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//-->The ADL and the Great Sedition TrialThe ADL on Y2KThe role of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B’nai B’rith in prompting the FBI’srecent Project Megiddo report on potential Y2K “terrorism” has a frightening precedentin American history. This was the topic discussed on the Nov. 14 broadcast of TheSPOTLIGHT’s weekly call-in talk forum, Radio Free America, with host Tom Valentine.Valentine’s guest was SPOTLIGHT correspondent Michael Collins Piper, author of anarticle on “The Great Sedition Trial of 1944″ in the January-February issue of therevisionist history magazine, The Barnes Review.Piper described the little-known story of the criminal trial in which 30 Americans weretried on trumped-up charges of “sedition” brought by the Justice Department ofPresident Franklin D. Roosevelt against his critics. The evidence shows that it was theADL that actually provided the FBI the “evidence” used to bring the false chargesagainst the defendants.Today, the ongoing attacks against presidential hopeful Pat Buchanan bear a strikingsimilarity to the attacks made against the so-called “seditionists” in 1944.What follows is an edited transcript of the interview. Valentine’s questions appear inboldface. Piper’s responses are in regular text.Few Americans have heard about the Great Sedition Trial of 1944.You always hear about “McCarthyism” in high school, but you never hear about thesedition trial. The way history books describe World War II you would never know that90 percent of the American people opposed getting involved in that war in the firstplace.The Great Sedition Trial took place 55 years ago, but it is very applicable towhat is happening today.What we are seeing today with the attacks on Pat Buchanan in the press, but also withthisProject Megiddoreport issued by the FBI, is a reflection of the same mindset thatled to the Great Sedition Trial.Judge Bolitha Laws called the Great Sedition Trial a “travesty on justice.”That’s right. Although the trial came to a halt in 1944, there were repeated attempts bythe Justice Department to enter new indictments but the charges were ultimatelyPage1of10thrown out. There were originally three indictments involving some 40 people but 30people actually went to trial.The case was brought under the guise of accusing these people of supposedlyattempting to disrupt the military and undermine the war effort. In fact, the bottom linewas that the one thing that all of these people had done was to criticize the role of theJewish lobby in pushing for U.S. involvement in the war. They also attacked thenumerous communists in the Roosevelt administration (many of whom, in fact, wereJewish.)That’s really why they were indicted. That’s what the Great Sedition Trial was really allabout. Sedition had nothing to do with it. What they were indicted for is what PatBuchanan is being attacked for doing—criticizing the power of the Jewish lobby.There is firm evidence the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B’nai B’rith wasthe prime mover behind the FBI in the trial.No question about it. In fact, one of the defendants, David Baxter, later went throughthe Freedom of Information Act and got the files that resulted in his indictment. Hefound that in a great many cases it was not the FBI that had conducted theinvestigation—it was the ADL. The FBI merely received the reports ADL investigatorshad prepared.“One can hardly tell from the reports,” Baxter said, “whether a given person is an FBI oran ADL agent. But at the time all of this was so hush-hush that I didn’t expect the web-spinning going on around me. I hadn’t considered myself that important.”It’s a shame that Americans didn’t learn a lesson in 1944 in regard to the ADL’s role infeeding disinformation to the FBI (and the FBI willingly accepting it at face value).Using this same technique, the ADL stirred up the mindset that created Waco and RubyRidge and the Oklahoma bombing and now they are behind thisProject Megiddoreport.A reporter fromThe Washington Postplayed a key role in the scheme by theADL and the Justice Department.That’s right. The defendants in the Great Sedition Trial were from all over thecountry, so the only way they could indict them was to link them toWashington, D.C., in order to get jurisdiction over them.What happened was that this writer forThe Washington Postnamed DillardStokes sent letters to the defendants asking them to send literature to him inWashington. His letters were written under an alias, “Jefferson Breem” (tohide his identity as aPostreporter) and the defendants responded as theADL hoped.Page2of10On that basis, then, the Justice Department said: “Okay, their conspiratorialactivities extended into the District of Columbia so therefore we can filecharges against them here.” And they did. The third and final indictmentactually went to trial, charging these defendants with interfering with thewar effort.These people had been critics of FDR’s efforts to get us into the war and theywere critics of the U.S. wartime alliance with communist Russia, concernedthat the Roosevelt administration was rife with Soviet agents during WorldWar II, which indeed it was.These people targeted by the ADL were dragged from their homes and brought toWashington to stand trial. Few of them had any money to defend themselves. Many ofthem were destitute and hardly influential at all.That’s what’s so frightening. It could happen again today. Let’s take the caseof Pat Buchanan. He’s probably the most prominent person today whoreflects the America First sentiment, the very views of those who were puton trial in 1944.People get nervous when I start talking about Israel, so let me put things inanother context that won’t scare as many people. Let’s take the war onSerbia instead. Pat Buchanan opposed that war. A lot of people opposed thatwar. The SPOTLIGHT opposed that war. There were American troops in thatwar.Under the same theory used to indict the sedition trial, Pat Buchanan andothers could have been indicted because they were conspiring to underminethe war effort.In the earlier Gulf War, Israel was our ally and it could have been allegedthat Buchanan was attacking our ally by opposing the Gulf War just as in thesedition trial it was alleged the defendants were attacking “our great Sovietally.”In the trial in 1944, the people charged had expressed views that were anti-Jewish or anti-communist or both. They weren’t seditionists.The irony is that these people were indicted under a law designed to crack down onSoviet agents in the United States.That’s correct. The Smith Act of 1940 was passed to prevent communistinfiltration of the American armed forces and many of the people indictedhad actually called for enactment of the Smith Act in the first place.Page3of10In the sedition trial, the government was saying that since Soviet Russia wasthe war-time ally of the United States, if you said anything about communistRussia you were opposing our ally and that this was “sedition.”FDR’s own attorney general, Francis Biddle, didn’t even want to bring theseindictments.That’s correct. However, FDR was pushing for it. The ADL was lobbyingheavily behind the scenes. It was afait accompli. The poor attorney generaldidn’t have much choice.The lives of these innocent people were very much disrupted by these criminal charges.Describe what happened to Elmer Garner.Mr. Garner was 82 years old and he died one week after the trial opened,with 40 cents in his pocket, staying in a tiny rented room in a flophouse inWashington. He was found slumped over his typewriter, working on hisdefense. They shipped his body home to Kansas in a wooden box.Ironically, Elmer was a first cousin of FDR’s two-term Vice President JohnNance Garner of Texas. Old Mr. Garner’s family was made destitute becauseof this. This old gentleman published a newsletter that hardly anyone read,but he was indicted and accused of trying to undermine the military.Another defendant, Col. Eugene Sanctuary, was 73 years old. He and his wifehad run the Presbyterian Church’s foreign mission and he had written hymnsand patriotic songs. In 1942, right before he was indicted, he had justpublished a song called “Uncle Sam, We Are Standing By You.” That soundsreally seditious to me.Mrs. Elizabeth Dilling’s son, Kirkpatrick, was in the U.S. Army and wasactually promoted while his mother was under indictment. At the same time,publicist George Sylvester Viereck, another defendant, had a son killed inaction as a U.S. soldier, while his father was sitting in jail, accused of tryingto undermine the armed forces.Another defendant, Frank Clark, was a highly decorated veteran of WorldWar I, wounded eight times in action, and in the 1920s was an organizer ofthe World War I veteran’s Bonus March to Washington, lobbying forveterans’ bonuses.As another defendant, Lawrence Dennis (a personal friend of TheSPOTLIGHT’s executive publisher Willis Carto) later said, it was possible thatsome of the defendants had taken action, in some way, designed toundermine the armed forces. However, the government charged that all ofPage4of10these defendants, working together, had conspired to under mine the armedforces. In fact, most of these defendants didn’t even know each other.In addition, they were also charged with conspiring with Adolf Hitler.Oh yes. This sedition trial was really a “black comedy.” But it was tragic in somany ways. If Pat Buchanan had been speaking out in 1942-1944 as he istoday, Buchanan would have been in line to be indicted.Media reports today uniformly say, in shocked voices: “Why that Pat Buchanan sounds just like the America First Committee (AFC) prior to World War II.He says we shouldn’t have fought Hitler. Isn’t that shocking?” The ADL is“troubled” about this. They’re always “troubled” about something.Buchanan is saying precisely what a large majority of Americans believedthen. Keep in mind the names of some of those who were supporting the AFCand whose own views reflected the views of those who were indicted in thesedition trial:John F. Kennedy, then a student at Harvard, gave a $100 contribution to theAFC. His brother Joe, who was later killed in the service, was a supporter,too.Gerald Ford, as a student at Yale, was an AFC supporter.We know other big names such as Col. Charles Lindbergh, Gen. HughJohnson, Gen. Robert Wood (another friend of Willis Carto’s). Big namesfrom Congress, Republican and Democrat alike, “right wing” and “left wing.”They were allied on the premise that the United States had no businessgetting involved in the war.Those who were actually charged, though, with “sedition” were outspokenpamphleteers, newspaper and newsletter publishers, radio broadcasters.They didn’t bring Sens. Robert Taft, William Langer, Burton Wheeler or other big namesto trial.That’s what was actually very clever about the way they orchestrated theGreat Sedition Trial. FDR knew that he could not get away with indictingmembers of Congress, who had actually done things a lot more indictablethan many of those who were indicted.Elizabeth Dilling was indicted for reprinting a speech by Rep. Clare Hoffman (R-Mich.)on the floor of Congress. That’s Orwellian.Page5of10 [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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