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Real History on where the Holocaust Money is Being Spent The The Anti-Defamation League continues to use its new found wealth in a manner helpful to American society Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B’nai Brith, USA other traditional enemies of Free Speech: Anti-Nazi League Australian Government Australian B’nai Brith Anti-Defamation Commission Board of Deputies of British Jews Center for Democratic Renewal, Atlanta Canadian Jewish Congress Canadian League of Human Rights of the
B’nai Brith Coalition for Human Dignity, Oregon Community Security Trust of Board of Deputies German Government Jewish Telegraph Agency Searchlight and Gerald Gable Simon Wiesenthal Center Surfwatch Internet censorship The fugitive billionaire, with 0,000 to the Anti-Defamation League, induced its national director to lobby President Bill Clinton for forgiveness and thereby bring glee to the hearts of anti-Semites.
Abe Foxman should resign. — William Safire Working Its Will By WILLIAM SAFIRE WASHINGTON — The story is told of the corrupt Albany judge who called opposing trial lawyers into his chambers. “You offered me a $5,000 campaign contribution to throw this case to the plaintiff,” said the fair-minded judge, “and defendant’s lawyer here just offered me $10,000 to find for his client.
Now how about plaintiff giving me $5,000 more, evening things up — and we try the case on the merits?” Whether the bidding war that is now American politics will continue in this fashion is to be decided in the Senate this week. Every senator knows the subject cold and need not rely on staff expertise or party discipline for guidance. Rarely do voters see such a revealing free-for-all. Money talks, but money is not speech.
That, in essence, is the offense and defense of campaign finance reformers. That heavy political contributions influence officeholders is beyond dispute. Money for “access” rarely qualifies as prosecutable bribery, but the biggest givers are usually the biggest receivers. The pros know that a quo has a way of following a quid and the public is not stupid. The purchase of a pardon by Marc Rich haunts the Senate this week.
The stain spreads; now we learn that the fugitive billionaire, with $250,000 to the Anti-Defamation League , induced its national director to lobby President Bill Clinton for forgiveness and thereby bring glee to the hearts of anti-Semites. ( Abe Foxman [ left ] should resign to demonstrate that ethical blindness has consequences.) But the hurdle that Senators John McCain and Russell Feingold must jump is this: does the restriction of money in campaigns deny anyone freedom of speech?
Of course it does. But we abridge free speech all the time, in protecting