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?
When you lie, as you have in this article, you not only marginalize yourself, you take away creditably as well.
From WhiteNewsNow:
“For new folks visiting WhiteNewsNow for the first time, who have been told in these thousands of news stories that WhiteNewsNow is a “Nazi” website, please understand that from our very founding a couple of years ago we have been nothing of the sort. From day one we have made clear over and over again that we are an Americanist website. We are an Americanist community. We have nothing to do with the Third Reich or National Socialism. We never have. Our heroes are American patriots, loved by all good Americans, like George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Davy Crockett, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Charles Lindbergh.
Our political party expression of our Americanism is the American Third Position party. We are exactly what we appear to be. Contrary to the false insinuations of our anti-free-speech attackers we have no agenda or beliefs other than the Americanist values that you see voiced on every page of WhiteNewsNow. The reason that those who attack us constantly make the effort to falsely associate us with the Third Reich rather than to truthfully associate us with Americanism is that they know that any institution or cause associated with the Third Reich is bound to utterly fail to win support from salt-of-the-earth White Americans, whereas any cause associated with America’s overwhelmingly popular heroes like Washington and Lindbergh is bound to succeed.”
It seems that Romney/Gingrich/ Elitist supporters and supporters of the status qou will stop at nothing to undermine Dr. Paul and his supporters.