The smear-tactics against Libertas continue. The Simon Wiesenthal Centre’s credibility has been shot to pieces by their discreditted campaign against the Hunt Museum, which they accuse of links to the Nazis. 2 inquiries into this have disproved these allegations, yet they continue to make them. This is just more of the same. Vested interests are at play here.

I used to respect the SWC when they were going after real Nazis. But when they get involved in witch-hunts with ulterior motives, you have to question what their agenda is. In respect of Ryzard Bender, his grandparents died in Auschwitz, so the claims against him are especially offensive. Another smear against Libertas revolves around a German TV presenter who joined the party. She was the victim of PC withchunt just because she called for “motherhood” to have a stronger profile in German politics and accused what she called the “68 movement” of driving the term “motherhood” out of German politics because the Nazis had distorted the concept for their own ends. As a result, she was sacked from her job. This has been portrayed in the media as her being a neo-Nazi supporting Libertas. It’s an absolute scandal what the opponents of Libertas have felt free to spread about them. No smear is too extreme for those who dared stand up to the pro-Lisbon elites and with the Irish people who voted no on a higher turnout than Lisbon II. I refused to be bullied, and will vote Libertas on Friday. Ganley’s election will rock the Establishment to its foundations, forcing them to listen to the concerns about the democratic-deficit in Europe, the loss of sovereignty, and the need for immigration-control.

@Brian Boru: Of course Libertas deserves critisism when they are recruiting people who publicly says that “Auschwitz wasn’t a death camp.”

The Simon Wiesenthal Centre are absolutely right to voice their concerns. Most WWII nazis are now dead (apart from a few juniors like the guy in the Vatican) so they must now turn their attentions to a new generation of dangerous extremists who once again threaten Europe. Many of these are already in the ranks of Libertas or, if not, have been approached by them. The xenophobic and anti-semitic comments are more pronounced in Eastern Europe than here in Ireland but the sentiments are the same. The kind of hate-speech still heard in countries like Poland and Hungary would not now be tolerated in Western Europe, though it was common 20-30 years ago. I will certainly not be voting for Ganley and all decent people should avoid his shifty and sinister alliance like the plague it is.

I normally have a lot of respect for SWC. I am extremely suspicious of this, however. It does look like politically motivated smear.
World War 2 is OVER. Germany was defeated, bombed, occupied, partitioned, rebuilt, and politically recreated over 64 years ago. Instead of perpetually looking over our shoulders at enemies of yesterday, why aren’t we focusing on the real enemies of today? When we’re talking about antisemitism, why is it the left-wing, continually dragging up their WW2 fixations? Why aren’t we talking more about hardcore Islamic bigotry in Europe, and the left-wingers who protect them and sanction their bigotry? Why don’t we talk about German police pulling down Israeli flags from people’s apartment windows, because a pro-Hamas mob was chanting and throwing things at them? Why don’t we talk about Jews being kicked and beaten by masked left-wing “antifa” thugs in Cologne, because they were members of the Pro-Koln movement? If you want to talk about antisemitism, let’s start with the recent anti-Israel marches in Europe. Let’s talk about Socialist Dutch politicians calling for sanctions against Israel while the crowd behind them chants “Hamas Hamas, Jews to the gas!”

Ireland voted No to Lisbon. I dislike the idea that we need to be coached and re-educated until we vote Yes. Maybe there’s something fundamentally wrong with what we’re voting for? Political dishonesty and bloated bureaucracy, perhaps?

Let’s look at this sort of guilt-by-association: Fianna Fail cabinet ministers attended Christian Brothers schools—the CBs ran Artane and Letterfrack industrial schools and abused countless poor boys—therefore Fianna Fail is an accomplice to systemic child abuse.

Simon Wiesenthal was an earnest man who pursued the guilty nazi criminals to the end of his life. His successors have brought his organisation into gross disrepute.

I want to bring up more information in defence of this man in Poland. The context has to be understand. In the West, when we talk of “Auschwitz”, we mean the extermination camps of Auschwitz I and particularly Auschwitz II/Birkenau which had the gas-chambers and crematoria. However in Poland, the term generally refers to a third sub-camp called Monowitz/Auschwitz III, which consisted of war-factories including those owned by the German company IG Farben which produced synthetic fuels for the German war effort. It is true that in this camp, slave-labour was exploited for the German war-effort. Abomninable and outrageous for them to do that? Of course. But it puts the alleged Bender comments in an entirely different context.And again, he lost grandparents in Auschwitz. I think it demeans the victims of that place to use their fate as a political-football.

Sally I think SW would turn in his grave to see how his successors have brought the organisation into disrepute.