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ANTISEMITISM, RACISM AND A BUSH FAMILY ORGANIZATION
By Carla Binion
Barbara Bush and George H. W. Bush's brother, Prescott Bush, belong to a
political organization, AmeriCares. AmeriCares is a CIA front that supports
rightwing military operations while posing as a humanitarian group.
J. Peter Grace, the chair of AmeriCares from 1982 to 1995, also worked with
the ultra-right racist think tank, the Liberty Lobby. Grace was the key
participant in Project Paperclip, a covert operation which recruited nine
hundred Nazi scientists to work in the U. S. after World War II. Many of
those Nazis had been found guilty of experimentation on humans. ("Censored
1999: The News That Didn't Make The News," Seven Stories Press, 1999)
Sara Flounders is a writer and Co-Coordinator of the International Action
Center (IAC), a group that has opposed U. S. sanctions on third-world
countries. In an article published in "Censored 1999," Flounders reported
that Barbara Bush was then AmeriCares ambassador-at-large.
Flounders said George H. W. Bush's brother, Prescott Bush, was on AmeriCares
board of directors. As former CIA director, George H. W. Bush is aware of J.
Peter Grace's part in bringing Nazi scientists to the U. S., and of Grace's
work with the Liberty Lobby.
Here's a brief look at the Liberty Lobby's history: According to Deborah
Lipstadt (DENYING THE HOLOCAUST, Penguin Books, 1994), the far-right
organization, the Liberty Lobby, was founded by Willis A. Carto. Lipstadt
says that The Wall Street Journal has labeled Carto and the Liberty Lobby
antisemitic. She writes that investigative columnist, Drew Pearson,
identified Carto as a Hitler "fan." Pearson said the Liberty Lobby is
"infiltrated by Nazis who revere the memory of Hitler."
Lipstadt writes that The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) describes Carto as the
most powerful antisemite in the U. S. The ADL also says the Liberty Lobby
heads a "publishing and organizational complex that for more than two decades
has propagated antisemitism and racism in the United States."
Carto once sued The Wall Street Journal for calling the Liberty Lobby
antisemitic. The District Court for the District of Columbia ruled against
Carto saying it would be hard to find a case where evidence of antisemitism
was "more compelling."
Conservative William F. Buckley once said the Liberty Lobby is a "hotbed of
antisemitism," and the conservative magazine Human Events reported that Carto
has long been a Hitler sympathizer. Lipstadt says Carto has a "revulsion for
Jews and a belief in the need for an absolutist government that would protect
the 'racial heritage' of the United States."
Lipstadt writes that the racist Carto also believes Jewish people and
African-Americans are "at the root of civilization's problems." Carto argued
during World War II that Jewish influence on American policy had blinded the
U. S. to the advantages of uniting with Hitler. He later organized the Joint
Council for Repatriation, for the purpose of returning all black Americans to
Africa.
In 1957, Carto told Judge Tom P. Brady, founder of the anti-civil-rights
organization, the White Citizens' Council, that the Citizens' Council should
unite with the Joint Council for Repatriation but keep the link between the
two groups secret. At the time, Brady was also a member of the Mississippi
Supreme Court.
Why would George H. W. Bush, his brother Prescott, and Barbara Bush actively
support an organization whose chair worked with the Liberty Lobby? If that
were the only thing amiss about AmeriCares and its history, it might be
different, but there's more.
AmeriCares also funnels money and "humanitarian" supplies to various
rightwing military forces, including, for example, contra forces in
Afghanistan. Sara Flounders says the AmeriCares Web site reveals that its
shipments tend to go "wherever the CIA is most active."
The New York Times, August 13, 1985, reported that a front organization of
Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church (The Nicaraguan Freedom Fund)
funneled $350,000 to AmeriCares. New York Newsday, April 13, 1988, reported
that AmeriCares tax returns showed AmeriCares gave cash and supplies to
Contra leader Adolfo Calero.
Former AmeriCares chair, J. Peter Grace, also played a prominent role in
putting together the fascist coup that overthrew democratically elected
Salvador Allende in Chile. Sara Flounders says AmeriCares presents itself on
its Web site as the "humanitarian arm of Corporate America."
One corporation, the large oil company Amoco, has given more than $46 million
to AmeriCares. Flounders mentions that Amoco was a direct beneficiary of the
Gulf War.
In the context of the recent presidential election, where the complaints of
thousands of disenfranchised African-American and Jewish voters were largely
ignored by Jeb and George W. Bush, the Bush family's willingness to actively
support an organization once chaired by J. Peter Grace is not surprising.
AmeriCares' support of ultra-rightwing regimes, and Grace's help in bringing
Nazis to the U. S. and his assistance in overthrowing democratically elected
leaders, are actions that fit right in with what happened in the 2000
election.
If it should turn out that African-Americans were definitely targeted for
"voter cleansing," -- if black people were in fact falsely declared felons
and deliberately removed from voter roles by the thousands, that would seem
to be standard practice for folks who knowingly and contentedly hobnob with
reactionary regimes, and who tacitly condone people such as J. Peter Grace
and his peers.
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