Hate Is a Power Tool Used to Conceal and Confuse
November 20, 2005

by Joseph P. Tartaro
Executive Editor

There is a lot of hate talk on the international and domestic scenes these days, and I’m not even talking about the examples from Capitol Hill. So much so that within a span of a few days in late October, murderous hate was being spewed by the new president of Iran, by a lecture-for-big-bucks professor, and by a radical animal rights activist.

That all three of these speakers are advocating murder, assassination and annihilation of others should surprise no one. Hateful speech has always been a tool of fanatics, including those already in power and those hoping to seize power.

A famous American senator, Henry Clay, once summed up the use of hate by people in power in a March 1834 Senate speech.

Clay, known as the “Great Compromiser,” said:

“The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victims; it denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments.”

Kill Israel
If that doesn’t help shed light on the Oct. 26 remarks by Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, I don’t know what does!

During a meeting with “students” at Iran’s Interior Ministry, Ahmadinejad quoted a remark from Ayatollah Khomeini—founder of Iran’s Islamic revolution and kidnapper of US Embassy personnel—that Israel “must be wiped out from the map of the world.”

Ahmadinejad’s comments drew swift and harsh reaction from governments in Europe and North America, as well as from United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, in remarks issued Oct. 27 by the Israeli government press office, said he believed any country that calls for the destruction of another cannot be a member of the UN.

At the UN on Oct. 28, Israel’s ambassador to the UN said the Security Council was addressing Ahmadinejad’s comments.

“I certainly think that a country whose head of state calls for the destruction of any other member state of the United Nations does not deserve a seat in this very civilized organization.”

He said it is an indication of the “grave concern” that the international community has about the head of state of one member UN state calling for the “destruction” and “wiping out” of another member state.

He said Iran is a “terrorist-supporting country, and the statements made by its president illustrate in the clearest way, and without any doubt, what this regime is all about.”

Two days later, Ahmadinejad—marching with protesters—signaled he stood by his remarks, even as Iranian officials tried to defuse the issue.

“My word is the same as that of (the) Iranian nation,” he told the official IRNA news agency.

Don’t forget, this is the yahoo who keeps pushing the envelope on nuclear weapons, very likely to carry out his threat against Israel, as well as anyone else he and the other mullahs hate.

The Hate Professor
Then, on Oct. 29 WorldNetDaily.com (WND), which has been pursuing the story of USA Today’s doctored photograph of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, got involved in an inquiry into an altered photo of a gun-toting Ward Churchill that prompted a Seattle, WA-area college to remove the image from its website.

Shoreline Community College (SCC) had electronically erased an AK-47 rifle from the image of Churchill, the controversial University of Colorado professor who was slated to speak at the Washington campus Nov. 8.

But shortly after WND interviewed school officials about the doctored photo, Churchill’s image was completely removed from the page promoting his appearance.

“I think we’re going to take the photograph off,” Scott Saunders, director of student programs at Shoreline, told WorldNetDaily when asked about the display of Churchill, newly disarmed in both weapon and right limb.

Churchill has come under fire this year for comparing the victims of the 9-11 World Trade Center terror attacks to Nazis while praising the suicide hijackers for their “gallant sacrifices.”

He also suggested anti-war activists should support those who kill their officers, and has said he wants the “US off the planet. Out of existence altogether.”

Judy Yu, SCC’s director of communications, explained the college received only two publicity photographs of Churchill from the public-relations agency handling the professor.

“One had a cigarette in his mouth, and the other had a gun,” she said. “Obviously, we cannot support guns, so it was taken out,” noting the college also did not wish to endorse smoking by using the other picture. “I would have looked harder for another photograph.”

The reason for including this item from WND is that it demonstrates once again that colleges, that are afraid of promoting guns or smoking, are willing to use student dollars to pay a crackpot professor a speaking fee so he can spew hate against America.

Hate for Researchers
Another Oct. 27 story from WND involves an animal rights activist who wants to “kill the researchers”—advice he offered a Senate committee.

WND said the radical animal rights activist shocked members of the US Senate the last week in October by advocating the murder of those conducting medical research.

Jerry Vlasak, spokesman for the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), a group which has been accused of “animal terrorism,” told the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works that killing medical researchers was “morally justified” to save laboratory animals.

Vlasak compared the life of lab animals to African-American slaves and the Jewish victims of Nazi concentration camps.

There was no indication that he had attended any of Churchill’s classes or speaking engagements.

According to WorldNet Daily, Vlasak made his comments while defending a similar statement, made to the news media last year: “I don’t think you’d have to kill—assassinate—too many vivisectors before you would see a marked decrease in the amount of vivisection going on. And I think for five lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, 2 million, 10 million non-human lives.”

“It is so revolting to hear what you say about murder—these aren’t extermination camps,” said Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), the noted anti-gunner. “What’s being done, whether you like it or not, is to try and improve the quality of life for human beings. I believe that laboratory tests involving animals can be necessary and important for the advancement of science and medicine and the protection of public health.”

The hearing was called to investigate another animal rights group, SHAC, whose mission is to force the closure of one of America’s largest independent contract research organizations, Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS). Recently, the New York Stock Exchange abruptly postponed its long-planned listing of HLS’s holding company, Life Sciences Research Inc. following threats against the exchange made by SHAC.

Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) told the FBI’s counterterrorism deputy assistant director John E. Lewis that he plans to introduce legislation that will grant law enforcement greater flexibility in tracking and prosecuting those who break the law.

Of course there are all kinds of activists for many causes, some just and some not so just. That some are so extreme and fanatical that they would urge the murder, assassination and annihilation of their opponents is a sure sign that they are hiding something, most likely the baselessness of their own beliefs, if not far more serious problems.

The case of Churchill’s disappearing gun is already getting some reaction on the LittleGreenFootballs blog, WND reported, with entries such as:
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