American popular culture makes a running joke of Smith’s 1827 claim to have discovered golden tablets containing the history of an Israelite migration to North America including a cameo appearance by Jesus Christ. Thanks to the animated satire “South Park”, Americans know that Smith “translated” golden tablets that no-one else could see by looking at “seer stones” inside his hat. That is the power of mass media; one half-hour cartoon can undo the work of a million missionaries. spengler
I trust the CHRC will get cracking and track down this Spengler fellow…he has a forum…as he is clearly making mock of Mormons. And, of course, anyone who would broadcast SouthPark deserves the full CHRC treatment. (And, actually, for shits and giggles it might be fun to pick a few episodes of Southpark or the Southpark movie and file a lot of complaints. Serious complaints.
Written by jay on February 5th, 2008 with no comments.
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Item: “HIS (Grant Bristow’s) NAME WASN’T IN THE FIRST EDITION BECAUSE I DIDN’T KNOW HIS NAME WHEN IT CAME OUT” wkinsella email posted at Kevin Steele
Item: Grant Bristow was one of the three founders of Heritage Front.
Item: Heritage Front was founded in 1989.
Item: In May of 1993 Grant Bristow attempted to infiltrate the Jewish Students’ Network pretending to be working for Kinsella. He is identified and Kinsella files a police report.
Item: In October 1993 Kinsella finishes the interviews for the Chapter in Web of Hate on Heritage front.
Now, it is possible that Kinsella left one of the three founders of the Heritage Front in Canada out of the first edition of Web of Hate because he didn’t know Bristow’s name. And it is possible that Kinsella did not mention Bristow at all in that first edition simply because Kinsella’s research was strikingly slipshod. And it is possible that Grant Bristow was not mentioned by name in the police complaint Kinsella filed against him (I have not seen this report) five months before completing his interviews on the Heritage Front. And it’s possible that Bernie Farber forgot to mention to Kinsella the identification of Grant Bristow from an earlier photograph to Kinsella.
So, it is possible that Kinsella was telling the truth in his email to Kevin Steel.
But it is also possible that Kinsella knew exactly who Grant Bristow was and left him out of the first edition of Web of Hate so as not to expose a CSIS asset. At the moment it is impossible to know and Kinsella has made the blanket denial of even knowing who Grant Bristow was when the first edition came out.
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