Final_Judgment

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As such, it is not unfair to note that Andrew's own teaching and
lecturing has, in fact, been subsidized in part by the CIA, a fact that
Andrew's biography on his book's dust jacket fails to note, but which is
mentioned in glowing terms in promotional materials that have been
distributed by his publisher. The motivations of Andrew (and his ties to the
intelligence community) must certainly raise eyebrows considering just the
items that we've considered here.
DIRTY TRICKS DELIGHT
On Dec. 21, 1998 the ADL issued a press release (which was also
published on the Internet) attacking a group known as the Council of
Conservative Citizens (CCC). The ADL press release noted that I spoke at the
meeting of the national capital chapter of the CCC in the Washington, D.C.
area and went on to charge that I made "anti-Semitic comments" in my address
(which, by the way, is just not true). In any event, here are the facts:
On December 12, 1998 I was invited to speak at a public forum held in
Arlington, Virginia sponsored by the CCC. I had no previous association
with the CCC, then or afterword. Shortly thereafter, however, the CCC won
national headlines because several Republican members of Congress had
addressed the group as well and the group was called "racist" by its critics.
The truth is that the CCC, in my estimation, is obsessed with racial
issues, but that wasn't the topic of my speech to the CCC, any more than I had
planned to talk about "the Holocaust" when the ADL used that issue to scuttle
my proposed speaking engagement in California in the fall of 1997. My
position is that I will speak to any group that will invite me.
In any event, when I spoke before the CCC, a "fact finder" for the
Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)—which is allied with the ADL—was
in attendance (under cover) at the gathering and soon afterword the SPLC
published a report on the event which included the following comments
about my performance that day:
Next up is Michael Collins Piper, a correspondent
for the anti-Semitic Spotlight tabloid who explains that
Israel was actually behind the Kennedy assassination.
Piper gets progressively angrier as he talks about the
Jews he says control Hollywood . . . Piper is
accompanied by a black bodyguard, a member of the
black supremacist Nation of Islam, who sits quietly in
the back, his eyes and identity shielded by dark
sunglasses. Piper instructs his audience that he is not
anti-black, gesturing towards his bodyguard, who
obligingly smiles and nods at the appropriate moment.
He is the only person of color present . . . Piper ends
with a comment on how sick he is of hearing about the
Holocaust and how he just doesn't care how many
Jews died.