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From: reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Another one we didn't hear about.
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Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 02:19:34 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  8 02:19:34 1985
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In article <674@decwrl.UUCP> black@pundit.DEC (America first, without apologies.) writes:
>
>     This rash of bombings, arson, and murders has apparently been 
>precipitated by the movie "The Execution," a story about a group of vigilante 
>Jews who take the law into their own hands and kill an alleged Nazi.  This 
>movie was filmed in part at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.  The 
>center also provided "technical assistance."
>
>     Rest assured that if the Klan had made such a movie, any theater showing 
>it would be picketed and/or firebombed.  If the Klan committed an act of 
>arson, bombing, or murder on the average of one a week, as the JDL has 
>recently, the nation would be under martial law.  It seems that the JDL can 
>act with total immunity, without fear of investigation, prosecution, or 
>reprisal.  

I have never heard of "The Execution".  It is a very rare movie that manages
to get out into distribution without my hearing about it.  Now, I'm not saying
that this film doesn't exist.  There are several possibilities.  It may be
a TV movie, which I don't usually bother with.  It may be that it has not yet
been released.  It may be that it has recieved limited release in certain
parts of the country, such as the south, and has not yet appeared in LA.
It may be that Mr. Black has the title wrong.  However, I can state with
confidence that no well-known, influential film of this title has been
generally released in US theaters in the last fifteen years.  This may
explain why we haven't heard about theaters playing it being picketed or
firebombed.

By the way, the Klan did once make such a movie, or, more precisely, were
used as advisors in such a film and were presented as heros for terrorist
activities.  Ever seen "Birth of a Nation"?  Or, for that matter, "Gone With
the Wind"?

I would be much more concerned with the occurences Mr. Black has been pointing
out were it not for the fact that his sources are generally people who have
been demonstrated to be liars, in my opinion.  While such occurences might
not make national newspapers, they are bound to be covered in local newspapers.
Do you have any such references, Mr. Black, or must we rely on the more than
slightly questionable and prejudiced sources you site?
-- 
        			Peter Reiher
				reiher@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU
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