http://www.clevescene.com/2007-07-11/news/west-sixth-shootout

Defending a hero

Call us old-fashioned, but Punch was never a fan of execution-style massacres. Yet it's hard not to make an exception for the late John Patrick Lee.

He was among the GIs who liberated the infamous Dachau death camp at the end of World War II. What they found inside was beyond ghastly -- thousands of bodies strewn about like garbage, children starved to mere skeletons, lamp shades made of human skin.

[Bill: Even Jewish scholars no longer claim there were lamp shades made of human skin. As to bodies, well, the Allies starved and murdered thirty million Germans during and after the war, plus many non-Germans in Germany. Some of that starvation of the civilian population affected camp inmates. If they didn't want to see civilians starved to death, they shouldn't have deliberately starved the country; it wasn't Germany's fault.]

So Lee & Co. did what most people would have done: They went berserk.

In what would later be called the Dachau Massacre, the soldiers rounded up SS guards and got a little trigger-happy. Accounts vary, but they slaughtered at least 60 Germans. [Bill: The official US figure is about 500. 60 is how many Lee killed personally.] In a 2001 interview, Lee admitted to participating in the killings. "It was wrong," he told the reporter, "but you had to have been there."

We're willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.

But that interview is now coming back to haunt his family. Virginia neo- Nazi Bill White, once the media liaison for the National Socialist Movement, has outed Lee on his blog, Overthrow. He lists Lee's name, home address, and phone number in Westlake, as well as the names of family members.

"Why is it that German 'war criminals' are being hunted by the Jews, while American war criminals continue to walk free?" White writes.

Yet the man known for dressing in full Nazi uniform at skinhead rallies isn't exactly a cagey hunter. He apparently didn't realize that old age got to Lee before his band of rednecks could. The old man passed away in 2002.

So the Nazis must resort to harassing Lee's elderly widow. When Punch called her home, a Westlake cop answered the phone.

[Bill: Too funny. If I recall, several Jewish organizations --the JDL and JDO come to mind in particular -- have specifically said that family members of white activists should be killed, and have engaged in harassment in furtherance of such ends. As long as that's the case, then it cuts both ways, and Jew papers like the Cleveland Scene should quit whining about it.

Want to endorse murder? Then you can't object to a few angry phone calls.]