More in my series on the real face of Ron Paul supporters. I’ve long said his conspiracy friendly version of Libertarianism was flavored with the warmed over anti-Semitic and racist quackery that re-emerged in the ’90’s as more and more inbred hillbillies and unmedicated schizophrenics gained access to software that made it simple to vomit forth their nonsense into cyberspace.
That in part explains the support for the “Ron Paul Revolution” by White Supremacist groups eager to use his gullible, paranoid followers to swell their ranks with more anti-American cranks. Far from disavowing these seditious traitors, rumor has it that Paul’s campaign is actively embracing them even sending out activist to contact the most loathsome of these groups.
Racist forums are awash in Paul supporters, whether this is a natural phenomenon or a campaign strategy remains to be seen. But the fact remains that members of the Stormfront forums and the VNN forums are not only actively campaigning for Paul, but driving traffic to his official sites in the hopes of raising money for him. From the Stormfront forum:
I wonder how the webmasters for Paul’s official sites feel when they look at their daily stats and sees one of their referrers is a White supremacist group whose sole desire is the overthrow of the United States government? Since this link’s been up for a while we can assume it doesn’t really bother them at all.
More interesting is he response one angry neo Nazi gets when he decries support for Paul as support for the hated Republican party (the party that destroyed the confederates):
Whats that I see? A great white savior riding in on a white horse waving his hands and magically accomplishing EVERY OBJECTIVE in one fell stroke? Oop, no, I guess I was waxing delusional. No such candidate exists, nor would he ever be elected, short of some very serious patchwork measures that Ron Paul could introduce in the meantime.
Ron will fix the border and stop the demographic hemmorhage. Thats a PLUS. Ron would pull our troops out of Iraq and end the billions of dollars in military and financial aid we send Israel every year. THATS A PLUS. He’d also dissolve the IRS, hopefully in favor of a consumption tax. If that means we stop subsidizing minorities, thats also a PLUS. As a non-interventionist, we wouldn’t get involved in places like Yugoslavia or Sudan and we probably wouldn’t be sending monetary AID to the Africans. Thats a PLUS. He’d preserve American sovereignty, shut down the NAFTA superhighway plans, and block the plans for a North American Union. PLUS PLUS PLUS.
If anyone expects better than this from the current crop of political candidates who stand a shot at winning, then that person is dreaming, and quite honestly acting as BAGGAGE to the WN movement, because they’re stalling our progress. Is Ron WN? Who knows – his policies help us, and we need action on our issues NOW, not in 2040 when we’re trying to retake California with tanks.
Some of you need to stop looking at our problems like a friggin BOARDGAME that you’re not going to play unless someone sets you up for an easy checkmate. Commit to making some progress, even if its piecemeal, and stop dragging your feet.
For every day that goes by thousands of Mexicans cross our border and change this country for the worse, and each good candidate we fail to stand behind will have a lesser and lesser chance of winning as time goes on. We are on the edge of the knife people – we’re either going to buy ourselves a time-out to make a few babies and get our s*** together with Ron, or we’re going to go with the status quo and have 40 million Mexicans to consider next round. If we want a RESULT we are going to have to WORK for it given the political variables as they exist, not what we’d wish them to be. Normally I’m not this sharp, but it burns my *ss to think we’ve got people on a WN forum off all places stealing momentum from one of the best real-world opportunities that we’ve had in a long time.
I edited out the cute frowny face he ended with, because it would distract you from this guy saying very clearly that White nationalists, who are dreaming of a time when they can “retake” California with tanks (which they’ll get from their friend Hugo chavez), see Paul and his policies as not just benefiting them, but hopefully ushering in their violent revolution. There are more Stormfronters defending their man Paul in that thread here and here. So I guess all you Paul supporters are in good company
VNN forums, aside from being a place pro-Palestinian DailyKos users dredge up their propaganda videos is a virtual Ron Paul love fest, with an entire sub forum devoted to Ron Paul. Most of the threads are started by this Ron Paul fanatic, yet another adult who thinks it’s acceptable to have a MySpace page (pervert) and besmirch the good name of King Diamond by using one of his tunes on a page that includes this sissified introduction:
I wouldn’t say that I’m a health freak. But yeah, I’m a health freak. I eat only raw fruit, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and legumes and I only smoke organic tobacco. I ride my bicycle everywhere and do one arm pushups and one legged squats. I wouldn’t say that I’m a self improvement freak. But yeah, I’m a self improvement freak. I watch videos and take notes on subjects such as hypnosis and neuro linguistic programming(NLP) to better understand myself and others, as well as to help others better understand who they are and who I am. I use subliminal messaging software to send affirmations to my subconscious. I do breathing exercises with a skin response/heartbeat rate biofeedback monitor called the “Lightstone” through “The Journey To Wild Divine” video game, practicing the heart breath (compassion based – breathe in for 5 seconds, breathe out for 5 seconds – stabilizes heartbeat rate and skin responsiveness), the yang breath (alertness based – vigorous breathing – raises heartbeat rate and skin responsiveness), and the yin breath (relaxation based – breath in for 7 seconds, breathe out for 7 seconds – lowers heartbeat rate and skin responsiveness). I practice the emotional freedom technique(EFT), a combination of acupressure and NLP that’s useful in many different contexts.
Hmmm. “Michael Mazzone” doesn’t sound like the kind of nice Moby listening metrosexual who would be hanging around a neo-Nazi forum. It’s almost like he’s unscrupulously posting on a Nazi forum to drum up support for his candidate even though he’d never attend a Nazi rally himself. You won’t catch a Fredhead doing that!
On the other hand I’ve posted before on the frilly pink dresses that are hidden under the Nazi costumes of these cretin, so maybe Mickey is a Nazi; a Ron Paul supporting, yoga practicing, MySpace cruising vegan Nazi.
But aren’t they all, David Duke, Alex Jones and every two bit anti-American crackpot is a Ron Paul supporter these days. And if that doesn’t say something about the man, well, I haven’t even posted about the furries yet…
There’s no group to crazy for Ron Paul’s organization to reach out to it seems, and there are unfortunately quite a few crazy enough to reach back.