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THE HANDSTAND

FEBRUARY2007

DOREMUS OBSERVES : MATTERS OF INTEREST

Doremus Jessup, editor of the Fort Beulah The Daily Informer, in Sinclair Lewis' famous book "It Can't Happen Here", at its conclusion, "drove out saluted by the meadow larks, and onward all day, to a hidden cabin in the Northern Woods where quiet men awaited news of freedom.....still Doremus goes on, into the sunrise, for a Doremus Jessup can never die.

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Brandeis University loses Donors after Carter Symposium

A vexed aftermath contrasted sharply with the widely praised tenor of the event itself. The university audience of almost 2,000 received Carter with notable civility and even gave him several standing ovations. At the same time, student questioners challenged him with tough and critical queries. The focus of hostility toward Carter — his new book on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — has led to no less than Anti-Defamation League leader Abraham Foxman charging him with "engaging in anti-Semitism." Many others have echoed this. The protests start with the book’s title, "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid," implicitly comparing Israel’s policies towards Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza to apartheid-era South Africa. The book itself contains gross factual errors, charge critics, and a lopsided bias that lays blame almost exclusively on Israel for the failure to resolve the conflict. Critics object especially to Carter’s claim that pro-Israel forces in the United States have a disproportionate and stifling impact on public debate of the issue — denounced by Foxman as "the old canard and conspiracy theory of Jewish control of the media, Congress and the U.S.
government."

At the event, Carter defended himself against such charges. Interviews with audience members suggested their ovations stemmed more from respect for Carter’s former office and their acceptance of his basic integrity
and good faith than agreement, necessarily, with his views. "I think everyone was surprised at how well he was received," said Michael Berenbaum, a Holocaust scholar and historian unaffiliated with Brandeis. "That may be the most important part of the story. Instead of coming as partisans, they listened to Carter attentively, asked tough questions and gave him an audience. The Jewish community may have a more significant generation gap than they understand between what young people are prepared to hear and what older activists are prepared to hear."

But the Carter event may have instead opened the door to greater tensions. Emboldened by it, a group of left-wing students are now seeking to bring to campus Norman Finkelstein, a controversial Holocaust scholar who charges that Jewish leaders exploit the tragedy to fend off and silence criticism of Israel for its treatment of the Palestinians. He charges, too, that Jewish organizations have inflated the number of Holocaust survivors to inflate reparations payments. A group of right-wing students has invited to campus Professor Daniel Pipes, an Arabist and policy analyst who writes often of the security threat he sees to the United States and Europe from Muslim immigrants. Pipes has also founded Campus Watch, a program that seeks to monitor what professors teach in class and publicize those it regards as extremists. This has provoked charges he is a McCarthyist, which he denies. In a contentious meeting with faculty after the Carter event, President Jehuda Reinharz denounced Finkelstein and Pipes as "weapons of mass destruction," according to a report in The Justice, the Brandeis campus newspaper. His executive assistant, John Hose, explained, "These are people who tend to inflame passions, whose mission is not so much discussion and education as it is theatre, a show ... If you want serious discussion, there’s lots of resources available for that already at Brandeis."

At the Feb. 5 meeting, Winship, the school’s chief fundraiser, also alluded to the brewing problem with donors. The e-mails from them "kept coming and coming," The Justice quoted her as saying. "We’re just trying to repair the damage. The Middle East is just this trigger of emotions for our alumni and for our friends. For the most part, the donors who come to us come through the Jewish door." Reinharz sharply criticized
the committee that brought Carter to campus for leaving the university with $95,000 in logistical and security costs, according to The Justice. "Faculty members should not be allowed to invite whoever they want and leave Brandeis with a huge bill," Reinharz complained, according to the paper. The school’s budget for 2005, the latest year for which tax records are available, was $265.75 million against revenues of $310
million. Members of the sponsoring committee protested that Reinharz had earlier assured them money would be no barrier to bringing the first U.S. president to Brandeis since Harry S Truman’s 1957 commencement
speech there. "I think Jehuda [protested the cost] because he wanted to distance himself from Carter," said Montgomery, the student member of the Carter committee. "I feel this is Jehuda’s attempt to appease the
harsh donor critics." The Brandeis president did not attend the Carter event, with his office making it known that Reinharz was out of town.

At the faculty meeting, Susan Lanser a professor of English, complained, "I know many, many faculty who do not feel they can speak freely about the Middle East" in public forums. And in an interview with The Jewish
Week, Mary Baine Campbell, another English professor, spoke of "the chilling effect of knowing one speaks about things unwelcome by the administration in charge of working conditions and pay. They could be angels. I don’t know. It’s a slightly chilled atmosphere." Lanser said the administration’s warnings about donors had reinforced that sense. "I’m not saying that was the intent of the meeting," she said. "I think Brandeis is committed to open intellectual inquiry. But this issue gets complicated because of the strong feelings of some donors."

The apparent donor crisis comes on the heels of a series of Israel-related free speech controversies on the Waltham, Mass., campus, of which Carter’s January appearance is only the latest and most high-profile. Critics of Israel last year protested Reinharz’s removal of an art exhibit from the school library containing anti-Israeli paintings — denounced by some as crude propaganda — by youths from Palestinian refugee camps. The university got flack from the other side when it awarded an honorary doctorate in June to renowned playwright and frequent Israel critic Tony Kushner, who once referred to Israel’s founding as "a mistake." The run-up to Carter’s appearance was also punctuated by acrimony when the former president declined an initial invitation to appear in a debate format with Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz. Instead, Dershowitz appeared only after Carter left the hall.

In Defense Of Dennis Kucinich
And Ron Paul
As Presidential Aspirants
By Ken Adachi -Editor
Educate-Yourself.org
1-22-7 (Rense.com)



I'm writing this note in response to the unjustified and heavy-handed criticisms I saw leveled at Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) and Ron Paul (R-Texas) on www.rense.com from Dick Eastman in two different articles. Both articles were posted on January 19, 2007. One piece was titled Kucinich Supports War, Zionism And Globalization(http://www.rense.com/general75/kuch.htm ) and the second piece was called The Next President (http://www.rense.com/general75/nextp.htm) I was originally only going to write to you about theKucinich Supports War rant, but when I read The Next President, I was beside myself with indignation.

I spent a bit of time on the Internet looking at other items that Dick Eastman had posted and I see that he's posted various articles on 9-11 and is involved with chat forums that cover the NWO agenda. That's fine, however, when he dismisses two of the finest examples of congressional PATRIOTS who STILL exist in an otherwise traitor-laden congress, then it's time to set the record straight

Let's start with Kucinich Supports War, Zionism And Globalization . I don't know where Dick got the info that Kucinich said he would support Hillary if she got the Democratic nomination for president, but let's assume for the moment that Kucinich said exactly what Eastman claims he said.

So what?

Does that REALLY mean that the man who ran as the only TRUE anti-war candidate in 2004 and again in 2008, is now pro-war because he said he would support the Democratic Party's nominee if that should be Hillary Clinton? Does Dick Eastman now simply ignore the fact that Kucinich had spoken out against the invasion of Iraq from the very beginning, has opposed every fascist/globalist maneuver that Bush and his compliant congressional traitors have installed, and has called for the pullout of our troops from Iraq as platform planks in TWO presidential elections?

Why does Eastman makes so much of this? I have to assume that Kucinich was pigeon-holed by a reporter who put a HYPOTHETICAL question to him about supporting the Party's candidate if that happened to be Hillary.

Kucinich is a lifelong member of the Democratic party who is running for President in the Democratic Primaries. He was elected as mayor of Cleveland and later to the House of Representatives as aDemocrat. It doesn't surprise me that he would tell a reporter that he's going to support the Party's nominee in the general election. That doesn't mean that the entire mantle of treasonous, socialist, and globalist baggage that rightfully belongs to Hillary Clinton is now transferred over to Dennis Kucinich by virtue of such a statement.

Question: Is this the same Dick Eastman who just TEN days earlier on Jan. 9, 2007, posted another article at rense.com titled Kucinich Plan For Iraq Withdrawal And Restoring Our Republic(<http://rense.com/general74/restor.htm>http://rense.com/general74/restor.htm), in which he begins the article with these words:

"Jeff - The Kucinich plan is litmus. The Democrat Congress must adopt Kucinich plan NOW. It must EAT "Kucinich Spinach NOW" or "Leave the Table in 08" -- Pelosi backs and implements it now...or resigns."

Holy Mackerel, barely more than a week ago, the Kucinich (pullout) Plan was considered by an easily excited Dick Eastman to be the LITMUS altar before which all Democrats should kneel, but now, the same author is cast as a NWO flunky on the Rockefeller payroll! Is it just me? Or does Dick tend to react emotionally- in the moment? .

Mayor of Cleveland
Anyone who takes the time to read the history of Cleveland while Kucinich was mayor (1978-79) will discover that Kucinich proved himself to be a man of his word and an equally scrappy populist who took on the Big Boys of Cleveland-and won. Corporate interests who controlled the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company (CEI) wanted to acquire the city-owned electric plant called Muny Light. Kucinich ran on a campaign promise to retain ownership of the plant, despite the fact that his own city council and the six banks holding the city's 14 million in loans (racked up by the previous administration) conspired against him to try to force the sale of the plant. Rather than knuckle under -which is what most politicians would have done-Kucinich held his ground and got a special election ballot referendum on February 27, 1979 to keep the plant and pay off the loans with a 1/2% tax increase. At the time, Kucinich was vilified and lampooned to no end by the media as "Dennis the Menace" or as a Hitleresque cartoon character, but the wheel came full circle when in May of 1996, The Cleveland Magazine (formerly a critic) said:

"There is little debate over the value of Muny Light today. Now Cleveland Public Power, it is a proven asset to the city that between 1985 and 1995 saved its customers $195,148,520 over what they would have paid CEI."

Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Kucinich ) adds that:

Kucinich's move also preserved hundreds of union jobs. In 1998, city council granted Kucinich amnesty, stating that he had "the courage and foresight to refuse to sell the city's municipal electric system."

Patriot Act
In October of 2001, 98 US senators and 357 House members committed TREASON by voting for the US Patriot Act, as they directly violated their oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution, but two of the 66 House members who voted AGAINST the Traitor's Act included the names of Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul.

Chemtrails
We have been sprayed with poison-laden, population culling chemtrails for NINE CONTINUOUS YEARS. There was only ONE member of the entire United States Legislative Branch who had publicly addressed this unprecedented act of treason and sponsored a bill (HR2977) to stop it (along with space-based weaponry). That congressman is Dennis Kucinich.

Kucinich on the Issues

Wikipedia listed Kucinich's 2004 Presidential platform as follows:

1. Immediate withdrawal from the <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Organization>
WTO and <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Free_Trade_Agreement>NAFTA.
2. Moving U.S. troops out of Iraq and replacing them with <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN>UN peacekeepers.
3. Ending the <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_drugs>war on drugs.
4. Abolishing the <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_penalty>death penalty.
5. Preventing the <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatization>privatization of <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_security>social security.
6. Ratifying the <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Ballistic_Missile_Treaty>ABM Treaty and the <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol>Kyoto Protocol.
7. Introducing reforms to bring about <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting>instant-runoff voting.
8. Creating a single-payer system of <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_health_care>universal health care.
9. Creating a cabinet-level "<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Peace>Department of Peace"
10. Legalizing <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage>same-sex marriage.
11. Repealing the <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_PATRIOT_Act>USA PATRIOT Act.
12. Full <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_security>social security benefits at age 65.
13. Environmental renewal and clean energy.

and the 2008 Presidential platform as:

1. Creating a single-payer system of universal health care that provides full coverage for all Americans.
2. The Immediate Withdrawal of All U.S. Forces from Iraq and replacing them with an international security force.
3. Guaranteed Quality Education for All, including Free Pre-K and College for All who want it.
4. Immediate withdrawal from the WTO ( World Trade Organization )and NAFTA ( North America Free Trade Agreement).
5. Repealing the USA PATRIOT Act.
6. Fostering a World of International Cooperation.
7. Abolishing the Death Penalty.
8. Environmental renewal and clean energy.
9. Preventing the privatization of social security.
10. Providing Full social security benefits at age 65.
11. Creating a cabinet-level "Department of Peace"
12. Ratifying the ABM Treaty and the Kyoto Protocol.
13. Introducing reforms to bring about instant-runoff voting.
14. Protecting a Woman's Right-to-Choose while decreasing the number of abortions performed in the U.S.
15. Ending the war on drugs.
16. Legalizing same-sex marriage.
17. Creating a balance Between Workers and Corporations.
18. Restoring Rural Communities and Family Farms.

With the single exception of legalizing same-sex marriage, I see nothing in these platforms that I couldn't fully endorse. These are the positions taken by a TRUE American patriot whose FIRST loyalty is to the US Constitution and to the preservation of American sovereignty, the Bill of Rights, economic independence, and putting an end to the decimation of our military and our country's reputation abroad.

Compare these REAL and SUBSTANTIVE issues addressed by Kucinich to the platforms of other candidates running for President in 2008. Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas, for example, a two term member of the Senate, threw his hat in the ring today and vowed to run on a platform of fighting "to renew the nation's cultural values and pledged to focus on rebuilding families (AP )" . Wow, now there's a man with cojones..

It's going to be interesting to see what Senator Barack Obama, the latest version of the CFR's 'Jimmy Carter' Presidential Model, will post on his web site for a platform. With the money of George Soros backing him, I don't see any limitations that he could possibly encounter in getting out the word about the Many Wonders that lay ahead for America if he were to be voted in (of course, the Illuminati's Golden Team for 2008 will be the Clinton/Obama ticket-but shussh...., we can''t really talk about that yet. ). .

Ron Paul
In The Next President article, Mr Eastman reduced Ron Paul to

"that timid shadow-populist Ron Paul with absolutely not a dollar behind him and a GOP party 100 percent against him."

Timid? Hardly, but I'll address that absurdity in a moment.

It's not hard to see why the 1988 Libertarian candidate for President is given little support by GOP regulars in Bush's home state of Texas. Who do you think has their hands on the wheels of power in Texas? Anti-government, anti-corporate, anti-globalist, anti-draft, anti-CAFTA, anti-UN, anti-FDA, anti-income tax, anti-Federal Reserve, pro-gold standard, pro-industrial hemp, pro-Constitution "mavericks" like Ron Paul?

I won't take the time here as I did with Dennis Kucinich to list the majority of Ron Paul's pro-Constitution positions, but you can find them listed at Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Paul ). Anyone with Ron Paul's track record for standing up for the Constitution and the Rule of Law deserves our highest respect, gratitude, and admiration.

While Ron Paul may get little or no political/financial support from the GOP, Dick Eastman misses the most obvious point of all: Ron Paul has spent SEVENTEEN years in the House as the congressional representative of 14 th District of Texas because the people in his dictrict KEEP RE-ELECTING him to office. Why do you suppose they would do that when the fat cats of the GOP- who practically control every square inch of Texas, with all of their power and money- can't push him out of office? Do you think it's because he CARES about people and their welfare and his constituents know it? Do you think this may be the reason why he also became a medical doctor?

Politicians who are truly "timid" do not take a pro Constitution stand on the issues in these coersive times. It's the exceptional man (or woman) who can resist the undertow of the 'go along, to get along' politics which most politicians succumb to. It takes real guts and more than a little cunning to try to defend America against the onslaught of the New World Order-and still remain alive (as we all know what happened to Paul Wellstone and many, many others).

In The Next President, Dick Eastman pines for a Superman dictator to fix all of the ills that the Illuminati has imposed on the American Dream in the past 100 years of insidious gradualism by covert agents of the Rothchild/Rockefeller variety. That may sound appealing to the anxious and naive, but it is extremely DANGEROUS to entertain such a fantasy because that's PRECISELY how Hitler became dictator of Germany in 1935 ( http://educate-yourself.org/cn/voteourtraitors27oct06.shtml).

We already HAVE the best Constitution on the planet written by men who knew well the folly of placing your trust in the hands of a Superman. We have three branches of government which- when functioning as stipulated by the Constitution- will balance each other and prevent the rise of tyranny and the subjugation of American citizens.

Currently, our government is top heavy with FIFTH COLUMISTS who are violating their oaths to UPHOLD the Constitution by passing "laws" -such as Patriot Acts 1 & 2 - which are GROSS VIOLATIONS of numerous Articles of the Constitution and relinquishing "powers"' to the Decider which they have no Constitutional AUTHORITY to do.

We must REMOVE these traitors by recall, by voting them out of office, and SUPPORTING the mere HANDFUL of bona-fide PATRIOTS--like Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul- who are currently trying their best to stem the tide of the One World agenda and hold on to this republic.

Cynicism and defeatism are NOT options to be entertained. We are in the eleventh hour of losing this nation. .

Sincerely, Ken Adachi .


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