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Page 2 The Westchester Guardian THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2010
Of Significance
Editorial.......................................................................................2
Community..................................................................................4
Economic Development..............................................................4
Government.................................................................................6
Letters..........................................................................................8
Movie Reviews.............................................................................9
Music Reviews...........................................................................10
OpEd..........................................................................................12
People.........................................................................................14
Politics........................................................................................15
Show Prep..................................................................................17
Spoof..........................................................................................17
Sports.........................................................................................18
Technology.................................................................................19
Telling: Eclipsing the Silence....................................................20
Travel..........................................................................................21
Legal Notices.............................................................................22
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Thoughts About The Season
By Michael Edelman, Sam Zherka, and Hezi Aris
In this joyous holiday season with the New
Year’s festivities only days away, it would seem
to behoove us to reflect on the greatness of our
nation and what made it become a beacon of
freedom throughout the world. In other words,
although We may disagree with each other on
various policies and ideologies, we all recognize
that what makes Us the United States of
America is an abiding respect for our differences.
Unfortunately this last campaign season
saw a candidate nominated for a congressional
seat in Westchester County whose writings and
stated views contradict just about everything
that brings us together. After the Republican
party’s first choice unexpectedly dropped out,
Jim Russell offered to run against incumbent
Congresswoman Nita Lowey. Having run and
lost to her before, maybe it seemed like a good
idea but it became immediately apparent that the
choice was worse than a poor one.
Russell was instantaneously rejected by his
own party, both at the county and state levels,
when Maggie Haberman, among others revealed
in the September 10, 2010 issue of Politico, a
highly respected political journal, that Russell
had written an article for “ a right wing publication”
entitled “The Western Contribution to World
History.” In that article, which appeared in the
Occidental Quarterly Journal, Russell expounded
on what was purported to be a scholarly thesis.
Some of the excerpts included quotes from T.S.
Elliot when Elliot advocated a “homogenous
population and unity of religious background”
stating that “reasons of race and culture combine
to make any large number of free-thinking Jews
‘Undesirable,’” Russell opined that contrary to
the yammering about bringing us all together,
the biological function of human language and
culture is just the opposite. For example, “to keep
discreet groups apart” Russell also wrote “there is
now afoot a conscious effort to de-Europeanize
and to re-Judaize Christianity through scriptural
revision, internal treachery and external pressure,”
etc Ms Haberman pointed out as well that
Russell praised Eugenics, a social movement that
believes in racial separation.
Is it a coincidence when he was extolling the
virtues of western medicine he chose to name
only Pasteur, Fleming, and Curie... leaving out
Salk, Sabine, and Einstein? Is it a coincidence
that while praising advances in communication
he cited Morse, Marconi, Edison, and Bell
but admonished and accused Mayer, Thalberg,
Warner, and Cohen? He accused the latter, all
of them Jewish, of “hijacking” these inventions
for their own “financial gain, or worse to
“manipulate our opinions and behavior accusing
David Sarnoff in the process of “sending a spy to
steal from Farnsworth the patent for television.
We don’t believe in coincidences and neither
should anyone else.
Clearly , Westchester County has not in
recent memory been subjected to a candidate
for public office espousing Russell’s view of the
world which David Duke liked so much that
he posted it on his own web site. And so, once
defrocked, Russell’s candidacy was a non starter
.The news media including RNN, News 12,
Politico, Salon, and Raw Story all ran with the
story, pointing out that Russell also writes highly
of the book, “The Camp of the Saints,” a tome
held dear by many white supremacists. It all led
Salon to hands down declare that the candidate
is now “exposed as racist.”
Now remember, Jim Russell wrote the essay
himself , no one put words in his mouth, and as
such he should have expected that those who
discovered it could make whatever judgments
they deemed appropriate. In the interviews
following the discovery of his past writings, he
avoided answering inquiries of him directly.
Questions such as whether or not he still
believed what he wrote. It would have certainly
been easy for him to disavow those positions but
clearly he did not. Consequently the entire New
York State Republican establishment from the
State Committee to the Westchester Republican
Chair were appalled and immediately withdrew
their support in favor of a write in candidate.
Russell apparently was offended by this along
with being grilled by various commentators on
the tone, content, and subtext of his essay. In
otherwords Jim Russell wanted it both ways. He
wanted to be free to state his views but wanted a
pass on what those views meant, when he wrote
them, and whether he still subscribed to them.
Jim Russell who professes to be a conservative is
now suing 16 defendants in Tort, most of whom
are newsmen and women as well as others who
comment on politics like The Westchester Guardian
and Yonkers Tribune. Russell’s attorney, who self
describes himself as the “Confederate Lawyer,”
alleges, among other things, that Russell’s reputation
in the community was damaged as a “
professional scholar” which brings us to the point
of this article.
Dividing humanity by race, color, ethnicity,
and religion fits into some people’s notion of
how the world should be. Adolf Hitler believed
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