Well this just got interesting.
The hacktivist collective Anonymous set out to take down the white supremacist American Third Party (A3P) in what they called “Operation Blitzkrieg” but they may have done much more.
In a document dump that includes private forum messages, emails, organization notes another other information the group found numerous connections between Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul and A3P. According to the documents, all hosted here, Paul himself regularly met with many A3P members, engaged in conference calls with their board of directors and engaged in a “bridging tactic” between A3P and the Ron Paul Revolution.
Other excerpts show A3P webmaster Jamie Kelso (whose email account was one hacked by the collective) coordinating meeting between Paul and other members of A3P such as corporate lawyer and chairman of the neo-Nazi group Paul. “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.”
Accusations of racism and ties to neo-Nazi interests have plagued Paul since the 1990s and have re-surfaced during this campaign. So far Paul has issued standard denials, claiming not to have been aware of the ties between his camp and the racist right and denied authorship of a series of racist newsletters, despite confirmation from his closest staff that Paul signed off on every detail.
So what’s Paul’s explanation now?
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Why doesn't it surprise me that Ron Paul is a Neo-Nazi? I also couldn't help but notice their connection with the Church of Scientology. Co-incidence? I think not.
He'll find a way! And, I suspect that, once he's reelected....the Republicans will suddenly become more cooperative, simply because they'll be campaigning for the NEXT election!
How is Obama supposed to get anything through a Republican-dominated Congress which has set as its goal the purpose of blocking whatever he attempts to do?
Virtually all of the Republicans in Congress, including Vice-Presidential hopeful Ryan, were willing to actually destroy their country's credit rating in order to do this - and Obama had walked into the appalling disaster left by Bush and his war-monger, corporate-representing cabinet, (ready and willing to advise Romney, btw, should Republican cheating at the poles enable him to win power over America) something that would take time and careful handling to repair, although greater strides would certainly have been made if he wasn't stymied by an obstructionist Congress.
Every step of the way, it's been corporate Republicans bringing America closer to 3rd-world status...
If you've ever watched the movie Sneakers (starring Robert Redford), then you'll know what I'm talking about.
One thing to remember about Anonymous is that it is not a monolithic organization. Basically, it consists of a bunch of cells which work (mostly) together in a collective; however, because all of the cells are basically under the Anonymous banner, the activities of any one cell can claim to be the activities of Anonymous, while the rest of the cells (also under the same banner) can legitimately claim that the activities were not done by Anonymous. Unfortunately, because this is not a secret that I'm telling, other groups can also make the same claim in an attempt to frame Anonymous for their activities.
Personally, I would love to see Anonymous hack into those like Romney, the Koch Brothers, et al, and not only do a major data dump that fully exposes them for the scum that they are, but also divert the money of those hacked into groups like Greenpeace, Move To Amend, et al, so that said money could FINALLY be put to some good use! That's just what I would like to see, not what I expect to happen.
White supremacy is on the rise here in North America and in Europe. The 4th Riech is on the rise and had been in idle mode since 1945. As usual when the economy is in the tank, anti-immigrant and white supremacy rises up to be noticed.
Make no mistake, this sentiment, the hard right wing is nothing to laugh at, they are serious and dangerous people. They divide and conquor. Look at the decline of unions and the dcline of the middle-class. This no coincidence. Unions are responsible for the middle-class but Thatcher and Regan started the anti-union movement. They made darn sure that the middle-class turned on itself. It did and here we are! We have ourselves to thank. Now, what are we to do??
Somehow I'm not surprised!
These freaks need to be rounded up before they can form a Nazi Dictatorship. What to do with them? Well, Hitler demonstrated gas chambers worked pretty well.
The Vancouver Observer has picked up on this and is reporting that the main people denying any support for or connection to Ron Paul are the very white supremacists whom are being cited in these emails (on second page of web article):
http://www.vancouverobserver.com/blogs/politicaljunkie/2012/02/02/lynching-ron-paul
Furthermore, the official Anonymous hacker group is denying that they conducted this hacking and it is not a part of their official Operation Blitzkrieg:
http://www.nazi-leaks.info/
As the VO summarizes, this appears to not be a legitimate hack by Anonymous exposing Ron Paul, but rather an effort by a group claiming to be Anonymous putting out false information in an attempt to discredit Ron Paul. Which somewhat makes sense: If you do a little research you can find that most of the individuals supposedly claiming to "campaigners" for Ron Paul aren't even affiliated with his campaign much less any of the grassroots organizations or Meetup groups in the areas these individuals claim to be working from. It all goes back to that article from the American Conservative - there is a very well coordinated effort from the GOP establishment to discredit Ron Paul as a racist in order to remove his signature positions, particularly his nonintervention foreign policy position, from being seriously discussed among the party:
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/ron-paul-and-his-enemies/
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