Lunatic Fringes

Zombietime has a very interesting investigative report pointing out that the literature and slogans of neo-Nazi literature being distributed in the Bay Area is astonishingly similar to the leftist antiwar protest stuff:

The question that nags at me is this:

Why did the media fail to describe the "anti-Semitic" literature distributed by W.A.R. in Berkeley? The reporters surely saw the material, as most of the other flyers and publications were described in the various news reports. Of them all, it seems only that one was left unmentioned.

Was this not a random oversight, but instead a conscious or subconscious decision? One wonders if the reporters, upon seeing the anti-Israel flyer and perhaps realizing that its sentiment was identical to the sentiment of the anti-war movement, decided to just sweep that particular detail under the rug.

All the reports mention the fact that there was anti-Semitic material found, and it was decried and condemned by the various people quoted in the article. But then why -- when the exact same messages are displayed at left-wing rallies -- does the media not produce news reports exposing the anti-Semitism of the "peace movement"?

This isn't really much of a surprise. Neo-Nazi groups, as much as they and the left like to describe them as "far right" really aren't. If you've read The Turner Diaries, you may have been struck--as I was--by how much of neo-Nazi doctrine really is "national socialist." For example, in The Turner Diaries, Hispanics (even naturalized and native-born U.S. citizens) are deported so that their jobs can go to poor, unskilled whites.