Two JDL leaders charged in bomb plot
December 13, 2001
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Federal authorities Wednesday charged two leaders of the Jewish Defense League with conspiring to blow up Arab and Muslim institutions in southern California, including the offices of Arab-American congressman Rep. Darrell Issa.
Irv Rubin and Earl Krugel were taken into federal custody following late Tuesday raids by members of an antiterrorism task force, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for U.S. Attorney John S. Gordon.
"When you target innocents based on religious or political affiliation or belief, we consider that terrorist activity," Gordon said.
"Their primary motivation was to send a 'wake-up call' or terrorize Muslims or Arabs and alert the local, if not national, community to the JDL's commitment to attack those targets."
Targets included the office of the Muslim Public Affairs Council in Los Angeles, the King Fahad mosque in Culver City and the offices of Issa, who represents a district along the coast between Los Angeles and San Diego, according to Gordon.
Issa, a first-term Republican and Christian of Arab-American descent, serves on a House subcommittee that deals with Middle Eastern affairs.
The phone message at JDL's Los Angeles headquarters strongly criticizes Issa for his recent trip to the region.
"This is shocking news to receive," Issa said at a news conference Wednesday, flanked by several prominent Jewish members of Congress. "This was an unusual act by a small band of criminals, in all likelihood."
Another JDL associate, invited to participate in the conspiracy in October, foiled the suspected plot when he cooperated with the FBI, said Ron Iden, assistant director in charge of the FBI's Los Angeles office.
Rubin, the group's chairman and a resident of Monrovia, and Krugel were arrested after the informant delivered the final component needed to make pipe bombs -- five pounds of explosive powder -- to Krugel's house in Reseda, Iden said.
Both men were charged with conspiring to destroy a building with an explosive device and possessing a destructive device in connection with a violent crime, Gordon said. The first charge carries a prison sentence of up to five years, the second a mandatory 30-year sentence.
The Jewish Defense League is a militant Los Angeles-based group that advocates the return of all Jews to Israel and the use of "all necessary means -- even strength, force and violence" -- to defend the interests of Jews, according to its Web site. Its logo contains a silhouette of a clenched fist over the Star of David.
Rabbi Meir Kahane founded the organization to mount armed response to anti-Semitic acts in New York. The group gained notoriety when its members were linked to bombings, most of them aimed at Soviet targets in retaliation for the treatment of Jews in Russia.
Kahane left the group and moved to Israel. He was assassinated in New York in 1990. El Sayyid Nosair, 36, an Egyptian-born Muslim, was convicted in connection with the shooting.
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Thought Crimes
August 18, 2002
The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL) has a section at their website entitled Hate On Display: A Visual Database of Extremist Symbols, Logos and Tattoos. Mixed among various and sundry prison tatoos and nazi regalia are such things as Norse Runes, Confederate Flags, Celtic Crosses and a clenched White fist, all included as "Symbols of Hate" because of their adoption by alleged "Hate Groups" (which, according to the ADL run the gamut from genuine nazi organizations to Black Panthers to Christian sects to groups made up of White people who simply like being White people). It seems that anyone who knows that White heterosexuals are under attack and attempts to educate people as to the nature of those who wish to see the White race destroyed are labelled as "Hate Groups".
The ADL promotes the idea that any crime perpetrated upon any one of a select group of minorities (but primarily jews) is somehow much worse if the perpetratror is caucasian. Nevermind that any of these crimes are already covered by laws, White people attacking (and lately, simply stating facts about) any of these minorities are also guilty of "Hate". Only White people, mind you, not people of color, not jews, not minorities. Our thoughts and vocalizations are becoming illegal.
The ADL promotes the enactment of thought crime legislation (which they call "Hate Crimes"), and offers assistance to law enforcement agencies in identifying terrorist and "militia" organization members by teaching them how to recognize anti-jew and anti-government bumper stickers and such. In this manner, they apparently hope to make law enforcement officers edgy and wary of American citizens who choose to exercise their Right to Free Speech.
The ADL was organized in 1913 by a group of rich jews specifically as a response to a notorious child-rape and murder in Georgia. Leo Frank was a jew who owned a pencil factory in Atlanta. In 1913 he raped and murdered one of his White female employees, 14-year-old Mary Phagan. He was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. The governor of Georgia, in response to jewish lobbying -- and, most believe, in response to a large jewish bribe -- almost immediately commuted the death sentence. Angry Georgians then seized the jewish child-rapist and murderer and hanged him.
The Frank case was widely reported in Georgia newspapers in great detail and caused much hostile feeling against jews. The purpose of the ADL was to deal with such matters in the future by attacking and attempting to discredit anyone opposed to jews or jewish policies, by generating pro-Jewish propaganda, and by exerting influence on legislators and other public officials in a more discreet manner than the rather clumsy way in which the Georgia governor (on his last day in office) had been persuaded to commute the death sentence of Leo Frank. Leo Frank was pardoned in 1985 posthumously due to his civil rights having been violated by the lynching. He was never found to be innocent of the crime.
After the formation of the state of Israel in 1948 lobbying for military and financial aid for Israel also became a major ADL activity.
In November 1992, after confidential police files were stolen from the San Francisco Police Department, an investigation was begun that led eventually to search warrants being issued. On April 8, 1993, both the San Francisco and the Los Angeles offices of the ADL were searched by police teams armed with these warrants, and more than 12,000 stolen confidential police files were recovered. Most of these confidential police files didn't have anything to do with criminal activity but instead contained personal information on individuals collected by the police in connection with driver's license applications, pistol permits, security clearances, and other routine matters. What the individuals in all of these police files had in common is that the ADL considered them "enemies" because they had at one time or another, in some way, opposed some jewish policy or some jewish interest. Some of the individuals in the stolen files were legislators or other public officials that the ADL wanted to bring pressure against.
Other criminal activity by the ADL in addition to the possession of the stolen police files was also uncovered in 1993. San Francisco Police Department inspector, Tom Gerrard, who had been receiving payments by the ADL to steal the files for them, fled to the Philippines to avoid prosecution. A search of the ADL's San Francisco and Los Angeles offices produced evidence that the same kind of bribery, corruption of police agencies, and illegal collection of confidential police files was happening in New York, Washington, Chicago, St. Louis, and Atlanta.
Unfortunately, the ADL already had corrupted the judicial system in California to the point that it was able to stifle further law enforcement action, and very shortly thereafter the mass media in California, which initially had given substantial coverage to the case, were persuaded to drop the matter as well.
Some of the individuals whose confidential files had been stolen by the ADL filed civil suits against the ADL for invasion of their privacy. With the enormous resources of organized jewry supporting it the ADL fought these lawsuits tenaciously, appealing every adverse decision. Finally, after nine years in the courts, in February 2002 the ADL paid damages of $178,000 to the last three victims of its illegal spying. You didn't see anything about that in the news, because after the initial publicity back in 1993 the mainstream media have ignored the case. They continue to refer with respect to the ADL as a "human rights organization," with never a mention of its criminal activity.
