I listen to rightwing radio all the time. Originally I just wanted to learn more about rightwingers and what makes them tick. Well, it's been surprising. I've come to the conclusion that racism is the driving force behind just about everything the GOP does.

Mind you, I'm not trying to say liberals aren't racist, because that isn't true at all. Far from it.

But there's almost no difference between the KKK, the nation's oldest terrorist group, and the GOP. There really isn't.

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So the modern day republican party needs to survive by appealing to the worst racist instincts of their brain-dead, half-witted clientele? Sure! And the capitol of New York is in Albany. Tell me something I don't allready know.

There was a time, not so very long ago, when both parties would refuse to sink into the gutter of race baiting politics. A generation ago the south was solidly democratic. Not because they believed in the directon their party took with the advent of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. These "boll weavil" democrats refused, as a matter of historical habit, to have anything to do with the party of Abraham Lincoln. Remember, he freed the slaves - always a point of contention with these assholes.

All of that changed with Richard Milhous Nixon. During the campaign of 1968 the Trickster and his cohourts made the proverbial deal with the devil. They assured these dissatisfied "Dixiecrats" that a Nixon administration wouldn't have alot of New York jew boys comin' down there to tell them how to run their lives. They were promised that the last thing Dick Nixon wanted to do was to send their kids to school with a bunch of niggers!

It was called the "Southern Strategy" and it worked. It allowed Nixon just enough of an edge to defeat then vice-president Hubert Humphrey in an election that, aside from the election of 2000, is one of the darkest chapters in American history.

It worked then and it's working still.

Pray for peace.

Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
tomdegan@frontiernet.net

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THE SELLING OF PREFERRED LIST TO RACIST ORGANIZATIONS IS A MARKETING STRATEGY BASED ON WE SEE AS PART AND PARTIAL OF THE "RE-PUG-NICAN'S" MANTRA OF MONEY, MONEY, AND MORE MONEY..." WHY STOP WITH THE SELLING OF RACIST LITERATURE, PROPAGANDA,ETC WHEN ALL AMERICAN ASSETS ARE "FOR SALE..." ; THE PORT SECURITY, HIGHWAYS, LAND, OIL/GAS, TECHNOLGIES-LASER, MISSILES, MILTARY TANK HARDWARE, SOFTWARE/HARDWARE, ETC...THIS EPISODE SHOULD NOT BE A REVELATION TO ANY "LIVING AMERICAN, NOT THE AMERICAN THAT IS TOO RICH , TOO POOR, OR REALLY DOES NOT GIVE A "TURD BLOSSOM" ABOUT OUR BELOVED COUNTRY...

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Focus not on what Joe Sixpack does. Who cares if he rides around in his pickup with a confederate flag bumper sticker?

THe real evil is the overclass manipulation of American political culture through PseudoPopulist talk radio, TV news and newspapers and PseudoLeft magazines and websites.

Know thy enemy!

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Looks like the Neo-Liberal Big Tent to me!

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...it all came back to me. The SUVs with W stickers have replaced the pickups with gun racks and Confederate flags, but the sentiment and mind-set is the same. Who tries to keep people from voting? I was appalled at the rampant hypocrisy inthe area. Church parking lots filled every Sunday - the same folks practising hate and terror upon their neighbors. I was sick of it when I left. It is strange that 'Republican' has become such a bad title. Strange, sad and sickening...

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Joe Six-Pack's victims do (ask Cheney, Schwerner & Goodman)

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There's a faction which has taken over most of the Republican party which panders to the religious right, a loosely-formed conglomeration of pulpits and half-wits which has evolved to indulge its collective members in the most uniformly heinous exercise of bigotry and hatred since the Old Testament was copied out by hand in a foreign language.

No quarrel there.

The fact that it buys a specialized list from a company willing to take money for its trouble in procuring the names from sources far and wide, savory and un- is no surprise, and not unique to these or any other lowdown dirty scoundrels. In fact, it isn't beneath your own church, your college, your workplace, your lawyer, your physician or your supermarket.

Our names are parsed in hundreds of ways, and sold daily, without a by-your-leave. There's enough to get ticked about without wasting energy saying this is true of people who read religious smut as well as people who read garden magazines.

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The article has a glaring hole. It establishes no direct link between the Republican Governors Association, or anyone else, and the racists groups that submit subcription lists to Response Unlimited. For the article's information to be of any value, one needs to show that the RGA knowingly bought lists of subscribers to the racist magazines. Does the RGA purchase the list of Spotlight subscribers? We don't know.

Following the articles logic, if you shop at Borders, and Borders carries some books written by racists, then you are a racist. Guilt by very loose association. Or perhaps you shop at the local farmer's market, and some of market's suppliers are racist, therefore you are also a racist.

This is simply lazy journalism. Susy Buchanan surfed the internet for a few minutes, made some insinuations and arrived at an unsupported argument.

I, personally, have little doubt that the GOP and racism go hand in hand. But sloppy journalism doesn't answer real questions.

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I think it is incongrous to label just members of the GOP as being racist. There are plenty of racists floating in the ranks of the Democrats.

I find it disgusting that the media has failed to cover the hate filled messages that many immigrant activists are spewing.

I guess it is polirically correct when Latino liberals call all whites racists and espouse genocide. It wouldn;t be smart to stand up to them because then they will not vote for your party!

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The industrial and political leadership (particularly the right wing) of this country always had a nice cozy relationship with fascists.

Read Old Nazis, the New Right and the Republican Party. by Russ Bellant. Read how in May, 17, 1985 Reagan, at the Shoreham Hotel, got a standing ovation from the National Republican Heritage Groups (Nationalities) Council (NRHG[N]C). This group operates under the auspices of the Republican National Committee. Reagan even toasted them.

The founding chair of the Council was Laszo Pasztor, and an activist in various Hungarian rightist and Nazi-linked groups. In WWII Pasztor was a leader of the youth group of the Arrow Cross, the Hungarian equivalent of the German Nazi Party.

One of the organizations Pasztor approached to help form the Council was the Bulgarian National Front, headed by Ivan Docheff. As early as 1971, the GOP was warned that the National Front was beyond the pale. A Jack Anderson column quoted another Bulgarian-American organization, the conservative Bulgarian National Committee, which labeled Doscheff's National Front as "fascist". Neither the GOP nor the Nixon campaign took action. Professor Spas T. Raidin, a former official of the National Front, says the group grew out of an organization in Bulgaria that in the 1930's and 1940's was "pro-Nazi and profascist."

Docheff was the found of a Bulgarian youth group in the early 1930's and he met with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movements leading philosopher, Alfred Rosenberg, in 1934 shortly after the Nazis came to power. Docheff then established the Bulgarian Legion, a pro-Hitler group that agitated for government action against Bulgarian Jews.

After the war, Docheff formed the Bulgarian National Front (BNF).

When interviewed on the BNF's role in the Reagan-Bush campaign, Doscheff said that twenty-five U.S. chapters of the Front were active the re-election effort: "If you want to know who the local chapter leaders of the Bulgarian National Front are, find out who heads the local Bulgarian unit of the Reagan-Bush campaign. They are the same persons."

Although the warnings by the Bulgarian National Committee and the subsequent investigation of Docheff have provided adequate levels of warning to the GOP, it has continued to maintain ties to the Bulgarian National Front. Even while the U.S. government was investigating Docheff on war crime charges, he was a pre-election guest of the White House in September, 1984, arranged through Republican Heritage Groups Council executive director Radi Slavoff.

Attending the Reagan speech at the Shoreham was another Pasztor choice, "Major General" Nicholas Nazarenko. He is still consumed with his wartime hatred of Russians and Jews. He organizes annual "Captive Nations" marched in New York City every summer, in which he appears in Cossack military dress.

The evening after Reagan's speech he showed author Russ Bellant a huge suitcase of materials he carries with him as part of his political activity. It was filled with literature on the "Jewish Problem," Cossack publications, and memorabilia from his service in WWII - on the German side. He described his involvement with the German army as an officer in special Cossack units, battle by battle. His final military action was in an SS Cossack unit under German General Helmuth von Pannitz. In order to prove his sincerity, he showed his German officer's ID, and photographs of him and his unit. There were swastikas on the uniform. Nazarenko was active in Richard Nixon's 1968 and 1972 campaigns, and his Cossack veterans group is one of two Cossackian components of the Republican Heritage Groups Council.

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Alex Aksenov, another Cossack delegate to the Republican Heritage Groups Council convention, spoke about his past, volunteering that he was in Berlin from 1939-1945." He says that Jews are his "ideological enemies."

Nazarenko claims that Germans didn't commit atrocities in WWII and that Jews didn't die from gas chambers - they just died from starvation and disease.

Valerian Trifa was a leader o the Iron Guard in Bucharest in 1941. The Guard was a pro-Nazi Romanian Group linked to the SS by liaison officers such as Otto von Bolschwing of the German SS. In January 1941 the Guard, with SS backing, attempted a coup. Trifa was one of the leaders who instigated crowds on a rampage that sought out Jews for gruesome deaths. Three days of chaos ensued. During those three days, witnesses charged, Trifa personally went into a jail and killed Jews who had been put into a cell.


From the jacket cover of Trading with the Enemy by Charles Higham:

"For almost forty years the facts behind the extraordinary true story of Nazi-American wartime business relations have been buried in government files. Now at last Charles Higham, drawing his account from the Freedom of Information Act, has given us a full-scale picture of American businessmen who dealt with Nazis right through World War II. Among those who traded on both sides of the war were certain executives Standard Oil of New Jersey, the Chase Bank, the Texas Company, ITT, Ford, and Sterling Products. And helping them with their dealings were such government officials as a secretary of commerce, an assistant secretary of state, and ambassadors to France and Great Britain.

The Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, was Nazi-controlled but presided over by an American, even in 1944. At one of its yearly meetings, the bank's president sat down with his German, Japanese, Italian, and American executive staff to discuss shipments of 378 million dollars in gold sent to the bank by the Nazi government for use by its leaders after the war. This was gold looted from the banks of Austria, Belgium, and Czechoslovakia, or melted down from teeth fillings, eyeglass frames, and weddings rings of murdered Jews.

But that is only one of the stories. Standard Oil of New Jersey executives shipped the Nazi oil through Switzerland while Allied forces endured restrictions of supplies and shortages abounded. Ford Motor Company trucks were built for Nazi troops with authorization from Ford directors in the U.S. The chairman of ITT supplied much of Hitler's communications system. The list of those who chose Business as Usual - even when the business was with their country's enemy - is long and shocking."

You'll never see this on an add for Ford (from Higham's book):

He (Henry Ford) admired Hitler from the beginning, when the future Fuhrer was a struggling and obscure fanatic. He shared with Hitler a fanatical hatred of Jews. He first announced his anti-Semitism in 1919, in the New York World, when he expressed a pure fascist philosophy. He said, 'International financiers are behind all war. They are what is called the international Jew: German-Jews, French-Jews, English Jews, American-Jews...the Jew is a threat....'

...Ford's book, The International Jew was issued in 1927. A virulent anti-Semitic tract, it was still being widely distributed in Latin America and Arab countries as late as 1945. Hitler admired the book and it influenced him deeply. Visitors to Hitler's headquarters at the Brown House in Munich noticed a large photograph of Henry Ford hanging in his office. Stacked high on the table outside were copies of Ford's book. As early as 1923, Hitler told an interviewer from the Chicago Tribune, 'I wish that I could send some of my shock troops to Chicago and other big American cities to help.' He was referring to stories that Ford would run for presiden

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Ford was on of the few people singled out for praise in Mein Kaumpf. At Hitler's trial in 1924, Erhard Auer of the Bavarian Diet testified that Ford had given Hitler money.'

And be sure to read pg. 163, where you will read:

"Early in 1934, Irenee du Pont and Knudson reached their explosion point over President Roosevelt. Along with friends of the Morgan Bank and General Motors, certain Du Point backers financed a coup d' etat that would overthrow the President with the aid of a $3 million-funded army of terrorists, modeled on the fascist movement in Paris known as the Croix de Feu. Who was to be the figurehead for this ill-advised scheme, which would result in Roosevelt being forced to take orders from businessmen as part of a fascist government or face the alternative of imprisonment and execution? Du Pont men allegedly held an urgent series of meetings with the Morgans. They finally settled on one of the most popular soldiers in America, General Smedley Butler of Pennsylvania. Butler, a brave hero, had been awarded two Congressional Medals of Honor and his brilliant career as commandant of the Marine Corps had made him a legend. He would, the conspiratorial group felt, make an ideal replacement for Roosevelt if the latter proved difficult...

...The backers of the bizarre conspiracy selected a smooth attorney, Gerald MacGuire, to bring word of the plan to General Butler. MacGuire agreed Butler would be the perfect choice. Butler had attacked the New Deal in public speeches.

MacGuire met with Butler at the latter's house in Newton Square, Pennsylvania, and in a hotel suite nearby. With great intensity the fascist attorney delivered the scheme to the general. Butler was horrified. Although there were many things about Roosevelt he disliked, a coup d'etat amounted to treason, and Butler was nothing if not loyal to the Constitution. However, he disclosed nothing of his feelings. With masterful composure he pretended interest and waited to hear more...
...After MacGuire left on the second occasion, the general got in touch with the White House. He told Roosevelt of the entire plan.

Roosevelt's state of mind can scarcely be imagined. He knew that in view of the backing from high banking sources, this matter could not be dismissed as some crackpot enterprise that had no chance of success. He was well aware of the powerful forces of fascism that could easily make America an ally of Nazism even that early, only one year after Hitler had risen to power.

On the other hand, Roosevelt also knew that if he were to arrest the leaders of the houses of Morgan and Du Pont, it would create an unthinkable national crisis in the midst of a depression and perhaps another Wall Street crash. Not for the first or last time in his career, he was aware that there were powers greater than he in the United States.

Nevertheless, the plan had to be deactivated immediately. The answer was to leak it to the press. The newspapers ran the story of the attempted coup on the front page, but generally ridiculed is as absurd and preposterous...."

A special House committee was set up to investigate. As Higham states: "It was four years before the committee dared to publish it's report in a white paper that was marked for 'restricted circulation.' They were forced to admit that 'certain persons made an attempt to establish a fascist organization in the country...[The] committee was able to verify all the pertinent statements made by General Butler.'

In light of the above, consider the import of Roosevelt's words:

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power." --FDR

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To the above three posters, nice job researching and keep it up. There is a host of great literature on the old European Right, the Republican "captive nations" advocates during the cold war, and anti-communist militarism in the USA. Keep researching. There is a ton of great updated stuff on old and new times and the internet is a great source as well!

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