( – promoted by Jack McCullough)
As I searched through the braintrust publications of the Vermont secesher community, it struck me the other day that I was finding more and more frequently that I was coming across an increasing reliance on the contributions of known anti-Semites. Last week I wrote about one VTCommons blogger’s long, distatsteful history of anti-Semitic writing and activism.
The most recent find was of a woe-is-me, the-sky-is-falling, economic type of article, much favored by the Vermont secesher community, by one Paul Craig Roberts.
Vermonters are supposed to read this stuff, climb into the secesher clown car and head for the nearest cliff. After all, according to “Vermont Commons” publisher, Rob Williams, and Thomas Naylor, baas of the Second Vermont Republic, there is no god but secession and through secession thou shalt be saved. And heck, Naylor’s got that whole Israeli Mafia and the possibility of the Mossad running operations here in Vermont running around in his head.
Paul Craig Roberts was once a writer for national publications and had served in the Reagan administration. No more, for in 2006 Roberts took a very hard turn to the dark side. Now his work is more often published in VDare.com, a white supremacist, anti-Semitic website where his archive of hundreds of pieces may be found among this nation’s most virulently anti-Semitic writers.
VDare is designated as a hate site by the Southern Poverty Law Center; more on VDare.com is to be found here, here and here. In addition to his despicable contributions at VDare, Roberts writes for American Free Press, successor to the racist, anti-Semitic, Holocaust denying Willis Cato‘s earlier hate publication, The Spotlight. Roberts’ work on the Jews and Israel has been frequently highlighted at Cato’s well known Holocaust denial website, Institute for Historical Review.
The Anti-Defamation League has an extensive report on Roberts promotion of anti-Semitism here
Naylor has featured Roberts’ squirrelly February 7 piece, The Official Unemployment Rate; an “Official” Lie at the SVR website. Naylor had earlier published Roberts’ stuff here and here. Like Naylor, Roberts has been a repeat visitor to the racist, anti-Semitic, Holocaust denying web radio program, The Political Cesspool. The Political Cesspool‘s host, hatemonger James Edwards, polled readers of his blog in late December, 2010 about who some of the first guests of the year should be on his show; among other top vote getters like David Duke and Pat Buchanan was none other than SVR‘s own Paul Craig Roberts. Roberts got one of the coveted early appearance spots on January 15, 2011.
Thus it was hardly a surprise then when I found that Paul Craig Roberts work had also been featured by no less than VTCommons publisher Rob Williams himself. Why wouldn’t Naylor and Williams have their respective toes dipped into the same ideological cesspool? After all, when Naylor’s problem with the Israeli Mafia first reared its head, Williams said that he agreed with Naylor about Israelis.
“Since most Americans have been conditioned by years of corporate media training to associate anti-Israeli sentiment with Anti Semitism, talking about the Israeli Mafia smacks of antiSemitism blah blah. Holocaust, SVR are racists, etc ad nauseum. I have spent 4 years defusing the SVR/LOS nonsense and it is finally done, even in the blogosphere. Why go there again?”
“… the thing is I agree with Thomas re Israel.”
Fact is, as time goes by, the “small” Vermont secesher crowd more and more resembles the usual bigoted suspects.
(The above was posted yesterday, Sunday, February 13. Williams has posted a usual non-responsive response that reiterates his intention to proceed with his solo bardate. None of the invitees have any inclination whatsoever to appear on his fantasy debate team.
A new post on another VTCommons/SVR content contributor who has strong ties to the anti-Semitic, Holocaust denying community has gone up today.
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Make sure you read the bit about SVR advisory board member Thomas DiLorenzo writing for a Holocaust denier publication that Rowley put up today. Real group of winners here,and the hits just keep-a-comin’. Time for ’em to move to Idaho, huh?
I’m 100% for outing neo-Nazi’s, homophobes, anti-semites, etc as well as publicly shaming them by whatever means necessary to keep their anti-social and dangerous ideas from gaining ground in our communities. I also haven’t seen much if any evidence for the past few years that anyone in Vermont is paying any attention whatsoever to SVR or VT Commons. So I guess at this point I’m not entirely sure if this kind of continued spot-lighting of these folks is doing more harm than good; no one but neo-Nazi’s and white supremacists from elsewhere are paying any attention to Naylor, et al. So unless the goal is to physically drive them out of Vermont (which would require much more than internet articles, no matter how well written or probing) it seems maybe they can simply be ignored, except when they bring themselves into the public sphere- at which point they should be confronted and shamed.
A worldwide anti-Semitic sentiment has been visible for the past few years. It’s almost like a new wave of what was evident prior to WW2 & not just in Germany but throughout Europe.
It really is news to me that there is somewhat of an outspoke, organized & similiar sentiment in VT which ahould of course be brought to daylight.
There is intolerance everywhere even in VT as we can see from the BF barber fiasco. I have had many a conversation throughout my life in which someone was making these views known to me likely to see where I stood primarily rightwingers.
I’ve had a file developing for a while on SVR Advisory Board member Thomas J. DiLorenzo. With the other revelations about anti-Semites, neo-Nazis and such, the DiLorenzo material is meant to fill out that record. As luck would have, he had a bad day in Congress last week and that led to a few more pieces. Another fact that’ll dispute what DiLorenzo’s contending in the press now as a defense was sent to me late last night by another neo-Confederate investigator. There’ll be more before the week is over.
I understand what’s been said about looking at other groups. I’ve done that and didn’t feel the need to attract attention to those other efforts. One group is pretty much gone now; it’s political rising star off the state radar. Another out-of-state ally of Fred Phelps no longer supports him and has condemned his family’s behavior. Another would-be pol who favored Confederate flags and considered a League of the South founder as a mentor has left the state. There’s more, and no two of the operations has been like the other except for the use of the internet in some fashion.
SVR is a different bag of cats. I’d shut down shop last winter and waited to see what might develop. When I found their listserv and saw that as a group they’d taken an even harder tack to the crazy waters, I decided it was time to flesh out the record.
Whack jobs like the VTCommons crew and Naylor’s isolated “think tank” mumblers will always be with us. I just want to make sure the record is there so that each time someone hears about them googles them, they get me first and look at what’s there and growing, and understand that if they ever get anywhere near where they’d like to be, it’ll be like a really bad re-make of “The Lord of the Flies” in this state.
did it ever occur to you that Arabs are semites too?
if you mean anti-israel or anti-jew say so — that’s different than anti-semite