I believe my original note to you has not been read and/or understood and I would encourage you to take a second look at it.

Please feel free to send the article the image appeared in to anyone you want so that it is in its proper context.

What you are apparently doing is what the tea-baggers who are trying to run country have done: you’ve taken something out of context, failed to see it in its proper place, ignored the history of what got us to where we are today and are blindly rushing into the future without a care to the past.

But let me remind you of some of the quips that were in that edition of News That Matters:

This appeared just under the image you seem to find offensive:

Marine Sgt. Charles Dyer, aka “July4Patriot,” came to our attention when media outlets reported on the “Oath Keepers” bloc of the Tea Party movement – an organization devoted to recruiting military and police-force veterans into a Patriot-movement belief system predicated on a series of paranoid conspiracy theories, especially the notion that the federal government intends to begin rounding up citizens and putting them in concentration camps. Interestingly, during the Bush administration the radical Left was saying the same thing and no one took them seriously either.

Dyer played a prominent role in connecting the Oath Keepers to the Tea Party movement, speaking at a July 4 Tea Party rally in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. And he’s been involved in organizing militia “maneuvers” in Oklahoma.

Dyer cropped up again in the news — this time in the police blotter for allegedly raping a 7-year-old girl.

And this, just above it:

The Great Tefillin Scare!!

On a short-haul flight the other day a 17 year old kid put on his tefflin to pray. A flight attendant asked what he was doing, “praying,” he replied. She notified the pilot. In the flight attendant’s description she said “…it had wires running from it and going up to his fingers,” What she didn’t know was that they go directly to God! but, I digress…

So cautious was the pilot that the plane was diverted to Philadelphia where it landed so that this poor kid could pray in peace. Not that he could… the pilot described him as a “disruptive” and the TSA said he had “prayer beads”. As a cultural lesson I will show you goyim out there the difference between tefillin and a bomb. Look closely now…

As for Chabad, they are free to write me directly. But it would be a shame for any good organization to take the word of someone about something they have failed to adequately research and for whom thoughtful and detailed explanations have failed to reach.

Jeff