I admit it: Ron Paul has become such a docile figure in the 2012 Republican campaign that I kind of stopped paying attention to him for a while there. When he announced he was only going to focus on caucus states, that was pretty much the end of his national relevance. But luckily, shit just got incredibly interesting. Daily Kos linked to a NewsOne story about how….oh, man, this is just too good…Ron Paul was tied to a group of white supremacists who wanted to violently overthrow a small Caribbean nation so that they could create a libertarian white supremacist island paradise:
In 1981, a lawyer tried to subpoena Ron Paul to testify in the trial of Don Black, a Grand Wizard for the Ku Klux Klan who would later go on to found the white supremacist, neo-Nazi website, Stormfront. Black was charged along with two other Klansmen with planning to violently overthrow the small Caribbean country of Dominica in what they called “Operation Red Dog.”…In 1981 a group of American and Canadian white supremacists lead by Klansman and mercenary, Michael (Mike) Perdue planned on taking over a small West Indian country called Dominica by overthrowing the government and Prime Minister Eugenia Charles and restoring its previous prime minister, Patrick Johns into power. The group planned to create an Aryan paradise in Dominica and make money through casinos, cocaine and brothels.
Possibly even better than this story? Hacking group Anonymous has announced that they have uncovered close recent ties between Ron Paul’s presidential campaign and a white supremacist group called American Third Position:
Fellow anons: we are pleased to bring you the dismantling of a major US-based white supremacist network known as the “American Third Position”(A3P). These racist losers have chapters across the US, operate several white power websites, forums and online stores, and are even running a candidate in the 2012 elections…In addition to finding the usual racist rants and interactions with other white power groups, we also found a disturbingly high amount of members who are also involved in campaigning for Ron Paul. According to these messages, Ron Paul has regularly met with many A3P members, even engaging in conference calls with their board of directors.
Go read Anonymous’s announcement; it includes more information about A3P ties to neo-Nazi groups, Scientology, and much more. And don’t forget to ask the ardent Ron Paul supporter in your life about these stories! We should build an online database of lame Ron Paul supporter excuses for Ron Paul’s obvious white supremacist ties. It would be a world-class monument to delusion.
All I see are new claims and little actual evidence. What are they waiting for? Perhaps it’s to work all the fools up into a nice froth.
I’ll believe it when I see it. And no, I’m not an ardent Ron Paul supporter.
Huh, actually, SPK, it appears that they’ve uploaded thousands of emails and messages to the linked site. They actually do show informal ties between his supporters at the state level and people involved with the white supremacist community, in their own words. It seems like you would have to have some pre-held bias that overrides any objective ability to reason to turn your nose up at this evidence or not to look at it as possibly viable.
Strangely enough, that seems to be one of the hallmarks of adherence to the Paul cult of personality.
Sorry, I overlooked the horribly italicized buttons.
Nevertheless, everyone has their biases. Paul Constant certainly has his. One bias I hold is for facts. I don’t support speculation. So, I’ll take a look and make my own conclusions.
It would not surprise me at all that Ron Paul is aligned with white supremacists though. Through my dabbling in libertarian ideology, I encountered more than a few racists. That doesn’t mean all libertarians any more than all liberals are commies and all conservatives are fascists.
I’m merely an observer at this point and from my viewpoint, people are working very hard to ignore the issues that Ron Paul is focusing on (i.e.: endless foreign wars, civil liberties, war on drugs, etc…). I find it ironic that so many, both liberal and conservative, would be so dismissive.
It would help if someone could actually post an incriminating message from that archive. A quick look tells me I don’t have time to sift through that pile. Did you actually see any of these messages yourself?
I’m a crunchy taco supremacist.