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PAGE 2 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE July 11, 1986 BELL CARPET GALLERIES Now Featuring ^komSkuh Floor Covering, Window Covering Wallcovering, Design Services Residential and Commercial 6223 Roswell Road Atlanta, Georgia 30328 404/255-2431 Creative Candid Photography Our specialty is great photography HAMMOND FESTIVAL In SANDY SPRINGS 252-0209 J NATIONWIDE MAIL MARKETING MAILING LIST BROKERS MAILING LABELS OF: • BUSINESSES • RESIDENTS • SUBSCRIBERS •OPPORTUNISTS EVERY LIST AVAILABLE SHEP MASAREK AND JEFFREY MASAREK 1140 ALPHARETTA ST., ROSWELL 993-2942 TRADITION You Can Count On It! A k AMERICAN H O • T EL, For personalized assistance call: . DORIS J. PERMAN Catering Director 688-8600 Fine Kosher Catering Bar Mitzvah Conventions Bat Mitzvah Special Events Wedding Receptions Theme Parties Dr. Marvin C. Goldstein, President SPRING STREET AT INTERNATIONAL ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303 r We Welcome All Organizations, Meetings and Luncheons. REDUCED PARKING AVAILABLE. Illinois farm group rejects LaRouche’s ‘extremism’ by Barry Mehler CHICAGO (JTA)—The presi dent of the Illinois American Agri culture Movement has issued a statement repudiating any relation ship between the AAM and peren nial presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche. Admitting that there had been an initial attraction to LaRouche’s political organization, AAM pres ident Tom Curl said, “In some terms they can be convincing but we did a little deeper study and found that we thought they were an extreme group that we did not want to have an affiliation with.” Curl went on to warn Illinois farmers not to be seduced by La Rouche politics. LaRouche sup porters were canvassing farmers, Curl told Charles Lindy, producer of “Growing Aware,” a farm news program aired throughout the mid west. AAM believed LaRouche polit ics could pose a threat among farmers disillusioned with the Reagan administration’s current handling of the farm crisis. He urged farmers to remain active within the mainstream of the A- merican political system. LaRouche candidates have been seeking to enlist financially troubled farmers for several years. A recent report by the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith stated that “LaRouche’s followers have been making a systematic effort to in fluence farmers’ organizations, notably the American Agriculture Movement.” During LaRouche’s 1984 presi dential campaign, Tommy Kersey, who the ADL referred to as an AAM organizer from Georgia, ex pressed his admiration for La Rouche. Kersey has also expressed support for the activities of other extremist organizations including the anti-Semitic, paramilitary group Posse Comitatus. In November 1985, Kersey par ticipated in an armed protest in Georgia during which approxi mately 25 armed men held olf local stra, the former high school teacher from Eckville, Alberta, who was convicted last year under Canada’s anti-hate laws, responded with charges of “racist” to his defeat in the contest for leadership of the far rightwing Social Credit Party, at its national convention here re cently. Keegstra was ousted from the Alberta school system in 1984 after parents complained that he used his classroom to preach anti-Sem itism, telling his students that Jews played signs which denounced the “ZOG”—a term popular in right wing circles, denoting the “Zionist Occupation Government.” David Fenter, national director of the AAM, appeared disturbed that Kersey was still being referred to as a member of the AAM. “We have no officer in Georgia,” said Fenter, “and we have no relation with Kersey or the extremist groups he associates with.” According to Fenter, AAM will not allow LaRouche or any of his candidates to participate in AAM events. “We want to have nothing to do with that kind of extremism,” he said. are “the root of all evil.” He was subsequently defeated for re-elec tion as mayor of Eckville, a farm hamlet of about ^00 with no Jews. His latest defeat was at the hands of the Rev. Harvey Lainston, a 50- year-old evangelical minister from Listowel, Ontario. Lainson received 67 votes at the convention to 38 for Keegstra. A third candidate, James Green of Bentley, Alberta, with drew from the race after askin'g his supporters to give their votes to Keegstra. Keegstra was also backed by Donald Andrews and Robert Smith, both convicted of hate-mongering, and Ernst Zundel, an anti-Semitic pamphleteer who is presently appealing his conviction under the anti-hate laws for disseminating propaganda that the Holocaust was a Jewish hoax. Keegstra portrayed himself as the victim of a smear campaign who was convicted under “Satanic hate laws conceived in Hell” and enforced by “enemies of Christ and servants of Satan.” He claimed he was in “complete correspondence with the mind of God” and called Lainston a “racist.” The Social Credit Party, which originated before World War II, was originally a populist move ment with overtones of anti-Sem itism, subsequently disavowed by a later generation of its leadership. CLOSING OUT THE SEASON All Shoes Must GO!! 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