A Review: Tough Jews by Rich Cohen

A Review

Tough Jews by Rich Cohen

By

R.E. Prindle

We’re trying to get America by the wallet.

Abe ‘Kid Twist’ Reles

 

Cohen, Rich:  Tough Jews, Fathers, Sons and Gangster Dreams, Vintage, 1999.

 

Rich Cohen
 

Our author, Rich Cohen seems to be oppressed by the vision of Jews marching obediently to the death camps in war torn Europe.  He is ashamed that Jews didn’t organize and resist the Nazis.  Actually those that could did.  The Warsaw Ghetto being the most famous example.  Of course having no infra structure to support them that resistance, while commendable, was futile.

This reaction within Nazi lines was not the same as that by Jews beyond those lines.  US Jews campaigned mightily with the full assistance of President Roosevelt to get our men to fight their war for them and succeeded. Jews fought in the Russian army where there was a supporting infra structure.  It is also true that the political Commissars attached to the Russian army were nearly all Jews.  Their role as political Commissars in the conducting of the war was equal to or maybe even superior to that of the military generals.  The Germans have incredible horror stories of the barbarities perpetrated by the Commissars that are equal in horror to anything that occurred in the death camps.

But few people are aware of the Jewish influence in the battle units.  Rich Cohen apparently being one of them or he wouldn’t lament ‘weak’ Jews while trying to find heroes amongst a group of barbaric Jewish criminals who operated on about the same level of brutality as the Soviet Jewish Commissars.

Lepke Buchalter

Nor does Rich seem to be aware of the attitudes of Jewish-Russian criminals flooding into NYC just before and during the writing of his book.  So, this review will roam about a bit in putting Tough Jews into perspective.

In his own way Rich Cohen has written a valuable piece of immigrant Americana.  Brooklyn although a Jewish colony was and is a part of NYC and the US.  The borough currently functions as the Jewish capital of the US and rivals the whole State of Israel itself.  Because his father grew up in Brooklyn and was part of the Jewish underworld Rich is now a very privileged fellow.  As Tough Jews was written when Rich was a mere thirty years old, currently turning fifty it is nicely turned out.  His father left Brooklyn moving to the equally important underworld of Chicagoland, Illinois.  From there Rich attended Tulane University of New Orleans then finding his way to the Big Bagel, NYC.

He had no trouble finding literary jobs with prestigious magazines such as the New Yorker and Vanity Fair, indeed, I am guessing, with the aid of his father’s connections.

His father grew up in Brooklyn with the future TV journalist Larry King so it is hardly surprising that Rich did a stint with the Larry King TV show.

Abe Reles

On reading Rich’s book one is haunted by the feeling that, while ostensibly about a group of criminals hardly worth the eulogies Rich heaps on them, there is a  deeper more pervading and significant interest.  Indeed that interest would subsequently appear in his book, Israel Is Real: An Obsessive Quest To Understand the Jewish Nation and Its History.  Obsessive and Nation are key words.

Indeed, Tough Jews might be considered a Volume I of that obsession.  That obsession will color my review as I will range wider than a bunch of Neanderthal criminals and I mean no insult to the Neanderthals.

Tough Jews itself is a handsomely written book although one twinges at so many cuteisms that mar the writing, descents into purple prose, but picky complaints aside the book reads smoothly, smartly and coherently at a high level of interest, perhaps lagging a bit around the Abe ‘Kid Twist’ Reles denouement.  But that complaint might also be a touch of envy.

Yet, he admires these creeps, these primitives, these brutal beastie boys.  And what redeems them?  They are Jews.  Like himself, like Brooklyn.  He excuses them because he confuses their unredeemable savagery with strength.  Tough Jews.  As he points out these are little fellows in the 5’ 0” to 5’ 2” range, as young men no more than 120 pounds.  Any six footer could brush them aside.  So what made them formidable?  They were ready to not only kill, but mutilate, at the drop of a hat.  And they did, often for silly reasons.  It was wise to step back from them.

Of course, Rich believes the reason is that they are poor immigrant lads, immigrant Jews who have been brushed aside denied their place in the sun by bigotry.  He believes that they couldn’t go to University because all the best schools had quotas, which is not quite true.  Hence he believes this criminality lasted only one generation and then the Tribe went straight.  Forget the Russian Jews of the 1990s who came in criminal and have nearly completed the task the early Jewish mob undertook.  As Abe Reles is quoted as saying his mob wanted to get America by the wallet; in other words by controlling the money, control the society.

Bugsy Siegel

Things were not being done haphazardly.  They were planned.  And they were only a part of the plan.  At this point of his life Rich may not have been able to piece things together but he does know the criminals he is describing.  And they were tough Jews and as such role models for himself and apparently the Russian Jews who came later.  Those Russian Jews had their own legends of how the Jews did things in New York in those early years.  Called new Robber Barons by the New York press they apparently believed that they were emulating the industrialists who built the railroads, creating an astonishing steel industry and the oil business.  But to mention thugs in the same breath as Ford or Carnegie is an unforgiveable sacrilege.  Ford and Carnegie built things and created it, adding to stock.  Criminals steal it and diminish wealth.

There are different ways of being tough and there was a small army of tougher Jews in finance, in the universities, in politics.  Rich essentially picks up his story with the ascent of the arch criminal and master mind Arnold Rothstein.  He was the criminal who masterminded the fixing of the 1919 World Series.

Nineteen eighteen through nineteen twenty-seven, these were the crucial years of the takeover of Western Civilization.  The really critical period  was eighteen, nineteen and twenty when the West realized that the ‘Russian’ Revolution was a Jewish affair and that as the anonymous author of the celebrated book The Cause Of World Unrest put it Jews and the cause were synonymous.

In that asymmetrical war following the destruction of European manhood in the shooting war the Jews, united Jews of the world,  fought to avoid defeat while at the same time establishing themselves as the dominant guiding role in Western Civilization.  They had won primacy in Russia by the 1917 Soviet revolution.  It would take them a few more years to consolidate their role in Europe.

Complete success was denied them by the resistance of Italy’s Fascism and Germany’s tremendous Volkist identity.  Thus, in Germany it was Jewish nationalism vs. German nationalism.  A virtual Civil War in which the only solution was the expulsion or extermination of the other.  There is nothing surprising or unnatural in the so-called holocaust.  It was inevitable just as the continuing asymmetrical war on Europeans by the Jewish survivors was only to be expected and prepared for.

The economic engine that made Jewish success possible was the plundered wealth of the Rothschilds in Europe and the equally plundered wealth of the US obtained by crime and misappropriation.

Arnold Rothstein

Nineteen-twenty provided the setting and the criminal streets of NYC the set.  With the advent of the prohibition ‘experiment’ the wealth of the US was laid at the mob’s door.  The wallet of the US that Abe Reles was talking about was deftly lifted by Jewish hands.

The engine driver for the early years was Arnold Rothstein, an especial hero of Rich’s, whose usefulness for the cause was gone by 1928 when he was taken out and replaced by Lepke Buchalter who was succeeded by Meyer Lansky after Buchalter was convicted and executed in 1942.  Lansky was instrumental in the funding of the State of Israel using money collected by criminal means.

So, all these underworld figures were working hand in glove with the aboveworld figures.  The international Jewish government required an enormous amount of money to function and most of these vast sums were obtained by exploiting the gentiles.  The Jewish mob was not stealing to live; those enormous sums of money were being funneled into the Jewish World State.  As well, Jewish charitable collections were put to political purposes.

The aboveworld politicians were also out to get America by the wallet.  In one of the most wonderful feats of history the Jews pushed through the Federal Reserve Act by which they secured control of US currency receiving interest on every dollar in circulation.  What a bonanza.  And it was a private corporation owned by nine Jewish banks of Europe and one of the US.  The single non-Jewish owner was the Rockefeller combine.  And it was a corporation independent of legislative and executive control.  Hey, hey, hubba, hubba.

Going into WWI the Jews were advantageously placed monetarily in Western Civilization.  The war consolidated their gains and even expanded their influence, without mentioning the elimination of the Czars, thus making the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics a Jewish country.

FDR

These astounding successes stirred up a reaction among the farseeing gentiles resulting in publications such as the celebrated The Cause Of World Unrest.  This in turn brought out the Jewish Damage Control units that fought back by silencing each and every critic while destroying them economically and socially.  The terrorist Anti-Defamation League was very effective at this.

Another of the aboveground threats, this one entirely criminal thus blurring the line between aboveworld and underworld methods was the theft of millions of dollars worth of Liberty Bonds directly from the New York Stock Exchange.  The bonds would continue to surface in all kinds of places during the twenties.  Not surprisingly Arnold Rothstein had an ample supply. 

Of key importance here was the election of the rump of the old political post-Civil War establishment, the three Republican presidents, Harding, Coolidge and Hoover.  These three were the last hurrah of the old American establishment.  When Franklin Roosevelt succeeded Hoover in 1933 the new Jewish immigration dispensation began.

The years of Woodrow Wilson marked the first penetration of the US government by the Jews.  Wilson as well as his Jews were socialists and with the end of the war they established a limited socialist government.  They were prepared to go further had Cox and Roosevelt been elected in 1920.  Harding’s victory derailed their plans for twelve years and the Jews disappeared from Washington for the interim.

Thus, while Jewish criminals infiltrated further at street level the economic situation in the US government was temporarily out of reach.  However, even then the government had no control over the currency.  To avoid ‘partisan’ interference the Federal Reserve had been placed beyond the political control of both the executive and legislative branches of government.  The Act could have been challenged by the Supreme Court but with Brandeis on it that was not probable and in fact the question didn’t even arise.

Thus, at this critical juncture of the Stock Market crash of ’29 Hoover had had no way to monitor the Fed.  The Fed was free to engineer the crash.

All of this did not pass unnoticed by alert Americans; however to point out Jewish machinations was to automatically label oneself an ‘anti-Semite’ and place oneself outside the pale of society.  Not that there were not brave men and women.  Chief of these citizens was the industrialist, perhaps the greatest American of the twentieth century or ever, Henry Ford.

Jewish historians, of course, portray Ford as an unredeemable bigot who woke one day and declared to himself:  I am going to be the world’s #1 anti-Semite.  The historians can find no other reason for Ford taking up a very expensive campaign to solve what he and a great many others considered to be the world’s #1 problem.   As Ford is central to the American side of the equation, it might be profitable to examine Jewish antecedents.

Without going back to the transition from the Age of Taurus to the Age of Aries when the Jews split off from the universal Astrological religion to create their own, let us look at the immediate cause of Jewish unrest.  At about the turn of the nineteenth century expansionist Russia annexed what became the Pale of Settlement that included a major part of Poland.  The area had been the refuge of the Jews; it contained the vast majority of Jews in the world.

Under the Poles who had administered this territory the Jews had been a semi-autonomous people to whom Polish commercial affairs had been granted.  Autonomy, political equality as a separate people with the host country had always been the Jewish goal.  They wanted to be a nation within a nation.  Remember the Jews always aspire to autonomy with themselves as the senior party.  The Russians denied the Jews autonomy wanting to reduce them to subjects of the Czars.  They insisted that the Jews and all the subject peoples become Russian.

By so doing, from the Jewish point of view, the Russians had declared war to the finish on the Jews.  From 1800 on the Jews were at war with Russia, or, as the they put it, the Czars.  At the time, 1800, the US was not a significant entity but within a couple short decades it would be.

The Jews of  Western Europe were emancipated at almost the same time as Eastern European Jewry came under the dominion of the Russians.  At the same time the Rothschilds had become the richest family in England and Europe with many other Jews becoming also very wealthy so that there was an economic, if not political equality, if not supremacy for the Jews.  The kings and princes, the European nobility, stood between emancipation and Jewish supremacy so that European institutions had to be destroyed. Hence the nineteenth century was a century of revolution and destruction.

By 1870, following the US Civil War it became apparent to the discerning that the US was the country of the future.  Thus, about that year their situation becoming intolerable in Russia the great migration equaling that of the exodus from Egypt began.  Thus, the Jews in full revolutionary mode boarded the great steamships that parted the Atlantic to the US as the Red Sea had been to Israel and the transfer of the Jewish population began.  The Jews did not come as peaceful immigrants but as revolutionaries seeking autonomy or as Abe Reles poetically put it, to get America by the wallet.

They did not come as individuals but as an invasion organized in Europe by wealthy Jews.  This was an expensive operation.  The way had been prepared for the Eastern Jews by the Western Jewish 48ers, those who fled Europe to escape the consequences of their failed revolution of 1848.

Circumstances had favored the Jews as they arrived just as the great technological revolution of the nineteenth century was gaining momentum.  The sewing machine was beginning to revolutionize the needle trades.  Thus, the 48ers appropriated the industry for the East European Jews almost guaranteeing employment for them as soon as they landed in NYC.  The end of homespun and rise of readymade occurred fortuitously and the rag industry became Jewish.  This was not inconsequential but a major coup.

Things became possible that had never been possible before.  The great continent spanning railroads had come into existence within a decade of the Civil War.  Standard Oil began its rise.  It was the Gilded Age, money was there for the picking up for those on the qui vive.

There was a difference between the US and Europe that leveled the playing field between Jews and Aryans.   The US had never experienced a Feudal Age; there was no landed aristocracy.  It had been born straight into the Age of Money.  Whereas in Europe land had been the basis of status and wealth in Europe, in the US land was a nearly disposable commodity, you used it until it was exhausted then moved on.  Money was what determined status and money alone.  Being a millionaire was the height of success.  For the Jews money had always been the symbol of success.  In Europe it was necessary for money to displace land to be the signifier so that in that struggle Europeans lost out to the Jews as money displaced land and title.

In the US money was the object.  The question then would be how to outmaneuver the Americans to be the dominant money power.  As Europe was insecure and as US Jews became as rich or richer than European Jews the World Jewish Government was shifted to the US at about the year 1900.  The great Jewish institutions such as the American Jewish Committee, still existing today, took form.  A whole generation of very active Jewish politicians most of whom the ordinary American has never heard of came to the fore.  One, Bernard Baruch, would be a major power in US politics through the Eisenhower administration.

It would be tedious to list them at this point when the names mean nothing to you but they will appear.  Key to the formation of Ford’s opinion of the Jewish problem was the Wall Street financier, Bernard Baruch.  Prewar he made his fortune as ‘the bear of Wall Street.’  When the American entry into WWI became imminent, as Baruch tells it, Woodrow Wilson begged him to enter public service.  Baruch did, becoming the Czar of American industry as the administrator of the War Industries Board.  It was this point that being the Czar of something became an American cliché, The Czar of Baseball, the Czar of Wall Street, etc.  The term has fallen into disuse now.

At the same time Wilson opened the doors of Washington to the Jews who up to that time had been treated more warily.  But, as the WIB administrator Bernard Baruch was put in charge of the entire industrial apparatus of the US, all industrialists were subordinated to his authority.  He was the actual Czar, autocrat, of Industry.  They were accountable to Bernard Baruch and he took advantage of the situation to further his own interests and those of the Jews.

Wilson instituted an unnecessary rigid socialist government in the US during the war.  Many old socialist shibboleths were imposed under cover of what was an unnecessary involvement in the European war, such as the nationalization of the railroads which were returned to their owners after the war over strong protest.

The rules Baruch imposed on industry were but little short of nationalization.  You may be sure that Ford and other industrialists objected strenuously.  But, Woodrow Wilson had made Baruch, not unlike the Federal Reserve, independent of any other authority with full dictatorial powers to enforce his, Baruch’s, will.  Baruch did not have to clear his actions with Wilson or anybody else, he had full license.  As he said, he was the most powerful man in America and possibly the world save Wilson and his actions were taken independently of Wilson.

Ford and the Dodge Brothers in Detroit strenuously resisted Baruch’s directives, the Dodges especially becoming intemperate, using racial slurs.  Baruch did not forget.  Fortunately, the war ended before Baruch had time to implement his full program, much to his regret.

Academic historians will gloss over Baruch’s actions as their careers depend on pleasing the Jews but the WIB was a major influence on Ford’s post-war attitudes toward the Jewish problem.

Rich Cohen, writing at thirty, doesn’t seem to be aware of how influential the Jews were as Prohibition began but in both the aboveworld and the underworld Jews were well able to forward their plans.

Prohibition itself provided oceans of money for crime.  While the Sicilians are most often associated with bootleg liquor the Jews were immense beneficiaries.   Rothstein himself set up the trans-Atlantic route in which his agents made purchases in the British Isles which were then delivered offshore to speed boats that took the liquor ashore.  Cuba was a major entrepot but then Canada was showered with gold from liquor sales.  The Jewish Purple Gang of Detroit ferried liquor across the Detroit River with no problems.  The Jewish Mayfield Road Gang of Cleveland brought shiploads across Lake Erie with little interference.  The greatest Jewish beneficiaries  of all may have been the Jewish Bronfman family of Canada who were suppling both the Purple Gang and the Mayfield Road Gang.  The Bronfmans emerged from Prohibition immensely wealthy and with their established European connections were major post-Prohibition distributors of legal booze.

Rothstein during his brief reign as crime lord also organized the distribution of heroin just before he was shot so that money poured into the underworld’s coffers.

But, to return to the aboveground rollers.  Ford read The Cause Of World Unrest and that set him to thinking, and then he read The Protocols Of The Learned Elders Of Zion and that put him in action.  It is difficult today to realize the impact of Ford from say 1912 to 1932 both domestically and globally.  The Sherwin-Williams paint company used to have a logo of paint pail pouring out over the globe with a slogan reading Sherwin-Williams Paints Cover The World.

Well, so did Ford.  By 1920 there were few places in the world that you couldn’t buy a Ford.  I have no proof of it but I believe that the Daddy Warbucks character of the comic strip Little Orphan Annie was based partially at least on Ford.  Ford’s Service Department was part of an intelligence force not unlike the FBI or CIA or the Anti-Defamation League so it would be unreasonable to think that Ford was not very well aware of what was going on.

His enemies have portrayed him as a rube ignoramus but quite the opposite was true.  So, when Ford took up the battle in 1920 he was a very formidable foe to the Jews and the struggle was epic.  The main weapon of the Jews, of course, was defamation and the protestation of purity and innocence and Ford over the coming two decades or so was so intensely defamed that even today he is reputationless.

The Damage Controllers of the Jews then first took up the task of discrediting and suppressing the two books they found the most damaging:  The Cause Of World Unrest and The Protocols Of Zion.

The Cause was released in the US in 1920 by the prestigious firm G.P. Putnam’s Sons.  The book was causing an uproar in England so the notion was to censor it, that is prevent its publication in the US.  Distribution was very limited from Putnams who also recalled it.  Other efforts were made to publish but they were defeated so The Cause Of World Unrest was defeated by those who call themselves the champions of free speech.

The Jews were never successful in completely suppressing the Protocols of Zion.  Numerous versions of the Protocols are still available today although their worth has been superseded by movies and TV which are much better propaganda tools.  The Cause of World unrest has been reissued by the Cornell University Press.

Ford believed that exposure would solve the Jewish problem so he bought a newspaper called the Dearborn Independent.  Dearborn, Michigan was the location of his first major plant.  Today the city is a Moslem center.  He thus created what was perhaps the first attempt at a national newspaper as the paper was distributed throughout the US and actually abroad.

It was not necessarily a propaganda sheet.  Ford was in many ways a social reformer.  He objected to nearly everything in what later generations called the Jazz Age.  One of those things were scandalous newspapers devoted to crime, sex, and carnage.  Indeed, although this is not well known Ford ran one of the three largest movie studios in the US.  His films were, of course, devoid of sensationalism, devoted to educational topics.  We were still shown some in ’48 and’49 in class.

The Dearborn Independent was a sedate, wholesome weekly that featured an expose of Jewish activities in the US on a weekly basis for a couple years.  The articles were then collected into four small books titled The International Jew.  The articles infuriated the Jews and evoked an hysterical reaction from the aboveworld Jewish government but there was no handhold for a major lawsuit.

The international Jewish government was composed of people you likely have never heard of but were hugely influential in US politics.  Louis Brandeis and his understudy Felix Frankfurter, Brandeis a Surpreme Court justice and Frankfurter a future one, Jacob Schiff, Louis Marshall, president of the AJC, Samuel Untermyer, Rabbi Wise among others and, of course, the ubiquitous Bernard Baruch, all wailing behind the scenes.  William Fox, the Fox of Twentieth Century-Fox.  The whole Hollywood establishment.  All of them were arrayed against Ford.  It was worse than today’s war on President Trump.  Their chief weapon was the anti-Semite slur and Ford was labeled the Anti-Semite in Chief.

The goal of the Jewish establishment was to disable any critics as anti-Semites.  A key goal was to make so-called anti-Semitism a legally sanctioned crime, a punishable offence as it is today in France.  They achieved this  goal in the Communist Soviet Union at the time so such a law in the US would be an extension of the one of the USSR  thereby assuring such such a law would become universal. 

The anti-Ford campaign would climax in 1927 in the Sapiro-Ford trial in which the goal was to make criticism of Jews a legal offence.  Thus Louis Marshall, the president of the American Jewish committee sat in his New York cubby hole like a spider tracking a fly- the fly being Ford.

As I said above, in 1918 the Dodge Brothers- Dodge Motors- used language offensive to Bernard Baruch in the contest of wills over WIB directives.  Baruch never forgave them and two years later the brothers died under mysterious circumstances.  As mentioned, the Purple Gang was in Detroit, so an attempt was also made on Ford’s life when his car was forced off the road, very nearly pushed into River Rouge.  The defamation had already taken effect so that Ford was treated as semi-deranged while it has been generally accepted that he staged the accident himself, while no explanation has ever been offered why he would have done so.

Still, the articles continued and still the Jewish establishment was outraged.  But, the US Constitution guaranteed free speech while Ford’s articles were firmly grounded in fact.  They were exposes not defamations.  Ford himself did not write the articles, that task was delegated to his editor William Cameron for whom Ford amassed a colossal library on Jewish subjects.  His agents in the Service Department were busy investigating in the field.  Ford did not do things by halves.

However, while criticizing the Jews was not illegal, the Jews had made it the extremity of gauche in gentile circles so that Ford found himself increasingly ostracized but not estranged. Believe me, he had friends in high places.   A letter purportedly from President Harding is extant deploring Ford’s exposes and asking him to desist.  Perhaps a forgery.  At any rate about 1923 Ford agreed to publish no more articles, but the collected articles remained available in The International Jew series.  The extant articles were probably as much or more than the public could absorb.

But, then, in 1924 it came to the attention of Ford that a man named Aaron Sapiro was attempting to organize farm co-ops in a manner Ford considered injurious to the farmers as they were in fact.  Once again Ford sent investigators into the field to get a clear idea of what was going on.  He once again began publishing his findings in the Dearborn Independent.  This may or may not have been a setup but it seems clear that the proceedings were directed by Louis Marshall and gang in New York City.  Samuel Untermyer.

The evidence implicated Bernard Baruch, Albert Laker and Eugene Meyer as well as Sapiro.  Sapiro whose fortunes were on the decline may have instituted proceedings in the hope of a large settlement but as he turned the trial into a crusade to end ‘defamation’ of the Jews it became a move to make criticism of Jews illegal and punishable as it was in the Soviet Union.

The trial was something of a farce that ended in a mistrial when it was learned that Sapiro tried to influence a juror, jury tampering.  Whether a new trial would be adjourned or not, Ford, in the midst of a critical model change, decided to call it off, made a settlement and walked away.

It is interesting that within the next year he traveled to New York City to call on Louis Marshall in his cubby hole.  According to Marshall (see Letters of) they sat and looked at each other then parted.  Marshall died soon after.

With the settlement of the Sapiro case the damage control in the US was complete although in Europe Adolf Hitler was on the rise and in a few years would be elected Chancellor of Germany setting off a huge reaction among the Jews of the US.

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The Jewish government or establishment whatever you want to call it failed in the attempt to establish a semi-legal principle that criticizing the Jews was a punishable offense; however they did effective damage control and by defaming Ford silenced any further criticism of themselves.  Henceforth any such criticism war strictly verboten.

Ford was not their only target; scholarly writers like Madison Grant and his volume: The Passing Of The Great Race as well as several volumes of the Harvard historian Lothrop Stoddard detailing an accurate account of current affairs and their logical consequences.  By the early forties such writers had been so thoroughly defamed that they lost all credibility.  Indeed, the Jews placed them on their index of forbidden books.

The Jews were also moving forward on several fronts.  Their further goals were made feasible by the assumption of the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1933.  As Herbert Hoover, who preceded Roosevelt may be said to represent the last of the post-Civil War ‘American’ presidents, so Roosevelt inaugurated the era of the immigrant presidents.  FDR was a strange case.  There was none with a more American heritage than he.  He went back to the old Dutch knickerbockers, the first settlers of Manhattan.  The fellows with the beads.  Yet there is no president more representative of immigrant America than he.  There has never been a president more tender to the Jews and their Communism than he.  This tenderness also embraced by his wife Eleanor.

This tenderness began to show when they were quite young.  The fact is that when the Jr. League of society women was formed to work the Settlement House scene of New York City after the turn of the century Eleanor participated and she dragged her soon to be husband, Franklin, along with her.  The impetus for the Jr. League was railroad magnate E. R. Harriman’s nineteen-year- old daughter.  Harriman was associated with the aboveground Jacob Schiff and the Kuhn-Loeb crowd.  Kuhn-Loeb was the Jewish investment banking firm on a par with J.P. Morgan.  Why these young society women chose to go to the Lower East Side to cater to raw immigrant Jewish women with no ‘upbringing’ or manners is a bit of a mystery.  However a lifelong bond between the Roosevelt’s and the Jews was created.  Indeed, it may be said that the Jews took the couple under their wing.

It was an irrational bond in which the Roosevelts  seem compelled to accede to Jewish wishes.  I’m going to go out on a limb here and speculate that the Roosevelts were hypnotized on the Lower East Side and implanted with post-hypnotic suggestions.  Manchurian Candidates as it were.  I imagine I hear you guffawing but the idea may be more reasonable than you think.

Bear in mind that these Eastern  European Jews all came from the Pale of the Settlement.  The assembly point for the trek to the transports in Hamburg, Germany was in a town called Brody on the Austrian border.  As the assembly and departure point Brody assumed an interesting character.  The trek to Hamburg passed near Vienna.  Vienna was a hotbed of Jewish aspirations, a Jewish culture center.  Vienna was also the home of the famed psychologist Sigmund Freud and the most active branch of the International Order of B’nai B’rith.  Freud was a lifelong member of BB from 1895 to his death.  He often lectured at the meetings on what must have been psycho-analytic matters including hypnosis.  Freud was a supreme authority on hypnosis.  Freud hated Europeans and European culture and wanted to see them all dead.

Key people on the trek made a layover in Vienna where along with Freud a number of organizers, all prominent well-to-do men lived.  Vienna may have been the most important Jewish center of Europe.  How improbable is it that they were given instructions on how to go about furthering objectives in the US?  No stretch at all.  One must also remember that key American Jews took long vacations in Europe every year.  One imagines that Vienna was a favorite destination so coordinating plans would have been convenient.

Freud quite likely indoctrinated key people in hypnotism who spread it further so that many on the East Side would have been knowledgeable.  What better method to gain the loyalty of the upper crust of society than through these philantropizing young girls of the new Jr. League?

Mr. District Attorney- Thomas E. Dewey

So, Franklin Delano Roosevelt just drifted into politics with some pretty hazy political notions.  It just so happened that a little way down the road from Hyde Park a family of Jews named Morgenthau lived.  The Morgenthaus were very active Jewish nationalists.  Morgenthau Sr. at one time served as ambassador to Constantinople, now Istanbul.  Constantinople was a key destiny post and for many years a Jewish prerogative of US diplomats.

Henry Morgenthau Jr.  attached himself to Roosevelt like a limpet.  Whether he was a guest at Hyde Park or not he made himself a guest anytime there was activity there.  In time, when FDR became president, Henry Morgenthau Jr. more or less made himself FDR’s Secretary of the Treasury.  He constantly tried to expand his role in that position.  He was in command of the money.  The Treasury was filled with many Soviet spies.

There was also a very strange relationship between the Jews, Governor Al Smith of New York State and Roosevelt.  Smith who was governor of New York for the critical period of 1918 to 1928 with a two year hiatus from 1920-22, was managed by the Jews also.  His principal monitor  was a woman named Belle Moskowitz.  FDR was being groomed to be Al Smith’s successor as governor.  When he was elected Eleanor advised him to be wary of Moskowitz.  When he was struck down by polio this caused a certain amount of panic as Smith was set to run for president in 1928.

Louis Howe FDR’s political manager and Eleanor Roosevelt kept FDR in the game while he was flat on his back.  As 1928 loomed it was necessary for FDR to succeed him.  Roosevelt who was desperately trying to regain the use of his legs at his spa in Warm Springs was unwilling to abandon his quest but Smith put the screws to him.  FDR ran and won by a narrow margin.  Smith embraced a forlorn hope of displacing the Republican Herbert Hoover during the greatest boom the US had ever seen.  Naturally Smith was wiped.

Smith was discarded and replaced by Roosevelt as the great Democratic hope.  Easily winning reelection as governor FDR prepared for his presidential run.  His replacement as governor would this time not be a gentile stooge but an actual Jew, Herbert Lehman.

Had Hoover been able to maintain prosperity there is no chance Roosevelt could have been elected in 1932.  It was therefore necessary to arrange an economic disaster to give Roosevelt his chance.  The disaster had been in the works for a couple years and the plan was sprung six months into Hoover’s presidency.  The event was the great stock market crash of 1929.  The Democrats spent the next three and a half years trying to prevent a recovery.  The crash has been discussed endlessly with many different arguments but the end result was as desired.  FDR succeeded Hoover.

This was not an ordinary succession but a sea change in the direction of the country.  The old order of the Gilded Age and individualism had drawn to a close; the new Jewish Age of collectivism began as Hoover had predicted it would.  In the Old Order the government had served the people; in the new dispensation the people would serve the government.  Thus, the Jewish order in which the Jewish people served the synagogue was transposed onto the American system.

Accordingly Jews flowed back into Washington DC.  The groundwork had been prepared by Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis and his Harvard law professor acolyte, Felix Frankfurter.  Since the ‘teens Frankfurter had been indoctrinating a generation of law students into Judeo-Communists; they now infiltrated every branch of government as Roosevelt created new jobs to accommodate them.  This invasion of government was not unnoticed as his disciples were known as Frankfurter’s Happy Hot Dogs.

Roosevelt also allowed Communists of every stripe and then denied their politics.  The first year was a busy year as among many other things the administration turned on the institutions, the ideas, the politics and the mores of the Old Guard hoping to stomp them into the ground, eliminate them completely.  The notion wasn’t too different from that of the revolutionist, Victor Hugo, who wanted to exterminate the old believers because they could never be converted, or what was going on in the Soviet Union where old style Russians were being murdered wholesale, starved to death or sent to the gulags.

The revolution of ’17 was being completed in one way or another around the globe.  In the East the Japanese were alarmed trying to set up a defensive perimeter in Northern China and Manchuria.  The Soviets hurried to annex Outer Mongolia so the border between the Communists and the Japanese was roughly that of Outer Mongolia and Manchuria, or, Manchukuo as the Japanese styled it.  While the US government was Red leaning, the American people were anti-Communist.  The Japanese confused the two thinking they and the US were a united front against the Soviets.  They learned too late.

Taxing became a major weapon in the Jewish assault on the Western peoples.  In Europe, so long as land was the measure of wealth and status then the value of the land had to be destroyed.  The great holdings had to be eliminated.  Confiscatory taxation was a weapon of mass destruction on the economic front as starvation was the weapon of choice on the social front.  It would take a generation or two but the old nobility, land rich but cash poor would have to sell out taking their useless titles with them.

In the US where money had always been the medium determining wealth and status it would only be necessary to destroy incomes and estates.  Once again confiscatory taxation was the weapon of choice.  Just as the object in Europe was to destroy the old aristocracy replacing it with themselves so the object in the US was to destroy the Old Money of the Gilded Age.

Bernard 'Barney' Baruch

A campaign was directed at inherited wealth which was characterized as evil.  The great Gilded Age fortunes had to be destroyed.  That meant that in addition to confiscatory income taxes of up to ninety percent so the inheritance tax was raised to 90 percent shattering this value and impoverishing the inheritors.  To add insult to injury a capital gains tax was placed on holdings commensurate with other confiscatory taxes.

One has no pity for the fortunate but while land was not the issue those with money had expansive life styles that could longer be maintained, could no longer be afforded, but with everyone in reduced circumstances there was no longer any market for the properties and what with property taxes they became less than valueless.  Million dollar mansions became worthless destroying that wealth.

To take only one example, a bete noir of the Jews, William Randolph Hearst, ostensibly worth millions, was instantly placed in bankruptcy.  He narrowly evaded it but only under the most humiliating circumstances.

A leading Jewish advocate of this holocaust, the writer Gustavus Myers, was advocating the prevention of large fortunes being accumulated in one’s own life time.  In other words, after a cutoff point of X dollars one presumes the individual is prevented from working.  That would have a very salutary effect on initiative.  Myers crowed that with FDR in office they had their man to realize this insane hope.  Fortunately FDR either didn’t go all the way or the Jewish purposes crossed with the rise of the beginning of the WWII, the matter was set aside and forgotten after the war, although confiscatory taxes continued for some time until the injustice was abated.  The war intervened and the gentile wallet was saved for a decade or two.  It is clear that the aboveground and underground were working together.

Through the thirties then Jewish moles were busy in the underworld, the aboveworld and the netherworld of politics.  FDR brought Prohibition to an end upon his entry into office in 1933.  This caused a certain disturbance in the underworld when their chief occupation as bootleggers was brought to an end.  New vistas opened up however.  The sale of addictive drugs grew by leaps and bounds while in the 1960s drug usage entered the mainstream of middle class America.  The grip on America’s wallet grew stronger.

While J. Edgar Hoover and his FBI may not have recognized organized crime those more immediately affected recognized the monster when they saw it.  That would be New York City.  A rising DA by the name of Thomas Dewey seized the snake by the tail.  Beginning in the mid-thirties Dewey began the effort to bring the mob to book.  He succeeded admirably even getting the mobster-in-chief, Lepke Buchalter arrested.

As well as his extortion racket to milk NYC businesses of the tens of millions, Buchalter had begun a lucrative business of his own called Murder, Inc.  Assassination was his business.  The business model could be traced back to the Jewish Old Man Of The Mountain of Crusader Times.  He is not be confused with the Ismaili cult of assassins led by Hassan-i-Sabah in Iran.  He was separate but in the same business.

Murder Inc. was responsible for hundreds of assassinations having a whole stable of killers.  Buchalter was first arrested by the Feds, Hoover had been prompted to deal with him, probably because the Mob gave him up to reduce the heat, but the City of New York wanted him to be relaxed to them to be tried on murder charges.  They had a bear of a time getting him out of Federal hands.

Herbert Hoover

In one of those hard to explain Roosevelt moments, FDR refused to release Lepke to a certain death sentence.  When his hand was forced and New York tried Lepke and sentenced him to the chair there was an incredibly obstinate attempt to prevent his execution.  This definitely would have had to come from the Jews who seeking to protect one of their own, wholesale murderer or not.  So, we don’t just have a bunch of neighborhood lovable thugs here, we have the head of Murder, Inc. and his people are trying to prevent his execution!  Rich Cohen can amaze.

The Jews obviously put tremendous pressure on FDR to prevent Lepke’s release from Federal custody but in this tug of war to bring Lepke to justice apparently Dewey’s men were stronger but even then their determination to put Lepke down over what must have been tremendous pressure from Brooklyn is truly astonishing.  The Jews don’t often lose.  They even finally got Pollard out.

However, the pressure applied by Dewey on the Mob scattered them from NYC fearing they might be next.  Meyer Lansky fled South to Miami and crossed the water to Cuba to thoroughly corrupt that country.  He made Havana the gambling Mecca.  Gambling seemed to be the new Prohibition but the habit had been prevented by law and few seemed to be complaining about it.  However, Lansky’s partner, Bugsy Siegel, chose as his place of exile Los Angeles.  LA was close to Las Vegas.  Gambling in Nevada was legal but the desert seemed to provide an unattractive environment,

Siegel, though, looked at it and saw opportunity.  Naturally a barren desert, Las Vegas would soon be on the shores of Lake Mead, created by Hoover Dam (named Boulder Dam during the Roosevelt years, FDR hated Hoover and did all but blacklist him.)   Water, the missing ingredient.

Bugsy Siegel set about creating the gambling oasis of Las Vegas.  A new bonanza appeared in Nevada but reserved for the Mob.  Prohibition was gone but the Mafia had landed on its feet.  The Jews found another way to get America by the wallet.  And this time they wouldn’t be ashamed of it. In the twenty-first century they opened the The National Museum of Crime  to celebrate their greatest criminals.  The National in the title didn’t refer to the United States.

This does imply intent and volition, a pre-conceived plan.  Let us compare these nineteenth century immigrants to a Jewish immigration of the late twentieth century.

This group of so-called immigrants also came from Russia and they had learned their criminal skills in Russia.  They all had Israeli passports, actually being Israeli citizens while claiming dual Russian citizenship.  Whether they added US citizenship isn’t clear as they always had to be on the qui vive to evade the law by hopping back to Israel from which they couldn’t be extradited. In fact, these people were a global criminal network.  They were not only busy gutting the US economy- getting America by the wallet- but they and their confederates had stolen the public assets of Russia during its privatization scandal.  They were a problem throughout all Europe at the same time.  Masters of banking schemes and human trafficking, a synonym for prostitution.

As usual the filmmakers are the people to go to to get an idea of their activities.  Somehow the movies always get the details first and right.

Rich doesn’t get around to examining this latest Jewish migration in Tough Jews nor even in his Israel Is Real.  The latest immigration from Russia seems to be a grab and smash involving the whole world, grab the really big wallet.  The banking system that grew up to launder the huge amount of criminally gained cash is a story in itself.  Not here and now though.

Tough Jews is a good read from more than one point of view.  It has something to say about the Jewish colonization of Brooklyn, the Jewish role in crime, the US during the first fifty years of the twentieth century and the organization of a national crime syndicate.  I don’t think Rich’s Jews are shown so much as tough though, just murderous and amoral.

Why they would build a museum to celebrate these guys is beyond me.

R.E. Prindle