Hate Speech Living Where It Was Least Expected
When the Anti-Defamation League compiled its 2014 study of the most and least anti-Semitic countries in the world, it was a fascinating compilation. Filled with the usual suspects of anti-Semitic countries that include The West Bank and Gaza, Iraq, Yemen, Algeria, Kuwait, Lebanon, etc., it is a who's who of the no one much that would surprise anyone --- save the interesting inclusion of Greece as one of the most anti-Semitic.
But there is a fascinating flip-side to this catalogue of shame: the nation's of the world with the least anti-Semitic populations. This list compiles the top-10 countries where anti-Semitism is the least pervasive in the world. Of the top-10, 3 are from the relatively small part of the world known as Southeast Asia. Thailand, at number 10, is one of the least anti-Semitic places on earth. It is against this curious backdrop that one of the region's more vicious anti-Semitic campaigns against a businessman has been waged for the past 4 years.
Richard Cayne, President of Meyer Asset Management, happens to be Jewish. A Canadian by birth, Cayne is proud of his Jewish heritage, but is not overtly religious or easily identifiable as Jewish and does not broadcast his religion publicly. So it is a fascinating story how this quiet Jewish businessman from Canada has become the target of anti-Semitic hate speech in a country that prides itself on its lack of such thoughts and actions
Cayne has been embroiled in a series of hammer and tong legal battles with the Royal Siam trust and it's Managing Partner, Gregory J. Pitt. Those battles have resulted in an 18 years-and-counting sentence for Pitt in a Thai prison. He has also aggressively pursued colleagues of Pitt's who he believes to have been accomplices in Pitt's looting of investor's money. These include two Americans who live in Japan and are frequent visitors to Thailand: Daniel Edward Kennedy and Joseph DeCarlo. Kennedy, who lives and operates as under various aliases including: Daniel Edward Giroux and Michael Gage, has been at the center of a series of vicious and threatening anti-Semitic attacks on Cayne in full view of the public.
Often online, and even more frequently in meetings where he as defended himself against charges of complicity in the Royal Siam Trust/White Sands Beach scam, Kennedy has unleashed a veritable river of anti-Semitic hatred against Cayne. Speaking to a group of lawyers and investors in 2012, Kennedy said "He (Richard Cayne) is a Jewish piece of filth….a piece of Jewish shit. That Jew makes me sick the way he rides around in his BMW."
When Kennedy unleashed his torrent of hatred invective, the participants in the meeting were stunned, sat in silence and did not protest. Most thought it was just the frustration of having been exposed by Cayne for his complicity in the scam. They assumed that while unfortunate, it didn't represent anything more. But what was to unfold in the weeks and months to follow was something far deeper, far darker and far more threatening. What emerged was not just someone who, for one brief disgusting moment, lashed out in a way that was unusual. What emerged was a pattern of full-throated anti-Semitism aimed at a Jewish businessman.
In the months to follow Kennedy's anti-Semitic vitriol directed at Richard Cayne became more strident – and more dangerous. In another meeting months later, Kennedy's anger again exploded in full view. He said and was recorded as saying: "….when I see him (Richard Cayne) I'm going to kick his head in and jump across to Cambodia……I've got two passports they'll never catch me". And then: "……if he doesn't stop (Cayne's pursuit of the scammers in Thai courts) I'm going to beat the shit out of him and send a message."
Cayne, who would not be interviewed for this story, at first dismissed the statements attributing them to Kennedy's propensity for behaving in a less-than-stable manner. But in the coming months Richard Cayne's lack of concern gave way to a cautious concern about what it all meant.
Prior to Kennedy's associate Gregory J. Pitt being sentenced to what has become an 18 year prison sentence, he said referring to he and others who hated Cayne for his pursuit of them in court: "……they want him (Richard Cayne) dead…..if he's dead by summer he'll be shut the f**k up".
These statements, from a man who professed to have earlier in his life worked for U.S. intelligence and was aware of "many ways to kill a man" eventually led Cayne to decide that if it continued, he would have to go to the authorities. He didn't have to wait long.
Within weeks of the last tirade Cayne's home phone began to ring at all hours of the night. The caller, attempting to disguise his voice without success, would regularly launch into anti-Semitic attacks filed with threats of physical violence. Then, the letters started to arrive. Each one more threatening and more filled with anti-Semitism. Cayne and his wife, a Japanese citizen to whom he is married and has 2 children, made a decision: they had to go to the authorities.
Cayne filed at least 2 police complaints with the Thong Lor Police Department in Bangkok and he and his family are now less sanguine about the threats. They take them seriously, as do the Bangkok police.
After over four years of living with something they thought they would never see in Thailand, Richard Cayne and his wife are different people, say their friends. "Richard has gone through an incredible ordeal fighting these people. I don't think anyone, least of all Richard, knew his fight for investors scammed by Pitt and Kennedy, would become so vicious".
But there is a fascinating flip-side to this catalogue of shame: the nation's of the world with the least anti-Semitic populations. This list compiles the top-10 countries where anti-Semitism is the least pervasive in the world. Of the top-10, 3 are from the relatively small part of the world known as Southeast Asia. Thailand, at number 10, is one of the least anti-Semitic places on earth. It is against this curious backdrop that one of the region's more vicious anti-Semitic campaigns against a businessman has been waged for the past 4 years.
Richard Cayne, President of Meyer Asset Management, happens to be Jewish. A Canadian by birth, Cayne is proud of his Jewish heritage, but is not overtly religious or easily identifiable as Jewish and does not broadcast his religion publicly. So it is a fascinating story how this quiet Jewish businessman from Canada has become the target of anti-Semitic hate speech in a country that prides itself on its lack of such thoughts and actions
Cayne has been embroiled in a series of hammer and tong legal battles with the Royal Siam trust and it's Managing Partner, Gregory J. Pitt. Those battles have resulted in an 18 years-and-counting sentence for Pitt in a Thai prison. He has also aggressively pursued colleagues of Pitt's who he believes to have been accomplices in Pitt's looting of investor's money. These include two Americans who live in Japan and are frequent visitors to Thailand: Daniel Edward Kennedy and Joseph DeCarlo. Kennedy, who lives and operates as under various aliases including: Daniel Edward Giroux and Michael Gage, has been at the center of a series of vicious and threatening anti-Semitic attacks on Cayne in full view of the public.
Often online, and even more frequently in meetings where he as defended himself against charges of complicity in the Royal Siam Trust/White Sands Beach scam, Kennedy has unleashed a veritable river of anti-Semitic hatred against Cayne. Speaking to a group of lawyers and investors in 2012, Kennedy said "He (Richard Cayne) is a Jewish piece of filth….a piece of Jewish shit. That Jew makes me sick the way he rides around in his BMW."
When Kennedy unleashed his torrent of hatred invective, the participants in the meeting were stunned, sat in silence and did not protest. Most thought it was just the frustration of having been exposed by Cayne for his complicity in the scam. They assumed that while unfortunate, it didn't represent anything more. But what was to unfold in the weeks and months to follow was something far deeper, far darker and far more threatening. What emerged was not just someone who, for one brief disgusting moment, lashed out in a way that was unusual. What emerged was a pattern of full-throated anti-Semitism aimed at a Jewish businessman.
In the months to follow Kennedy's anti-Semitic vitriol directed at Richard Cayne became more strident – and more dangerous. In another meeting months later, Kennedy's anger again exploded in full view. He said and was recorded as saying: "….when I see him (Richard Cayne) I'm going to kick his head in and jump across to Cambodia……I've got two passports they'll never catch me". And then: "……if he doesn't stop (Cayne's pursuit of the scammers in Thai courts) I'm going to beat the shit out of him and send a message."
Cayne, who would not be interviewed for this story, at first dismissed the statements attributing them to Kennedy's propensity for behaving in a less-than-stable manner. But in the coming months Richard Cayne's lack of concern gave way to a cautious concern about what it all meant.
Prior to Kennedy's associate Gregory J. Pitt being sentenced to what has become an 18 year prison sentence, he said referring to he and others who hated Cayne for his pursuit of them in court: "……they want him (Richard Cayne) dead…..if he's dead by summer he'll be shut the f**k up".
These statements, from a man who professed to have earlier in his life worked for U.S. intelligence and was aware of "many ways to kill a man" eventually led Cayne to decide that if it continued, he would have to go to the authorities. He didn't have to wait long.
Within weeks of the last tirade Cayne's home phone began to ring at all hours of the night. The caller, attempting to disguise his voice without success, would regularly launch into anti-Semitic attacks filed with threats of physical violence. Then, the letters started to arrive. Each one more threatening and more filled with anti-Semitism. Cayne and his wife, a Japanese citizen to whom he is married and has 2 children, made a decision: they had to go to the authorities.
Cayne filed at least 2 police complaints with the Thong Lor Police Department in Bangkok and he and his family are now less sanguine about the threats. They take them seriously, as do the Bangkok police.
After over four years of living with something they thought they would never see in Thailand, Richard Cayne and his wife are different people, say their friends. "Richard has gone through an incredible ordeal fighting these people. I don't think anyone, least of all Richard, knew his fight for investors scammed by Pitt and Kennedy, would become so vicious".
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