One of the most notorious regulars at Bay Area left-wing protests is a guy whom I refer to as “Mr. Binder Clips,” in reference to the clips he inevitably uses to hold his sign together. He usually displays a sign which says “SMASH THE JEWISH STATE” (here he is in 2004 and again in 2009, for example), though he sometimes branches out to other anti-Jewish messages.
Well, at the recent ANSWER-sponsored protest on March 21st in San Francisco, he decided to add an extra little sentence to his sign, in case anyone had any doubts as to his true feelings; he was captured in action by zomblog contributor “SaraRose”:
“It’s the Jews, Stupid.”
This isn’t surprising to those of us who have seen this guy in action: he’s obviously an unapologetic anti-Semite. Over the years I’ve eavesdropped on him various times, and learned he is an Argentinian Nazi.
For example, back in 2005, he attended a lecture given by Ward Churchill on the U.C. Berkeley campus, where I made an audio recording of the question he asked, to which I supplied the following caption:
Next up was this Argentinian fellow who brought the subject back around to Eichmann. But instead of agreeing with Churchill that Eichmann was nothing more than a bureaucrat who did evil things because he had no moral conscience, the questioner seemed to be a fan of Eichmann and took offense at the Mossad’s abduction of the former Nazi in Argentina in 1960:
“Because after all, most of the people in this country don’t even know who Eichmann was. Who was [I call it] kidnapped from my country by the Jews, and taken without any kind of diplomatic action. So isn’t that a fact that, that bother them that the fact that you call empire arrogant and criminal, what bothers them, actually?”
But what is surprising is that a Nazi (or at least a Nazi sympathizer) who is obviously anti-Semitic is accepted without dispute by the far left-wing in the San Francisco area. Perhaps, as I pointed out in the link above, because he claims to be a communist, he is allowed into the fold. All it takes is the proper use of a few buzzwords (”empire,” etc.), and you can get away with essentially anything on the far left.
(Note: This is not a photo of me, but rather
1Frank White on Mar 31, 2009 at 7:36 pm:
He can always stick with the most common far left credo “I’m not an anti-Semite, I’m an anti-ZIONIST, there’s a difference! It’s not my fault jews rule the world.”
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2DangerousNate on Apr 1, 2009 at 6:04 am:
What was the point of adding that sentence?
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3ET on Apr 1, 2009 at 10:10 am:
Jamie Glazov explained these tendencies (cooperation between far-left and nazis) in his book : ‘United in Hate’.
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4CattusMagnus on Apr 1, 2009 at 11:57 am:
“But what is surprising is that a Nazi (or at least a Nazi sympathizer) who is obviously anti-Semitic is accepted without dispute by the far left-wing in the San Francisco area.”
It’s not surprising to me. I’ve had a liberal say to me, “the Nazis shouldn’t have killed the Jews but I could understand why they hated them.” Pretty F’d up huh?
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5Rob on Apr 1, 2009 at 12:47 pm:
And here is another anti-semite dressed up as an ant-Zionist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_mY1BzMilY&feature=player_embedded
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6Ken on Apr 1, 2009 at 2:39 pm:
“because he claims to be a communist, he is allowed into the fold.”
I wouldn’t allow him in to anything. Nazis have no place in our movement. Even Stalin called his pact with Hitler “a deal with the devil.”
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7Fenris on Apr 1, 2009 at 9:43 pm:
Why is this surprising? Outright hatred of Jews is, at the least, socially acceptable again.
Here’s what happened last week when my university’s newspaper APOLOGIZED for running an advertisement from a Holocaust denier: http://fenris-the-red-wolf.deviantart.com/journal/23935175/
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8Ringo the Gringo on Apr 2, 2009 at 8:40 am:
At LA protests we have an equivalent to Mr. Binder Clips…Here he is on the same day, 3/21/09:
http://www.ringospictures.com/photos/20090321/020.jpg
And on 1/10/2009:
http://www.ringospictures.com/photos/20090110/009.jpg
The most amazing thing is that the other protesters march right along side of these characters.
…Well, maybe it’s actually not so amazing now that I think about it.
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9Kristopher on Apr 2, 2009 at 11:25 am:
Anti-semitism has always been fashionable for marxists … Stalin was a big anti-semite. His beef with Hitler was about power, not anti-semitism.
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10Ken on Apr 2, 2009 at 2:57 pm:
“Anti-semitism has always been fashionable for marxists”
Lenin didn’t seem to think so:
“we often see the capitalists fomenting hatred against the Jews in order to blind the workers, to divert their attention from the real enemy of the working people, capital. Hatred towards the Jews persists only in those countries where slavery to the landowners and capitalists has created abysmal ignorance among the workers and peasants. Only the most ignorant and downtrodden people can believe the lies and slander that are spread about the Jews.”
“It is not the Jews who are the enemies of the working people. The enemies of the workers are the capitalists of all countries. Among the Jews there are working people, and they form the majority. They are our brothers, who, like us, are oppressed by capital; they are our comrades in the struggle for socialism”
“Shame on accursed tsarism which tortured and persecuted the Jews. Shame on those who foment hatred towards the Jews, who foment hatred towards other nations.”
(http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1919/mar/x10.htm)
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11Ringo the Gringo on Apr 2, 2009 at 7:35 pm:
So this fellow’s been using the same crappy sign for five years?
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12John A on Apr 2, 2009 at 9:57 pm:
Ken is right. Many of the early Marxists–especially among the Russians–were Jews. For example: Julius Zederbaum, aka Julius Martov, leader of the Mensheviks. Members of the “Bund”–the General Jewish Labor Union were among the most fervent socialist agitators in the Russian Empire. Ironically they were also anti-zionists (on the grounds that it was “separatist,” and contrary to an integrated utopian society, or something like that). It’s the legacy of movements like these that have made the left so prominent in Israeli politics, historically. Also, many in American government were reticent about supporting the new state of Israel because they thought it would quickly fall to communism, if you remember. And you wonder why American Jews vote so heavily for the Democrats?
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13Kun on Apr 2, 2009 at 11:04 pm:
Stalin actually made Birobidzhan which was supposed to be the socialist answer to Israel: a secular, Yiddish-based zion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birobidzhan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Autonomous_Oblast
“anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.
Anti-Semitism is of advantage to the exploiters as a lightening conductor that deflects the blows aimed by the working people at capitalism. Anti-Semitism is dangerous for the working people as being a false path that leads them off the right road and lands them in the jungle. Hence Communists, as consistent internationalists, cannot but be irreconcilable, sworn enemies of anti-Semitism.
In the USSR anti-Semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system”.
(J.V. Stalin: “Anti-Semitism”, in: “Works”, Volume 13; Moscow; 1955; p. 30).
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14Kristopher on Apr 3, 2009 at 1:49 pm:
Ken: Lenin may not have thought Jews were bad, but Stalin was the one who got to make policy.
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15richb on Apr 3, 2009 at 2:42 pm:
I don’t see any irony in Nazi and Communists joining together in hated of the Jews. Its one of those things that aren’t true (communist vs. nazis), that become the “excepted truth”. Just because everyone thinks something is the truth, doesn’t make it so.
Nazis really have far more left wing beliefs then right wing ones. In fact they have very few ideas that would be considered right wing outside some “traditional” ideas of society. I don’t consider the Nazi to be to the right of the political spectrum at all. When Hitler took power in Germany, he did anything that a communist dictator would do. Nationalizing industry, seizing private property, huge public works projects, etc. Part of the name of the nazi party is “socialist”, so they are not right wingers in any sense.
Mr. Binder Clips has never voted for Pat Buchanan or anyone on the right (if he isn’t even a US citizen hopefully he isn’t voting for anybody). Communists and Nazis have very similar goals, but somewhat different (but both have been very violent) ways of getting to those goals. Due to that violence and the fact that Stalin and Hitler wanted the same land they ended up fighting. They are birds of a feather. They are both ideologies that we should have left in the 20th century, the world would be a far better off without either of them.
But since people don’t know history very well, we get confused about it. That why history ends up repeating itself. If everybody knew the truths of Nazis and Communists, nobody would want to be one. They would be in the dustpan of history already, but we still have to fight these evil ideas everyday to prevent them from taking power again.
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16Anonymous on Apr 3, 2009 at 8:24 pm:
Rich B:
Part of the reason that the truth of those movements was and is obfuscated is that the mass communication of those times was controlled totally by those in power.
Today, there is at least an outside chance that information sources such as this blog can tip the balance away from that total control.
I pray that history does not repeat itself this time.
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17DangerousNate on Apr 4, 2009 at 6:36 pm:
To Richb:
Correct.
Fascism (the government of the nazis) was considered to be neither left nor right wing, but socialism is just a root from which communism or fascism can arise.
Fascism is basically, (what I’ve ready and determined myself) when you give your life to the state/country and it tells you want do and (supposedly) takes care of you in return.
So basically, if you want the government to be big enough it could turn into socialism, which could turn into communism or fascism.
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18Anonymous on Apr 5, 2009 at 10:49 am:
Jews are a group that in a near totality show preference to one another. period.
If that were NOT the case, they would not exist as an identifiable group after a 100 years, let alone a 1000 years, of deliberately living amongst larger gentile HOST populations.. Thus.. almost EVERY population that finds itself hosting a jewish population soon realizes that the population is insular, supports its own, and champions subverting the host nations resources,efforts, and policies to serve the needs of the insular jewish population.
A very small group of highly cooperative, organized, and ethnically united people are at a strong advantage over large, un-cohesive, discordant peoples.. this is the reality of the matter. Every country has evicted its jewish immigrant population at some point, as they engage systematically in the behavior detailed above. Few people but jews are as ardent in their reflexive support for OTHERS to integrate, yet in Israel its AGAINST THE LAW to marry a non-jew…
jews are simply, self-interested, double-standard, manipulative, and advatage-seeking for their own ethnic population in most cases.. and do not care that they are completely engaging in a double-standard.
This is why they are intransigient in their defense behavior that leads to all the negative sterotypes, and at the same time ready to attack others self-righteously, for that which they feel is totally acceptable within their own group.
What is not to dislike in such a group?
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19Anonymous on Apr 5, 2009 at 10:52 am:
““Anti-semitism has always been fashionable for marxists”
Lenin didn’t seem to think so:
“we often see the capitalists fomenting hatred against the Jews”
YOU DO KNOW, that lenins maternal grandparents were Jewish, right?… his grandfathers first name was ‘Israel’.. lol
he also has a quote to the effect that ”all intelligent people found in russia are at least partially of jewish ancestry”, so he was not actually a disinterested party.
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20Ken on Apr 5, 2009 at 2:37 pm:
#18
Shut up, you idiot.
Your ridiculous generalizations about Jews only make you look stupid.
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21Ken on Apr 5, 2009 at 2:40 pm:
“his grandfathers first name was ‘Israel’ ”
And, FWIW, it looks like his grandfather’s first name was “Aleksandr”
(http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Was_Lenin_Jewish)
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22Frank White on Apr 5, 2009 at 3:54 pm:
“yet in Israel its AGAINST THE LAW to marry a non-jew…”
No it isn’t, moron. Israel does not have any laws pertaining to civil marriage, it simply doesn’t exist there. They only recognize marriages done in foreign nations, otherwise it’s a religious ceremony.
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23Frank White on Apr 5, 2009 at 4:11 pm:
I should clarify that said religious ceremonies are performed within a “religious court” of sorts depending on your religion, and there are 15 in total. Since civil marriage does not exist, most people who are in interfaith relationships either get married in another country, or just never get married. It isn’t “against the law”, because there is no law outside religious communities controlling respective marriages.
If you see that as against the law, then Christians marring Non-Christians, Muslims marrying non-Muslims, etc should also be considered illegal by you. Let’s also not forget that same-sex civil marriages in other countries are also recognized by the Israeli government as of 2006. Then again, I’m not a raging anti-Semite, so I learn about things before running my mouth.
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24Anonymous on Apr 6, 2009 at 9:54 am:
#18,
You’re an idiot.
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25Abu Chokmah on Apr 6, 2009 at 7:26 pm:
Anti-Semites would be funny, if only they weren’t so utterly off their rockers.
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26True Resistance on Apr 7, 2009 at 10:46 am:
Anti-Semites would be funny if many other people than anti-semites made harsh criticizems of Jewish misbehavior. Either Jews are virtually without sin, or a lot of people have an interest in sweeping Jewish misbehavior under the rug by saying those who criticize tendencies in Jewish culture are anti-Semetic.
I know far more people who could be described as philo-semites who seem to never entertain a thought of Jewish evil, or at very least never voice criticism of Jews. They are especially present in the mainstream media and it’s followers, i.e. most of the USA. In my personal life this translates into many Christian-Zionists who view Jews as the literal Chosen of God and speak of them accordingly.
Such a pity for zealots on both sides that the internet is still somewhat free, for the whole truth is neither polite nor politically correct.
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27Ken on Apr 7, 2009 at 1:58 pm:
“I know far more people who could be described as philo-semites who seem to never entertain a thought of Jewish evil, or at very least never voice criticism of Jews.”
There is a difference between criticizing the personal actions of some Jews and trying to paint all of the millions of Jews around the world as evil manipulators as, I think, #18’s comment did. Certainly there were (and are) evil Jews or just plain bad Jews, but the problem is the generalizations some people make…assuming that all Jews are shifty or have ulterior motives simply because some of them do. It’s unfair and inaccurate.
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28Rabbi Dov Coder on Apr 12, 2009 at 12:27 am:
“I thought in 1945 antisemitism died in Auschwitz, but I was wrong. Its victims perished, antisemitism did not. The antisemite hates the Jews before he or she was born, and therefore, you wonder what kind of mind is the mind of the antisemite who does not live in reality, who hates because he feels the need to hate, and for them it is so easy to hate a Jew because we have been the other, the stranger in so many places, and they simply could not understand why we were still around” - Elie Weisel
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We Jews are hated in paradoxes: For being a lazy and inferior race - but also for dominating the economy and taking over the world. We are hated for stubbornly maintaining our separateness - and, when we do assimilate - for posing a threat to racial purity through intermarriages. We are seen as pacifists and as warmongers; as capitalist exploiters and as revolutionary communists; possessed of a Chosen-People mentality, as well as of an inferiority complex. It seems we just can’t win.
Denying the Jewish people the right to their own national movement is an aspect of anti-semitism because every nation in the world has the natural right to a national movement. If this right is denied to the Jewish people this is basic discrimination, which is anti-semitism. Propagandists of the new anti-semitism reject the state of Israel’s right to exist. They accuse it of Nazism and associate it with Nazi symbols. They demonize it and accuse the Jewish communities of treason in their countries because they support Israel. All these are anti-semitic motifs that appear under the pretext of anti-Zionism or opposition to Israel’s policy.
Any discrimination towards the state of Israel in comparison to other countries is a sign of anti-semitic stands. When one systematically judges Israel’s steps by different standards to those applying to other countries, this attitude is basically anti-semitic. Since the state of Israel was established as the Jewish state, it has encountered unbalanced criticism of its policy, out of all proportion to its actions, and ignoring the background to its policy and the far more serious measures taken against it than against other nations. The impression is that Israel is regarded as a state, in the same way that Jews in the past were regarded as individuals - that is, with discrimination and anti-semitic attitudes.
When Israel is accused of conducting a Nazi policy - without any factual basis for such a serious statement, and contrary to reality in which the state of Israel operates according to democratic laws and under the watchful eye of the Supreme Court (which is world renowned) - this is a case of anti-semitism. When there is one-sided criticism of the security fence and roadblocks to check Palestinian traffic, without presenting anti-Israel terrorism and Israel’s need for defensive measures, this is a discriminatory attitude.
When human rights organizations devote a great part of their time to criticizing the state of Israel but do not refer equally to blatant human rights violations elsewhere, such as the premeditated murder by Palestinian terrorist organizations for decades of thousands of innocent Israeli citizens including infants, children and old people, and even more since the intifada, to the mass murders and expulsions in other places for example, in Sudan, or to ignoring the denial of citizen rights to women and homosexuals as is common in many Arab and Muslim countries - this is a one-sided discriminatory attitude whose motives we should question. In quite a few cases the motives are anti-semitic.
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29yochanan ben avrohom on Apr 12, 2009 at 2:39 pm:
the jewish section of the russian communist party liqudated the russian jewish community before joe stalin took power.
soviet communism was anti semitic from day one.
the jewish commies murdered the rabbi’s, the teachers, any bus. leader and the communal leadership. even as late as the 1980’s it was illegal to teach hebrew in the soviet union. a friend of mine a chabad rabbi spent 5 years in the golag for do just that. facts belie the commie propaganda still being spread.
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30Frank White on Apr 12, 2009 at 5:19 pm:
#28, Rabbi Dov Coder
That was an incredibly insightful comment, and I couldn’t agree more. I would avoid posting anything even close to that on digg, shoutwire, and the like - because you’ll just be called a fascist that promotes genocide, and they’ll deny being anti-Semites, they’ll just say they’re anti-Zionists who believe Zionists are running the world.
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31Fiji on Apr 23, 2009 at 5:12 pm:
what do u have against jews. When you say that it hurts people badly. I believe in jesus, and I strongly beleive that he is one of the best to worship to. i am jewish and i wish u peace, Sholom!
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32Anonymous on Apr 28, 2009 at 1:17 am:
stupid jews hope they all burn
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33Anonymous on Apr 28, 2009 at 1:20 am:
tom benjamin lewis is GAY! also jweish people have small belends that whythey are SYRCUMSTIZED!
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34Jew Luva on Apr 28, 2009 at 1:21 am:
I luv jews, but theyre all dead. I guess Ill have to start dating Hindus. Cos i hate muslims.
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35Anonymous on Apr 28, 2009 at 1:23 am:
Holocust is my christmas!
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36Anonymous on Apr 28, 2009 at 1:24 am:
My 4 skin feels so good!:)
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37Jew Luva on Apr 28, 2009 at 1:26 am:
Sorry people
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38Boazhorribilis on May 2, 2009 at 2:32 am:
Nazi/Commie/Anti-semites. A dime a dozen where I grew up. But that place does not still exist, only in the fantasies of the Bay Area clueless lunatics who embrace this garbage. Or so it seems…
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39Boazhorribilis on May 2, 2009 at 2:36 am:
Anonymous, maybe. An imbecile, sure.
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40Deathknyte on May 3, 2009 at 1:12 pm:
Every lefty I know hates Jews with a passion.
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41Anonymous on May 12, 2009 at 1:10 am:
i wnet on my holidays to Austvitchz.
I really enjoyd my time
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42hitler on May 12, 2009 at 1:13 am:
Rhodri Elfed Bowen Llewelyn from Cardiff you prick.
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43hitler on May 12, 2009 at 1:25 am:
And Leon Anthony Deane overuses his foreskin
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44Anonymous on May 12, 2009 at 1:25 am:
Thomos benjamin lewis gave rhodri llewelyn a bj
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45Anonymous on May 12, 2009 at 1:26 am:
Cameron Ross Howells is a hindw! It makes me ill but ti’s better than being a jew!
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46Hail Hitler!!!! on May 12, 2009 at 1:28 am:
odfbh os dogs og- w g zdjgvosjd gjos gojsgp[ dg -
In english it means: I was raped by a monk :O
…in a wheelchair…in ASDA!
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47Anonymous on May 12, 2009 at 1:31 am:
jew make me ill. i laugh when people give a silent moment to remember them by.
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48TOMOS LEWIS on May 15, 2009 at 1:33 pm:
If I were a Jew…I wouldn’t have foreskin…
Speaking of Jews…did anyone watch the holocaust on BBC1 yesterday?
Peace Out…xoxo
P.S. Why does everyone hate me…I’m not black…
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49thebronze on May 16, 2009 at 8:50 pm:
“It’s the Juice stupid!”
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50Anonymous on Jun 26, 2009 at 4:03 am:
To Kristopher: Stalin was a Jew
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51нapминa on Aug 23, 2009 at 1:15 pm:
Да уж, автор сайта на самом деле добрый и отзывчивый человек. Спасибо
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52Anonymous on Sep 3, 2009 at 2:08 pm:
jews are the scourge of the world. Everywhere they go they sow grief for normal people. God Almighty will strike them with fire.
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