Yes...you read that correctly. Former Senator Mike Gravel of Alaska, now running for the Democratic nomination for the presidency, addressed a 2003 conference of the Holocaust denying "Barnes Review". A photograph of Gravel at the podium is currently posted at the website of the Adelaide Institute, a notorious anti-Semitic group based in Australia. The subject of his address was the oppressive influence of America's "power elites".
Fellow participants in the conference included fugitive from justice Christopher Bollyn, anti-Semitic conspiracy nut Eustace Mullins, Liberty Lobby founder Willis Carto, Adelaide Institute founder Fredrick Töben, Christian Identity preacher Dale Crowley and Hutton Gibson, Mel Gibson's father and campaigner against a Jewish Masonic conspiracy to control the Vatican.
View a cached version of the Adelaide Institute webpage with details and photos of the conference here...
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Gravel has said repeatedly that he does not share such a view, stating "You better believe I know that six million Jews were killed. I've been to the Holocaust Museum. I've seen the footage of General Eisenhower touring one of the camps. They're [referring to the Barnes Review, and publisher Willis Carto] nutty as loons if they don't think it happened".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gravel#Barnes_Review_controversy
You would do well for the cause removing this slander from your blog.
Gravel now says that he didn't know he was addressing a Holocaust denial convention, although all the speakers, entertainment and literature was obviously of that ilk. Don't take my word for it...click the link I included and look at the agenda for the meeting. The other speakers were literally pro-Nazi, anti-Semitic, nothing subtle about it. Gravel addressed the subject of a secret elite that controls the U.S. in its interest. To paraphrase Gravel: if he didn't know what was happening, he's as nutty as a loon.
"He [Carto] liked the idea of the National Initiative. I figured it was an opportunity to discuss it. Whether it is the far right, far left, whatever, I'll make my pitch to them. They gave me a free subscription to American Free Press. They still send it to me today. I flip through it sometimes. It has some extreme views, and a lot of the ads in it are even more extreme and make me want to upchuck. Anyways, sometime later, Carto contacted me to speak at that Barnes Review Conference. I had never heard of the Barnes Review, didn't know anything about it or what they stood for. I was just coming to give a presentation about the National Initiative. I was there maybe 30 minutes. I could tell from the people in the room (mainly some very old men) that they were pretty extreme. I gave my speech, answered some questions and left. I never saw the agenda for the day or listened to any of the other presentations." - Mike Gravel
I've been following Gravel since the beginning, and from everything I've seen, he doesn't have a supremacist bone in his body. He is humble and honest. It's rare that I believe a goddamned thing a politician says, and Gravel is the only good gut feeling I've had in a long while.
evilmammoth:
I don't disparage your gut feelings, these feelings are important, but what is your assessment of the fact that he addressed a modern version of a German-American Bund rally and claims that either he didn't notice, or he noticed and left without addressing the issue. What about the subject of his speech: the "Secret Elites that Control America"? Don't you have any gut feelings about these questions? Did you look at the website of one of the neo-Nazi sponsors of his speech? What was your gut feeling about that? Any gut feelings on the question of how much he received in payment for his speech?
I have strong gut feelings about those who participate in Nazi rallies or conferences. At the very least, he seems completely oblivious to the troubling implications of his presence there.
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