Posted on 01/20/2012 12:26:20 PM PST by mnehring
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.” While a judge refused to subpoena Paul, Don Black would come back to haunt him many years later.
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.
On the day the group of white supremacists were supposed to travel to Dominica, they were arrested by ATF agents and were found with over thirty automatic weapons, shotguns, rifles, handguns, dynamite, ammunition, a confederate flag and a Nazi flag. The plan would be dubbed “The Bayou Of Pigs” after the failed invasion of Cuba.
The leader of the group, Michael Perdue, would plead guilty to planning the coup and turned state’s evidence. Perdue would testify that several other people helped organize and fund the coup and that two Texas politicians were aware of the plan. Among those Perdue implicated were infamous white supremacist, David Duke, former Texas Governor, John Connally and Congressman, Ron Paul whom he claimed knew about the plot. Connally was credited with helping Paul win his first congressional election.
A judge refused to subpoena Paul and Connally despite the fact that Perdue had claimed that both of them were aware of the plot. Don Black’s friend and fellow KKK Grand Wizard, David Duke was called to testify before a grand jury but claimed that he would take the Fifth Amendment and never testified. While Duke was never charged with a crime, several books points to Duke as the organizer who connected Perdue to the other mercenary Klansmen and the people who funded their endeavor. (1 2 3) Everyone else implicated by Perdue was charged with the plot.
Perdue implicated three men as funders of the plot, L.E. Matthews of Jackson, Mississippi, James C. White of Houston, and David Duke’s close friend and backer, J.W. Kirkpatrick. Kirpatrick would kill himself before he could stand trial and White and Matthews would be acquitted in court. Former Prime Minister of Dominica, Patrick Johns would be sentenced to 12 years in prison for his part of the plot. Michael Perdue, Don Black and seven other Klansmen would be sentenced to only 3 years in prison.
Ron Paul has never made a statement denying knowledge of the plot despite the fact that he was implicated by Perdue and almost subpoenaed. Two of the people involved in the plot, Don Black and David Duke have gone on to become two of the most prominent white supremacists of the modern era, and also two of Paul’s most controversial supporters.
Top 10 Racist Ron Paul Friends, Supporters
Paul would be once again tied to Don Black 26 years after the Bayou Of Pigs. After it was revealed that Black donated $500 dollars to the Ron Paul Presidential campaign, Ron Paul’s campaign refused to give it back. Paul was photographed with Black and his son by David Duke’s former assistant, Jamie Kelso who was an organizer for Ron Paul and the owner of white supremacist sites, WhiteNewsNow.com and TheWhiteRace.com and a moderator for Black’s neo-Nazi website, Stormfront.
Black would become one of Paul’s most enthusiastic supporters and helped rally the white supremacist community around Paul, through Stormfront. Paul would praise another Operation Red Dog planner, David Duke in his newsletters and Duke would return the favor calling him “our king” and endorsing him for President.
This would not be the first time Paul was tied to white supremacists. In 80s, Paul claimed that the best source of his campaign donations came from a list from notorious neo-Nazi, Willis Carto’s publication, The Spotlight. In the 90s, Paul’s newsletters were originally discovered from an online neo-Nazi directory. As recently as 2006, Paul was scheduled to appear on David Duke’s white supremacist protégé, James Edwards’ radio show, “The Political Cesspool.”
Ron Paul’s White Supremacist Radio Connections
Given the scrutiny given to presidential candidates, shouldn’t Paul’s connection to an attempted violent invasion of a small island by white supremacists be re-investigated. If the media investigates every accusation of affairs or sexual harassment for Herman Cain or Newt Gingrich, shouldn’t they investigate accusations that Paul knew about a white supremacist plot to violently overthrow the government of a small Black island, especially with Paul’s other connections to white supremacists?
http://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/14/us/judge-denies-connally-subpoena-in-trial-of-3-alleged-mercenaries.html
This makes Newt’s marrige stuff look like a game of kindergarden tiddlywinks.
Ever thought about directing some of that hate towards the current occupant of the oval office?
It is primary season, this is time we make sure we don’t have some crackpot on our ticket who will ensure the current occupant doesn’t get 4 more years.
I remember reading of this when it happened. I believe it was reported as a way to set up a gambling mecca and tax haven.
Course there was no mention of Mr. Paul being involved.
Kinda sounds like the movie The Expendables with racism added...
Right..and the judge is supposed to subpoena John Connally on the basis of this idiots word only?
The more this information is made public, the better for our more serious candidates. Thank you.
Something like your Nazis coming home to roost?
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.
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LOL Sounds like your prototypical libertarian paradise where any kind of debauchery is permitted. That’s how you know Paul that nazi pig was in on it!
Look at the job being applied for, Commander in Chief of the US Armed Forces. Looking at that list, we can pretty much immediately eliminate the crackpot. The good-hair progressive is out, we need more than magic underwear defense. That leaves two moderately Conservative candidates, both with baggage and issue problems. One has a greater track record of legislative success and elective success than the other. But either of those two would be far more trustworthy with our troops than the crackpot and aqua net.
Ron Paul is not a racist or White supremacist. He is a Libertarian and part of the Libertarian idea is small government and limited government power.
The White Supremacists (half of which are FBI moles & informants) are against federal government power as they resent the 60s civil rights laws and are always getting arrested or hassled by the feds. They sometimes are for Libertarian candidates due to the limited government power platform. Just because some guy sends a contribution to Paul does not mean Paul adopts the ideas of a sender. I’m not a Paul supporter, but I don’t agree with accusing someone of racism on bad evidence.
The 80s TV show Wise Guy did a send up of this story. They also did a send up of the Colombians who used Arkansas landing strips to smuggle in coke, though they placed the strips in Tennessee. Few people had heard of these capers and believed they were the creation of CBS’s writers.
..and by God, he is going to get it even if he has to get some sheet wearing thugs to kill a bunch of third world people to do it.
Let's be real though, Paul isn't exactly a Libertarian purist on the idea of small, limited government. His views on the incorporation theory of the bill of rights fly in the face of Libertarian ideals. Paul believes that the Bill of Rights do not limit States from interfering with your liberty, only the federal government. Paul's ideas would result in not a limited government, but 50 unique state tyrannies, none of which, need to pay attention to the bill of rights when it comes to limiting your liberty.
He isn't a Libertarian nor Conservative hero. He is his own animal.
The 18 year-old slackers, dopers and porn addicts who support Ron Paul don’t give a crap about any of this. They believe he will legalize their obsessions and NOTHING else matters.
Wait until they get a big shock when they find out in Paul's world, they would just end up with 50 State tyranny, not all that liberty they expect. Each State would set their own regulations, Bill of Rights be damned. They think some of the anti-smoking nazis are bad now, wait until things like the 4th Amendment won't apply to the states.
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