Canadian postal authorities are asking their American counterparts to revoke the mailing privileges of a hate-mongering neo-Nazi group, “The Natural Order,” which is getting around the Canadian postal ban by sending anti-Semitic literature into Canada from Niagara Falls, New York. The group, described as a front for 54-year-old John Ross Taylor of Gooderham, Ontario, has been mailing thick packets of hate literature which includes the nefarious Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. One such packet was mailed to the home of Robert Muir, a Nova Scotia Conservative member of the House of Commons. Muir proceeded to ask Postmaster-General Eric Kierans to ask American postal authorities to institute a mall ban.
Muir explained that the ban should be instituted because “the literature apparently prepared by these congenital fools reflects upon the presiding officer of the House of Commons (Speaker Lucien Lamoureux) and our Jewish citizens.” Kierans promised to accept Muir’s suggestion that the matter be referred to the Commons Justice Committee. The literature Muir received asked whether the “supposed neutral Speaker” was “trying to be a nursemaid to Mr. (Pierre Eliot) Trudeau (Canadian Prime Minister) so that stinging rebuke and proof of his incompetent judgment” would not reach the members of Parliament.
Other material in the packet Muir received says the gas ovens of the concentration camps were built by captured German soldiers under the direction of Jewish officers. The Protocols of Zion, attributed to Jewish authors, are described by the literature as proof of a plot by Jews to control the world. The packet carried a Niagara Falls postmark and material in the packet stated: “Our mail is banned in Canada, Canadians send mail to friends in the USA for re-mailing to John Ross Taylor.” A Niagara Falls post office box was given as the U.S. address. The hate group stated it mailed similar packets to 264 members of Parliament last summer but the mail was “detained” in the Commons post office by Speaker Lucien Lamoureux and returned.
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