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muriel_volestrangler

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5. Apparently his dad ran for State Rep as a "WW2 veteran" without admitting it was in the Luftwaffe
Sat Jun 22, 2024, 12:58 PM
Jun 2024
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Friske

He claimed he wasn't a Nazi, but he was a John Bircher.

While serving in the Legislature, Friske supported natalist policies towards the middle-class and population controls for welfare recipients, which he claimed would take the form of abstinence-only sex education.[7] He spoke of the need to "curb the growth of the drone population that weakens our society" [8] He also accused Governor William Milliken of complicity in an “international satanic conspiracy planned for this nation and the world.”[4] He favored religious right policies and opposed abortion rights, the 26th Amendment, and police reform.[5] He alleged that the U.S. public education system had been taken over by socialists.[7][5] He claimed that “72 to 80 percent” of the U.S. economy had been taken over by Communists as a result of a deliberate conspiracy by Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard Nixon. He also argued that they had deliberately prolonged the Vietnam War in order to raise U.S. taxes by supplying North Vietnam through the Polish People's Republic, and that the war could be won in six months.[3]

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