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A Fellow Lawyer Speaks
In Defense Of Cochran
ALAN DERSHOWITZ SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
o sooner had Johnnie he is just crazy. He is just a half-
Cochran completed his baked painter. They didn't do
closing argument in the anything about it. This man, this
Simpson case than my scourge, became one of the worst
phone started ringing off the people in the history of this
hook. Jewish friends and family world, Adolf Hitler, because peo-
members were calling to ask me ple didn't care or didn't try to stop
what I thought of Mr. Cochran's him. He had the power over his
reference to Adolf Hitler in his racism and his anti-religion. No-
discussion of Mark Fuhrman. body wanted to stop him and it
Strangers walked up to me in ended up in World War II. And
Harvard Square and asked me so Fuhrman, Fuhrman wants to
the same question. On the "To- take all black people now and
burn them or
day" show,
bomb them.
Bryant Gumbel
That is genoci-
asked whether
dal racism."
the comparison
In fact, Mr.
didn't trouble
Cochran explic-
me. Columnist
itly differentiat-
Frank Rich crit-
ed Hitler from
icized me and
Mr. Fuhrman,
my Jewish col-
pointing out that
leagues on the
Hitler "ulti-
defense team for
mately had pow-
standing by
er" and was able
while our col-
to carry out his
league "trivial-
racism.
ized" Hitler's
We must, of
crimes. And the
course, be care-
director of the
ful in making
Anti-Defama-
analogies to the
tion League told
a Jewish newspaper that I Holocaust or to Hitler. But we
should have criticized Mr. should not shy away from re-
Cochran for his Hitler reference. minding the world that we ig-
There is, of course, no com- nore institutional racism of the
parison between the incompara- sort long-condoned by the Los
ble evil inflicted by Hitler on Angeles Police Department at
millions of innocent Jews and the our collective peril. Mr. Cochran
shakedowns, beatings, false ar- was absolutely on target when
rests, perjury, swastika-paint- he warned his listeners that
ings and evidence-planting when people don't care about
apparently done by Mr. racism and don't try to stop it, it
Fuhrman. But Mr. Cochran did can get out of control.
The LAPD knew about Mr.
not suggest any such compari-
son, and his critics should have Fuhrman's racism for years. His
read what he actually said, psychiatric records prove that,
rather than the media's charac- as do the tapes themselves on
terization. What he did argue which Mr. Fuhrman brags that
was that there is a similarity of higher-ups support his views.
"views" between Hitler and Mr. The prosecution knew about Mr.
Fuhrman, and he is right. Mr. Fuhrman's neo-Nazi views
Fuhrman has advocated geno- before they embraced him and
cide — the mass burning, shoot- put him on the witness stand,
ing and bombing of blacks, because an assistant district
especially those involved in in- attorney told them. They knew
terracial marriages. Mr. Cochran Kathleen Bell and the other
also reminded his listeners that "good Samaritan" witnesses who
we ignore people with such racist came forth to blow the whistle
views at our peril, especially on Mr. Fuhrman were telling
when they wear uniforms, the truth; yet they set out to
badges and guns. These are Mr. destroy these witnesses and to
persuade the jury that Mr.
Cochran's actual words:
"There was another man not Fuhrman was a much-maligned
too long ago in the world who Boy Scout. Their nefarious plot
had those same views, who to distort the truth about Mr.
wanted to burn people, who had Fuhrman was foiled only by t
racist views and ultimately had he fortuitous discovery of the
power over people in his country. tapes.
My Jewish friends and fami-
People didn't care. People said
ly should not be angry at Mr.
Alan Dershowitz is a professor at
Cochran for warning about the
Harvard Law School.
dangers of tolerating racism and
N
,