Review of Protocols of Zion (2005) by James K — 26 Nov 2006

My whole life, it's been unusual for me not to have at least one Jewish friend. In elementary school, there was Sharon. I took part in Friday evening prayers with her, and she helped decorate our Christmas tree and Easter eggs. Currently, most of the Jewish people I know aren't practicing, but most of my friends raised in a religion don't practice anymore.

But then, I was raised in the multicultural Wonderland that is LA County. At one point or another, I've had friends from literally dozens of countries, friends from every continent except Antarctica. "Cultural exchange" was code for "party" if you were above elementary school in Pasadena, but in my physics class, we took it quite literally, with foods from at least four different cultures--in a class of perhaps a dozen people at most.

This is part of why I have such a hard time generalizing cultures at all. As one of the convicts says in [i]Protocols of Zion[/i], jerks come in all different colours and creeds. (I don't actually remember his exact phrasing, but the meaning comes across well in paraphrasing.) I can make some good assessments of [i]names[/i] based on country of origin, but not people.

I also find it interesting, as this documentary clearly shows, that everybody wants someone to blame for things gone wrong. It often doesn't matter who. The Jews, the Palestinians, the Arabs, the blacks, the White Establishment, or what you will. Name someone, and it's patently obvious that 9/11 was their fault.

Me, I'm a simplist. It's the 19 guys who flew the planes into the buildings. Oh, sure, there was a lot of background to it, and a lot of people must share at least a little of the blame--and some of it a large share--but at its core, the guilt lies with the people who did it.

Oh, and to those people against "miscegenation"? It's bad for the gene pool. Look at the royal families of Europe. You want to [i]spread[/i] genes, not isolate them.