Loose talk taped

Canadian Indian, member of the Order of Canada and former head of the Assembly of First Nations, David Ahenakew, says he had no idea he was being taped when he referred to Jews as a "disease".

The Saskatoon StarPhoenix reporter who taped the conversation, James Parker, testified that his recorder was right in Ahenakew's face.

But Ahenakew said he didn't see it.

"Maybe he has big hands," Ahenakew said.

[Ahenakew] refers to the United States and Israel as "bullies" in the world and blames the Jews for starting the Second World War.

Parker testified that it was that last comment that led him to approach Ahenakew.

"I asked him about this statement regarding the Jews and the Second World War," Parker said. "I recall he jumped right in."

On the tape of the interview, Ahenakew rails about the Jews owning everything prior to the war as Parker challenges him with counterpoints.

"How do you get rid of a disease like that, that's going to take over, that's going to dominate?" Ahenakew said. "The Jews damn near owned all of Germany prior to the war. That's how Hitler came in. He was going to make damn sure that the Jews didn't take over Germany or Europe.

"That's why he fried six million of those guys, you know. Jews would have owned the God damned world."

Ahenakew testified that he was simply repeating what he was told by Germans when he served overseas in the army during the war.

Ahenakew's trial for hate speech is drawing intense media coverage, and rightly so. Apparently high-profile idiot natives are a dime-a-dozen in North America.