It seems that a white supremacist group advocating for a "white uprising" was hacked and emails linking them with Ron Paul were found. The emails detail close meetings between white supremacists and Ron Paul. They also disclose Ron Paul meeting with other international far-right extremist leaders.
Will Ron Paul be asked about his associations with these groups during the next Republican debate? Regardless, his connections with white supremacist ideology goes deeper and deeper as more of his dirty trash is found. How many more skeletons in the closet does Ron Paul have?
Ron Paul, the American Third Position Party and Stormfront
Anonymous Expose Nazi Third Position 'Bridging Tactic' with Ron Paul
Will Ron Paul be asked about his associations with these groups during the next Republican debate? Regardless, his connections with white supremacist ideology goes deeper and deeper as more of his dirty trash is found. How many more skeletons in the closet does Ron Paul have?
Ron Paul, the American Third Position Party and Stormfront
Members of the nationalist American Third Position Party (A3P), whose website was defaced by Anonymous, organised Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul's meetings and campaigns, according emails hacked by the collective.
Chairman of the British National Party (BNP) Nick Griffin also took part in meetings with Paul and other representatives of A3P.
"According to these messages, Ron Paul has regularly met with many A3P members, even engaging in conference calls with their board of directors," read a statement from Anonymous.
It also claims that Paul received financial support from other white power groups, such as the online hate forum Stormfront, founded by Don Black, a white supremacist. There is even a photograph of Paul with Black, a former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and a current member of the American Nazi Party. Paul allegedly refused to return donations from Black and Stormfront. Black told The New York Times that Paul's newsletter had inspired him to become a supporter.
In its statement, Anonymous said it put extra effort into hacking A3P webmaster Jamie Kelso, a key figure in organising Paul's meetings and conferences.
Kelso, a former Scientologist and account owner of other German Nazi forums, became an active supporter of Paul in 2007. He was reportedly attracted to Paul because he believed the Republican's followers would be receptive to his white supremacist views. He described Paul as "implicitly white" and started to actively organise Paul's events.
"Let's appreciate this big (Paul) audience that's overwhelmingly white," Kelso said in an interview with the Southern Poverty Law Center. "This is our audience, this is our public. These are our people. If we can't persuade these people of the rightness of our cause, then we're finished," he said.
Excerpts from the email hacked by Anonymous show Kelso's commitment to Paul's policies.
In 2009 he wrote to a supporter: "My own opinion is that the White revolution has already begun, and that the good White folks like Quinn [a member of A3P] that fills these Ron Paul crowds and marching armies ARE the start of the revolution."
In a 2011 email from someone who goes by the name "Penn Dutch" and appears to be close to Paul, the author expressed his resentment of the way Kelso was treated at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CAPC): "Jamie, just wanted you to know that I thought it was ashame [sic] that you were treated so badly at the CPAC meeting. I intend to let Ron Paul know that you have a large following, and are well respected by many White people."
Kelso also appears to have made his team available to Paul's campaign. In an email dated 2009, he wrote to an Alexander Hamilton: "Imbar is Ron Paul #2 man in Illinois. Owns his own manufacturing company. Young guy like you, Jeff (Imbar) and I have been buddies for years. We met up with Ron Paul in Ames, Iowa in Aug. 2007."
In another email from 2010, Kelso reiterates his commitment to Paul's presidential campaign and claims that some A3P members are part of Paul's team. "A couple of my buddies are among those dozen [email sent]. 'Knucklehead' is my buddy and Sr. Mod named Imbar on WhiteNewsNow [a racist website owned by Kelso]. He's also Ron Paul's #2 man in Illinois, Chicago, where is a manufacturer. His name is Jeff".
Griffin from the British National Party was also involved in these meetings. "We'll be meeting up with Nick Griffin on Wednesday night... a few of us," Kelso wrote to a member of AP3. "I let Nick know about the CPAC going on Thurs. and Fri. at the Marriott Hotel north of the White House," he said. "Ron Paul will be there Fri. afternoon. Want to meet up with him?"
Paul's connections with racist supporters have been highlighted by the media in America. Bill White, a former member of the neo-Nazi group the National Socialist Movement, became disillusioned with Paul after a spokesman for the Republican candidate called white supremacy "a small ideology".
Following the incident, he wrote on a popular white supremacist website: "Both Congressman Paul and his aides regularly meet with members of the Stormfront set, American Renaissance, the Institute for Historic Review, and others at the Tara Thai restaurant in Arlington, Virginia, usually on Wednesdays," he said. "I have attended these dinners, seen Paul and his aides there, and been invited to his offices in Washington to discuss policy."
"Paul is a white nationalist of the Stormfront type who has always kept his racial views and his views about world Judaism quiet because of his political position," he added.
Anonymous Expose Nazi Third Position 'Bridging Tactic' with Ron Paul
The nationalist American Third Position Party (A3P) pursued a "bridging tactic" with the Ron Paul Revolution movement that support the Republican candidate for the White House, according to emails hacked by Anonymous.
Calling for a "White uprising", A3P webmaster Jamie Kelso, whose email account was hacked by the collective, claims that his racist forum WhiteNewsNow is "the only W[hite] N[ationalist] forum working hard to form a bridge with the 100 times larger Ron Paul Revolution".
Other excerpts show Kelso's efforts in organising meetings between Ron Paul and other members of the A3P such as corporate lawyer William D. Johnson, chairman of the neo-Nazi A3P.
Johnson, who in 1985 proposed a constitutional amendment that would revoke the American citizenship of every non-white US citizen, founded the American Third Position along with anti-Semite Kevin MacDonald, professor at California State University, Long Beach.
"I'm going to go to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) with Bill Johnson," reads an email to an A3P member dated January 2011. "Bill and I will be meeting with Ron and Ran Paul. I have a teleconference call with Bill (and Ron Paul) tonight. Much more later. Things are starting to happen (thanks to folks like you)."
In another passage, Kelso, a former Scientologist and account owner of other German Nazi forums, wrote: "I'll be at CPAC from Feb. 9 to Feb. 12. I'll send back reports to you from personal meetings with Ron Paul, newly-elected Senator Rand Paul and many others. It'll be here on WhiteNewsNow, a place that is really starting to get interesting because of the presence of folks like you. Birds of a feather flock together, and we are really gathering some quality here."
Kelso's strategy appears to b connect with the extremist wings of Ron Paul's supporters to lobby A3P racist policies. He became an active fan of Paul in 2007. He was reportedly attracted to Paul because he believed the Republican's followers would be receptive to his white supremacist views. He described Paul as "implicitly white" and started to actively organise Paul's events.
"The tactic is one of aggressively 'bridging 'between our explicit WN members (with our very small numbers) and our very IMPLICITLY pro-White kinsmen in movements like Ron Paul Revolution (with their HUGE) numbers."
Paul's connections with racist supporters have been highlighted by the media in America. The Washington Post reported in January that Paul has been a businessman who pursued a marketing strategy that included publishing racially charged newsletters.
Accusations of racism emerged as far as 1996 when Paul, at the time ex-congressman and former Libertarian Party presidential candidate, was a Republican congressional candidate from Texas The issue resurfaced as Paul moved to the front of the GOP party in recent months. He walked away from an interview in which a CNN reporter pressed him for more answers.
In a 1992 commentary in the Political Report titled "A special issue on racial terrorism", Paul accuses African American men for the L.A. riots saying: "The criminals who terrorized our cities - in riots and on every non-riot day - are not exclusively young black males, but they largely are."
A separate article from the Survival Report said, "If you have ever been robbed by a black teenaged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be."
Paul claimed he did not know who wrote the articles.
"It's been rehashed for a long time, and it's coming up now for political reasons," Paul told CNN in January 2008. "Everybody in my district knows I didn't write them, and I don't speak like that. Nobody has ever heard me say anything like that."
However, a Ron Paul newsletter dated 1992 referred to civil rights leader Martin Luther King as a "world-class philanderer who beat up his paramours."
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