Kevin Ryan: Ghosting for Griffin to Keep the Truther Con Afloat?

 I rarely write about trutherism these days.  In fact one of my greatest desires is to never write about trutherism again.  Alas, the fraudulent antics of Craig Lazo his ex and his fellow scammers make that impossible until they delete all the material they should never have published...10 years ago.  Anyone who'd like me to utterly loose my interest in what the truther con is doing, should probably talk to Lazo about that.

That said, it's come to my attention truther icon David Ray Griffin is about to release another book.  Lazo's buddy "pat" at Screw Loose Change writes:

David Ray Griffin Comes Up With a Brilliant Way to Dupe People Into Buying His New Book

Gotta hand it to him, this is a real con artist at work:

Not make it obvious, by means of the title, the cover, or the table of contents--that this is ultimately a 9-11 truth book.

However, you can see the fly rapidly heading towards the ointment in this following sentence:

    The hope is that some people, not being aware of my notoriety, read enough of the first part of the book to see that I am not an idiot.

But "pat aka Brainless" hasn't done his due diligence.  Either that or he, like most of the scammers, is invested in pushing one message.  It's really hard to tell.  Ages ago, in some long deleted comments thread, he or one of his fans tried to claim I had Nazis sympathies.  That was so whew! 'out of nowhere', I always suspected he had an agenda(alternately a certain idiot was feeding him lies).  Learning in early 2010 he'd always known that the Holocaust denying, alt-right troll "Killtown" was Craig Lazo only confirmed my suspicions "pat" was a disingenuous political operator.

Anyway, the point is "pat" either has an agenda, or is thinking readers aren't smart enough to check his research.  In the link to the announcement at Journal of 9/11 Studies, one can download David Ray Griffin's announcement. Except it wasn't written by David Ray Griffin.  It was written by Kevin Ryan.

The idea DRG was writing anything should have been suspect.  Even "pats" terminally gullible blog co-owner states a common thought:

James B. said...
I didn't know he was still alive.

27 September, 2016 12:56

He's still alive, but last we heard he has serious health problems, though they cleared up a bit so he could have an interview with White Supremacist supporter

and Holocaust denier Kevin Barrett, as relayed by one of Craig Lazo's penpals who is rumoured to run the Harvard 9/11 truth email list:

David Ray Griffin, Health Recovered, Gives Interview on Kevin Barrett Show

Submitted by gretavo on Mon, 2011-05-16 13:35.

With my standard disclaimer that I do not trust Kevin Barrett very much, here is a repost of the 911blogger post about this, which I copy along with comments because of the evidence therein of fake truth infiltrators including Victronix, YT, Vulich, SnowCrash, Jules, kdub, Gareth and jimd3100 (a few of whom are no doubt sockpuppets of some of the others) doing everything they can to discourage people from listening to Prof. Griffin.  Hear the interview here.

So I guess it's nice of Ryan to step in and take over writing duties.

Now someone is going to say,  well maybe Ryan wrote the announcement for Griffin.  Sorry, if DRG is up to writing a WHOLE BLOODY BOOK, I think he could manage a glorified press release.

Next, Ryan was using his computer and the PDF settings.  Yeah, sure, whatever floats your truther con boat.  This is the same Kevin Ryan who claimed to be a whistle-blower after being fired from UL laboratories.  He was also involved in the previous publishing fraud the Bentham Paper, which for some reason I don't have a blog about.  Must correct that.  Until then Rationalwiki does a good job covering the basics:

Membership of a journal's editorial board can be quite prestigious, but when people realised what sort of company they were dealing with and withdrew their acceptance, Bentham kept their names on the masthead and ignored all demands for removal.^[1] In April 2009, the Open Chemical Physics Journal published an article advocating 9/11 conspiracy theories without anyone bothering to inform the journal's editor, who promptly resigned.^[5]

This aroused the interest of the curious, and Bentham was busted in 2009 accepting a paper for the Open Information Science Journal consisting of random sentences computer-generated with SCIgen, whose imaginary authors both worked at the Center for Research in Applied Phrenology (CRAP).^[6][7] The editor of said journal also quit when he found out what the publisher had done.^[8] Bentham's director of publication claimed they merely sent a fake acceptance to flush out the hoaxer,^[4] but no-one believes him.

So, it's not a surprise Ryan would ghost DRG announcement of his soon to be published book.  The only question that remains is, given how fragile DRG is health wise and given Ryan willingness to engage in less than ethical behaviour in the past, did Ryan actually write DRG new book?

It wouldn't be illegal, but it would raise questions of why he would do it.  Why not, instead, co-write it?  It would accomplish the same thing--issue a new truther propaganda piece to rally the troops--but without the embarrassment of exposure.

Who can tell what goes through the minds of "truther" frauds. Even after I knew the entire "truther" movement was a scam, it baffled me how stupidly it was orchestrated. (I am assuming they didn't want anyone to discover it was a fraud.  I could be wrong....)

 They literally only got as far as they did by a combination of riding the anti-war/anti-Bush wave and pure dumb luck.  As for this new Griffin(Ryan?) book, it'll be interesting to see how many copies sell.   A Google search of the title shows no conspiracy site related searches apart from Journal of 9/11 Studies and Brainless' SLC blog at this time.

On Rand Paul, Tea Parties, and the White Supremacist Roots

This wee gem is from an antiracist.org pdf March last year:

http://antiracist.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/TTT-V23-n3-summer-2010.pdf

The connection of Rand Paul and his politics to the "truth" movement might appear tangential, but Lew Rockwell's involvement in Craig Lazo aka "Killtown"s 911movement.org forum prove the Ron Paul political machine was deeply invested in "truther" propaganda:

 http://jennyquarx.blogspot.com/2014/02/lew-rockwell-gullible-libertarian-or.html

It's unlikely the apple falls far from the tree and expected Rand Paul will follow in daddy's footsteps, using the conspiracy crowd  to front his Tea Party friendly agenda.   This excerpt by Michael Novick explores how racist dogwhistle politics is integral to libertarian philosophy Rand Paul is pushing--a timely observation given long time "truther" leaders like Barrett have openly endorsed White Power politicians like Merlin Miller of the American Freedom Party(American Third Position):

Merlin Miller is a filmmaker and West Point graduate who has been fighting illuminati-dominated Hollywood for many years by putting out wholesome films rather than the usual toxic, degenerate trash. He ran for President with the American Third Position Party. (And I voted for him.)

And the Nazi scumbag LOST...to no one's surprise.

--------------------------------------

 On Rand Paul, Tea Parties, and the White Supremacist Roots
of Private Enterprise and Privatization
 by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART)

The victory of Tea Party and militia supporter Rand Paul as Republican nominee
for the U.S. Senate in Kentucky signaled the mainstreaming of allegedly ‘anti-
establishment’ right wing forces. It also prompted a lot of liberal and conservative attention to Paul’s support of private property rights against government, because of his “philosophizing” that the section of the Civil Rights Act which prohibits racial discrimination at restaurants and hotels violated the “free speech” rights of private business owners.

Rand Paul and his supporters claimed he was misrepresented. He wrote, “I was asked if I supported the Civil Rights Act of 1964. I stated that ‘I like the Civil Rights Act in the sense that it ended discrimination in all public domains, and I’m all in favor of that.’ In response, the interviewer asked me about private domains, and I did what typical candidates don’t - I discussed some philosophical issues with government mandating rules on private businesses. I think the federal government has often gone too far in regulating private citizens and businesses.” He claims that he was simply displaying atypical honesty. But these words make clear that Paul was simply using the same weasel code words of “private property rights’ and ‘state’s rights’ that were widely used at the time of the original debates over civil rights to defend racial segregation and de facto US apartheid. Paul specifically explains that “private clubs” restrict membership on a racial basis, which he says is “abhorrent” but protected.

What this really exposes is the covert white supremacy inherent in private
enterprise and in the privatization of public institutions in the US. For
example, in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education finding racial
segregation in public schools unconstitutional, there was massive ‘white
flight’ into private schools and suburban school districts. Ever since, through
vouchers and charter schools, there has been an ongoing effort to divert public
tax funding for education into private hands. This has been paralleled, after
the rebellions of the 60s, by the flight of private industry and capital (again
with tax subsidies) from the inner cities of the north and midwest and the
segregated old Confederate states of the US South into the global south. The
bitter consequences of these publicly supported private policies can be seen in
the destruction and depopulation of Detroit and New Orleans. We see it in LA,
where Black and Mexicano families are being seduced by for-profit schools
to escape the devastation of public schools starved by privatization and racist
budget cutting. We see it in Rand Paul’s adopted region, where Tennessee’s
Corrections Corporation of America is the largest private provider of
incarceration “services” to federal, state and local governments overwhelmed
by mass imprisonment. Private prisons, police, schools and even armies and
spies (like Blackwater) are the final culmination of the privatization of land
and the creation of corporations as the original instruments of empire building.

But Paul is blind to these realities of racism and colonialism in present day USA. He writes in his own defense, “In 2010, there are battles that need to be fought, and they have nothing to do with race or discrimination, but rather the rights of people to be free from a nanny state. For example, I am opposed to the government telling restaurant owners that they cannot allow smoking in their establishments. I believe we as consumers can choose whether to patronize a smoke-filled restaurant or do business with a smoke-free option.” He compares denying business owners the “right” to exclude Black people to forcing them to allow in people carrying guns. He goes on, “Now the media is twisting my small government message, making me out to be a crusader for repeal of the Americans for Disabilities Act and The Fair Housing Act. Again, this is patently untrue. I have simply pointed out areas within these broad federal laws that have financially burdened many smaller businesses. For example, should a small business in a two-story building have to put in a costly elevator, even if it threatens their economic viability? Wouldn’t it be better to allow that business to give a handicapped employee a ground floor office? We need more businesses and jobs, not fewer.”

 First, Paul is perpetuating a lie about the American with Disabilities Act (ADA), which would NOT require a small business in a 2-story building to install an elevator. Second, it was Rand Paul himself who raised the issue of the ADA, seeking to explain or justify his opposition to the Civil Rights Act restriction on private businesses by making a parallel to an area he felt would have less support than racial equity. People ‘shocked’ at Paul’s defense of BP against government ‘bullying’ seemed to buy this subterfuge.

Paul may have accurately measured the opposition to equal rights and access for people with disabilities. Commentary from liberal and left sources focused much more strongly on Paul’s arguments against the Civil Rights Act provisions or for BP than his remarks about the ADA. Ironically, in Detroit where the genocidal impact of the privatization and private property rights that Paul champions are most evident, the recent US Social Forum was oblivious of or hostile to the need for accommodations and access for people with disabilities. As Ryan Alley, an activist from CSU Fullerton wrote: “How can 20,000 ‘activists’ talk about liberation in a space with no accessibility or polygender bathrooms? Others get free shuttles and enter the front of the building via grand staircase. We pay to take the bus downtown, enter through a dark hidden alley and discover that the workshop we wanted to attend was moved to ...another (inaccessible) building. Then we fight for the third day in a row to find a place to pee...” In response to struggles raised about the lack of accessibility, conference organizers emailed back that people who had an interest in that should organize a caucus on the topic and make a presentation. It is outrageous for the “left” to be more backward on this issue than the state, the churches or even the bourgeoisie. Left blindness on, or outright hostility towards, affirmative inclusivity for people with disabilities is unconscionable and inexcusable, in an era when disability is growing exponentially due to war, corporate industrialism, environmental degradation and privatized medical care. What does it say about the left if a disabled soldier has better chances of accommodation by the Pentagon, or a disabled prisoner has a better chance of accommodation from the Bureau of Prisons, than a disabled activist has of accommodation and access to progressive or left activities and organizations?

Pokerface: racist "truth teller" returns to Truth Jihad

 Paul Topete of the band Pokerface was interviewed recently on "Truth Jihad".

 Topete's reputation as a purveyor of anti-Jew propaganda is matched if not exceeded by the person interviewing him, Kevin Barrett who has a long history of spreading antisemitism under the tired excuse of "free speech".  This individual was part of the "truther" scam from at least the mid-2000's, engaging in a variety of frauds, creepy behavior and intimidation tactics against persons duped into the truth movement who refused to push the "Joos did it" meme, going as far as spreading lies about people like Andrew Bernstein a 9/11 survivor.

Never mind the scammers have themselves to blame for duping leftists in the first place.  What did they think was going to happen once the anti Jew agenda was revealed?  Were these people really so arrogant as to believe real leftists would stay involved in the "truth" AND not speak out against racism?  Really?  I suppose it proves the fringe right really IS that dumb.  Hell hath no fury than an anti-racist conned into working with closet Nazis.

So it's no surprise Pokerface is being given a platform at "Truth jihad" radio:

http://truthjihadradio.blogspot.com/2014/01/paul-topete-of-poker-face-pushes-free.html
http://noliesradio.org/archives/75505

There's so much anti-Semite garbage spewed by Topete it's hard to choose a quote. In a way it's refreshing.  Usually one has the reverse problem of trying to nail a closet racist who's practiced at dancing around the issue.  Nope, wanker Topete gives us lots to chose from.  His opening remarks say it all    [ 3:13  to 4:36]:

KB:  But you're coming at it from a whole different perspective...

PT:   We haven't been christian--zio-nist, judeo---all these terms that Jews gave us to basically described the Judized ex christian.   We're still of the hard core kinda christian school  where if you don't have a cloak...so...or if you don't have a gun--sword   --you sell your cloak and buy one....to uh what would Jesus do....My Jesus would pull out the cat o nine tails and beat the banking Jews out of his temple.  He'd also called the banking Jews of his day the children of Satan as I do today.  Talking about the Rothschild families, and the Rockefellers...it doesn't matter...nothing has changed from this time to our time....   they got better at it or we've become more disorganized or we  let the (?)  Jews for us.  The fact that Catholicism...I mean they had Jewish popes since the Renaissance...the whole  (?)  the Jews and the pedophiles and the gays  (?)  the Devil.  And they kicked out the most Catholic bishop, which was Bishop Williamson, because he had the temerity to basically say the Holocaust is a bunch of lies.

KB: I had him on my show not too long ago.

Well, all Holocaust Deniers together, I see.

Apologies for the incomplete transcription.  There are only so many times I feel willing to listen to Topete's mumble in his stoner spaced-out voice about "the Jews".

Neither Topete nor "Pokerface" have a Wikipedia page.  This is worth noting because it shows just how fringe their appeal is, contrary to them claiming to be "the Protest Rock for the 2000's".  Lady Liberty's Lamp very adeptly identify that fringe as the Patriot/Militia/Tea Party people:

https://ladylibertyslamp.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/controversial-patriot-militia-rock-band-headlines-tea-party-event-in-nations-capital/

Yet, the most notable and questionable presence was that of controversial patriot/militia rock band Pokerface. Described by the ADL as an “anti-government, anti-immigrant, conspiracy-promoting rock music band, helmed by “virulent anti-semite: Paul Topete”
Pokerface members not only played music for the crowd, but they also managed the sound system, provided the event’s security and assisted event coordinator Lisa Miller with the general organization of the DC event. What makes their presence even more suspicious is that in all promotional website posts or materials for the day’s event there was no mention of Pokerface’s involvement anywhere.
In the past, Pokerface had been a staple of Ron Paul rallies and enjoys a healthy following from the survivalist and white nationalist communities. Lead singer: Paul Topete was a frequent poster on the white nationalist website VNNforum.
Last year, public pressure about Topete’s racism was brought to the attention of Ron Paul’s campaign and Pokerface was dropped from a RP event in Michigan. But, to no avail Poker Face continued to play at several Ron Paul rallies, including in the Washington DC since then.
Poker Face has also performed at a benefit for Willis Carto’s anti-semitic newspaper American Free Press and has endorsed the notorious Barnes Review, both outlets of longtime white supremacist Carto.
During this very July 4th Tea Party event, in a conversation with anti-racist journalist Daryle Lamont Jenkins of One People’s Project, Topete stated that “jews were responsible for 60% of all unreported crime in the United States”, while further claiming in this same recent conversation that “only 97,000 jews died in the Holocaust”. Paul went on to say that his libertarian views make him support anyone who has been imprisoned for simply speaking; he specifically noted holocaust denier and revisionist Ernst Zundel as an example. Other “interesting” quotes from Topete can be found in his interview with Mathaba:

Another point to make is Willis Carto is an associate of Lyndon Larouche, considered to be the original inventor of the "Inside Job" 9/11 conspiracy theories.  [Carto and company vigorously denied the connection, but that's not surprising.  Ron Paul denied writing his newletters that he made millions off of.]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/larouche/main.htm

One man with whom LaRouche and his group dealt in the mid-1970s was Willis Carto, the founder of the Liberty Lobby, according to LaRouche's deposition in a libel case last year and one by Carto in another lawsuit.
The Liberty Lobby, a right-wing group, has said it was never allied with LaRouche. Carto said in his 1980 deposition that the Liberty Lobby never endorsed the NCLC but that he was "quite impressed" with its members and that his organization's newspaper, Spotlight, had praised it.

http://www.lyndonlarouche.org/larouche-british17A.htm

Sometime in 1980, in one of my interminable discussions with defectors who quit the LaRouche organization circa 1978 in protest over their leader's anti-Semitism, it was suggested that I read Destruction of Freemasonry, which depicts the Masons as being tools of a Jewish plot. I can't remember whether I was told that the book had directly influenced LaRouche or simply that there were similarities in outlook between LaRouche and Ludendorff. In due course, I obtained a copy of the translation published by Willis Carto's Noontide Press and confirmed that indeed there were some convergences between the thinking of LaRouche and that of the late general. 

 It was also in the 1976-78 period that NCLC members met repeatedly with leaders of the Liberty Lobby (Carto's pro-Nazi outfit) and contributed articles to its newspaper, The Spotlight. During this timeframe, LaRouche met personally with Carto to discuss the "Jewish question," according to LaRouche's own testimony in a 1984 court case. Carto reportedly would boast later on (read here) that he had converted LaRouche to anti-Semitism, although the latter's earlier statements about Jews (example from 1973 here) suggest that he scarcely needed any persuading.

 Topete is deeply involved with a group of nasty political players.  This isn't Topete's first involvement with a "truther" conspiracy personality.  In 2006 Topete was interviewed by Michael Wolsey of Visibility 9-11:

Visibility 9-11 Welcomes Paul Topete of Pokerface 

 podbay.fm/show/121399650/e/1160510520?autostart=1

Wosley, who I never new well, was always considered a "reasonable" truther.  No mad theories and no connections to the racist/militia gang.  It's easy to want to believe he was just fooled like many of us.  Even a Jewish truther covered his interview:
http://www.yourbbsucks.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-13009.html

Clearly the awareness of who these people were was little known outside of Topete's fringe militia crowd.   Many references to Topete's connections are dated after the 2006 interview by Wolsey.  But this one isn't:

http://mikepiperreport.com/Articles_Archive/AmericanFreePress/AFP2006_01-06/Michael_Collins_Piper_AFP20060327_Face_Off_At_Rutgers_University.html

 March 27, 2006
 ...
Libertarian Patriotic Musical Performers Banned from Playing at Political Convention for Supporting Free Speech for All
By Michael Collins Piper

OPP began a loud and aggressive smear campaign, raising a ruckus not because of anything in the music of Poker Face. The group went after Poker Face because its web site featured, among other things, commentary critical of prosecutions of thousands of people in Europe — including internationally-known best-selling historian, David Irving, sentenced to three years in jail in Austria — on thought control measures that level criminal charges and imprisonment upon those found guilty of the ambiguous accusation of “denying the Holocaust.”

Topete — who has both Jewish and Israeli friends who are fully aware of his opposition to laws prohibiting freedom of expression — was accused by the OPP of being “anti-Semitic.” And, perhaps even worse, Topete was accused of being a “Holocaust denier” himself — not because he questioned the Holocaust, but because he dared to defend the right of free speech for those who do.

This is where things start getting dodgy for Wolsey.  If One People's Party was starting a loud aggressive campaign, how did Wolsey, who prides himself on not tolerating this rubbish, not notice?

I am Jewish. I see people who do try to push anti-semitic views onto the movement, but luckily, the majority of the movement is smarter than that. We are smarter than the Weekly Standard would lead you to believe. We want anyone and everyone who was involved to be held held accountable. Be it Christian, Jew, Neocon or Zionist, we want accountability. Period.
If the 9/11 Truth Movement is anti-semitic, than what am I doing here? Last time I checked, I respected the religion of my family.
Stop trying to paint the 9/11 Truth Movement as anti-semitic because it isn’t, and neither is Ray McGovern.

Wolsey was involved in a con in late 2007 instigated by Larouche patsy Webster Tarpley.   It became known as the Kennebunkport Hoax and appeared to be an attempt to poison relations with the 9/11 truth movement.  In retrospect, now knowing the "movement" is a right wing based front, I'm leaning towards the theory it was to identify and isolate non racist truthers. I was one of those targeted...and so was Micheal Wolsey, along with Arabesque, Cosmos and Jon Gold.  Tarpley's mate Joe Azar even made a cute little pic to go with the ridiculous accusations we were "cointelpro":

This is possible one of the dumbest things these frauds ever did.  Beside the obvious accusations from Tin Foil central, this was one of many clues the 9/11 "truth" movement was a manipulative toxic fraud.  While I was on good terms with three of these people, I knew very little personally about Wolsey and literally nothing about Berlet. As in NO THING.   Why is someone trying to connect me with people I don't know and they have no reason to think I know?

When I explored the oddness of this at DailyKos, Berlet himself acted shocked, SHOCKED, I could be doubting the sincerity of him being attacked and refused to answer any questions, no matter how polite.  I've heard Berlet was also vouched for by a pathological liar and con artist who is a strong supporter of Kevin Barrett.  Since I have learned Berlet virtually built a name for himself being the go-to source about the Larouche Cult.   Based on other staged attacks, what this looks like is a complex confidence game to get the trust of anti-racist truthers.   I hesitate to be more blunt in my suspicions.    It is possible for anyone to be fooled.  If Berlet is not part of the con, he dropped the ball by not promptly explaining his involvement when he had the chance. 

As for Wolsey, he's expressed no interest in explaining why he was interviewing Topete, or even how he knew about him, considering Pokerface's mainstream appeal can be described at best as nil. This was a common occurrence  in the "movement":  people promoting the fraud, claiming to be anti-racists yet knowing or having contact with the right fringe most people on the left haven't heard of. 

Paul Topete is one of those people. And he seems to be trying to renew his "career".  Last November Topete was at the AFP FREE SPEECH CONFERENCE:

https://americanfreepress.net/?p=13450

AFP PODCAST: Paul Topete, Musician, Activist, All-Around Bright Guy

October 23, 2013   AFP

The leader of the popular rock-and-roll band

PokerFace and organizer of the annual Freedompalooza rally, Paul has been active in the truth movement his entire life.

Because of this, he has been a front-line target for harassment by the Anti-Defamation League, but he refuses to buckle, and will be on hand to tell his own story and to encourage other patriots to speak freely.

Call Julia Foster at the AFP office at 202 544 5977 (Monday through Thursday—9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST) to reserve your spot at the conference.

Dave Gahary had the chance to sit down with Paul to discuss his participation in the upcoming AFP FREE SPEECH CONFERENCE in Austin, Texas on Veterans Day Weekend, in this lively interview

(8:16).
I lol'd at "popular" band.  The words, "Paul who?" would be most people's response.  Topete's last big bang was organizing Freedompalooza:

 http://blog.adl.org/anti-semitism/freedompalooza-2013-july-4-weekend-extremism

June 19, 2013 30

Anti-Semites And Extremists To Host “Freedompalooza 2013” On July 4th Weekend

White suprema­cists, anti-Semites, anti-government extrem­ists and con­spir­acy the­o­rists are among speak­ers sched­uled to appear at “Free­dom­palooza 2013,” orga­nized by Paul Topete, lead singer of the band Pok­er­face and an anti-Semite and anti-government extrem­ist.   It is the third time Topete has orga­nized such an event in Penn­syl­va­nia, but he allegedly has plans to orga­nize future events in other regions of the country.

That will be something to look out for.

Topete has lined up a long list of bands and speak­ers, many of the lat­ter com­ing from extrem­ist and fringe move­ments and causes.  One theme that unites many speak­ers is vir­u­lent anti-Semitism or anti-Israel sen­ti­ment.  Two of the more promi­nent speak­ers, for exam­ple, are for­mer mem­bers of Con­gress:  Cyn­thia McK­in­ney and James Traf­i­cant.  McK­in­ney  is a long-time anti-Israel activist who has sup­ported anti-Semitic groups such as the Nation of Islam and the New Black Pan­ther Party, while Traf­i­cant, since his release from prison on fed­eral rack­e­teer­ing and bribery con­vic­tions, has joined the Amer­i­can Free Press, in whose pages he has expressed his own anti-Semitic and anti-Israel views.  Another sched­uled speaker is Jim Con­dit, Jr., who sev­eral times ran for Con­gress in Ohio, tak­ing advan­tage of his can­di­date sta­tus to obtain a plat­form for express­ing his anti-Semitic views in radio advertisements.

 This following pretty much confirms Topete's, and for that matter Barrett's, loyalties to the extreme racist fringe:

Other speak­ers report­edly sched­uled to attend include Mer­lin Miller, the 2012 pres­i­den­tial can­di­date of the white suprema­cist Amer­i­can Free­dom Party,  sev­eral Amer­i­can Free Press writ­ers, and Cyn­thia Steele, the wife of white suprema­cist attor­ney Edgar Steele (cur­rently serv­ing a 50-year sen­tence for con­spir­acy to mur­der Cyn­thia, a charge she claims is false).

 Denial must be a lovely country.  I should fell sorry for her; she probably has no one else to turn to but other racist wackos.  But come on, lady: just bail from the whole scene. 

It's Merlin Miller who's the most telling participant.  American Freedom Party, formerly American Third Position, are desperately trying to whitewash their history, pun intended.  Once a "Political Party for White Americans", they've fallen back on the "Ron Paul Liberty two step", insisting they're centrist, populist libertarian-ish.   Meanwhile even some fringies think  FreedomPaluza, or at least Topete,  is too fringe:

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/page/298659_Neo-Nazi_Views_of_Freedompaloo

At least two of the groups that Topete also said were sending representatives to Freedompalooza, the third such festival in as many years, insisted they would not speak at the gathering despite Topete’s claims. Stewart Rhodes, leader of the Oath Keepers, a conspiracy-minded group that is part of the Patriot movement, told Hatewatch today that his officials were not going to Freedompalooza and, having learned recently of Topete’s denial of the Holocaust, would never do so. In fact, Oath Keepers’ Pennsylvania representative, Mike Williams, wrote Topete Friday asking that the Oath Keepers’ name be removed from the Freedompalooza event. The Oath Keepers were still listed as participating on Topete’s website today.
“[W]e will be alerting our PA members to the holocaust denial views of the organizer, and encouraging them not to attend,” Rhodes wrote to Hatewatch, adding that Topete had confirmed his Holocaust denial views to the Oath Keepers.
Rhodes also said that an allied Patriot group, Gun Owners of America (GOA), had withdrawn a promise by its leader, Larry Pratt, to speak. He cited a GOA Web post that denounced Topete’s Holocaust denial.

 You know it's bad when some patriots won't go along with Holocaust Denial.

Topete's dishonesty and refusal to remove material is not a surprise.  I can confirm that the one quality of the far right scammers have is a superhuman arrogance that eclipses rational self interest.  Take this blog for instance.  The sole reason it exists is that, after over 7 years, the scammers  refuse to remove lies and information gathered under false pretenses.  All they had to do was shut up and use the delete button.  Then, not only wouldn't I be writing this, I wouldn't have ever networked with anti racists or learned the 91l truth scam goes to the highest ranks of political and racist organizations like "Campaign for Liberty".
Combined with the knowledge they are pushing a fringe right, racist fraud and don't seem to be stopping any time soon, means I'll do my best to keep other leftists from being scammed.

But I digress.  Topete is as idiotic as the rest of the "truther" leaders.  He knows he's representing a loud but small fringe and want followers to believe that they're "sweeping the nation" or some such.  Admitting factions of their supposed base object would undermine morale.   I can only hope Topete get's sued one day by fellow non-Holocaust denying patriots for his arrogance. 

Facebook page.  Nothing really surprising:  regular on  Truth Jihad, racist friends, Paultard, etc.  Though one image really plays to the "truther" base:

Paul Topete

Terror drills that turned live, that were dun by da joolanders and their MOssAD asswipes 

  April 2013

Gotta give Topete credit for being an Out and Proud racist.

American Freedom Party in Oregon: Return of the Nazis

Now that the extreme conspiracy front groups for organizing racists while posing as leftists have all but been demolished by antifascists in Oregon, the White Pride people now must fall back on being "out and proud" about it:

Meet the Oregon Chapter of the American Freedom Party: Part One

01/12/2014

The American Freedom Party (AFP) is a nationwide white supremacist organization that markets itself as an upstanding, family-friendly, and nonviolent political party by portraying white people as an oppressed group, and themselves as an advocacy organization similar to the NAACP. However, locally, they have embraced a number of white power veterans with histories of race-based violence and murder, such as Kyle Brewster. Scratch the surface and it is apparent that AFP is a fascist party with an extermination agenda.   

AFP uses tactics and rhetoric borrowed from the activist left and libertarian right as part of their work to build a white nationalist political party. AFP is part of a fascist tradition known as Third Positionism. Third Positionism presents itself as a new, ‘third” alternative to both right and left-wing politics by advancing hard-right ideas through adopting and deploying radical left signifiers in ways that confound mainstream expectations for what the right looks like; an example of this is utilizing environmentalist framing to promote neo-Eugenicist policies. However, rather than being a new dimension of political thought, Third Positionism actually harkens back to the very origins of fascism--in Mussolini’s Italy, populist trappings were paradoxically used to crush the working class.

For reader reference the American Freedom Party is a renamed and re-branded American Third Position party.    The banner style matches the old banner found at Wikipedia, where the racist leanings are dead obvious:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Freedom_Party

The American Freedom Party (formerly the American Third Position Party or A3P) is a third positionist American political party which promotes white supremacy.^[1][2][3][4] It was officially launched in January 2010^[5] (although in November 2009 it filed papers to get on a ballot in California) partially to channel the right-wing populist resentment engendered by the financial crisis of 2007–2010 and the policies of the Obama administration.^[6]

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They're not really trying too hard to hide their roots...

Extreme Makeover: Nazi Edition

Shortly after the collapse of the fleeting Golden State Party, on October 15th of 2009, Freedom 14 held a meeting to elect a new leader and a new party name. The leader they chose was William Daniel Johnson and it was then that they became known as American Third Position (A3P).  Officially launched on January 4th, 2012 A3P’s website stated that they were, "both a political party and activist organization dedicated to the interests vital to the preservation and continuity of ethnic European communities within the United States of America." This new description was a more focused and sophisticated version of GSP’s original statement of purpose.

In February of 2012, as a part of #OpBlitzkrieg, which targeted various Neo-Nazi organizations around the world, members of the Anonymous Movement hacked A3P's website as well as forums and email accounts connected to the group. One year later, on February 1st, 2013, A3P announced that they would be changing their name to the American Freedom Party, though their "passionate defense of freedom," as well as their platform and values would remain the same.

Even though the Golden State Party has changed their name and leadership multiple times, their affiliations have remained the same. In a photo posted on October 31st to AFP’s Facebook page, Tyler Cole (left) is seen standing next to current party directors Tom Sunic (center) and Kevin B. McDonald (back) at a conference in Washington D.C. for the National Policy Institute (NPI), a white nationalist think tank “dedicated to the heritage, identity, and future of European people in the United States, and around the world.”

The passage highlighted refers to a tactic most 911 "Truth" groups use, especially when a member is caught in an indiscretion.   But it's the associations that will out them; that's what happened to "Killtown" Lazo's group, when their reach exceeded their grasp.  

And speaking of 911 "truth":

Circular Logic: “Anti-Racist is a Code for Anti-White”

“Anti-Racist is a Code for Anti-White” is the mantra of the American Freedom Party. AFP promulgates the idea that people that oppose racism are actually trying to destroy the white race. This idea alchemizes anyone promoting anti-racism into an enemy bent on destroying whites, which proves the existence of the anti-white conspiracy. The use of the word ‘code’ is deliberate--it implies dishonesty and a secret agenda, and portrays anti-racists as liars, misinformation agents of the imaginary “Zionist Occupational Government,” or ZOG, an ever-popular theory among white supremacists.

Conspiracy theories have their origins in very old antisemitic narratives. Jews are called “bankers,” “Rothchilds,” or “Illuminati” in contemporary adaptations. The 911 Truth Movement and swaths of the Occupy movement both disseminated narratives that blended populism with antisemitism. Conspiracy theory catches hold where there is a twinkle of political consciousness, but still a strong incentive or desire to maintain the existing order. In the case of AFP, the hope is that white men will once again have easy access to decent, middle class lifestyles once the underhanded oppressors are overthrown. The truth is that poor white people are being exploited and screwed over, but it isn’t by a secret anti-white cabal. Poor white people are being screwed over alongside everybody else by the horrors of a capitalist system which sees people only as resources to use up and throw away. People sense that they are being lied to in the mass media, and that there is some hidden danger lurking. Unfortunately this gets redirected by white nationalists onto people they view as enemies, rather than at the systems that are actually oppressing them.  

I don't know how many times I've read that bollox "anti racist is code for anti white".  Please, could you people all just GDIAF?    

This is where it gets grim, er, grimmer.  Because one of the fronts of the fake activist 9/11 groups, while claiming to be anti-racist, published links to PressTv coverage of American Third Position Merlin Miller without outcry:

http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/ten-years-of-september-elevens/conversations/topics/167

Roy McCoy

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That's news to me, and my first occasion to possibly regret not voting this year - though, er, maybe not (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Third_Position_Party).

There is objection about Roy regretting not voting for a racist party, while linking to a racist fake news propaganda outlet.  This is hypocritically contrary to the list's supposed prohibition against promoting racist content, Roy's "maybe not" cutsiness notwithstanding:

 

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But it gets better.  Reader can follow the links to Rose City Antifa to learn more about the white power wankers.   Right now we're going to examine what happened to the PressTV link Roy shared, because it disappeared :

Perhaps because they were promoting American Third Position's white power candidate Merlin Miller(highlighted in red, along with the author blaming the Jews for 911) from archive of the same page:

[Apologies for Tl;Dr, but if they care enough to delete it, their racist record should be dragged back into the light of day]

 

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Kissinger, US intelligence community endorse “World Without Israel”

 

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By Kevin Barrett

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been vilified in the Western media for daring to imagine “a world without Israel.”

But according to news reports, Henry Kissinger and sixteen American intelligence agencies agree that in the near future, Israel will no longer exist.

The New York Post quotes Kissinger “word for word”: In 10 years, there will be no more Israel.

Kissinger's statement is flat and unqualified. He is not saying that Israel is in danger, but could be saved if we just gave it additional trillions of dollars and smashed enough of its enemies with our military. He is not saying that if we elect Netanyahu's old friend Mitt Romney, Israel could somehow be salvaged. He is not saying that if we bomb Iran, Israel might survive. He is not offering a way out. He is simply stating a fact: In 2022, Israel will no longer exist.

The US Intelligence Community agrees, though perhaps not on the precise 2022 expiration date. Sixteen US intelligence agencies with a combined budget over USD70 billion have issued an 82-page analysis titled “Preparing for a Post-Israel Middle East.”

The US intelligence report observes that the 700,000 Israeli settlers illegally squatting on land stolen in 1967 - land that the entire world agrees belongs to Palestine, not Israel - are not going to pack up and leave peacefully. Since the world will never accept their ongoing presence on stolen land, Israel is like South Africa in the late 1980s.

The extremist Likud coalition governing Israel, according to the US intelligence report, is increasingly condoning and supporting rampant violence and lawlessness by illegal settlers. The report states that the brutality and criminality of the settlers, and the growing apartheid-style infrastructure including the apartheid wall and the ever-more-draconian system of checkpoints, are indefensible, unsustainable, and out of synch with American values.

The sixteen US intelligence agencies agree that Israel cannot withstand the coming pro-Palestinian juggernaut consisting of the Arab Spring, the Islamic Awakening, and the rise of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

In the past, dictatorships in the region kept a lid on the pro-Palestinian aspirations of their people. But those dictatorships began to topple with the fall of the pro-Israel Shah of Iran in 1979 and the establishment of a democratic Islamic Republic, whose government had little choice but to reflect its people's opposition to Israel. The same process - the overthrow of dictators who worked with, or at least tolerated, Israel - is now accelerating throughout the region. The result will be governments that are more democratic, more Islamic, and far less friendly to Israel.

The US intelligence community report says that in light of these realities, the US government simply no longer has the military and financial resources to continue propping up Israel against the wishes of more than a billion of its neighbors. In order to normalize relations with 57 Islamic countries, the report suggests, the US will have to follow its own national interests and pull the plug on Israel.

Interestingly, neither Henry Kissinger nor the authors of the US Intelligence Report give any sign that they are going to mourn the demise of Israel. This is remarkable, given that Kissinger is Jewish and has always been viewed as a friend (if occasionally a tough friend) of Israel, and that all Americans, including those who work for intelligence agencies, have been influenced by the strongly pro-Israel media.

What explains such complacency?

Americans who pay attention to international affairs - a category that surely includes Kissinger and the authors of the Intelligence Report - are growing fed up with Israeli intransigence and fanaticism. Netanyahu's bizarre, widely-ridiculed performance at the United Nations, where he brandished a cartoonish caricature of a bomb in such a way that he himself came across as a caricature of a “mad Zionist,” was the latest in a series of gaffes by Israeli leaders who seem prone to overplaying their hand.

A second factor is the festering resentment many Americans feel over the Israel Lobby's imperious domination of public discourse. Every time a well-known American journalist is fired for going “off-script” about Israel, as happened to Helen Thomas and Rick Sanchez, a mostly-invisible backlash, like a tidal wave rippling beneath the surface of the ocean, grows in power. And every time the Israel lobby slaps down someone like Maureen Dowd, who recently observed that the same Israel-fanatics who dragged the US into the Iraq war are now trying to do the same thing with Iran, the more people begin to wake up and realize that people like Dowd, Thomas, and Sanchez are speaking the truth.

A third reason for complacency in the face of Israel's impending demise: The American Jewish community is no longer united in support of Israel, much less its Likudnik leadership. Sophisticated Jewish journalists and analysts like Philip Weiss are recognizing the insanity of Israel's current leadership and the hopelessness of its predicament. According to recent reports, it is no longer fashionable among young American Jews to care about Israel. And despite Netanyahu's frantic attempts to sway Jewish voters toward the Mormon Likudnik Mitt Romney, polls show that Obama, who is on record saying he “hates” the “liar” Netanyahu, will easily win the majority of Jewish votes.

Finally, we come to the least obvious - but most powerful - reason for Kissinger's and the CIA's complacency in the face of Israel's implosion: The inexorable trickle-down of knowledge that Israel and its supporters, not radical Muslims, carried out the 9/11 false-flag attacks.

Increasingly, it is not fringe anti-Semitic groups, but high-level responsible observers, who are saying this. Alan Sabrosky, the half-Jewish former Director of Strategic Studies at the US Army War College, has come on my radio show to say that he has discussed with his colleagues the “100% certainty” that Israel and its supporters did 9/11. And Alan Hart, the former lead BBC correspondent for the Middle East (and personal friend of Golda Meir and Yasser Arafat) has also come on my radio show to break the story that he, too, knows that Israel and company orchestrated 9/11.

Today, we even have a presidential candidate, Merlin Miller, who is on the record stating that Israel, not al-Qaeda, carried out the 9/11 attacks.

The chief purpose of 9/11 was to “seal in blood” an intense, unbreakable emotional bond between the US and Israel, in a desperate bid to assure Israel's survival by launching a long-term US war against Israel's enemies. As the “dancing Israelis” arrested for celebrating the 9/11 operation tried to convince the police: “Our enemies are your enemies. The Palestinians are your enemies.”

But more and more Americans, including the US intelligence community as a whole, now recognize that the enemies of Israel (the entire Muslim world of over 1.5 billion people, along with most of the non-European world) do not have to be the enemies of the United States. In fact, the US is going broke and sacrificing thousands of lives in wars for Israel - wars that damage, rather than aid, US strategic interests. (One of those interests, of course, is buying oil and gas from stable, cooperative governments.)

As the recognition grows that 9/11 was not a radical Islamic attack, but an act of dastardly, bloody treason by supporters of Israel, it will become ever-easier for American policy makers, following in the footsteps of Kissinger and the sixteen intelligence agencies, to recognize the obvious: Israel has reached the end of its shelf-life.

KB/HGH

 

 The views expressed in this article are those of the author and not necessarily those of Press TV.

Sure they're not.  And I suppose they have a used bridge to sell as well.

It's now well known PressTV is an Iranian outlet for spreading anti Semitic propaganda to an English speaking audience:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_TV_controversies

Press TV has been the subject of several controversies. The station has been criticised for its uncritical embrace of provocative stances. For British journalist Nick Cohen the station is "a platform for the full fascist conspiracy theory of supernatural Jewish power"^[1] and for commentator Douglas Murray it is the "Iranian government’s propaganda channel".^[2]

So it's no wonder Merlin and the Iranian president hit it off so well:

 In September 2012, Miller met with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad for nearly 20 minutes and discussed a number of issues, including what both Miller and Ahmedinejad view as the "Zionist-controlled media" in the West.

Isn't that sweet.  But can't imagine why Merlin Miller has been deleted from the Presstv website. *innocent*