Final_Judgment

[618] Final Judgment 716
librarians to review Final Judgment. The board then had the option to act on
the trio's recommendation.
The fix was in: dominating the team was Uri Toch—the STDL's
translator for Hebrew, the state language of Israel. Toch concocted a highly
inflammatory five-page smear of Final Judgment.
This "review" was leaked to the press along with the seemingly
contradictory announcement the library was still going to put the book on
the shelves, despite the negative review.
The STDL trio said that since the debate over the book was "largely a
political issue," they were recommending Final Judgment be added to the
library even though they said the book was, among other things, "poorly
written, repetitive [and] based on questionable research methods and
sources." They charged that Piper quoted sources out of context said that he
selectively quoted sources that fit his thesis and ignored others that did not.
The trio endorsed the Warren Commission's "lone nut thesis, saying
only "buffs" believe here was a conspiracy in the JFK assassination.
Although I was amused at the allegation the book was `poorly written,"
the other charges were far more serious and in response I compiled a
thoroughly documented (and I think devastating) 88-page response,
eviscerating the malicious review.
In the title of my response, I (accurately) dubbed the library critique
"The Star Chamber Judgment," harkening back to the 17th century English
tribunals that met in secret, delving out severe aid arbitrary punishments ID
those who dared challenge the power of the British crown. The analogy was
very much on the mark.
What is interesting (but not surprising) is that the Israeli language
translator and his team had gone to great lengths (however clumsy) to try to
refute the thesis of the book.
POLICE STATE TACTICS
Meanwhile, the pro-Israel partisans on the library board issued a
statement saying the librarians had been "professional" and "graceful" in
their malevolent attack on me and on the book.
Then, at one point, the Israeli translator tried to get Bollyn arrested.
Speaking to Toch on he telephone, Bollyn asked Toch (in Hebrew) were
Toch had lived in Israel. Toch called the police, crying he felt "threatened."
Enough was enough. On May 21, 2000, having decided—once
again—to confront my critics head on, I traveled to Schaumburg and spoke
at the library itself before some 150 people who turned out for the event.
Notably absent were the three librarians—but they did have at least one
vocal supporter who did show up. As Christopher Bollyn opened the
meeting, there was a minor ruckus as a person identified as a member of the
local Jewish community attempted to disrupt the event, shouting angrily
that "Gerald Posner's Case Closed tells the truth about the JFK
assassination. Its available right here in the library." Posner's admirer