More 'White Nationalists' and Other Far-Right Extremists Flock to Paul's Campaign
While the Democrats worry about a black-white divide opening up among its ranks, the Republicans must by now be wondering if one of their candidates is becoming as poisonous to them as kryptonite is to Superman -- even though he has little chance of winning the GOP nomination.
Despite mounting adverse publicity over racist articles published in Ron Paul's newsletter, or, perhaps, because of it, a growing number of self-avowed "white nationalists" and other far-right extremists -- some with ties to the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups -- continue to flock to Paul's long-shot campaign.
The Liberty Lobby, perhaps best known for publishing its radical-right newspaper, The Spotlight,from 1975 to 2001, was forced into bankruptcy as a result of a lawsuit brought against it by, ironically, a rival far-right group.
Carto, now 81, publishes another newspaper, the American Free Press, which, like its predecessor, focuses on conspiracy theories and economics -- and is virulently anti-Israel. A Holocaust denier, Carto's anti-Semitism was heavily influenced by philosopher Francis Parker Yockey…who sympathized with Nazi war criminals even as he prosecuted them at the post-World War II Nuremberg war-crimes trials in 1946.
Edgar Steele: A Racist Lawyer Who Defended Aryan Nations Leader
Another "white nationalist" backer of the Paul campaign is Edgar J. Steele, a self-styled "attorney for the damned," who's best known as the chief defense counsel for Richard Butler, the late leader of the Aryan Nations Church, which lost its Idaho compound in 2000 in a civil lawsuit that was brought against the neo-Nazi group after Aryan Nations guards attacked a woman and her son outside the compound.
Steele now runs a Web site called “Conspiracy Pen Pal,” where he posts his anti-Semitic and racist rants as well as his support for Ron Paul. According to the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, "Steele’s open association with white supremacists has become well-known, and he is a sought-after speaker at conferences of right-wing extremists, including those conducted by the National Alliance, Volksfront, and the Institute for Historical Review."
Clay Douglas: An Anti-Semitic Biker Well Known in Militia Circles
Yet another supporter of Congressman Paul is Clay Douglas. While not known as an anti-black racist per se, Douglas is anti-Semitic -- virulently so -- and is well known in militia circles.
For the past nine years, Douglas has been editing and publishing a militia-friendly magazine called The Free American, which, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, is "a compendium of conspiracy theories about hot topics from the 'New World Order' to the Oklahoma City bombing, weird notions about health and sickness, survivalist paranoia and, especially in recent years, wildly anti-Semitic rants and ideology."
An avid motorcyclist, Douglas was a biker with a pen, writing bad poetry and getting articles published in almost a dozen biker lifestyle magazines, including Easyriders and Motorcycle News.
Douglas also has a criminal record. He was sentenced in 1972 to seven years in a Texas prison after being arrested for possession of marijuana by an undercover narcotics agent. Today, Douglas suggests that drugs are part of a government plot.
Douglas first endorsed the anti-Semitic forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in the early 1990s, and in the years since has, like many in the so-called "Patriot" movement, adopted a wholesale hatred of Jews.
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