Liverpool opinions
Like a bird on a wire - I have tried in my way to be free
By John Williams
During the four years I have been constructing my web site I have received many thousands of letters from people who, while they might not necessarily share all of my views, are usually so well mannered that they often only comment on what they like and diplomatically ignore what they can't find agreement with.
In other words, they are adults, who have learned to navigate their social terrain fully aware that the chance of finding two people who agree completely on every aspect of life is an impossibility. In the real world they have to cope daily with people whose views are sometimes diametrically opposed to theirs yet they can deal with the situation.
However, there has always been the tiny minority, whose self hatred is such that they would drown in their own bile unless they could spew it onto other human beings.
Over the years I have been called such names as an 'Atheistic-Scouse-Irish bastard-German hating-Communist loving-black Jew boy", which is a little ironic given that I'm a Caucasian lapsed Catholic. In fact, I have been left so far behind by some of my fellow religionists of that I could truthfully be be called a 'lapped Catholic'.
As for hating Germans let's be specific here. I mean how could any man possessed of a sex drive hate Claudia Schiffer! How could anyone with a soul hate Beethoven! Mein Gott the mind boggles! Again, on a more earthy note, Didi Hamman is my favourite defender for Liverpool FC and I have the greatest regard for a true German hero, Max Schmelling. Admittedly, I was briefly a member of the Communist party but upped stakes when I was asked to go canvassing on the day the Russian tanks rolled into Prague!
My support for anyone who is not an Anglo Saxon attracts the racists like a dog attracts ticks. Nothing is more calculated to drive a fascist even more bonkers than he already is than another's person's acknowledgement that all human beings have the right to live.
There is nothing noble or altruistic about my views. They are merely an expression of my desire to live by the tenets of, among others, Jesus, who was the second man to say 'Do unto others as you would unto yourself'. The first to utter the same sentiment lived a hundred years earlier and was called Rabbi Hillel.
I am not so much pro Jewish as anti-idiot. You see, I have always resented the cliche spouting morons who make the most egregious generalisations and then expect me to say,
"Fine I'll go along with that you lovable genius."
No way! When I hear them saying such things as 'All Jews are rich' I wonder what queue they were in when intelligence was doled out because Jesus himself made the poverty of many of his countrymen abundantly clear as we can see in,
It's hard for me to see how anybody with a modicum of intelligence could believe that there is a race of human beings who are not subject to the laws of economics.
Contemporary Jew haters hide behind many guises but almost always profess deep sympathy for the underdog Palestinians, some of whom, most notably the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who lived in Berlin for most of the second world war, were only decades ago aiding and abetting Rommels' attempts to crush the Allies.
I remember when Israel was the underdog and enjoyed the support of some of the left, but then the the Israelis whupped the tar out of three Arab nations and overnight came to be perceived as winners, an entity that the left are not psychologically geared for as they can only support the underdog.
For instance, one hundred years after the American war of independence the descendants of the all powerful revolutionary French government sent the Americans the statue of liberty. Now they can't even talk rationally to each other.
The modern Jew haters have a real problem. They would love to see Adolf Hitler re-habilitated as some kind of hero but in order to achieve their unsavoury aims they have to try and eradicate the stain of the Holocaust.
No chance of that, so they perpetuate the same old myths. For instance, 'The Jews stick together and help each other out'. Oh, I didn't realise that helping a co-religionist was a bad thing. I wish some of my Christian brothers had helped me at times. As for the Jews sticking together, well, enforced Ghettoization will do that.
It is a sight to behold when these racists utilise the alleged characteristics of one race to damn the members of that race and then use the same argument to disguise the fact that they themselves really don't want to help their own racial group. I can hear them now,
"Help my own people? Show compassion for my brethren? What am I, a Jew!"
That's why Hitler purged the Nazis of all those who protested that National Socialism had no Socialist content. In one fell swoop he killed every Socialist in the Nazi party, using the pretext that their leader was a homosexual, but the fact is he hated the German people. If he loved them then why did he leave them destroyed?
Thus the hate-mongers have their butter on both sides of their bagel. I am not blindly enamoured of Jews. I am not oblivious of their mistakes any more than I am unaware of their marvellous contribution to human life. That said, I have loved some beautiful Jewish women, as well as Africans, Asians and Australasians. Okay, I'm a pushover, but I'm a cosmopolitan pushover; it is simply that I perceive anti Semitism [Nowadays more correctly anti-Jewishness] and all other forms of racialism as a calculated insult to my native intelligence.
My problem with all this began in primary school when I was ten. We had one teacher who taught us every subject. One day we were told that Jesus threw the money lenders out of the temple. The inference was that Jews were by nature usurers who sucked the poor dry, whereas good Christians never lent money at rates of interest, a point made explicit to me later by Shakespeare in the Merchant of Venice.
The problem for me was that the very next lesson was arithmetic and, wouldn't you know it, we were being introduced to the mathematical concept of interest!
After that I was naturally wary of generalisations, especially when Jews were invoked. As William Blake ironically put it,
"To generalise is to be a fool."
I say ironically because as you will have noted the statement is itself a generalisation, but you get my drift.
No doubt this piece will prompt another Tick Attack but I have the ultimate answer. It's called a blocked sender's list with the added bonus of being able to report abuse to ISP's. At almost 60 I am just too old to want to become engaged with the losers who attack me for for being myself.
In the words of Gloria Gaynor, I am what I am and I will survive. Indeed, when I read the rancid raving of the sad bastards I am glad they are attacking me as I'd hate to be welcomed as one of them! They are probably foaming at the mouth right now because I mentioned a female African-American singer whose most famous song is also an inspiration to gays! Oops I did it again.
So, to those who think they can change my mind by abusing me I say don't waste what available computing power you have mailing stuff to me that will be instantly deleted. Instead, get your own web site and good luck. I'll even go so far as to suggest a few domain names;
http://www.I-hate-myself.com
http://www.hey-I'm simon the leper-and that's-my perfume.net
http://www.I-can't-get-no-satisfaction.org