ANTI-SEMITIC, RACIST FLYERS DISTRIBUTED IN BERKELEY, CA

Racist Literature Distributed in Berkeley (ZombieTime)
During the first few days of April, 2007, racist literature was distributed in several Berkeley, California neighborhoods by members of an out-of-town white supremacist group.

Local residents who found the material were shocked at the anti-black, anti-Jewish and almost gleefully malicious messages on the flyers and newspapers -- which were produced by the White Aryan Resistance, a virulent hate group founded by KKK member Tom Metzger, currently headquartered in Temecula, in Southern California.

The racist literature was reported to the police, who determined that no crime had been committed, since political opinions -- even ignorant, racist, hate-filled opinions -- fall under the rubric of constitutionally protected free speech. The material did not contain any specific threat of violence, so no charges were filed.

The incident did not receive national coverage, but was mentioned in a few local media outlets, with articles appearing in The Daily Californian, The Berkeley Daily Planet, Inside Bay Area, and a brief mention in The San Francisco Chronicle.

A peculiar aspect of the media coverage is that almost none of the news organizations actually showed what the material looked like. Only The Daily Californian article reproduced [one of the flyers].

(All of the news reports focused on one of the other flyers, which calls on "white" people to avenge the mid-1970s' Zebra Murders, one of the worst serial-killing sprees in American history, in which black members of the Nation of Islam killed at least 16 people whom they perceived as white, in an attempt to start a race war.)

However, one detail in particular about the coverage struck me: In almost all of the media reports, mention is made of "anti-Semitic" material -- yet it is never described.

Why not?

Fortunately, a news report broadcast on local television station KTVU includes a few brief images of the hate literature. These go by in a flash, and are not specified by the reporter, but are partially visible for a second or two as they are arranged on a table by a police spokesperson. .... And in those few brief moments, the anti-Semitic flyer is indeed shown.

CLICK ON THE LINK ABOVE TO VIEW THE FLYERS. NOTE THE WORDING OF ONE, "JOIN the UNITED STATES ARMY and FIGHT for ISRAEL" WITH A STEREOTYPICAL BIG-NOSED JEW GIVING ORDERS TO AN AMERICAN SOLDIER.