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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 11:06 AM
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New White Supremacist Party has Mass Electoral Ambitions
New White Supremacist Party has Mass Electoral Ambitions
By Larry Keller

For years now, white nationalists have been adrift. William Pierce, founder of the National Alliance, the major neo-Nazi organization of its time, died in 2002. David Lane died in prison in 2007, where he was serving a 190-year sentence for his role in the murder of Denver radio talk show host Alan Berg while Lane was a member of The Order, a racist, domestic terrorist group. Former Klan boss David Duke lives on, but his commitment to the movement was sullied after he went to prison in 2002 for spending donations for racist causes for his personal benefit. Duke spends much of his time nowadays in Europe, selling his books and photographs.

Now, Los Angeles lawyer William Daniel Johnson — joined by California psychology professor Kevin MacDonald, whose anti-Semitic writings have become as important to the neo-Nazi movement as Hitler's Mein Kampf — is attempting to fill the white supremacist void with the formation of a fledgling political party, the American Third Position or A3P, with the aim of uniting disaffected racists. Its stated mission: to "represent the political interests of White Americans." Its method: to eventually run white nationalist candidates for offices in every state.

Johnson, 55, is not a big name in white nationalist circles. But the wealthy international corporate attorney has been a racist activist for 30 years and sought elective offices in three states. Most recently, in 2008, he was a judicial candidate in Los Angeles County. Johnson is a soft-spoken, earnest and unimposing man who has supported repatriating blacks to Africa and has been cozy with Klansmen and neo-Nazi skinheads. He has deep pockets and a willingness to spend wads of his own money on his quixotic campaigns. Most important, Johnson — who did not respond to voicemail and E-mail requests seeking comment for this story — has lined up some leading luminaries from the racist right to help guide the A3P.


William Daniel Johnson is a mild-mannered and unimposing white supremacist, but he has assembled a team of movement heavyweights.

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And Johnson recently disclosed that he plans to contribute a "generous sum" to establish a nonprofit offshoot of A3P that would steer clear of being a political organization. He said the A3P also will create a political action committee (or PAC) to organize, finance and manage the political campaigns of white nationalists running under various party affiliations. "These candidates will use the mainstream parties as vehicles to challenge the mainstream parties," the A3P website says.

More:
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/summer/filling-the-void





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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 11:09 AM
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1. Trying to cash in on teabaggery.
May they quickly crash and burn!
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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 11:15 AM
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2. Adrift? The teabaggers are armed and ready.
Literally.

White Power is back.

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pampango Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 11:31 AM
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3. Wiki for A3P:promotes white nationalism, against immigration and globalization, anti-interventionist
foreign policy.

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

The American Third Position Party is an American political party which promotes white nationalism. It was founded in 2010, and defines its principal mission as representing the political interests of white Americans. The party takes a strong stand against immigration and globalization, and strongly supports an anti-interventionist foreign policy. Although the party does not support labor unions, they do strongly support the labor rights of the American working class on a platform of placing American workers first over illegal immigrant workers and banning of overseas corporate relocation of American industry and technology.

Third Position

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

Third Position is a revolutionary nationalist political ideology that emphasizes its opposition to both communism and capitalism. Advocates of Third Position politics present themselves as "neither left nor right", instead combining ideas from both. Third Positionists tend to defend the interests of the "productive" working class, seek alliances with separatists of ethnicity other than their own to achieve "separate but equal" ethnic segregation, support national liberation movements in the least developed countries, and have recently embraced neopaganism and environmentalism.

Scholars, such as Roger Griffin, view Third Positionism as a minor branch of fascism, which rejects both Marxism and liberalism for a form of racial socialism or, more precisely, an ideology which combines a tribal form of racial nationalism with a corporatist, distributist or solidarist economic system. The main precursors of Third Position politics are National Bolshevism, a synthesis of nationalism and communism, and Strasserism, a radical, mass-action and worker-based form of Nazism.

"Stop Immigration and Restore our National Identity." - http://american3p.org/?page_id=110
"American Workers First" - http://american3p.org/?page_id=108
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Hello_Kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 11:41 AM
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4. Always gotta push your agenda, don't you Pampango?
Now everyone who has a concern about globalization will be tarred as a white supremacist. Nice.
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