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May 2, 2009Whatcom County Campaign for LibertyPO Box 2050Ferndale, WA 98248James P. Tucker, EditorAmerican Free Press645 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, Suite 100Washington D.C., 20003Dear James Tucker Jr.,This letter is to inform you that the Whatcom County chapter of the Campaign for Liberty in northwestWashington State has voted to temporarily ban the American Free Press newspaper from distribution at itsmeetings and events until your newspaper responds, in a satisfactory manner, to serious allegations leveledagainst it by some of our members.Some of our members charge that articles published by the American Free Press not only appeal to racism,but also contain disinformation, which they say is intended to demonize Jewish people and mitigate thecrimes of the Nazi regime.Examples of such material include “Animosity Created by WJC ‘Declaration of War’ Against Germany”and “White Guilt & the Black Slave Trade” both of which were published in the February 9th 2009 editionof the American Free Press.Certain members of our organization are claiming that Vivian Bird’s article was a blatant lie and that youreditorial staff must have known that when they published it. They point to the Nazi/NSDAP platform of1920 and Adolf Hitler’s 1926 book Mein Kampf as evidence that the Nazis had animosity towards the Jewslong before the WJC’s 1933 campaign to boycott Germany. They claim that this has been commonknowledge for more than 70 years and that the publication of such an article by your newspaper can only beexplained by an anti-Semitic agenda on the part of your editorial staff.Because they believe that you knowingly published false information, they are accusing you of beingpropagandists. They say that through the publication of misleading information you deliberately led yourreaders to an inference that the Jews deserved, or at least provoked, the treatment they suffered under theNazi regime.Some of our members also felt that your article on the Black slave trade was a crude appeal to racism. Thearticle claims “there is nothing whatsoever for the White race to feel guilty concerning slavery and it istime to quit apologizing for something others are responsible for.” According to the article, White peoplelike “you and I” didn’t bring the slaves here “it was in almost all instances Jewish traders who broughtthem here” – the suggestion, they say you’re making, is that Jewish people aren’t part of the “White race”like “you and I”.Some of our members have also noted that the article places a strong emphasis on the role played by Jewishpeople in the slave trade. They charge that you are again leading your readers to an inference. In this casethe inference is that there is something uniquely sinister about Jewish people, otherwise your editorial staffwouldn’t have deemed the information relevant and placed such a strong emphasis on it. Your accusersnote that the article did not mention the religious faith or ethnicity of other “white people” involved in theslave trade. And, they note that while your article implicated the Jews in the slave trade it failed to mentionthat the English King, Parliament, and the Economy of the British Empire were profiting from the slavetrade and thereby resisted any efforts by Patrick Henry and others to end it.
The Whatcom County Campaign for Liberty adheres to and advocates the principles of liberty for allpeople including the Jews; ALL men are created equal and endowed with certain unalienable rights. Thereis not a single ethnic, religious, national, or cultural group that is responsible for all of the world’s evil, noris there a single such group whose members are entirely righteous. There are individuals in every ethnicand religious group who possess an agenda opposed to liberty, but we know that fact does not make theentire ethnic or religious group culpable. We believe that individuals are responsible for their own actions;therefore we believe that publications that single out a certain ethnic or religious group as the cause of evilsare utilizing a “part to whole” logical fallacy to promote an agenda that in itself is a threat to the cause ofliberty from tyrants.We have valued your paper in the past for publishing articles, information, and opinions on freedom andliberty, however we abhor utilizing that framework for knowingly embedding mistruths and propaganda, ifthat is in fact what you are doing. The Whatcom County Campaign for Liberty believes in due process andfairness. Therefore, we are giving your newspaper an opportunity to refute these accusations or else amendyour editorial policies and issue an apology to the Jewish people for publishing anti-Semitic propaganda.Once we have received your response we will make a decision on whether or not to permanently ban theAmerican Free Press from our meetings and events, and whether to bring our findings to the nationalCampaign for Liberty coordinating office responsible for the coordination of the many chapters andmembers nationwide. Please respond by May 16th. If you choose not to respond, the temporary ban willremain in effect – de facto becoming a permanent ban.Sincerely,/s/Andy WilcoxsonWhatcom County Campaign for Liberty
of the American Free Press. Certain members of our organization are claiming that Vivian Bird’s article was a blatant lie and that your editorial staff must have known that when they published it. They point to the Nazi/NSDAP platform of 1920 and Adolf Hitler’s 1926 book Mein Kampf
