Bill White Supporter, Eric Hunt, Is Seeking Funds In A Most Peculiar Way

Everyone should remember this young man. His name is Eric Hunt and back in January or February of 2007, he was arrested for assaulting Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. He stalked him across the country and assaulted him in California. At the time, Bill White was claiming that he was a supporter of ANSWP. If you'll remember, after the assault he checked himself into some sort of mental facility. Well, it seems that Hunt has taken a new route...and I think he might need to check himself right back into that facility.

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Holocaust survivor sued in Fla. for memoir 'lies'
October 20, 2009 8:27 AM
The Associated Press
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The man who accosted Holocaust scholar Elie Weisel in 2007 has filed suit in Florida against an Auschwitz death camp survivor, alleging her memoir is full of lies.

Eric Hunt seeks damages in excess of $60 million, alleging Irene Weisberg Zisblatt should be punished “for tormenting Gentiles and instilling hatred in Jews.”

Zisblatt’s son-in-law, who is a lawyer, calls the lawsuit “absurd” but says he’s worried about the woman’s safety.

Hunt made headlines in 2007 for dragging Wiesel off a San Francisco hotel elevator. He said then he had mental problems and got “sucked into anti-Semitic conspiracy theories on the Internet.”

Hunt was sentenced to 4 years probation and ordered to undergo psychological treatment. He was released from a 2-year prison sentence for 1 year served during the proceedings.

According to a website dedicated to Ms. Zisblatt...

As a young prisoner in the camps, Irene witnessed and experienced unspeakable cruelty and brutality. She lost her whole family to the gas chambers. She was a "guinea pig" for Dr Josef Mengele, who performed inhumane experiments on her. The last mementoes of her family were the four diamonds given to her by her mother, that she had to keep swallowing over and over so they wouldn't be confiscated. She walked for two months on a death march while thousands of weakened prisoners dropped dead around her. Through it all, she held onto her hope and faith and, encouraged by the strength of her friend, Sabka, somehow she made it through one of humankind's darkest eras.

Although she swore to tell the world of the atrocities she'd seen, to be a voice for her friends and fellow prisoners, it took her fifty years to get over her fear and shame before she could do so. After taking part in the March of the Living, a walk through the camps culminating in Israel, she opened up and shared her story with the younger generation. She's been sharing it ever since, speaking around the world, testifying for the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation and taking part in Steven Spielberg's Oscar-winning documentary, "The Last Days."

Of course there are those who attempt to convince the world that the Holocaust never happened and those who attempt to obfuscate or one-up the atrocity by citing other monsterous acts and it appears that Eric Hunt is one of those. But, one has to wonder just how effective that court-ordered psychiatric treatment has been.

NO REVERENCE

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"Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."(Elie Wiesel}



Seventy-eight year old Elie Wiesel has witnessed more in his time on earth than most of us ever will. Living through the Holocaust and being torn from his family would have caused most people to be bitter and frightened and, perhaps, reclusive. Not Elie, though. He continues to bring his message and his knowledge to audiences around the world.

Elie Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for speaking out against violence, repression, and racism. The author of over 40 books, Eli Wiesel was presented with the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor in 1985, and was knighted in Great Britain in 2006. Elie has been called "a messenger to mankind." Frail, and soft spoken, Mr. Wiesel has been the recipient of countless awards and recognitions - yet his battle against racism and anti-Semitism took a step backward last week when he was accosted in a San Francisco hotel.

That's right. Elie Wiesel was pulled from an elevator while heading to his room and assaulted by a man calling himself "Eric Hunt." Today, the man responsible began posting a rant about his hate crime and how his plans to force Wiesel to make a videotape stating that he had lied about the Holocaust were foiled. "Hunt" got worried as Mr. Wiesel began to clutch his chest and scream for help so he ran. In his rant he claimed that the police were never called - false. Not only were they called, but they are now searching for the person responsible.

Today they may have caught a break as the opportunist and "Look at Me" Nazi claimed that he had confirmed that while the perpetrator of this despicable act is not a member of his American National Socialist Party, he is a supporter. One can only hope that such an admission will cause Mr. White to have to answer some questions to law-enforcement.

As one looks at the enormous list of accomplishments by Elie, one cannot help but ask what has his attacker, or even those who gloat over such an act, accomplished? "Eric Hunt" proved nothing in his rant. All he did was claim that certain things reported by Mr. Wiesel "never happened."

Bill White, who seemed rather pleased to announce that the perpetrator was a supporter of his, has bought some property, evicted people from their homes and, in essence, become a slum lord. He has paraded around in a Nazi "Wannabe" uniform and said a few Sieg Heils for the cameras. He has alienated many of those whose favor he has sought, and been the laughing stock of both the racists and the anti-racists.

Of course, with Bill White, you never know where the truth ends and the lies begin and it is highly possible that it is just more hot air being spewed as Bill enters another manic phase of his debilitating psychosis.

Elie Wiesel has more than proven his character and his integrity. What can we say about someone who would terrorize an old man on the way to his room? Perhaps that's why the "Eric Hunt's" and the Bill White's of this world will continue to find themselves getting their dicks slapped into the dirt everytime they turn around.