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"Mr. Mayor, Tear Down That Wall!"
AN OPEN LETTER TO MAYOR BLOOMBERG ON THE WALL OF DENIAL AND OBFUSCATION
SURROUNDING THE SUP****T HE HAS GIVEN TO THE FRED NEWMAN-LENORA FULANI
CULT--ESPECIALLY TO ITS WORK WITH CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS
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[Note: Any reader of this letter who knows the Mayor personally should
pass
it on to him (his campaign advisors sure won't), and urge him to read it
carefully.]
June 22, 2005
Dear Mr. Mayor:
The entire city knows that you made a deal with Lenora Fulani's New York
Independence Party to get elected in 2001, and that you are relying
heavily
on the IP to help you get reelected this year.
But you have managed to keep hidden from most voters the underlying facts
of
this deal--that you ended up providing massive sup****t to the anti-Semitic
political cult, led by Fred Newman, which controls the IP. Although your
sup****t for the cult has partly been earmarked for IP electoral
activities,
the centerpiece is the $8.5 million tax-free loan your Industrial
Development Agency gave Newman and Fulani, which they leveraged into tens
of
millions of dollars in private donations to build a new headquarters for,
and expand the scope of, their All Stars Project, which works with kids
from
age five through the teen years.
They wanted tax dollars to work with kids--don't you believe in background
checks before letting people work with New York's children?
Mr. Mayor, if you had bothered to investigate these people, you would have
learned that they have a 35-year record of practicing quack psychotherapy
on
little children and teens, of politically indoctrinating them with Newman
and Fulani's peculiar mixture of Marxism and anti-Semitism, of using them
as
political pawns (as when the cult bused pre-teens from its now-defunct
Harlem private school to Wa****ngton D.C. to demonstrate on behalf of
terrorist dictator Muammar Gadhafi at the height of his campaign of
violence
against Americans), and of allegedly putting teens on the street to raise
money for Newman and/or do election campaign work.
You could easily have learned, Mr. Mayor, that Newman has called for
destroying the "bourgeois family," and that his followers provided
political
and/or legal sup****t over a 15-year period to a succession of high-profile
child abusers, beginning with the North American Man-Boy Love Association
(NAMBLA) defendants in 1983 and extending to the infamous Tony Alamo in
the
late 1990s (all this apart from the cult's attempts to defend the record
of
child rapist and cop-killer David Koresh of the Branch Davidians).
You could also easily have found out how the Newman-Fulani cult has worked
to persuade the parents, teachers and volunteers associated with its
various
dubious youth programs to abandon traditional family life in order to join
Newman's "development community," which operates under the control of a
secret revolutionary cadre. You could have learned about allegations that
mothers recruited to the cult in the 1980s and 1990s were pressured to
neglect or even abandon their children in order to work full-time for
Newman
(one mother has described in detail how, when she quit the cult rather
than
put her kids in foster care, she and the kids were summarily evicted from
the development-community apartment they were living in). You could have
talked to the father who took his infant son and fled New York in the
1970s,
because, as he alleges, the cult had endangered the infant's life by
pressuring the mother to put him on a quack diet concocted by Newman and
had
then attempted to block medical care when the infant developed
complications
from a high fever.
You could have visited the ex-iwp.org website maintained by former members
of the Newman cult to read examples of the sad and humiliating
declarations
that Newman's female followers were pressured to make in the 1990s about
how
they "wanted" Fred and his top paramour, Gabrielle Kurlander. You could
have
talked to ex-members who say that women in the group were routinely
pressured to get abortions so that their focus would remain entirely on
Fred's needs. You could have read psychotherapist Newman's 1990 essay,
"Women I Live With," in which he boastfully reveals how he recruited a
16-year-old girl into his movement in the 1970s using techniques that most
therapists would regard as blatantly unethical.
Mr. Mayor, you are not alone in forming ties with Newman and Fulani.
George
Pataki, Chuck Schumer, Eliot Spitzer and Joe Bruno have also provided
sup****t to the IP leader****p in order to obtain the party's ballot line
for
themselves or their political allies, or to prevent an opponent from
getting
it. So have scores of Congressional, state legislative and city council
incumbents across the state.
If you were to become the FIRST of the state's major elected officials to
step forward and admit your mistake, renounce the IP line, and repudiate
the
IP's cult-leader****p lock, stock and barrel, such a move would not
undermine
your position as front runner in the mayoral campaign. On the contrary, it
would enhance the positive feelings that many New Yorkers have about your
steward****p of the city--and would give them for the first time a sense
that
you are a courageous mayor with strong values, not just a nice guy.
Your sup****t as mayor for Fred Newman and Lenora Fulani is an insult to
New
York's working families and people of faith
Surely you must be aware, Mr. Mayor, that the Newman cult's values and
ideology are sharply at variance with the beliefs of the overwhelming
majority of the city's working families, whether Catholic, Jewish,
Protestant, Muslim, Buddhist, Sikh or Hindu. It is obvious that your
sup****t
for the IP's leaders, in spite of their anti-Semitism, is offensive to
Jews;
indeed, the American Jewish Committee has called on you to sever your ties
with Newman and Fulani. But you should also recognize, Mr. Mayor, that
your
sup****t of the Newman cult might become offensive to hard-working parents
of
ALL faiths--in the outer boroughs as well as Manhattan--whose tax dollars
are currently helping (without their knowledge or consent) to guarantee
the
solvency of a nonprofit organization that indoctrinates young people with
a
hate-America, leave-your-family,
come-live-in-our-development-community-and-wor****p-Fred-Newman message.
Can't you see that giving Newman and Fulani an $8.5 million IDA bond even
after Fulani blamed the September 11 terror attacks on the "aggression and
arrogance" of the U.S. government, was a profound insult to the families
of
those who were slain during the attacks (and, considering Fulani's
suggestion in Nov. 1987 that Libya should be "not nonviolent" towards
America, a profound insult to the families of all those New Yorkers who
died
on Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988)?
Can't you see that laying off police and firefighters (the heroes of
September 11) during the 2003 budget crisis--but not rethinking the
subsidy
to All Stars--could easily be interpreted as an expression of disdain
towards those who put their lives on the line every day to keep the rest
of
us safe?
The Independence Party: An emperor without any clothes
Mr. Mayor, you and other politicians of both parties may think you need
the
IP ballot line, but in fact the IP is simply an emperor without
clothes--an
illusion whose power resides solely in the fact that everyone is too
afraid
or too embarrassed to admit the truth. The leaders of the IP, when all is
said and done, have no solid following; most of the voters who have
registered under the IP label (thinking they were merely registering as
"independents") don't even know who Newman and Fulani are, much less what
they stand for. The power of the IP leader****p is the power of smoke and
mirrors.
I urge you, Mr. Mayor, to show the same common sense as the small child in
the Hans Christian Andersen tale, who blurted out before the crowd that
the
emperor was ****d, thereby triggering an eruption of laughter from the
emperor's subjects. If you do the same to Fred Newman, Lenora Fulani, and
the rest of the IP's self-appointed leaders, it will open the floodgates
so
that many other politicians can abandon the IP without fear of a rival
candidate taking the ballot line. Indeed, once this long overdue revolt
against the arm-twisting tactics of the IP leaders begins--and the major
politicians of the state one by one repudiate their sup****t--few if any
serious candidates will continue to associate with them.
Mr. Mayor, the key to liberating yourself from your IP allies without
damaging your reelection campaign should be obvious, and if your campaign
advisors have not spotted it, maybe you need new advisors. You should
issue
a call to all IP members in New York City to repudiate the party's
anti-Semitic, totalitarian leader****p and to vote for you on an
alternative
third-party line (there are several options available if you adopt this
strategy). If you provide the tens of thousands of registered IP voters in
the city with the facts about their party's leader****p--utilizing the
sophisticated types of mass mailings for which you are celebrated--they
will
abandon the IP line in droves, and yet will respect you and vote for you
on
another line, because you were the one who spoke truth to them.
Think of the benefits to your own political and mental health, Mr. Mayor.
No
more need to make excuses to the New York Post over your allies' latest
antics, no more feelings of helplessness and humiliation (as when Fulani
affirmed her anti-Semitic views on NY1 News only days after you appeared
at
a Lincoln Center fundraiser to promote her All Stars charity), no more
sense
of guilt from the knowledge that you provided them with access to the
city's
children (I can't believe this doesn't bother your conscience at least a
little), no more middle-of-the-night anxiety regarding when the first
parent
is going to come forward with a lawsuit, or when the first All Stars
volunteer or staff member is possibly going to be taken downtown for
arraignment before the TV cameras as a result of child-abuse allegations.
Try thinking like a father on this issue, not a politician
You are a proud father, Mr. Mayor. Your lovely and brilliant daughter just
said her vows earlier this month in what Fred Newman would probably refer
to
as a "bourgeois" wedding. Surely you must have uneasy feelings about
Newman's "development community"--and surely you must feel at least a
twinge
of sympathy for those parents who, unlike you, lost their daughters
decades
ago (and probably permanently) to Fred Newman's manipulative psychotherapy
and twisted ideology.
I am not a sup****ter of any of your opponents, Mr. Mayor. Your record as a
mayor is not a bad one in most respects. But I feel I must address you in
strong language because your sup****t for the Newman cult and its All Stars
youth charity is putting many vulnerable kids at risk--just read the
complaint to Attorney General Spitzer that is being circulated on the
Internet, and read the re****t on All Stars that appeared in the June 22
Village Voice.
I also must employ strong language because your office is placing All
Stars'
adult volunteers at risk of victimization and psychological trauma. If a
potential volunteer goes to the website of your Volunteer Center looking
for
referrals to nonprofit youth programs, he or she will find, prominently
listed, the youth programs and artistic projects of the All Stars Project.
If you would only speak to former members of the Newman cult (and read the
many exposes of it that have appeared in respected media over the years),
you might become alarmed over how volunteers in the cult's nonprofit
programs--including single career women with large bank accounts--are
enticed into "social therapy" and eventually into the underground cadre
group, turning over all their assets to Newman. These volunteers are your
constituents, Mr. Mayor: Don't you owe them something better than an
op****tunity to be fleeced of their life savings?
Perhaps, Mr. Mayor, you would be less eager to send volunteers to All
Stars
after holding a meeting with the many ex-members of the Newman cult who
indeed wish very much to sit down with you and recount their experiences.
They could describe to you the feelings of fear, betrayal and violation
they
experienced after leaving the cult. They could tell you how they had to
struggle for years to rebuild their lives and learn to trust others again.
And many could tell you how their ordeal began when they naively sought
sup****tive therapy from one of Newman's "social therapy" clinics or
decided
to contribute their time, money and goodwill to a Newman-controlled
charity
or arts program.
Do you really think you can continue to maintain the wall of denial and
obfuscation on this issue?
Mr. Mayor, you have been extraordinarily successful so far in keeping your
fellow politicians and the media silent about the HUMAN COSTS of your
alliance with the Newman cult, while paying lip service to public concerns
over the anti-Semitic remarks of Ms. Fulani (you have denounced her from
time to time but have always maintained your friendly relation****p with
other members of the cult, even though they share her political views).
You
and Joe Bruno have managed to keep the Republicans silent. Chuck Schumer
and
Eliot Spitzer, for their part, have kept the Democrats (including your
opponents in the mayoral race) silent, because the lower level Democrats
don't want to antagonize the most powerful figure in their state party or
the man who may become the next governor of New York.
But the wall is beginning to crack, Mr. Mayor. A brave woman named Molly
Hardy has come forward with disturbing eyewitness charges about how the
All
Stars Project treats kids in its custody. A former Newmanite named
Jeremiah
Duboff has come forward--the first ex-member to go public in many
years--to
talk about the true nature of the cult's extremist ideology, and you can
be
sure he will be followed by others, including people who have worked
directly with All Stars kids. The FBI in California is currently probing
allegations of fraud that focus on a member of the All Stars board of
directors--and the paper trail re****tedly leads to New York. The Village
Voice is planning more articles. A TV investigative series is close to
completion. Yes, the wall is beginning to crack--the wall of denial,
obfuscation and political spin that for the past four years has prevented
New York voters from learning the truth.
Mr. Mayor, tear down that wall! Frankly admit your mistake and repudiate
Fred Newman, Lenora Fulani and their entire cult. Call for--and give your
unstinting cooperation to law enforcement in--a serious investigation of
the
finances of the All Stars Project and Newman's social therapy clinics, and
of complaints that the cult has engaged in political indoctrination and
exploitation of children and teens.
Sincerely
Dennis King
Mr. King's findings on the Newman cult can be found at
http://dennisking.org/nyt.htm
and at
http://dennisking.org/fulaniquestions.htms.
He can be contacted at
Wdennisking@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Further documentation on the cult's history can be
found
in the vast web archive at http://ex-iwp.org
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