Wednesday, March 05, 2003

A note to Boston Globe Ombudsman Mark Jurkowitz re. his profile of Mike Savage in today's Arts and Entertainment section.

I have to fault one aspect of your Michael "Savage" profile today...

Mike is also the proud sponsor of a weird quasi vigilante group called the "Paul Revere Society" which he heavy promotes on his website www.paulreveresociety.com.
Herein is the PRS basic program:
The Paul Revere Society 9-Point Program
MEN AND WOMEN PROTECTING AMERICA

1. Make tax cuts permanent.
2. Close the borders now.
3. Deport all illegal immigrants now.
4. Eliminate bilingual education in all states.
5. Require health tests for all recent foreign born immigrants.
6. Eliminate as many entitlement programs as possible.
7. Reduce the number of Federal Employees.
8. Oil Drilling on U.S. Soil.
9. Tort Reform "STOP LAWYERS".

Clearly Savage has some of the same obscene ambitions that once animated William Dudley Pelley and his fascistic "Silver Shirt Legion". Pelley was hung up on immigration and hanging everyone who scared him just like Savage. Now back in the dim dark 1930's guys like Pelley were marginalized as cranks and brutes....but fortunately we live in enlightened times and nowadays ethnophobes like Mike Weiner can look forward to lucrative television contracts and straight-up profiles in the Boston Globe.
You might have at least described this hate group in your piece...just for the purposes of full disclosure.

Yours
John IAT

No comments :