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What Wayne Madsen is reporting is very disturbing, that the Palin candidacy is plugged into some of the most hateful Right-wing extremist networks in the country. If this is true, it underscores what Deepak Chopra has recently said in his blog, that Palin serves as a focal point and funnel for our collective Shadow, which he defines as "that part of the psyche that hides out of sight, countering our aspirations, virtue, and vision with qualities we are ashamed to face: anger, fear, revenge, violence, selfishness, and suspicion of 'the other.'"
Madsen's website is accessible to subscribers only, so I am only posting an excerpt. You will have to go to http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/ and register to read the whole article.
At the same time, I want to point out that some whom we call "Right-Wing extremists", such as David Duke, a very popular political figure in Louisiana and Mississippi, are anything but McCain or Palin fans. Curious to hear what Duke was saying about both Palin and McCain, I listened to one of his recent broadcasts and was somewhat surprised at how critical he was of the McCain movement, Duke outright calling McCain a sellout to the country. In his opinion, both major parties no longer represent the interests of the American people.
So the bottom-line is that there is not a united Right-Wing front favoring McCain. Duke's people, at least, are not easily swayed by GOP propaganda and rhetoric.
Here is the Madsen excerpt:
September 10, 2008 -- Palin's adviser base and political affiliations are Klan and neo-Nazi
WMR has learned from informed sources in Washington, DC who have tracked for a number of years the activities of the Confederacy restoration movement, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and white supremacist organizations that key players in a number of these groups are actively advising and financing the campaign of GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, the Governor of Alaska.
Many observers have pointed out that McCain's campaign and the GOP somehow failed to properly vet Palin's involvement in various scandals as both mayor of Wasilla, Alaska and in year barely two years as Governor of Alaska. However, it is precisely because of Palin's links to extreme right-wing organizations and neo-Confederates that she was chosen as McCain's running mate. The Republicans have so perfected the theft of elections, having engineered presidential election victories in 2000 and 2004 and congressional and statehouse wins in 2002 and 2004, and suppression of Democratic victories in 2006, they are confident that they will the best chance of seeing a Ku Klux Klan- and white supremacist-backed politician get into the White House since William McAdoo, the Klan's candidate, was almost nominated for President on the Democratic ticket in 1924.
The GOP is so confident of their ability to affect election results they have decided to keep Palin away from the media and only produce her during well-scripted and tightly-controlled campaign events.
Palin's and her husband's dalliances with the Alaska Independence Party (AIP), which advocates the secession of Alaska from the United States is the tip of a web of organizations that count among their membership extreme right-wing elements, many of whom also participate in Republican Party candidate selection and the lobbying of Republican members of Congress on behalf of Big Tobacco, Big Mining, Big Agra, and the small arms and defense industry clients.
The AIP is part of a network of extreme right-wing secessionists around the country, many of whom are linked to white supremacist causes. In 2006, the AIP participated in the first North American Secessionist Convention in Burlington, Vermont. Also attracted to the convention were a number of Southern secessionist movements, including the League of the South; the Southern Caucus; the Southern National Congress; and Christian Exodus, which advocates the secession of South Carolina as an independent republic governed by the Ten Commandments as the foundation of law. (to read the full article, click here and sign up at WMR)
