The Posse Comitatus eventually transformed into the Christian Patriot militia. At least three organizations linked to the Council for National Policy—the National Rifle Association, Gun Owners of America, and the Constitution Party—played instrumental roles. Posse Comitatus drew its principal support from radical anti-tax protesters, absolutist Second Amendment proponents, and survivalists. Similarly, the U.S. Taxpayers Party [...]
The militia-ization of the Tea Party movement encompasses the following processes and behaviors: the transmission of the underlying ideas of Posse Comitatus through the Patriot militia to the Tea Party movement; in this regard Ron Paul’s association with the militia movement is important; the behavioral expression of Posse Comitatus’ ideology in the current Tea Party [...]
The Koch-planned movement has from the start been plugged into the Christian nationalist’s Council for National Policy’s Conservative Action Project. There is some dispute as to whether or not the Tea Party movement will include “culture war” issues in their agenda. I will show that there is no real obstacle to making these “culture war” [...]
Discussions of the centrality of racism to the Tea Party movement range from “not present at all“, to “it’s present but on the fringe“, to “it’s central to the movement“. All of these discussions suffer from two theoretical flaws: First, there is no discussion of race and racism and the larger white nationalist or Christian nationalist [...]
In Part IV-G I documented that we are dealing with a known but incomplete (to us) political strategy and known unknown virtual and grassroots structures. We know that this political strategy is to undermine the legitimacy of existing political structures and we know that this grassroots structure is to operate using “stealth tactics.” Thus, we [...]
In previous sections I have detailed Ron Paul’s courtship of white Christian nationalists through his newsletters, Texas Straight Talk articles, and his legislative actions. I have also established that white nationalists responded to this courtship with a massive outpouring of fundraising efforts and funds to his presidential campaign. And, I have also suggested that his [...]
This section conclusively demonstrates that Ron Paul did, in fact, court white nationalists through his newsletters; these newsletters were a significant source of income—nearly one million dollars in 1993—and campaign contributions—two million dollars in 1996. Moreover, Ron Paul in the 1996 congressional campaign resolutely out of strategic necessity, indeed a strategic imperative, did not disavow [...]
The evidence in favor of Ron Paul supporting a Christian nationalist agenda is, if anything, as strong if not stronger than his advocacy of a white nationalist agenda. The evidence is drawn from his Texas Straight Talk articles posted on his congressional website—thus the providence and responsibility for the articles cannot be doubted. These writings [...]
Glenn Greenwald argued that the “most illegitimate argument against Paul is to tie him to the views of some of his extremist and hateful supporters.”1 It should be noted that Greenwald never endorsed Paul’s candidacy and did find some of Paul’s positions troubling on reproductive rights, LGBT rights, and other policy positions.2 There were two [...]
In January 2008, writing in The New Republic James Kirchick unearthed hard-to-find Ron Paul newsletters written in the 1990s. James Kirchick described them as “decades worth of obsession with conspiracies, sympathy for the right-wing militia
