Everyone Running Around Praising Martin Luther King The Wesley Swift Bible Study session excerpted below is of particular interest because it's actually a composite of two separate sessions. The first part covers the same themes as the disturbing sermon Swift gave in March of 1968. Its reference to the Jewish holiday of Purim provides a reliable mark for dating both this session and that sermon: in 1968, Purim fell on March 14th, a Thursday. The next available Wednesday night for it to have been "just held" would have been the 20th (with the sermon almost certainly delivered on the 17th). The second part is more curious, as its references identify a session held after Easter on April 14, 1968. It could have taken place as early as the following Wednesday (April 17), but it may be the actual date as given for the whole "Bible Study" (April 24, 1968) is accurate for this part. If so, it suggests that someone might have tried to obscure its information by putting the earlier (March 20) material in front without any indication of the two being distinct from each other. I picked out what seems to be a break in the flow of Swift's talk to mark the separation between them. Interpolations by the tape's transcriber are in regular parentheses. All italics are my emphasis, and my comments are in square brackets. WARNING: If you choose to read the following material, be advised that it contains the words of Wesley A. Swift, the original leader of the racist extremist group known as Aryan Nations. The content is extremely offensive, especially as it is presented in the language of Christian scripture and represents a warped version of Christian beliefs. It is rightly classified as hate speech. WEDNESDAY NITE [sic] BIBLE STUDY 4-24-68 by DR. WESLEY SWIFT[as mentioned, this is much the same as was said in the sermon of March 17th; Purim was held on March 14, 1968-dwd] ........Now, the Apostle Paul is a Benjamite. He was from Tarsus. He said he was a Hebrew of the tribe of Benjamin. So the Jews translated it as --- I am a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin. But he couldn't have been a Jew and be of the tribe of Benjamin, for the Jews were not Benjamite. They were not men of true Judah or Benjamin. Jesus never did come out and denounce men of Judah or Benjamin. When He said: -- 'Ye are of your father the devil.' They [Then] He proves this for He was denouncing the Yehuddin which are now called Jews.[the intellectual gymnastics here are typical of racist arguments. In summary, Jewish people were ancient Hebrew descendants of the southern territories of Palestine, referred to collectively as "Judah" (including the tribe of Benjamin). They didn't suffer the Assyrian invasion's utter devastation and alleged "scattering" of the peoples of northern territories, collectively referred to as "Israel." In Anglo-Israel doctrine, those so-called Ten Lost Tribes allegedly wound up in the British Isles. Swift's points could be consistent (though still dubious) if he said that Jewish people are distinct from "True Israelites" because they were "of Judah" and not "of Israel." But instead, he had to make further distinctions about "true" Judah and how no Jew could be "of the tribe of Benjamin" -- because Jews are simply evil, and that's that-dwd] Then remember, that during the ministry of the Christ, the people were turning gradually to HIM. And His own family wanted HIM to go down to the Feast of Jerusalem and declare that HE was the Messiah and see what would happen. But Jesus said:--'You can go down there because your time is always ready. But my time has not yet come. If I went down there, the Jews would crucify me.' And as yet He had to fulfill the three years of His ministry. So all the people went down to Jerusalem and they talked about Jesus but no man spoke openly of HIM for fear of the Jews. So the Galilean were not Jews. Jesus proves this and then He turns to the disciples and said:--'I have chosen you twelve and one of you is a devil.' In other words I chose one of you, a devil. So it would be a testimony forever for Christendom. And then this devil was identified as Judas of Iscariot. Then after this, Jesus had to walk in Galilee for He couldn't walk among Jews because Jews sought to kill him. The Galilean then were Benjamite and they had no part nor lot with Jews.[again, the same themes and many of the same quotes as what was in the March 17th sermon; it bears repeating that Swift conflates a number of actual New Testament quotes and ideas in fabricating his own hate-filled messages -- in actual scripture, Jesus is definitely NEVER quoted as saying something like "the Jews would crucify me"-dwd] ........Then you come over to the Apostle Paul and he had been raised in Tarsus, but with the Jews in control of his religion. As a young man he went to Jerusalem and Christ had already been crucified and had ascended into the heavens. The Christian church was all over as the people assembled in groups and the Jews were fighting the Christians and putting them to death. The Apostle Paul didn't know anything different. So the Jews said: -- 'there is a fine young man -- so we will make him a Captain and will send him out with his army to kill Christians. And they told Paul that Jesus was a heretic and we put him to death. And must put his followers to death also...........[confusing enough, given re-interpretations geared toward antisemitic and anti-Catholic perspectives, but the "quote" of Paul is a complete fabrication on the race part-dwd] ----------------------------------------------- [this appears to be the likely separation point for the previous session and the post-Easter session -- we're no longer talking about Paul and are now in a monologue about current events, history, and apocalyptic implications thereof. It would be nice to know what question set this off and whether this was Swift's full answer. I broke up an incredibly long second paragraph into smaller portions-dwd] The fact is that today we are faced with the fact that we have the abomination of the desolator at the end of the age standing in the Holy Place. And when you turn to Old Jerusalem, today, you find these Jews who drove the Arabs out into the desert. In Palestine today, the Arabs were not driven out by Israel. Had these Jews been Israel, they would never have driven out the Arabs, for God said that Ishmael had the right always to live among his brothers. He wasn't the ruler, for Israel holds this place. But he was to have the right to dwell among them.[to repeat in summary, the distinction being made is "Israel" as representing the white (Christian) "race" in contrast to the modern nation-state Swift calls "Israeli" (as in the next paragraph); so Arabs were driven out by Jews, not by "Israel," and Jews being in charge of "Old Jerusalem" is interpreted as "the abomination of desolation/the desolator standing in the Holy Place"-dwd] The Jews forced Harry Truman to recognize Israeli. A Jew came over here and he worked on the President who was a Baptist and his preacher told him the Jews were the 'chosen people'. And they told Truman that he had to recognize Israeli or he wouldn't be elected again. He was told that he had to do this or a curse would come on him because in the Bible it says: -- 'I will curse those who curse you, and bless those who bless thee.' And the Jews say this pertains to them. But this Jew came to Truman -- his name David Horowitch [Horowitz] and was one of the slimiest Jews in the world.... So he worked on President Truman. So without telling even his State Department, then Truman recognized Israeli.[it is often very, very hard to deal with this degree of completely insane Jew-hatred, especially as exhibited in what would otherwise be only an ignorant belief, like "they killed lots of Germans this way" -- as if that were even remotely possible. But how devilish it all is next to expressions of approval that the Germans should have "killed every Jew they caught"-dwd] And yet today, the churches will go for this position that the Jews are the 'chosen people'. Yet the scripture talks against them. Warns that in these latter days the abomination of the desolator will be in the Holy Place. And they drove the Arabs out of Palestine proving they are not Israel. They took over the Old Jerusalem, and now they [are] standing in the Holy Place. The theologians, their experts, know what the scripture says. But they just cover it up. Just like the World Council of Churches and the National Council of Churches. They know Martin Luther King was a communist. Every one of them knows it. This was cited 23 times by the House of Un-American Activities Committee, 20 times listed by the Senate Judiciary Committee, and 16 times by the F.B.I. They all said that he was a communist. But the W.C.C. and the N.C.C. are run by commies. And they had everyone running around praising Martin Luther King. But he was advocating violence in every speech. He was the head of these like [Stokely] Carmich[a]el and the others.[the ironies involved in "advocating violence in every speech" is enough to make you puke-dwd] And the Jews then liquidated Martin Luther King after he had done about all he could for them. The fact is that the communist know who King was. But look at all the churches that held memorials for a commie. When I heard that he was killed, then I said: -- 'Good. A commie is killed. So what?' I wasn't going to cry over a commie. He asked for it and a communist shot him. There is no doubt of that. Just like the commies shot J.F.K. -- I didn't like J.F.K. -- But after he got shot I wasn't going to cry. Look at all the Cubans he had killed. But the fact was -- who killed him -- we wouldn't do that. The commies killed him. And maybe Mr. Johnson was in this, I don't know. But the establishment is tied into this cover-up, so it is a very peculiar situation. They have made such a Hulla-ba-loo. They have so many churches holding memorials for Martin Luther King. More of a fuss than they did over J.F.K., actually. And they are still doing this every year. [that is, holding memorials for President Kennedy-dwd] They are holding one down in Hollywood Bowl today for Martin Luther King.[the rambling, off-the-cuff quality of these sessions could be very interesting and revealing, as Swift seamlessly goes right from talking about one "commie" killed by "commies" to "commies" killing President Kennedy (another commie-type): "all the Cubans" JFK "had killed" doesn't signify an element of tragic responsibility but of Kennedy's being in collusion with Communists -- having people killed; and I assume little needs to be pointed out about what Swift said next, but it would be interesting to know who he felt would fall into the category of "we"-dwd] And the preachers got together to dedicate themselves before the body of Martin Luther King to end all racism. I have a copy of the minutes of this great meeting. And one of the things decided was for all Methodists to buy all the Negro dolls they could find to give them to their little children so that their children would start loving Negroes as little babies then grow up with them so they would have no aversion to Negroes, so that marriage could take place. This is in the first Methodist Church. And the ministers are coming out for this. This is the most fantastic thing you ever heard -- trying to get whites to marry niggers. In one of the big Presbyterian Churches in Washington, the minister said he never saw a bigger guilt complex that [than] when we saw that a white man shot Martin Luther King. And now he wants to assume the guilt of all white men. And since he had two white daughters, then if they married Negroes, they would have his blessing because he now realized that he had been a hypocrite and not a Christian. He just never felt this way before so he wanted to apologize and repent. And he now would be so happy if his daughters fell in love with Negroes and married them. -- Of all the fantastic propaganda put out that is being swallowed by the NCC and Orthodox. Preachers by the thousands are falling for this and accepting this Jewish pattern.[the general objection Swift was making was to the ecumenical tendencies of most official Christian denominations after World War II, in which common ground was sought with one another and with other faiths, mainly Judaism. Since the push came from more liberal churches that were advocating internationalist ideas and were also large organizations exemplifying "the Eastern Establishment," it seemed much too similar to the United Nations for people like Swift, who saw anything close to "One Worldism" as the "Mystery Babylon" of the Book of Revelation (and included the long-time identification of the Catholic Church with "Mystery Babylon"). Ten years later, as conservative fundamentalists became a force in the American political arena, such themes would appear to be more prevalent, with less obviously controversial baggage than Swift carried-dwd] They are going to push this nigger business too far on our people. When they try to get them to resign from the white race, and marry Negroes, you will find that the majority of the white men won't do this. They may let these preachers talk this way, but it is not for them. They are trying to ram this down our throats on the body of a dead communist. If this fellow had died four years ago, there wouldn't have been a Watts Riot, or any disturbance because this speech is one of the key disturbing things of the whole lot. [presumably, "this speech" was MLK's "I Have a Dream"-dwd] But they have tried to blame about everyone for that killing. Of course the KKK was blamed. They came out yesterday and said they were giving one million dollars reward for the man -- Ray, who shot Martin Luther King. Well the KKK never had a million dollars and no nigger is worth a million dollars anyway.[it's unclear if Swift is making a jumbled-up comment about a million dollar reward for James Earl Ray's capture; or referring to information coming out about a million dollar "bounty" on Dr. King; or even an allegation that the Klan had come out and said they would "reward" Ray a million dollars for having done the deed???-dwd] Table of Contents Continue to next post |