Biography: Michael Collins Piper

[Tim Gratz]

What logic. I must not be anti-Semitic because there are organizations clearly not anti-semitic who have been (by some, who knows by how many) falsely accused of being anti-semitic.

The logic goes like this:

Robert Welch falsely accused Dwight Eisenhower of being a Communist.

Therefore, Josef Stalin was not a Communist.

Piper, I sometimes wonder how intelligent people can hold bigoted views. In your case it is becoming apparent that is not a consideration.

[Guest]

But you are a xxxx, a determined, eggregious, vicious xxxx.

I think you meant to say an egregious xxxx.

Egregious........ just like your command of English

[John Dolva]

What logic. I must not be anti-Semitic because there are organizations clearly not anti-semitic who have been (by some, who knows by how many) falsely accused of being anti-semitic.

The logic goes like this:

Robert Welch falsely accused Dwight Eisenhower of being a Communist.

Therefore, Josef Stalin was not a Communist.

Piper, I sometimes wonder how intelligent people can hold bigoted views. In your case it is becoming apparent that is not a consideration.

biology versus intellect

human as animal.

human is animal first.

asleep and awake the hypothalamus is active. awake the frontal lobes are also active.

intellect seeks to interact wih animal.

where it does so successfully there is harmony.

All ideology is an intellectual response to the animal. An attempt to reconcile base drives.

The most successful ideologies are those that serve humanity as a whole. For example, buddhism and christianity. Where the psyche has been damaged and the path to healing is denied, alternative ideologies germinate. For example fascism.

[Tim Gratz]

Good points, John.

I recently purchased a book re the psychology of bigotry but I have not yet had the opportunity to read it.

Has anyone ever read the book that appeared after the Eichman trial called "The Banality of Evil"?

[Tim Gratz]

To Piper:

From the Southern Poverty Law Center, a report on a 1998 meeting in Arlington, Virginia of the National Council of Conservative Citizens in which you participated, contains the following statement regarding your remarks:

Piper ends with a comment on how sick he is of hearing about the Holocaust, and how he just doesn't care how many Jews died.

Do you admit making these statements, Piper?

Here is some information on that organization (CCC):

NEW YORK, NY, December 21, 1998 -- The Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), a racist organization recently in the news for having politicians such as Rep. Bob Barr and Sen. Trent Lott as keynote speakers at its conferences, will feature white supremacist David Duke at its next meeting, the Anti-Defamation League reported today. The National Capital (Washington, D.C.) chapter of The CCC is promoting attendance at its January 2, 1999 meeting where Duke, the former Klansman and two-time Presidential candidate, will be joined by long-time white supremacist and anti-Semite Edward Fields. Duke is currently promoting his racist and anti-Semitic autobiography, My Awakening. Fields is the publisher of "The Truth at Last," a newsletter featuring articles about Jewish control of the media and government.

"The CCC cloaks itself in the mantle of conservatism to mask its underlying racist agenda," said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director. "No one should be duped into believing they are mainstream conservatives. A look at the record clearly reveals who they are and what they really stand for."

ADL Backgrounder on the Council of Conservative Citizens

Founded in the mid-1980s, the CCC bills itself as a "grassroots" organization working on issues of concern to conservatives. It currently has chapters in over 20 states across the nation. The group claims to be fighting the "leftist war" against America's Christian heritage and civil liberties. It opposes affirmative action, "big" government, gun control and increased immigration.

In fact, the CCC has its roots in the Citizens Councils of America, a racist and anti-Semitic organization formed in the 1950s and dedicated to states rights and preserving segregation in the South. The Citizens Councils, known for intimidating and harassing Blacks involved in the civil rights movement, printed and distributed pamphlets containing inflammatory racist speeches by various segregationists. The pamphlets had titles such as "Segregation and the South," which described Black Americans as "having an inherent deficiency in mental ability," and "a natural indolence," and "The Ugly Truth About the NAACP," which accused the organization of being controlled by Communists intent on destroying America.

Gordon Lee Baum, the current Chief Executive Officer of the CCC was at one time a field director for the Citizens Councils of America. In 1989, the CCC absorbed that organization. In addition, CCC named its newspaper Citizens Informer after the publication of the Citizens Councils. The CCC claims that it does not advocate racism. However, material on its web site and its choice of speakers points to the group's apparent desire to continue the legacy of its predecessor. The group often invites speakers with extremist views to address its constituents. Various white supremacists and Christian Identity (a doctrine that maintains that Anglo-Saxons are the Biblical "chosen people," that nonwhites are "mud people" on the level of animals, and that Jews are the "children of Satan" preachers have been asked to speak at local and national events.

The CCC's web site features numerous articles and essays that expose its pro-white, anti-minority stance. In addition, the site contains pieces labeling Martin Luther King, Jr. a Communist, lamenting the South's loss in the Civil War, and defending the use of the Confederate flag.

In an essay on the web site, "A Call to White Americans," the author writes, "If we want to live, white Americans must begin today to lay the foundations for our future and our children's future. Start today, fellow white Americans. Look at the faces around you: find the faces like yours, and see them as your brothers and sisters. Find the fair-skinned babies and see them as your children."

Another commentator on the site writes, "There appears to be a growth of a form of racial bigotry in the world today that is hardly noticed because its victims are white. This bigotry is anti-whitism. It is going largely unnoticed by many whites who some will argue have become so race whipped and aracial after 30 plus years of unending anti-white propaganda from the liberal elites that they don't even think of themselves as a race or as a people."

In December 1998, the CCC's web site boasted that the group's leadership had met with Jean-Marie Le Pen, the leader of the National Front, a xenophobic, racist, and anti-Semitic political party in France.

The fact that the CCC in the past invited mainstream politicians such as Mississippi Senator Trent Lott and Georgia Congressman Bob Barr (both of whom have since distanced themselves from the group) to be keynote speakers at its conferences lends the group a false air of legitimacy. However, many speakers who have addressed CCC meetings are unabashedly racist and anti-Semitic.

Jared Taylor, editor of the racist publication, American Renaissance (AR), has addressed CCC meetings numerous times in 1998. AR describes itself as a "literate, undeceived journal of race, immigration and the decline of civility." In reality, the publication uses pseudo-science to justify racism and white separatism.

In April 1998, Edward Butler, a Christian Identity preacher who publishes the vehemently anti-Semitic newsletter, "The New World Today," gave a talk to the Georgia chapter of the CCC. A recent issue of Butler's newsletter reflects his views. He wrote, "the U.S. government officials elected and appointed, are predominantly vassals of the Zionist New World Order. Jews control the wealth of the world and in turn they control the governments. Will you go on being a vassal of the Zionist slave state?"

In December 1998, Michael Collins Piper spoke at the meeting of the National Capital Chapter of the CCC in Washington, D.C. Piper is a correspondent for The Spotlight, a newspaper published by Liberty Lobby, the most active anti-Semitic propaganda organization in the United States. At the meeting, Piper made anti-Semitic comments and accused Israel's Mossad and the Anti-Defamation League of being involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

In July 1995, David Duke addressed the meeting of the South Carolina chapter of the CCC, held at Clemson University. At the meeting, Duke, who has once again openly embraced his early extremist views, urged followers to fight for their "white genes."

In April 1994, the Arkansas chapter of the CCC invited lawyer Kirk Lyons to speak to the group. Lyons has been a friend to and has represented numerous extremists in court cases, including white supremacist Louis Beam and James

Wickstrom, a Christian Identity preacher and head of the Posse Commitatus, an anti-government group. Lyons has described himself as an "active sympathizer" of his clients' causes. The spring 1998 newsletter of the CCC mentions that the organization has been working on a case with Southern Legal Resource Center, currently headed by Lyons.

Edited February 28, 2006 by Tim Gratz