Rough times befall our Sister Republic, Switzerland, of late. Globalist corporations, bankers, and academics maneuvered the Swiss a couple months ago into joining the United Nations, sacrificing her long-standing, precious, and hard-won independence and sovereignty. America’s Founding Fathers admired the Swiss and hoped to emulate her ways. Like America, however, the Swiss are sliding fast down the deadly precipice toward the New World Order.

Now, the spawn of Sambo and Shylock alternately shake down the noble descendants of William Tell. These two forces are linked by a common desire to acquire other people’s money in the name of political correctness and imagined past wrongs. Edward D. Fagan, the attorney who sued Swiss banks for "Holocaust reparations," forcing the banks to provide a $1.25 billion settlement in 1998, is suing the Swiss banks UBS and Credit Suisse for making loans to South Africa during the 1985-93 embargo of the star-crossed Boer Republic. Fagan believes that the banks somehow harmed Blacks by "financing" South Africa’s system of racial separatism, known as apartheid.

How racial separatism hurts Blacks (or Whites) is beyond me. Human beings have certain natural requirements, including food, water, exercise, and the like, but has anyone ever sickened or died from too little "diversity?" If so, how did human beings ever survive thousands of years of geographical separation across the various continents of this planet, a condition which some trace back to God’s scattering of the peoples after the Tower of Babel debacle?

Nevertheless, Fagan believes he can win his case. He managed to extort $8 billion from European companies in Holocaust reparations, so he has a track record of success, unfortunately. In the United States, Fagan is representing Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, who filed a reparations suit in April against Fleet Boston Financial, Aetna Insurance, and the CSX railroad because these companies allegedly assisted in the slave trade. Fagan also works on a copycat case filed in May by a North Carolina slave’s grandson, Richard E. Barber, Sr., against the insurance company New York Life, the Norfolk Southern railroad, and the Brown Brothers Harriman financial house. The plaintiffs will likely press for astronomical sums.

As a debating point, I often asked "how is this constant prodding for the peoples of the West to bow down at the altar of the Holocaust any different from the demand of the Blacks for slave reparations?" Fagan’s simultaneous work on Holocaust and slave reparations now confirms that there is no difference, and that indeed the two are intimately linked. Both constitute an economic and ideological assault on Western man. The unity of these two "aggrieved" professional victim groups is best summed up in writing with the Yiddish-meets-Ebonics phrase, "Holocau$t Reparamations."

This tag-team effort of Blacks and Jews comes as no surprise. Take the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as an example. The brains of the operation—the Jews, not the Blacks who supply the brawn, founded that organization in 1909. Many people are unaware of this fact.

The plaintiffs in these reparations cases have replaced the crude announcement of the bank robber, "stick ‘em up!," with "I’m Black and/or Jewish." With each utterance of those phrases, they expect to receive a hefty bag of cash. If their mark fails to cooperate, there are negative consequences—the robber fills the mark’s gut with lead, while minority activists brand the mark a racist, file lawsuits, and organize demonstrations and boycotts.

According to the reparations activists, everyone is equally guilty. What is the logical cut-off point for the chain of associations and connections? After all, at some point, everyone deals with each other. Will they sue the dentist who took care of the slaveholder’s teeth, for example? How many degrees of separation establish innocence? As these lawsuits chip away at the barriers of time and distance, guilt becomes equalized and collectivized. This is a predictable outcome of liberalism, which is merely a mild form of socialism that prefers regulation to nationalization.

Blacks and Jews do not have a valid claim on the consciences or wallets of the West—contrary to popular belief, they are neither special nor magical. Those two groups are no different from the many others that have been killed, enslaved, or persecuted under the aegis of "group egoism"—which is a natural and enduring facet of human behavior. How long must we pay an undeserved penance for slavery and the Holocaust? Will these victimological demands continue to arise 500 years from now? Will they still be heard a millennium from today? One suspects that this particular statute of limitations will only expire when we Westerners decide we have had enough. The true crimes Westerners are guilty of are being too kind, too sensitive, too tolerant, too progressive, too soft, and too damn gullible.

Paradoxically, Fagan may be the best unwitting political ally of paleoconservatives and nationalists. Westerners give short shrift to the old concepts of honor and loyalty to heritage these days, but money still talks. Fagan’s antics hit the Swiss and Americans in their pocketbooks, and that is likely to wake them up and motivate them to take their countries back exclusively for themselves and their posterity. The Swiss allowed the United Nations to assimilate their nation, and Americans stood by while minority activists pulled the name of George Washington off high school buildings in New Orleans. Eventually, they will feel a righteous resentment when they realize these activists are draining their bank accounts and causing their insurance premiums to rise. Fagan should enjoy his job while he still has it, for one day he will find himself on trial, to be sent to the gallows for his subversive activities against Western Civilization.

June 19, 2002

Paul Fallavollita holds an M.A. in political science from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. He can be reached at [pfallavollita@aol.com]