Final_Judgment

23, 1996 and the May 23-May 30, 1997 edition of the New York-based
Jewish Press—all of which are considered quite "responsible" by the ADL.)
At no time did I ever suggest to the Los Angeles Times that I believed,
as the Times falsely reported, "that no Jews were killed in gas chambers."
This was literary license on the part of the reporter who presumed that these
were my views based upon what the ADL had already (falsely) told him my
views happened to be on this irrelevant issue.
Despite all this, of course, my JFK book had nothing to do with the
Holocaust, the ADL's false and malicious rantings notwithstanding.
And it's probably worth noting that a handful of characters who are
self-styled Holocaust revisionists—"Holocaust deniers" in the parlance of
the ADL—have not only tried to stop distribution of Final Judgment and
discredit it, but these same intriguers successfully sabotaged a pending
Russian-language translation of the book! So much, then, for this nonsense
about "the Holocaust."
Frankly, I doubt very much that if I happened to be "pro-choice" on the
issue of abortion that the Catholic Church would have, on that basis,
launched a major smear campaign to stop me from speaking on the unrelated
subject of the JFK assassination. So therefore, again, we have to
wonder precisely why the ADL was so adamantly opposed to my lecture
being heard and then dragged in the irrelevant issue of "the Holocaust." The
answer is obvious. When all is said and done, the ADL's hysterical reaction
to Final Judgment validates the thesis of this book. It's that simple.
The Los Angeles Times made reference to another proposed speaker at
the scuttled seminar, John Judge, and pointed out that he was known for his
adherence to "the conspiracies theories of the late New Orleans Dist. Atty.
Jim Garrison" and that "those theories had no anti-Semitic overtones."
What is interesting to note is that Judge refused to permit me to speak
at a JFK conference that he organized here in Washington in October of
1996. The diplomatic excuse at the time (in the words of Judge's associate,
Philip Melanson) was that the program at that conference was "attempting
to focus on evidentiary issues and questions rather than broad historical
themes and theories." However, Judge's associates told one attendee, who
asked why Final Judgment wasn't on display at that conference: "Neither
Michael Collins Piper nor his book are welcome here." Ultimately, when
Judge's name was linked with mine in press reports, Judge rushed off a
letter to the Orange County Register to assure its readers that he and his
colleagues would certainly not have anything to do with an extremist like
me. Yet, even Judge is in the soup as far as the ADL is concerned: after all,
Judge, too, believes in a conspiracy theory—and that's baaaaad!
Thus, I find it quite amusing that Judge has now been labeled a
"crackpot" alongside me. Likewise with another individual who was
scheduled to speak at the seminar in California—one Dave Emory—who
contends the Nazis were behind JFK's assassination. I won't burden the
reader with commentary here on that peculiar notion, although in Chapter
15 of Final Judgment I do provide some interesting information about
Emory's so-called "Nazi connection" which proves it was anything but that.