''ADL will continue to surveil Christian/conservative Americans along with fringe groups, providing under-the-table intelligence to the U.S. government unavailable through lawful means.''
Joel Sprayregen is a former ACLU staff attorney and National Vice-Chair of the Anti-Defamation League...Writing in American Thinker Online, November 29, he says, “You can...understand the consternation, and not just mine, which greeted the ADL’s hyped “Report” declaring that ‘rage’ expressed against President Obama is un-American.” He says, “ADL’s perfervidly purple prose belies an abysmal ignorance of American political traditions." Sprayregen documents this tradition on the authority of Jefferson, Holmes, etc., who not only tolerated but actually encouraged fervent, even heated dissent.
“ADL’s naked partisanship,” he says, is revealed by the fact that “In the time of anti-Bush rage, the ADL held its tongue.” But, he says, “You can’t fool all the people all the time…The failure of mainline media to scrutinize Obama and his mentors - which truly is unprecedented…incentivizes many who love this country to sound off...The ADL could not have chosen a more infelicitous moment to try to shield Obama from anger generated by his policies.”
Sprayregen says he was National Vice-Chair of “the then-respected Anti-Defamation League.” But in past years “…ADL stumbled so egregiously. As observed by many, including myself, who have left the organization, the ADL has declined into an autocracy where no opinion counts other than that of its long-time National Director, Abraham Foxman, whom the New York Times described as "a one-man Sanhedrin for life." When Foxman hatches a crackpot idea like the "Rage Report," no one can restrain him."
He says, “Foxman is driven to justify his half-million-dollar-plus salary (matched in virtually no other Jewish organization)… To generate publicity for himself, he launches (and then summarily drops) foolish initiatives, such as his attack on Christian Evangelicals, Israel's most consistent supporters… I found only one press column praising the ADL statement: that of Los Angeles Times writer Timothy Rutten... When I googled Rutten, I found that last year, he received an ADL First Amendment award."
Sprayregen's article adds to rapidly mounting testimony by yet another Jew (and ADL insider) informing the world that ADL is a loose cannon on the deck of liberalism. It could threaten Zionist interests also because ADL is the PR bulldog of Israel to the world. Jewish liberals view it, as Jewish Week confirmed last week, as "an active part of… the right-of-center pro-Israel establishment." (link to Jewish Week Nov. 25 article ADL report on toxic atmosphere of rage) Yet Foxman, Sprayregen contends, counterproductively attacks the century-long arch supporters of Israel: evangelical Christians. This includes WorldNetDaily owner Joseph Farah who, not unlike ADL, provides a pipeline for Israeli policy directives to millions of evangelicals. http://www.newswithviews.com/Pike/ted102.htm