Paul Campaign Responds to LST, re: Nazi Gold ["Cannot Say" They Will Reject Neo-Nazi Cash Donation]

Just moments ago, I spoke by phone with Ron Paul press spokesman Jesse Benton regarding a $500 contribution made to the campaign by notorious neo-Nazi Don Black (first exposed here on LST).

The conversation was friendly and professional, and I thank Mr. Benton for getting back in touch with me and being willing to go on the record.

What follows is a paraphrased summary of the questions asked and Benton’s responses (questions were not asked verbatim, but basic thrust was communicated; answers were read back to Benton to assure accuracy and allow him an opportunity to clarify or expand).

Can Paul confirm that the donation widgets appearing on Stormfront are the result of the site owner’s actions, not the campaign’s?

Yes, absolutely. The donation widgets are freely available to the general public, and anyone can put them on their website without the knowledge of the campaign. We are not advertising on Stormfront.

Will Paul take measures to block Stormfront as a referring URL to his own website, so that no future donations can possibly flow into his campaign from a site that serves as the on-line nexus of neo-Nazism?

Will Paul ask his own web-staff to trace past donations that were made by anyone arriving at his campaign’s webpage from Stormfront, so that these contributions can be rejected?

Will Paul explore if there are any legal actions available to try to remove his donation widget from Stormfront, and if so pursue them?

We hadn’t thought of these options, but I’ll bring up these ideas with the campaign director.

Blocking the IP address sounds like a simple and practical step that could be taken.

Tracking donations that came from Stormfront’s site sounds more complicated. I’m concerned about setting a precedent for the campaign having to screen and vet everyone who makes a donation.

It is important to keep in mind is that we didn’t solicit this support, and we aren’t interested in spending all of our time and resources focused on this issue. We want to focus on Dr. Paul’s positive agenda for freedom.

At the very least, will Paul personally state publicly, vigorously and unmistakably that he rejects the support of white supremacists, and that he will not knowingly tolerate their involvement with his campaign in any form or to any degree?

Until three days ago, neither Dr. Paul nor anyone else in the campaign had any idea who Don Black was or is. We’ve never met or communicated with him. We did not solicit his support.

It is certainly unfortunate that the campaign’s donation banner is on his site. We’re not rushing to spend a lot of time reading what’s over there, but what you’ve described is certainly repugnant, and completely anathema to everything Dr. Paul stands for.

Bottom line– Will the Ron Paul campaign be rejecting the $500 contribution made by neo-Nazi Don Black?

At this time, I cannot say that we will be rejecting Mr. Black’s contribution, but I will bring the matter to the attention of our campaign director again, and expect some sort of decision to be made in coming days.

Certainly courageous. A little background on the players. Willis Carto, publishes Paul and advertises him as a columnist in American Free Press. Council of Conservative Citizens, publish Paul. David Duke, Stormfront, simply web support from there. Don Black, Stormfront founder, contributor. Tough decision here. The DNC must be licking their chops.

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Willis Allison Carto (born July 17, 1926 in Indiana) is a longtime figure on the far right wing of American politics. He describes himself as Jeffersonian and populist, although the Anti-Defamation League and other critics say he promotes thinly-disguised antisemitism and Neo-Nazism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_Carto
Influences on Carto
Willis Carto was known to be a devotee of the writings of Francis Parker Yockey. Yockey was one of a handful of esoteric writers during the post-World War II era who researched Adolf Hitler. Yockey's best known book, Imperium, was adopted by Carto as his own guiding ideology. Later, Carto would define his ideology as Jeffersonian and populist rather than National Socialist, particularly in Carto's 1982 book, Profiles in Populism. That book presented sympathetic profiles of several United States political figures including Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, as well as the controversial Catholic priest Father Charles Coughlin and Henry Ford. Critics charged that the book all but ignored Coughlin and Fords' virulent antisemitism, and that Carto remained a devotee of Yockey throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
The Anti-Defamation League, as well as other critics, believe that Willis Carto, more than anybody else, was responsible for keeping organized antisemitism alive as a movement in the United States during the latter half of the 20th century and into the 21st century. These critics have noted that Carto has founded some organizations, such as Liberty Lobby, with the intent of appearing to be respectable conservative, populist, or anti-Communist organizations, while founding other organizations that were racialist or National Socialist in nature.
Liberty Lobby and Newspapers
In 1955, Carto founded an organization called Liberty Lobby, which remained in operation under the control of Willis Carto until 2001, when the organization was forced into bankruptcy as a result of a lawsuit. Liberty Lobby was perhaps best known for publishing the newspaper, The Spotlight, between 1975 and 2001.
Carto and several "Spotlight" staff members and writers have since founded a new newspaper, called the American Free Press. The paper includes articles from syndicated columnists who have no direct ties to Carto or his organizations. As in its predecessor, it takes a populist tone and focuses on conspiracy theory, nationalist economics and Israel. One of its writers, Michael Collins Piper, hosts a weekday talk show on shortwave radio that is pointedly anti-Zionist.
Other activities in the 1950s and 1960s
In 1966, Carto acquired control of The American Mercury via the Legion for the Survival of Freedom organization. The magazine was once a highly respected periodical associated with H.L. Mencken, but which was failing by the time Carto acquired it. It was published until 1980.
After the failed third party presidential campaign of George Wallace in 1968, Carto acquired control of what was left of the Youth for Wallace organization, and transformed it into an openly racist youth organization called the National Youth Alliance. Carto eventually lost control of the National Youth Alliance to a rival, William Luther Pierce, who transformed it into the National Alliance, which is today an American white racist organizations.
Carto, Revisionism and Holocaust Denial
Carto was also the founder of a publishing company called Noontide Press, which published a number of books on white racialism, including Yockey's Imperium and David Hoggan's The Myth of the Six Million, one of the first books to deny the Holocaust. Noontide Press later became closely associated with the Institute for Historical Review (IHR), and fell out of Carto's hands at the same time as the IHR did. The IHR was founded by Willis Carto in 1979, with the intent of promoting the proposition that the Nazi Holocaust never happened - a view known as Holocaust denial. After losing control of Noontide Press and the IHR in a hostile takeover by former associates, Carto started another publication, "The Barnes Review", which also focuses on Holocaust denial.
Populist Party (1984-1996)
In 1984, Willis Carto was involved in starting a new political party called the Populist Party. It quickly fell out of his hands in a hostile takeover by disgruntled former associates. Critics asserted that this Populist Party (not to be confused with the Populist Party of 1889) was little more than an electoral vehicle for current and former Ku Klux Klan and Christian Identity members. Olympic athlete Bob Richards (1984), David Duke (a founder of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and a future Louisiana state representative, 1988) and former Green Beret Bo Gritz (1992) were the Populist Party's only three presidential candidates. It folded before it could nominate a candidate for the 1996 elections.
Other activities
Carto's Liberty Lobby acquired the Sun Radio Network in December 1989, and attempted to use talk radio as a vehicle for espousing his views. It was eventually a financial failure. Liberty Lobby and American Free Press also sponsored the Radio Free America talk show, hosted by Tom Valentine.
In 2004, Carto joined in signing the New Orleans Protocol on behalf of American Free Press. The New Orleans Protocol seeks to "mainstream our cause" by reducing violence and internecine warfare. It was written by David Duke.

David Duke
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Du David Ernest Duke (born July 1, 1950) is a former Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, a candidate in presidential primaries for both the Democratic and Republican parties, and former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.[2][3][4][5][6][7]
Duke is a self-styled "white nationalist", but his critics commonly refer to him as a white supremacist. He says he does not think of himself as a racist, however, stating that he is a "racial realist" and that he believes that "all people have a basic human right to preserve their own heritage".[8] He speaks in favor of racial segregation and white separatism.[9][10][11]
Duke has had one successful run for public office as a member of the Louisiana House. He has also made several unsuccessful bids for political office, including runs for the Louisiana Senate, U.S. Senate, U.S. House, Governor of Louisiana and twice for President of the United States. Duke was not the first former Klansman to run for governor of Louisiana: A. Roswell Thompson, who operated a taxi stand in New Orleans, ran in the Democratic primaries of both 1959 and 1963 on a staunchly segregationist platform.
Youth and early adulthood
David Duke was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to David H. Duke and Maxine Duke. As an engineer for Shell Oil, the senior Duke frequently moved the family to numerous locations around the world. The Dukes spent a short period living in the Netherlands before they settled in Louisiana. In the late 1960s Duke met the leader of the white separatist National Alliance organization, William Pierce, who remained a life-long influence until Pierce's death in 2002. He joined the Ku Klux Klan in 1967.[12]
Duke went on to study at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and in 1970, he formed a White student group known as the White Youth Alliance, which was affiliated with the National Socialist White People's Party. That same year, he became well-known for a demonstration in which he wore swastika regalia to protest William Kunstler's appearance at Tulane University in New Orleans.
He was involved in the campus ROTC where he received awards, until he was expelled due to his radical beliefs. In 1971, he went to Laos to teach English to Laotian military officers and serve on cargo flights for Air America over the course of ten weeks.[13]
Duke returned to LSU, graduating in 1974. He became famous on campus for wearing a Nazi uniform while picketing and holding parties on the anniversary of the birth of Adolf Hitler.[citation needed] The year of his graduation, he formed the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. He attracted attention for trying to remove the overtly racist terminology of the Klan and turn it into a "white nationalist" political force.[14] A follower of Duke, Thom Robb, changed the title of "Grand Wizard" to "National Director" and replaced the white robes of the Klan with business suits.[15]
It is alleged that using the pseudonym Dorothy Vanderbilt, Duke published a self-help book for women, titled Finders-Keepers, in 1976. The publication gives advice to women regarding vaginal exercises, fellatio, analingus, and anal sex.[16][17] The manual is no longer in print and hard to find; however, the Times-Picayune, a New Orleans newspaper, managed to find a copy and trace the trail of its proceeds to the original author via the publisher. Duke compiled information from various women's self-help magazines, and published the book to raise money for his activities, though the book turned out to be a flop.[13]
While working in the White Youth Alliance, Duke met Chloê Hardin, who also became active in the group. The two remained companions throughout college and married in 1974. Hardin is the mother of Duke's two daughters, Erika and Kristin. The couple divorced in 1984, and Hardin then moved to West Palm Beach to be closer to her family. There she became involved with Duke's Klan friend, Don Black, whom she married several years later.[18][19]
In the early 1980s, he was allegedly heavily involved in gambling and stock market investments, which were covered by the Times-Picayune, as well as by others.[16]
Political campaigns
In 1975, Duke sought a seat in the Louisiana Senate as a Democrat. In 1988, he ran in the Democratic Party primary for President of the United States. After a poor showing in the Democratic primaries, he appeared on many state ballots as the nominee of the Populist Party and received 47,047 votes in the 1988 general election.
Challenging John Treen
It is alleged that Duke conducted a direct-mail appeal in 1987 using the identity and mailing-list of the Forsyth County Defense League, in Georgia, without permission, which League officials described as a fund-raising "scam" (detailed in The Rise of David Duke by Tyler Bridges).
In December 1988, he switched political affiliation from Democratic to Republican.
In 1989, he ran as a Republican for a seat representing Metairie in the Louisiana House of Representatives. He defeated fellow Republican John Treen, the brother of David C. Treen, the first Republican to be elected Governor of Louisiana since Reconstruction, by a narrow margin of 51-49 percent. Duke's victory came despite appeals in favor of John Treen's candidacy by President George H.W. Bush, former President Ronald Reagan, and other GOP notables.[20]
In the latter years of the 1980s, Duke sought to revamp his appearance by undergoing plastic surgery. He has reportedly had his nose thinned and a chin augmentation. He also shaved off his moustache following his election to the Louisiana House of Representatives.[21][22][23]
Challenging Senator J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.
In 1990, Duke challenged incumbent Democratic Senator Bennett Johnston in the open primary as a Republican and received 44 percent of the vote, including more than 60 percent of the white vote, according to exit polls[citation needed]. Johnston was able to win re-election (and thus avoid a direct run-off with Duke) by receiving 53 percent of the vote.
In a 2006 interview, Gideon Rachman (The Economist, the Financial Times) recalled how he interviewed Duke's campaign manager who expressed concern at the direction the campaign was taking. "The Jews just aren't a big issue in Louisiana. We keep telling David, stick to attacking the blacks. There's no point in going after the Jews, you just piss them off and nobody here cares about them anyway."[24] At any rate, the Republican party-endorsed candidate, state Senator Bernard John "Ben" Bagert, Jr., of New Orleans, who had been supported by Iran-Contra figure Oliver North, withdrew from the race two days before the election. Distressed national Republican officials had anticipated Bagert losing and fragmenting Johnston's support; so funding for Bagert's campaign was halted, and he dropped out though his name remained on the ballot. [25] Republican Senator John C. Danforth of Missouri openly endorsed Democrat Johnston in the last week of the campaign.
Challenging Edwin Edwards and Buddy Roemer
Duke ran for Louisiana Governor in 1991 as a Republican candidate, despite getting an official reproval (letter expressing the GOP's disdain for Duke's activities) from the party. In the open primary, Duke was second to former governor Edwin Washington Edwards in votes; thus, he faced Edwards in a runoff. Duke received 32 percent of the vote in that initial round. Incumbent Republican Buddy Roemer came in third place with 27 percent of the vote. Duke had effectively killed Roemer's bid for re-election. While Duke had a sizable core constituency of devoted admirers who agreed with his positions, many others in Louisiana voted for him as a "protest vote" to register dissatisfaction with Louisiana's establishment politicians. Duke said he was the spokesman for the "White majority".[26] He took a strong anti-establishment stance reminiscent of George C. Wallace, Jr., in the 1968 presidential campaign.
Between the primary and the runoff, called the "general election" under Louisiana election rules (in which all candidates run on one ballot, regardless of party), Duke enjoyed the peak of his notoriety. White supremacist and far-right organizations from around the country contributed to his campaign fund.[27][28]
Duke's success garnered national media attention. He won few serious endorsements in Louisiana, but he gained the backing of the quixotic former Alexandria Mayor John K. Snyder. A massive campaign was launched against him, with celebrities and organizations donating thousands to Edwards' campaign to defeat Duke. Referencing Edwards' long-standing problem with accusations of corruption, popular bumper stickers read, "Vote for the Crook. It's Important," and "Vote for the Lizard, not the Wizard." When a reporter asked Edwards what he needed to do to triumph over Duke, Edwards replied with a smile, "Stay alive."
Duke lost the election by a wide margin. Edwards received 1,057,031 votes (61.2 percent). Duke's 671,009 votes represented 38.8 percent of the total. Duke claimed victory, saying, "I won my constituency. I won 55 percent of the white vote," which he had, as exit polls confirmed.[13] In actuality, Duke had done little better in percent terms than the first major Republican gubernatorial candidate in modern Louisiana history, Charlton Lyons, had done in 1964.
Challenging Mary Landrieu
In 1996, Duke ran again for the U.S. Senate, when Johnston announced his retirement. He polled 141,489 votes (11.5 percent). Republican former state representative Louis E. "Woody" Jenkins of Baton Rouge and Democrat Mary Landrieu of New Orleans, the former state treasurer, went into the general election contest. Duke was fourth in the none-person race.[29]
Race to succeed Bob Livingston
Because of the sudden resignation of powerful Republican incumbent Bob Livingston in 1999, a special election was held in Louisiana's First Congressional District. Duke sought the seat as a Republican and received 19 percent of the vote. He finished a close third, thus failing to make the runoff. Republican state representative David Vitter (now a U.S. Senator) went on to defeat Republican ex-Governor David Treen. Also in the race was the New Orleans Republican leader Rob Couhig.
Challenging Bobby Jindal (as campaign manager to Roy Armstrong)
In 2004, Duke's bodyguard, roommate, and longtime associate by the name of Roy Armstrong made a bid for the United States House of Representatives to serve Louisiana's First Congressional District. Armstrong lost the election to Indian American Republican Bobby Jindal. Duke was acting as the head advisor of the campaign.[30][31]
Controversies and Affiliations
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
In 1974, David Duke founded the Louisiana-based Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, a Ku Klux Klan group, shortly after graduating from LSU. He first received broad public attention during this time, as he successfully marketed himself in the mid-1970s as a new brand of Klansman — well-groomed, engaged, and professional. Duke also reformed the organization, promoting nonviolence and legality, and, for the first time in the Klan's history, women were accepted as equal members and Catholics were encouraged to apply for membership.[17][32]
NAAWP v. NAACP
In 1980, Duke left the Klan and formed the National Association for the Advancement of White People (NAAWP).
On May 20, 2004, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) became outraged when it discovered that David Duke had chosen New Orleans to host his International NAAWP Conference during the NAACP's Big Easy Rally to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision.[33]
Ernst Zündel and the Zundelsite
Duke has expressed his support for Ernst Zündel, a prominent Holocaust denier, and has made a number of statements in support of Zündel and his Holocaust denial campaign.[34][35][36][37][38] Currently, Duke expresses concern for the aging Zündel on his website calling him a "political prisoner" after Zündel was deported from Canada to Germany.[39] Zündel is being held in a German prison on charges of inciting the masses to ethnic hatred.[40]
Interregional Academy of Personnel Management
In September 2005, Duke received a Ph.D. title in History from the Ukrainian Interregional Academy of Personnel Management (MAUP). His doctoral thesis was titled "Zionism as a Form of Ethnic Supremacism".[41] Duke had previously received an honorary doctorate prior to his PhD. Interregional Academy of Personnel Management is regarded as the main source of anti-Semitic activity and publishing in Ukraine,[42] and its "anti-Semitic actions" were "strongly condemned" by Foreign Minister of Ukraine Borys Tarasyuk and various Jewish interest and anti-racist organizations.[43][44][45][46] Duke has been allowed to teach an international relations and a history course at MAUP.[47]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Black_%28white_nationalist%29 Don Black (photo) (born July 28, 1953) is an American white nationalist neo-Nazi. He is the founder and current webmaster of the "Stormfront" forum and former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). He was convicted in 1981 for attempted armed overthrow of the Dominican government in violation of the U.S. Neutrality Act.
Early life
Black was born in Athens, Alabama, and became an activist at an early age when he began passing out racially charged newspapers White Power and the Thunderbolt at his high school. This led to a decision by the local school board to ban the distribution of political literature. Black countered by mailing literature to student addresses obtained from school handbooks. He said in an interview that growing up in the South during the turmoil of the civil rights movement made him aware from a White political perspective. [1]
In the summer of 1970, after his junior year at Athens High School, Black traveled to Savannah, Georgia, to work on the gubernatorial campaign of J.B. Stoner, a segregationist and leader of the National States' Rights Party (NSRP). It was in this election that Jimmy Carter won the Georgia governorship. Don Black was asked to obtain a copy of the NSRP membership list by Robert Lloyd, a leader of the National Socialist White People's Party, formerly known as the American Nazi Party. [2] At the time, Black was a member of the Party's youth branch, the National Socialist Youth Movement.
Also working on the Stoner campaign was Jerry Ray, the brother of Martin Luther King's assassin James Earl Ray. On July 25, 1970, Jerry Ray shot Black (who was 16 at the time) in the chest with a .38-caliber hollow-point bullet to stop him from taking files from Stoner's campaign office. Ray was acquitted of all charges by claiming at trial he saw Black reaching for a weapon.[3] Black quickly recovered from his wounds and was able to join his party comrades in their annual Labor Day rally on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. He finish his senior year at Madison Academy, an all-White private school in Huntsville.
After high school, Black attended the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa majoring in political science. He took Army ROTC classes and finished the basic program. Later he was denied participation in the advance programs due to his politics.
The Ku Klux Klan and Operation Red Dog
Black joined the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in 1975, one year after David Duke took over the organization. He moved to Birmingham to become the group's state organizer. After the resignation of Duke in 1978, Black became Grand Wizard, or national director, of the Klan. He ran for mayor of Birmingham in 1979 and received 2 percent of the vote.
On April 27, 1981, Black and nine other would-be mercenaries - many recruited from Klan affiliated organizations - were arrested in New Orleans as they prepared to board a boat stocked with weapons and ammunition to invade the island nation Dominica in what they would call Operation Red Dog. However, the local media would label the botched attempt the "Bayou of Pigs,"; a play on words for the unsuccessful 1961 "Bay of Pigs" invasion of Cuba.
Black tried to spin the invasion as an attempt to set up an anti-communist regime later saying, "What we were doing was in the best interests of the United States and its security in the hemisphere, and we feel betrayed by our own government," [4] The invasion would have restored former prime minister Patrick John to the mostly Black Caribbean island. Prosecutors said the real purpose for the invasion would have been to setup tourist, gambling, offshore banking, and timber logging operations on the impoverished island.
Black was sentenced to three years in prison for his role in the attempted invasion and his violation of the Neutrality Act. He was released in 1984, having served his sentence in a federal prison in Texas. During his time in federal prison Black took computer programing classes which ironically led him to establish Stormfront on the Internet years later. [5]
In 1986 Black rethought his commitment to the KKK. Resigning from the group in 1987, he said: "I concluded the Klan could never be a viable political movement again. It had a reputation for random and senseless violence which it could never overcome. There were several events around that time that reinforced that opinion."
He tried once again running for office in Alabama, this time as a Populist Party US Senate candidate.
Florida
In 1987 Don Black moved to West Palm Beach, Florida with hopes of joining a brokerage firm. However his application for a brokerage license was denied because of his past ties to the Klan.
From Stormfront.org to today
In 1995, Black founded Stormfront becoming one of the first white nationalists on the Internet. Stormfront featured the writings of William Luther Pierce and David Duke, as well as works by the Institute for Historical Review. Initially, along with these articles, Stormfront housed a library of white pride, neo-Nazi, and skinhead graphics for downloading, and a number of links to other white nationalist websites.
In 2004, Black joined in signing the New Orleans Protocol on behalf of Stormfront. The New Orleans Protocol seeks to "mainstream" White Nationalism by reducing violence and internecine warfare, and was written by David Duke.
Black has also attended meetings of the Council of Conservative Citizens in the 1990s and 2004. ISBN 0-415-94922-X Don Black again attended CCC meetings in 2005, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Council of Conservative Citizens
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The Council of Conservative Citizens (CofCC) is an American political organization that supports a large variety of localized grassroots causes including white separatism, and which opposes racial integration,[1] multiculturalism and political correctness. Some members of the CofCC board of directors are former leaders of the segregationist Citizen Councils of America, founded by Maj. Bob Patterson, which is sometimes referred to as the white citizens council. It is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, and its most active chapter is in Mississippi. Other states with active chapters include Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and New York. Sporadic CofCC activities occur in other parts of the country as well.
History
The CofCC was founded in 1988 in Atlanta, Georgia, and is now headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. The CofCC was formed by various leaders of the Citizens Councils of America, sometimes called "white citizen's council" by the media, the American Populist Party, and others. Lester Maddox, the late former segregationist governor of Georgia, was a charter member.[2] Gordon Lee Baum is the current CEO. Tom Dover, head of Dover Cylinder Repair is the president. Lenard Wilson, a former Alabama State Committeeman for both Republican and Democratic parties, sits on the CofCC Executive Board. Bill Lord Sr, Carrol County Coroner, former head of the Carrol Academy School Board, also sits of the Executive Board.
In 1997, several members of the CofCC attended an event hosted by Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front party. The delegation from the CofCC presented Le Pen a Confederate flag; which had been flown over the South Carolina state capitol building.[3]
The CofCC became involved in national politics during the 1990s when it was discovered by journalists and researchers that many politicians, including Bob Barr, had belonged to or spoken at CofCC functions (saying later in Barr's case that he found the groups' racial views to be "repugnant," and didn't realize the nature of the group when he agreed to attend), had either attended the group's meetings, corresponded with its leaders, and/or spoken favorably of it.[4] Subsequently it was found that U.S. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott had also spoken at a CofCC meeting. In the ensuing controversy the CofCC was denounced by the Chairman of the Republican National Committee, Jim Nicholson, for holding "racist and nationalist views". Other national and state politicians who have given speeches or attended CofCC meetings include former Senator Jesse Helms, and former governors H. Guy Hunt of Alabama and Kirk Fordice of Mississippi. Former House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt also attended event of the organization's St. Louis predecessor the "Metro-South Citizens Council" shortly before the name change in the mid-1980s an event he has repeatedly referred to as a mistake.[5]
The SPLC and the Miami Herald tallied a further 38 federal, state, and local politicians who appeared at CofCC events between 2000 and 2004.[6]
The ADL states the following politicians are members or have spoke at meetings. Senator Trent Lott, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, Mississippi state senators Gary Jackson, and Dean Kirby, several Mississippi state representatives. Ex-Governors Guy Hunt of Alabama, and Kirk Fordice of Mississippi, also have spoke at CofCC meetings. U.S. Rep. Roger Wicker is said to have attended.[7]
In 2005, the Council of Conservative Citizens held their National Conference in Montgomery, Alabama. George Wallace Jr., an Alabama Public Service Commissioner and former State Treasurer who was then running for Lieutenant Governor, and Sonny Landham, an actor, spoke at the conference.
Issues
The CofCC considers itself a traditional conservative group opposing liberals and neoconservatives and they also seek to promote some of the ideals of the Confederate States of America. Its specific issues include states rights, race relations, and conservative Christianity. They have criticized Martin Luther King,[8] Abraham Lincoln, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Frankfurt School on their website. Consistent with paleoconservatism, they regard American culture as an offshoot of the European cultural tradition. The Council of Conservative Citizens is currently fighting against immigration by non-whites, affirmative action and racial quotas, interracial marriage, homosexuality, forced busing for school integration, and gun control. The CofCC also looks favorably towards European nationalist and anti-immigration groups such as British National Party, Front National, and Vlaams Belang.
In 2005 the CofCC staged the largest protest ever held in front of the offices of the SPLC in Montgomery, Alabama. About 72 members demonstrated and received state-wide publicity. The CofCC has also protested speaking engagements by Morris Dees in Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, Indiana, and South Carolina.
Activities
The CofCC publishes the Citizens Informer newspaper quarterly. Previously edited by the late Samuel Francis, Joel T. LeFevre took over, and the editorial board includes Baum, Virginia Abernethy, Sam G. Dickson, Wayne Lutton, and Jared Taylor. Recent contributors to the Citizen Informer have included Ilana Mercer, Lawrence Auster, and Robert Locke. It has also printed syndicated columns of Joseph Sobran, Patrick Buchanan and Congressional speeches of Ron Paul. Numerous Mississippi businesses advertise in the Citizens Informer, most notably the famous Crystal Grill.
The CofCC has a non-profit foundation, the Conservative Citizens Foundation, which is currently raising money for a Confederate monument project.
Controversy and criticism
The CofCC is considered by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to be part of the "neo-confederate movement." The NAACP, League of United Latin American Citizens, SPLC (which lists it as a "hate group"),[10] Anti-Defamation League, and even some conservative groups, such as Conservative Political Action Conference,[11] consider the Council of Conservative Citizens a racist and homophobic organization, pointing to its purported advocacy of white supremacy. This view is partially based on the CofCC's statement of principles, which condemns racial integration (see item 2), immigration by non-Europeans (see item 2), homosexuality, and interracial marriage (see item 6).[12]
The group has not responded to this charge. The Council of Conservative Citizens often resorts to what opponents assert is slanted and inflammatory language and images to promote its message. An April 2005 photo essay on the CCC website shows gruesome pictures of decapitated, burnt and mangled bodies of white victims of black violence in South Africa, while the caption states that whites may one day become a minority in the United States.[13]
The CofCC responds that anyone who is doing any real conservative activism is labeled a “racist,” because “schoolyard slander is the only thing the left-wing has.” [citation needed]

American Free Press
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Free_Press
The American Free Press (AFP) is a weekly newspaper published in the United States which often focuses on the issue of the role of Zionism in the United States. It was founded in 2001 as the successor to The Spotlight, which ceased publication in 2001 when its parent company, Liberty Lobby, was forced into bankruptcy. The paper was founded by former Spotlight staffers. The Barnes Review is a companion publication to American Free Press that is more focused on Holocaust Denial.
Like The Spotlight, American Free Press proclaims a "populist and nationalist" political orientation and runs opinionated articles and editorials aimed at a mainstream audience across the political spectrum.
Some critics charge that it is a subtle recruiting tool for anti-Semitism and the political extreme right-wing. These critics cite as evidence the paper's classified section, which sometimes includes ads for the National Alliance, Christian Identity materials, and Creativity Movement books including White Man's Bible, Nature's Eternal Religion and On the Brink of a Bloody Racial War [citation needed]. The newspaper rejects the labels "anti-Semitic" and "extreme right" to describe itself, maintaining that its classifieds contain advertisements for many groups which could be called extremist, both left and right, and even those amongst the right-leaning racial/nationalist groups are varied, including Nation of Islam, as well as numerous links to tax protesters. There is also to be found a special preference for advertisements promoting alternative medicine and holistic therapy.
The paper includes articles from mainstream columnists such as Ron Paul, Joe Sobran, and Paul Craig Roberts, as well as articles by its own staff. Articles by Willis Carto, the founder of Liberty Lobby, also appear occasionally.
The American Free Press is opposed to free trade treaties such as NAFTA and the World Trade Organization, has been strongly opposed to all U.S. military interventions since the fall of the Berlin Wall to the present including the Iraq War, supports a large reduction of immigration into the United States, and supports the elimination of the federal income tax and the abolition of the Federal Reserve Bank. The paper takes a special interest in reporting on the activities of the Bilderberg group and on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). It has published several articles supportive of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.
The newspaper is critical of the policies of the state of Israel, and of Zionist lobby groups in the United States such as AIPAC. One of its writers, Michael Collins Piper, hosts a weekday talk show on shortwave radio that is pointedly anti-Zionist.[1]
Coverage of 9/11 conspiracy theories
American Free Press also publishes articles on 9/11 conspiracy theories. One of their ex-contract reporters, Christopher Bollyn, who has been a guest on David Duke radio[2], is sometimes cited for his reporting in the 9/11 Truth Movement. However, Bollyn has also been criticized as a holocaust denier by 9/11 researchers.[3][4] Yet the film Loose Change used material from American Free Press as a source and the film Oil, Smoke & Mirrors contains an interview with Bollyn. Others have criticized Bollyn for inserting claims devoid of actual references. In his alleged reports of 9/11 anomalies, he suggests that the Flight 93 crash site had no aircraft debris [5][6] contrary to numerous other reports with evidence of such debris[7]. In his article about the seismic events of the WTC towers collapses, Bollyn suggests that the seismic spikes preceded the collapses and are thus evidence for "basement bombs." He states,
"The strongest jolts were all registered at the beginning of the collapses, well before the falling debris struck the earth. These unexplained 'spikes' in the seismic data lend credence to the theory that massive explosions at the base of the towers caused the collapses."[8]
Yet other analyses of the WTC seismic data have found no evidence for Bollyn's claim that large spikes preceded the collapses.[9]
James P. Tucker, Jr., who has been chronicling the activities of the Bilderberg Group for over thirty years, is also a reporter with American Free Press and was a longtime Spotlight reporter.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has criticised AFP, in particular Bollyn, for its linking of prominent figures in the Jewish community with the events of September 11, 2001, and in September 2006 accused the publication of disseminating "antisemitic propaganda".[3]
Stormfront (website)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormfront_%28website%29
The Stormfront White Nationalist Community is a white pride Internet forum with the motto "White Pride World Wide". Many organizations describe it as a neo-Nazi organization, and accuse it of promoting racism, hate speech, and violence.[1][2][3] It has been listed as a hate site, and a number of Internet content filters prevent access to it.[4][5] In Germany, access to Stormfront is blocked by some ISPs in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.[6][7]
Stormfront is owned by Don Black, a former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan who was a member of the American Nazi Party in the 1970s.[8][9]In 1981, Black was arrested as he prepared to board a boat stocked with weapons and ammunition to invade Dominica in what he and his accomplices dubbed Operation Red Dog. Black was sentenced to three years in prison for his role in the attempted invasion. He created the website after receiving his first computer training in prison.[10]
Stormfront calls itself a "Racialist discussion board for pro-White activists and anyone else interested in White survival".[11] It has featured the writings of William Pierce, the leader of the National Alliance, and Stormfront administrators have been accused of censoring some posts critical of the National Alliance. [citation needed] Stormfront hosts an online copy of Adolf Hitler's book Mein Kampf and describes Hitler as a man who "refused to surrender".[12] A minority of Stormfront users describe themselves as Neo-Nazis.[citation needed]
Don Black and Stormfront have advocated the use of violence.[13][2][14] Black and others on Stormfront often discuss the possibility of a future race war, such as the one depicted in the novel The Turner Diaries. In 2006, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported a discussion on Stormfront which encouraged white nationalists to join the military, in order to learn the skills necessary for winning such a race war.[15][16] In a 1998 interview for the newspaper New Times, Black said, "We want to take America back. We know a multicultural Yugoslav nation can't hold up for too long. Whites won't have any choice but to take military action. It's our children whose interests we have to defend."[9]
Stormfront in the news
In May 2003, Fox News Channel host Bill O'Reilly reported on a segregated prom being held in Georgia and posted a poll on his website asking his viewers if they would send their own kids to one. A link to the poll was posted on Stormfront and messages subsequently posted there implied that a mass of readers had duly voted in order to skew the poll in favor of segregation. O'Reilly reported this the following week and refused to read the final results due to this, citing Stormfront as the culprit by name and referring to it as a "Neo-Nazi organization."[2][17]
In August 2005, a candidate for city council of Charlotte, North Carolina dropped out of the race after it was revealed that he had posted on Stormfront. Republican Doug Hanks had posted more than 4,000 times over the previous three years using the name "Snarkie". In one comment he called African Americans "rabid beasts". Hanks, a writer and actor from Connecticut, said that his postings were intended to gain the trust of Stormfront users in order to help him write a novel. "I did what I thought I needed to do to establish myself as a credible white nationalist."[18]

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