Daniel Keren writes:
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> The Treblinka gas chambers were not connected to any crematoria;
> Baron made a (typically idiotic) extrapolation from Treblinka
> to Auschwitz.
You’re forgetting something Dan; they were not gas chambers in Treblinka
but steam chambers. Now who’s a zero?
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Alexander Baron
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accomplice of liars and forgers.” – Charles Peguy
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Subject: Re: More of Baron’s Rubbish (Re: More Hartfelt fantasies)
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In article <[email protected]> [email protected] “Yale F. Edeiken” writes:
> You are, as usual, dodging the question. The question is not whether the
> photographs were published but whether they were staged. Why can’t you
> answer this simple question?
To the best of my knowledge they were not staged; I think you will find
this sort of thing is not disputed by former British prisoners of war.
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Alexander Baron
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accomplice of liars and forgers.” – Charles Peguy
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From: Alexander Baron
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Subject: Re: Oh where, oh where, has Al Baron gone? Oh where, oh where can he be?
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In article [email protected] “Daniel Keren” writes:
Since the baby was on the floor, that
> has increased its chances of survival, because HCN gas is lighter
> than air and rises.
So people were gassed with a lighter than air gas that was dropped from the
ceiling?
This claim makes no sense. Birkenau
> was an extermination camp, and we know (even Baron agrees to this)
> that the SS burned people alive in other camps.
You’re trying it on again, Dan. What Baron said (yawn) was that an atrocity
at a German camp (Wobbelin?) at the end of the war involved a group of SS
setting a barn afire with people in it. This was a war time atrocity, not
part of any extermination programme. I do not concede that people were
burnt alive in ovens. Dig?
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Alexander Baron
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accomplice of liars and forgers.” – Charles Peguy
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From: Alexander Baron
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Subject: Re: Is Jamie McCarthy totally spineless or totally credulous?
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[email protected] “Josh Klein” writes:
> Oh, Mr. Baron, when will you ever stop using the rather inept analogy
> of belief in flying saucers. Does the so-called flying saucer
> conspiracy involve the creation of flying-saucer remains? Does it
> involve the signed confessions of numerous aliens, and the recorded
> speech of one high-up alien talking about how he intends to visit earth?
> Does it include intercepted wartime transmissions between flying
> saucers, or the diaries and correspondence of officers aboard the
> flying saucers?
> I think that you are underestimating just how huge and complex
> a conspiracy would have to be in order to fool people into
> believing in the Holocaust.
Once again Josh, you are putting the word conspiracy in my mouth. I never
said there was any such thing.
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Alexander Baron
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accomplice of liars and forgers.” – Charles Peguy
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From: Alexander Baron
Newsgroups: alt.revisionism
Subject: Re: A reminder to Mr. Baron (Re: The Exterminationist Guidebook)
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[email protected] “Stephane Bruchfeld” writes:
> That is a reasonable principle. But what is the nature of this
> ignorance? Is it that you are not aware of the massive
> documentation that exists about mass killings of Jews by the
> various special units in the Soviet Union under German
> occupation, or that you are not – as yet – sufficiently prepared,
> as a denier, to deal with this evidence?
> However, since you haven’t disagreed with my interpretation, i.e.
> that the documents constitute evidence of mass murder of Jews in
> the autumn of 1941 and that they furthermore indicate the change
> to a coded language, I take it that you do not find it, at face
> value, an unreasonable interpretation. Am I correct in my
> assumption?
I agree with the judgment of Dr Butz that a great deal of killing went on
on the Eastern front, including of civilians. These things happen in war;
this was not genocide though. Furthermore, the Jewish Chronicle and other
Jewish sources boast that Jewish partisans were heavily involved in the
fight on the Eastern front, so you can’t have it both ways.
> Mr. Baron, is there anything you have published about your
> researches that I may order from you? Is there anything
> especially concerning Auschwitz? What would you consider to be
> your main contribution to the knowledge about this camp?
My main contribution is yet to come! My book is called HOLOCAUST DENIAL: NEW
NAZI LIE or NEW INQUISITION? I have also published a documented expose of
David Irving, including of his lies and perjury. For this I am branded an
anti-Semite. I’ll send you a list if you like.
> From the perspective of the victim it probably does not matter
> very much, but it is of course important to make the difference
> between all too common atrocities and genocide. In this case, if
> I understand you correctly, you mean to say that the Germans did
> commit atrocities but were not guilty of genocide. For the sake
> of the argument, since I wish to learn where you draw the line,
> let us assume that the Germans did systematically line up and
> kill Jewish civilians, men, women and children, over all of the
> conquered territory in the autumn of 1941? Mr. Baron, would you
> then agree to call this genocide, or attempted genocide? Or would
> you consider it more correct to use the descripion “atrocity”?
I would call this war time atrocities, since I believe that Jewish suffering
is no worse and no better than anyone else’s. These things happen in war.
Churchill could have stopped them by agreeing to Hitler’s magnanimous peace
terms. He was at least as responsible as Hitler for the Second World War,
undoubtedly more so after 1941.
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Alexander Baron
“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the
accomplice of liars and forgers.” – Charles Peguy
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From: Alexander Baron
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Subject: Re: Who owns the debt?
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From: Alexander Baron
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Subject: Re: 22nd October, 1995
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In article
[email protected] “Joel Rosenberg” writes:
> >Yes, he pimps off his Jewish girlfriend.
> And Lyin’ Al claims he’s not an anti-Semite, and expects people to believe him.
Baron says he has a Jewish girlfriend; therefore Baron is an anti-Semite.
Typical exterminationist logic.
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Alexander Baron
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accomplice of liars and forgers.” – Charles Peguy
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From: Alexander Baron
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Subject: Re: Harry Mazal – Living Proof Of The Need For Revisionism
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In article
[email protected] “Joel Rosenberg” writes:
> >> You know, I think you really believe this. Amazing.
> >You want me to E-mail you the proof?
> Absolutely, with the understanding that nothing you send me is in any way in
> confidence.
I’ve lost track now; send me an E-mail telling me exactly what it is you want and
I’ll reply in E-mail.
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Alexander Baron
“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the
accomplice of liars and forgers.” – Charles Peguy
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From: Alexander Baron
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Subject: Re: Gold fillings
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In article
[email protected] “Mark Van Alstine” writes:
> The translation of a report from the Staatsarchiv Nurnberg.
> This translation was taken from “Concentration Camp Dachau 1933-1945”
> (ISBN 3-87490-528-4), p. 137; (Plate 283 with translation.)
> —————————————————————————-
>
> SS-Wirtschaftsverwaltungshauptamt Berlin,
> October 8. 1942
> Re: Gold fillings SECRET!
> To the Reichsfuhrer SS
> Berlin
> Reichsfuhrer!
> In accordance with your order the gold from the teeth of the dead
> prisoners is to be delivered to the health department where it will be
> used for the dental treatment of our men.
Don’t forget that according to the Soviets up to 12kg a day of this were
extracted in Auschwitz!
Thanks for this posting, by the way, it will be very useful in my researches.
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Alexander Baron
“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the
accomplice of liars and forgers.” – Charles Peguy
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From: Alexander Baron
Newsgroups: alt.revisionism
Subject: Re: Baron Confuses Treblinka and Auschwitz (Re: Baron’s Ignorance
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In article [email protected] “Daniel Keren” writes:
> Alexander Baron writes:
> # You’re forgetting something Dan; they were not gas chambers
> # in Treblinka but steam chambers.
> Note how Baron desperately tries to evade the issue. Amazing.
> Let’s take a little look at the history of this thread.
> Baron said (correctly) that there were some testimonies from Poles
> that the Treblinka gas chambers used steam to kill the victims. I
> responded that this is not true
Well, the Nuremberg documents mention steam chambers, Dan.
> Note that Baron cannot admit he made this stupid mistake – he just
> can’t admit it.
I didn’t confuse anything. You do get hysterical at times.
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From: Alexander Baron
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Subject: Capone vindicated – 2 of 4
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Al Capone, Gangster: Innuendo, Rumour And Unsupported
Assertions. And Outright Fraud
Following the retirement of Johnny Torrio, Capone liquidated the
O’Banion mob – who were allegedly responsible for the murder
attempt. According to Ness. (29) But whatever Ness may say about
Capone’s role in the liquidation of the O’Banion gang, it is
$common knowledge$ that Capone ordered the St. Valentine’s Day
Massacre of the rival Bugs Moran gang. For example, the presti-
gious $Encyclopedia Americana$ reports that seven members of the
Moran gang were gunned down on the express orders of Capone. (30)
To this day, ask almost any American – and a great many non-
Americans – who was Al Capone? – and they will reply that he was
a gangster. Then ask them what criminal offences Al Capone was
ever convicted of, and see what they say.
One criminal offence Al Capone was certainly never convicted of
was murder. Capone died in 1947, and Ness published his memoirs
ten years later. It is certain that while Scarface Al was still
warm in his grave, all manner of innuendo was being thrown around
about his responsibility for this murder or that, indeed such
allegations were made frequently when he was alive, and probably
on more than one occasion to his face. In his book, Ness estima-
ted that Capone had been responsible directly or indirectly for
the murders of up to three hundred men by 1929, (31) a figure
that is too absurd to comment on. Capone himself once remarked
that he had been accused of every death except the casualty list
in the World War. (32)
What are the facts? One fact, as stated, is that Al Capone was
never convicted of murder, indeed, the only $crime$ in any mean-
ingful sense that he was ever convicted of was carrying a fire-
arm, and the circumstances under which this conviction was ob-
tained stink to High Heaven.
In May 1929, Capone was picked up for carrying a pistol. As the
right to bear arms is written into the American Constitution,
this was obviously only a technical offence. Yet within sixteen
hours of his arrest, Capone had been tried, convicted and sen-
tenced to a year in gaol. (33) And this for a first offence. (34)
In his fantasy prone autobiography, Ness comments that when
Capone, “America’s most feared gangster” was gaoled, his organi-
sation wasn’t broken up but was run by his brother. (35)
When a $feared gangster$ or someone equally obnoxious is sent
to gaol the thing that usually happens is that people crawl out
of the woodwork to denounce him. True, Capone was only sent down
for a year, but this would have been long enough for the authori-
ties to pressurise enough members of his (supposed) empire to
turn on him, and for the police and the Feds to gather enough
incriminating testimony from his alleged victims to keep him in
gaol for a great deal longer. What happened though? Scarface Al
served his time then came out and took up right where he’d left
off, that’s what happened.
Although he was sentenced to a year in gaol, Ness admits that
Capone – America’s most feared gangster, remember – was out in
ten months with remission for $good behaviour$. (36) The simple
fact is that this $feared gangster$ was a perfectly respectable
and indeed extremely industrious entrepreneur who had ended up on
the wrong side of the law for a purely technical offence, he had
been caught carrying a firearm, which, again, the US Constitution
is supposed to have guaranteed him the right to do. It is also
clear that few of his contemporaries could have a more bona fide
reason for carrying a firearm than Al Capone.
It is a well-known truism that mud sticks, and that however
baseless the allegations made against someone and however force-
fully he may be exonerated, there will always be somebody who
reasons no smoke without fire. By the time of his arrest, Capone
had been built up into one of the most evil men alive by a combi-
nation of state-sponsored disinformation and sensationalist
gutter press drivel. There must have been quite a few hoods,
self-styled avengers or simply people out to make a name for
themselves who would have thought nothing of gunning him down in
cold blood, or perhaps attacking him in a less repugnant but
equally disturbing manner. Surely such a man in such circum-
stances is entitled to carry a handgun for his own protection?
As well as the bust, the sentence meted out to Capone was
clearly politically motivated. The fact that the authorities were
able to manhandle him in so brutal a manner and deal with him in
such a summary fashion is also evidence of, if not outright proof
that, he was in reality no manner of gangster but an honest
businessman who, after being harassed by the authorities for
years, and quite likely in fear of his life on account of his
being demonised, was simply caught out doing what any right-
minded person would have done under the circumstances. It has
become $de rigueur$ to portray Capone as a bloated, Machiavellian
schemer surrounded by smart lawyers, craftily outfoxing the
dedicated efforts of the squad of special agents to track him
down and bring him to justice. Police officers, city officials,
even judges, are said variously to have been on his payroll. Yet
the bottom line is that when the chips were down, he couldn’t
even get bail on a minor firearm rap. The poor man obviously
never knew what hit him. Incidentally, the usual tariff for such
an $offence$ was three months, (37) yet he was sentenced to a
year. Surely this is further proof that Capone was anything but a
criminal mastermind?
However, even after the state’s repressive apparatus had suc-
ceeded in nailing him for this trivial offence, it wasn’t satis-
fied. According to Ness, on Capone’s release, a police chief was
said to have promised to clap him straight back in gaol as soon
as he arrived home. Twenty-five men staked out his home for four
days until it was decided that he wasn’t going to show up. (38)
This is outrageous; in the first place, $if$ Capone had been a
wanted man he wouldn’t even have been released from gaol, the
authorities would have found some further charge to bring against
him or used some other device to make sure he wasn’t allowed back
on the street. The simple fact is that Scarface Al, having served
a vicious sentence for a piddling misdemeanour, was targeted by
an over officious police officer with a grudge against the son of
a poor Italian immigrant who had made good while he was stuck in
a brown-nosing job while masquerading as a guardian of public
morality.
Furthermore, by taking no less than twenty-five men off the
streets (where they could have been catching real criminals), in
order to stake out the home of a man who had not even able to
commit a crime for the best part of a year – even if he’d wanted
to – by doing this, this police chief wasted valuable resources
to harass an already harassed and essentially innocuous business-
man. In short, he allowed his irrational hatred of the successful
– and harmless – Al Capone to over-ride his duty to protect the
public.
As well as claiming that he had ordered the murders of some
three hundred men, Ness spins his readers a fantasy about Capone
moving into legitimate businesses (39) where he began bombing his
rivals. The public didn’t like it, he says. (40) Doubtless such
bombings did occur, and by the same token the public wouldn’t
have liked them (the public has never been overly fond of bom-
bings), but again this is innuendo, and as always it is easy to
libel the dead, because they cannot answer back. Al Capone was
never proved guilty of bombing anymore than he was proved guilty
of murder.
Probably the height of Ness’s chutzpah is his suggestion that
an attempt on his life shortly after one of his raids, was the
work of the Capone gang. (41) The fact that Capone was in gaol at
the time (on the aforementioned firearms misdemeanour) didn’t
prevent poor Al from being blamed even for this. This supposedly
so Machiavellian $gangster$ couldn’t prevent the state conspiracy
>from throwing him into gaol on a bum rap, yet at the same time he
is supposed to have ordered the execution of a Justice Department
official. (42)
Let us state this again loud and clear: Al Capone was never
convicted of murder, nor was he ever convicted of the bombing of
any individual or property. Ness’s assertions are exactly that,
assertions, and totally baseless ones at that, because if there
had been the slightest evidence against him he would have been
charged, and more than likely, convicted. It beggars belief that
the Chicago police – however corrupt they may have been – would
have allowed Capone or anyone to get away with eight murders (the
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre), and it is simply inconceivable
that a man who didn’t have enough know-how to escape a gaol
sentence for a firearms misdemeanour would have had the savvy to
order and escape retribution for such an heinous crime.
Furthermore, although there was public outrage at the St.
Valentine’s Day Massacre, and other gangland killings, none of
this outrage was directed at Capone. $If$ the public had really
believed any of the mud that was flung at him, they would have
shown their displeasure by boycotting him and buying their liquor
>from someone else. It is most likely that Ness, the police and
the other authorities continued to lay the blame on Capone for
half the murders and other crimes in Chicago because he was a
convenient scapegoat. He was – against his will – a high profile
public figure; he was also a big man with a scar on his face who
looked the part of the gangster or hood; (43) he was not part of
the establishment, he had humble origins. And he was of Italian
extraction. All they had to do was blame it all on that devious
schemer and gangster Capone, mutter under their breath about how
they couldn’t touch him because he was protected or had City Hall
in his pocket, or some such twaddle, and they wouldn’t need to
justify their failure to catch the real perpetrators of the
dastardly deeds. And their own incompetence.
Again, rather than being either a murderer or a bomber, Al
Capone was a successful businessman who was singled out by both
the police and the Federal Government because his face didn’t
fit. In short, he was simply yet another victim of well-orche-
strated, vindictive and totally arbitrary state harassment.
He Was Cleared, Therefore He Did It
The world is full of conspiracies, but conspiracy theorists are
frequently met with derision, often with good reason. Some people
who postulate conspiracy theories interpret all evidence against
their particular theory as evidence $for$ it. There are some
people – mostly Christian Fundamentalists – who believe that
Satanists snatch thousands of people off the streets of America
every year in order to sacrifice them to the Devil. When police
departments and the FBI have investigated alleged organised
Satanic activity and abuse, they have found precisely nothing.
(44) So what happens? They go into the plot as well. Thus the
fact that no bodies are found proves only that the wicked Satan-
ists are so clever at covering up their trail. The fact that
neither the police nor the Feds come up with any evidence means
that both the police departments and the FBI have been infiltra-
ted and taken over by the Satanists’ network. And when Al Capone
was cleared of a crime, why, the obvious explanation, indeed the
only explanation, is that he corrupted the authorities with his
terrible power of the purse.
One Capone biographer mentions a case in 1922 when Capone was
charged with assault with an automobile, driving while intoxica-
ted and carrying a concealed weapon. The case never came to trial
because, we are told “The charges were mysteriously dropped,
expunged from the record.” (45) Another author has likewise
concluded that because Capone had no criminal record he must have
bribed some official so that “irritating documentation could be
consigned to oblivion.” (46)
Notwithstanding the fact that most of the time many of these
very same officials were doing their best to make the poor man’s
life a misery, this is, once again, pure innuendo. The simple
fact is that many people who are charged with all manner of
criminal offences never see the inside of a courtroom because the
charges are dropped. As to why the charges are dropped, there can
be all manner of reasons. One is that frequently the police
overstep the mark or even fit people up. If this were not the
case then anyone who was ever charged with a criminal offence
would be convicted. This is only intelligent speculation, but I
would say that it is likely in the above case that Capone was
arrested on a totally bum rap and that he threatened to sue the
police, or something of that nature. And they backed down.
Another, quite likely explanation, is that the police realised
they had gone too far without any such prompting, because in
1922, Capone was $one of their own$, so to speak. (47) Whatever,
it should never be forgotten that although by this time, Capone
had long since embarked on his life of $crime$, he was still at
this time a very minor player. If he couldn’t beat a bum firearm
rap when he was kingpin, it is most unlikely that he could use
his supposedly Machiavellian powers to extricate himself from
more serious charges seven years earlier. Any suggestions to the
contrary are simply loaded speculation, innuendo and the usual
cheap shots.
Al Capone The Entrepreneur Versus Eliot Ness The Destroyer – How
It Really Was
When one reads communist and similar publications today, the
thing which impresses the reader more than anything else is the
sheer hatred, venom and nastiness that communists and their
fellow travellers exhibit against anyone who has made good.
Businessmen who have built great industrial, retail, wholesale
and other empires, through their own effort, industriousness, and
often self-sacrifice are portrayed as parasites who prey off the
masses in a relentless quest for profit. A particularly nasty
example of this perverted reasoning is the anarchist publication
$Class War$, which, in its February/March 1995 issue published
the following attack on Richard Branson, who had committed the
cardinal sin of transporting a cargo on one of his Virgin Airways
planes “free of charge”. This is hardly the act of a parasitic
capitalist, but instead of being applauded, Mr Branson was lam-
basted by what was a thinly veiled murder threat: “Three cheers
for Mr Branson? More like three swift blows from a baseball bat.
He can wear as much body armour as he likes, but this prat’s days
are truly numbered.” (48)
While it is unquestionably true that some capitalists are money
graspers, this is a personality defect that can be found through-
out all strata of society. And although he didn’t come from the
same humble origins as Al Capone, Richard Branson is still very
much a self-made man. (49)
This anti-capitalistic mentality was very much alive in the
1920s in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution. There has never
been any suggestion that Eliot Ness was a communist or fellow
traveller, but the same hatred of financial success and desire to
tear down successful business enterprises manifests itself in
many people who are employed, ostensibly, as public servants, yet
who spend the better parts of their careers harassing the more
productive and industrious members of the community.
Ness claimed in his autobiography that at one time the Capone
Syndicate was estimated to have had an income of nearly $120
million. (50) A year, presumably. Although this figure is almost
certainly wildly exaggerated, his claim that $the mob$ had 20
breweries churning out 100 barrels of beer a day (51) is probably
not far wide of the mark.
No credit is given by Ness – or by any servant of that Draco-
nian instrument of statist repression known as the Federal Gov-
ernment – for the positive achievements of the Capone syndicate.
Here was a man who came from poor immigrant stock, from the
humblest of origins, and who, together with many people from
similar backgrounds, built a thriving, prosperous business. (52)
A man whose organisation employed people in no less than twenty
locations in and around Chicago. If Capone hadn’t employed these
men (and women?) what would they have been doing? Most likely
lounging around on street corners or living off the dole – or
whatever they had in 1920s America. A good many of these people
were grateful to this so-called gangster for giving them a live-
lihood, and enabling them to feed their families. And Mr Capone’s
customers were obviously satisfied; let us repeat, no one was
ever forced to attend speakeasies, no one was ever forced to buy
and drink Capone’s beer.
Capone himself saw through the hypocrisy and humbug of the
corrupt system which portrayed him and his kind as parasites
rather than the service providers they were. He enunciated his
views with crystal clear lucidity worthy of a latter day John
Stuart Mill: “They call Al Capone a bootlegger”, he told one
author, “Yes, it’s bootleg while it’s on the trucks, but when
your host at the club, in the locker room, or on the Gold Coast
hands it to you on a silver tray, it’s hospitality. What’s Al
Capone done, then? He’s supplied a legitimate demand. Some call
it bootlegging. Some call it racketeering. I call it a business.”
(53) He put it even more succinctly on another occasion when he
told a woman “They talk about me not being on the legitimate.
Why, lady, nobody’s on the legit., when it comes down to cases;
you know that.” (54)
As well as his commitment to the free enterprise system, Capone
exhibited a trait which he has seldom been given credit for, a
broader commitment to American ideals and a fierce, if concealed,
patriotism. “My rackets are run on strictly American lines and
they’re going to stay that way”, he told one author. (55) And,
“Don’t get the idea that I’m one of these goddam radicals. Don’t
get the idea that I’m knocking the American system.” (56)
This was Al Capone, entrepreneur, public servant. We know what
he did; in his own words he provided a service, he was a busi-
nessman whose customers in turn provided hospitality. So what was
Eliot Ness? And what did he do?
In his book, Ness boasts that on one raid alone a staggering
$75,000 worth of plant was seized. (57) On another raid, men-
tioned on page 94 of his book, Ness boasts that six men were
arrested and that beer and equipment valued at $100,000 was
destroyed. On page 162 of this 190 page catalogue of destruction,
the reader is told that it was difficult to find breweries be-
cause he and his gang had closed more than 30 large plants,
seized 45 trucks and destroyed millions of dollars worth of
equipment. There you have it in his own words. Ness, at the
behest of the United States Government, set out to destroy the
livelihoods of ordinary people, and millions of dollars’ worth of
expensive capital equipment.
Earlier I said that Al Capone’s so-called rackets gave people
(dozens or perhaps even hundreds of them) a livelihood, taking
them off the street. In fact, Capone’s service to society goes
far beyond that, because many of the people he employed were the
type who then – and today – can find employment $only$ in this
sort of activity. It is a truism that once a dog has a bad name,
nobody wants to go near it. Many of the people who found their
way onto Scarface Al’s payroll were ex-cons and assorted lowlife,
[sic] the sort of people no regular employer would want to take
on. If these gangsters, petty crooks and no-goods hadn’t been
engaged in the production and distribution of bootleg booze, it
is more than likely that the Devil would have found villainous
work for their idle hands, and that they would have taken to
mugging old ladies, burglary, armed robbery, and worse. It is not
too much of an exaggeration to say that, rather than contributing
to the proliferation of crime in 1920s Chicago, Al Capone actual-
ly helped keep the crime rate down.
Capone The Peacemaker: Ness Lets The Cat Out Of The Bag
Although in his autobiography, Ness does his best to portray
Capone as some sort of machine gun wielding vampire whose hands
were dripping with blood, we have established already in this
short study that Scarface Al was never convicted of murder and
that all the allegations against him of racketeering were and
remain nothing more than hearsay. There are people who will claim
that there were so many rumours about Capone’s involvement in
Organised Crime, including organised murder, that some of them
must be true, but we must point out again that this simply is not
the case. Let me draw an analogy with Jack the Ripper. Whilst
there is no doubt at all that a number of women were murdered in
London’s Whitechapel in the late 1880s, and little doubt that
some of them were murdered by the same person, who was never
brought to justice, there are more theories about Jack the Ripper
than most people have had hot dinners.
In reality, most of these $theories$ are simply wild specula-
tion, likewise all or most of them are mutually exclusive, for
the Ripper can hardly have been a policeman, a woman, a gorilla,
a member of the Royal family, the Queen’s physician and a mad
Russian doctor simultaneously. (58) By the same token, although a
number of apparently gang-related murders were committed in
Chicago during the Capone era, there is no good reason anymore
than there is any good evidence that all or any of them were
ordered by Al Capone. The simple fact is that Al Capone was a
successful businessman, and as we have pointed out already, such
success, especially by a man of no great education who had risen
>from relative poverty, generates envy, contempt, bitterness and
hatred for its own sake. Probably 99% of the unpleasant things
that have been written about Capone over the years had absolutely
no basis in fact. And, it should never be forgotten, most of
these unpleasant things were written by men like Eliot Ness, or
inspired by him and his ilk.
Ness himself has done an excellent hatchet job on Capone, until
one does some basic textual analysis and compares his wild asser-
tions with the documented facts, but even as he is slagging off
this so-called gangster, he inadvertently lets the cat out of the
bag, for, rather than being any sort of mass murderer, Al Capone
is revealed as a peace-loving man who actually $saved$ lives. As
always, the proof of the pudding is in the eating: here is what
Ness says when he lets his guard down.
Capone ruled Chicago “with an iron fist in a glove of steel”,
(59) but, “Rarely did hate actuate him; when it did, however,
those who had incurred his wrath were marked for death.” (60)
Rarely? This is a man who earlier, according to Ness, had ordered
or been responsible for some three hundred murders by 1929. As
Capone became a junior partner in so-called organised crime only
in 1920, (when Johnny Torrio succeeded ‘Diamond Jim’ Colosimo),
that works out to three hundred murders in nine years, which is
about thirty-three a year, ie more than one a fortnight. In
practice though, Capone wouldn’t have been in a position to order
murders until he became kingpin five years later, so allowing for
him having killed a few people before – and where is the evi-
dence? – we are looking at a man who, by Ness’s earlier reckon-
ing, must have been having people dispatched every few days.
Okay, what have we got so far? A man who was rarely angry, yet
ordered people killed as frequently as most people change their
underwear. Next, Ness tells his readers that when Capone was in
gaol on the bum firearm rap, the murder rate rose: “There had
been frequent gang murders in the few months preceding Scarface
Al’s return. A serious breach was threatening to disrupt the
peace treaty Capone had negotiated at Atlantic City.” (61) In
other words, rather than ordering gang murders, Capone had waged
a tireless battle against them and had even succeeded in enfor-
cing a peace treaty. The reason he did this is not far to seek.
His main aim in life was to keep things running smoothly so
that his customers had a constant supply of liquor and so that
the profits kept running in to his organisation. Even a city
which was as corrupt as Chicago allegedly was would not have
tolerated gang murders on such a scale, something would have been
done. And as Capone had been a big wheel from 1925, there is no
doubt that his activities would have been monitored closely since
then. As indeed they were. Yet in the end the only things they
ever got him for were a firearm misdemeanour – for which they
threw the book at him – and income tax evasion. As Capone himself
said, “They finally got me for spitting on the sidewalk.” (62)
Capone The Kind And Generous Man
Ness and his ilk would have us believe that Al Capone got away
with his crimes [sic] for so long not only because of endemic
corruption but because he was feared by the people of Chicago. It
may be that Capone was feared, certainly by the competition, but
it is far more likely that he was loved, for again, by Ness’s
admission, he was generous to a tee. Ness says of Capone that,
although he was ruthless, he had “the quality of a great busi-
nessman” who exhibited “sound judgment, diplomatic shrewdness and
the diamond-hard nerves of a gambler, all balanced by cold common
sense.” (63) Capone was certainly an accomplished diplomat, and
like all diplomats he realised that persuasion was always prefer-
able to compulsion, although he was realistic enough to see that
in a hard world, hard decisions have to be made, and that while
persuasion pays dividends, some people respect only force. He put
this philosophy in a nutshell with “You can get much further with
a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.” (64)
Though Capone lived in a hard world, Ness, who graduated from
the University of Chicago, either didn’t understand or didn’t
want to understand the harsh realities faced by street-wise
businessmen who graduated from the school of hard knocks. He,
after all, was working for the Federal Government. Whatever
results he turned in, even if he didn’t make a single arrest, he
was still paid because his salary was underwritten by the taxes
of the people. But businessmen have to turn a profit or their
enterprises go down the tubes. Of course Capone was ruthless, but
who benefits from such ruthlessness and the resultant cut-throat
competition? The customer, of course!
And Capone was certainly loved, or if he wasn’t, he was most
highly respected, for as Ness himself says “Capone never carried
less than $50,000 in cash, scattering $25 tips to hat check girls
and $100 gratuities to waiters.” (65) The reader should ask
himself if these are the acts of a hoodlum, of the kind of scum-
bag Ness would have us believe Capone was. The simple fact is
that Capone, as stated, came from humble origins, and never
forgot it. What sort of man gives a waiter a hundred dollar tip?
(66) How about a kind one? Capone was not just from poor immi-
grant stock, he was of Italian origin. It is likely that many of
his family and friends worked in and around the catering and
restaurant trades, a traditional stronghold of Italian immi-
grants. Every time he saw a waiter he probably thought “There but
for the grace of God go I”. (67)
Capone’s legendary generosity even went so far as to offer Ness
a retainer, an offer the latter would have us believe he found
insulting in the extreme. When a Capone foot soldier turned up at
Ness’s office with $2,000 in cash and promised him the same every
week “if you’ll take it easy”, Ness reacted angrily, and, like
the inveterate publicity seeker he was, went out of his way to
prove his incorruptibility. (68) At least, that’s what he tells
us. No one was arrested for this attempt to bribe a Federal
officer, so it is quite possible or even likely that Ness made
the incident up as part of his general campaign of smears and
disinformation. Assuming it was true though, what was so terrible
about an offer of two thousand dollars a week to “take it easy” ?
If Ness had taken this money, he would have benefited, Capone
would have benefited, and, ultimately, the City of Chicago would
have saved money. Think again of all the people needlessly thrown
out of work by the campaign of wanton destruction of private
enterprise engaged in by Ness and his cronies. Think again too of
the sort of people Capone was employing. How many of them, laid
off when their breweries were shut down and their jobs were axed,
moved effortlessly from the $underworld$ of Al Capone’s victim-
less crimes of selling liquor to willing buyers into the real
underworld? How many old ladies were mugged, people burgled,
banks robbed, because these otherwise unemployable wretches were
denied the opportunity to earn an honest dollar by the caprice of
a bigoted government and the simulated outrage of one of its
strong arm men?
Ness even had the nerve to try to kid his readers that it was
this rejection of Capone’s largesse that earned his team the
label the Untouchables. This is nonsense, as he knew full well,
for a man of his university education could hardly have been
unaware of the natural meaning of this term. In India, certain
classes of persons are referred to as Untouchables. The $Harijan$
include those in certain occupations, such as those killing
cattle or disposing of dead cattle, and other “polluting activi-
ties”. (69) The word Untouchable applied to Ness & co was then
not a term of reverence but an insult, an epithet from the Indian
sub-continent. Ness and his team of $Untouchables$ were seen by
the Chicago public not as purifiers of a corrupt system, but as
polluters, unwanted interlopers who had been ordered by a menda-
cious, autocratic Federal Government to destroy the livelihood of
one of the community’s most respected figures, and, more import-
antly from their point of view, to prevent them from enjoying the
comforts of $the good creature of God$, just because some little
fart of a politician with the backing of Twentieth Century Puri-
tans and killjoys had forced an act through Congress denying the
people their inalienable right to drink alcohol.
Persecuted, Harassed, Slandered, Yet Even In Prison, Capone Put
Others First
Socialists are forever telling us that we should work for others,
this is something called altruism. It’s okay to be altruistic
with other people’s money, in particular the taxpayers’, but when
it comes to digging into their own pockets, that’s when they are
found out. Capone though, always believed he had a duty to socie-
ty, to put something back. The reader will recall that in 1929,
Capone was gaoled on a bum firearm rap. The magistrate who heard
this case said he would like to “[rid] the United States of you
for ever.” (70)
Surely this magistrate would have bit his tongue if he had
learned what Capone did while serving his sentence. While he was
in prison, he overheard some doctors discussing the case of a
young criminal in the hospital who been shot in an attempted
hold-up; they were going to amputate his arm. Capone said “Save
the boy’s arm. If it takes money, I’ll be glad to pay for it.”
(71) This was a young punk Capone didn’t know from Adam, yet for
him such an act of extraordinary generosity and compassion was
$de rigueur$. Incredibly though, there were those, beside the
obviously envious and totally worthless Eliot Ness, who interpre-
ted such acts as further evidence of Capone’s supposedly evil
nature.
He Was Kind Therefore He Was Evil
Capone biographer Kenneth Allsop wrote that “His individual acts
of charity, from a fifty dollar loan to an outright gift to a
destitute Italian family, were many. He paid the hospital bills
of a woman bystander wounded in a street gun-battle. It is not
altogether astonishing that today there are many respectable
citizens in Chicago who speak glowingly of Capone’s philanthropy
and particularly point out that in the early Depression days it
was the Capone gang who set up the first soup-kitchens and block-
restaurants for the distribution of free food on Thanksgiving
Day.” (72) On one occasion, Capone sent $1,200 to a deserving
Philadelphia orphanage. (73) Yet while Allsop writes that Capone
was revealed in November 1930 as the mysterious benefactor who
had set up a huge soup-kitchen, he implies that his motives in
doing this were purely selfish, ie that he set it up purely so
that the identity of the benefactor could be leaked to the media,
in order to show himself in a favourable light. (74)
Other Persecutions And Anti-Capone Hysteria
As we have demonstrated, Capone was hounded not simply by Eliot
Ness but at times by what seemed like the entire establishment.
He was actually arrested many times, including for vagrancy! (75)
On top of all that, the wildest rumours and nonsense were spread
about him. It was said that Capone was taking a cut of the tak-
ings of slot machines in Copenhagen because they had been man-
ufactured in Chicago. (76) A book on Capone was banned by librar-
ies in London; (77) a man who wrote a book called $Carrying a Gun
for Al Capone$ admitted later not only that he had never done any
such thing but that he had never even been to Chicago! (78) Some
of this nonsense may have been inspired by media sensationalism,
or, as most likely, in the case of the fictitious gun-carrying
hood, a Walter Mitty personality, but the astute reader will
detect here the hidden hand of Capone’s declared enemies in
officialdom, who, as always, were backed up by the full coercive
power of the state. (79)
—
Alexander Baron
“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the
accomplice of liars and forgers.” – Charles Peguy
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Capone Inspired Loyalty From Beyond The Grave
Further evidence of the true nature of Scarface Al surfaced
thirty-three years after his death. In August 1980, the British
weekly $Titbits$ published the story of a woman who claimed to
have been his lover, Amelia D’Argenio. (80) She was a young widow
when she met Capone and he asked her out, and they quickly became
lovers. (81) Capone gave her an allowance which was the equiva-
lent of L150 a week, and said that he would have given her any-
thing in his power, and lavished fur coats, jewellery and money
on her. Curiously though she said “I never saw Al with a pistol”,
(82) which raises the possibility that Capone may even have been
fitted up outright for the firearm misdemeanour. (83)
Capone’s former lover continued “Of course his ‘boys’ carried
guns – even machine guns – but only to protect their interests.”
And why shouldn’t they have? Even Capone’s hostile biographers
don’t deny that he was frequently targeted for assassination.
(84) Surely this is a clear case of defending one’s property
rights and even more importantly, one’s life, by the right to
bear arms, which is enshrined in the US Constitution. D’Argenio
even says that “When he ordered a speakeasy to be blown up it was
always at night when nobody who was innocent would be killed.”
(85) This sounds like hearsay, again we must stress that there is
no proof that Al Capone ever engaged in such criminal activity as
bombing rivals or, as suggested here, against people who had
ripped him off. But even if he did authorise strong arm tactics
occasionally we have been given a bona fide reason for it here.
Because of the Draconian (and stupid) Prohibition law, people in
Capone’s line of work who were ripped off had either to turn the
other cheek or exact summary justice. Bootleggers who turned the
other cheek wouldn’t have stayed in business long. Here though is
prima facie evidence that although Capone may have been a bit of
a rough diamond, he lived by his own moral code, and that the
summary justice he dispensed was neither excessive nor adminis-
tered with either malice or recklessness.
Capone was in fact in many ways a regular guy: “Al would leave
for the office every morning in his armoured car and come home at
night in the same car”. And his patriotism, which we have already
alluded to, was evinced by the huge picture of George Washington
and the Stars and Stripes he kept on his office wall. “He loved
America.” (86)
A Sick Attempt To Impugn Capone’s Patriotism
We should mention here an attempt to portray Capone in a bad
light which, although not as sick as portraying this great Ameri-
can entrepreneur as a mass murderer and crook, is pretty low
nevertheless. In $The Bootleggers$, Kenneth Allsop says that
Capone was not only fond of lying – including about his age – but
that he was born in Italy, not America, as he claimed. Allsop
says that Capone was born January 6, 1895 at Castel Amara near
Rome to his shopkeeper father Gabrielle and mother Theresa. (87)
The implication is of course that because Capone was not born in
America he couldn’t have been a $good American$. This is utter
nonsense because America was founded by Europeans, and many
contemporary Americans – former President Ronald Reagan for
example – are intensely proud of their European (in his case,
Irish) heritage. But that doesn’t for one moment mean that they
are not good Americans.
In any case, this charge against Capone is blatantly false.
Another Capone biographer, John Kobler, reports that Capone was
indeed born in the United States, in Brooklyn, on January 17,
1899. (16) And, far from reducing his age, Capone actually added
a year to his official age. The reason for this was that the
fully assimilated all-American son of Italian immigrants married
an Irish-American (Mae Coughlin), on December 18, 1918. His
bride-to-be was actually two years older than him, something
which appears to have embarrassed Capone, so on the marriage
certificate, she lowered her age by one year, and he increased
his by one. (88) [This is the sort of white lie anyone would
tell.] In any case, Capone’s parents arrived in the United States
in 1893, two years before – according to Allsop – Capone himself
was born. (89) Let us return now to the lies and innuendo of
Eliot Ness.
A Strange Incident
As most people know, Al Capone was finally convicted of and
gaoled for income tax evasion, but prior to his indictment a most
curious incident is reported by Ness. Following the murder of a
police reporter who was said to have been on the take, a gun in
Ness’s files disappeared. This gun was proved by forensic testing
to have been one of the same batch as the weapon used in the
reporter’s murder, and was thought initially to have been the
same gun. Ness’s reaction to the disappearance of the gun in his
files is strange indeed. He says: “The Capone gang – for it could
be no other – had started to show its hand. They had entered our
offices, probably in the dead of night, and searched for evidence
that could be destroyed.” (90) Yeah, sure Eliot, but Occam’s
Razor gives us a far more plausible explanation. To begin with,
if the Capone $gang$ had been responsible, surely they would have
destroyed a great deal more evidence, perhaps they’d even had
bombed or torched the office.
Secondly, the obvious solution is that someone with regular
access to the office – perhaps even Ness himself – made this
weapon disappear. I wouldn’t like to speculate as to the reason
Ness or one of his underlings would wish to make a potential
murder weapon disappear, but even the dumbest of observers must
surely conclude that it is odd Ness should have blamed Capone for
this particular piece of legerdemain. Perhaps the Untouchables
weren’t quite so untouchable after all?
Trial And Conviction
Although Ness and his team did some impressive work in gathering
evidence against Capone (in a purely technical sense), it was the
Revenue agents who did the real damage. Capone and sixty-eight
members of his syndicate were eventually indicted by a Grand Jury
under the $Volstead Act$. This was based on evidence assembled by
Ness and his agents, but the tax case took precedence. (91)
Capone himself faced three indictments and a possible 34 years in
gaol. (92)
In 1989, Britain’s leading Libertarian Chris Tame, (93) wrote
that if a thug were to accost you in the street and demand your
wallet, you wouldn’t hesitate to call his actions theft. (94) The
$crime$ Al Capone was charged with was refusing to part with his
hard-earned money, not to a street thug, but to agents of a
repressive regime of new, unhappy Puritans who treated people
like common criminals for doing what people of almost all cul-
tures have done since time immemorial, drinking alcohol.
It seems incredible that a law-abiding citizen whose only real
crime was a technical infringement of a firearms law, who created
a vast business empire, who gave hundreds of people a livelihood,
who serviced willing imbibers from all walks of society, who,
even by his avowed enemy’s admission, brought peace to the
streets of Chicago, and undoubtedly saved lives, that a man who
did all this, should be treated like a common criminal and threa-
tened with over thirty years in gaol because he decided he knew
better what to do with his money than the state. (95)
In spite of Capone’s business acumen, he was naive about the
law. At one point he objected “They can’t collect legal taxes
>from illegal money.” (96) Unfortunately for him this wasn’t true.
In 1921 a small time Carolina bootlegger named Manley Sullivan
was charged with income tax evasion. He didn’t challenge the
bootlegging allegation but argued a point of law, that the gov-
ernment was not allowed to tax illegal income. The case went all
the way to the Supreme Court. He lost. (97)
Capone was found guilty on counts 1, 5, 9, 13 and 18. He was
also given 6 months for contempt of court, was sentenced to a
total of eleven years in gaol, fined a total of $50,000, and
ordered to pay $30,000 costs. As he left the courtroom he was
served with an order to freeze his assets by a Revenue official.
(98)
The End Of Prohibition
Al Capone was gaoled in October 1931 and served most of his
sentence in Alcatraz. In 1933, Prohibition was ended because,
according to the $Encyclopedia Americana$, “the nation’s most
influential people, as well as the general public, acknowledged
that it had failed. It had increased lawlessness and drinking and
aggravated alcohol abuse.” (99) Capone himself had gone on record
as stating that “Prohibition has made nothing but trouble”. (100)
Indeed, this must have been apparent from almost the day the
$Volstead Act$ was passed. In 1929, the U.S. assistant attorney
general in charge of liquor law prosecutions, a woman named Mabel
Walker Willebrandt, resigned and became an attorney for the wine
industry. (101) However, the real reason the great $social ex-
periment$ of Prohibition $failed$, had nothing whatsoever to do
with concern for increasing lawlessness, aggravated alcohol abuse
or anything of the kind, Prohibition was scrapped for purely
commercial reasons, as we will see shortly.
Capone And Ness: Their Later Careers
Capone’s last day in Alcatraz was January 6, 1939. His biographer
John Kobler wrote that “For the misdemeanor of failing to file a
tax return, he owed another year, reducible by good behavior to
about ten months.” (102) Again that phrase good behaviour rears
its head, somehow it is so out of character with the media image
of Capone which Ness and his sycophants and their spiritual heirs
have built in the nearly five decades since Scarface Al’s death.
On his release, Capone lived quietly until his premature death,
not just a sick man but a broken one.
We have demonstrated here I think that the myth of Al Capone
mass murderer and super-gangster was just that, a myth. Another
myth, almost as big, is the myth that Capone was fabulously
wealthy. Ness claimed that at one time Capone was worth $50
million. (103) The $Encyclopedia Americana$ – which, having no
axe to grind, one would expect to be more reliable – estimated
his wealth at his peak in 1927 at a staggering $100 million.
(104) Capone’s last lawyer painted a different picture. To wit,
his client “never owned the sources of his once vast wealth.” He
shared with partners and the organisation. He was well provided
for but his property was heavily mortgaged and he had to pay off
back taxes. (105) Ness’s claim that Capone never carried around
less than $50,000 in cash (106) is obviously nonsense of the
first order, but Capone’s extraordinary personal generosity and
kindness were undoubtedly for real. He died January 25, 1947.
Although Capone retired from public life with his gaoling, Ness
did not. The Untouchables were disbanded, but Ness remained in
government service, and during World War Two he served as Direc-
tor of Social Protection for the Federal Security Agency and was
given the appropriate task for an accomplished brown-noser of
“combating venereal disease in and near every military establish-
ment in the United States”. (107) How he undertook this awesome
task the mind boggles, but the scatological, bird-brained nincom-
poops who run the United States Government were obviously more
than satisfied with his work, and he was awarded a medal for it.
He died of a heart attack on May 16, 1957. (108)
The Making Of Two Myths: TV Lends A Hand
The Untouchables were immortalised by an eponymous TV series,
with the actor Robert Stack playing the title role. There was
also a much more recent film with Kevin Costner playing Ness.
Neither Stack nor Costner could be said to portray Ness as a
debonair sort, but Capone, where he appears in any dramatisation,
is portrayed as an overweight, unsightly thug, the exact alter
ego of the incorruptible Ness. Ness, let it never be forgotten,
was a man who, by his own admission, enforced a law he didn’t
really believe in, who tapped people’s telephones and spied on
them in numerous other ways, a man who took pride in destroying
wealth-creating private enterprise at the behest of a megalithic
Federal Government which owed its very existence to the efforts
of entrepreneurs like Al Capone. And, to cap it all, this same
$gang-buster$, this $Untouchable$, spent the Second World War,
not in a military uniform, not even as a Federal agent, but as a
government snoop inspecting toilets, lecturing soldiers on the
evils of promiscuity, or whatever it is that people who combat
venereal disease are obliged to do to earn their sinecures.
Why Prohibition Was Really Repealed
The $Encyclopedia Americana’s$ claim that Prohibition was re-
pealed because “the nation’s most influential people, as well as
the general public, acknowledged that it had failed” is a lie
that has been manufactured from the whole cloth. Many other laws
have $failed$, proved unworkable or counter-productive, but that
hasn’t prevented them either from remaining in force or being
strengthened. The real reason for Prohibition’s repeal has less
to do with either morality or concern for the welfare of the
people than with plain, old-fashioned economics. The reader will
recall the signs hung outside the London gin shops guaranteeing
to make their customers “drunk for one penny and dead drunk for
two pence”. Another common vice – besides drunkenness – is the
demon weed. During Prohibition, cigarettes retailed for around
one penny each! (109) Today, ie 1995, you won’t get a bottle of
whisky for much less than fifteen quid, while fags will cost you
around two pounds fifty for twenty. (110)
Granted that the prices of virtually all commodities will have
risen in actual if not real terms since the 18th Century or even
since the 1920s, (111) this still leaves a veritable crevasse to
fill. And that crevasse has been filled almost entirely by one
thing: tax.
The British daily newspaper $Today$ reported in its December
10, 1994 issue the following price breakdown for booze, fags and
petrol:
In each case the first price is the retail price, the second is
the combined tax (duty, sales tax, VAT). The price is given for
20 Marlboro brand cigarettes and one litre of petrol; prices have
been rounded to the nearest penny.
UK Germany Australia
Scotch L12.00 L9.50 L14.21
L6.18 L3.50 L6.11
Wine L2.75 84p L1.10
(bottle) L1.05 6p 97p
Beer 99p 40p 60p
22p 4p 36p
Cigs L2.70 L1.90 L2.54
L1.15 L1.20 89p
Petrol 60p 66p 36p
(leaded) 36p 48p 3p
Petrol 53p 60p 35p
(unleaded) 31p 40p 3p
It will be seen from the above table that prices vary considerab-
ly – as one would expect – from country to country, as do the
duties on the various products. In Germany, the duty on unleaded
petrol makes up a staggering two thirds of its price at the pumps
while in Australia it is less than (less than!) 10%. (112) The
reason for the low [sic] duty on petrol in Australia is clearly
because of the size of the country. Like the United States,
people often have to travel vast distances in the course of their
work or daily lives. On the other hand, although Australia is a
wine producing country, the tax on a bottle of wine makes up a
staggering 88+% of the cost price! Clearly this tax is totally
unnecessary except for the purposes of a) regulating the average
Aussie’s lifestyle, (113) and b) ripping off the consumer for the
express purpose of funding an inflated and totally unnecessary
bureaucracy.
Here then is why the so-called great experiment of Prohibition
failed, the social policy makers decided that it would be much
more worthwhile to legalise booze in order to facilitate yet
another gigantic rip-off of the already oppressed public. This
was the reason, the only reason, the American Government admitted
its mistake and repealed the Prohibition law. And it may eventu-
ally be the same reason which leads to the repeal of that other
and even more outrageous form of Prohibition, the war on drugs. A
short survey of this will conclude the current study, first
though, let us take a brief look at another, and far less well
known aspect of Prohibition, that of the oppression of ethnic
minorities.
An Unexplored Facet Of The Campaign Against Al Capone
We come now to an aspect of the government sponsored campaign to
destroy Al Capone which has been written out of the history
books. Capone’s cardinal sin was that he gave people what they
wanted and was spectacularly successful into the bargain. His
other sin is that although he was white, he was Latin rather than
Anglo-Saxon. This $ethnic bias$ – to put it euphemistically – was
something that was very prevalent then and is still so today,
though now it manifests itself primarily in the war on drugs, but
also to some extent in the campaign against that other taboo free
market, prostitution.
Capone was of course far from the only American $gangster$ of
Latin heritage in the 1920s, and Latins were not the only minor-
ity involved in servicing a thirsty public, the bootleg industry
was also heavily Jewish. The Jewish $gangster$ Meyer Lansky
(1902-83) was one of many others besides Capone et al who was
harassed not only on account of his services to free market
capitalism but also because of his birth. Under the Law of Re-
turn, any Jew born anywhere in the world has the right to emi-
grate to Israel; Lansky was refused entry to the country, un-
questionably under pressure from the United States Government.
“When you’re a Jew,” he said, “the whole world’s against you.”
(114)
Lansky should have said “When you’re not Anglo-Saxon”, for it
wasn’t just the Jews and the Italians, indeed nowadays it is
hardly them at all – as most of them have moved up the social
ladder into $legitimate$ businesses. Nowadays it is, primarily,
if you’re black, you’ll find the authorities jumping on you from
a great height when you try to make an honest dollar by providing
a service which the United States Government in its wisdom has
decided that its citizens are to be denied the pleasure of. The
majority of drug dealers in most American inner cities are black,
and a great many of those working the streets as whores and pimps
are black. Whatever one may think of whores or the men who live
off them, there is no element of compulsion in any such transac-
tion. No $john$ has to seek out the services of a hooker. (115)
Leaving aside the Puritan mentality of many of the people re-
sponsible for drafting social policy in the United States, in
view of the experience of Capone and that enlightening protest of
Lansky, the continued outlawing of a substantial sector of the
free market under the pretext of saving people from themselves
(116) is nothing less than part of the – for the most part,
invisible – class structure of the United States. And one that
ensures that if your face doesn’t fit, particularly if it’s
black, you stay right at the bottom.
The Evil Legacy Of Eliot Ness: The War On Drugs And The End Of
The Rule Of Law
One pundit has written of Al Capone that he was “the creation and
the victim of his times”. (117) This is indeed true. It is also
true that the current generation is the victim of Capone’s times,
because while their good dies with them, the evil that men do
lives after them, and few men did more evil than Eliot Ness and
the other servants of the corrupt system of statist repression he
and they helped to create and maintain. Although Eliot Ness died
in 1957, his evil legacy is all around in the United States, and
manifests itself in the Draconian legislation which has been
ushered through Congress by the tactic of frightening and wilful-
ly deceiving the public in the phony war on drugs.
The drug menace is so terrible, so all-encompassing, such a
threat to the survival of civilisation, we are told, that it must
be stamped out by any means necessary. The simple fact though is
that any man, woman or child can walk into their local supermark-
et and buy poison, be it boot polish or Vitamin D. (118) The idea
that such commonplace commodities should be regulated because
they can be dangerous if misused has never quite caught on. It
could be that recreational drugs have been singled out for the
simple reason that they are recreational, as is alcohol. What-
ever, the Draconian laws that have been foisted upon the good
citizens of America – and other countries – in order, ostensibly,
to combat the non-existent drug menace, are now being quietly
extended to other areas.
The April 1995 issue of the British Libertarian journal $Free
Life$ reported the following horror story, one such as could
never have happened in Nazi Germany or even in Soviet Russia. In
1992, a woman in Iowa who was accused of shoplifting a $25 swea-
ter had her $18,000 automobile – which had been specially equip-
ped for her handicapped daughter – seized as a getaway car! (119)
This was made possible by civil asset forfeiture legislation, in
particular the $Comprehensive Forfeiture Act 1984$.
Civil asset forfeiture legislation was designed to inhibit so-
called racketeering, which in Ness’s day was centred on booze but
is today centred on drugs. One 1992 report claimed that an esti-
mated $85 billion of illegal drug money a year was being laun-
dered through banks in the United States and Europe. (120) While
a certain amount of illegal drug money – perhaps even a great
deal – is without doubt $laundered$ through the banking system
and legitimate businesses, it is most unlikely that this figure
has any basis in fact, or if the true figure can even be reason-
ably estimated. (121)
Such legislation as civil asset forfeiture is nothing less than
a direct and wilful usurpation of the rule of law, and has conse-
quences for every citizen which make it possible – and in the
near future probable – that anytime he (or she) steps out of
line, he will be jumped on from a great height by the powers that
be. Imagine the following scenario. You are a publisher; you
publish a book or magazine which is highly critical of a govern-
ment agency, or exposes police corruption. After an $anonymous$
tip off the police raid your premises and find (or plant) traces
of cocaine on a dollar bill in your safe. (122) They confiscate
your business, your bank account, the lot. (123) Theoretically,
this course of action could be used against the wealthiest men in
the country as a catch-all device to confiscate all their assets.
So, if your name is Bill Gates and a police officer performing a
$random$ search at a road block happens to $find$ a spliff in
your car, you can kiss goodbye to Microsoft.
Anti-drug hysteria has also led to a law which makes it manda-
tory to record all cash transactions over $10,000. Such regula-
tion and people control must lead not only inevitably to tyranny
but to the strangulation of the economy. It is this which is the
true legacy of Eliot Ness, and frankly, the society which turned
him and his kind into heroes, deserves everything it gets.
—
Alexander Baron
“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the
accomplice of liars and forgers.” – Charles Peguy
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Al Capone, Gangster: Innuendo, Rumour And Unsupported
Assertions. And Outright Fraud
Following the retirement of Johnny Torrio, Capone liquidated the
O’Banion mob – who were allegedly responsible for the murder
attempt. According to Ness. (29) But whatever Ness may say about
Capone’s role in the liquidation of the O’Banion gang, it is
$common knowledge$ that Capone ordered the St. Valentine’s Day
Massacre of the rival Bugs Moran gang. For example, the presti-
gious $Encyclopedia Americana$ reports that seven members of the
Moran gang were gunned down on the express orders of Capone. (30)
To this day, ask almost any American – and a great many non-
Americans – who was Al Capone? – and they will reply that he was
a gangster. Then ask them what criminal offences Al Capone was
ever convicted of, and see what they say.
One criminal offence Al Capone was certainly never convicted of
was murder. Capone died in 1947, and Ness published his memoirs
ten years later. It is certain that while Scarface Al was still
warm in his grave, all manner of innuendo was being thrown around
about his responsibility for this murder or that, indeed such
allegations were made frequently when he was alive, and probably
on more than one occasion to his face. In his book, Ness estima-
ted that Capone had been responsible directly or indirectly for
the murders of up to three hundred men by 1929, (31) a figure
that is too absurd to comment on. Capone himself once remarked
that he had been accused of every death except the casualty list
in the World War. (32)
What are the facts? One fact, as stated, is that Al Capone was
never convicted of murder, indeed, the only $crime$ in any mean-
ingful sense that he was ever convicted of was carrying a fire-
arm, and the circumstances under which this conviction was ob-
tained stink to High Heaven.
In May 1929, Capone was picked up for carrying a pistol. As the
right to bear arms is written into the American Constitution,
this was obviously only a technical offence. Yet within sixteen
hours of his arrest, Capone had been tried, convicted and sen-
tenced to a year in gaol. (33) And this for a first offence. (34)
In his fantasy prone autobiography, Ness comments that when
Capone, “America’s most feared gangster” was gaoled, his organi-
sation wasn’t broken up but was run by his brother. (35)
When a $feared gangster$ or someone equally obnoxious is sent
to gaol the thing that usually happens is that people crawl out
of the woodwork to denounce him. True, Capone was only sent down
for a year, but this would have been long enough for the authori-
ties to pressurise enough members of his (supposed) empire to
turn on him, and for the police and the Feds to gather enough
incriminating testimony from his alleged victims to keep him in
gaol for a great deal longer. What happened though? Scarface Al
served his time then came out and took up right where he’d left
off, that’s what happened.
Although he was sentenced to a year in gaol, Ness admits that
Capone – America’s most feared gangster, remember – was out in
ten months with remission for $good behaviour$. (36) The simple
fact is that this $feared gangster$ was a perfectly respectable
and indeed extremely industrious entrepreneur who had ended up on
the wrong side of the law for a purely technical offence, he had
been caught carrying a firearm, which, again, the US Constitution
is supposed to have guaranteed him the right to do. It is also
clear that few of his contemporaries could have a more bona fide
reason for carrying a firearm than Al Capone.
It is a well-known truism that mud sticks, and that however
baseless the allegations made against someone and however force-
fully he may be exonerated, there will always be somebody who
reasons no smoke without fire. By the time of his arrest, Capone
had been built up into one of the most evil men alive by a combi-
nation of state-sponsored disinformation and sensationalist
gutter press drivel. There must have been quite a few hoods,
self-styled avengers or simply people out to make a name for
themselves who would have thought nothing of gunning him down in
cold blood, or perhaps attacking him in a less repugnant but
equally disturbing manner. Surely such a man in such circum-
stances is entitled to carry a handgun for his own protection?
As well as the bust, the sentence meted out to Capone was
clearly politically motivated. The fact that the authorities were
able to manhandle him in so brutal a manner and deal with him in
such a summary fashion is also evidence of, if not outright proof
that, he was in reality no manner of gangster but an honest
businessman who, after being harassed by the authorities for
years, and quite likely in fear of his life on account of his
being demonised, was simply caught out doing what any right-
minded person would have done under the circumstances. It has
become $de rigueur$ to portray Capone as a bloated, Machiavellian
schemer surrounded by smart lawyers, craftily outfoxing the
dedicated efforts of the squad of special agents to track him
down and bring him to justice. Police officers, city officials,
even judges, are said variously to have been on his payroll. Yet
the bottom line is that when the chips were down, he couldn’t
even get bail on a minor firearm rap. The poor man obviously
never knew what hit him. Incidentally, the usual tariff for such
an $offence$ was three months, (37) yet he was sentenced to a
year. Surely this is further proof that Capone was anything but a
criminal mastermind?
However, even after the state’s repressive apparatus had suc-
ceeded in nailing him for this trivial offence, it wasn’t satis-
fied. According to Ness, on Capone’s release, a police chief was
said to have promised to clap him straight back in gaol as soon
as he arrived home. Twenty-five men staked out his home for four
days until it was decided that he wasn’t going to show up. (38)
This is outrageous; in the first place, $if$ Capone had been a
wanted man he wouldn’t even have been released from gaol, the
authorities would have found some further charge to bring against
him or used some other device to make sure he wasn’t allowed back
on the street. The simple fact is that Scarface Al, having served
a vicious sentence for a piddling misdemeanour, was targeted by
an over officious police officer with a grudge against the son of
a poor Italian immigrant who had made good while he was stuck in
a brown-nosing job while masquerading as a guardian of public
morality.
Furthermore, by taking no less than twenty-five men off the
streets (where they could have been catching real criminals), in
order to stake out the home of a man who had not even able to
commit a crime for the best part of a year – even if he’d wanted
to – by doing this, this police chief wasted valuable resources
to harass an already harassed and essentially innocuous business-
man. In short, he allowed his irrational hatred of the successful
– and harmless – Al Capone to over-ride his duty to protect the
public.
As well as claiming that he had ordered the murders of some
three hundred men, Ness spins his readers a fantasy about Capone
moving into legitimate businesses (39) where he began bombing his
rivals. The public didn’t like it, he says. (40) Doubtless such
bombings did occur, and by the same token the public wouldn’t
have liked them (the public has never been overly fond of bom-
bings), but again this is innuendo, and as always it is easy to
libel the dead, because they cannot answer back. Al Capone was
never proved guilty of bombing anymore than he was proved guilty
of murder.
Probably the height of Ness’s chutzpah is his suggestion that
an attempt on his life shortly after one of his raids, was the
work of the Capone gang. (41) The fact that Capone was in gaol at
the time (on the aforementioned firearms misdemeanour) didn’t
prevent poor Al from being blamed even for this. This supposedly
so Machiavellian $gangster$ couldn’t prevent the state conspiracy
>from throwing him into gaol on a bum rap, yet at the same time he
is supposed to have ordered the execution of a Justice Department
official. (42)
Let us state this again loud and clear: Al Capone was never
convicted of murder, nor was he ever convicted of the bombing of
any individual or property. Ness’s assertions are exactly that,
assertions, and totally baseless ones at that, because if there
had been the slightest evidence against him he would have been
charged, and more than likely, convicted. It beggars belief that
the Chicago police – however corrupt they may have been – would
have allowed Capone or anyone to get away with eight murders (the
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre), and it is simply inconceivable
that a man who didn’t have enough know-how to escape a gaol
sentence for a firearms misdemeanour would have had the savvy to
order and escape retribution for such an heinous crime.
Furthermore, although there was public outrage at the St.
Valentine’s Day Massacre, and other gangland killings, none of
this outrage was directed at Capone. $If$ the public had really
believed any of the mud that was flung at him, they would have
shown their displeasure by boycotting him and buying their liquor
>from someone else. It is most likely that Ness, the police and
the other authorities continued to lay the blame on Capone for
half the murders and other crimes in Chicago because he was a
convenient scapegoat. He was – against his will – a high profile
public figure; he was also a big man with a scar on his face who
looked the part of the gangster or hood; (43) he was not part of
the establishment, he had humble origins. And he was of Italian
extraction. All they had to do was blame it all on that devious
schemer and gangster Capone, mutter under their breath about how
they couldn’t touch him because he was protected or had City Hall
in his pocket, or some such twaddle, and they wouldn’t need to
justify their failure to catch the real perpetrators of the
dastardly deeds. And their own incompetence.
Again, rather than being either a murderer or a bomber, Al
Capone was a successful businessman who was singled out by both
the police and the Federal Government because his face didn’t
fit. In short, he was simply yet another victim of well-orche-
strated, vindictive and totally arbitrary state harassment.
He Was Cleared, Therefore He Did It
The world is full of conspiracies, but conspiracy theorists are
frequently met with derision, often with good reason. Some people
who postulate conspiracy theories interpret all evidence against
their particular theory as evidence $for$ it. There are some
people – mostly Christian Fundamentalists – who believe that
Satanists snatch thousands of people off the streets of America
every year in order to sacrifice them to the Devil. When police
departments and the FBI have investigated alleged organised
Satanic activity and abuse, they have found precisely nothing.
(44) So what happens? They go into the plot as well. Thus the
fact that no bodies are found proves only that the wicked Satan-
ists are so clever at covering up their trail. The fact that
neither the police nor the Feds come up with any evidence means
that both the police departments and the FBI have been infiltra-
ted and taken over by the Satanists’ network. And when Al Capone
was cleared of a crime, why, the obvious explanation, indeed the
only explanation, is that he corrupted the authorities with his
terrible power of the purse.
One Capone biographer mentions a case in 1922 when Capone was
charged with assault with an automobile, driving while intoxica-
ted and carrying a concealed weapon. The case never came to trial
because, we are told “The charges were mysteriously dropped,
expunged from the record.” (45) Another author has likewise
concluded that because Capone had no criminal record he must have
bribed some official so that “irritating documentation could be
consigned to oblivion.” (46)
Notwithstanding the fact that most of the time many of these
very same officials were doing their best to make the poor man’s
life a misery, this is, once again, pure innuendo. The simple
fact is that many people who are charged with all manner of
criminal offences never see the inside of a courtroom because the
charges are dropped. As to why the charges are dropped, there can
be all manner of reasons. One is that frequently the police
overstep the mark or even fit people up. If this were not the
case then anyone who was ever charged with a criminal offence
would be convicted. This is only intelligent speculation, but I
would say that it is likely in the above case that Capone was
arrested on a totally bum rap and that he threatened to sue the
police, or something of that nature. And they backed down.
Another, quite likely explanation, is that the police realised
they had gone too far without any such prompting, because in
1922, Capone was $one of their own$, so to speak. (47) Whatever,
it should never be forgotten that although by this time, Capone
had long since embarked on his life of $crime$, he was still at
this time a very minor player. If he couldn’t beat a bum firearm
rap when he was kingpin, it is most unlikely that he could use
his supposedly Machiavellian powers to extricate himself from
more serious charges seven years earlier. Any suggestions to the
contrary are simply loaded speculation, innuendo and the usual
cheap shots.
Al Capone The Entrepreneur Versus Eliot Ness The Destroyer – How
It Really Was
When one reads communist and similar publications today, the
thing which impresses the reader more than anything else is the
sheer hatred, venom and nastiness that communists and their
fellow travellers exhibit against anyone who has made good.
Businessmen who have built great industrial, retail, wholesale
and other empires, through their own effort, industriousness, and
often self-sacrifice are portrayed as parasites who prey off the
masses in a relentless quest for profit. A particularly nasty
example of this perverted reasoning is the anarchist publication
$Class War$, which, in its February/March 1995 issue published
the following attack on Richard Branson, who had committed the
cardinal sin of transporting a cargo on one of his Virgin Airways
planes “free of charge”. This is hardly the act of a parasitic
capitalist, but instead of being applauded, Mr Branson was lam-
basted by what was a thinly veiled murder threat: “Three cheers
for Mr Branson? More like three swift blows from a baseball bat.
He can wear as much body armour as he likes, but this prat’s days
are truly numbered.” (48)
While it is unquestionably true that some capitalists are money
graspers, this is a personality defect that can be found through-
out all strata of society. And although he didn’t come from the
same humble origins as Al Capone, Richard Branson is still very
much a self-made man. (49)
This anti-capitalistic mentality was very much alive in the
1920s in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution. There has never
been any suggestion that Eliot Ness was a communist or fellow
traveller, but the same hatred of financial success and desire to
tear down successful business enterprises manifests itself in
many people who are employed, ostensibly, as public servants, yet
who spend the better parts of their careers harassing the more
productive and industrious members of the community.
Ness claimed in his autobiography that at one time the Capone
Syndicate was estimated to have had an income of nearly $120
million. (50) A year, presumably. Although this figure is almost
certainly wildly exaggerated, his claim that $the mob$ had 20
breweries churning out 100 barrels of beer a day (51) is probably
not far wide of the mark.
No credit is given by Ness – or by any servant of that Draco-
nian instrument of statist repression known as the Federal Gov-
ernment – for the positive achievements of the Capone syndicate.
Here was a man who came from poor immigrant stock, from the
humblest of origins, and who, together with many people from
similar backgrounds, built a thriving, prosperous business. (52)
A man whose organisation employed people in no less than twenty
locations in and around Chicago. If Capone hadn’t employed these
men (and women?) what would they have been doing? Most likely
lounging around on street corners or living off the dole – or
whatever they had in 1920s America. A good many of these people
were grateful to this so-called gangster for giving them a live-
lihood, and enabling them to feed their families. And Mr Capone’s
customers were obviously satisfied; let us repeat, no one was
ever forced to attend speakeasies, no one was ever forced to buy
and drink Capone’s beer.
Capone himself saw through the hypocrisy and humbug of the
corrupt system which portrayed him and his kind as parasites
rather than the service providers they were. He enunciated his
views with crystal clear lucidity worthy of a latter day John
Stuart Mill: “They call Al Capone a bootlegger”, he told one
author, “Yes, it’s bootleg while it’s on the trucks, but when
your host at the club, in the locker room, or on the Gold Coast
hands it to you on a silver tray, it’s hospitality. What’s Al
Capone done, then? He’s supplied a legitimate demand. Some call
it bootlegging. Some call it racketeering. I call it a business.”
(53) He put it even more succinctly on another occasion when he
told a woman “They talk about me not being on the legitimate.
Why, lady, nobody’s on the legit., when it comes down to cases;
you know that.” (54)
As well as his commitment to the free enterprise system, Capone
exhibited a trait which he has seldom been given credit for, a
broader commitment to American ideals and a fierce, if concealed,
patriotism. “My rackets are run on strictly American lines and
they’re going to stay that way”, he told one author. (55) And,
“Don’t get the idea that I’m one of these goddam radicals. Don’t
get the idea that I’m knocking the American system.” (56)
This was Al Capone, entrepreneur, public servant. We know what
he did; in his own words he provided a service, he was a busi-
nessman whose customers in turn provided hospitality. So what was
Eliot Ness? And what did he do?
In his book, Ness boasts that on one raid alone a staggering
$75,000 worth of plant was seized. (57) On another raid, men-
tioned on page 94 of his book, Ness boasts that six men were
arrested and that beer and equipment valued at $100,000 was
destroyed. On page 162 of this 190 page catalogue of destruction,
the reader is told that it was difficult to find breweries be-
cause he and his gang had closed more than 30 large plants,
seized 45 trucks and destroyed millions of dollars worth of
equipment. There you have it in his own words. Ness, at the
behest of the United States Government, set out to destroy the
livelihoods of ordinary people, and millions of dollars’ worth of
expensive capital equipment.
Earlier I said that Al Capone’s so-called rackets gave people
(dozens or perhaps even hundreds of them) a livelihood, taking
them off the street. In fact, Capone’s service to society goes
far beyond that, because many of the people he employed were the
type who then – and today – can find employment $only$ in this
sort of activity. It is a truism that once a dog has a bad name,
nobody wants to go near it. Many of the people who found their
way onto Scarface Al’s payroll were ex-cons and assorted lowlife,
[sic] the sort of people no regular employer would want to take
on. If these gangsters, petty crooks and no-goods hadn’t been
engaged in the production and distribution of bootleg booze, it
is more than likely that the Devil would have found villainous
work for their idle hands, and that they would have taken to
mugging old ladies, burglary, armed robbery, and worse. It is not
too much of an exaggeration to say that, rather than contributing
to the proliferation of crime in 1920s Chicago, Al Capone actual-
ly helped keep the crime rate down.
Capone The Peacemaker: Ness Lets The Cat Out Of The Bag
Although in his autobiography, Ness does his best to portray
Capone as some sort of machine gun wielding vampire whose hands
were dripping with blood, we have established already in this
short study that Scarface Al was never convicted of murder and
that all the allegations against him of racketeering were and
remain nothing more than hearsay. There are people who will claim
that there were so many rumours about Capone’s involvement in
Organised Crime, including organised murder, that some of them
must be true, but we must point out again that this simply is not
the case. Let me draw an analogy with Jack the Ripper. Whilst
there is no doubt at all that a number of women were murdered in
London’s Whitechapel in the late 1880s, and little doubt that
some of them were murdered by the same person, who was never
brought to justice, there are more theories about Jack the Ripper
than most people have had hot dinners.
In reality, most of these $theories$ are simply wild specula-
tion, likewise all or most of them are mutually exclusive, for
the Ripper can hardly have been a policeman, a woman, a gorilla,
a member of the Royal family, the Queen’s physician and a mad
Russian doctor simultaneously. (58) By the same token, although a
number of apparently gang-related murders were committed in
Chicago during the Capone era, there is no good reason anymore
than there is any good evidence that all or any of them were
ordered by Al Capone. The simple fact is that Al Capone was a
successful businessman, and as we have pointed out already, such
success, especially by a man of no great education who had risen
>from relative poverty, generates envy, contempt, bitterness and
hatred for its own sake. Probably 99% of the unpleasant things
that have been written about Capone over the years had absolutely
no basis in fact. And, it should never be forgotten, most of
these unpleasant things were written by men like Eliot Ness, or
inspired by him and his ilk.
Ness himself has done an excellent hatchet job on Capone, until
one does some basic textual analysis and compares his wild asser-
tions with the documented facts, but even as he is slagging off
this so-called gangster, he inadvertently lets the cat out of the
bag, for, rather than being any sort of mass murderer, Al Capone
is revealed as a peace-loving man who actually $saved$ lives. As
always, the proof of the pudding is in the eating: here is what
Ness says when he lets his guard down.
Capone ruled Chicago “with an iron fist in a glove of steel”,
(59) but, “Rarely did hate actuate him; when it did, however,
those who had incurred his wrath were marked for death.” (60)
Rarely? This is a man who earlier, according to Ness, had ordered
or been responsible for some three hundred murders by 1929. As
Capone became a junior partner in so-called organised crime only
in 1920, (when Johnny Torrio succeeded ‘Diamond Jim’ Colosimo),
that works out to three hundred murders in nine years, which is
about thirty-three a year, ie more than one a fortnight. In
practice though, Capone wouldn’t have been in a position to order
murders until he became kingpin five years later, so allowing for
him having killed a few people before – and where is the evi-
dence? – we are looking at a man who, by Ness’s earlier reckon-
ing, must have been having people dispatched every few days.
Okay, what have we got so far? A man who was rarely angry, yet
ordered people killed as frequently as most people change their
underwear. Next, Ness tells his readers that when Capone was in
gaol on the bum firearm rap, the murder rate rose: “There had
been frequent gang murders in the few months preceding Scarface
Al’s return. A serious breach was threatening to disrupt the
peace treaty Capone had negotiated at Atlantic City.” (61) In
other words, rather than ordering gang murders, Capone had waged
a tireless battle against them and had even succeeded in enfor-
cing a peace treaty. The reason he did this is not far to seek.
His main aim in life was to keep things running smoothly so
that his customers had a constant supply of liquor and so that
the profits kept running in to his organisation. Even a city
which was as corrupt as Chicago allegedly was would not have
tolerated gang murders on such a scale, something would have been
done. And as Capone had been a big wheel from 1925, there is no
doubt that his activities would have been monitored closely since
then. As indeed they were. Yet in the end the only things they
ever got him for were a firearm misdemeanour – for which they
threw the book at him – and income tax evasion. As Capone himself
said, “They finally got me for spitting on the sidewalk.” (62)
Capone The Kind And Generous Man
Ness and his ilk would have us believe that Al Capone got away
with his crimes [sic] for so long not only because of endemic
corruption but because he was feared by the people of Chicago. It
may be that Capone was feared, certainly by the competition, but
it is far more likely that he was loved, for again, by Ness’s
admission, he was generous to a tee. Ness says of Capone that,
although he was ruthless, he had “the quality of a great busi-
nessman” who exhibited “sound judgment, diplomatic shrewdness and
the diamond-hard nerves of a gambler, all balanced by cold common
sense.” (63) Capone was certainly an accomplished diplomat, and
like all diplomats he realised that persuasion was always prefer-
able to compulsion, although he was realistic enough to see that
in a hard world, hard decisions have to be made, and that while
persuasion pays dividends, some people respect only force. He put
this philosophy in a nutshell with “You can get much further with
a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.” (64)
Though Capone lived in a hard world, Ness, who graduated from
the University of Chicago, either didn’t understand or didn’t
want to understand the harsh realities faced by street-wise
businessmen who graduated from the school of hard knocks. He,
after all, was working for the Federal Government. Whatever
results he turned in, even if he didn’t make a single arrest, he
was still paid because his salary was underwritten by the taxes
of the people. But businessmen have to turn a profit or their
enterprises go down the tubes. Of course Capone was ruthless, but
who benefits from such ruthlessness and the resultant cut-throat
competition? The customer, of course!
And Capone was certainly loved, or if he wasn’t, he was most
highly respected, for as Ness himself says “Capone never carried
less than $50,000 in cash, scattering $25 tips to hat check girls
and $100 gratuities to waiters.” (65) The reader should ask
himself if these are the acts of a hoodlum, of the kind of scum-
bag Ness would have us believe Capone was. The simple fact is
that Capone, as stated, came from humble origins, and never
forgot it. What sort of man gives a waiter a hundred dollar tip?
(66) How about a kind one? Capone was not just from poor immi-
grant stock, he was of Italian origin. It is likely that many of
his family and friends worked in and around the catering and
restaurant trades, a traditional stronghold of Italian immi-
grants. Every time he saw a waiter he probably thought “There but
for the grace of God go I”. (67)
Capone’s legendary generosity even went so far as to offer Ness
a retainer, an offer the latter would have us believe he found
insulting in the extreme. When a Capone foot soldier turned up at
Ness’s office with $2,000 in cash and promised him the same every
week “if you’ll take it easy”, Ness reacted angrily, and, like
the inveterate publicity seeker he was, went out of his way to
prove his incorruptibility. (68) At least, that’s what he tells
us. No one was arrested for this attempt to bribe a Federal
officer, so it is quite possible or even likely that Ness made
the incident up as part of his general campaign of smears and
disinformation. Assuming it was true though, what was so terrible
about an offer of two thousand dollars a week to “take it easy” ?
If Ness had taken this money, he would have benefited, Capone
would have benefited, and, ultimately, the City of Chicago would
have saved money. Think again of all the people needlessly thrown
out of work by the campaign of wanton destruction of private
enterprise engaged in by Ness and his cronies. Think again too of
the sort of people Capone was employing. How many of them, laid
off when their breweries were shut down and their jobs were axed,
moved effortlessly from the $underworld$ of Al Capone’s victim-
less crimes of selling liquor to willing buyers into the real
underworld? How many old ladies were mugged, people burgled,
banks robbed, because these otherwise unemployable wretches were
denied the opportunity to earn an honest dollar by the caprice of
a bigoted government and the simulated outrage of one of its
strong arm men?
Ness even had the nerve to try to kid his readers that it was
this rejection of Capone’s largesse that earned his team the
label the Untouchables. This is nonsense, as he knew full well,
for a man of his university education could hardly have been
unaware of the natural meaning of this term. In India, certain
classes of persons are referred to as Untouchables. The $Harijan$
include those in certain occupations, such as those killing
cattle or disposing of dead cattle, and other “polluting activi-
ties”. (69) The word Untouchable applied to Ness & co was then
not a term of reverence but an insult, an epithet from the Indian
sub-continent. Ness and his team of $Untouchables$ were seen by
the Chicago public not as purifiers of a corrupt system, but as
polluters, unwanted interlopers who had been ordered by a menda-
cious, autocratic Federal Government to destroy the livelihood of
one of the community’s most respected figures, and, more import-
antly from their point of view, to prevent them from enjoying the
comforts of $the good creature of God$, just because some little
fart of a politician with the backing of Twentieth Century Puri-
tans and killjoys had forced an act through Congress denying the
people their inalienable right to drink alcohol.
Persecuted, Harassed, Slandered, Yet Even In Prison, Capone Put
Others First
Socialists are forever telling us that we should work for others,
this is something called altruism. It’s okay to be altruistic
with other people’s money, in particular the taxpayers’, but when
it comes to digging into their own pockets, that’s when they are
found out. Capone though, always believed he had a duty to socie-
ty, to put something back. The reader will recall that in 1929,
Capone was gaoled on a bum firearm rap. The magistrate who heard
this case said he would like to “[rid] the United States of you
for ever.” (70)
Surely this magistrate would have bit his tongue if he had
learned what Capone did while serving his sentence. While he was
in prison, he overheard some doctors discussing the case of a
young criminal in the hospital who been shot in an attempted
hold-up; they were going to amputate his arm. Capone said “Save
the boy’s arm. If it takes money, I’ll be glad to pay for it.”
(71) This was a young punk Capone didn’t know from Adam, yet for
him such an act of extraordinary generosity and compassion was
$de rigueur$. Incredibly though, there were those, beside the
obviously envious and totally worthless Eliot Ness, who interpre-
ted such acts as further evidence of Capone’s supposedly evil
nature.
He Was Kind Therefore He Was Evil
Capone biographer Kenneth Allsop wrote that “His individual acts
of charity, from a fifty dollar loan to an outright gift to a
destitute Italian family, were many. He paid the hospital bills
of a woman bystander wounded in a street gun-battle. It is not
altogether astonishing that today there are many respectable
citizens in Chicago who speak glowingly of Capone’s philanthropy
and particularly point out that in the early Depression days it
was the Capone gang who set up the first soup-kitchens and block-
restaurants for the distribution of free food on Thanksgiving
Day.” (72) On one occasion, Capone sent $1,200 to a deserving
Philadelphia orphanage. (73) Yet while Allsop writes that Capone
was revealed in November 1930 as the mysterious benefactor who
had set up a huge soup-kitchen, he implies that his motives in
doing this were purely selfish, ie that he set it up purely so
that the identity of the benefactor could be leaked to the media,
in order to show himself in a favourable light. (74)
Other Persecutions And Anti-Capone Hysteria
As we have demonstrated, Capone was hounded not simply by Eliot
Ness but at times by what seemed like the entire establishment.
He was actually arrested many times, including for vagrancy! (75)
On top of all that, the wildest rumours and nonsense were spread
about him. It was said that Capone was taking a cut of the tak-
ings of slot machines in Copenhagen because they had been man-
ufactured in Chicago. (76) A book on Capone was banned by librar-
ies in London; (77) a man who wrote a book called $Carrying a Gun
for Al Capone$ admitted later not only that he had never done any
such thing but that he had never even been to Chicago! (78) Some
of this nonsense may have been inspired by media sensationalism,
or, as most likely, in the case of the fictitious gun-carrying
hood, a Walter Mitty personality, but the astute reader will
detect here the hidden hand of Capone’s declared enemies in
officialdom, who, as always, were backed up by the full coercive
power of the state. (79)
—
Alexander Baron
“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the
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Capone Inspired Loyalty From Beyond The Grave
Further evidence of the true nature of Scarface Al surfaced
thirty-three years after his death. In August 1980, the British
weekly $Titbits$ published the story of a woman who claimed to
have been his lover, Amelia D’Argenio. (80) She was a young widow
when she met Capone and he asked her out, and they quickly became
lovers. (81) Capone gave her an allowance which was the equiva-
lent of L150 a week, and said that he would have given her any-
thing in his power, and lavished fur coats, jewellery and money
on her. Curiously though she said “I never saw Al with a pistol”,
(82) which raises the possibility that Capone may even have been
fitted up outright for the firearm misdemeanour. (83)
Capone’s former lover continued “Of course his ‘boys’ carried
guns – even machine guns – but only to protect their interests.”
And why shouldn’t they have? Even Capone’s hostile biographers
don’t deny that he was frequently targeted for assassination.
(84) Surely this is a clear case of defending one’s property
rights and even more importantly, one’s life, by the right to
bear arms, which is enshrined in the US Constitution. D’Argenio
even says that “When he ordered a speakeasy to be blown up it was
always at night when nobody who was innocent would be killed.”
(85) This sounds like hearsay, again we must stress that there is
no proof that Al Capone ever engaged in such criminal activity as
bombing rivals or, as suggested here, against people who had
ripped him off. But even if he did authorise strong arm tactics
occasionally we have been given a bona fide reason for it here.
Because of the Draconian (and stupid) Prohibition law, people in
Capone’s line of work who were ripped off had either to turn the
other cheek or exact summary justice. Bootleggers who turned the
other cheek wouldn’t have stayed in business long. Here though is
prima facie evidence that although Capone may have been a bit of
a rough diamond, he lived by his own moral code, and that the
summary justice he dispensed was neither excessive nor adminis-
tered with either malice or recklessness.
Capone was in fact in many ways a regular guy: “Al would leave
for the office every morning in his armoured car and come home at
night in the same car”. And his patriotism, which we have already
alluded to, was evinced by the huge picture of George Washington
and the Stars and Stripes he kept on his office wall. “He loved
America.” (86)
A Sick Attempt To Impugn Capone’s Patriotism
We should mention here an attempt to portray Capone in a bad
light which, although not as sick as portraying this great Ameri-
can entrepreneur as a mass murderer and crook, is pretty low
nevertheless. In $The Bootleggers$, Kenneth Allsop says that
Capone was not only fond of lying – including about his age – but
that he was born in Italy, not America, as he claimed. Allsop
says that Capone was born January 6, 1895 at Castel Amara near
Rome to his shopkeeper father Gabrielle and mother Theresa. (87)
The implication is of course that because Capone was not born in
America he couldn’t have been a $good American$. This is utter
nonsense because America was founded by Europeans, and many
contemporary Americans – former President Ronald Reagan for
example – are intensely proud of their European (in his case,
Irish) heritage. But that doesn’t for one moment mean that they
are not good Americans.
In any case, this charge against Capone is blatantly false.
Another Capone biographer, John Kobler, reports that Capone was
indeed born in the United States, in Brooklyn, on January 17,
1899. (16) And, far from reducing his age, Capone actually added
a year to his official age. The reason for this was that the
fully assimilated all-American son of Italian immigrants married
an Irish-American (Mae Coughlin), on December 18, 1918. His
bride-to-be was actually two years older than him, something
which appears to have embarrassed Capone, so on the marriage
certificate, she lowered her age by one year, and he increased
his by one. (88) [This is the sort of white lie anyone would
tell.] In any case, Capone’s parents arrived in the United States
in 1893, two years before – according to Allsop – Capone himself
was born. (89) Let us return now to the lies and innuendo of
Eliot Ness.
A Strange Incident
As most people know, Al Capone was finally convicted of and
gaoled for income tax evasion, but prior to his indictment a most
curious incident is reported by Ness. Following the murder of a
police reporter who was said to have been on the take, a gun in
Ness’s files disappeared. This gun was proved by forensic testing
to have been one of the same batch as the weapon used in the
reporter’s murder, and was thought initially to have been the
same gun. Ness’s reaction to the disappearance of the gun in his
files is strange indeed. He says: “The Capone gang – for it could
be no other – had started to show its hand. They had entered our
offices, probably in the dead of night, and searched for evidence
that could be destroyed.” (90) Yeah, sure Eliot, but Occam’s
Razor gives us a far more plausible explanation. To begin with,
if the Capone $gang$ had been responsible, surely they would have
destroyed a great deal more evidence, perhaps they’d even had
bombed or torched the office.
Secondly, the obvious solution is that someone with regular
access to the office – perhaps even Ness himself – made this
weapon disappear. I wouldn’t like to speculate as to the reason
Ness or one of his underlings would wish to make a potential
murder weapon disappear, but even the dumbest of observers must
surely conclude that it is odd Ness should have blamed Capone for
this particular piece of legerdemain. Perhaps the Untouchables
weren’t quite so untouchable after all?
Trial And Conviction
Although Ness and his team did some impressive work in gathering
evidence against Capone (in a purely technical sense), it was the
Revenue agents who did the real damage. Capone and sixty-eight
members of his syndicate were eventually indicted by a Grand Jury
under the $Volstead Act$. This was based on evidence assembled by
Ness and his agents, but the tax case took precedence. (91)
Capone himself faced three indictments and a possible 34 years in
gaol. (92)
In 1989, Britain’s leading Libertarian Chris Tame, (93) wrote
that if a thug were to accost you in the street and demand your
wallet, you wouldn’t hesitate to call his actions theft. (94) The
$crime$ Al Capone was charged with was refusing to part with his
hard-earned money, not to a street thug, but to agents of a
repressive regime of new, unhappy Puritans who treated people
like common criminals for doing what people of almost all cul-
tures have done since time immemorial, drinking alcohol.
It seems incredible that a law-abiding citizen whose only real
crime was a technical infringement of a firearms law, who created
a vast business empire, who gave hundreds of people a livelihood,
who serviced willing imbibers from all walks of society, who,
even by his avowed enemy’s admission, brought peace to the
streets of Chicago, and undoubtedly saved lives, that a man who
did all this, should be treated like a common criminal and threa-
tened with over thirty years in gaol because he decided he knew
better what to do with his money than the state. (95)
In spite of Capone’s business acumen, he was naive about the
law. At one point he objected “They can’t collect legal taxes
>from illegal money.” (96) Unfortunately for him this wasn’t true.
In 1921 a small time Carolina bootlegger named Manley Sullivan
was charged with income tax evasion. He didn’t challenge the
bootlegging allegation but argued a point of law, that the gov-
ernment was not allowed to tax illegal income. The case went all
the way to the Supreme Court. He lost. (97)
Capone was found guilty on counts 1, 5, 9, 13 and 18. He was
also given 6 months for contempt of court, was sentenced to a
total of eleven years in gaol, fined a total of $50,000, and
ordered to pay $30,000 costs. As he left the courtroom he was
served with an order to freeze his assets by a Revenue official.
(98)
The End Of Prohibition
Al Capone was gaoled in October 1931 and served most of his
sentence in Alcatraz. In 1933, Prohibition was ended because,
according to the $Encyclopedia Americana$, “the nation’s most
influential people, as well as the general public, acknowledged
that it had failed. It had increased lawlessness and drinking and
aggravated alcohol abuse.” (99) Capone himself had gone on record
as stating that “Prohibition has made nothing but trouble”. (100)
Indeed, this must have been apparent from almost the day the
$Volstead Act$ was passed. In 1929, the U.S. assistant attorney
general in charge of liquor law prosecutions, a woman named Mabel
Walker Willebrandt, resigned and became an attorney for the wine
industry. (101) However, the real reason the great $social ex-
periment$ of Prohibition $failed$, had nothing whatsoever to do
with concern for increasing lawlessness, aggravated alcohol abuse
or anything of the kind, Prohibition was scrapped for purely
commercial reasons, as we will see shortly.
Capone And Ness: Their Later Careers
Capone’s last day in Alcatraz was January 6, 1939. His biographer
John Kobler wrote that “For the misdemeanor of failing to file a
tax return, he owed another year, reducible by good behavior to
about ten months.” (102) Again that phrase good behaviour rears
its head, somehow it is so out of character with the media image
of Capone which Ness and his sycophants and their spiritual heirs
have built in the nearly five decades since Scarface Al’s death.
On his release, Capone lived quietly until his premature death,
not just a sick man but a broken one.
We have demonstrated here I think that the myth of Al Capone
mass murderer and super-gangster was just that, a myth. Another
myth, almost as big, is the myth that Capone was fabulously
wealthy. Ness claimed that at one time Capone was worth $50
million. (103) The $Encyclopedia Americana$ – which, having no
axe to grind, one would expect to be more reliable – estimated
his wealth at his peak in 1927 at a staggering $100 million.
(104) Capone’s last lawyer painted a different picture. To wit,
his client “never owned the sources of his once vast wealth.” He
shared with partners and the organisation. He was well provided
for but his property was heavily mortgaged and he had to pay off
back taxes. (105) Ness’s claim that Capone never carried around
less than $50,000 in cash (106) is obviously nonsense of the
first order, but Capone’s extraordinary personal generosity and
kindness were undoubtedly for real. He died January 25, 1947.
Although Capone retired from public life with his gaoling, Ness
did not. The Untouchables were disbanded, but Ness remained in
government service, and during World War Two he served as Direc-
tor of Social Protection for the Federal Security Agency and was
given the appropriate task for an accomplished brown-noser of
“combating venereal disease in and near every military establish-
ment in the United States”. (107) How he undertook this awesome
task the mind boggles, but the scatological, bird-brained nincom-
poops who run the United States Government were obviously more
than satisfied with his work, and he was awarded a medal for it.
He died of a heart attack on May 16, 1957. (108)
The Making Of Two Myths: TV Lends A Hand
The Untouchables were immortalised by an eponymous TV series,
with the actor Robert Stack playing the title role. There was
also a much more recent film with Kevin Costner playing Ness.
Neither Stack nor Costner could be said to portray Ness as a
debonair sort, but Capone, where he appears in any dramatisation,
is portrayed as an overweight, unsightly thug, the exact alter
ego of the incorruptible Ness. Ness, let it never be forgotten,
was a man who, by his own admission, enforced a law he didn’t
really believe in, who tapped people’s telephones and spied on
them in numerous other ways, a man who took pride in destroying
wealth-creating private enterprise at the behest of a megalithic
Federal Government which owed its very existence to the efforts
of entrepreneurs like Al Capone. And, to cap it all, this same
$gang-buster$, this $Untouchable$, spent the Second World War,
not in a military uniform, not even as a Federal agent, but as a
government snoop inspecting toilets, lecturing soldiers on the
evils of promiscuity, or whatever it is that people who combat
venereal disease are obliged to do to earn their sinecures.
Why Prohibition Was Really Repealed
The $Encyclopedia Americana’s$ claim that Prohibition was re-
pealed because “the nation’s most influential people, as well as
the general public, acknowledged that it had failed” is a lie
that has been manufactured from the whole cloth. Many other laws
have $failed$, proved unworkable or counter-productive, but that
hasn’t prevented them either from remaining in force or being
strengthened. The real reason for Prohibition’s repeal has less
to do with either morality or concern for the welfare of the
people than with plain, old-fashioned economics. The reader will
recall the signs hung outside the London gin shops guaranteeing
to make their customers “drunk for one penny and dead drunk for
two pence”. Another common vice – besides drunkenness – is the
demon weed. During Prohibition, cigarettes retailed for around
one penny each! (109) Today, ie 1995, you won’t get a bottle of
whisky for much less than fifteen quid, while fags will cost you
around two pounds fifty for twenty. (110)
Granted that the prices of virtually all commodities will have
risen in actual if not real terms since the 18th Century or even
since the 1920s, (111) this still leaves a veritable crevasse to
fill. And that crevasse has been filled almost entirely by one
thing: tax.
The British daily newspaper $Today$ reported in its December
10, 1994 issue the following price breakdown for booze, fags and
petrol:
In each case the first price is the retail price, the second is
the combined tax (duty, sales tax, VAT). The price is given for
20 Marlboro brand cigarettes and one litre of petrol; prices have
been rounded to the nearest penny.
UK Germany Australia
Scotch L12.00 L9.50 L14.21
L6.18 L3.50 L6.11
Wine L2.75 84p L1.10
(bottle) L1.05 6p 97p
Beer 99p 40p 60p
22p 4p 36p
Cigs L2.70 L1.90 L2.54
L1.15 L1.20 89p
Petrol 60p 66p 36p
(leaded) 36p 48p 3p
Petrol 53p 60p 35p
(unleaded) 31p 40p 3p
It will be seen from the above table that prices vary considerab-
ly – as one would expect – from country to country, as do the
duties on the various products. In Germany, the duty on unleaded
petrol makes up a staggering two thirds of its price at the pumps
while in Australia it is less than (less than!) 10%. (112) The
reason for the low [sic] duty on petrol in Australia is clearly
because of the size of the country. Like the United States,
people often have to travel vast distances in the course of their
work or daily lives. On the other hand, although Australia is a
wine producing country, the tax on a bottle of wine makes up a
staggering 88+% of the cost price! Clearly this tax is totally
unnecessary except for the purposes of a) regulating the average
Aussie’s lifestyle, (113) and b) ripping off the consumer for the
express purpose of funding an inflated and totally unnecessary
bureaucracy.
Here then is why the so-called great experiment of Prohibition
failed, the social policy makers decided that it would be much
more worthwhile to legalise booze in order to facilitate yet
another gigantic rip-off of the already oppressed public. This
was the reason, the only reason, the American Government admitted
its mistake and repealed the Prohibition law. And it may eventu-
ally be the same reason which leads to the repeal of that other
and even more outrageous form of Prohibition, the war on drugs. A
short survey of this will conclude the current study, first
though, let us take a brief look at another, and far less well
known aspect of Prohibition, that of the oppression of ethnic
minorities.
An Unexplored Facet Of The Campaign Against Al Capone
We come now to an aspect of the government sponsored campaign to
destroy Al Capone which has been written out of the history
books. Capone’s cardinal sin was that he gave people what they
wanted and was spectacularly successful into the bargain. His
other sin is that although he was white, he was Latin rather than
Anglo-Saxon. This $ethnic bias$ – to put it euphemistically – was
something that was very prevalent then and is still so today,
though now it manifests itself primarily in the war on drugs, but
also to some extent in the campaign against that other taboo free
market, prostitution.
Capone was of course far from the only American $gangster$ of
Latin heritage in the 1920s, and Latins were not the only minor-
ity involved in servicing a thirsty public, the bootleg industry
was also heavily Jewish. The Jewish $gangster$ Meyer Lansky
(1902-83) was one of many others besides Capone et al who was
harassed not only on account of his services to free market
capitalism but also because of his birth. Under the Law of Re-
turn, any Jew born anywhere in the world has the right to emi-
grate to Israel; Lansky was refused entry to the country, un-
questionably under pressure from the United States Government.
“When you’re a Jew,” he said, “the whole world’s against you.”
(114)
Lansky should have said “When you’re not Anglo-Saxon”, for it
wasn’t just the Jews and the Italians, indeed nowadays it is
hardly them at all – as most of them have moved up the social
ladder into $legitimate$ businesses. Nowadays it is, primarily,
if you’re black, you’ll find the authorities jumping on you from
a great height when you try to make an honest dollar by providing
a service which the United States Government in its wisdom has
decided that its citizens are to be denied the pleasure of. The
majority of drug dealers in most American inner cities are black,
and a great many of those working the streets as whores and pimps
are black. Whatever one may think of whores or the men who live
off them, there is no element of compulsion in any such transac-
tion. No $john$ has to seek out the services of a hooker. (115)
Leaving aside the Puritan mentality of many of the people re-
sponsible for drafting social policy in the United States, in
view of the experience of Capone and that enlightening protest of
Lansky, the continued outlawing of a substantial sector of the
free market under the pretext of saving people from themselves
(116) is nothing less than part of the – for the most part,
invisible – class structure of the United States. And one that
ensures that if your face doesn’t fit, particularly if it’s
black, you stay right at the bottom.
The Evil Legacy Of Eliot Ness: The War On Drugs And The End Of
The Rule Of Law
One pundit has written of Al Capone that he was “the creation and
the victim of his times”. (117) This is indeed true. It is also
true that the current generation is the victim of Capone’s times,
because while their good dies with them, the evil that men do
lives after them, and few men did more evil than Eliot Ness and
the other servants of the corrupt system of statist repression he
and they helped to create and maintain. Although Eliot Ness died
in 1957, his evil legacy is all around in the United States, and
manifests itself in the Draconian legislation which has been
ushered through Congress by the tactic of frightening and wilful-
ly deceiving the public in the phony war on drugs.
The drug menace is so terrible, so all-encompassing, such a
threat to the survival of civilisation, we are told, that it must
be stamped out by any means necessary. The simple fact though is
that any man, woman or child can walk into their local supermark-
et and buy poison, be it boot polish or Vitamin D. (118) The idea
that such commonplace commodities should be regulated because
they can be dangerous if misused has never quite caught on. It
could be that recreational drugs have been singled out for the
simple reason that they are recreational, as is alcohol. What-
ever, the Draconian laws that have been foisted upon the good
citizens of America – and other countries – in order, ostensibly,
to combat the non-existent drug menace, are now being quietly
extended to other areas.
The April 1995 issue of the British Libertarian journal $Free
Life$ reported the following horror story, one such as could
never have happened in Nazi Germany or even in Soviet Russia. In
1992, a woman in Iowa who was accused of shoplifting a $25 swea-
ter had her $18,000 automobile – which had been specially equip-
ped for her handicapped daughter – seized as a getaway car! (119)
This was made possible by civil asset forfeiture legislation, in
particular the $Comprehensive Forfeiture Act 1984$.
Civil asset forfeiture legislation was designed to inhibit so-
called racketeering, which in Ness’s day was centred on booze but
is today centred on drugs. One 1992 report claimed that an esti-
mated $85 billion of illegal drug money a year was being laun-
dered through banks in the United States and Europe. (120) While
a certain amount of illegal drug money – perhaps even a great
deal – is without doubt $laundered$ through the banking system
and legitimate businesses, it is most unlikely that this figure
has any basis in fact, or if the true figure can even be reason-
ably estimated. (121)
Such legislation as civil asset forfeiture is nothing less than
a direct and wilful usurpation of the rule of law, and has conse-
quences for every citizen which make it possible – and in the
near future probable – that anytime he (or she) steps out of
line, he will be jumped on from a great height by the powers that
be. Imagine the following scenario. You are a publisher; you
publish a book or magazine which is highly critical of a govern-
ment agency, or exposes police corruption. After an $anonymous$
tip off the police raid your premises and find (or plant) traces
of cocaine on a dollar bill in your safe. (122) They confiscate
your business, your bank account, the lot. (123) Theoretically,
this course of action could be used against the wealthiest men in
the country as a catch-all device to confiscate all their assets.
So, if your name is Bill Gates and a police officer performing a
$random$ search at a road block happens to $find$ a spliff in
your car, you can kiss goodbye to Microsoft.
Anti-drug hysteria has also led to a law which makes it manda-
tory to record all cash transactions over $10,000. Such regula-
tion and people control must lead not only inevitably to tyranny
but to the strangulation of the economy. It is this which is the
true legacy of Eliot Ness, and frankly, the society which turned
him and his kind into heroes, deserves everything it gets.
–
Alexander Baron
“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the
accomplice of liars and forgers.” – Charles Peguy
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From: Alexander Baron
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Subject: Re: A reminder to Mr. Baron (Re: The Exterminationist Guidebook)
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In article <[email protected]>
[email protected] “Josh Klein” writes:
> Can’t have what bpth ways, Mr. Baron? Does the fact that Jewish guerillas
> were resisting Nazi invasions of their home countries excuse the
> brutal murder of civilians? (
I don’t see any justification for war, but that’s another matter.
> I seem to remember your posting some criticism of Irving that was
> mainly preoccupied with your suspicions of his homosexuality.
> Of course, this speical obsession of yours only makes you seem
> even more repulsive to the vast majority of this newsgroup’s
> readers.
Suspicion? I sent you the wrong book, Josh!
> Churchill was a man of some honor, Mr. Baron.
You really have been brainwashed if you believe that. By the way, did you
realise that Churchill advocated eugenics? And that he wanted to bomb Germany
with anthrax?
—
Alexander Baron
“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the
accomplice of liars and forgers.” – Charles Peguy
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From: Alexander Baron
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Subject: Re: A reminder to Mr. Baron (Re: The Exterminationist Guidebook)
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In article <[email protected]> [email protected] “Yale F. Edeiken” writes:
You have claimed that someone said “Al Baron is an
> anti-Semite because he called David Irving a liar.” or words to that effect. I
> say
> it’s a lie. Prove me wrong, Lyin’ Al.
Why don’t you ring up the editor of Searchlight? Or the editor of the Jewish
Chronicle? I think if you do you’ll find the cat has got their tongues.
—
Alexander Baron
“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the
accomplice of liars and forgers.” – Charles Peguy
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From: Alexander Baron
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[email protected] “Gord McFee” writes:
> Mr. Baron testifies to his virulent anti-Semitism every time he opens his
> mouth.
You people take yourselves so seriously I’m astounded. You really don’t
appreciate what utter schmucks you are.
—
Alexander Baron
“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the
accomplice of liars and forgers.” – Charles Peguy
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From: Alexander Baron
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Subject: Re: Harry Mazal – Living Proof Of The Need For Revisionism
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[email protected] “John Morris” writes:
> What makes you think that I am that interested enough to pay for the
> warped opinions and unintelligent, dishonest misreadings of a little
> man like you?
Okay, you’re not interested. So don’t ask me anymore questions.
—
Alexander Baron
“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the
accomplice of liars and forgers.” – Charles Peguy
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From: Alexander Baron
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[email protected] “Hilary Ostrov” writes:
> But I didn’t know this (or utter it) until 1995. Go ahead, Mr. Baron,
> make my day … call me a liar, too.
For the Nth time I had no idea the Mueller Report was a fabrication, AND AS
SOON AS THE FORGERY WAS BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION I DISOWNED IT.
You people on the other hand are so far gone that you will do anything but
admit that a Jew – Kitty Hart – has told a pack of absurd lies. I was taken in
by a credible forgery. Your deception is self-deception
—
Alexander Baron
“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the
accomplice of liars and forgers.” – Charles Peguy
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[email protected] “David Johnston” writes:
> Does this not strike you as a little odd? If he is a “committed Libertarian”,
> why does he support the “screwing” of money out of people who stock (not even
> publish) a “certain” magazine? Why do you, for that matter? Are you only a
> libertarian providing nobody disagrees with you? Or just a hypocrite?
No, but unlike you I know what free speech means. If someone were to denouce
you to the police for murdering your wife and burying her in the back garden
you wouldn’t be surprised if the police charged him with wasting police time.
There is such a thing as property right in one’s reputation. Also, when one
is assaulted as a result of other people’s malice that too goes beyond free
speech.
—
Alexander Baron
“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the
accomplice of liars and forgers.” – Charles Peguy
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From: Alexander Baron
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Subject: Jewish Chronicle endorses conspiracy crank
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It had to happen, the newspaper that wails and whines about conspiracies
more than any other has finally gone full circle. The latest Jewish Chronicle
contains an in-depth interview with one of the fakers of the MJ-12 saucer
crash documents. I suppose I should have realised that with a name like
Stanton Friedman this former nuclear physicist was Jewish. What will they
endorse next, the Protocols of Zion?
—
Alexander Baron
“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the
accomplice of liars and forgers.” – Charles Peguy
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From: Alexander Baron
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Subject: Baron defends Jewish entrepreneurs.
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Two Israeli businessmen have just been arrested in Turkey where they face
heavy gaol sentences for the “crime” of smuggling heroin, according to the latest
Jewish Chronicle.
According to Harry Mazal, such men are evil poisoners of our children. Baron
on the other and recognises them for what they are: latter day Al Capones
bridging the gap between willing sellers and buyers.
It remains to be seen which of us, Baron or Mazal is truly an anti-Semite.
—
Alexander Baron
“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the
accomplice of liars and forgers.” – Charles Peguy
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From: Alexander Baron
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Subject: Frivolous litigation?
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So-called anti-racists in France have dropped a legal action against the
publishers of an “offensive bible” which refers to Jews as God killers.
Who’d want to bring an action for defamation to exonerate one’s ancestors
for the alleged crime of murdering a schizophrenic in Palestine 2,000 years ago?
Assuming he existed, that is?
—
Alexander Baron
“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the
accomplice of liars and forgers.” – Charles Peguy
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From: Alexander Baron
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In article <[email protected]>
[email protected] “Alexander Baron” writes:
> In article <[email protected]>
> [email protected] “Western” writes:
> > >Mr. Farrakahan,
> > >My name is Rufus Washington. I am a 25 year old oppressed black man.
> > >I dropped out of school at 14 to pursue a career in dealing drugs,
> > >and I have been in and out of jail ever since.
> You are oppressed, Mr Washington. Specifically you are oppressed by a system
> that turns you into an outlaw by criminalising your legitimate business of
> providing willing buyers – black and white – with a narcotic substance for
> recreational use. The very same system criminalised Al Capone 70 years ago
> for providing a similar public service. It is not racism but mass hysteria
> and collective psychosis. What you should do is lobby for the legalisation
> of crack, cocaine and heroin.
Much as I hate to follow up on my own message, I don’t recall posting this in
alt.smokers and wonder if anybody can tell me how it got here.
—
Alexander Baron
“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the
accomplice of liars and forgers.” – Charles Peguy
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In article <[email protected]>
[email protected] “Alexander Baron” writes:
> In article <[email protected]>
> [email protected] “Western” writes:
> > >Mr. Farrakahan,
> > >My name is Rufus Washington. I am a 25 year old oppressed black man.
> > >I dropped out of school at 14 to pursue a career in dealing drugs,
> > >and I have been in and out of jail ever since.
> You are oppressed, Mr Washington. Specifically you are oppressed by a system
> that turns you into an outlaw by criminalising your legitimate business of
> providing willing buyers – black and white – with a narcotic substance for
> recreational use. The very same system criminalised Al Capone 70 years ago
> for providing a similar public service. It is not racism but mass hysteria
> and collective psychosis. What you should do is lobby for the legalisation
> of crack, cocaine and heroin.
Much as I hate to follow up on my own message, I don’t recall posting this in
alt.smokers and wonder if anybody can tell me how it got here.
—
Alexander Baron
“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the
accomplice of liars and forgers.” – Charles Peguy
From [email protected] Sun Nov 5 10:56:34 PST 1995
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From: Alexander Baron
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In article <[email protected]>
[email protected] “Alexander Baron” writes:
> In article <[email protected]>
> [email protected] “Western” writes:
> > >Mr. Farrakahan,
> > >My name is Rufus Washington. I am a 25 year old oppressed black man.
> > >I dropped out of school at 14 to pursue a career in dealing drugs,
> > >and I have been in and out of jail ever since.
> You are oppressed, Mr Washington. Specifically you are oppressed by a system
> that turns you into an outlaw by criminalising your legitimate business of
> providing willing buyers – black and white – with a narcotic substance for
> recreational use. The very same system criminalised Al Capone 70 years ago
> for providing a similar public service. It is not racism but mass hysteria
> and collective psychosis. What you should do is lobby for the legalisation
> of crack, cocaine and heroin.
Much as I hate to follow up on my own message, I don’t recall posting this in
alt.smokers and wonder if anybody can tell me how it got here.
—
Alexander Baron
“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the
accomplice of liars and forgers.” – Charles Peguy
From [email protected] Mon Nov 6 11:05:36 PST 1995
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From: Alexander Baron
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Subject: Re: Al Baron’s “documentation” of Ritual Murder?
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In article [email protected] “MORRISON KEITH MURRAY” writes:
> In article <[email protected]> Alexander Baron
> writes:
> >I believe I had some correspondence with Jamie about this awhile ago. There
> >were quite a few confessions, Rabbi Jossel confessed for one. Bear in mind
> >that I do not believe Jews ever practiced ritual murder, what I am saying is
> >that there is confession and other evidence that they did. The same way there
> >is confession and other evidence of gas chambers.
> Please state was piece of evidence *other* than testimony you have to this
> effect.
They dug up some bones. Read the book THE MYTH OF RITUAL MURDER
—
Alexander Baron
“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the
accomplice of liars and forgers.” – Charles Peguy
From [email protected] Mon Nov 6 11:05:37 PST 1995
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From: Alexander Baron
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Subject: Re: Put Up Or Shut Up
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 95 17:13:13 GMT
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In article <[email protected]>
Harry W. Mazal OBE “[email protected], San Antonio, Texas” writes:
I’ve just received a batch of messages from the Archive Manager who (is this
a person or a machine?) says they haven’t been posted, so I’m posting them
here. I thought they had been, but what the Hell.
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> Ah. Then you admit that this talk about what your lawyers will or won’t let
> you say was another Baron Lie(tm).
> Amazing. Not that any of this would be true, mind, but amazing that you’d
> admit it.
No, stupid. I have a lawyer who is acting for me on two other matters, my
claim against the police and a claim for criminal injuries. I decided also
to take procedural advice. I do all my own drafting, affidavits etc, but
the law of libel is so incredibly complex that it is extremely difficult
for a litigant in person. Most people are surprised I’ve got this far. The
rest are worried about how far I will get.
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> Howdy..
Howdy. Your posting is a tissue of distortions.
> After observing the Mazal/Baron war for the past months, I just thought an
> opinion might be in order. IMHO, Baron is a PITA litigious anti-Semite. As
> a journalist/author of sorts, he uses the Crown Courts to gain needed
> publicity, although I never heard of him before alt.revisionism.
Do you know what allegations I am suing over? If you don’t, hold your tongue.
>In the UK, monetary awards are not decided by
> a jury, but instead calculated by a complicated process called
> Quantitative, and they relate to actual loss rather than the whims of a
> jury. 85k for a civil damages suit is enormous by British standards.
Wrong.
> Libel and slander cases in the UK border on the comical. While the Crown
> Prosecution Service is well known for refusing to prosecute rapists,
The CPS NEVER prosecutes rapists because no rapist is ever prosecuted.
ALLEGED rapists are prosecuted. The CPS will not bring a case unless it has
a reasonable chance, or unless there is meaningful evidence.
>those
> who assault, and major criminals, people like William Roache (a popular
> soap opera character ‘Ken Barlow’) are awarded large sums for being called
> ‘boring.’
You cannot compare the civil law with the criminal law.
It would seem Mr Baron’s suits are about on the same level, and
> appropriately, seem to be successful. In the US, his cases would be
> laughed out of court. Mr Baron’s frivolous litigation is unmentioned in
> the UK press, AFAIK, and has little if any impact beyond Mr Barons wallet.
How can you call my litigation frivolous if you don’t know what it is about?
> Mr Baron’s vituperative replies to posts here usually consist of rebuttal
> by ‘you can’t really believe that is possible, do you?” logic. That is
> usually the crux of his rebuttal: his own opinions and values, sans
> evidence.
In a court of law, EVIDENCE is required. In an English court, hearsay is
not evidence.
> It also seems strange to me that Mr Baron kept tantalizing us with
> “October 22!!!”, but he disappeared on the day before, and only reappeared
> three days ago, on demon’s server. Why the absence? It all goes to
> credibility, which Mr Baron is losing fast, IMHO.
The problem is your server; I’ve been on every day.
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>
> What you should do is lobby for the legalisation
> of crack, cocaine and heroin.
> Does Mr. Baron indulge in the use of any of the above? Do his children?
No.
> Does he really believe that legalization of these drugs will make the
> world a safer place for his children?
Harry, when they start talking about defending your children they are
really talking about destroying your rights.
> How successful was the British experiment that allowed drug users to
> obtain drugs at a low cost?
Heroin, concaine? Enlighten me.
> Enquiring minds wish to know. Some Libertarians espouse this
> philosophy including my admired friend, Dr. Milton Friedman.
More to the point, what right does a boring old fart like you have to tell
a black man that he has no right to sell drugs or a man of any race what
he mayt or may not shove up his own nose?
—
Alexander Baron
“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the
accomplice of liars and forgers.” – Charles Peguy
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> This is but one of many such examples – once, Baron confused
> the gas chambers of Treblinka and Auschwitz.
Dan, I’ve read the War Refugee Board Report intently, and I know the
alleged layout of these “gas chambers”. In spite of the numerous contradictions.
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> No Jew, to my knowledge, has ever confessed to “ritual murder” except
> under torture.
Wrong!
> There is no documentary evidence, bar proven forgeries,
> of Jewish ritual murder.
Wrong!
>There is no physical evidence of Jewish ritual
> murder.
Wrong!
>There are no eyewitnesses to any act of Jewish ritual murder.
Wrong!
—
Alexander Baron
“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the
accomplice of liars and forgers.” – Charles Peguy
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From: Alexander Baron
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In article <[email protected]>
[email protected] “Alexander Baron” writes:
> In article <[email protected]>
> [email protected] “Western” writes:
> > >Mr. Farrakahan,
> > >My name is Rufus Washington. I am a 25 year old oppressed black man.
> > >I dropped out of school at 14 to pursue a career in dealing drugs,
> > >and I have been in and out of jail ever since.
> You are oppressed, Mr Washington. Specifically you are oppressed by a system
> that turns you into an outlaw by criminalising your legitimate business of
> providing willing buyers – black and white – with a narcotic substance for
> recreational use. The very same system criminalised Al Capone 70 years ago
> for providing a similar public service. It is not racism but mass hysteria
> and collective psychosis. What you should do is lobby for the legalisation
> of crack, cocaine and heroin.
Much as I hate to follow up on my own message, I don’t recall posting this in
alt.smokers and wonder if anybody can tell me how it got here.
—
Alexander Baron
“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the
accomplice of liars and forgers.” – Charles Peguy
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From: Alexander Baron
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In article <[email protected]>
[email protected] “Alexander Baron” writes:
> In article <[email protected]>
> [email protected] “Western” writes:
> > >Mr. Farrakahan,
> > >My name is Rufus Washington. I am a 25 year old oppressed black man.
> > >I dropped out of school at 14 to pursue a career in dealing drugs,
> > >and I have been in and out of jail ever since.
> You are oppressed, Mr Washington. Specifically you are oppressed by a system
> that turns you into an outlaw by criminalising your legitimate business of
> providing willing buyers – black and white – with a narcotic substance for
> recreational use. The very same system criminalised Al Capone 70 years ago
> for providing a similar public service. It is not racism but mass hysteria
> and collective psychosis. What you should do is lobby for the legalisation
> of crack, cocaine and heroin.
Much as I hate to follow up on my own message, I don’t recall posting this in
alt.smokers and wonder if anybody can tell me how it got here.
—
Alexander Baron
“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the
accomplice of liars and forgers.” – Charles Peguy
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From: Alexander Baron
Newsgroups: alt.revisionism
Subject: Re: Why not make more of the Mueller Document forgery?
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In article <[email protected]> [email protected] “Yale F. Edeiken” writes:
> I wrote no such thing. Apology please.
If it wasn’t you, who was it? Harry?
—
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From: Alexander Baron
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Subject: Re: 22nd October, 1995
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In article
[email protected] “Warren Burstein” writes:
> In <[email protected]> Alexander Baron
> writes:
> >Baron is still in litigation, and his wallet has never been fatter.
> Does Baron have any other source of income besides his publications
> and lawsuits?
Yes, he pimps off his Jewish girlfriend.
—
Alexander Baron
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accomplice of liars and forgers.” – Charles Peguy
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From: Alexander Baron
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Subject: Re: Put Up Or Shut Up
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In article <[email protected]>
Harry W. Mazal OBE “[email protected], San Antonio, Texas” writes:
> border on sedition to show that Libertarian freedom of expression is still
alive> in this country…no matter how offensive the material.\
Harry, if someone incited your murder – as a named individual – and you were to
file charges, you would have my 100% support.
> But I forgot. Mr. Baron is a Libertarian of the highest order. One who would
> let little children buy cocaine freely on the market.
Harry, when did I ever say I would allow children to buy cocaine? What I said
was when people like you start talking about defending our children what you
really mean are destroying our rights. I take it you think that consenting
adults do not have the right to use cocaine?
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Subject: Re: Why not make more of the Mueller Document forgery?
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Harry W. Mazal OBE “[email protected], San Antonio, Texas” writes:
Any person with the slightest amount of dignity would
> give any such moneys to charity raher than crow about a supposed success.
Some of this money came from a charity. One that stocks newspapers that incite
the murders of policmen and judges. (Incidentally, the Lord Chief Justice,
Lord Taylor, is Jewish, so such incitements might be construed as anti-Semitic).
> The reality is that much of what was settled on Mr. Baron in order to eliminate
> tedious litigation, was garnished in another court to pay for his failed effort
> to sue fine and upright citizens of that fair country.
Cut the crap Harry and answer MY questions.
—
Alexander Baron
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accomplice of liars and forgers.” – Charles Peguy
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From: Alexander Baron
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Subject: Re: Baron’s Ignorance (Re: I Am a Non-Bigoted Re)
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In article [email protected] “Daniel Keren” writes:
> The Treblinka gas chambers were not connected to any crematoria;
> Baron made a (typically idiotic) extrapolation from Treblinka
> to Auschwitz.
You’re forgetting something Dan; they were not gas chambers in Treblinka
but steam chambers. Now who’s a zero?
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Alexander Baron
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From: Alexander Baron
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Subject: Re: More of Baron’s Rubbish (Re: More Hartfelt fantasies)
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In article <[email protected]> [email protected] “Yale F. Edeiken” writes:
> You are, as usual, dodging the question. The question is not whether the
> photographs were published but whether they were staged. Why can’t you
> answer this simple question?
To the best of my knowledge they were not staged; I think you will find
this sort of thing is not disputed by former British prisoners of war.
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From: Alexander Baron
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Subject: Re: Oh where, oh where, has Al Baron gone?
Oh where, oh where can he be?
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In article [email protected] “Daniel Keren” writes:
Since the baby was on the floor, that
> has increased its chances of survival, because HCN gas is lighter
> than air and rises.
So people were gassed with a lighter than air gas that was dropped from the
ceiling?
This claim makes no sense. Birkenau
> was an extermination camp, and we know (even Baron agrees to this)
> that the SS burned people alive in other camps.
You’re trying it on again, Dan. What Baron said (yawn) was that an atrocity
at a German camp (Wobbelin?) at the end of the war involved a group of SS
setting a barn afire with people in it. This was a war time atrocity, not
part of any extermination programme. I do not concede that people were
burnt alive in ovens. Dig?
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From: Alexander Baron
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Subject: Re: Is Jamie McCarthy totally spineless or totally credulous?
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[email protected] “Josh Klein” writes:
> Oh, Mr. Baron, when will you ever stop using the rather inept analogy
> of belief in flying saucers. Does the so-called flying saucer
> conspiracy involve the creation of flying-saucer remains? Does it
> involve the signed confessions of numerous aliens, and the recorded
> speech of one high-up alien talking about how he intends to visit earth?
> Does it include intercepted wartime transmissions between flying
> saucers, or the diaries and correspondence of officers aboard the
> flying saucers?
> I think that you are underestimating just how huge and complex
> a conspiracy would have to be in order to fool people into
> believing in the Holocaust.
Once again Josh, you are putting the word conspiracy in my mouth. I never
said there was any such thing.
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From: Alexander Baron
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Subject: Re: A reminder to Mr. Baron (Re: The Exterminationist Guidebook)
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[email protected] “Stephane Bruchfeld” writes:
> That is a reasonable principle. But what is the nature of this
> ignorance? Is it that you are not aware of the massive
> documentation that exists about mass killings of Jews by the
> various special units in the Soviet Union under German
> occupation, or that you are not – as yet – sufficiently prepared,
> as a denier, to deal with this evidence?
> However, since you haven’t disagreed with my interpretation, i.e.
> that the documents constitute evidence of mass murder of Jews in
> the autumn of 1941 and that they furthermore indicate the change
> to a coded language, I take it that you do not find it, at face
> value, an unreasonable interpretation. Am I correct in my
> assumption?
I agree with the judgment of Dr Butz that a great deal of killing went on
on the Eastern front, including of civilians. These things happen in war;
this was not genocide though. Furthermore, the Jewish Chronicle and other
Jewish sources boast that Jewish partisans were heavily involved in the
fight on the Eastern front, so you can’t have it both ways.
> Mr. Baron, is there anything you have published about your
> researches that I may order from you? Is there anything
> especially concerning Auschwitz? What would you consider to be
> your main contribution to the knowledge about this camp?
My main contribution is yet to come! My book is called HOLOCAUST DENIAL: NEW
NAZI LIE or NEW INQUISITION? I have also published a documented expose of
David Irving, including of his lies and perjury. For this I am branded an
anti-Semite. I’ll send you a list if you like.
> From the perspective of the victim it probably does not matter
> very much, but it is of course important to make the difference
> between all too common atrocities and genocide. In this case, if
> I understand you correctly, you mean to say that the Germans did
> commit atrocities but were not guilty of genocide. For the sake
> of the argument, since I wish to learn where you draw the line,
> let us assume that the Germans did systematically line up and
> kill Jewish civilians, men, women and children, over all of the
> conquered territory in the autumn of 1941? Mr. Baron, would you
> then agree to call this genocide, or attempted genocide? Or would
> you consider it more correct to use the descripion “atrocity”?
I would call this war time atrocities, since I believe that Jewish suffering
is no worse and no better than anyone else’s. These things happen in war.
Churchill could have stopped them by agreeing to Hitler’s magnanimous peace
terms. He was at least as responsible as Hitler for the Second World War,
undoubtedly more so after 1941.
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From: Alexander Baron
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Subject: Re: Why not make more of the Mueller Document forgery?
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In article <[email protected]>
[email protected] “Michael P. Stein” writes:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Alexander Baron wrote:
> >Harry, I have two court orders in my favour, other people’s money in my
> >pocket and more to come.
> Excuse me? I thought you said you were offered and accepted a
> settlement, which implies no court ruled on the merits of your case.
I have settled with several of the defendants. In England an order of the
court has to be made: a consent order.
> As for other people’s money in your pocket, that’s a frequent
> occurrence in this country, where even defendants who would clearly
> prevail at trial settle simply because the expense of litigation exceeds
> the amount at issue.
This works both ways.
Now, I realize that in Britain a successful
> defendant can recoup expenses from the losing plaintiff, but that requires
> that the plaintiff be sufficiently well-heeled to pay said expenses.
> If
> you lose your suit, do you have enough money to cover the legal expenses
> of the defendants?
I can’t comment on this case, but the thought of losing this suit has never
crossed my mind.
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From: Alexander Baron
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Subject: Re: Is Jamie McCarthy totally spineless or totally credulous?
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[email protected] “Charles R.L. Power” writes:
> You have not yet gotten even close to proving your endless whining about
> this Kitty Hart’s mendacity. First, the story she told remains quite
> plausible,
riotous laughter.
and second, there is no reason to believe that she did not
hear such a story,
well, I’ve heard a story that AIDS was invented by the US government to wipe
out blacks. I’ve also heard a story that a Jewish doctor invented the polio
vaccine to poison American children. Like Hart’s story these are obscene,
absurd, and hate.
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From: Alexander Baron
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Subject: Re: Is Jamie McCarthy totally spineless or totally credulous?
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In article [email protected] “MORRISON KEITH MURRAY” writes:
> WRONG! There is no *undisputable* film of aliens or UFOs. There is,
> however, totally undisputable films showing the existance of concentration
> camps. As well, there are physical remains of the concentration camps,
> there are none of UFOs. Physical evidence is not just film, so grow up.
Tut tut, equivocating again. In the first paragraph you were talking about
extermination camps, now you’re talking about concentration camps.
> WRONG! There are official documents to the Holocaust that *no one* has
> proven forged. And if Phil Klass proved it forged, it is not an official
> document, is it?
Yes, but these documents don’t prove exterminations!
> >How many millions of people does it take to pass and enforce laws making
> >Revisionism illegal? How many people does it take to freeze Revisionists out
> >of the media and academia? Not many. This has happened.
> Non-sequitor. Answer the question.
The point I was making is that there are plenty of people who dispute your
version of events, they just don’t get the sort of media exposure you do.
> >Many “perpetrators” have denied it. In fact most of them blamed other people.
> >The judge at the Auschwitz trial said he had yet to meet anyone who had
> >done anything at Auschwitz!
> Citations please. I do not accept your word for anything.
a) Are you calling me a liar?
b) If I give you a citation, will you retract and apologise?
c) When you call me a liar, that’s fine. When I call someone a liar,
that’s anti-Semitism.
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Subject: Re: Is Jamie McCarthy totally spineless or totally credulous?
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In article [email protected] “MORRISON KEITH MURRAY” writes:
> In article <[email protected]> Alexander Baron
> writes:
> >> No Jew, to my knowledge, has ever confessed to “ritual murder” except
> >> under torture.
> >Wrong!
> Citation! Talk shows are irrelevant.
Oh no they’re not.
> >> There is no documentary evidence, bar proven forgeries,
> >> of Jewish ritual murder.
> >Wrong!
> Citation! Talk shows are irrelevant.
> >>There is no physical evidence of Jewish ritual
> >> murder.
> >Wrong!
I’ve posted this before, Jamie McCarthy checked it out. Try THE MYTH OF
RITUAL MURDER to start with.
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From: Alexander Baron
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Subject: Re: A reminder to Mr. Baron (Re: The Exterminationist Guidebook)
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[email protected] “Gord McFee” writes:
> I can assure you the documents are genuine, unless you choose to call me a
> liar. I have seen many similar documents when I was employed one summer
> translating German Wehrmacht field dispatches into English. (A job I would
> never do again, by the way.)
> Indeed there is, and I will be interested to see your research on this.
If you’re referring to the Einsatzgruppen documents, check out Butz. He says a
lot of these were definitely forged. Irving has written a book about this sort
of thing, unfortunately it’s only been published in German.
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Subject: Re: Baron delivers the goods – Res ipsa loquitur
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[email protected] “John Morris” writes:
> When Mr. Baron brought this whole matter up way back in may, I believe
> that he claimed he was suing because he had been called an antisemite.
You’re wrong; why don’t you contact the editor of Searchlight and ask him
to fax you the article?
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From: Alexander Baron
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Subject: Re: Harry Mazal – Living Proof Of The Need For Revisionism
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[email protected] “John Morris” writes:
> Yeah, yeah.
> You may have other people’s money in your pockets in exchange for
> selling your reputation, but you won’t have any of mine.
Then have your ignorance instead, John.
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From: Alexander Baron
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Subject: Re: I Am a Non-Bigoted Revisionist Who Believes in the Holocaust –
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[email protected] “Gord McFee” writes:
> Why is Ms. Hart not credible for having said this? Would you claim it is
> physically impossible for an SS man to dash out a young child’s head? There
> are testimonies that exactly that kind of thing happened. The fact that she
> might have seen certain things that were not put in her book means nothing
> more than exactly that.
She said this in 1993. Obviously she had just made it up. Like I said, the
lies grow with every retelling.
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[email protected] “Gord McFee” writes:
> So now we know why you hate Irving so much. I am starting to understand you,
> Al. The only thing I’m not sure about is why you have this love affair with
> Al Capone.
The question you should ask, Mr McFee, is why has the Jewish Chronicle smeared
me from pillar to post for exposing Britain’s (supposedly) most notorious and
dangerous anti-Semite? Why has it covered up for him? Why did a Jewish-owned
magazine denounce my expose of Irving as libellous? Why is “anti-Semite” Irving
given access to Jewish archives when I – who was working in collaboration with
an Orthodox rabbi – was thrown out of the Wiener Library?
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In article <[email protected]> [email protected] “Harry Katz” writes:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Alexander Baron ([email protected]) whines:
> It’s when I come across people like you I can understand why
> anti-Semites believe all the things they do about Jews.
> It’s when I come across sentiments like this that I can label Mr. Baron an
> anti-Semite! Tell me why it is “understandable” to tar me and my family
> because someone who happens to be Jewish has been needling Mr. Baron.
A while ago I was going home and sat in a railway carriage at Victoria Station.
The only other occupant was a young black guy. A young woman opened the door, saw
us sitting there together, then slammed the door and walked off to another
carriage. I looked at my companion and we laughed. If we had both been black
this might have been put down to “racism”. The truth is very different. A short
while before this incident a young woman had been murdered on this very line.
The news reports speculated that she had been murdered as the train passed
through the tunnel which is a few hundred yards from my flat.
I don’t hate this young woman for being suspicious of myself and my unidentified
companion. But I understand it. I don’t hate or despise any woman who sees
me walking behind her in the dark, not since I was attacked myself. I understand
it. Many women would call me a male chauvinist pig because I happen to think
women are different. I don’t think Jews are different, even though most of the
people in this newsgroup seem to think they are, and that no one must ever say
anything that even one of them doesn’t like.
I don’t hate women who distrust men, because I know that all rapists are men
even though all men are not rapists. I’ve never raped a woman, but I understand
and accept that to a strange woman – or maybe even to one who knows me –
I am a potential rapist. I understand and accept the fact that to most parents
I am a potential child molester, and if I were to stand and admire a young girl
in the street, perhaps as the daughter I have never had, many mothers would not
understand.
By the same token, I understand people who have been hounded, slandered,
smeared and denounced to high heaven by Jews who think that being Jewish puts
them above all criticism. I understand people tarring all Jews with the same
brush when so many Jews tar them with the same brush as Hitler or Streicher,
the way they denounce me for refusing to believe second or third hand gossip
about a young baby surviving a gas chamber only to be thrown into an oven by
a demonic SS man. I understand the Zundels of this world, who have been hounded
by feisty Jews for ten years and dragged into court twice. I understand the
likes of Lady Birdwood who has been dragged into court twice by Jewish schemers
simply because she seeks – in her naive way – to save Christian civiliisation
from the Jewish conspiracy and the Jews from their own folly. I understand
it because I myself have been smeared from pillar to post, when a pamphlet I
wrote in defence of schechita is smeared as anti-Semitic, when I am accused of
making common cause with the likes of Eustace Mullins for exposing his
hatemongering, when I have my home raided and my computer confiscated for
six months at the behest of lying, scheming Zionist Jews who then incite
violence against me in the Jewish Chronicle while covering up for real
anti-Semites. I understand all these things.
What makes you think anti-Semitism – real or imagined – is such a unique sin,
Harry? What makes – not you so much – but the likes of Dan Keren, think they
are special, above all criticism? It wasn’t me who pogrommed your ancestors?
It wasn’t me who burnt some unfortunate Rabbi at the stake for ritual murder
500 years ago. Why do you think no one should ever think ill of you, or say
anything disparaging about either you or your race? Why the great taboo?
I’d really like to know, Harry.
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Subject: Re: Al Baron’s “documentation” of Ritual Murder?
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In article <[email protected]>
[email protected] “Ken McVay OBC” writes:
> In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] wrote:
> >In article <[email protected]>
> > [email protected] “william c anderson” writes:
> >> No Jew, to my knowledge, has ever confessed to “ritual murder” except
> >> under torture.
> >Wrong!
> _Do_ enlighten us, Mr. Baron! Where is this confession?
> (Having just completed Wm. Nicholl’s work on “Christian
> Antisemitism” which deals with this subject, I can hardly
> wait.)
> While you’re at it, Mr. Baron, you might discuss what Vatican
> II had to say about the subject, and how that statement
> evolved into its final form.
I believe I had some correspondence with Jamie about this awhile ago. There
were quite a few confessions, Rabbi Jossel confessed for one. Bear in mind
that I do not believe Jews ever practiced ritual murder, what I am saying is
that there is confession and other evidence that they did. The same way there
is confession and other evidence of gas chambers.
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From: Alexander Baron
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Subject: Re: 22nd October, 1995
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[email protected] “Joel Rosenberg” writes:
> >Yes, he pimps off his Jewish girlfriend.
> And Lyin’ Al claims he’s not an anti-Semite, and expects people to believe him.
Baron says he has a Jewish girlfriend; therefore Baron is an anti-Semite.
Typical exterminationist logic.
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From: Alexander Baron
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Subject: Re: Harry Mazal – Living Proof Of The Need For Revisionism
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[email protected] “Joel Rosenberg” writes:
> >> You know, I think you really believe this. Amazing.
> >You want me to E-mail you the proof?
> Absolutely, with the understanding that nothing you send me is in any way in
> confidence.
I’ve lost track now; send me an E-mail telling me exactly what it is you want and
I’ll reply in E-mail.
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From: Alexander Baron
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Subject: Re: Gold fillings
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> The translation of a report from the Staatsarchiv Nurnberg.
>
> This translation was taken from “Concentration Camp Dachau 1933-1945”
> (ISBN 3-87490-528-4), p. 137; (Plate 283 with translation.)
> —————————————————————————-
> SS-Wirtschaftsverwaltungshauptamt Berlin,
> October 8. 1942
> Re: Gold fillings SECRET!
> To the Reichsfuhrer SS
> Berlin
> Reichsfuhrer!
> In accordance with your order the gold from the teeth of the dead
> prisoners is to be delivered to the health department where it will be
> used for the dental treatment of our men.
Don’t forget that according to the Soviets up to 12kg a day of this were
extracted in Auschwitz!
Thanks for this posting, by the way, it will be very useful in my researches.
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From: Alexander Baron
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> Alexander Baron writes:
> # You’re forgetting something Dan; they were not gas chambers
> # in Treblinka but steam chambers.
> Note how Baron desperately tries to evade the issue. Amazing.
> Let’s take a little look at the history of this thread.
> Baron said (correctly) that there were some testimonies from Poles
> that the Treblinka gas chambers used steam to kill the victims. I
> responded that this is not true
Well, the Nuremberg documents mention steam chambers, Dan.
> Note that Baron cannot admit he made this stupid mistake – he just
> can’t admit it.
I didn’t confuse anything. You do get hysterical at times.
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From: Alexander Baron
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Subject: Capone vindicated – 2 of 4
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Al Capone, Gangster: Innuendo, Rumour And Unsupported
Assertions. And Outright Fraud
Following the retirement of Johnny Torrio, Capone liquidated the
O’Banion mob – who were allegedly responsible for the murder
attempt. According to Ness. (29) But whatever Ness may say about
Capone’s role in the liquidation of the O’Banion gang, it is
$common knowledge$ that Capone ordered the St. Valentine’s Day
Massacre of the rival Bugs Moran gang. For example, the presti-
gious $Encyclopedia Americana$ reports that seven members of the
Moran gang were gunned down on the express orders of Capone. (30)
To this day, ask almost any American – and a great many non-
Americans – who was Al Capone? – and they will reply that he was
a gangster. Then ask them what criminal offences Al Capone was
ever convicted of, and see what they say.
One criminal offence Al Capone was certainly never convicted of
was murder. Capone died in 1947, and Ness published his memoirs
ten years later. It is certain that while Scarface Al was still
warm in his grave, all manner of innuendo was being thrown around
about his responsibility for this murder or that, indeed such
allegations were made frequently when he was alive, and probably
on more than one occasion to his face. In his book, Ness estima-
ted that Capone had been responsible directly or indirectly for
the murders of up to three hundred men by 1929, (31) a figure
that is too absurd to comment on. Capone himself once remarked
that he had been accused of every death except the casualty list
in the World War. (32)
What are the facts? One fact, as stated, is that Al Capone was
never convicted of murder, indeed, the only $crime$ in any mean-
ingful sense that he was ever convicted of was carrying a fire-
arm, and the circumstances under which this conviction was ob-
tained stink to High Heaven.
In May 1929, Capone was picked up for carrying a pistol. As the
right to bear arms is written into the American Constitution,
this was obviously only a technical offence. Yet within sixteen
hours of his arrest, Capone had been tried, convicted and sen-
tenced to a year in gaol. (33) And this for a first offence. (34)
In his fantasy prone autobiography, Ness comments that when
Capone, “America’s most feared gangster” was gaoled, his organi-
sation wasn’t broken up but was run by his brother. (35)
When a $feared gangster$ or someone equally obnoxious is sent
to gaol the thing that usually happens is that people crawl out
of the woodwork to denounce him. True, Capone was only sent down
for a year, but this would have been long enough for the authori-
ties to pressurise enough members of his (supposed) empire to
turn on him, and for the police and the Feds to gather enough
incriminating testimony from his alleged victims to keep him in
gaol for a great deal longer. What happened though? Scarface Al
served his time then came out and took up right where he’d left
off, that’s what happened.
Although he was sentenced to a year in gaol, Ness admits that
Capone – America’s most feared gangster, remember – was out in
ten months with remission for $good behaviour$. (36) The simple
fact is that this $feared gangster$ was a perfectly respectable
and indeed extremely industrious entrepreneur who had ended up on
the wrong side of the law for a purely technical offence, he had
been caught carrying a firearm, which, again, the US Constitution
is supposed to have guaranteed him the right to do. It is also
clear that few of his contemporaries could have a more bona fide
reason for carrying a firearm than Al Capone.
It is a well-known truism that mud sticks, and that however
baseless the allegations made against someone and however force-
fully he may be exonerated, there will always be somebody who
reasons no smoke without fire. By the time of his arrest, Capone
had been built up into one of the most evil men alive by a combi-
nation of state-sponsored disinformation and sensationalist
gutter press drivel. There must have been quite a few hoods,
self-styled avengers or simply people out to make a name for
themselves who would have thought nothing of gunning him down in
cold blood, or perhaps attacking him in a less repugnant but
equally disturbing manner. Surely such a man in such circum-
stances is entitled to carry a handgun for his own protection?
As well as the bust, the sentence meted out to Capone was
clearly politically motivated. The fact that the authorities were
able to manhandle him in so brutal a manner and deal with him in
such a summary fashion is also evidence of, if not outright proof
that, he was in reality no manner of gangster but an honest
businessman who, after being harassed by the authorities for
years, and quite likely in fear of his life on account of his
being demonised, was simply caught out doing what any right-
minded person would have done under the circumstances. It has
become $de rigueur$ to portray Capone as a bloated, Machiavellian
schemer surrounded by smart lawyers, craftily outfoxing the
dedicated efforts of the squad of special agents to track him
down and bring him to justice. Police officers, city officials,
even judges, are said variously to have been on his payroll. Yet
the bottom line is that when the chips were down, he couldn’t
even get bail on a minor firearm rap. The poor man obviously
never knew what hit him. Incidentally, the usual tariff for such
an $offence$ was three months, (37) yet he was sentenced to a
year. Surely this is further proof that Capone was anything but a
criminal mastermind?
However, even after the state’s repressive apparatus had suc-
ceeded in nailing him for this trivial offence, it wasn’t satis-
fied. According to Ness, on Capone’s release, a police chief was
said to have promised to clap him straight back in gaol as soon
as he arrived home. Twenty-five men staked out his home for four
days until it was decided that he wasn’t going to show up. (38)
This is outrageous; in the first place, $if$ Capone had been a
wanted man he wouldn’t even have been released from gaol, the
authorities would have found some further charge to bring against
him or used some other device to make sure he wasn’t allowed back
on the street. The simple fact is that Scarface Al, having served
a vicious sentence for a piddling misdemeanour, was targeted by
an over officious police officer with a grudge against the son of
a poor Italian immigrant who had made good while he was stuck in
a brown-nosing job while masquerading as a guardian of public
morality.
Furthermore, by taking no less than twenty-five men off the
streets (where they could have been catching real criminals), in
order to stake out the home of a man who had not even able to
commit a crime for the best part of a year – even if he’d wanted
to – by doing this, this police chief wasted valuable resources
to harass an already harassed and essentially innocuous business-
man. In short, he allowed his irrational hatred of the successful
– and harmless – Al Capone to over-ride his duty to protect the
public.
As well as claiming that he had ordered the murders of some
three hundred men, Ness spins his readers a fantasy about Capone
moving into legitimate businesses (39) where he began bombing his
rivals. The public didn’t like it, he says. (40) Doubtless such
bombings did occur, and by the same token the public wouldn’t
have liked them (the public has never been overly fond of bom-
bings), but again this is innuendo, and as always it is easy to
libel the dead, because they cannot answer back. Al Capone was
never proved guilty of bombing anymore than he was proved guilty
of murder.
Probably the height of Ness’s chutzpah is his suggestion that
an attempt on his life shortly after one of his raids, was the
work of the Capone gang. (41) The fact that Capone was in gaol at
the time (on the aforementioned firearms misdemeanour) didn’t
prevent poor Al from being blamed even for this. This supposedly
so Machiavellian $gangster$ couldn’t prevent the state conspiracy
from throwing him into gaol on a bum rap, yet at the same time he
is supposed to have ordered the execution of a Justice Department
official. (42)
Let us state this again loud and clear: Al Capone was never
convicted of murder, nor was he ever convicted of the bombing of
any individual or property. Ness’s assertions are exactly that,
assertions, and totally baseless ones at that, because if there
had been the slightest evidence against him he would have been
charged, and more than likely, convicted. It beggars belief that
the Chicago police – however corrupt they may have been – would
have allowed Capone or anyone to get away with eight murders (the
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre), and it is simply inconceivable
that a man who didn’t have enough know-how to escape a gaol
sentence for a firearms misdemeanour would have had the savvy to
order and escape retribution for such an heinous crime.
Furthermore, although there was public outrage at the St.
Valentine’s Day Massacre, and other gangland killings, none of
this outrage was directed at Capone. $If$ the public had really
believed any of the mud that was flung at him, they would have
shown their displeasure by boycotting him and buying their liquor
from someone else. It is most likely that Ness, the police and
the other authorities continued to lay the blame on Capone for
half the murders and other crimes in Chicago because he was a
convenient scapegoat. He was – against his will – a high profile
public figure; he was also a big man with a scar on his face who
looked the part of the gangster or hood; (43) he was not part of
the establishment, he had humble origins. And he was of Italian
extraction. All they had to do was blame it all on that devious
schemer and gangster Capone, mutter under their breath about how
they couldn’t touch him because he was protected or had City Hall
in his pocket, or some such twaddle, and they wouldn’t need to
justify their failure to catch the real perpetrators of the
dastardly deeds. And their own incompetence.
Again, rather than being either a murderer or a bomber, Al
Capone was a successful businessman who was singled out by both
the police and the Federal Government because his face didn’t
fit. In short, he was simply yet another victim of well-orche-
strated, vindictive and totally arbitrary state harassment.
He Was Cleared, Therefore He Did It
The world is full of conspiracies, but conspiracy theorists are
frequently met with derision, often with good reason. Some people
who postulate conspiracy theories interpret all evidence against
their particular theory as evidence $for$ it. There are some
people – mostly Christian Fundamentalists – who believe that
Satanists snatch thousands of people off the streets of America
every year in order to sacrifice them to the Devil. When police
departments and the FBI have investigated alleged organised
Satanic activity and abuse, they have found precisely nothing.
(44) So what happens? They go into the plot as well. Thus the
fact that no bodies are found proves only that the wicked Satan-
ists are so clever at covering up their trail. The fact that
neither the police nor the Feds come up with any evidence means
that both the police departments and the FBI have been infiltra-
ted and taken over by the Satanists’ network. And when Al Capone
was cleared of a crime, why, the obvious explanation, indeed the
only explanation, is that he corrupted the authorities with his
terrible power of the purse.
One Capone biographer mentions a case in 1922 when Capone was
charged with assault with an automobile, driving while intoxica-
ted and carrying a concealed weapon. The case never came to trial
because, we are told “The charges were mysteriously dropped,
expunged from the record.” (45) Another author has likewise
concluded that because Capone had no criminal record he must have
bribed some official so that “irritating documentation could be
consigned to oblivion.” (46)
Notwithstanding the fact that most of the time many of these
very same officials were doing their best to make the poor man’s
life a misery, this is, once again, pure innuendo. The simple
fact is that many people who are charged with all manner of
criminal offences never see the inside of a courtroom because the
charges are dropped. As to why the charges are dropped, there can
be all manner of reasons. One is that frequently the police
overstep the mark or even fit people up. If this were not the
case then anyone who was ever charged with a criminal offence
would be convicted. This is only intelligent speculation, but I
would say that it is likely in the above case that Capone was
arrested on a totally bum rap and that he threatened to sue the
police, or something of that nature. And they backed down.
Another, quite likely explanation, is that the police realised
they had gone too far without any such prompting, because in
1922, Capone was $one of their own$, so to speak. (47) Whatever,
it should never be forgotten that although by this time, Capone
had long since embarked on his life of $crime$, he was still at
this time a very minor player. If he couldn’t beat a bum firearm
rap when he was kingpin, it is most unlikely that he could use
his supposedly Machiavellian powers to extricate himself from
more serious charges seven years earlier. Any suggestions to the
contrary are simply loaded speculation, innuendo and the usual
cheap shots.
Al Capone The Entrepreneur Versus Eliot Ness The Destroyer – How
It Really Was
When one reads communist and similar publications today, the
thing which impresses the reader more than anything else is the
sheer hatred, venom and nastiness that communists and their
fellow travellers exhibit against anyone who has made good.
Businessmen who have built great industrial, retail, wholesale
and other empires, through their own effort, industriousness, and
often self-sacrifice are portrayed as parasites who prey off the
masses in a relentless quest for profit. A particularly nasty
example of this perverted reasoning is the anarchist publication
$Class War$, which, in its February/March 1995 issue published
the following attack on Richard Branson, who had committed the
cardinal sin of transporting a cargo on one of his Virgin Airways
planes “free of charge”. This is hardly the act of a parasitic
capitalist, but instead of being applauded, Mr Branson was lam-
basted by what was a thinly veiled murder threat: “Three cheers
for Mr Branson? More like three swift blows from a baseball bat.
He can wear as much body armour as he likes, but this prat’s days
are truly numbered.” (48)
While it is unquestionably true that some capitalists are money
graspers, this is a personality defect that can be found through-
out all strata of society. And although he didn’t come from the
same humble origins as Al Capone, Richard Branson is still very
much a self-made man. (49)
This anti-capitalistic mentality was very much alive in the
1920s in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution. There has never
been any suggestion that Eliot Ness was a communist or fellow
traveller, but the same hatred of financial success and desire to
tear down successful business enterprises manifests itself in
many people who are employed, ostensibly, as public servants, yet
who spend the better parts of their careers harassing the more
productive and industrious members of the community.
Ness claimed in his autobiography that at one time the Capone
Syndicate was estimated to have had an income of nearly $120
million. (50) A year, presumably. Although this figure is almost
certainly wildly exaggerated, his claim that $the mob$ had 20
breweries churning out 100 barrels of beer a day (51) is probably
not far wide of the mark.
No credit is given by Ness – or by any servant of that Draco-
nian instrument of statist repression known as the Federal Gov-
ernment – for the positive achievements of the Capone syndicate.
Here was a man who came from poor immigrant stock, from the
humblest of origins, and who, together with many people from
similar backgrounds, built a thriving, prosperous business. (52)
A man whose organisation employed people in no less than twenty
locations in and around Chicago. If Capone hadn’t employed these
men (and women?) what would they have been doing? Most likely
lounging around on street corners or living off the dole – or
whatever they had in 1920s America. A good many of these people
were grateful to this so-called gangster for giving them a live-
lihood, and enabling them to feed their families. And Mr Capone’s
customers were obviously satisfied; let us repeat, no one was
ever forced to attend speakeasies, no one was ever forced to buy
and drink Capone’s beer.
Capone himself saw through the hypocrisy and humbug of the
corrupt system which portrayed him and his kind as parasites
rather than the service providers they were. He enunciated his
views with crystal clear lucidity worthy of a latter day John
Stuart Mill: “They call Al Capone a bootlegger”, he told one
author, “Yes, it’s bootleg while it’s on the trucks, but when
your host at the club, in the locker room, or on the Gold Coast
hands it to you on a silver tray, it’s hospitality. What’s Al
Capone done, then? He’s supplied a legitimate demand. Some call
it bootlegging. Some call it racketeering. I call it a business.”
(53) He put it even more succinctly on another occasion when he
told a woman “They talk about me not being on the legitimate.
Why, lady, nobody’s on the legit., when it comes down to cases;
you know that.” (54)
As well as his commitment to the free enterprise system, Capone
exhibited a trait which he has seldom been given credit for, a
broader commitment to American ideals and a fierce, if concealed,
patriotism. “My rackets are run on strictly American lines and
they’re going to stay that way”, he told one author. (55) And,
“Don’t get the idea that I’m one of these goddam radicals. Don’t
get the idea that I’m knocking the American system.” (56)
This was Al Capone, entrepreneur, public servant. We know what
he did; in his own words he provided a service, he was a busi-
nessman whose customers in turn provided hospitality. So what was
Eliot Ness? And what did he do?
In his book, Ness boasts that on one raid alone a staggering
$75,000 worth of plant was seized. (57) On another raid, men-
tioned on page 94 of his book, Ness boasts that six men were
arrested and that beer and equipment valued at $100,000 was
destroyed. On page 162 of this 190 page catalogue of destruction,
the reader is told that it was difficult to find breweries be-
cause he and his gang had closed more than 30 large plants,
seized 45 trucks and destroyed millions of dollars worth of
equipment. There you have it in his own words. Ness, at the
behest of the United States Government, set out to destroy the
livelihoods of ordinary people, and millions of dollars’ worth of
expensive capital equipment.
Earlier I said that Al Capone’s so-called rackets gave people
(dozens or perhaps even hundreds of them) a livelihood, taking
them off the street. In fact, Capone’s service to society goes
far beyond that, because many of the people he employed were the
type who then – and today – can find employment $only$ in this
sort of activity. It is a truism that once a dog has a bad name,
nobody wants to go near it. Many of the people who found their
way onto Scarface Al’s payroll were ex-cons and assorted lowlife,
[sic] the sort of people no regular employer would want to take
on. If these gangsters, petty crooks and no-goods hadn’t been
engaged in the production and distribution of bootleg booze, it
is more than likely that the Devil would have found villainous
work for their idle hands, and that they would have taken to
mugging old ladies, burglary, armed robbery, and worse. It is not
too much of an exaggeration to say that, rather than contributing
to the proliferation of crime in 1920s Chicago, Al Capone actual-
ly helped keep the crime rate down.
Capone The Peacemaker: Ness Lets The Cat Out Of The Bag
Although in his autobiography, Ness does his best to portray
Capone as some sort of machine gun wielding vampire whose hands
were dripping with blood, we have established already in this
short study that Scarface Al was never convicted of murder and
that all the allegations against him of racketeering were and
remain nothing more than hearsay. There are people who will claim
that there were so many rumours about Capone’s involvement in
Organised Crime, including organised murder, that some of them
must be true, but we must point out again that this simply is not
the case. Let me draw an analogy with Jack the Ripper. Whilst
there is no doubt at all that a number of women were murdered in
London’s Whitechapel in the late 1880s, and little doubt that
some of them were murdered by the same person, who was never
brought to justice, there are more theories about Jack the Ripper
than most people have had hot dinners.
In reality, most of these $theories$ are simply wild specula-
tion, likewise all or most of them are mutually exclusive, for
the Ripper can hardly have been a policeman, a woman, a gorilla,
a member of the Royal family, the Queen’s physician and a mad
Russian doctor simultaneously. (58) By the same token, although a
number of apparently gang-related murders were committed in
Chicago during the Capone era, there is no good reason anymore
than there is any good evidence that all or any of them were
ordered by Al Capone. The simple fact is that Al Capone was a
successful businessman, and as we have pointed out already, such
success, especially by a man of no great education who had risen
from relative poverty, generates envy, contempt, bitterness and
hatred for its own sake. Probably 99% of the unpleasant things
that have been written about Capone over the years had absolutely
no basis in fact. And, it should never be forgotten, most of
these unpleasant things were written by men like Eliot Ness, or
inspired by him and his ilk.
Ness himself has done an excellent hatchet job on Capone, until
one does some basic textual analysis and compares his wild asser-
tions with the documented facts, but even as he is slagging off
this so-called gangster, he inadvertently lets the cat out of the
bag, for, rather than being any sort of mass murderer, Al Capone
is revealed as a peace-loving man who actually $saved$ lives. As
always, the proof of the pudding is in the eating: here is what
Ness says when he lets his guard down.
Capone ruled Chicago “with an iron fist in a glove of steel”,
(59) but, “Rarely did hate actuate him; when it did, however,
those who had incurred his wrath were marked for death.” (60)
Rarely? This is a man who earlier, according to Ness, had ordered
or been responsible for some three hundred murders by 1929. As
Capone became a junior partner in so-called organised crime only
in 1920, (when Johnny Torrio succeeded ‘Diamond Jim’ Colosimo),
that works out to three hundred murders in nine years, which is
about thirty-three a year, ie more than one a fortnight. In
practice though, Capone wouldn’t have been in a position to order
murders until he became kingpin five years later, so allowing for
him having killed a few people before – and where is the evi-
dence? – we are looking at a man who, by Ness’s earlier reckon-
ing, must have been having people dispatched every few days.
Okay, what have we got so far? A man who was rarely angry, yet
ordered people killed as frequently as most people change their
underwear. Next, Ness tells his readers that when Capone was in
gaol on the bum firearm rap, the murder rate rose: “There had
been frequent gang murders in the few months preceding Scarface
Al’s return. A serious breach was threatening to disrupt the
peace treaty Capone had negotiated at Atlantic City.” (61) In
other words, rather than ordering gang murders, Capone had waged
a tireless battle against them and had even succeeded in enfor-
cing a peace treaty. The reason he did this is not far to seek.
His main aim in life was to keep things running smoothly so
that his customers had a constant supply of liquor and so that
the profits kept running in to his organisation. Even a city
which was as corrupt as Chicago allegedly was would not have
tolerated gang murders on such a scale, something would have been
done. And as Capone had been a big wheel from 1925, there is no
doubt that his activities would have been monitored closely since
then. As indeed they were. Yet in the end the only things they
ever got him for were a firearm misdemeanour – for which they
threw the book at him – and income tax evasion. As Capone himself
said, “They finally got me for spitting on the sidewalk.” (62)
Capone The Kind And Generous Man
Ness and his ilk would have us believe that Al Capone got away
with his crimes [sic] for so long not only because of endemic
corruption but because he was feared by the people of Chicago. It
may be that Capone was feared, certainly by the competition, but
it is far more likely that he was loved, for again, by Ness’s
admission, he was generous to a tee. Ness says of Capone that,
although he was ruthless, he had “the quality of a great busi-
nessman” who exhibited “sound judgment, diplomatic shrewdness and
the diamond-hard nerves of a gambler, all balanced by cold common
sense.” (63) Capone was certainly an accomplished diplomat, and
like all diplomats he realised that persuasion was always prefer-
able to compulsion, although he was realistic enough to see that
in a hard world, hard decisions have to be made, and that while
persuasion pays dividends, some people respect only force. He put
this philosophy in a nutshell with “You can get much further with
a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.” (64)
Though Capone lived in a hard world, Ness, who graduated from
the University of Chicago, either didn’t understand or didn’t
want to understand the harsh realities faced by street-wise
businessmen who graduated from the school of hard knocks. He,
after all, was working for the Federal Government. Whatever
results he turned in, even if he didn’t make a single arrest, he
was still paid because his salary was underwritten by the taxes
of the people. But businessmen have to turn a profit or their
enterprises go down the tubes. Of course Capone was ruthless, but
who benefits from such ruthlessness and the resultant cut-throat
competition? The customer, of course!
And Capone was certainly loved, or if he wasn’t, he was most
highly respected, for as Ness himself says “Capone never carried
less than $50,000 in cash, scattering $25 tips to hat check girls
and $100 gratuities to waiters.” (65) The reader should ask
himself if these are the acts of a hoodlum, of the kind of scum-
bag Ness would have us believe Capone was. The simple fact is
that Capone, as stated, came from humble origins, and never
forgot it. What sort of man gives a waiter a hundred dollar tip?
(66) How about a kind one? Capone was not just from poor immi-
grant stock, he was of Italian origin. It is likely that many of
his family and friends worked in and around the catering and
restaurant trades, a traditional stronghold of Italian immi-
grants. Every time he saw a waiter he probably thought “There but
for the grace of God go I”. (67)
Capone’s legendary generosity even went so far as to offer Ness
a retainer, an offer the latter would have us believe he found
insulting in the extreme. When a Capone foot soldier turned up at
Ness’s office with $2,000 in cash and promised him the same every
week “if you’ll take it easy”, Ness reacted angrily, and, like
the inveterate publicity seeker he was, went out of his way to
prove his incorruptibility. (68) At least, that’s what he tells
us. No one was arrested for this attempt to bribe a Federal
officer, so it is quite possible or even likely that Ness made
the incident up as part of his general campaign of smears and
disinformation. Assuming it was true though, what was so terrible
about an offer of two thousand dollars a week to “take it easy” ?
If Ness had taken this money, he would have benefited, Capone
would have benefited, and, ultimately, the City of Chicago would
have saved money. Think again of all the people needlessly thrown
out of work by the campaign of wanton destruction of private
enterprise engaged in by Ness and his cronies. Think again too of
the sort of people Capone was employing. How many of them, laid
off when their breweries were shut down and their jobs were axed,
moved effortlessly from the $underworld$ of Al Capone’s victim-
less crimes of selling liquor to willing buyers into the real
underworld? How many old ladies were mugged, people burgled,
banks robbed, because these otherwise unemployable wretches were
denied the opportunity to earn an honest dollar by the caprice of
a bigoted government and the simulated outrage of one of its
strong arm men?
Ness even had the nerve to try to kid his readers that it was
this rejection of Capone’s largesse that earned his team the
label the Untouchables. This is nonsense, as he knew full well,
for a man of his university education could hardly have been
unaware of the natural meaning of this term. In India, certain
classes of persons are referred to as Untouchables. The $Harijan$
include those in certain occupations, such as those killing
cattle or disposing of dead cattle, and other “polluting activi-
ties”. (69) The word Untouchable applied to Ness & co was then
not a term of reverence but an insult, an epithet from the Indian
sub-continent. Ness and his team of $Untouchables$ were seen by
the Chicago public not as purifiers of a corrupt system, but as
polluters, unwanted interlopers who had been ordered by a menda-
cious, autocratic Federal Government to destroy the livelihood of
one of the community’s most respected figures, and, more import-
antly from their point of view, to prevent them from enjoying the
comforts of $the good creature of God$, just because some little
fart of a politician with the backing of Twentieth Century Puri-
tans and killjoys had forced an act through Congress denying the
people their inalienable right to drink alcohol.
Persecuted, Harassed, Slandered, Yet Even In Prison, Capone Put
Others First
Socialists are forever telling us that we should work for others,
this is something called altruism. It’s okay to be altruistic
with other people’s money, in particular the taxpayers’, but when
it comes to digging into their own pockets, that’s when they are
found out. Capone though, always believed he had a duty to socie-
ty, to put something back. The reader will recall that in 1929,
Capone was gaoled on a bum firearm rap. The magistrate who heard
this case said he would like to “[rid] the United States of you
for ever.” (70)
Surely this magistrate would have bit his tongue if he had
learned what Capone did while serving his sentence. While he was
in prison, he overheard some doctors discussing the case of a
young criminal in the hospital who been shot in an attempted
hold-up; they were going to amputate his arm. Capone said “Save
the boy’s arm. If it takes money, I’ll be glad to pay for it.”
(71) This was a young punk Capone didn’t know from Adam, yet for
him such an act of extraordinary generosity and compassion was
$de rigueur$. Incredibly though, there were those, beside the
obviously envious and totally worthless Eliot Ness, who interpre-
ted such acts as further evidence of Capone’s supposedly evil
nature.
He Was Kind Therefore He Was Evil
Capone biographer Kenneth Allsop wrote that “His individual acts
of charity, from a fifty dollar loan to an outright gift to a
destitute Italian family, were many. He paid the hospital bills
of a woman bystander wounded in a street gun-battle. It is not
altogether astonishing that today there are many respectable
citizens in Chicago who speak glowingly of Capone’s philanthropy
and particularly point out that in the early Depression days it
was the Capone gang who set up the first soup-kitchens and block-
restaurants for the distribution of free food on Thanksgiving
Day.” (72) On one occasion, Capone sent $1,200 to a deserving
Philadelphia orphanage. (73) Yet while Allsop writes that Capone
was revealed in November 1930 as the mysterious benefactor who
had set up a huge soup-kitchen, he implies that his motives in
doing this were purely selfish, ie that he set it up purely so
that the identity of the benefactor could be leaked to the media,
in order to show himself in a favourable light. (74)
Other Persecutions And Anti-Capone Hysteria
As we have demonstrated, Capone was hounded not simply by Eliot
Ness but at times by what seemed like the entire establishment.
He was actually arrested many times, including for vagrancy! (75)
On top of all that, the wildest rumours and nonsense were spread
about him. It was said that Capone was taking a cut of the tak-
ings of slot machines in Copenhagen because they had been man-
ufactured in Chicago. (76) A book on Capone was banned by librar-
ies in London; (77) a man who wrote a book called $Carrying a Gun
for Al Capone$ admitted later not only that he had never done any
such thing but that he had never even been to Chicago! (78) Some
of this nonsense may have been inspired by media sensationalism,
or, as most likely, in the case of the fictitious gun-carrying
hood, a Walter Mitty personality, but the astute reader will
detect here the hidden hand of Capone’s declared enemies in
officialdom, who, as always, were backed up by the full coercive
power of the state. (79)
—
Alexander Baron
“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the
accomplice of liars and forgers.” – Charles Peguy
