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”
Anonymous
Interestingly enough, the ones who seem to be in denial about this are the authors of these forum posts (they are not emails which is being widely reported). I’ve been researching the topic and came across some white supremacy forums where the members of A3P have been quite actively denying the claims of these posts…
Here: http://bit.ly/x01mPF
Here: http://bit.ly/zzw12Z
Here is an interesting article published by Scott McConnell yesterday which very astutely sums up Ron Paul’s political history, including the allegations of racism, and discusses what the motivation and strategy is behind these allegations. They seem to be the main thrust of credible criticisms against Ron Paul although they certainly cannot be said to be anywhere near the heart of his political platform: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/ron-paul-and-his-enemies/
Anonymous
The Vancouver Observer has picked up on this and is reporting that the main people denying any support for or connection to Ron Paul are the very white supremacists whom are being cited in these emails (on second page of web article):
http://www.vancouverobserver.com/blogs/politicaljunkie/2012/02/02/lynching-ron-paul
Furthermore, the official Anonymous hacker group is denying that they conducted this hacking and it is not a part of their official Operation Blitzkrieg:
http://www.nazi-leaks.info/
As the VO summarizes, this appears to not be a legitimate hack by Anonymous exposing Ron Paul, but rather an effort by a group claiming to be Anonymous putting out false information in an attempt to discredit Ron Paul. Which somewhat makes sense: If you do a little research you can find that most of the individuals supposedly claiming to “campaigners” for Ron Paul aren’t even affiliated with his campaign much less any of the grassroots organizations or Meetup groups in the areas these individuals claim to be working from. It all goes back to that article from the American Conservative – there is a very well coordinated effort from the GOP establishment to discredit Ron Paul as a racist in order to remove his signature positions, particularly his nonintervention foreign policy position, from being seriously discussed among the party:
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/ron-paul-and-his-enemies/
Darcy Sykes
Where. Is. THE PROOF?
Joseph Terranella
.@tanehisi i mentioned @RonPaul + #ThirdPosition a few days ago. #Anonymous claims its exposed direct ties to that mvmt http://t.co/ZVwfUicC
Michelle Back
Go to the link at the top and read the emails yourself. Unless you’re afraid to find out the truth.
Ron Paul is a racist. It’s there in black and white.