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at 02:12 PM, HarryNadds gmail.com> said:
>On Aug 10, 4:05Â pm, TruthTel...@
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>> In <4cb0ef21-2b30-4d5f-882f-0b6253fd0...@
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>> 08/10/2008
>> Â Â at 12:35 PM, HarryNadds
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>>>>>On Aug 10, 11:54Â am, hp...@
lycos.com wrote:
>>>> On Aug 10, 7:24Â am, "Michael Laudahn eOpposition"
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your.earliest.convenience> wrote:>>>>> PEARL, Miss. (AP) - They're not exactly rooting for Barack Obama, but
>>>>> prominent white supremacists anticipate a boost to their cause if he becomes
>>>>> the first black president. His election, they say, would trigger a
>>>>> backlash - whites rising up, a revolution of sorts - that they think is long
>>>>> overdue.
>>
>>>>> He'd be a "visual aid," says former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, in
>>>>> trying to bring others around to their view that whites have lost control of
>>>>> America. Obama's election, says another, would jar whites into action,
>>>>> writing letters, handing out pamphlets rather than sitting around
>>>>> complaining.
>>
>>>>> While most Americans have little or no direct contact with white
>>>>> supremacists, organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League and the
>>>>> Southern Poverty Law Center keep close tabs; the law center estimates some
>>>>> 200,000 people nationwide are active in such groups. These observers think
>>>>> the prospect of a white revolution is fantasy.
>>
>>>>> White supremacists - many call themselves nationalists or "White activists,"
>>>>> with a capital W - have had limited political success: Duke served in the
>>>>> Louisiana Legislature. And the public has periodically been unsettled by
>>>>> their public events, like the effort by uniformed Nazis to march through
>>>>> Skokie, Ill., the annual Aryan Nations meetings in Idaho and elsewhere or
>>>>> the FBI's clashes with armed white supremacists in several Western
>>>>> compounds.
>>
>>>>> Richard Barrett is a 65-year-old lawyer who traveled the country for 40
>>>>> years advocating what he perceives as the white side in racial issues - like
>>>>> his public support for a white teenager who hung a noose in a Jena, La.,
>>>>> school yard.
>>
>>>>> Barrett is convinced Democratic Sen. Obama will defeat Republican Sen. John
>>>>> McCain in November.
>>
>>>>> And that could cause an upheaval, Barrett, a leader in the Nationalist
>>>>> Movement, told The Associated Press in an interview at his rural Mississippi
>>>>> home.
>>
>>>>> "Instead of this so-called civil rights bill, for example, that says you
>>>>> have to give preferences to minorities, I think the American people are
>>>>> going - once they see the 'Obamanation' - they're going to demand a tweaking
>>>>> of that and say, 'You have to put the majority into office,'" Barrett said.
>>
>>>>> Across the United States, some white supremacists are saying an Obama
>>>>> presidency could create a racial backlash that will give their groups a
>>>>> boost.
>>
>>>>> Barrett is evasive about his ideology and tries to keep reporters from using
>>>>> "buzz words" to describe him. He doesn't call himself a white supremacist,
>>>>> although the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center do.
>>
>>>>> The law center tracks the Nationalist Movement, the Klan and like-minded
>>>>> groups from its Montgomery, Ala., headquarters. The center's "Hatewatch"
>>>>> newsletter reported in June that some neo-Nazis, Klansmen and anti-Semites
>>>>> are saying an Obama presidency could prompt a race war, which many on the
>>>>> "radical right" believe whites would win.
>>
>>>>> Although not all white supremacists agree, "large numbers of these people
>>>>> really seem to think that an Obama election would benefit them hugely," Mark
>>>>> Potok, the center's intelligence director, said in an interview. He called
>>>>> that view "essentially a fantasy."
>>
>>>>> Duke, the former Klan leader, posted an essay on his Web site in June
>>>>> titled, "Obama Wins Demo Nomination: A Black Flag for White America."
>>
>>>>> Obama "will be a clear signal for millions of our people," Duke wrote.
>>>>> "Obama is a visual aid for White Americans who just don't get it yet that we
>>>>> have lost control of our country, and unless we get it back we are heading
>>>>> for complete annihilation as a people."
>>
>>>>> Jason Robb, a Harrison, Ark., attorney who represents the Klan's Knights
>>>>> Party, describes himself as a "white nationalist."
>>
>>>>> "It doesn't really matter if Obama wins the election or McCain wins the
>>>>> election," Robb said in an interview. "Neither of them are going to try to
>>>>> fight to preserve the white race or heritage."
>>
>>>>> Robb said, however, that Obama's election could prompt more whites to get
>>>>> involved in politics by distributing pamphlets or writing letters to
>>>>> editors.
>>
>>>>> Although the South has had more racial violence than most of the country,
>>>>> Randy Blazak, a sociology professor at Oregon's Portland State University,
>>>>> says white supremacists live all over the United States. Blazak, who has
>>>>> studied skinheads for two decades, calls white supremacists a
>>>>> counterculture, not a movement, contending the latter term overstates their
>>>>> numbers.
>>
>>>>> Blazak said white supremacists thrive on fear of changing race relations,
>>>>> the women's movement and gay rights. Blazak said white working class people
>>>>> in particular long for a "Leave It To Beaver" society.
>>
>>>>> "Those were the 'good old days' for straight, white males. But for everyone
>>>>> else, it was a pretty raw deal," Blazak said.
>>
>>>>> Barrett, a New York City native who moved to Mississippi in 1966, said the
>>>>> Nationalist Movement has members in 36 states, but he won't say how many. He
>>>>> compares today's skinheads to the minutemen of the American Revolution.
>>
>>>>> "The Revolution, if you will, in 1776 brought the 13 colonies together
>>>>> against the king. And the same thing can happen now against Martin Luther
>>>>> King, with the 50 states," Barrett said, if Obama's elected.
>>
>>>>> Barrett says he is a Democrat but won't say whether he's voting for Obama.
>>>>> He'll only say he won't support McCain, Libertarian Bob Barr or independent
>>>>> Ralph Nader.
>>
>>>>> Charles Evers, brother of Medgar Evers, the Mississippi NAACP leader killed
>>>>> by a sniper in 1963, chuckles when told about Barrett's assertions.
>>
>>>>> "See, Richard doesn't really mean what he says. It's popular for him to say
>>>>> it. That's the way he makes a living," said Evers, who hosts a talk show on
>>>>> WMPR-FM in Jackson. "Same as Jesse Jackson, some more of our black
>>>>> revolutionaries who make a living off of keeping things emotional."
>>
>>>>> Although a longtime Republican, Evers supports Obama. He says the Democrat
>>>>> is more qualified than McCain.
>>
>>>>> Evers, whose office has photos of him with Robert Kennedy, Richard Nixon,
>>>>> George W. Bush and other politicians, said he sees broad, multiracial
>>>>> support for Obama, even in parts of the South where the white establishment
>>>>> dug in to try to preserve racial segregation decades ago.
>>
>>>>> "I think we're past that stage," Evers said. "I don't think the majority of
>>>>> white people are thinking that way anymore."
>>
>>>>> Kim Edwards of Matteson, Ill., a black woman who traveled to Mississippi
>>>>> with a racially mixed group so her son could play in a baseball tournament,
>>>>> is more skeptical. Edwards worries that extremists want Obama to be elected
>>>>> so they can assassinate him.
>>
>>>>> "I'm really concerned for his safety," said Edwards, who plans to vote for
>>>>> Obama. "I'm concerned that once he gets in office that he won't be
>>>>> recognized as an American president."
>>
>>>>> However, former Mississippi Gov. William Winter, a white Democrat who served
>>>>> on President Clinton's commission on racial reconciliation, doesn't foresee
>>>>> widespread white backlash if Obama is elected.
>>
>>>>> "We are a diverse country," said Winter, who supports Obama. "We are made up
>>>>> of people of every conceivable racial background."
>>
>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Give us back our countries: Stop the criminal multiculturalism ideology
>>>>> enforced upon the white world against the will of its peoples, leading to
>>>>> mass immigration from the third-world: Mul-cul + pol-corr = lethal mixture
>>>>> for the white world. And give us back our freedom: Dismantle all
>>>>> surveillance technology.
>>
>>>> I'm hearing very, very few White males making favorable comments about
>>>> Obama. GOP
>>>> should be on suicide watch for allowing illegal alien-loving McCain to
>>>> be their
>>>> candidate.
>>
>>>> mitch
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>>>What is the Messiah's stance on illegal immigration??
>>
>> I think it will go something like this:
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>> "Liberty for all does not mean independence from one another. Our nation
>> relies on men and women who look after a neighbor and surround the lost
>> with love. Americans, at our best, value the life we see in one another,
>> and must always remember that even the unwanted have worth. And our
>> country must abandon all the habits of racism, because we cannot carry
>> the message of freedom and the baggage of bigotry at the same time."- Hide quoted text -
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>So, does that mean the Messiah is for open borders???
Gee, I would have thought a right winger like you would love those words.
