Fifth Generation

It is the end of the year and nutty people with weird conspiracy theories are cropping up everywhere. Everywhere I turn there is a so called intellectual or world leader spewing out some garbage. Popular now are the anti-American/anti-Zionist conspiracy theories. Anti- American theories are popular among university professors like Noam Chomsky. Anti-Zionist conspiracy theories are popular among white racists like David Duke and followers of Louis Farrakhan. Then there are those who combine the two like Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The sad thing is that thousands of people follow these theories and allow them to give public speeches and even hold world wide conferences.

In New York, Ward Churchill the infamous professor from Colorado who said that America is at fault for 9/11 gave a speech at the New School in New York City for the Women of Color student group. In his speech, titled “Sterilizing America: The Fabrication of Innocent Americans”, he described American foreign policy as “mass murder” and compared Vietnam Veterans to serial killers. See, American history as we know was truly invented by “little Eichmanns” in the American government. In his view, we are an evil empire bent on taking over the world, forcing the innocent people of color to eat McDonald’s hamburgers and to watch Mtv. Anyone who refuses to take part of our evil empire must be eliminated by our oppressive military, who after taking over a third world country will force it to give their women equal rights and to write a constitution. See, he is telling us the truth in his mind. Everything is a conspiracy. 9/11 was caused by revolutionaries who fight against the evil capitalistic empire. How dare we threaten the hijab and social programs!!! Smiling George Bush is our modern day Hitler. He got his power from Skull and Bomes. Churchill is lucky that his has his Freedom of Speech so that he can say those things without worrying about going to jail.

That is something that might happen in Iran, home of the Holocaust Denier’s Conference another place where nutjobs from all over the world can talk about their Zionist conspiracy theories to their hearts content. Famous racists like David Duke made their appearance. Denying the Holocaust is a personal passion of Ahmadinejad. He wants Israel “wiped off the map”. In his mind, Zionists exaggerated the Holocaust in order to gain control of Palestine and start the state of Israel. To many of us who have seen the films and pictures, this is like saying that no one has ever walked on the moon or that the world is flat. I noticed that one of the themes is one that I have heard Ahmadinejad apologists mention frequently, “How the Zionists collaborated with the Nazis.” What about how the Arabs collaborated with the Nazis?? That would unfortunately be a historical fact so not welcome to this conference.

Both the anti-American conspiracy theorists and the anti-Zionists believe that Israel is not a real state. All of the problems in the world are caused because either the Zionists or the Evil Western Capitalists set up the state of Israel. The joint hatred of Israel is causing many to join the nut camp of the Anti-American Zionists. I was sad to see that Jimmy Carter is traveling around supporting the theory that Israel is behind all that is evil in the Middle East and that the state of Israel was named as a cause of the Iraq problem according to the Iraq Study Group.

We may laugh and ridicule conspiracy theorists, but their conspiracies are being believed by many in the world including those in positions of power. We laugh at Holocaust deniers while allowing anti-Zionists and Anti-Americans to run their mouths freely without a fair debate. True we have free speech for Israeli and American haters, but rarely are they put to the test and proven wrong. If we are not careful, an anti-Zionist will become president and foolishly believing Israel to be evil, will withdraw support and unite with the conspiracy theorist wack jobs like Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Michelle Malkin also has a post on Ward Churchill with some good pictures.