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You should check first. Zionism is much older than Hitler and Holocaust.

Robert

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> "Baud" <portal_writer@yahoo.fr> wrote in message
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> Many of you have heard of the dog mauling case in San Francisco in which
> Marjorie Knoller and her husband Robert Noel, both attorneys, were charged
with
> manslaughter and Marjorie Knoller with second degree murder in the death
of
> Diane Whipple. The details have been shocking what with their connections
to the
> Aryan Brotherhood prison gang. As many are aware the couple adopted an
inmate
> who is a prominent member of the Aryan Brotherhood as their son and who is
> currently incarcerated at the notorious Pelican Bay penitentiary. The dogs
were
> being bred to raise money for Aryan Brotherhood members behind bars.
>
> Given these facts it must be even more shocking to all to hear Nedra Ruiz
of the
> famous Tony Serra law firm who is now representing Marjorie Noller
describe her
> client as "a nice Jewish girl from Brooklyn" as she did in a bail
reduction
> hearing on August 31st, 2001. However the shock must dissipate soon as
this is a
> true statement. Knoller's husband Robert Noel has also converted to his
wife's
> religion.
>
> Who else have you heard of who use the word "Aryan" in the title of their
> organization? Does the Idaho based "Aryan Nations" ring a bell? Indeed the
> "Aryan Nations" are closely connected with the Aryan Brotherhood prison
gang.
> Many inmates when paroled have turned up over the years at the Aryan
Nations
> compound before its recent demise.
>
> So where does the "Aryan nations" get their money? Well this opens yet
another
> chapter of Kosher monkey shines, more specifically monkeys that swim,
known to
> you as "Sea Monkeys". The inventer of those "Sea Monkeys" that you and
your
> friends grew in a jar as children is Harold von Braunhut who for many,
many
> years has been a major source of money for "Aryan nations". Harold von
Braunhut
> also happens to be a Jew, a Bar Mitzvahed Jew. This was reported in the
Los
> Angeles Times by Tamar Brott Sunday Octobar 1st, 2000 and can be found,
> purchased, and read online at http://www.latimes.com . For your reading
pleasure
> and convenience though the article is reproduced below in full.
>
> Is this surprising to you? Well, it should not be as Jews had many strong
> connections to the German Government known to the world as "The Third
Reich".
> The Jews who had these strong connections were and are known as
"Zionists", the
> group which founded Israel and continues to rule Israel. It has always
been the
> focus of Zionists to create a Jewish state, a Jewish Nation within
boundaries
> like other ethnic nations in Europe. The Third Reich was instrumental in
> bringing about the state of Israel. Indeed, without the efforts of Adolf
Hitler'
> s government Israel would not exist today because Jews would never have
gone
> there and the money and will of Western governments to back the creation
of
> Israel to this day would not exist without "The Holocaust".
>
> The relationship between Nazism and Zionism is a natural one. Both
ideologies
> think of Jews in an ethnic and nationalistic manner. In fact, Nazi
theoretician
> Alfred Rosenberg frequently quoted from Zionist writers to prove his
thesis that
> Jews could not be Germans.
>
> In his study, The Meaning of Jewish History, Rabbi Jacob Agus provides
this
> assessment: "In its extreme formulation, political Zionists agreed with
> resurgent anti-Semitism in the following propositions:
>
> 1)That the emancipation of the Jews in Europe was a mistake.
> 2)That the Jews can function in the lands of Europe only as a disruptive
> influence.
> 3)That all Jews of the world were one 'folk' in spite of their diverse
political
> allegiances.
> 4)That all Jews, unlike other peoples of Europe, were unique and
unintegratible.
> 5)That anti-Semitism was the natural expression of the folk-feeling of
European
> nations, hence, ineradicable."
>
> Now points three and four above are absurd to most observers as many Jews
are
> ethnically and racially like the peoples of Europe where they lived and
> interbred for so many years. Anyone knowledgeable about the Jewish
population
> world wide knows that Jews are quite diverse biologically, just the
opposite of
> what the Rabbi has stated. Indeed in America there are over 250,000 black
Jews,
> a significant percentage of the estimated six million population of Jews
in
> America. The Sephardic Jews are much different than most of the European
Jews
> who rule Israel and face discrimination and second class status in Israel.
> However, facts and beliefs are not always in lock step with one another.
Israel
> is not founded upon facts but rather upon a vision, a Zionist vision.
>
> Nazi theoretician Rosenberg, who was executed as a result of his
conviction for
> war crimes at the Nuremberg trials, declared under direct examination: "I
> studied Jewish literature and historians themselves. It seemed to me after
an
> epoch of generous emancipation in the course of national movements of the
19th
> century, an important part of the Jewish nation found its way back to its
own
> tradition and nature, and more and more consciously segregated itself from
other
> nations. It was a problem which was discussed at many international
congresses,
> and Buber, in particular, one of the spiritual leaders of European Jewry,
> declared that the Jews should return to the soil of Asia, for only there
could
> the roots of Jewish blood and Jewish national character be found."
>
> The Ashkenazi Jews who are often referred to as "European" did originally
come
> from Asia. They were a Turkic people who converted to Judism before
spreading
> out across Russia and Europe many centuries ago. Over time though Jews
have
> intermarried with Europeans to the point that many if not most are
> indistinguishable from other Europeans. This is why so many Jews have no
strong
> feelings for Israel as a place to live and refuse to consider moving there
> permanently and becoming an Israeli. Of course there are ways to change
how
> someone feels about such things.
>
> In a review of the book In Memory's Kitchen: A Legacy From The Women of
Terezen,
> Lore Dickstein, writing in The New York Times Book Review, notes that,
"Anny
> Stern was one of the lucky ones. In 1939, after months of hassle with the
Nazi
> bureaucracy, the occupying German army at her heels, she fled
Czechoslovakia
> with her young son and emigrated to Palestine. At the time of Anny's
departure,
> Nazi policy encouraged emigration. 'Are you a Zionist?' Adolph Eichmann,
> Hitler's specialist on Jewish affairs, asked her. 'Ja wohl,' she replied.
> 'Good,' he said, 'I am a Zionist too. I want every Jew to leave for
Palestine.'"
>
> Zionists have repeatedly stressed--and continue to do so--that, from their
> viewpoint, Jews are in "exile" outside of the "Jewish state." Jacob
Klatzkin, a
> leading Zionist writer, declared: "We are simply aliens, we are foreign
people
> in your midst, and we emphasize, we wish to stay that way." And with a
push from
> a bayonet most Jews can be made to feel an affinity for Zionism and for
becoming
> an Israeli.
>
> Of course six million Jews will not be enough to populate Israel and make
it a
> going enterprise. This is where the hard bargaining will be. Bargaining
and deal
> making with an elite group of Aryan's in America. The government of
Germany
> under Adolf Hitler was willing to declare anyone with a Jewish grandparent
to be
> a Jew. We believe that we can strike a much better deal with those in
America,
> perhaps those who have a great, great grandparent who is Jewish and anyone
who
> has a maternal line going back to 1/32 would be considered a Jew. Now we
may not
> want all of these "Jews" but it will be our choice as to who to accept
just as
> it was our choice as to who went to Palestine in 1942-1945 and who went to
> Auschwitz.
>
> Last year our news magazine on the CBS television network "60 Minutes" had
a
> story on our little DNA trick for determining who is a Jew. By swabbing
the
> inside of the mouth of anyone we can decide if that individual has been
> descended from our Judaic priests going back thousands of years. This will
help
> us to cull from the European nations several million of above average
ability to
> strengthen our ruling class in Israel as compensation for "The Holocaust"
as
> well as gathering large numbers in America.
>
> Where today the Jewish population of Israel is less in number than the
Jews of
> North America, twenty years hence it will be more than 30million strong
with as
> always an emphasis on the word "strong".
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> Sunday, October 1, 2000 |  Print this story
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>
> The Sea Monkeys and the White Supremacist
> Do Those Little Brine Shrimp Marketed as Kids' Toys Have a Connection to
the
> Aryan Nations?
>
>
> By TAMAR BROTT
>
>
>
>      APART FROM THE FACT THAT THEY CAN HATCH WITHIN MINUTES AFTER contact
with
> water, brine shrimp are unappealing creatures. They're ant-sized and
translucent
> and bear a striking resemblance to sperm. Yet brine shrimp packaged as
"Sea
> Monkeys" are currently sold as children's companions, and portrayed on
their
> boxes as pink, pear-shaped simian creatures with spindly legs, paunches
and coy
> smiles. They are one of the most impressive achievements in the annals of
> marketing.
>      Harold von Braunhut, a former manager of novelty acts, first packaged
his
> patented hybrids in 1960, transforming the Sea Monkeys into American icons
via
> millions of comic book ads. Von Braunhut also wrote the 32-page handbook
that is
> included in most Sea Monkey kits to this day, which states that the
creatures
> can be hypnotized, play baseball and rise from the dead. The tone of the
> handbook is florid and huckstery: "It seems that at mating time in the
Animal
> Kingdom, the males engage in combat to win the fin, paw, flipper, hoof,
wing or
> what-have-you, of their 'lady love.' "
>      In 1999, the Sea Monkeys were in line for an overhaul: The
freeze-dried
> creatures were, and still are, licensed to Educational Insights Inc., a
> Carson-based company whose ExploraToy division handles production
development
> and sales of the Sea Monkeys. According to then-art director Gregory
Bevington,
> the classic '70s naked monkeys lounging on a seaweed bank in front of a
castle
> are too "lame" for today's children. Hoping that a new look and some
> razzle-dazzle would parlay Sea Monkeys from an
undisclosed-but-"significant"
> portion of their $40 million in annual sales to a $25-million-a-year line,
> Educational Insights brought in Alan Fine, who spent the majority of his
adult
> life in Mattel's marketing department.
>      "I have a lot of background on what is attractive to kids, what works
and
> what doesn't work," said Fine, who is no longer with the company. Before
leaving
> in August, Fine helped wage a multimillion-dollar media blitz in honor of
the
> Sea Monkeys' 40th anniversary. Five new products were being unveiled,
including
> a Sea Monkeys speedway and an LCD watch that houses up to two Sea Monkeys
for up
> to 24 hours. But the linchpin of Fine's campaign was a brand new
television
> commercial featuring greatly altered Sea Monkeys, which has yet to air.
>      Months before I saw this commercial, I drove down to Educational
Insights,
> hoping to see the new Sea Monkeys. Having hatched more than my share as a
child,
> I was curious about the kind of concessions needed to entice the Game
Boy-loving
> children of today. I had no idea this would turn into a story about a
white
> supremacist inventor and the nice men who were marketing his invention to
> children.
>
>
> * * *
>      ANTICIPATING MY ARRIVAL, BEVINGTON SET UP A PICTORIAL history of Sea
Monkey
> packages on a conference-room table at ExploraToy. On one side were
classic ads
> featuring the nuclear Sea Monkey family, virtually unchanged since the
'70s.
> "There's a dad, the mom and a couple kids," Bevington explained in a droll
> voice. "The mom has a little flip hairdo, and, basically, they look like
naked
> people with webbed tails and feet and hands and three prongs sticking out
of
> their heads. They have potbellies and skinny arms and legs so they're not
really
> physically fit."
>      On the other side of the table, Bevington arranged artists'
submissions for
> the updated Sea Monkeys. A radical departure from their sweet, potbellied
> predecessors, the new models had enormous torsos and tree-trunk legs. Some
wore
> scaly breast plates; others sported capes. "If we really want them to
appeal to
> kids of today, they need to look like superheroes or action figures,"
Bevington
> said.
>      Any decision regarding the appearance of the Sea Monkeys must be
vetted by
> Harold von Braunhut. The 75-year-old inventor currently lives on a nature
> preserve in Bryans Road, Md., and drives a red Corvette. "Harold," as he
is
> known at Educational Insights, is notoriously protective of his patented
Sea
> Monkeys. ExploraToy Vice President George C. Atamian says Von Braunhut
once
> refused to do business with a company desiring to make Sea Monkey
refrigerator
> magnets after he discovered risque magnets in its catalog.
>      Atamian, a round-faced scientist, met Von Braunhut via phone in 1990,
when
> he called to congratulate Atamian on an underwater microscope he'd
invented. A
> few days later, some Sea Monkeys arrived in the mail. Atamian didn't know
what
> they were. "When people were reading comic books, I was in the Marine
Corps," he
> says. When he opened the boxes, he thought they were junk. But Atamian
> eventually came around, and in 1995, he brought Von Braunhut to
ExploraToy.
>      The two men talk Sea Monkeys "every day, every night and every
weekend,"
> and Atamian has become a great receptacle of Von Braunhut lore, which he
imparts
> at lightning speed. "As far as I'm concerned, he's an absolute legend.
He's got
> 193 patents and he invented X-Ray Spex [another huge success, advertised
in the
> back pages of comic books], which is a phenomenal thing. He's a master of
> marketing and a great word crafter and he's done all kinds of strange
stuff. He
> used to race cars and motorcycles. And he used to manage a mentalist
called the
> Great Dunninger, who he says put Uri Geller and all the other mentalists
to
> shame."
>      But Atamian says it is Von Braunhut's scientific achievement that
impresses
> him most of all. "Sea Monkeys, as you know, are hybrid brine shrimp eggs
that
> are immersed in a medium that nobody's been able to knock off," he says.
The Sea
> Monkey eggs remain in a sort of suspended animation until they are poured
into
> water that's been mixed with this top-secret formula, whereupon they
hatch.
> "There's something in the powder [Harold] formulates that does something
to
> those eggs that nature can't do," Atamian says. Von Braunhut and his wife,
> Yolanda, are said to be the only two people who know the formula, with
which Von
> Braunhut is constantly tinkering. "It used to be [that] only one Sea
Monkey
> lived and that [same] one died. Now the formulation of the chemistry, the
vigor
> of the Sea Monkeys themselves, is better than ever," rhapsodizes Atamian.
>      I ask Atamian for Von Braunhut's unlisted number. Atamian says he
would
> prefer that I not speak to Harold. Each time I ask, Atamian puts me off
with a
> series of excuses, ranging from Von Braunhut's reclusiveness to his poor
> health--a few years ago Harold fell off a balcony, then his "gallbladder
> exploded." Atamian also mentions that whenever Von Braunhut gives
interviews,
> there's "fallout." Curious as to what this "fallout" could be, I do a
database
> search on Harold von Braunhut.
>
> * * *
>      AMONG VON BRAUNHUT'S MANY INVENTIONS, WHICH RANGE FROM bulletproof
garb to
> an insect observation kit, is a pen-sized weapon called the Kiyoga Agent
M5,
> which telescopes into a metal whip at a flick of the wrist. The M5 caused
an
> uproar in 1988 after it was revealed, in a fund-raising letter for the
Aryan
> Nations, that a portion of the sales proceeds was going to Richard Butler,
> founder and leader of the organization. (This is the same Richard Butler
who,
> along with the Aryan Nations, was recently found negligent and ordered to
pay
> $5.1 million after two security guards assaulted a mother and son outside
the
> Nations compound in Idaho in 1998.) Butler was on trial for sedition and
needed
> help with his legal bills. Shortly after the M5 story broke, the
Washington Post
> ran a lengthy article about Von Braunhut, revealing his involvement with
"some
> of the most extreme racist and anti-Semitic organizations in the country."
The
> article quoted an official with the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith
as
> saying: "He has a reputation of being a generous contributor." Von
Braunhut has
> vehemently denied the accusations in various news reports. Yet in a 1988
> interview with the Seattle Times, he referred to the "inscrutable, slanty
Korean
> eyes" of Korean shop owners and was quoted as saying, "You know what side
I'm
> on. I don't make any bones about it."
>      At my request, the ADL, which has tracked Von Braunhut for years,
sends me
> a rather hefty package. In it is a picture of the inventor, who resembles
Lenny
> Bruce, posing in a priest's collar in front of a Nazi flag. News clippings
track
> his frequent attendance at the Aryan Nations Congresses held every July in
> Hayden Lake, Idaho, where he appeared as recently as 1995--sometimes as a
> featured speaker, sometimes as the lighter of the burning cross. And there
are
> newsletters from an organization called the National Anti-Zionist
Institute,
> headed by "Hendrik von Braun," whose return address, P.O. Box 809, Bryans
Road,
> Md., is the same place one sends away for Sea Monkey paraphernalia such as
> baseball kits.
>      Floyd Cochran, spokesman for the Aryan Nations until 1992 and a
reformed
> racist, recalls Von Braunhut as a slight, balding man with "a rather large
nose
> for a person of the Aryan Nations." He says Von Braunhut was something of
a
> misfit. "He'd give long speeches about numerology and he'd make references
to
> the pyramids," Cochran says. "It just didn't play very well."
>      If Von Braunhut is underwhelming in public, the Anti-Zionist
newsletters
> written by Hendrik von Braun are quite lively. "In the world of jewels and
> precious metals, only that which is pure, rare and unalloyed is of the
highest
> value," begins a newsletter dated 1993. For a full two pages, readers are
urged
> to unite against "wogs" and "mud people," even if it means giving up their
own
> lives. "No one (except for Jesus Christ Himself) has ever managed to live
> forever," Von Braun writes. "Even if you could, what a bore it would be to
hang
> around for a few hundred years, not doing much of anything except watching
the
> niggers make basketballs and sneakers out of Jew skins."
>      As it turns out, Von Braunhut is Jewish. According to the 1988
Washington
> Post article, he was born to Jeannette Cohen and Edward Braunhut in New
York
> City on March 31, 1926, as Harold Nathan Braunhut. A cousin was quoted in
the
> Post as saying he "probably" attended Von Braunhut's bar mitzvah. Gail
Gans,
> director of the Civil Rights Information Center of the ADL, says Von
Braunhut
> may have been allowed to remain in the Aryan Nations even after the
startling
> revelation partly because he is wealthy. "If he'd been a practicing Jew or
they
> thought he was informing, then surely he'd have been kicked out," she
says--and
> Cochran, who lectures for the ADL, concurs. He says rumors about Von
Braunhut's
> ethnicity had been circulating for years and that members of the Aryan
Nations
> were "disappointed" when the Post article appeared with its reference to a
bar
> mitzvah, but that Richard Butler liked Von Braunhut's money. Cochran does
not
> know the extent of Von Braunhut's contributions to the Aryan Nations, but
says
> the organization called upon him often.
>      When the Von Braunhut headlines appeared in 1988, New Jersey-based
Larami
> Limited held the Sea Monkeys license. Atamian says Von Braunhut took the
> company's license away because Larami had neglected Sea Monkeys after the
> enormous success of their Super Soaker water gun. But Al Davis, executive
vice
> president of Larami, tells a different story. He says that he received a
flurry
> of phone calls from retailers, wholesalers and distributors concerned that
Sea
> Monkey dollars were going to unsavory places. "When I called Harold on
this,"
> Davis says, "he said something to me I find hard to believe to this day.
'Al,'
> he said. 'Hitler wasn't a bad guy. He just received bad press.' "
>      In 1994, Von Braunhut found another licensee, Basic Fun, a
> Philadelphia-based company that specializes in novelty key chains, to
market Sea
> Monkeys. Alan Dorfman, president of Basic Fun, says Von Braunhut assured
him
> that the allegations were false and that the bad press had been generated
by an
> enemy with whom he was involved in a property dispute. But less than a
year
> later, Dorfman, who is Jewish, severed his relationship with Von Braunhut
after
> the New York Times identified Von Braunhut as a featured speaker at the
July
> 1995 Aryan Nations Congress. It was there that Butler called Jews "the
bacillus
> of the decomposition of our society."
>      While Basic Fun was in the process of severing its contract, Dorfman
says
> he was approached by Educational Insights, which wanted to take over the
Sea
> Monkeys license. Dorfman says that the company, whose founder and
chairman, Burt
> Cutler, is Jewish, was aware of Von Braunhut's past. "We knew through the
turn
> and content of the conversation that they knew what they were getting
into,"
> Dorfman says. "We wished them luck and that was the extent of it."
>
> * * *
>      NINE MONTHS AFTER MY FIRST visit to ExploraToy, I drive to Carson
again,
> this time to view the new TV commercial featuring the revamped Sea
> Monkeys--which are no longer naked. "Having been involved in the marketing
to
> kids," Fine said in one of our initial interviews, "you don't want to
introduce
> that as an area of controversy."
>      The specter of Sea Monkey dollars funding hate groups seems to be
less
> controversial. When I broach the topic with Fine and Atamian, Atamian
confirms
> that all of the higher-ups at Educational Insights know about Von
Braunhut's
> past. He says that everyone in the toy industry knows about him, that
people had
> sent them the articles, but that the Sea Monkeys shouldn't be tainted by
their
> inventor. "Is this any different than the U.S. government having normal
> relations with Germany three, four, five, six years after World War II?"
Atamian
> asks. "We're doing business with him on a business basis with a wonderful
> product called Sea Monkeys, and we don't see where it's relevant. I've
never
> seen evidence of his alleged past behavior."
>      Says Fine: "This has absolutely nothing to do with Harold as a
person. It's
> more to do with who Sea Monkeys are and what they can mean in terms of fun
and
> fantasy for kids and adults of all ages."
>      Cutler agrees. "Do you listen to Wagner? The Israelis wouldn't listen
to
> his music for all those years. But now they do."
>      Prior to signing their contract, Atamian says he warned Von Braunhut
that
> he'd heard the allegations, and that if Educational Insights saw any
evidence
> that they were true, Atamian would sever the deal. But Atamian never asked
if
> the allegations were true. It seems no one at Educational Insights has
ever
> confronted Von Braunhut about his past--not even to inquire about the
> possibility of Sea Monkey profits going to white-supremacist hate groups.
"I
> certainly don't want to confront him with something like that," says Fine.
>      I leave Atamian and Fine with copies of the National Anti-Zionist
> newsletter, and they promise to confront Von Braunhut once and for all and
ask
> if he's funneling money to hate groups. Then they'll get back to me. In
the
> meantime, I track down Von Braunhut's number and call him myself.
>      Harold von Braunhut is almost deaf, but loquacious, and his voice is
> high-pitched. He says he knows nothing about ExploraToy's desire to clothe
Sea
> Monkeys, and as far as he knows, they will remain naked until "fish wear
pants."
> Then he launches into a story about the Wham-O Instant Fish debacle of the
early
> 1960s, a seminal event in the marketing of Sea Monkeys. "Wham-O was flying
> higher than a kite with the Superball and the Hula Hoop, and they took a
risk on
> an instant fish. But the fish didn't work. The buyer at Sears, Roebuck
almost
> got fired because of it. So when I took my Sea Monkeys around after that,
you'd
> think another Ice Age had happened. The doors that weren't open to begin
with
> slammed shut in my face. So I went to comic books. I did 303 million pages
of
> advertising per year."
>      When I ask Harold about his past, he becomes furious. He tells me the
news
> reports are lies. He doesn't take the opportunity to set the record
straight,
> though. "I don't have to defend myself to you or anyone else. I'm hanging
up."
>      A few days later, Atamian calls to say he has good news. He's faxed
Von
> Braunhut a copy of the Anti-Zionist newsletter written by Hendrik von
Braun, and
> Von Braunhut has faxed him a note categorically denying that he'd written
it or
> that he is involved in any such groups. I ask Atamian if he believes Von
> Braunhut. "All I know is I have to believe him," Atamian tells me. "Or
else how
> could I live with myself?" He promises to fax me a copy of Von Braunhut's
letter
> when he can. "The fax machine's out of paper now," he says.
>      The fax never comes. Later that day, Fine calls. When we had parted a
few
> days earlier, he'd seemed rattled. As a Jew, Fine had said, he would have
to
> walk away from Sea Monkeys if it turned out monies were being diverted to
> anti-Semitic causes. But he's extremely relieved when he calls, telling me
that
> Harold has enemies who wish to see him caught in a vice.
>      "Then you believe him?" I ask. Fine pauses a moment. "There's one
thing
> that makes me feel he didn't," he says. "Harold's a great writer. I mean
he's
> very articulate and he prides himself on writing great copy. And that
thing you
> sent me--it's really poorly written."
>
> * * *
>      IN DECEMBER 1995, ONE MONTH AFTER SIGNING ON WITH Educational
Insights, Von
> Braunhut officiated at the funeral of Betty Butler, Richard Butler's wife.
Since
> then, Harold von Braunhut hasn't been seen by either the Anti-Defamation
League
> or the Southern Poverty Law Center, both of which have tracked him for
years.
> "Once you get past a certain age," Floyd Cochran says, "running around the
> bushes playing paramilitary games doesn't happen. That's true of a lot of
things
> in life."
>      And if Sea Monkey dollars have been going to hate groups? Cutler says
he'll
> increase his donations to Morris Dees, co-founder of the Southern Poverty
Law
> Center. "I'm a major contributor to the center," he adds.
>      If Von Braunhut's past isn't relevant to Sea Monkey sales,
ExploraToy's new
> TV commercial certainly may be. In it, the Sea Monkeys are dressed like
rock
> stars and sing songs that Von Braunhut clearly did not write.
>      "Pour us into water," they wail. "You won't believe your eyes. We
eat. We
> grow. We race. We're into outer space. We're wet and we're wild. 'Cause
you make
> us come alive." The new Sea Monkey lyrics and attire are startling, but
the
> unexpected cutaways to live brine shrimp are even more so. They're hideous
> creatures. Magnified thousands of times, they look like blind white
centipedes,
> and each time they fill the screen, it is a new decimation of fancy, an
> annihilation of 40 years of Harold's own brand of huckstery Americana.
> Educational Insights has returned to the Sea Monkeys' retro-'70s image for
> packaging. Harold's vision is intact, at least for now.
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