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							Internet can be used to propagate hate and wrong
information about people, religions, views and countries.
Culled below are extracts from various sources, all taken
from the net. I suggest you go through the articles and
make your notes on how regressive communication can
be an evil spin-off of the Internet.

Propagating Hate about Religion:

The Internet contains misinformation, hatred, ridicule
and sarcasm directed at various faith groups. One site has
divided these hate sites into three categories:

Extract 1
Secular, Freethinker and Atheist Sites
Religious Sites
Anti-Christian Sites
Sites by Agnostics, Atheists, Freethinkers and
Secularists
We have surfed some of these sites. Their membership
and points of view tend to overlap. The main Agnostic,
Atheist, secular and freethinking WWW sites are
typically opposed to Christianity. They criticize it,
largely because it is the dominant religion in North
America. They mainly use techniques of critical analysis,
satire, humor and some ridicule.
Most of their pages are directed to:
Critical analysis of the Bible, questioning its accuracy,
consistency, validity, inspiration and usefulness.
Critical reviews of anti-choice efforts by some religious
groups, e.g. anti-abortion, compulsory school prayers,
and opposition to physician assisted suicide.
Some examples of intolerance, satire and ridicule were:
The Freethought Web has writings by Joseph McCabe
including his inflammatory Big Blue Books. Some of the
titles are: The Vatican's Last Crime, How The Pope Of
Peace Traded In Blood, How The Cross Courted The
Swastika For Eight Years, The Totalitarian Church Of
Rome.
The McChurch Home Page claims that a non-biased,
objective system computer" has analyzed the Bible and
studied the character and personality of God. The
computer "concluded" that God was dysfunctional,
insecure, unwholesome and should be isolated from
children to avoid damaging them.
Some of these sites use humor and satire in their
opposition to Christianity. But in some of the
Fundamentalist sites, we get to see extreme examples of
hatred and misinformation, in which various benign non-
Christian groups are falsely accused of gross immorality,
ritual murder, cannibalism, mutilation etc. The main
targets for their hatred and propaganda are small
religious groups, homosexuals, and persons promoting
choice in abortion and physician assisted suicide.
Some of the more distressing sites that we have found
are:
Exegesis is a monthly magazine distributed by Email and
Fax from Washington. They include excerpts of letters of
support from Newt Gingrich, Steve Forbes (publisher of
Forbes Magazine) and the Family Research Council. It is
primarily an extreme right wing magazine, strongly
based on a very conservative interpretation of
Christianity. Listed under the topic "One of The Most
Important Articles We've Published" is an essay from
their 1995-DEC issue: "Judaism's Best-Kept Secret is
Almost Revealed." It is an attack on Israel's Orthodox
Jewish leaders
Media House International is an Evangelical Christian
group that publishes a quarterly magazine Champions.
They have a section of their home page devoted to
providing misinformation about Wicca.
The Other Side of the News is a newspaper column
which promotes extreme right wing political and
Christian views. Their WWW site contains
disinformation about gays and lesbians.
Anti-Christian Sites
Anti-Christian sites are also there that are maintained by
individuals of an unknown religious background.
One is The Antichrist. The Webmaster is currently
remaining anonymous. He states (but probably does not
believe) that he has been sent instead of the second
coming of Christ to announce the coming destruction of
Christianity. See: http://www.antichrist.net


Propagating Hate about People: Racial
Discrimination
Extract 2: From a Canadian website about a
symposium on Hate on the Internet held in Canada.
Basic argument: Internet can encourage racial
discrimination


Providers must ban hate on Internet, activists say
But censorship not the answer, say free-speech
advocates
Hate propoganda on the Internet should be opposed as
much as child pornography, a Vancouver lawyer said
during a discussion about spreading hatred through
cyberspace.
"We do not tolerate the dissemination of child
pornography. I do not think we should tolerate the
dissemination of hate propaganda", Valmond Romilly
told an international symposium at Osgoode Hall last
night on Hate on the Internet.
The symposium, sponsored by the B'Nai Brith Canada's
League for Human Rights and the Institute for
International Affairs, is one of many events being held
across Toronto to mark the United Nations' International
Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today.
Romilly said Internet service providers should be held
liable and pay penalties if they allow the dissemination
of racist propoganda on their Web services.
Richard Rosenberg, an associate professor at the
University of British Columbia, said it is almost
impossible to make Internet service providers responsible
for the content of Web sites and e-mail on their
networks.
He estimates there are as many as 1,475 Web sites
dedicated to spreading hate on the Internet worldwide.
Hedy Fry, federal minister in charge of multiculturalism
and the status of women, who opened the symposium,
said racist acts are on the rise in Canada.
Along with tightening government legislation to control
hateful acts, Fry said the federal government has to work
more closely with organizations, like B'Nai Brith.
This would help give people the skills "to take
community action as hate bubbles up", she said.
"Hate is insidious if you allow it to breed and fester; it
becomes part of the acceptable norm", she warned.
Citing the desecration of Jewish cemeteries in Ontario,
Fry emphasized her point, adding:
"We can say these are isolated incidents, but it's a
slippery slope when we ignore the beginnings."
Fry said few countries, except Germany, were taking
action to prevent hate propaganda on the Internet.
There were 240 reported cases of anti-Semitism across
Canada last year, up from 212 in 1997, a B'Nai Brith
report released last month showed.
About 52 per cent of those cases occurred in Toronto.




Extract 3: Exercising of cyber law to punish for a
crime—Al Qaeda propaganda on the net.
Germany: Three years for al-Qaeda propoganda
A German court jailed an Iraqi man Thursday for three
years for distributing al-Qaida propaganda on the internet
in a landmark case on recruiting for extremist groups.


The regional high court in the northwestern city of Celle
convicted Ibrahim Rashid, 37, of seeking supporters for
the Islamic radical network in web chat rooms between
October 2005 and October 2006.


Presiding judge Wolfgang Siolek said the sentence
should serve as a "warning signal" for other recruiters for
banned groups.


The court found that Rashid had posted video recordings
in which al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden and other
extremists urged attacks against the West on the Internet
at least 22 times "and supplemented them with his own
remarks."


He also uploaded videos showing car bombings and
sniper attacks.


Siolek said the defendant was a "fanatical jihad fighter"
and used the Internet "to create a global climate of fear of
ubiquitous terror."


Rashid is the first person in Germany to be convicted
under a law passed after the September 11, 2001 suicide
hijackings by al-Qaida in the United States banning
recruitment for terror organizations.


Previously, only belonging to a terror group and
supporting a banned radical group with actions such as
fundraising were against the law.


The defence had argued that Rashid only posted texts
and videos that were already widely available and said
the accused was not actively seeking new members for
al-Qaida.


His lawyers said the case risked putting the German
justice system on a slippery slope that could lead to
"criminal law being broadened to cover laws on political
convictions."
Although Rashid, who was arrested in October 2006, has
already served half of his sentence, the court said he
must remain in custody because he had shown no
remorse and would likely attempt to leave the country if
released.


"It remains advisable that he be deported after serving his
sentence," Siolek said.


Rashid, a political refugee of Kurdish origin, arrived in
Germany in 1996 and lived with his wife and four young
sons in the western town of Georgsmarienhütte near
Osnabrück.


An attorney for Rashid said he would appeal the verdict.



Extract 4: VoteMatch USA is an interesting concept
that was utilised fully by American voters. The site
address is given below. Chk it out to see how internet
can be used to reverse the propaganda machine.


VoteMatch as a propoganda fighting machine
Check out VoteMatch USA. This idea was developed in
the Netherlands by the Institute for Political
Participation, I saw it on CNN today, and now they’ve
got it applied to the US Elections.
I always felt I liked Barack Obama, but now I know that
I am skewed to his policies, by about 83%. I really like
the idea of VoteMatch.
In 2008, Malaysians showed Barisan Nasional that
they’ve had enough. March 8 2008 is a day that will go
down in history books. The next general elections,
Malaysians will be ready for something like VoteMatch
Malaysia. By 2012/2013, there will be so much Internet
penetration, even more young guns who’ve been exposed
to more freedoms, and even more that will want change.
VoteMatch is a propaganda fighting machine. No matter
how many adverts there are in the media, how much
parties embrace social media, there’s just been no way to
show clearly, whom one would want to vote for.
VoteMatch seems to be the answer.


http://www.eenvandaag.nl/stewijzerusa/en/



Extract 5: from plasticbag.org. Article is on how
special softwares are being created by niche groups to
garner support for their ideology.


On Massively Multiplayer Propaganda...
Simon drew my attention to a site called GIYUS.org the
other day and it's been in my thoughts ever since, and
I've come to think of it as a really troubling kind of troll-
supporting political malware, representing a
technologically-empowered massively-distributed form
of propoganda that I've never seen before. The site's full
name is Give Israel Your United Support and it works
like this - individuals download a tool (the Megaphone
Desktop Tool) which then alerts people to new articles
and polls around the web that question Israel's policies in
the Middle East or ask for public opinion about them.
The people concerned are then supposed to visit the site
directly and respond to the poll or story or write an e-
mail or whatever. They present an example on the page
of one of the things that you could be alerted to:
The reason for this activity? Stated at the top of the page,
"Today's conflicts are won by public opinion. Now is the
time to be active and voice Israel's side to the world."
The software is designed to do two things - firstly to
make it clear that there's a large active pro-Israel
population in the world, but also it's there to make sure
that the pro-Israel point of view is over-represented in
the popular media. These are - let me repeat - the
project's stated goals.
Now I want to make it very clear here very early on that
I'm not going to be making an anti-Israeli tract. It's pretty
much irrelevant to me who is using this particular tool -
just that the tool exists. Or more specifically - since
there's no way to put the genie back in the bottle - that
tools like this exist and will continue to exist from now
on as ways to attempt to deform the social discourse -
whether that be for Democrats, Republicans, Israelis,
Iraqis, Americans, Conservatives. This should be
troubling to all of us, although I'm not sure that there's
very much we can do about it.
The short term consequence will be that all large scale
public discussions and polls on the internet will become
highly suspect - none of these groups are set up to deal
with this kind of political spam yet. And that has to
heavily affect the ability of organisations that deal with
feedback from their audiences to do so fairly or to
respond to a real constituency rather than just
innumerable interest groups. This is, in effect, a way of
harnessing hundreds of thousands of people to massage
the public debate - the massively distributed conversation
of the internet now has a form of PR - a form of
propoganda - to match.
In substance, of course, there is little that has changed
here - politicians and religious groups have always
wanted to get out their vocal supporters, they've always
wanted to move public opinion and help people spread
the word. And they've used all kinds of techniques to do
it - right back to the simple letter-writing campaign. And
it's far from the first time that new communicative,
democratising technologies have been co-opted or
bought ought by organisations who believe that they
have to - or simply wish to - take every advantage they
possibly can to win, even if it devalues the environment
for all in the process. But it's still something to be
pointed towards with anxiety, to be acknowledged as it is
recognised - if only so we can mourn the passing of a
particular open spirit as the gamers and the trolls
colonise the public spaces and set-up shop. We can
expect to see this kind of campaigning tool being used in
the next US elections I should think, and who knows -
perhaps people I know, people like me, will feel they
need to use them to see the change they want in the
world, or to fight fire with fire.
Of course there is another way this could end. Because a
tool that alerts people to points of debate around Israel
isn't only useful to Israelis, any more than a tool that
alerts the Green lobby to big issues is of use only to
environmental activists. I wouldn't be surprised at all to
see the same tools exposing the same data being co-opted
by the direct opponents of the various groups that set
them up. Each poll or news article may become nothing
more than flashpoint fights between radicals of every
persuasion in which the quieter, more average voices get
completely drowned out. So there you have it -
flashpoints of argument, massively multiplayer
campaigning and propoganda techniques, the loss of the
common voice and a scouring of the commons. So much
for a democratising medium...




Extract 6: A paper on Hate on the Internet


Hate on the Internet
by Dr. Karen Mock and Lisa Armony
B'nai Brith Canada, Nov. 1998
Republished with permission
The Internet is the world's fastest growing means of
telecommunications. Comprised of individual computers,
servers, and the telephone lines that link them, the
Internet connects people across the globe, allowing them
to instantly share thoughts and ideas in ways never
before possible. Its global reach and relative ease of use
make the Internet a unique, highly effective tool for the
promotion of human rights, as unprecedented audiences,
previously unexposed to human rights education can gain
access to valuable information. Unfortunately, the very
mechanisms that make the Internet an exciting
educational tool also render it a dangerous, albeit
efficient means of promoting hatred against racial and
religious minorities. In fact, hate mongers were among
the first to realize the tremendous power of the Internet
to spread their messages. As a result, the computer is
replacing conventional modes of communication as the
dominant conveyor of hate propaganda.
The kinds of hate found on the Internet include
expressions of hostility to "civil rights types" and "mud
people" (the neo-Nazi term for non-whites and non-
Christians), along with condemnation of race mixing,
and page after page of antisemitic tracts, the majority of
which deny that the Holocaust took place and promote
conspiracy theories and other age-old antisemitic
canards. Among the most virulent established websites
are Canada's Heritage Front, Ernst Zundel's "Zundelsite,"
Tom Metzger's White Aryan Resistance (WAR), Aryan
Nations, the Ku Klux Klan, Radio Islam, the Committee
for the Open Debate of the Holocaust Story, and the
National Alliance, arguably the most openly Nazi
organization on the continent.
A recent report of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre
identified over 600 hate sites worldwide, a 100%
increase from last year. In Canada, approximately 150
people are thought to spend their time posting hate
propaganda. Although hate mongers represent only a tiny
proportion of the total Internet population, their ability to
reach the estimated 50 million Internet users worldwide
gives them a voice that far outweighs their numbers.
Moreover, because the Internet is oblivious to
international borders, material prohibited by Canadian
law flows freely and unchallenged both into and out of
this country. As a result, the media has reacted
enthusiastically, providing a near-continuous flow of
stories relating to hate and pornography on the Internet;
and human rights and anti-racist organizations have
voiced serious concern. Political reaction has been
predictably vocal, and calls have been made for
legislation to regulate the net, as well as to apply existing
laws to Internet offenders.
To Regulate the Net...or Not?
Questions of whether and how to legislate the Internet
have been the subject of heated debate. Civil libertarians
describe any attempts to regulate the Internet as
censorship and an invasion of privacy, while some
technologists claim that all such attempts are futile and
that regulatory laws are virtually unenforceable.
Nonetheless, several national and international covenants
and declarations, including the Canadian Charter of
Rights and Freedoms, the Criminal Code of Canada, the
Canadian Human Rights Code, the European Convention
for the Protection of Human Rights, the International
Convention Against All Forms of Racial Discrimination,
and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
recognize the need to balance people's freedom of
expression with their right to be free from hate targeted
against them.
Germany is the first country to try to patrol the
information highway. In June 1997, the German
parliament passed the first comprehensive national
Internet law that sets out the rules for protecting
confidentiality of personal data. The new law prescribes
responsibilities for pornography and other objectionable
material (e.g. Nazi propaganda, Holocaust denial), as
well as granting licenses for "digital signatures,"
electronic codes that are supposed to make commercial
transactions on the Internet both secure and confidential.
In spite of the objections by many Americans, who balk
at anything resembling a violation of free speech and
expression, German officials are unapologetic.
According to the law's sponsor, Jurgen Ruttgers, Minister
of Education and Technology:
It's a liberal law that has nothing to do with censorship
but clearly sets the conditions for what a provider can
and cannot do. The Internet is a means to transport and
distribute knowledge...just as the highways, there needs
to be guidelines for both kinds of traffic.
Germany has also indicted Felix Somm, managing
director of CompuServe Germany, for failure to prevent
the dissemination of three types of illegal material: child
pornography and violent sex; computer games using
images of Hitler, swastikas and other Nazi graphics; and
a computer game with excessive violence beyond the
standards set by Germany's Youth Protection Authority.
In addition, German legislators have recently enacted the
Information and Communication Services Law which,
under some circumstances, places responsibility for
illegal content on Internet Service Providers.
Self Regulation
In the past few years, Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
have entered the debate over how to control the spread of
illegal and harmful material on the net. ISPs in several
countries have formed industry associations in an attempt
to establish codes of conduct, or at least to develop a
common approach to the regulatory issues raised. For
example, the Canadian Association of Internet Providers
(CAIP) Code of Conduct maintains that its members will
not knowingly host illegal content, and that they will
make a reasonable effort to investigate legitimate
complaints about illegal content or network abuse and
will take appropriate action. The Code of Practice of the
Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) of the
U.K., which was originally voluntary but became
mandatory for members in 1997, states that members
“shall use their reasonable endeavours to ensure...service
and promotional material do not contain material inciting
violence, sadism, cruelty or racial hatred.” In 1997, the
European Internet Services Providers Association
(EuroISPA) was established with seven member service
provider associations, representing over 400 ISPs across
the European Union. Its stated goals include “to promote
self-regulation and to influence the regulatory process on
behalf of the Internet industry.” In addition, there have
also been initiatives to set up "watchdog" groups to
monitor illegal material on the Internet. In some cases,
where specific organizations have not been established,
human rights NGOs have taken on this task.
Human Rights Test Case
In Canada, a Human Rights Tribunal is currently
underway against Ernst Zundel and the "Zundelsite", a
website replete with Holocaust denial and hateful
diatribes against Jews and other minority groups. In this
case, the complainants, Sabina Citron and the Toronto
Mayor's Committee on Community and Race Relations,
allege that the respondent has engaged in a
discriminatory practice on the grounds of race, religion
and national or ethnic origin in a matter related to the
usage of a telecommunication undertaking. The three
main issues that have been raised at the hearing are:
     a) is the Internet a "telephonic device" within
      Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act so as
      to give the Tribunal jurisdiction?
     b) does Zundel control the California-based
      Zundelsite? and
     c) does the content of the Zundelsite promote
      hatred?
The site is said to be operated by Ingrid Rimland in San
Diego in an attempt to circumvent the Canadian hate
laws (Sections 318-320 of the Criminal Code). However,
it appears clear that she gets her marching orders directly
from Zundel. So far, the jurisdiction of the Human
Rights Commission has been upheld by the Federal
Court because the applicable section of the code refers to
the use of telephonic transmissions, and e-mail and the
Internet utilize telephone wires. The Tribunal will
continue in the fall of 1998 and likely into 1999.
Regardless of the results, the Zundel case promises to be
precedent setting in the struggle to come to terms with
the Internet.
Using All the Available Tools to Counter Hate
As the Zundel case continues, so too do international
deliberations on whether or not (and if so, how) to
regulate the Internet. These questions were the main
thrust of B'nai Brith Canada's International Symposium
on Hate on the Internet, held in September, 1997 in
Toronto. Over 100 Canadian and international
government and police officials and experts in the fields
of law, legislation, human rights, technology and
education convened to explore the problem of hate on the
Internet from various philosophical perspectives and
professional approaches. The recommendations of the
symposium were designed to counter the growing
problem of hate on the Internet and to assist in national
and international policy development. The
recommendations dealt with four substantive areas:
legal/legislative regulatory measures; voluntary non-
regulatory measures; the role of police; and
educational/pro-active initiatives (complete list of
recommendations). Among the key recommendations
were the application to the Internet of existing laws and
international standards pertaining to hate, the
establishment of voluntary codes of conduct by ISPs, and
greater educational initiatives to instruct young people on
how to recognize hate and Holocaust denial, with greater
emphasis on anti-racism education and training than
presently exists.
Despite good intentions by some governments and
international institutions, the global nature of the Internet
and the ability to create mirror sites make the application
of existing laws to the Internet difficult if not impossible.
How then are we to deal with the problem of millions of
people being exposed to virulent antisemitism and hate
propaganda at the flick of the switch on their computers?
The answer is no different from the approach we
continuously advocate to counter the more traditional
tactics of the hate mongers in this country.
A coordinated effort on several fronts, using all resources
available, is the most effective way to ensure the struggle
against hate will be won in Canada. This work must be
about protection, partnerships and prevention. In order to
accomplish this, our three most powerful tools are the
law, community action and education. Although hate
propaganda (the promotion of hatred against identifiable
groups) has been a criminal offense in Canada since
1970, the application of the law with regard to the
Internet presents complex problems, primarily over
jurisdiction issues in trying to contain an activity that
defies borders. Yet we must attempt to implement our
laws and codes wherever they are applicable.
Ultimately the battle against racism and hate on the
Internet will be won through increased efforts to
incorporate Holocaust education, multiculturalism, anti-
racist, and human rights education in our schools.
Computer literacy courses, indeed most of our courses,
need to be supplemented by strategies to recognize lies
and propaganda, in spite of how credible the purveyors
of hate may try to make them appear, so that when our
youth stumble across such material, in whatever form,
they will reject it. In Canada, websites such as the
Canadian Human Rights Commission (that includes the
new interactive game Countering the Hydra of Hate),
B'nai Brith Canada (including the League for Human
Rights, and Holocaust and Hope), Artists Against
Racism, and the Nizkor Project (with thousands of pages
of historical facts on the Holocaust to counter Holocaust
deniers) demonstrate that meticulous research and
dedicated cooperation can provide the educational impact
needed to confront hate on the Internet.
Dr. Karen Mock is the former National Director of the
League for Human Rights of B'nai Brith Canada and
Lisa Armony is the National Director of the Institute for
International Affairs of B'nai Brith Canada.




Extract 7: A paper on Hate on the Net
Hate on the Net:
A Question of Rights / A Question of Power
Evelyn Kallen
York University
Abstract
This paper will attempt to demonstrate that cyberhate
messages promoted on the Internet by organized political
and religious hate groups incite hatred and promote
harmful action against racial, ethnocultural, religious and
same-sex oriented minorities. The author's analysis of
racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic cyberhate messages
will provide empirical evidence to support the thesis that,
by manipulating deeply held invalidation myths to
provide "evidence" for their arguments, high tech hate
mongers incite virulent hatred of and harmful action
toward targeted minorities. By so doing, high tech hate-
mongering violates minority members' human rights to
dignity and equality by denying their fundamental
freedom from group defamation and harassment.
Introduction
This paper will attempt to demonstrate that cyberhate
messages promoted on the Internet by organized political
and religious hate groups incite hatred and promote
harmful action against racial, ethnocultural, religious and
same-sex oriented minorities. The author's analysis of
racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic cyberhate messages
will provide empirical evidence to support the thesis that,
by manipulating deeply held invalidation myths to
provide "evidence" for their arguments, high tech hate
mongers incite virulent hatred of and harmful action
toward targeted minorities. By so doing, high tech hate-
mongering violates minority members' human rights to
dignity and equality by denying their fundamental
freedom from group vilification and harassment.
The Conceptual Framework: Fundamental Principles
of Human Rights
As applied in the conceptual framework of this paper, the
concept of human rights refers to a set of internationally
agreed upon moral principles which have been set down
in the various declarations of United Nations human
rights instruments (UN 1978, 1988). These international
human rights declarations were developed, initially, by
democratic countries to express world-wide horror and
repudiation of the atrocities of WW2: they represented an
attempt to ensure that crimes against humanity, such as
policies of genocide (the deliberate attempt to
exterminate an entire human population), would not
happen again.
Over the years, these principles have continuously been
refined and extended in order to afford greater and
clearer protection for human rights in general, and for the
minority rights of particular populations, including
women, persons with mental and physical disabilities,
racial and ethnic minorities, indigenous (aboriginal)
peoples and others, more specifically.
The three main principles behind fundamental human
rights are: freedom to decide and to make the crucial
decisions affecting one's life destiny; equality of
opportunity in all life pursuits, and dignity of
person/respect as a human being. Freedom to decide
includes decision-making in public life (the right to vote
in an election; the right to run for public office) as well
as private decisions: choice of friends, marital partners,
jobs) and, most importantly, freedom of expression and
the right of dissent against the state. Equality of
opportunity includes the right to life and to a standard of
living that makes life possible. This includes the right to
food, shelter, work, public education and so on. Dignity
of person includes the right to freedom from cruel,
inhuman or derogatory treatment and freedom from
incitement to hatred and group defamation. Dignity of
person is the unequivocal right to respect as a human
being, regardless of differences in individual and/or
group level racial/cultural/behavioral attributes.
International Human Rights Provisions Protecting
the Right to Dignity: Protections Against Incitement
to Hate and Group Defamation
The right of members of all racial and ethnic groups to
freedom from the promotion of racial hatred is protected
under article 20.2 of the International Covenant on Civil
and Political Rights ICCPR. This article states that "Any
advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that
constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or
violence shall be prohibited by law" (UN, 1978:11).
Under the provisions of international human rights
instruments explicitly designed to prevent racial
discrimination, namely, the United Nations Declaration
on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
(UNDEAFRD) and the International Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
(ICEAFRD), there are two articles which afford
protection for the right to freedom from racial
discrimination and racial hatred. Article 2.3
(UNDEAFRD) and article 1.4 (ICEAFRD) allow special
measures of affirmative action designed to redress past,
systemic discrimination for the sole purpose of securing
adequate advancement of disadvantaged racial and ethnic
minorities (UN 1978:24-25). Article 4 (ICEAFRD)
prohibits hate propaganda and enjoins states parties to
declare illegal and an offence punishable by law all
dissemination of ideas based on racial superiority or
racial hatred and to declare illegal and prohibit all
organizations promoting such ideas. This article
specifically protects the right of racial/ethnic minorities
to be free from incitement to hate and group defamation.
However, as a general human rights principle, it can
justifiably be extended to protect non-ethnic minorities
as well.
To date, only some thirteen nations (including Canada,
but not the United States) have ratified the international
human rights instruments containing these protections
against the promotion of hate and group defamation and
have enacted laws which endorse some of their
provisions. Nevertheless, these international human
rights covenants represent universally endorsed moral
principles, human rights guidelines to which all member
nations should conform. And these international
guidelines strongly endorse the prohibition of hate
propaganda, hate- mongering activities and organized
hate groups.
Rights in Conflict: Freedom of Expression Versus
Freedom From Group Vilification
The virulent spread of hate on the (as yet) unregulated
Internet has raised concerns not only about what it means
for the future of free speech on our planet, but also what
it says about our human rights priorities. To anti-hate
activists, freedom of speech does not include the right to
vilify. From this view, hate-mongering by organized
networks of political and religious hate groups
embracing and promoting racist, anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi,
white-supremacist, anti-gay and anti-feminist ideologies
and strategies, constitutes a direct violation of the
fundamental human right of targeted minorities to
freedom from group defamation and its harmful psycho-
social effects. On the other hand, to absolutist upholders
of unfettered freedom of speech, protection of this
fundamental human right assumes priority, and virtually
no form of censorship of hate-mongering is held to be
justified.
The Hate Propaganda Debate
In contrast with the United States, Canada's Criminal
Code contains specific provisions prohibiting incitement
to hate (319(2) of the Criminal Code, R.S.C., 1985, c. C-
46). As in Canada, in countries outside of North America
where anti-hate propaganda legislation is in place, the
conflict of rights at issue in the controversy over
promotion of hate on the Net must be analyzed within the
broader ideological context of the hate propaganda
debate.
There are two sharply contrasting positions among both
human rights activists and legal scholars on this question.
1) The "libertarian" view holds that freedom of speech
takes precedence over all other rights and freedoms
because all rights and freedoms depend on the existence
of an effective right of dissent (Rosenthal 1978: 139).
From this view, the harmful effects of hate propaganda
are not deemed to be sufficiently grave to justify the
imposition of restrictions on freedom of speech -
especially legal/criminal restrictions. 2) The opposing
"egalitarian" view holds that restrictions on hate-
mongering are necessary in order to protect minority
groups from pain and suffering and in order to promote
inter-group harmony in the society (Rosenthal 1978: 20).
From the egalitarian view, all persons and groups must
equally be protected against the willful promotion of
hatred and against defamatory attacks which deny their
right to human dignity. Freedom of speech, from this
view, does not mean the right to vilify. Insofar as hate
propaganda has no redeeming social value and is
inherently harmful both to target groups and the societal
order, restrictions on freedom of expression explicitly
designed to curb hate-mongering represent "reasonable
limits." As proponents of this view, egalitarians generally
support legislative means of curbing the activities of hate
propagandists, including the use of criminal charges and
public trials (Canada 1984; Canadian Bar Association
1984; Cotler:1985).
A key conceptual issue underlying this debate is whether
or not affronts to group dignity constitute violations of
the individual human right to dignity of members of
target minority groups. The egalitarian position is
consistent with the view that an affront to group dignity
is experienced by minority members as an affront to their
individual dignity. The libertarian position is inconsistent
with this view.
The Promotion of Hate: Prejudice or Discrimination
From a human rights perspective, the hate propaganda
debate has been conceptualized in terms of rights in
conflict. Another way of conceptualizing the debate,
using a social scientific approach, is to apply the
distinction between the concepts of prejudice and
discrimination in the analysis of the issues raised in the
debate.
When hate propaganda and its dissemination are
conceptualized as prejudice (negative ideas, beliefs,
attitudes, and feelings toward the target for hate), it can
be argued that it does not violate human rights. This, we
suggest, is what the libertarians are saying. However,
when hate promotion activities are conceptualized as
discrimination (acts or practices which deny target
groups their individual and collective human right to
dignity), the promotion of hatred indisputably violates
human rights. This, we suggest, is the line of argument
put forward by proponents of the egalitarian view
(Kallen & Lam 1993).
If we conceptualize hate propaganda and the promotion
of hate as prejudice, then the argument follows that anti-
hate propaganda laws are both inappropriate and
ineffective means for the suppression of hatred. If
however we conceptualize the promotion of hatred as
acts of discrimination, then the social scientific evidence
supports the view that anti-hate propaganda laws are
necessary and efficacious measures to curtail the spread
of hatred, to protect minority target groups from harmful
vilification and to safeguard inter-group harmony among
diverse population groups in society (Kallen & Lam op
cit).
The Harmful Impact Of Hate-Mongering
Insofar as hate-mongering activities can have a harmful
impact on the target for hate and/or on inter-group
relations in the society, then such activities clearly
constitute acts of discrimination. What needs to be
determined is the nature of the harm caused by the
promotion of hate. Social psychologists have been
largely responsible for the analysis of the harmful impact
of hate- mongering. This approach is espoused by
Kaufmann, in his Appendix to the (1966) report to the
Minister of Justice of the Special Committee on Hate
Propaganda in Canada. Kaufmann points out that most
psychologists accept a theory of general persuadability as
a personal characteristic. He argues, in light of this
theory, that account must be taken of the fact that human
beings are emotional as well as rational in their
predispositions, and that, particularly in times of stress
and strain, they can be swept away by the emotional
appeals of false, defamatory propaganda against
identifiable target groups. Hitler's Germany, he suggests,
provides a stark case in point. Kaufmann argues that the
uncontrolled harassment of minority target groups and
the uncontrolled repetition of falsehoods and pseudo-
facts can leave behind a residue of prejudice and hate
among (non-target) recipients - a seed bed from which
more widespread incitement to hate and harm can
flourish. With regard to the psychological impact of hate
messages on target groups, Kaufmann contends that hate-
mongering can inflict profound psychological and
spiritual damage on members of target groups through
defamatory messages which violate the right to dignity of
the group as a whole. The latter point is strongly
supported by the findings of the author's research on the
psycho-social impact of hate trials on a minority target
group in Canada (Kallen 1992 ; Kallen & Lam 1993 ).
Invalidation Myths and Ideologies: The Paradigm of
Hate
In order to "justify" harmful discriminatory action
against targeted minorities, in clear violation of their
fundamental human rights, organized hate groups
throughout the globe rely on and promote invalidation
myths and ideologies through which they attempt to
invalidate, in essence, to dehumanize, identified
minorities and thus to legitimize violation of their human
rights.
Let me take a minute or two to elaborate on the concept
of invalidation, which I hold to be critical for the analysis
of hate propaganda and its harmful effects. Invalidation
myths are falsified statements which allege that
identified human populations are innately inferior or
invalid (defective) with regard to particular human
attributes (Kallen 1995: 22). For example, (as will be
amply demonstrated throughout this paper) Jews are
depicted in prevailing anti-Semitic myths as "devils
incarnate" - unscrupulous power-hungry and money-
hungry manipulators of media, governments and
international finance, whose only loyalty is to other Jews.
Blacks are classified in racist myths as racially, culturally
and morally inferior sub-human beings - criminally
inclined dope-peddlers, wife-beaters and murderers. Gay
men are identified in heterosexist/homophobic myths as
anti-human beings - sinful, perverted, promiscuous sex-
seekers, life threatening AIDS-carriers and transmitters
of disease and death.
Invalidation ideologies - like anti-Semitism, white racism
and heterosexism - are spurious theories which are
designed to give credibility to invalidation myths by
providing purported "evidence" for them (Kallen op cit).
The arguments are premised on scientifically
unsupportable assumptions about differences in human
attributes among various populations; prejudicial
assumptions which serve to inferiorize, to invalidate,
particular populations and thus to provide a platform for
discriminatory action against them. Typically, pseudo-
scientific and/or pseudo-religious "evidence" of minority
inferiority or dangerousness is manipulated in order to
justify violations of minority rights.
Hate propaganda represents probably the most malignant
expression of invalidation ideology, for it not only
inferiorizes target populations, but it also singles them
out as dangerous and threatening to society. Not
surprisingly, it follows from this premise that hate
propaganda urges its audience to take steps to eliminate
the purported threat. What begins as prejudice is thus
translated into discrimination through hate-mongering
activities which incite hate and harm against the target
group.
We can conceptualize the process of invalidation as a
sequence of three main stages:
  1. Invalidation myth (prejudice): definition of target
     group as inferior and/or dangerous
  2. Invalidation ideology: development of theory of
     vilification and provision of supporting arguments
     and "evidence "to" justify "denial of fundamental
     human rights
  3. Platform for action: incitement to hatred and harm
     (discriminatory action); denial of human rights.
By way of illustration of this conceptual paradigm, let us
examine the following excerpt from a hate message
promoted on Antipas's Home Page:
My church (Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka,
Kansas) engages in daily, peaceful sidewalk
demonstrations opposing the homosexual lifestyle of
soul-damning, nation-destroying filth. We display large
colorful signs containing Bible words and sentiments,
including: GOD HATES FAGS, FAGS HATE GOD,
AIDS CURES FAGS, THANK GOD FOR AIDS, FAGS
BURN IN HELL, NO TEARS FOR QUEERS, FAGS
ARE NATURE FREAKS, GOD GAVE FAGS UP, NO
SPECIAL LAWS FOR FAGS, etc.
Analysis
This hate message provides a clear example of a
homophobic religious invalidation ideology, an ideology
of heterosexism.
  1. Invalidation myth: Homosexuals are abnormal
     ("nature freaks"). The homosexual lifestyle is sinful,
     shameful, rooted in "soul-damning, nation-
     destroying filth".
  2. Invalidation ideology: God has sent AIDS (=death)
     as a "cure" for homosexuality
  3. Platform for action: Death to homosexuals
The sequential model of invalidation, briefly illustrated
above, will provide the conceptual framework to be
applied in the analysis of cyberhate messages in the next
section of this paper.
Examples
My first set of examples1 are excerpted from online
articles in FREE SPEECH, Vol. No. 5, 1995. National
Vanguard Books. Electronic version found @ Christian
Identity Online, Feb 19,1996
These articles focus on the alleged threat to North
American civilization and to the "normal" white
Christians who built this civilization, posed by "alien"
Jewish control of the media and the government, and by
non-white immigration and "multiculturalism".
Excerpted from: "Terror Breeds Terror: Oklahoma City
in Perspective", by Dr. William L. Pierce Chairman,
National Alliance.
...When a civilization is dying, when the soul of a people
is being poisoned... bloodshed and suffering are
inevitable.... what the [Jew] controlled media and
government has done to America is [to provoke]
terrorism...by the ...deliberate flooding of our country
with non-Whites from the Third World... refusal to halt
the massive illegal immigration across our border with
Mexico and the Caribbean... catering to the worst
elements in the population with welfare programs...
promotion of "multiculturalism," with the consequent
ruin of our schools, the degradation of our popular
culture, and the conversion of our cities into crime-
infested hell holes.... the spiritual poisoning of our young
people: young Whites singing rap ditties and behaving
like Blacks.
Terror breeds Terror. The privileged classes- the Jews
and the politicians and the homosexuals and the
minorities and the female executives - believe that if they
can control what normal Americans read and hear and
think, they can control what we do... They'll use each
new incident of terrorism as an excuse for censorship, for
repression. they'll try to stampede a timid, frightened,
confused public into allowing the government to take
away even more of their rights in return for the false
promise of more security. Our task is to halt that
stampede by helping people understand who America's
real enemies [the privileged classes] are... and by
encouraging them to stand together in a united front
against [our enemies].




Excerpted from: "Evil in High Places", by Kevin Alfred
Strom.
THERE IS EVIL IN HIGH PLACES in America today...
because there has been a revolution in this country and
the American people lost. The revolution... the takeover
of America by [Jewish] aliens and the traitors who
served those aliens... was engineered and executed by the
same forces who... brought the scourge of Communism
to Europe.... The Jewish revolution is now complete - but
the revolutionists feel far from secure. Now that they are
in power, their main concern is staying there... They
want to infiltrate agents into groups they merely suspect
of lawbreaking. And who do you think they "suspect"?
The Mafia? Jewish organized crime gangs in New York
and Los Angeles? Homosexual activists who fling AIDS-
infected blood at innocent churchgoers? Jamaican
cocaine dealers who kill almost with impunity on our
city streets? No. It is you and I, it is anyone who opposes
their evil agenda, it is anyone who wants a return to the
values that made America great... They would take away
the last of our freedoms, the freedom to speak, and they
would frame, they would plant evidence, they would lie,
they would kill to stay in power .
[I urge you to] speak out against those who would turn
our beloved America into a brutal Third World police
state.... When our people realize that hundreds of
thousands of us are speaking out, they will join us, and
when enough of them do that, we will be the state - the
American government will once again be in the hands of
true Americans. The outward-bound 747s will be...
overloaded with traitors and alien subversives and their
ill-gotten lucre, heading for Israel or elsewhere where
their evil revolution may still be in power. But the Jewish
revolution will be finished here. America will be
America once again. And our sons and our daughters will
be able to look with clear eyes into a future once again
brighter than the sun.




Excerpted from: "Non-White Immigration: Death
Sentence for America", by Dr. William L. Pierce
Chairman, National Alliance.
... after the Second World War, the floodgates from the
non-White world were opened [and] the result has been a
steady rise in the percentage of non-White minorities in
America. Most of these non-White races breed much
faster than Whites do.... At some time in the next century
Whites will become a minority [and through racial inter-
breeding] America will gradually become a Brown
country.... a hundred years from now there will be no
White schools, no White neighborhoods, no White clubs
or bars or restaurants. We will be submerged: that is, our
grandchildren will be submerged.
.... as we have given the minorities more and more...
advantage over ourselves - all sorts of affirmative action
preferences in admissions to universities and professional
schools, in the granting of financial aid, in hiring and
promotions - crime has become worse and worse. In the
future the crime situation [will escalate because]
minorities will continue growing.
... We have only to look to the continent of Africa in
order to see our own future. Before Europeans came to
Africa, the Blacks there were eating each other, literally,
just like the other animals... The Blacks reverted to their
jungle behavior almost as soon as we had left. Even in
South Africa, which until very recently was a civilized,
White country... since the handing over of the country to
Black rule... Black gangs prowl [the city streets] in
search of prey by day as well as by night... conditions in
South Africa [will soon] resemble those in Rwanda or
Uganda, [and] that's where we're headed too...the law of
entropy... tells us that if we place a highly developed
civilization and a jungle society in contact and let the
inhabitants of the jungle society take a hand in the
running of things, the [civilized society] will soon take
on the characteristics of the jungle society. The tendency
is always toward dissolution, toward chaos and ruin -
except in those rare instances where the vital spark... the
genius for order... is able to assert itself. When that spark
is quenched or overwhelmed, decay inevitably sets in.
The vital spark [in America], the spirit of progress which
built our civilization, is European.
... Our government, however, [is] under the influence of
the [Jew]- controlled mass media... Jews, throughout
their whole history have lived by two principles: first,
always be loyal to your fellow Jews; and second, always
remember that anyone who is not a Jew is your enemy;
never forget and never forgive. Our government now,
under the influence of the [Jew] controlled mass media,
is pursuing policies which are guaranteed to extinguish
our spark, policies which are guaranteed to bring our
level of civilization down to that in Rwanda or Haiti...
... it may take more than 100 years for America to get
there, but that's where we're headed...
... Changes are beginning to take place, however. Our
weekly radio programs are reaching more and more
people... The ripples of truth are spreading. Soon those
ripples will become waves. And one day the storm will
break loose over this land.
Analysis of Messages
  1. Invalidation myths: Targeted minorities (Jews, non-
     Whites, homosexuals) are evil, aberrant traitors and
     aliens
  2. Invalidation ideology: Targeted minorities pose a
     formidable threat to "our" (ultra-conservative,
     white, heterosexual Christian) civilization. The first
     alleged threat focuses on the menace of political
     corruption, terrorism and repression caused by the
     takeover of the economy, the media and government
     institutions by Jewish enemy intruders. The second
     and third alleged threats focus on the menace of
     racial and cultural corruption to North American
     civilization caused by non- white immigrants, and
     the menace of moral corruption and death posed by
     AIDS- spreading homosexuals.
  3. Platform for action: The audience is urged to take
     immediate action to eliminate this formidable threat.
     At the peak of its fervor, the call to action urges the
     audience to unite, and to take concerted action to
     eradicate the alleged threat to "our" superior (white,
     heterosexual, ultra-conservative, Christian) values
     and civilization. The audience is pressed to take
     whatever steps are necessary to protect North
     American civilization by disempowering, expelling,
     overthrowing or annihilating the blacks and (non-
     white) third-world immigrants, the homosexuals,
     the Jews and the "liberal" Jewish-controlled
     establishment -- target group/s identified as the
     source of the threat.
My second set of hate messages focus on the alleged
international threat to Christianity, to democracy, and to
world order posed by the Judaic religion and by Jewish
control of American media and of international
corporations and governments. The first example is a
brief excerpt taken from an article which appeared on the
Internet in the news group alt.skinheads on October 17,
1994.
Subject: Jewish Talmud (Anti-Christ) and Satanic-Sick
and Insaine (sic)"... According to the Talmud, the Jewish
God is not the father of all men and the ideal of love,
justice and mercy, like the Christian God; on the
contrary, he is a God of vengeance... just and merciful
only to his own people, but foe to all other nations,
denying them human rights and commanding their defeat
that Israel may appropriate their riches and rule over
them".
The second example is excerpted from "The Holocaust
Myth: A Debilitating Device of the Jews", by Milton
John Kleim, Jr., listed by ARYAN CORPS HOME
PAGE. February 27, 1996
... Why is the legend of the Holocaust propagated?...
Building upon the fact that hundreds of thousands of
Jews suffered and died during the war [World War Two]
- a war in which Jewish leaders played the major part in
materializing - the Holocaust Myth was developed into a
legend of genocide... myriad falsehoods were manifested
into a fable about a program of extermination against
European Jewry...
What do the Jews stand to gain from the Holocaust
Myth? Mainly two things: most importantly, a
psychological and spiritual weapon for utilization against
peoples of the West; secondly, billions of dollars of
monetary aid and materiels [sic] for their cause,
including the State of Israel, via "reparations," and
profits collected from the promotion of the Myth... The
Holocaust Myth serves to instill shame in White people,
to diminish pride in the accomplishments of the Aryan
race. Thee [sic?] Holocaust Myth is used as a vehicle for
extortion. The German ... and other Aryan nations are
expected to contribute to Israel and other Jewish charities
largely to "atone" for their inaction to "save" the Jews...
Many historical revisionists are seeking justice... [by
exposing] the Holocaust myth.... They seek to right an
obscene wrong, to remove the indictment against not
only Hitler and National Socialism, but against all
Western peoples who have refused to bow to the Jewish
will. The neutralization of the eternal shame imposed
upon the White race will occur when history is revised in
accordance with the facts... With work and perseverance,
the Holocaust Myth will be shown to be what it truly is: a
hoax; a program which simply did not exist.
My third example is excerpted from "WHO RULES
AMERICA? The Alien Grip on Our News and
Entertainment Media Must Be Broken", by the Research
Staff of National Vanguard Magazine, listed by
AMERICAN DISSIDENT VOICES, February 27, 1996
There is no greater power in the world today than that
wielded by the few dozen [Jewish] men who control
America's mass news and entertainment media. The
[Jewish] control of the opinion-moulding media is
monolithic. All of the controlled media - television,
radio, newspapers, magazines, books, motion pictures -
speak with a single voice, each reinforcing the other. It is
a view of the world in which every voice proclaims ... the
inerrant nature of the Jewish "Holocaust" tale, the
equality of the races, the wickedness of attempting to halt
a flood of non-White aliens from pouring across our
borders, the danger of permitting citizens to keep and
bear arms, the moral equivalence of all sexual
orientations, and the desirability of a "pluralistic,"
cosmopolitan society rather than a homogeneous one. It
is a view of the world designed by the [Jewish] media
masters to suit their own ends - and the pressure to
conform to that view is overwhelming.
... The Jewish control of the American mass media is the
single most important fact of life, not just in America,
but in the whole world today. There is nothing - plague,
famine, economic collapse, even nuclear war - more
dangerous to the future of our people... By permitting the
Jews to control our news and entertainment media we are
giving them... virtual control of our government; we also
are giving them control of the minds and souls of our
children, whose attitudes and ideas are shaped more by
Jewish television and Jewish films than by parents,
schools, or any other influence.
... The Jew-controlled entertainment media have taken
the lead in persuading a whole generation that
homosexuality is a normal and acceptable way of life;
that there is nothing at all wrong with White women
dating or marrying Black men, or with White men
marrying Asiatic women; that all races are inherently
equal in ability and character - except that the character
of the White race is suspect because of a history of
oppressing other races; and that any effort by Whites at
racial self-preservation is reprehensible.
... Our Responsibility
... We must oppose the further spreading of this poison
among our people, and we must break the power of those
who are spreading it... [To remain silent] would be
tantamount to race suicide... We must shrink from
nothing in combating this evil power which has fastened
its deadly grip on our people and is injecting its lethal
poison into their minds and souls. If we fail to destroy it,
it certainly will destroy our race.
Analysis of Messages
  1. Invalidation myths:
       o Jews are aliens and traitors: Judaism stresses

          loyalty only to fellow Jews/ Jews act only in
          their own interests (implied threat to Aryan
          race)
       o Jews are selfish, greedy liars and extortionists:

          The "Holocaust hoax" has been fabricated by
          Jews to legitimize extortion; to shame and
          pressure non-Jews to give financial aid to
          Israel (alleged threat to Aryan race)
       o Jews are powerful media manipulators: by their

          monolithic control of the American media,
          Jews are not only able to exert control of
          government, but also to poison the minds of
          people throughout the world with pro-minority/
            anti-Aryan propaganda. (alleged threat of death
            to Aryan race)
  2. Invalidation ideology: "Alien" Jews pose a serious
     threat to the Aryan race in North America and
     throughout the world.
  3. Platform for action: True Americans ("our folk") are
     urged to take steps to put an end to the monolithic
     Jewish control and manipulation of the media. And,
     it is urged, We must take whatever steps are
     necessary in order to eradicate the insidious Jewish
     threat to North American civilization and to the
     future of the Aryan race.
My third and last set of examples focus on the alleged
threat to fundamentalist Christianity, the Aryan race, the
heterosexual family and the future health of the World
population, posed by the corrupt, sinful, perverted,
dangerous and life-threatening sexual behaviors and
relationships of homosexuals.
My first example is excerpted from "Death Penalty for
Homosexuals": Intolerance of, Discrimination Against,
and the DEATH PENALTY FOR HOMOSEXUALS is
Prescribed in the Bible. By Pastor Peter J. Peters listed
by SCRIPTURES FOR AMERICA WORLDWIDE .
February 27, 1996
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman,
both of them have committed an abomination: they shall
surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Leviticus 20:13
... The fact that the death penalty exists among us in the
form of disease, serial murders, childless and grand
childless families (which brings the death of a family
name or lineage) due to homosexuality, shows that
Leviticus 20:13 is a Law. It's just a matter of who and
how many are going to die.... It is also apparent the death
penalty comes with diseases connected to the
homosexual life style. Yet, homosexuals do not mind
promoting their lifestyle which, in reality, is to promote
the death penalty [for its victims]....
Because Leviticus 20:13 is the existing Law of our
Creator God, there is the judgment of DEATH [for
homosexuals]. If we as a society refuse to repent and
acquire righteous government to punish this crime with
the death penalty, then even more will die... As a nation,
people will reap the judgments of violating His existing
proper Law with its accompanying proper intolerance
and discrimination. After all, the Bible says not only is
the homosexual worthy of the death penalty, but also
those who give approval to it...
My second example is excerpted from: Up Front, Issue #
19, September, 1995 (Toronto: Heritage Front), listed by
HERITAGE FRONT ONLINE, February 28, 1996
DON'T PROTEST! YOU MIGHT HAVE A PHOBIA
HEATHER CAN HAVE TWO MOMMIES
... One of the institutions which has made the Aryan race
strong... in the past has been our respect for the family.
... Traditionally, men and women of our race have
understood that... the sanctity of the family must remain
inviolable. For a long time, we seemed to understand the
basic concept of what constitutes a family, and what does
not.
... However, in the present climate of anti-white
discrimination, affirmative action,... alien diseases,
governmental tyranny and miscegenation, even the
family is being threatened.... Today, one of the many
plagues upon our culture is the rise of "homosexual
rights" - specifically, the push by "gay" activists for
adoption privileges.
According to... the guiding ideology of the traitors in
power today... anyone who thinks that perverts should be
kept out of the kid-raising business, is quite simply a
bigot, suffering from some undefined "phobia." After all,
if heterosexual couples can adopt children, and
sodomites - oops, I mean homosexual - couples can't,
why, that's a clear case of discrimination! [Since] there is
no greater threat to our enlightened Peoples' Republic Of
Canada than the big `D' word,... what used to be called
molestation is now cloaked in the euphemism, "same-sex
adoption rights."... How can the Aryan race rise to its
rightful position as a free, moral healthy Folk when we
allow the very seed of our existence to be stolen by
perverts?... Homosexuality... is an unnatural practice and
creates an abominable environment in which to bring up
the heirs of our race. Homosexuals...must not be
permitted to impose their lifestyle on the rest of us. And
if one area above all others must remain sacrosanct, and
off limits to [perverts], it is the nurturing and moral
guidance of the next generation.
My third example is excerpted from "AIDS SECRETS:
What the Government and the Media Don't Want You to
Know", by Kevin Alfred Strom, listed by NATIONAL
ALLIANCE MAIN PAGE. February 27, 1996.
... There is a killer loose in the land. This killer cuts
down all whom he touches. This killer... AIDS or
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, emerged... over
a decade ago, rising like an angel of death out of the
oozing rivers of body fluids that spilled like fetid
waterfalls... from the sick and sleazy pleasure houses of
the "liberated" homosexuals... The medical establishment
and the public health authorities withhold vital
information about AIDS which could save millions of
lives. Why are we being betrayed and lied to by those
who are paid with our tax money to protect us?
It has been well-documented that the tremendous power
of organized homosexuals (which reaches even into the
White House) holds most of our craven and criminal
politicians in thrall... homosexuals have been greatly
aided by the controlled media. The media are lying not
only to protect the so-called "human rights" of
homosexuals. They are also lying to protect their one-
world, multicultural agenda. Blacks account for only
about 12% of the US population, but they account for
fully 90% of all AIDS infections in this country which
were acquired through heterosexual means.
... What can you do to save your family and your country
from this deadly epidemic? There's a lot you can do.
Avoid all contact with known homosexuals... If you live
in [an area with a population of gays or blacks or third
world immigrants] consider...moving into a racially,
culturally, and medically healthier area. Even if you must
sacrifice status or money to do it,... avoid repeated close
contact with those in high-risk groups, including Blacks,
Third World immigrants, homosexuals, and drug users.
Do not allow your children to associate with individuals
in these groups
... Plan your travels to skirt around areas where such
groups form a high percentage of the population, even if
it takes extra time and gasoline to do so.
Analysis of Messages
  1. Invalidation myths: Homosexuals are perverted,
     morally corrupt, sinful, and dangerous to society.
  2. Invalidation ideology: Homosexuals and the
     homosexual lifestyle represent a palpable threat not
     only to the moral fibre of society, but also to the
     very survival of the human species. Same-sex
     relationships are life-threatening: instead of giving
     life to children; they destroy life by spreading the
     contagious and fatal AIDS disease. Because
     homosexuals are agents of death, they deserve the
     death penalty for their crimes. Homosexuality is so
     morally abominable, that "Our" God has decreed
     that the death penalty be imposed not only on
     homosexuals but also on all who give approval to
     them.
  3. Platform for action: "We" (heterosexual moral
     majority) are warned that "our" God has mandated
     the death penalty for homosexuals and for all who
     give approval to them. Implied platform for action:
     "We" must carry out the will of God; we must
     condemn homosexuality and we must take steps to
     eradicate its threat to life by expelling homosexuals
     from the society and (or) by imposing the death
     penalty on homosexuals and on all who support
     their lifestyle.
Implications of Hate on the Net for Human Rights
Violation
As a highly pernicious form of invalidation ideology,
hate propaganda rationalizes, legitimizes and incites
harmful discriminatory action against minority target
groups. I posited the argument, earlier in this paper, that
hate propaganda represents probably the most malignant
expression of invalidation ideology, for it not only
inferiorizes target populations, but it also singles them
out as dangerous and threatening to society. Following
from this premise, hate propaganda urges its audience to
take steps to eliminate the purported threat. The audience
is urged to unite and to take concerted action to protect
society by disempowering, expelling, overthrowing or
annihilating the minority target group identified as the
source of the threat. By so doing, hate-mongering
violates the fundamental human rights of targeted
minorities to freedom from vilification, harassment, and
harm.
I believe that the evidence which I have presented in my
excerpts from current hate messages promoted on the
Internet provides strong support for this thesis. In all of
the examples, whites and blacks/non-white immigrants,
"true" Christians and Jews, heterosexuals and
homosexuals are set apart in terms of contrast
conceptions of WE - the pure, virtuous, builders of
civilized Western/Christian society, versus THEY - the
corrupt, evil, heathen alien intruders, bringing decay and
ruin to our superior way of life. In each example, the
argument of invalidation "demonstrates" that THEY pose
a serious threat to OUR superior white Aryan race,
Christian religion, western civilization, democratic
institutions and family values. This threat, it is urgently
argued must be stopped. The audience is urged to take
immediate, concerted action to remove the alien threat by
disempowering, expelling and/or annihilating minorities
singled out as the source of the threat: homosexuals,
blacks, third world (non-white) immigrants and Jews.
In conclusion, the analysis of High Tech Hate messages
presented in this paper provides strong support for the
thesis that hate-mongering incites hatred and harm
against targeted minorities and thereby violates their
fundamental human rights to dignity and equality by
denying their fundamental freedom from vilification and
harassment.
Codicil: A Question of Rights / A Question of Power
The title of this article raises the critical question I wish
to pose, in closing. The question concerns our priorities
with regard to human rights. My analysis of cyberhate
messages reveals the violations of the human rights of
targeted minorities which high tech hate- mongering
engenders. These violations of minority rights are
allowed to proceed unchecked because those with the
power to decide; with the power to order our priorities
with regard to human rights, can argue, persuasively, that
to introduce constraints on hate-mongering by organized
political and religious hate groups would violate our
preciously safeguarded and fundamental rights to
freedom of expression, freedom of association, and
freedom of religion. A human rights dilemma of giant
magnitude, to be sure. So whose human rights continue
to be violated? Not the rights of those with the power to
decide, the established majority powers, but the rights of
vulnerable, stigmatized minorities, the identified targets
of cyberhate.
Perhaps it is time we rethought our priorities with regard
to human rights.
Evelyn Kallen
Chk out this site


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