Who remembers the USS Liberty?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212172447

DU tolerates such crap nowadays. Say "Israel" and everyone pretends it's serious criticism.

The quote, which reads, “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize,” was quickly identified by some users online as a quote by Kevin Alfred Strom.

“Congrats, you just quoted Kevin Alfred Strom, an American neo-Nazi, who first said those words in 1993,” responded (here) one user. Another commented, “This quote is actually from Kevin Alfred Strom, a white supremacist and Holocaust denier who pled guilty to possession of child pornography.” (here)

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A 2017 essay written by Kevin Alfred Strom (archive.is/DLQek) titled, “Voltaire Didn’t Say It” takes ownership of the of routinely paraphrased quote. According to Strom, the quote is based on something he said in a 1993 broadcast, “To determine the true rulers of any society, all you must do is ask yourself this question: Who is it that I am not permitted to criticize?”

The Southern Poverty Law Center described Storm (here) as a producer of “anti-Semitic and racist material” who pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography in a federal trial in 2008. The BBC described him as a neo-Nazi (here).

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