The Right Hand of Occupy Wall Street

Anti facists have been passing this article around that details elements of OWS and the mechanisms of "infiltration" from fringe right groups.  Except that it's less infiltration after the fact and more they had their people in the planning groups from day one.   It's not as blatent a scam as the truth movement, but the elements are there:  let's build an ostensible progressive grassroots movement, the liberals will come, and we'll promote our sleazy agenda under the cover they give. 

Not everyone was fooled, as one anarchist expounds, but enough people got caught up to make one cynical about the next allegedly leftist revolutionary movement.

One note of caution: the website Political Research, was a haunt of Chip Berlet, who was almost certainly in on the Kennebunkport Hoax.   Mr. Berlet was oddly defensive when asked any questions about how he even knew about the hoax, and one owner of the SLC blog with a record of dishonest conduct was rather quick to push Tarpley's frame, that people were getting money from Berlet and the Ford Foundation.   It seems Berlet's association with Political Research Associates has ended, so that's something.

Excerpts relevant to the "truth movement" fraud are quotes below.  Read the entire article at the following link:  http://www.politicalresearch.org/2014/02/23/the-right-hand-of-occupy-wall-street-from-libertarians-to-nazis-the-fact-and-fiction-of-right-wing-involvement/#

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The Right Hand of Occupy Wall Street: From Libertarians to Nazis, the Fact and Fiction of Right-Wing Involvement

By Spencer Sunshine, on February 23, 2014

Spencer Sunshine, Ph.D. (associate fellow) is a researcher and activist. His research interests include U.S. white nationalism, post-war fascism (particularly Third Position and European New Right politics), left/right crossover movements, and left-wing antisemitism. As an activist he has worked on issues regarding anti-fascism, police misconduct, prisoner rights, global trade agreements, environmental issues, and bisexual and queer politics. Follow him on Twitter at @transform6789.
The most successful mobilization on the Left in recent years—the Occupy movement—had ambiguously defined enemies and used an organizing model that was easily replicated. These strategies were key elements of its success, but they also enabled a significant level of participation by the Right. Though it is tempting to gloss over or deny that reality, the Left would benefit from beginning to grapple with it.

Occupy Wall Street (OWS) has often been portrayed as the Tea Party’s ideological mirror image: a left-wing response to the global economic crises that began in August 2007. Initiated with a tent city in Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park in mid-September 2011, spinoff “Occupations” soon spread across the United States and then to cities across the globe. These protests, which targeted the federal government’s cozy relationship with the banking interests that caused the economic collapse, channeled the mounting anger of those most devastated by the economic meltdown, especially debt-ridden students, the unemployed, and people who lost homes in the subprime mortgage crisis.

But this mainstream-media view tends to gloss over the involvement of right-wing and conspiracist groups in Occupy. In the perception of many participants, the Right’s presence was largely limited to a lone homeless man who paraded antisemitic signs around Zuccotti, which became the basis of a right-wing “smear” campaign. More recently, venture capitalists like Tom Perkins have slandered Occupy, absurdly comparing its attack on wealth inequality to the Nazi persecution of Jews.¹ Because of this, many progressives plug their ears when they hear about right-wing groups and Occupy. (In this essay, OWS refers to the New York City occupation, while Occupy refers to the movement in general.)
Certainly, Occupy was always a largely left-leaning event. But right-wing participation has been the norm rather than the exception within recent left-wing U.S. movements—including the antiglobalization, antiwar, environmental, and animal rights movements—and Occupy was no exception.² Right-wing groups inserted their narrative about the Federal Reserve into the movement’s visible politics; used Occupy’s open-ended structure to disseminate conspiracy theories (antisemitic and otherwise) and White nationalism; promoted unfettered capitalism; and gained experience, skills, and political confidence as organizers in a mass movement that, on the whole, allowed their participation.
Ideally, none of these things should have happened. Advocates for social justice need to assess the motivations, extent, and substance of right-wing participation in Occupy—just as has been done with past movements. Despite the painful feelings it might evoke, it is time for this process to start.

The problem of finance capital and ambiguous enemies

The original call for OWS from Adbusters magazine said the demonstrators themselves would decide on the “one demand” of the occupation, but this never materialized. Instead, the eminently populist slogan “We are the 99%” became their rallying cry. The one percent—often assumed to be those whose household incomes were over $500,000—was obviously associated with “Wall Street,” the focus of the demonstration.³ But many people with that kind of income were not associated with Wall Street at all. And, in any case, what exactly was Wall Street: the New York Stock Exchange? Banks? Bankers? Global corporations? The Federal Reserve? And who were the one percent: Crony capitalists specifically? Capitalists generally? The rich? Political elites? The Bilderberg Group? The Rothschild family? Jews? Or—as one popular conspiracy theorist had it—our reptilian overlords?

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But in addition to this general, populist appeal for uniting the people against the elites, there was one specific piece of common ground. While few right-wing actors see capitalism as a system to be abolished, many are harsh critics of finance capital, especially in its international form. This critique unites antisemites, who believe that Jews run Wall Street; libertarian “free marketers,” who see the Federal Reserve as their enemy; and advocates of “producerist” narratives, who want “productive national capital” (such as manufacturing and agriculture) to be cleaved from “international finance capital” (the global banking system and free-trade agreements).

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In Occupy the most common demand of the various right-wing and conspiracy groups—especially those who openly called for Left-Right unity—was for the abolition of the Federal Reserve. Whether this is an issue actually shared by the Left, or just an attempt to get the Left to support right-wing policies, is another question.
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The initial controversy over antisemitism

The Right’s participation was far from limited to a handful of antisemites, but it is nonetheless true that Occupy’s attacks on finance capital attracted many of them, since such attacks were easily integrated into their fantasies of Jews controlling the banking industry. (Rather than explicitly naming Jews as the villain, antisemites often instead demonize a subgroup that they identify as Jewish, such as Zionists, international bankers, neoconservatives, “the Frankfurt School”—or Wall Street.)
Adbusters, the magazine that initially sparked OWS, has an especially troublesome past. Its editor and co-founder, Kalle Lasn, published an article in 2004 criticizing neoconservatives by invoking numerous antisemitic narratives. The article included a list of prominent neoconservatives with marks next to the Jewish names. Responding to widespread criticism, Lasn denied that he was antisemitic but showed no understanding of why the narrative of the article was offensive. More recently, the magazine has published articles by antisemitic writer and musician Gilad Atzmon.⁵ This certainly raises the question of whether Adbusters’s choice of Wall Street as a target may have been shaped by narratives influenced by antisemitism.
Some mainstream right-wing media attempted to discredit OWS as being primarily antisemitic from the outset.

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The result was that many Occupy protestors on the Left felt that they were being unfairly “smeared” as antisemites by the mainstream Right in an attempt to discredit the movement as a whole, and, furthermore, that these claims were without merit.⁹ This fear of subversion created an atmosphere of denial and a general consensus that there was no involvement in Occupy by those further to the Right than Ron Paul.
Right-wing and conspiracist participation in Occupy was nonetheless real, and it involved more than 20 groups, prominent figures, and media outlets. These included Ron Paul supporters, Alex Jones, Oath Keepers, David Icke, We Are Change, Tea Party members, National-Anarchists, Attack the System, the Pacifica Forum, American Free Press, LaRouchites, Counter-Currents, the American Freedom Party, American Front, David Duke, the American Nazi Party, White Revolution, and others. (A detailed account of their participation is available separately in my essay, “Twenty on the Right in Occupy.”)¹⁰ Their involvement included attending planning meetings, taking part in the encampments, making appeals directed to the Occupiers, and co-opting online resources. They fell into four overlapping categories: anti-Federal Reserve activists, conspiracy theorists, antisemites, and White nationalists/neo Nazis.

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The “End the Fed!” factor and the conspiracy theorists

As Occupy Wall Street burgeoned, Ron Paul was campaigning for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination. Although there was no obvious mechanism organizing their participation, Paulists were at the OWS planning meetings, and they remained a fixture in the movement and appeared at almost all Occupations, though they were usually a small but vocal minority.

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The ambiguity of Occupy attracted a substantial number of Paul’s supporters, who in turn attracted a fair amount of media coverage for themselves. They gained general traction within Occupy because of their objection to the Federal Reserve’s bailout of the major banks after the financial collapse, and sometimes focused on its role in the subprime mortgage crisis. Counterintuitively for many, the lesson of the crisis for Paulists was the need for less—not more—federal involvement in the banking system.
Many others who wanted to abolish the Federal Reserve also became involved in Occupy; most supported Paul’s candidacy. Alex Jones, one of the most popular U.S. conspiracy theorists (although not a consistent supporter of Occupy), attempted to crash the movement by calling for a national event on Oct. 6, 2011, to “Occupy the Fed.” Jones said that, contrary to media portrayals of Occupy as left-leaning, “The people on the ground … understand the Federal Reserve is the central organization empowering this world government system. This is a revolt against banker occupation.”¹²
At the same time, the Oath Keepers organization, in concert with Jones and others, concocted a national push to insert “End the Fed!” rhetoric into Occupy under a call to “Occupy the Occupation!” (Oath Keepers, which holds armed marches, recruits current and former military and law enforcement employees who swear to “uphold the Constitution,” and is driven by conspiracies about the coming One World Government.) It also helped establish an encampment in Occupy Los Angeles and attempted to recruit there.¹³
Another Fed critic was David Icke, known for his metaconspiracy theory that the global elite are descendants of reptilian aliens who seek to enslave humanity—a story that weaves in classic antisemitic narratives. His “Essential Knowledge For A Wall Street Protestor” video, which promotes anti-Federal Reserve and related economic conspiracies, has about 350,000 views. He also made an hour-long “ad-lib documentary” in Zuccotti Park just after the encampment was evicted by authorities.¹⁴ Icke’s followers were active in both U.S. and U.K. Occupations.
Other conspiracists who worked in Occupy include We Are Change (WAC), an international 9/11 “Truther” group. Luke Rudkowski, the group’s founder, is a prolific video blogger and is well-known for his paparazzi-style interviews. On site at OWS from the first day, he did extensive video coverage at Zuccotti Park and is also featured in David Icke’s videos.
Members of WAC New York City, a splinter faction, were also active in OWS, including Danny Panzella, a Tea Party activist who ran for state office in 2010. Even before OWS, Panzella organized demonstrations against the downtown Manhattan Federal Reserve, and he worked hard to refocus Occupy on an “End the Fed!” agenda. He appeared on the Fox News show Freedom Watch, in one of a number of the show’s broadcasts that encouraged libertarians to attend Occupy events.¹⁵ Other members of the group who worked with OWS included Craig FitzGerald, a “National-Anarchist” who promotes Holocaust denial and endorses White separatism.

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Online, antisemites have continued to be connected to Occupy projects. The most popular is an imposter Facebook page that mimics the “real” main one—and posts blatantly antisemitic content. It has attracted nearly 650,000 followers. (By contrast, the page affiliated with the organization that arose from the Zuccotti encampment has fewer than 500,000 followers.) It is unclear who the secretive administrators of the imposter site are, or why it became so popular. Attempts to remove it have so far been unsuccessful.¹⁷

One of the Far Right’s most enthusiastic Occupy champions was the American Free Press, an antisemitic weekly newspaper that is heir to Willis Carto’s media empire. It promoted Occupy even before the initial action, and for months it printed numerous articles supporting the movement, including firsthand reporting from various Occupations.¹⁸

Lyndon LaRouche’s Far Right sect was initially involved in OWS. It has long pushed for restoring Glass-Steagall, a New Deal-era act that limited the kinds of investments that banks could make, which was repealed in the late 1990s. Many believe that it would have prevented the housing crisis had it remained in effect. During Occupy, two bills were in Congressional committee that would have restored its provisions, and it was a priority for many Occupy protestors on the Left, as well. LaRouche’s followers were active in the OWS planning meetings, where Glass-Steagall’s restoration was one of six initial proposals for the never-realized “one demand.”¹⁹ LaRouche’s organization even claimed credit for making its reinstatement “a leading demand of the movement.”²⁰ Staff at Counter-Currents, a leading U.S. publisher of intellectual fascism and White nationalism, claimed to have attended the San Francisco and Oakland occupations, and they described the events as a valuable experience
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The most prominent figure on the Far Right to endorse Occupy was David Duke, a former Republican state representative from Louisiana and an elder statesman of the U.S. White nationalist movement. In a video from October 2011, “Occupy Zionist Wall Street,” Duke denounced the “Zionist thieves at the Federal Reserve” and “the most powerful criminal bank in the world, the Zionist Goldman Sachs, run by that vulture-nosed bottom feeder, Lloyd Blankfein.” The video has received more than 100,000 views to date. Duke later wrote on the White supremacist web forum Stormfront that “OWS is an opportunity. … Grab this opportunity!”²²
White nationalists also participated in some of the movement’s less high-profile iterations, such as Occupy Indianapolis (OI). Matt Parrott of Hoosier Nation—the local branch of the White nationalist American Third Position Party, now called the American Freedom Party—attended OI, and made a video interviewing participants. He wrote: “Our experience was peaceful and positive, affirming my suspicion that the majority of the Occupy Indianapolis attendees were fed up with the same corporate and federal abuses the majority of the Tea Party protesters are fed up with.”²³ His colleague “Tristania” [Nazi lover and Libertarian operative Jaenelle Antas] posted a comment on Stormfront saying that “it was a very good opportunity for outreach” and that “it’s about cherry picking people from those audiences and recruiting them to our side.”²⁴
  [That is a nutshell is what the "truth" movement con was for--recruiting people from the left to push a Nazi agenda]
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Why did they participate?

It is a mistake to view these right-wing groups and people as “infiltrating” Occupy, since in some cases they supported and helped organize it even before it started. Others were simply participating in a demonstration that loudly proclaimed that it was open to everyone and refused to define even its most basic concepts or demands.
Yet some on the Right did view their work as intentional co-optation. This is an intrinsic problem with the “franchise activism” model, or the practice of setting up a name and format that anyone can adopt and act under. While it allows for ease of replication and flexibility in action—one of Occupy’s great strengths—it also allows a variety of political visions to be pursued under its banner. For example, almost no mechanisms are available to deem the “imposter” Facebook page as illegitimate in relation to the “real” one.

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 The point it is not so much that the Left was significantly damaged by the Right’s presence in Occupy—though its presence did open the movement up to attacks in the mainstream media, which wasted the time and effort of organizers while turning off potential supporters. The deeper problem is that right-wing groups benefited from the Left’s willingness to give them a stage to speak from and an audience to recruit from.
[The problem with any "big tent" strategy in a nutshell]

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 As a result, the involvement of right-wing groups in Occupy raises questions about the dilemma of creating a movement that is open to “everyone” but must exclude certain elements if it is to avoid becoming a forum for right-wing populist protest. The basic format of the demonstrations—a populist attack on finance capital with ambiguous formulations—harmonized quite well with the political vocabulary and framework of the Right and conspiracy theorists.

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Are there any practical steps, then, that activists on the Left can take to minimize participation by the Right?
The administrators at the OccupyWallSt.org forum, the main online location of internal discussions, took one small step after they were deluged by conspiracy theorists and Far Right propagandists. In October 2011, they banned anyone who posted about Icke, LaRouche, Duke, or Jones.³¹
A more proactive first step would be to endorse an anti-oppression platform at the very start, such as the one created at Occupy Boston. Unlike the relatively vague statement from Zuccotti, Boston’s statement explicitly named the types of oppression that it opposed, including White supremacy, patriarchy, ageism, homophobia, transphobia, anti-Arab sentiment, Islamophobia, and anti-Jewish sentiment.³²
A member of the Hoosier Anti-Racist Movement pointed out that if such a platform had been in place in Occupy Indianapolis, when racist sentiments were expressed towards people of color, there would have been an existing agreement to point to—and a basis for asking the larger group to intervene—rather than relying on nonexistent cooperation from the majority of the largely White participants. The HARM member also said that if racists had been confronted and expelled from the physical occupation, they likely would not have posted a positive video of their experience, felt welcome to continue to participate in the group’s social media, or written about their warm reception.³³ Not taking a proactive stance against antisemitism at Zuccotti led to significant bad press and much time and energy invested—often by Jewish participants—in putting out fires.

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[From the DUH files.   Let's see if the next mass left movement learns from Occupy's mistakes.]

Where did the Space Beams come from?

In late 2007, Craig Lazo made a big hairy deal about me not caring about CB-Brooklyn/Judy Wood/Space Beams etc.   He took it personally to rather a  demented degree.

At the time it was just crazy weirdness in a sea of crazy weirdness.  Now it makes sense.  It was an opportunity to try to drive off someone who had finally been identified as NOT one of the real truther "hive".

Ignoring me would have worked so much better.  But in Mr. Lazo's case, any time there is a choice between a messured, rational response and sensational attention-whoring, attention whoring will win every single time.  

Well, Mr.  Kt Lazo will be happy to see I'm now giving the "Space Beam" theory my full attention.  Specifically who first pushed it:  Nazi wannabe Christopher Bollyn of the American Free Press. 

No, not Judy Wood.   Bollyn floated this theory at a conference of Holocaust deniers, almost five years before Fetzer introduced Judy Wood.

This is detailed in the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report "The Next American Führer?, Issue Number:  107, Fall 2002, in the article  'Risking Their Freedom':

 'Risking Their Freedom'  

A group of 'internationally renowned scholars' probes 9/11. And, to the surprise of no one, identifies a familiar enemy.

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House "journalist" Christopher Bollyn, who works for Carto's anti-Semitic American Free Press (a new incarnation of his Spotlight newspaper), said he knew something was fishy thanks to a friend in Denmark who taped 1,200 hours of news coverage of the attacks — much of which was later edited out by news services with a secret agenda.

One of those tapes showed "someone coming out of the towers" who said "he was hit by a bomb in the building. But then the FBI took him away."

The government, Bollyn added, sold the World Trade Center to "a [Jewish] strip club owner and he then insured the buildings quickly for $3 billion and now he wants $7 billion. ... So for $100 million in borrowed money he gets $3 billion."

Bollyn also objected to the use of an Iranian engineer to examine the collapse of the Trade Center's towers. "Don't they have any American engineers?"

And then there was one "Gregory Douglas," with his top-secret German document proving conclusively the Bush Administration and Israel knew about and likely orchestrated the attacks.

"Israel is always involved in everything!" he said.

That certainly got the attention of the attendees. Except, as a sheepish Bill White noted on his "libertarian socialist" Web site later (White had initially hailed the document as revelatory), it turns out that Douglas is an accused forger.

Veteran European journalist Gitta Sereny has written that Douglas forged a document that he told her was proof that the Americans and British had helped two Nazi war criminals escape Europe in 1945. Douglas' later book on one of them, Gestapo boss Heinrich Muller, was, she wrote, "filth" that was as "fake" as the earlier document.

From there, it got weirder still. In a question-and-answer period following the speeches, Bollyn suggested that the Trade Center towers might have been zapped with a "disintegration ray." The fine dust would be the logical outcome of such a ray.

Partin chimed in, saying it actually would have taken two disintegration rays to do the job.

Well, that's not completely surprising now Fetzer is out of the Holocaust Denial closet.  Confirms that Judy Wood is a victim and front woman for the space beam theory. 

Still leaves it open as to what benefit a group of Jew haters would gain by creating and spreading toxic tin foil Kool-aid.  

I have no answers for that one, not even solid informed speculation.   The best wild ass guess is uber whacked out "theories" will guarantee a pool of easily duped followers, easy to manipulate (they'll believe anything!).  How this can be considered a political asset in the long haul boggles the mind.  Any short term benefits gained by recruiting people so far gone to take "disintegration rays" seriously, will be overwhelmed by the liability of a base too crippled in critical thinking skills to make good judgement calls in the interest of the group.

On the other hand, maybe Bollyn and company don't care.   Maybe all they want of their dupes is an amorphous army of zombies to defend them without question.  The Ronulians of Paultard fame acted exactly like this, being  impervious to facts, logic and reason while the spread the "message" of Ron Paul.  Who can forget the scathing intellectual rejoinders  like: FREEDOM! LIBERTY! CONSTITUTION! 

Just substitute INSIDE JOB, and you get the same dynamic, but with a smaller pool of zombies.    And if that was the goal, it is also why it was ultimately a failure.  

Even at the height of the fakery/space beam craze, with Yahoo list-serves spawning like crazy, the most active participants were a core of scammers directly responsible for making up the theories, and a loyal following either in on the con or completely duped by it.    I would be surprised if the people outside the con, genuinely duped by it, exceeded 100. That's why they tripped over themselves when they got a "live one", real people who were taking their theories seriously(at least until they saw they were invented by crazy people).  These people were useful to "prove" fakery was real activism. 

But, since these theories never had a broad appeal, (in fact a main tactic to seduce people was it's narrow appeal, a la, "the sheeple don't understand these special secrets you are privy to") the demise of the beam/fakery "movement" could have been predicted by anyone with political savvy. 

In layman's terms, these theories were "too crazy for non crazies to care".  This was a handy camouflage. No one ever guessed the source of the Space Beam theory were actual Neo-Nazis. Neo-Nazis, and fellow travelers who were "risking their freedom" to organize this tripe: 

WASHINGTON — After you sent in your $180 registration fee, and after receiving your own secret code and calling the secret phone number that came with it, the hidden location was finally revealed.
The "galaxy of internationally renowned scholars and journalists," those brave souls who have "Risked Their Freedom to Bring Truth to the World," would be meeting at the Holiday Inn on The Hill.

There, amid families on budget trips to the American capital, some 120 people who do not believe that the Holocaust occurred gathered in June to swap dark tales of conspiracies and cover-ups. It was, in the words of The Barnes Review that sponsored it, "a history-making event" — a view not shared by most of those familiar with Review founder Willis Carto, a veteran anti-Semitic extremist.

This is part of a greater organizing of American and European racists with sympathizers of Islamic terrorist groups.  This was analysed in the Intelligence Report, spring 2002 Issue :

National Alliance, Holocaust Deniers React to 9/11 Attacks


By Martin A. Lee
As Germany's defeat loomed during the final months of World War II, Adolf Hitler increasingly lapsed into delusional fits of fantasy.
Albert Speer, in his prison writings, recounts an episode in which a maniacal Hitler "pictured for himself and for us the destruction of New York in a hurricane of fire."
The Nazi fuehrer described skyscrapers turning into "gigantic burning torches, collapsing upon one another, the glow of the exploding city illuminating the dark sky."
An approximation of Hitler's hellish vision came true on Sept. 11, when terrorists destroyed the Twin Towers in New York, killing nearly 3,000 people. But it was not Nazis or even neo-Nazis who carried out the attack — the deadliest terror strike in history allegedly came at the hands of foreign Muslim extremists.
Still, in the aftermath of the slaughter, white supremacists in America and Europe applauded the suicide attacks and praised Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the massacre.

It's a four page article full of good information, but little dirrectly relevent to the "truth" movement until page four:

'Working for Their Races'
The Philadelphia-based American Front thinks highly of Osama bin Laden, too, describing him as "one of ZOG [Zionist Occupation Government, the name many extremists give to the federal government, which they believe is run by Jews] and the New World Order's biggest enemies."
And it is not alone. Wolfgang Droege, one of 17 Canadian racists who traveled on a "fact-finding mission" to Libya in 1989, is similarly enamored of bin Laden, seeing parallels between bin Laden's struggle and others supporting "racial nationalism" in North America.
"I've had dealings with Black Muslims, I've had dealings with Arabs, I've had dealings with people of various races, and I realize that some of these people are as motivated as I am in working for the interest of their race," Droege told MacLean's magazine.
While they wouldn't want bin Laden, or anyone of non-European descent, living next door, leaders of the hard-core racist movement in the United States have seized upon the Sept. 11 attacks as an opportunity to expand their strategic alliance with Islamic radicals under the pretext of supporting Palestinian rights.
After hijacked airplanes demolished the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon, a number of Muslim newspapers published a flurry of articles by American white supremacists ranting against Israel and the Jews.
Anti-Zionist commentary by neo-Nazi David Duke appeared on the front page of the Oman Times, for instance, and on an extremist website based in Pakistan.
Another opinion piece by Duke ran in Muslims, a New York-based English-language weekly, which also featured a lengthy critique of U.S. foreign policy by William Pierce, head of the rabidly racist National Alliance.
In the wake of Sept. 11, several American neo-Nazi websites also started to offer links to Islamic websites.
The psychological dynamics that propel the actions of Islamic terrorists have much in common with the mental outlook of neo-Nazis.
Both glorify violence as a regenerative force and both are willing to slaughter innocents in the name of creating a new social order.

The potential for an alliance between American neo-Nazis and Islamic terrorists — an alliance that could develop into strong operational ties — cannot be ruled out given the long and sordid history of fascist links to the Muslim world.

Another reason this can't be ruled out is the long an sordid history the architects of the 911 "truth" conspiracies like Larouch and Tarpley have with political players in the Middle East.  The most recent manifestation of SPLC predictions has been the Iranian Press-Tv propaganda outlet which Tarpley is invested in. 

Another is a Blame the Jews and Hollywood conference heavily attended by friends of the Larouche cult and White Power political players like Merlin Miller.

Merlin Miller, center, with Barrett

Webster Tarpley, far back

Mike Gavel with Fetzer

And, don't forget, these anti Semite Nazi lovers invented the 9/11 Space Beam Theory in 2002.

It can't end well.

Lew Rockwell: gullible "Libertarian" or cynical opportunist?

September of last year one of Lew Rockwell's chums published an "OMG they're stealing our gunz rights!" article on his website, LewRockwell.com.  The problem is the source was a satirical website, making me wonder are they really that dumb or do they just not care?

I'm inclined to go with the latter as there is ample evidence, in and out of the "truth" movement, that Rockwell primary motive for anything he does is $$$$$$$$$$.

Mr. Rockwell has a long history of cynically pushing political garbage to make money.  Look no further than the racist Ron Paul Newsletters he helped Paul publish and make millions off of for decades.
Then there's the Von Mises Institute Rockwell helped found with Murray Rothbard of the Cato Institute, putting Rockwell only one degree of separation from the Larouche origins of the "truth" movement.    Now Rockwell claims Mises and Cato are at odds, but we really on have his word for it:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gordon/gordon37.html

And Rockwell's word isn't worth much these days, and it seems he and Ronnie had a rather cozy relationship with the Cato institute:

 Ed Crane, founder and president of the Cato Institute, told Reason that in a discussion of with Ron Paul during the period in which the newsletters were published, Paul said his chief source of campaign contributions was the mailing address for the controversial Spotlight magazine. Reason reports that the now defunct magazine, run by Holocaust Denier Willis Carto, promoted anti-Semitism.^[27]

Lew Rockwell was involved with pushing 911 truth conspiracies from at least 2007 to 2009.   Rockwell was a frequent contributor to Rick Seigel's defunct 911researchers forum.  I don't know all of Siegel's story.  But I do know he funded many websites of the "truther" con.  It's possible Seigel was conned and his extreme libertarian ideals of "freedom" were exploited. If so, Rockwell would be one of the conartists.

Rockwell used to post on Liberty Forest, the old Ron Paul forum, where he pushed links to Craig "Killtown" Lazo's 911movement forum.

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 In fact Rockwell was an administrator at Lazo's forum:

 To recap, aimless supposed Green boy enjoying hippy chicks is drawn into the Libertarian party, and becomes a 911 online entity working with supporters of Lyndon Larouche, David Duke and various Holocaust deniers and confederacy sympathizers. Eventually KT would be de facto manager of a forum compiling information about activists—and one of his administrators is THE Lew Rockwell.

 Making Rockwell responsible for all the lies and cyber shenanigans at 911movement.org.  If anyone knew who "Slicks" wife was and wanted to blackmail "Slick", Rockwell would be a prime candidate.  After all, would he really want to risk being connected to the forum as he helped Ron Paul prepare for 2012?
Rockwell, with "Killtown" Lazo, was a supporter of the conspiracy movie September Clues:

The screenie above, hosted and imageshack and archiving Rockwell's witting self involvement and promotion of "September Clues" at Craig Lazo's forum, has been removed.  I have a copy somewhere.  Until then bask in the hypocrisy of Mr. Lazo and his associates who refuse to remove one jot of any of their published lies.

Not sure if it's the same, but it definitely archives Rockwell networking with Mr. Shack and Mr. Lazo:

And for kicks, here's one where Rockwell is agreeing to harrass photographer Devin Clark:

The same Devin Clark Lazo's buddy Ozzy made videos implying death threats.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sip3lIcyhMU
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6esBFmwrB4
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKzHtNchiMI

Stay classy, people.

Rockwell claimed among many things to be ex-military, something wikipedia seems unaware of.

 I'm former military, so I have a fair idea how this works.

Rockwell also engaged in stalking 911 survivors, reporting his exploits at 911movement.org.
Posted: May 14 2009, 11:17 AM

I just drove over there.
There is absolutely ZERO signage to indicate what's there except the street adress out front. (That still doesn't account for the Google map showing a wooded lot. I can seee my own care in my driveway when I put in my addy and my street isn't even listed on a mercator map.
Once you drive into the compound there's a a sign for deliveries, parking, etc, but again, nothing to indicate it's a Goldman Sachs Fraud Op. A woman is a black trench coat, slacks, sensible heels and wearing a dour look gave me the hairy eyeball, but other than that it looks like your average 1980's style office park, albeit small.

It might be interesting to find out how long they've occupied the building. If it predates Lisa's foundation, I think it's safe to say the foundation was a GS creation.
HTH

Rockwell's mix of sleazy companions and unfounded conspiracy innuendo, show the man is nothing less than a pathological liar, pushing anything that will support his agenda of the moment.  Not only is it dishonest and unethical, but, at it's extreme, it shows Rockwell is a fool.

Take the article published on Rockwell's website by Gary North:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/09/gary-north/kentucky-fried-trouble/

LewRockwell.com ANTI-STATE•ANTI-WAR•PRO-MARKET

Kentucky Trial Balloon: RFID Tracking Chips on All Guns

By Gary North

The Tea Party Economist

September 14, 2013

The Senate of the state of Kentucky wants to run an experiment. It has passed a bill that establishes a new law. As of January 1, all gun owners in one city must bring in their guns. The police will attach a battery-powered chip that will track its whereabouts. The police will charge the gun owners for this service.
Anyone who fails to do this could be fined or sent to jail.
The city chosen is Winchester. You think the politicians are not sending a message? If there had been a Kentucky city called Glock, they would have chosen it instead.
If the politicians get away with this, it is expected that the program will be imposed in every county in the state.
The preliminary report does not indicate that the governor has signed the bill into law.
If this does not lead to protests in Kentucky, gun-control lawmakers around the United States hope to get every state to impose this requirement.
Then, when confiscation day comes, the police will know where every gun is, other than those owned by criminals, who will not register their guns.
This is a trial balloon. The politicians will keep extending this law until they receive opposition sufficient to threaten their re-election.
Continue Reading on nationalreport.net
Gary North [send him mail] is the author of Mises on Money. Visit http://www.garynorth.com. He is also the author of a free 31-volume series, An Economic Commentary on the Bible.

Hope Mr. North's Bible work is better than his political research.  One has only to follow his link to National Report to see he's got the wrong end of the stick:

*DISCLAIMER: The views expressed by writers on this site are theirs alone and are not reflective of the fine journalistic and editorial integrity of National Report. Advice given is NOT to be construed as professional. If you are in need of professional help, please consult a professional. National Report is not intended for children under the age of 18.

The phraseology should make a thinking person suspicious this is something tongue in cheek.  Perhaps inspire a Google search:

National Report (nationalreport.net) is a satirical website devoted to often subtle parodies of real news which convince the unwary. It is published by Allen Montgomery.^[1]
Among headline-generating spoofs are a report that Arizona's governor Jan Brewer intended to introduce mandatory gay-to-straight conversion courses into the state's public school system,^[2] and a report that fooled researchers at Fox News Channel, in which the President was purported to have announced his intention to spend his own money to keep a Muslim museum open during a government shutdown.^[3] Another report that fooled people in Wyoming claimed that a man in Hanna, Wyoming was the first recipient of a RFID chip which, the report claimed, was part of an Obamacare pilot program.^[1]

It's satire, people.  See how easy that was?

Apparently not easy enough.  The comments swarm with people who don't stop for two seconds to wonder if this is real, not even after a fellow libertarian sounds the alarm that this is satire:

Len Libertarian

September 15, 2013 at 12:59 pm

The popular site LewRockwell.com picked up this satire news story and presented it as real news. Well done!

The syndicated talk radio show The Freedom Feens talked on their show today about LewRockwell.com getting punked by this. Archive is here:

http://www.freedomfeens.com/2013/09/15/traffic-cameras-are-proof-the-government-doesnt-work-live-freedom-feens-radio-archive/

–Len.

Almost six months later, and still no retraction at Lew Rockwell's website.

This tells us a couple things about right-wing Libertarians generally and the Libertarian's promoting the "truther" fraud specifically:

1.  As long as something supports their agenda, Libertarian leaders don't care about facts.
2.  Libertarian owners of websites, or newsletters for that matter, do not think it's their responsibility to edit anything, ever.   Years later when called out, they lie and/or pass the buck, without even trying to look credible to the public outside their bubble.
3.Libertarian propaganda is directed at loyal followers who will not question the obvious lies and discrepancies.   This means Libertarian leaders value brainwashed followers who will do what they say without question.

Now some will object that all parties do this.  But this is not true.   As a long time lefty I know registered Republicans who think the party's recent alliance with Tea Party extremists is insane.  And of course I know many Democrats who were unhappy Obama took so long to withdraw troops.  Normal people involved with the traditional parties do NOT vote or hold opinions in lockstep. And party leaders are highly aware they need to look like rational people when the come under fire.

Not so the official Libertarian Party.  Their leaders could not care less if regular voters saw them as sane as long the base is loyal.   And the base is defined by loyalty at all costs.

It's the extreme of Right Wing ideology: cynical leadership knowingly pushing lies, and gullible trusting followers any television preacher would envy. The politics of Libertarianism operate less like an economic model and more like a religion.  This isn't an accident.  If you can get people involved in a faith based ideology, you can manipulate them to react with religious fervor with friend and foe.
Bringing us to Rockwell's involvement in the "truth" movement. 

The 911 "Truth" Movement is one of many fringe right propaganda fronts.  They all had a natural life cycle:

initial broad appeal,

discovery of flawed facts and/or associations,

decline to small dedicated fringe. 

The Libertarian Party itself has followed this pattern, now a shadow of itself and the haunt of extremists.   It has one victory: being recognized as a national party.  But it's reputation as a mainstream alternative is over.  Even the openly racist America Freedom Party thinks it has better chances, perhaps because it never LIED about it's racist roots.

This is what did the 911"truth" movement in.
The initial appeal :

anti war activists unimpressed with Bush's over use of "terrorism" as an excuse for military action.  Why was he doing this?

Truth movement leaders and recruiters who either were strongly critical of Bush or pretended to be politically liberal offered answers.  What they didn't explain was the extreme right wing sources of their "theories".    They deliberately obscured them, as "debunking911" has said:

At 23 March, 2007 18:46,  debunking911 said... I can't hate on the people who have been suckered into this. Not everyone has the time to research this like we do. But I think people in the public eye have a special responsibility to find out the truth before opening their mouth. Some nutcase like McVeigh will try to kill someone some day because people like Rosie jumped to conclusions.

This gets frustrating. We don't have a radio station and fanatics like they do. We need a group to e-mail or fax these people our web sites like they have. We need someone who knows how to create videos like they do. The thing is people only get motivated by a crisis and they have a manufactured one.

D911 frustration was understandable, but like many debunkers, he was looking in the wrong direction.  Focusing on debunking hoax theories is laudable, but it's worthless if the source and political goals of the people inventing the theories is ignored.  Otherwise they'll just invent another theory, and it will be another game of wack-the-mole.

Once all the theories are identified as a fringe right propaganda machine, certain "truther" behaviours encouraged in "truthers" make more sense, particularly the quasi religious Matrix inspired "wake up" "witnessing".  Much like the big L libertarians don't want critical supporters, "truther" leaders, don't want critical members.  They want a mass of people ready to repeat faith based mantas.
 
Then the demonizing of anyone asking say Steven Jones questions about his termites, er, thermates, makes sense.   As does the hand waving over his OverUnity scam. Or, really, anyone expecting rational adult behaviour.

The faith based aspect of the "truth" movement has been over shadowed by theories, but is far more indicative of the psychology truther leaders were trying to exploit.  At least three leaders make claims to religious training and/or institutions: 

 Griffin, Jones and Barrett. 

The idea has appeal beyond the fringe right.  Most people have trouble seeing mild-mannered religious persons as fronting a scam.   Loud and brash ones sure; the typical TV preacher is assumed to be lining his pockets.  But to be knowing outright frauds, working with racist loons, that's hard for anyone to accept no matter where they are on the political spectrum.
 It takes proof to break the spell:

Griffin:  Publisher racist Barnes Review: this link to the The American Free Press/Barnes Review Conference of 2006 proves, better than any snark, that TBR is connected to the racist AFP at the hip.
Jones:  fraudulent paper, pushing OverUnity Hoax
Barrett: Holocaust denier and supporter of Merlin Miller, a White Power political candidate.

The only people left to defend these racist frauds are the "true believers", like Rockwell and the Paultards, remaining loyal out of blind faith, or because they have no place to go.   The leaders remain because there's still money to be squeezed out of the rubes.

The continued presence of Gary North's uncritical and badly researched article on Rockwell's website, is an example of the "thinking" rife in both the Libertarian Party and the 911truth movement: my theory, right or wrong.  Facts be damned!

It also proves "Lew" was never interested in any truth.  He's only interested in material to feed his libertarian propaganda machine, no matter how foolish it makes him look.  Because he knows the true believers will never question and always follow.

911Blogger.com's Orangutan comes out of the "American Free Press" fringe closet

I've gotta work on that title.  Too wordy.

As the years go by, the right wing fringe front DNA becomes more and more obvious at the "truther" website 911blogger.com.   But, up until now, the owners have played face-saving games and disclaimers, no matter what was posted.  This has included some truly despicable shite, of which calling the Sandy Hook shootings fake is the bottom of the barrell.

Well today it isn't just anyone pulling this rubbish.  The website co-owner Orangatan is not only is pushing the "Hooker" scam, but links to the Larouche/Cato/fringe loonie website American Free Press to do so:


http://911blogger.com/news/2013-01-17/why-sandy-hook-massacre-spawned-conspiracy-theories-benjamin-radford-livescience-bad-science-columnist

School Safety Expert Threatened for Questioning Sandy Hook
School safety expert who was invited by the U.S. Department of Justice to train over 3,500 school police officers, superintendents and principals, Wolfgang W. Halbig, threatened by police investigators for questioning Sandy Hook official story.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6roDPt1WYYY

Ex Florida state trooper/investigator on the verge of blowing Sandy Hook wide open after receiving multiple official threats. Incredible information.

Wolfgang W. Halbig doesn't believe anyone was killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012, and he's looking for some answers. So many answers, in fact, that he was paid a visit by some police investigators telling him to back off.
Mr. Halbig isn't your average "conspiracy theorist." He's worked in public education as a teacher, dean, assistant principal, principal of an alternative school and as the Director for School Safety and Security for the Seminole County Public Schools, a school district of approximately 65,000 students.
A former Florida State Trooper and United States Customs Inspector, Mr. Halbig was invited by the U.S. Department of Justice to train over 3,500 school police officers, school superintendents and school principals. He travels the country providing presentations and keynotes to a variety of school board associations and conferences and is a nationally-recognized school safety and security expert and consultant, who has provided safety training and school assessments for more than 4,000 school districts nationwide.
Dave Gahary spoke with Wolfgang about why he doesn't believe the official story of the Sandy Hook Elementary School event, in this interesting interview (43:23).
http://americanfreepress.net/?p=15503

Orangutan. on Sat, 02/15/2014 - 9:52am.

 

 "Wolfgang W. Halbig doesn't believe anyone was killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012, and he's looking for some answers. So many answers, in fact, that he was paid a visit by some police investigators telling him to back off."

 

Oh please.  There's zero "investigative" work behind this conspiracy.  I can't imagine anyone who is not a Nazi, Closet Nazi, racist sympathizer, etc, linking to the AFP website and it's highlighted garbage where you will learn about:

Jim Tucker's Bilderberg Secrets Revealed!

Rudolf Hess: His Betrayal and Murder

The BarnesReview.com "Real History Like You've Never Seen Before!" [spoiler: it's all the Jew's fault]

The FINAL New World Order

POKER FACE

New World Order Assassins  by Victor Thorn

"Orangutan" just doesn't care who knows he's fronting for the fringe any more and his endorsement of the Sandy Hook "Hoax" nastiness proves it.  The "Hookers" have their roots in anti Semite political garbage.

 

Holocaust denier and "truther" Jim Fetzer was blaming the Sandy Hook shooting on Israel/Mossad/Jews:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H._Fetzer#Conspiracy_claims

 

Atop backing allegations that the 7/7 London bombings in 2005, the Sandy Hook school shooting in 2012, and the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 were acts of governments' covert terrorism,^[37][38] he initially suggested for Sandy Hook a role by Israel's Mossad or in any case, via claimed inconsistencies, a governmental stratagem, perhaps to frighten Americans into further gun restrictions.^[39] He later claimed that the Sandy Hook massacre was a sham.^[40]

Jimmy has backed way off of these claims, perhaps realizing his anti-semite colors were showing a bit too brightly, but these urls to his articles prove that's the position he initially took a week after the shootings:

http://www.presstv.com/detail/2012/12/20/279183/israeli-death-squad-massacred-us-children

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/12/23/mossad-death-squads-slaughtered-american-children-at-sandy-hook

Of course Fetzer is a known fraud pushing pro Nazi swill.  So is American Free Press who published the article Orangutan linked to:

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

"According to one former correspondent, the newspaper's direct ancestor was the publication The Spotlight,^[1] which ceased publication in 2001 when its parent company, Liberty Lobby, was forced into bankruptcy. Like The Spotlight and Liberty Lobby, Willis Carto, one of America's most influential political racial theorists known for his promotion of antisemitic conspiracy theories and Holocaust denial, was one of its founders."

" The Southern Poverty Law Center considers it a hate group^[10] and claims that it "carries stories on Zionism, secret 'New World Order' conspiracies, American Jews and Israel."^[11] One of the newspaper's ex-contract reporters, Christopher Bollyn, is sometimes cited for his reporting in the 9/11 Truth Movement. The Anti-Defamation League has criticised the newspaper and, in particular, Bollyn for linking of prominent figures in the Jewish community with the events of September 11, 2001, and in September 2006 attacked the newspaper for disseminating "antisemitic propaganda".^[12]
Many contributors such as Mark Dankof^[13] and Mark Glenn are also contributors to Iran's PressTV television station. The website Veterans Today which advocates moderate views towards Iran and Syria also carries content created by AFP.^[14] According to Accuracy in Media, "Press TV spews out unending streams of anti-American propaganda", and refers to Dankof as a Ron Paul supporter who is also a "Press TV propagandist". In a May 2011 article Dankof protested the British government attempting to shut down Press TV, blaming it on "media outlets and correspondents with provable connections to the American Jewish lobby; Israeli intelligence; and Neo-Conservatives thirsting for a War of Civilizations with Iran specifically, and the Islamic world generally.” ^[15] In a May 2011 article, Dankof also quoted from and wrote that the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion accurately reflect the state of the world. He lauded PressTV as one of the few exceptions to the Jewish control of the media.^[16]"

So this is what 911blogger.com's owners and moderators consider a credible information source these days.  And the sites users seem to approve.Nice to know.

Now "Orangutan" can drop the pretence of running an "activist" website dedicated to discovering the "truth" to stop wars.  911blogger has embraced it's identity as a front for fringe radical right racists.  But this situation is instructive, as it shows how the  fringe right will exploit confused leftists to hijack a platform.

Lest we forgot, 911blogger was not always  a right-wing haven.  "Reprehensor" was not a Nazi, soft sell or otherwise.  I think he was duped into da truth like many of us. Then duped into handing the website to psuedo Nazi tossers. 

This isn't the first time this has happened.  As justifiably horrid as reviews of Veteran's Today are, it wasn't always so.  Now they're on the SPLC radar as of 2011.

But archives going back to 2004 show a website that appears to have been honest about it's mission to help veterans.  Not a "Jews Did It" meme in sight:

https://web.archive.org/web/20040928195406/http://www.veteranstoday.com/

If it was a fringe right front then, they were hiding it very well.   The website's focus changed Gordon Duff got involved, around 2006.  It doesn't look like the people running the website knew who he was.  Or like many of us, just couldn't believe he was part of a cynical exploitive anti-semite front group.  By 2009 a 9/11 and Terrorism link was added to the main page, reasonable for a military focused website. But by 2010 they were well on their way reiventeding themselves as the Jew haters paradise we know today:

 https://web.archive.org/web/20100810001049/http://www.veteranstoday.com/

 Israelization of Iraq and Indianization of Afghanistan

ADL Like Israel Throws off Classical Liberal Front in Favor of Rightwing Tyranny

Israeli Hitler Youth


GORDON DUFF: WIKI-LEAKS IS ISRAEL, LIKE WE ALL DIDN’T KNOW

And the conspiracy stuff starts to get tracktion:

A Danish Scientist breaks the 9/11 culture of silence

This is all very educational. 

I know it's hard to believe, but, AFAIK, 911blogger.com was founded and run by left leaning anti war activists from it's inception, until the latest fringe goons took over around 2009-2010.   Keep in mind they spent years cultivating people, earning trust to get in this position.     The fringe right is highly motivated to exploit and take over any medium it can control.  It's much more surprising this worked with Veteran's Today; you'd expect more persons involved to be alert to fraud.  911blogger.com, once owned by someone misguidedly promoting right wing conspiracy theories, was always a target.   It was only a matter of time before it was either assimilated or shut down. 

What this tells us is the fringe right can be very patient if they want to take over something.

But people like me can be equally patient in exposing their scams.

It won't end well.

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.