Ralph Forbes, 22-year-old “trooper” in George Lincoln Rockwell’s American Nazi party, acted as his own attorney today in U.S. District Court in arguing against a motion to dismiss his $1, 100, 000 damage suit arising from his arrest while picketing the film “Exodus” here.
He is suing the City of Philadelphia, the police department and the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, asking $100, 000 for alleged suffering and inconvenience which followed his arrest. The $1, 000, 000 balance is “punitive,” he claims.
Leonard Orloff, ADL attorney, countered with a motion to dismiss the suit. The neo-Nazi argued that the ADL had conspired” in collusion with the City and the police to deny his Nazi party its political rights because the Jewish people were trying to set themselves up as “a superior race.”
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