In re William Donohue

Dear Catholic League:

I write with some consternation about William Donohue’s belligerent defense
of Mel Gibson’s “apologies” for his (again) outrageous statements, under the
influence of alcohol that, to my Jewish mind, constitute the best evidence
that anyone would or could ever want as to what is in Mr. Gibson’s mind and
heart. He is a Jew-hater that was begot from a Jew-hater, his father, Hutton
Gibson who has denied the existence of the Holocaust and nearly everything
surrounding the Nazi government’s effort to exterminate the Jews of Europe,
an effort in which they were largely successful as you are all undoubtedly
aware. Mel Gibson has publicly stated that he has never disagreed with his
father. Great. If that is true, then Mel Gibson should stand up for the
things that he was apparently raised to believe by his father. Jew-hate is
not formed in a vacuum. It needs fertilizer. He was given plenty of it by
his father according to an interview the elder Gibson gave to the JTA in
March of 2004 immediately before the screening of ‘The Passion of the
Christ”:

OP-ED Interview with Mel Gibson’s dad teaches strange ‘lessons’ on life
By Steve Feuerstein NEW YORK, March 14 (JTA) — I learned a lifelong lesson
during my recent interview with Mel Gibson’s father, Hutton Gibson. The
interview took place on the eve of the release of Mel Gibson’s new movie,
“The Passion of the Christ.”

I learned that there actually were no concentration camps during the
Holocaust, only work camps.

I learned that the Holocaust was a fiction, a fabricated business tool used
strategically to siphon hard-earned money from the coffers of innocent
governments worldwide.

I learned that there are too many survivors left in the world for there ever
to have been a Holocaust.

I learned that the Jews just walked off the plazas of Europe right onto the
streets of the Bronx, Brooklyn, Sydney and Los Angeles. In fact, I learned
that the Germans were such an efficient people that if they had wanted to
murder 6 million people, well then by golly they would have done it!

But this was only the beginning of my education.

I learned from Hutton Gibson that every generation of Jews aspires toward
global dominion through one world religion and one world government. I
learned that the Rockefellers, Carnegies and Morgans all were international
Jewish bankers whose lifelong plot was to control the U.S. economy.

I learned that Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, as ringleader of
this economic band of brothers, should be hanged.

I learned that America must be violently overthrown and that all states must
secede from the union.

I learned that “Japs” who died in ferocious battles during World War II
simply were fools and human waste to be cleared off the front line like
disposable trash each morning.

I learned that the Vatican has been under Jewish and Masonic control since
1965. And I at last learned the answer to a question that has troubled me
since birth: The pope, in fact, is not Catholic; he is Jewish.

I learned that when “The Passion of the Christ” was screened at the Vatican,
the pope was considered nothing more than a “hostile witness” and a “dumb
ass,” for he obviously could do only one thing upon viewing the film:
endorse it.

I learned that no one merits salvation in this world but members of the
Gibsons’ fringe Catholic sect.

I learned that the Judeo-Christian principle of love for all mankind is
nothing more than politically correct rhetoric articulated best when
standing before a nationally televised audience. I learned that there is no
room in the neighborhood for minorities and diversity.

I learned that conspiracy theories lie behind every door, that there are
only others to blame for one’s shortcomings in life, only others to blame
for one’s failed dreams. I learned that life is too short for you to be held
accountable for helping to make it a better place.

I learned that all men are not created equal, and those age-old aspersions
of deicide against the Jews are as alive today as they were 2,000 years ago.

I learned that “The Passion” was in fact made so that “everyone would
intimately know the line” from Matthew 27:25: “His blood be upon us and our
children,” the cornerstone of the historic blood libel against the Jews.

I learned that a child’s blind honor to a bigoted and racist parent is
paramount, and that no wedge will ever be driven between them.

In short, what I learned from Hutton Gibson and his passion was pure,
unadulterated, toxic hatred.

Perhaps most importantly, there really was a valuable message that I learned
during Gibson’s two-hour tirade: This vicious cycle of generational hate
will end only when sons are courageous enough to stand up to the malevolence
of their fathers.

Steve Feuerstein is executive producer and host of “Speak Your Piece!,” an
investigative social-political talk show that airs Mondays and Wednesdays
from 10 p.m. to midnight on WSNR-620 am in New York, New Jersey and
Connecticut. He aired the story of his recent interview on Hutton Gibson and
“The Passion” on Feb. 25. A partial transcript is available on
http://speakyourpiece.net.

http://jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=13869&intcategoryid=5

The issues are not “who is bashing Mel Gibson” or whether Mel Gibson’s
“apologies” were good enough. Attacks such as those posted on the Catholic
League website on people who are critical of Mr. Gibson’s tirade as
“despicable” and “outrageous” begs the question: the issue is NOT those who
were critical of Mr. Gibson’s statements. The issue is Mr. Gibson’s
statements and, to my mind, how they got there. Mr. Donohue would like to
think that it is all a big to-do over nothing. He would like to divert
attention onto those that would stand up and loudly draw attention to Mel
Gibson’s well-ingrained Jew-hate.

Gibson has been accused of being a Jew-hater before. His movie, “The Passion
of The Christ” came in for criticism as being anti-Semitic. Frankly, I did
not see the movie; I had no desire to see what I already knew was going to
happen. Jesus was killed by the Romans, and the Jewish Sanhedrin put them up
to it and the movie was a bloody retelling of the event surrounding the
crucifixion. What occurred in the movie was not news. What was bad was what
followed in Gentile Scripture which held all Jews responsible for what that
particular group did, for ever and ever. Though the Second Vatican Council
erased that particular passage from the liturgy in 1965, 40 years have
passed and some people haven’t gotten that news.

What is news, however, is what lies beneath the veneer of respectability
with which Mr. Gibson is cloaked. Like Mr. Donohue, I have been drunk, too.
Indeed, Jewish law foresees drunkenness at least twice a year, on Passover
(when it’s unavoidable on four glasses of wine) and on Shavuos when we are
affirmatively commanded to get drunk in order to celebrate the giving of the
Torah. Booze loosens the tongue. It doesn’t make a person create things out
of whole cloth that do not otherwise exist in that person’s psyche,
somewhere. What Gibson did is certainly forgivable. Though he didn’t ask me
in particular, I forgive him. And I do not judge him; or rather, do I say
that, like a judge, I will not be the one to execute sentence on him. He’s
guilty, or else he wouldn’t have apologized. Sentencing is between him and
God. But what is clear for me is that this man harbors some very deep-seated
Jew-hate and that, no matter which way you want to look at it is disgusting.
And it matters not who says it. The pardon is not in the words. The pardon
is in what he does to show those he has really hurt that he was wrong and
that he is going to do something positive to rectify what is in his brain
and found its way out, courtesy of a bottle or two of Tequila. I hope he
does. In any event, he will deserve all that he has coming to him, for
better or worse.

I. Randolph S. Shiner, Esq.
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