Dear Mr & Mrs Carto:
I see that you have misunderstood my letter, which is probably at
least partly my fault. I can understand how you can see nothing
good in Mark Weber, and I can appreciate how you might react
strongly to any suggestion to the contrary. Please understand
that I am not disputing anything you say about him and am
completely sympathetic to your view.
Because it is so important, I would like to try to restate the
point I was trying to make which involved mention of Weber, and
which you evidently completely misunderstood. Let me first state
it in a short form, and then I will go on to expand it. The short
form is this:
If we disdain everyone in a leadership position in the Movement
against whom there have been serious credible charges, we end up
with no Movement.
So who, then, are the major figures against whom serious charges
have been leveled? Let us count their numbers:
Person - Accused of - Accuser
**********************************************************************************************************
David Duke - Stealing/gambling away contributions - - New Orleans
DA
William Pierce - Under control of FBI for taking stolen money -
Published book
Ernst Zundel - Financial improprieties regarding a will - Willis
Carto
Ingrid Rimland - Lying about an encounter with Dr Toben - Toben
Fredrick Toben - Lying about Ingrid Rimland - Ingrid
Kevin Strom - Being under enemy influence -Birdman
Mark Weber - CIA and enemy operative - Willis Carto
Walter Mueller - Severe incompetence & stupidity; homosex -
various
Richard Barrett - Pushing homosex; lying; egoism - Jim Giles;
Alex Linder
Bill White - Stealing; being a communist - A Linder; R Barrett
Brad Smith - IHR improprieties - Willis Carto
David McCalden - enemy operative - Willis Carto
David Irving - Stealing; Jewish mole - Birdman
Dr Ed Fields - unknown - Willis Carto
Willis Carto - Stealing; 'patriot for profit' - Revilo Oliver
& others
In other words, just about all the major figures of the movement
have had serious charges made against them, and these are just
the ones I know about. The only possible exceptions I can think
of are Stormfront's Don Black, the NA's Erich Gliebe, VNN's Alex
Linder, Edgar 'The Man Of' Steele, the late 'palindromic
professor' Revilo Oliver, myself, and maguire and the other FAEM
folks. (All this is off the top of my head; I am probably missing
a bunch of people). So the very practical question arises, How
are we going to treat the accused folks? My answer is not an
'ethical' one, but purely a PRACTICAL one: Honor people for their
good deeds; condemn them for their bad; and in the interim keep a
red flag up which says 'If they have been accused, WATCH OUT.' In
other words, I am not going around saying that this or that
person is 'unethical' and therefore we must reject him; rather I
am saying that sometimes people do good and sometimes bad, so --
as BF Skinner might advocate -- I try to reinforce good behavior
and negatively reinforce bad behavior. It is my way of dealing
with the 'cognitive dissonance' which one experiences when he
sees what a huge barrel of seemingly bad apples the Movement is
led by.
As to the matter of posting the material on Weber which you sent,
I offered to do this because, in reading between the lines of
your letter, I thought it was what you wanted me to do. I see now
that I was wrong about this, since you have rejected my offer,
which is perhaps just as well, as it takes some time and effort
to scan the material in, proofread it, and put it in html format.
Tho you evidently did not detect it, the purpose of my letter was
to please you. I am sorry that I failed, but I would at least
like you to know what you overlooked. I have always honored
Willis Carto, and, as he well knows, have defended him against
the accusations printed in Walter Mueller's 'Patriot letter'. It
pains me that you seem to think I am 'waffling', as there is no
one in the Movement -- no one -- who is less guilty of waffling
than I, and to say otherwise is simply to show your unfamiliarity
with my writing.
I will be posting this letter in my Weekly Letter, and
permanently on my website. If you would care to respond, I will
be willing to post your response if requested, and/or your prior
letter.
-Birdman
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