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Earth, Jan. 1, 2008 (APÜPI) — In a stunning, surprising and groundbreaking state of circumstances, the Simon Wiesenthal Center has decided to include themselves and their website in their own self-produced 2008 edition of their "Digital Terrorism & Hate" CD. (DT&H Compact Disc) How could something like this stranger-than-fiction occurrence occur? Well, read on, and you will be enlightened.

There was apparently quite the brouhaha over the inclusion of the 9/11 Truth and Justice Movement website, 911Truth.org, in the SWC's 2007 edition CD. [ 9/11 Blogger: SWC Targeting/Labeling 9/11 Truth and Justice as Digital Terrorism and Hate ] And even more brouhaha over the inclusion of other 9/11T&J websites and groups, like AE911Truth.org, in an SWC-sponsored presentation before Congress. [ 9/11 Blogger: AE911Truth Response to Mark Weitzman of the Simon Wiesenthal Center ] The congressional meeting was held by the House Committee on Homeland Security, chaired by some congresswoman named Jane Harman, and titled "Using The Web As A Weapon: The Internet As A Tool For Violent Radicalization And Homegrown Terrorism", which is quite the mouthful, no matter how you look at it.

In the SWC-NY presentation, some 9/11T&J websites/groups were listed under the category of "Disinformation and Conspiracy" in a quickly-run-through slide show, as well as being sandwiched between what anyone of normal intelligence and decency would label "true terrorism and hate" websites and groups. What the SWC was thinking is anyone's guess. (you expect that sort of thing from Congress these daze)

An unnamed, internal, confidential source, who is heading the SWC 2008 DT&H CD project, was quoted as saying, "Look. What could we – I, do? Right? If you look at the criteria we were given for group and website inclusion in the 2008 edition of the CD, the SWC easily falls within several of our categories, not the least of which is disinformation. (now more than ever before — and we were doing so well there for awhile) You could even make a good argument for the "conspiracy theory" category on a number of points. (apparently someone around here thinks 'a bunch of 9/11 Truth websites are up to something') And, well, 'hate' itself is obviously not much of a stretch, again, depending on how you want to define the word. I don't know. Does unnecessarily 'being mean', disrespectful, insulting and defamatory toward other websites and groups that don't deserve it count as 'hate'? You tell me. (of course, that's just my own unofficial opinion — but what is it with 'disinformation' and 'conspiracy theories' being included with 'hate' anyways? – I don't get it — personally, I think someone made a mistake, but what are you going to do, right?)"

This reporter also has in his possession a copy of a leaked confidential SWC handwritten memo, author unknown at this time, on what could be official letterhead paper, that states, simply, "Make sure we (SWC) do not end up in the 2008 edition of our DT&H CD." (no image available, but the handwriting was atrocious, believe you me)

When confronted with this memo, our source replied, "Oh, yeah. I got that memo. I thought it was a joke, at first. But then I started thinking about it, and that's what's led me down the primrose path, if you will, to where we are today. I always figured that the SWC was what most people refer to as a 'Truth and Justice' organization. And they have that whole Museum of Tolerance thing, too, which I always meant to go to, but never quite got around to it. Be that as it may, I tend to take that sort of thing seriously, as you can imagine, which is partly why I enjoyed volunteering at the SWC, so I did what I thought and felt and knew to be right. Others disagreed, unfortunately. Some of them quite vociferously, if you don't mind me using that word."

"In fact," she continued, "I was called before the big-wigs and board and trustee members, and some other 'men in expensive suit'-types (off-the-record: I've never seen so many rich, old, white men all in one place! well... other than that short stint where I waitressed at the Brown Derby), and the lawyers, of course — Man! – there were a lot of lawyers! — and I was called on the carpet, as it were. (the room actually had an imported Italian marble tile floor) It was really quite surreal. You should have been there, as they say."

Before I could get a word in edgewise, she went on, "The meeting took place in this HUGE board room, with an oak table that, I kid you not, was at least 100 feet long, and probably would have taken a whole can of Lemon Pledge™ to clean and shine. And the place smelled like expensive cigar smoke and rich, fine, soft Corinthian leather. I swear to God I saw Ricardo Montalban's ghost standing over in the corner with a shit-eating grin on his face. [Editors note: Mr. Montalban is not known to be deceased as of the writing of this article... ] And they're all sitting there, staring at me, down both sides of this table, with some guy at the head whose name I never got, in these really nice-looking high-back leather and oak chairs. And all I have is a Walmart-special fold-up chair at the other, far end of the table, but not close to it, sitting back about three or four feet. It was padded, though."

I started to ask a question, but she interrupted me: "Anyway, I made my short presentation letting them know 'what the Hell I was thinking', which didn't take too long, and there ensued a lot of this-ing, and that-ing, and arguing, and some legalese, and more than a little yelling, and some back-tracking, and some more 'what in the Hell were you thinking', and some threats, and recriminations, and one guy looked like he was weeping a little, and I don't know what all."

At which point I decided to just let her (hopefully) finish with, "And then someone says, 'Look. It's okay. We'll just fix it. And then send them out.' (the 2008 edition CD's) This was about where I raised my hand and let them know that the CD's had already been produced and distributed the week prior. Man! Talk about being able to hear a pin drop. Which didn't last long. By the way, if you know of any job openings, let me know, will you?"

When contacted for a comment, Mark Weitzman, Director of the Task Force Against Hate and Terrorism for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, New York office, and congressional hitman/slide show presenter/lobbyist?, was quoted as saying, "Uhmm... No Comment. Uhmmm.... Yeah. No comment."

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