Anti-Defamation League Apologizes To Hatebreed For Referring To The Group As A "White Power" Band
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Last week Anti-Defamation League (ADL) director Lonnie Nasatir posted an opinion article on CNN about white power bands, which mistakenly included the metal act Hatebreed in a list of racism promoting groups. CNN removed the reference to Hatebreed in the article later that day and issued a retraction stating the band's inclusion was an error.
The ADL has now sent a letter of apology to Hatebreed, which can be viewed below. The band commented on twitter:
"Thank you Lonnie & @ADL_National for the letter of apology to us & our fans. Here's a screen shot of the letter."
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8. writes:
Good apology embarassing distant relations...next time try looking beyond a bands name before smearing them all over the global media...I'm a proud jew and all but I have more respect for Jamey Jasta then half the prime ministers of Israel, most rabbis and all the financial world weasels put together. Politics and religion destroy and poison the world...metal and hardcore bring it together....Branded how does the all powerful jewish media play in to this now? Maybe the epic plot is quite as ingenious as it seems. Occams razor dude...stupid organization says something stupid, apologizes, life goes on and the world keeps turning...
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Somebody on the mu facebook thread had mentioned
that back in the day, their was a white power band by the
name of hatebreed, which i was unaware of since im not
too familiar with the natzi metal category
idk if theres any truth to that but this incident just goes back to being a simple case of bad journalism.
It happends so often today, you cant believe anything you
here or see in print without doing some thorough checking
especially in politics.
Now you know why cnns ratings are some of the worst on a weekly basis
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dixie: since its a organization committed to stopping white hate, it wont get the same coverage as a white hate group would. when has the ADL gone after black hate groups, or brown hate groups? its all about going after the white hate groups. thats the way the media slings the mud, if its about demonizing whites its national and international news. if its black/brown hate, its back page news...thats how they will play on this. sweep it under the rug and itll be forgotten in a few days. the typical "lets forget it since its not demonizing whites" (since they got spanked good on this one). the black panthers have threatened violence at the RNC in Tampa, but nothing is being done about it since its racist black unevolved ghetto monkey mentality trash doing the threatening against rich white people. its something barak moofasa habib muboomba obama wants. more domestic terrorists ready to commit violence so martial law can be implemented and suspension of elections will be declared, but its blacks so its ok....CNN is just another jewish run propaganda machine used to spread disinformation to the sheeple who eat it up like candy.
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Branded, you're kind of making a mountain out of a molehill...i'm not all that familiar with what the ADL does because I don't think some organization speaks for me...i'll keep my own opinions on stuff...I don't think the black panthers are really going to mess with a bunch of republicans who have concealed carry permits in the most gun friendly state in the country...I have noticed the anti white bent of the media lately and I think its wrong...Also i'm pretty sure ted turner isn't jewish...also CNN is based in Atlanta...if they were really part of the "jewish conspiracy" wouldn't it make more sense to have their headquarters in NYC or Tel Aviv? There are no good bagel places in the ATL...Yes they made a mistake, but no one is dead or injured, Hatebreed will still be going on tour and life will go on.
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Don't worry dixiskumlord666: Branded cites David Dukes, Varg Vikernes, the protocols of Zion, Alex Jones as his credible sources for his anti-jewish stance. Branded is truly the sheeple here as he likes to make blatant conjecture without giving a shred of evidence to back it up (that is scholarly and credible that is).
Branded, you are an ignorant fool. YOu can jack off to the infowars.com propaganda all day, but the bottom line is it's just conspiracy theory rhetoric without any substance. It seems to me with your profile pic (by the confederate flag) that you are an uneducated redneck from NC who probably recently got canned from his job so now you just scroll this site and watch replays of the spice girls reunion to get off all day.
Just like you say the jews are an infection to this world, your presence here is just the same. i really do not understand why people tolerate you because if I saw you in real life I would probably hit, errr I mean mosh with you.
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I would encourage most of you to use the internet to do more than steal music and look at porn, the information that Branded is sharing with you may not be expressed in the most appropriate way but there is alot of truth to what he is saying, although I believe that the enemy we face cannot be contained to one religion or race. Personally I believe one-hundred percent that there is a concentrated effort by the global elite to enslave the people of this planet with a one world government, or the New World Order. I think Branded and many others like him lose credibility when they label this group "the Jews" but you cannot deny that the most powerful people in the world believe that because of their wealth, prestige and political views that they have a right to rule over us all. The fact is that the greatest threat to their objective is the United States Constitution/Bill of Rights, and our industrial military might.
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#13: i dont care what you say....give me something better than that...you can call me "the sheeple" all day and i wont care. im awake and see wtf is being done by the controlled media, politicians, etc who are destroying everything this country stands for. so, just keep drinking the kool-aid that the rest of the brain dead sheep are drinking who keep denying the elite are enslaving us all with their anti-human, anti-freedom nazi propaganda!!
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Futhermore, as post 13 stated, I think most of what Branded is citing is from "The Protocols of Zion". Personally I do not doubt for a second that this agenda has been ongoing for nearly a century, but it is not the Jews who are behind in. I believe that the global elite are using the Jews as a scapegoat, labeling their plan as "The Protocols of Zion" causing would be truth seekers to get distracted by anti-Semitism, something that has been prevalent in society since the Roman Empire. Evil exists in all areas of mankind, regardless of skin color, creed, religious affliation, etc. Man has been trying to control man since the dawn of time, whether you believe in religion or monkey man (ie the opening scene in 2001 Space Odysseey) it is impossible to refute that the capacity to evil exists in every human being and have to make a conscious effort to CHOSE love for this world and to treat our fellow men with open arms instead of a clenched fist.
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For the record here are "The Protocols of Zion" first published in 1903:
Part 1
- Place our agents & helpers everywhere
- Take control of the media & use it in propaganda 4 our plans
- Start fights between different races, classes & religions
- Use bribery, threats & blackmail to get our way
- Use Freemasonic Lodges to attract potential public officials
- Appeal to successful people’s egos
- Appoint puppet leaders who can be controlled by blackmail
- Replace royal rule with socialist rule, then communism, then despotism
- Abolish all rights & freedoms, except the right of force by us
- Sacrifice people (including Jews sometimes) when necessary
- Eliminate religion; replace it with science & materialism
- Control the education system to spread deception & destroy intellect
- Rewrite history to our benefit
Part 2:
• Part 2
- Create entertaining distractions
- Corrupt minds with filth and perversion
- Encourage people to spy on one another
- Keep the masses in poverty and perpetual labor
- Take possession of all wealth, property and (especially) gold
- Use gold to manipulate the markets, cause depressions etc.
- Introduce a progressive tax on wealth
- Replace sound investment with speculation
- Make long-term interest-bearing loans to governments
- Give bad advice to governments and everyone else
Eventually the Goyim will be so angry with their governments (because we’ll blame them for the resulting mess) that they’ll gladly have us take over. We will then appoint a descendant of David to be king of the world, and the remaining Goyim will bow down and sing his praises. Everyone will live in peace and obedient order under his glory. End.
Now, those of you who have studied American history now that the twentieth century began with the most fundamental transformations that the country had ever seen, and the fact that everything listed in part one and two was achieved legislatively between 1905-1929 during the "Progressive Movement", and then what happened? The Great Depression and the second World War.
Read "The Protocols of Zion" pubished in 1903 and then research the Progressive Movement in this country and the rest of the world(ie creation of Federal Reserve, gold standard, eugenetics, etc) from 1903-1945 and maybe, just maybe you will find yourselves questioning authority with a passion that you have never known.
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Here's the problem I have with world domination/ mass control theories.
In this world, there are over 1000 different governments, billions of people, vast amounts of industries controlled by a various combinations of private and public ownership. To think that one single group of 150 or so power-hungry people have formed a nefarious plot to control the world is pretty far fetched. For them to be able to agree on the same goals is laughable. It's not something that could be done in a generation, much less overnight. The likelihood that there are generations (3+ at least) of these powerful people who have held onto the power, advanced it, and maintained the same laser focused goal of global conquest is dubious. History has shown that no empire has succeeded yet. Much less, history has shown that no empire has been able to even stay "on top" for any appreciable length of time.
For this power elite to be able to assimilate the industrialized world (much less adding the developing nations to that monumental task) would be like trying to herd cats (not sheep).
I haven't even mentioned the proliferation of the information age. Even the laziest of people have access to exponentially more information than even 100 years ago. If anything, this often leads to misinformation, but the truth of the matter is such a plan of world governance is exponentially more difficult yesterday than it is today and odds of a new world order go down with each passing day. The EU is struggling, NATO is losing its influence, and there is no other organization that has approval from the major industrial governments. Conspiracy theories do offer an alternative viewpoint, but when you dig down into the facts and requirements for success, it becomes painfully apparent that such a bold plan for domination is ill-conceived and untenable.
If there was any plan for suppressing the masses, it would involve decimating their way of life. This involves driving down the publics' buying power, limiting access to social services (protection, healthcare, education), and otherwise limiting the governments ability to be a benefit to the society it governs. There's no way that this could be acheived on a global scale, but history has shown where individual countries have succumbed to this when their focus wasn't on the welfare of their citizens.
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well, bruno's post shows exactly what has transpired worldwide through time and is happening now in america with the bought off politicians, but since branded says anything about how the govts are being used against the people of the earth its all BS i guess.........
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22. writes:
Well...
a. The Protocols of Zion was supposedly written by a Russian (though multiple conspiracy sites can't really agree where it came from).
b. It has strong plagarist connections to a satire penned by Maurice Joly.
c. Henry Ford himself had publicly admitted being duped by it.
d. The aims listed above are vague, broadly subjective, with some actually working against the goal. They can only be 'proven' to have taken place with conjecture and supposition. And it absolutely cannot be proven that such occurences had any bearing from the Jewish state.
e. The goals of abolishing religion and electing a king from the line of David stand in opposition to each other, especially in light that their current administration doesn't follow the line of David.
...also, I do applaud you for not typing 'sheeple' in your last two comments. ;)
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Drum Junkie- Man, I have been trying to respond to some of your points from the first post like three times now but I can only get to the computer when my daughter "lets" me, so I'll start with the second post and get back to the longer one.
a) from what I understand it was written by a Russian roughly ten years before the Bolshevik Revolution. It was a warning to the United States, Germany and Russia that there as a revolution coming. Again, I believe that is was Progressives/Communists who carried out the Protocols but the made the Jews the patsies to keep the attention off of themselves.
b) elements of The Protocols do resemble Joly's Conversation In Hell, but that was a political critic of Napolean as well, a military despot who was never accused of being a fan of freedom of liberty. In many ways, Hitler was just Napolean 2.0
c) Not exactly. Henry Ford financed the printing of over half a million copies during the Roaring Twenties because he believed that there was an imminent economic collapse being orchestrated behind closed doors. In 1927 he did publicly apologize, although he never retracted his claims.
d) I admit that some are extremely vague, but at least half are extremely specific predictions that came into law. The ones that leaped out from the screen when I read originally read it were:
Use gold to manipulate the market to cause an economic depression- THE GOLD STANDARD WAS DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE INFLATION THAT DECIMATED EUROPEAN COUNTRIES AFTER WW1
Introduce a progressive income tax on the wealthy- MADE INTO LAW IN 1909
Make long term interest loans to governments- WW1 WAR BONDS, WHICH LEFT GERMANY IN RUINS AND ENABLED HITLER TO RISE TO POWER
e) again, this is where I think the Progressives aka Communists threw in that BS to distract attention from themselves to the Jews because a large segment of the population have always have had a deep seeded ill will to the Jews. In a communist/fascist state there is no religion, so that objective would be achieved when the socialist revolution had concluded. Where is the best place to find a lie? Buried between two truths.
I really want to get to your first post, hope I have time
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For what its worth here's my $.02 on the whole protocols book...it was written by a member of the czars secret police to try and convince the russian peasantry that the jews were behind all of the country's problems instead of the czar and the most corrupt nobility on the planet. It isn't taken seriously anywhere outside of the middle east these days. I agree with a lot of what bruno says, in that there are lots of jewish "lightning rods" in the media and in the financial/political worlds. Seriously though, most of us love America and the Constitution. I'd rather work at a Mcdonalds in the US then be Prime Minister of Israel(probably the most tedious, awful and thankless job on the planet). Branded, i'm not spamming the comments section....i guess you don't like free speech that doesn't agree with you.@brandedisthesheeple...I don't think its fair to lump in alex jones with varg vikernes or david duke...and you don't have to drag the confederate flag into this...I like it too...branded just wants easy, one syllable answers to "why is america f***ed up now?". The real answer would require a novel, so its easier to just say "its those damn joos"..its cool, we've always been history's most popular scapegoat for collapsing societies, i'm sure it will be the same story 1000 years from now for my descendants.
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dixie: i was making a joke about how you pc double posts your comments when you post them. wasnt tripping on you!! i welcome free speech but it seems when i use my free speech everyone calls me a conspiracy theory nutcase. typical of people who refuse to look up what others are refering to....just call that person names and deny everything they are saying without researching for any truths...thats exactly what the propaganda machine (controlled media) loves for the cattle to do...
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oh ok....my personal philosophy on free speech is pretty much the same as Volataire's "I may not agree with a word you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Words can't actually hurt anyone unless a really heavy book gets thrown at your head lolz....thats what I see as the biggest problem in America...everyone wants freedom of speech for themselves, but they can't stand the free speech of others...the easy solution is to change the channel, but god forbid we use some common sense in here our glorious madhouse from sea to shining sea. If it makes you feel better branded I have also been labeled a conspiracy theory nutcase too.
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oh ok....my personal philosophy on free speech is pretty much the same as Volataire's "I may not agree with a word you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Words can't actually hurt anyone unless a really heavy book gets thrown at your head lolz....thats what I see as the biggest problem in America...everyone wants freedom of speech for themselves, but they can't stand the free speech of others...the easy solution is to change the channel, but god forbid we use some common sense in here our glorious madhouse from sea to shining sea. If it makes you feel better branded I have also been labeled a conspiracy theory nutcase too.
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I think the problem is i come to the site, write something, hit post, then i have to enter my password, so it double posts...guess i should just log in first from now on....any good shows coming up in charlotte? I'm seeing the Misfits on the 24th....less than 20 bucks....gotta love 90's ticket prices lolz....they have an opening band called blood in the bathroom...not sure if thats the best band name ever or the worse....at my age if i see blood in the bathroom i'm going to the doctor ASAP...hahaha....also busy counting down the days until GWAR and Devildriver...
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O i forgot to mention Sept 6th - The GREEN BUS TOUR FOR MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION will be returning to Charlotte NC for the DNC convention...Not missing them...I helped organize a rally the last time they showed up here, so Im helping out again...Look for them (by the name i typed) on FB for dates of their US tour!!
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The beans here call CO 'culo roto' (torn a$$hole)...but most of em got kin up there same as I do :)
BEAUTIFUL state...wonderful country if ya avoid the Yippy towns (Most)....lotsa cheesed!cks...get out to the country, and you'll find plenty of REAL people
NP---Time to get a Gun---Miranda Lambert
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branded....have fun at the down show...i saw them in june and phil is in rare form these days...the green bus tour sounds cool too. I hope florida is the first state in the south to legalize cannabis...the demographics are in our favor...in the next ten or 15 years all the old people in the retirement communities will be the woodstock generation....hopefully they put some pressure on the worthless politicos down here to free the herb so they don't get hassled by the cops on their way to an early bird special...the Gwar tour will be here two days before they hit NC...can i get some credit for conspiring to get down and gwar to your state lolz?
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