Alex Hern writes on the latest email dump from the hacktivist group Anonymous, featuring more revelations about racist Republican Ron Paul.
The amorphous internet collective known as “Anonymous” announced today that they have successfully attacked and overtaken the websites of American white supremacists American Third Position (A3P); in doing so, they have also, they say, uncovered evidence of close links between A3P and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul.
In a statement on pirasec.com, Anonymous write:
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.
Ron Paul’s racist politics and affiliations are already well known, being viciously anti-immigrant, anti-abortion and against gay marriage – not to mention having authored the racist “Ron Paul Papers” and receiving financial support from other white power groups (pictured with Don Black from stormfront.org [A large white-supremacist forum]).
Hard to believe Ron Paul draws some support from the left and the occupation movements, especially now that it is confirmed Ron Paul hangs out with straight up racist hate groups.
Ron Paul’s racism has been noted before.
In December, the Atlantic selected some of the most astonishing quotes from the newsletters he used to send out as a congressman, including:
“Given the inefficiencies of what DC laughingly calls the criminal justice system, I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal.”
“We are constantly told that it is evil to be afraid of black men, it is hardly irrational.”
[After the Los Angeles riots] “Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks.”
[Martin Luther King was] “the world-class philanderer who beat up his paramours” [who] “seduced underage girls and boys.”
When asked on CNN about the newsletters, Paul walked out of an interview, denying he wrote them – although the Washington Post reports that he did indeed sign off on them.
Ron Paul is not, it appears, a particularly nice man; not even for a Republican presidential candidate.
See also:
• The World Outside Westminster – Falklands, nukes, protests and Gingrich – Chris Tarquini, January 29th 2012
• The World Outside Westminster – Oh, Carolina – Tom Rouse, January 22nd 2012
• Who is the Democrats’ Republican candidate? – Alex Hern, January 4th 2012
• Iowa 2012: Meet the candidates – Chris Tarquini, January 3rd 2012
• The global financial crisis, not 9/11, has defined the last decade – Tom Rouse, September 11th 2011
47 Responses to “Anonymous expose Ron Paul’s racist links”
cullen stalin
.@tanehisi i mentioned @RonPaul + #ThirdPosition a few days ago. #Anonymous claims its exposed direct ties to that mvmt http://t.co/ZVwfUicC
Josh brueggen
Did it ever occur to anyone that someone who was not racist would be a supporter of A3P? I took a look at their website after reading the story, and it is a bit over the top white centric, but there are also a lot of good conservative/libertarian positions there. I don’t see why what they are pushing is any more racist than say…a congressional BLACK caucus, or a congressional HISPANIC caucus with which the Democrats and Republicans in general have no problem associating. Let me be frank here, there are interest groups for every ethnicity, and orientation, why is it that all are OK except white centric groups. Maybe next Anonymous will hack the black panthers, and expose their government connections……or not.
fisheads
I would like to believe that this will burst the Paul bubble (the oddest flowering of political enthusiasm among young people since Cleggmania), but I don’t think, sadly, it won’t encourage the almost cultish followers of DOCTORONPAUL to seriously look at their candidate. I particularly love the irony of the defenders of a man whose whole creed is founded on strong personal responsibility for not reading the articles which were published in his own newsletter.
fisheads
ONLY THROUGH SLAVISH DEDICATION TO DOCTORONPAUL CAN WE REMAKE OUR CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC!!!
Thomas Hodges
Wow, could you cherry-pick even more? Just because racists support a candidate does not make him racist. Not to mention that his so called “racist policies” are either based on principle fundamentals of Libertarianism (such as private business owners being able to make their own policies without government intervention) or are just made up. Plus completely skipping the fact that Ron Paul isn’t “anti-immigrant” (he’s against illegal immigration), he would leave abortion laws up to the states (per the Constitution), and has even said that even though he believes marriage is between a man and a woman, he opposes government regulation of marriage and that everyone is entitled to their own definition as long as they don’t force it on anyone else. I used to like Anonymous, back when they were exposing the Church of Scientology, but now they’re just hypocritical social liberal jerks.