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Originally posted by ohara:
[b] Meir Weinstein a Canadian citizen not today involved with the American jdl[/b]
First of all ohara, the evidence on the American JDL website suggests Weinstein *is* involved in the American JDL. Secondly, Weinstein has been involved with the JDL since the late 1970s, including the decades that the "American JDL" was involved in terrorist activity (activity which only stopped when the group basically collapsed as a result of Rubin's arrest and suicide in 2002). Third, Rubin was up here and presumably worked with Weinstein (Indeed, according to the police, they went to the site of the Zundel bunker together a few days after it was firebombed) and Rubin as JDL Chairman, evidently, spent time in Montreal recruiting for the JDL, despite the fact that Montreal is within "JDL Canada's" territory. So Weinstein will have to go to court and argue that even though he was in the JDL for decades, brought or tried to bring JDL officials to Canada he was not involved with the US JDL.
And that's without even touching upon Weinstein's involvement with the terrorist Kach group and any links he may have with its off-shoots.
That's a tall order and I think your lawyer friend is assuming a lot if he seriously thinks that Weinstein can convince a court that he had nothing to do with the US JDL and that the Canadian and US groups are just namesakes. At the very least Weinstein will have a lot of 'splaining to do about his activities for the last few decades and will have to disclose a lot of documentary material.
In any case ohara, you have not answered my question:
Do you think the JDL has been a terrorist organization? What about racist? Or supremacist?
[ 12 March 2008: Message edited by: aka Mycroft ]