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In reply to the discussion: Anonymous Hacks Neo-Nazis, Finds Ron Paul [View all]frazzled
(18,402 posts)41. They were holding fundraisers for Paul back in 2007
From Southern Poverty Law Center, which keeps close tabs on these groups. (i.e., we don't really need Anonymous to tell us these things.)
With this group of white nationalist leaders assembled, the party is now seeking active dues-paying members and recruiting voters to register as members of the party for the 2010 California elections. Johnson plans to target a number of different groups in order to assemble the partys base. He developed contacts with Republicans and libertarians who supported Ron Paul during the 2008 U.S. presidential election, holding a $2,000-a-plate fundraiser for Pauls campaign in September 2007. In a July 1, 2010, Internet radio broadcast, Kelso said: Theres a great overlap in Patriot activities and Patriot causes, and we have, we will have a big effect on this much larger movement, the Ron Paul Revolution, that has millions of people engaged
well be pulling them from the right. The A3P also has shown up at Tea Party rallies to try to fulfill this goal.
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/american-freedom-party
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/american-freedom-party
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Why does this not surprise me? Ron Paul is very far from reality, he operated in Congress the
Thinkingabout
Nov 2013
#3
It amazes me so many never saw him for what he is. I think he only got one bill passed
Thinkingabout
Nov 2013
#23
Agreeing with his antiwar position hardly means agreeing with anything else he says
eridani
Nov 2013
#43