1) My favorite was the letter to the editor during the last gubernatorial election; "Jill Stein, a Lexington physician, is the only candidate familiar with the situation of the poor."

2) The signature stuff sounds like technical problems with real signatures, not fraud. Or am I missing something?

3) I share your general sense about "anti-Semitism" but don't understand why you've picked this target to move away from it. These guys seem like the usual creepy, nihilistic Third World-ists. They're vile, and yeah, you and I both know they're anti-Semites, but what's special about them?

Jill Stein sounds pretty Jewish though?

Jill Stein sounds pretty Jewish though?

(Sorry, was at Canobie Lake Park all day, just got back)

Re: #2) No, that sounds about right. A technical screw-up as far as can be seen, nevertheless, wrong and they know it's wrong, and hopefully someone's taking out the magnifying glass and counting carefully.

#3) Why do I keep talking about the GRP? I agree, they're fringe wackos not generally worth the time of day. It's like dredging up crap from Indymedia or Counterpunch or places like that...there's lots of material there, but what does it really matter? They're just not worth it.

I keep meaning to move to other things...but these guys are a bit different. First, they make themselves impossible to ignore. They show up to event after event, not just to stand off to the side and hold their silly signs and have their free speech, but to be as agressive and annoying and disruptive as possible -- at family events...I even seem to recall a few of them showing up to a Holocaust Memorial event a couple years back. It's a disgrace. And Francis infecting kids with his hate, while affluent Andover pays his salary and exports his effluence to working-class Somerville...it ought to be an issue of national attention.

Further, blogging is nothing if not pointing out the elephant in the room that the MSM would rather ignore, and the GRP's anti-Semitism is the elephant in the room. If GRP were a right of center party, Grace Ross (this year's Gubernatorial candidate) wouldn't be able to attend a debate or an event without question after question and editorials in the Boston Globe on this. Instead...don't hold your breath for an expose. Allowing the GRP to appear as though they're all about clean drinking water and worker's rights whitewashes who they really are, and allows this stuff to work its way into the mainstream of acceptable political discourse. It's a poison that needs sunlight. It really gets my goat.

I certainly don't intend to follow the day to day of the GRP...feh...but an occasional post when something "newsworthy" happens, and an opportunity to get these things on the record, that I'll take.

Hopefully, Grace Ross et al, will have some serious questions to answer this time through, and the MSM will let Mass voters know that ticking off the Green candidate you know nothing about is NOT an acceptable protest vote.

Yes, Mike. They have lots of people with Jewish names on board. We're both familiar with the phenomenon (or pathology) of Jews (practicing, and Jew in name only) and the far-left...but don't worry, their favorite Jews are the Naturei Karta.

Someone once said there's no such thing as a self-hating Jew, there are only anti-Semites. I think that's about right.

The GRP of Massachusetts reflects national party policy which is against Israel and for radical islam and all it stands for: oppression and murder of women; absence of civil liberties and personal freedoms; hatred of nonmuslims; preaching of violence. All these violate the US GP Ten Key Values but GP members do not care. The party's resolution 190 against Israel was prepared by Mohammed Abed of the Wisconsin GP; he is an organizer for Al Awda; in effect they wrote USGP policy on Israel. They and the extreme stalinist left are now in control of most of the party. I have been trying to months to get this resolution rescinded but even though many party members dislike the resolution, they are too afraid to open their mouths. Criticizing any aspect of Islam is now impossible in the liberal media and the progressive community. Thus, fighting against islamist violence and oppression has now been left by default to the neo cons. Those who like me dare to defy the stalinits are called racists, Zionist agents, government provocateurs, right wingers, etc. Dissent in the USGP has been definitively squashed. The public needs to know what this party stands for and it isnt the environment or peace as many believe.It has betrayed its origins and the trust of its members and the public. It needs to be exposed.

The GRP of Massachusetts reflects national party policy which is against Israel and for radical islam and all it stands for: oppression and murder of women; absence of civil liberties and personal freedoms; hatred of nonmuslims; preaching of violence. All these violate the US GP Ten Key Values but GP members do not care. The party's resolution 190 against Israel was prepared by Mohammed Abed of the Wisconsin GP; he is an organizer for Al Awda; in effect they wrote USGP policy on Israel. They and the extreme stalinist left are now in control of most of the party. I have been trying to months to get this resolution rescinded but even though many party members dislike the resolution, they are too afraid to open their mouths. Criticizing any aspect of Islam is now impossible in the liberal media and the progressive community. Thus, fighting against islamist violence and oppression has now been left by default to the neo cons. Those who like me dare to defy the stalinits are called racists, Zionist agents, government provocateurs, right wingers, etc. Dissent in the USGP has been definitively squashed. The public needs to know what this party stands for and it isnt the environment or peace as many believe.It has betrayed its origins and the trust of its members and the public. It needs to be exposed.

Secretary of State Galvin's Candidate's Guide to the 2006 Election does not give any clear guidance about whether it is allowable to print the name of the voter next to her signature.
In practice, it would be difficult to determine whether a printed name was written by a different person from the adjoining signature. Even a different pen color would not be definitive.

Anyone who wants to challenge signatures has only until tomorrow to do so.

The reason to shine a light on this group is because un-challenged anti-Semitism often grows. Ron Francis was trying to keep his political activities very quiet in Andover (where he teaches children), but he now knows that the town is watching him very closely to see if he will continue preaching his hate...

Eric Danis

Quotes from Grace, the candidate for governor (quotes are from email conversations I had with her). I think the general writing style and typos say even more than the hateful words (although her distortion of history and obvious bias against Jews is pretty galling):

1)“some folks consider self-defense violence, some arug eit maybe violent in some cases but it is a lesser form of violence. So we are imperfect and as US citizens whose government helped set up the power imbalance in Palestine - well I think it is more than fair to ask if we have a right to judge the woman for killing her rapist.”

2)“I think you mihgt check though - Arab are semitic - so I do think the term you want is anti-Jewish.”

3)“My overall attitudes were formed through my father's incredble moral insight and his and my grandfather's commitment to affirmative action with Jewish folks - from during Nazi Germany to the incredible anti-Jewish policies and discrimination around that time in the US. And I grew up in NYC and have tons of Jewish friends who agree that Israel's behavior in Palestine is unbelievably reprehensible, and many policies have been directly destructive and at times I suppose could be described as genocidal of the Palestines still there-“

4)“Jews escaping Nazism first tried to go to Britain and the US - they were overwhlemingly sent away (the border guards and government not caring if they wree slaughtered. Here was the first transgression against Jews who were escaping - and it was done at the hand sof white Christians overwhlemingly.

Where were folks sent? To israel - they were told it was a mostly empty land. and the mostly European troops cleared Palestinians out of their homes and moved them (thousands upon thousands) into refugee cmaps where many still live - they know what house their family was expelled from, on what street in what neighborhood. and many arriving Jews were never told - they were shown to a house and told there had been a great plague and these houses were empty.

and that was a lie and a set up - to set Jew against Palestinian and Palestinian against Jew -

so much of Israel was forceably cleared for Jews escaping persecution - but not just formthe Nazism but from others in free Europe and in the US.”

5)"Beware - the Palestinians did not create this situation, perhaps your anger should be focused somewhere else?"

I am more than happy to forward the emails to anyone interested…

Wow, those are wild, particularly #4. Thanks.

And yes, please forward them to me. If this stuff is going to be posted here I'd like to see the source.

Sol,

I was also shocked that a candidate for governor would ignore more than a hundred years of Zionism and would make factually incorrect statements such as, "and the mostly European troops cleared Palestinians out of their homes and moved them (thousands upon thousands) into refugee cmaps where many still live ."

It's hard to believe anyone could be so ignorant and hateful, but I have forwarded all the emails to you for verification.

Impressive spelling and writing style, eh? Ladies and Gentleman, your future governor!...

Eric

I came across this web site quite by accident. I traveled to Israel this summer for a first hand look at the situation and was fortunate enough to talk with many different Israeli citizens, from all walks of life.But that's a subject for a different forum.

You are quite correct in pointing out the policies of Green_Rainbow, which more or less appear to call for or support armed struggle by (whomever) against the Israelis.

I left the Greens in protest over this policy but also in view of what I saw as the failed policies of the Rainbow contingent for decades.Despite trying to organize people of color for a long time, their record is pretty abysmal.

Among broad sections of the liberal intelligentsia, there is, of course, widespread criticism of Israel and I would argue that much of this criticism flatly ignores the history of the region.It is trendy to hate Israel, despite millions of deaths in Africa and sanitation crises in much of the developing world affecting billions.

When all is said and done and after consideration of some minimum facts, to me some of the criticism is just anti-Jewish. Christians learn this at an early stage and they just may not be able to get over it. The large number of Jews who are fierce critics of Israel? No answer.

Green Rainbow is a rehash of many of the failed ideas of the New Left ,almost 40 years ago. Been there, done that,no thank you.
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