poison American children", Mullins claimed that the polio
vaccine, invented by Jonas Salk, was a poison because it
contains live polio germs. Other books depict Jews as
parasites, living off their gentile hosts. In what has to be one of
the most bizarre of Mullins' beliefs, it has been reported by L.
J. Davis that Mullins has claimed that the phrase "Have a nice
day" is a code for Jews to begin killing Christians. Mullins'
writings have been adopted wholesale by violent extremists in
the US, such as the Posse Comitatus. Should we not be more
than a little worried to see those writings appearing in the
window of a store in Kitchener?
5. Fred Leuchter
Rothe sells the "Leuchter report" in his store, a book
purporting to be an engineer's refutation of the existence of
gas chambers in Poland. (David Irving also uses Leuchter's
report to support his claims.) What Rothe will not tell you,
however, is that Fred Leuchter is not an engineer. Rothe also
won't tell you that, according to the Boston Globe, Leuchter
admitted to illegally collecting 20 pounds of building and soil
samples in Poland, and that Leuchter's ``analysis'' has been
thoroughly rebutted in a report by French pharmacist
Jean-Claude Pressac. Pressac "noted that Leuchter never
looked at documents in the Auschwitz Museum, and failed to
study German blueprints of the gas chambers." Leuchter is a
self-described expert in the construction of execution
machines. With his false credentials, he convinced authorities
in several states in the U.S. to let him construct execution
machinery for their prisons. But in 1990, according to the New
York Times, his misrepresentations began to unravel. The
Attorney General of Alabama questioned his expertise. Illinois
terminated his contract after determining that his machine for
injecting cyanide would cause prisoners unnecessary pain.
Then, in October 1990, Leuchter was charged with fraud in
Massachusetts. It was revealed that he had only a bachelor's
degree in history, and was not licensed to practice
engineering in Massachusetts. In June 1991, to avoid a trial in
which he would surely have been convicted, Leuchter
admitted that, "I am not and have never been registered as a
professional engineer", and that he had falsely represented
himself as one. Under the consent agreement, Leuchter
agreed to stop "using in any manner whatsoever the title
'engineer'", and to stop distribution of the Leuchter report.
Despite the agreement, one can still obtain copies of the
report from Rothe's store in Kitchener. According to the Boston
Globe, Leuchter was deported from Britain in 1991. Leonard
Zakim, a spokesperson for the Anti-Defamation League of
B'nai Brith, said, "Leuchter's admissions of lying to promote
his business in violation of Massachusetts law should serve to
discredit Leuchter wherever he travels." **[See comments on