hitlers! All war is based on not letting the enemy have the upper hand; the Islamic Waqf on the Temple Mount proves the reasons why – and in the case of the world’s treatment of Israel – democracy has failed.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20060207_reality_islam/
By Tony Wicher, February 8, 2006 at 9:53 am #
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As George Carlin says, somewhere between “live free or die” and “famous potatoes” the truth lies – probably a little closer to “famous potatoes”. Now I, for one, am a fan of Osama bin Laden. I see him as man of great integrity and bravery, an exceptional mind and a military strategist of the highest order. I see the attack on the World Trade Center as a military strike. It’s too bad bin Laden had to snuff the lives from 3000 innocent souls to make his point, but he did have a point, which is – “U.S. out of the Middle East”. It’s just that instead of marching around the World Trade Center with a sign, he blew it up, which you must admit got everybody’s attention in a much more effective way. I quite symathize with his aims, and I understand in this context what Muslims are mad about, namely the fact that they are being exploited, robbed and oppressed by Western imperialism (if you will forgive the use of a Marxist term).
On the other hand, I am an uncompromising advocate of civil liberties, especially freedom of expression. Like the Civil Liberties Union, to which I belong, I even support the freedom of speech of Nazis. Even antisemitism is protected as far as I am concerned. People can say “nigger” or “kike” or “camel jockey” all they want. The right to publish offensive, racist cartoons is the right to be free I hate “politically correct” censorship. Muslims obvously have the right to publish all the antismitic, antichristian, anti U.S. cartoons they want in their newspapers. But to kill or physically intimidate people for what they say outrages me beyond my ability to express it. It IS an attack on everything I hold sacred. For example, take that guy who killed the Dutch screenwriter Van Gogh – I say drawing and quartering is too good for that guy. That was not a military strike, that was a savage act of lunatic brutality. These cartoon riots are discrediting Muslims and all their legitimate conemnation of Western oppression. Unfortunately, those who rightly condemn this attack on freedom are also discredited by the fact that Western imperialism is in fact oppressing Muslims.
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Shelley, advocates for the right to unrestricted free speech fail to address what if any obligations come with that right.
You speak of the right to preach anti-semitism, be it Nazis or Jew hating Muslims, so long as they do not commit violence in furtherance of that hatred.
Therein lies the problem Shelley.
The Jew hate speech as well as the hate speeches directed at non-Muslims in the personification of America that you speak of throughout the Middle East, does incite Muslims both within the Middle East and within our Western nations to commit violence against Jews and non-Jews.
Rights without obligations and the exercise of rights without consequences has within it consequences that taken to the logical extreme leads us all back to the law of the jungle.
The Canadian Criminal Code provides
Fortunately the law didn’t stop there, as the government did not want to unduly restrict free speech. It recognized the need for honest critical debate.
These four things are not cumulative. Any one is sufficient.
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Bill and Ted, the comment in #2 above is not my comment, it’s a quote from Tony Wicher from another site. I posted it because it’s relevant to the discussion about Obama’s site and the blog that Tony Wicher keeps there.
Shelley,
If we could prove that this is the same Tony Wicher who is blogging at my.barackobama.com, we could probably end Obama’s campaign in a few days.
Let us wait until he gets the nomination.
But I suppose Hillary will not be waiting to reveal such a thing if it could be verified.
I have not been able to confirm that they are one and the same but they are both Obama supporters:
By Tony Wicher, February 22 at 7:46 am #
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I might have a hard time coming up with links to Hardball show clips to support my position, but if I find one I will let you know. I can only say that my impression has been that Matthews has been equally nasty to both sides on occasion. You do understand I’m a huge Obama supporter, right? I just don’t see any point in putting down Matthews, and the negativity could hurt. Let’s stay positive. Why antagonize him? Instead, let’s get him on our side.
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