Blood and Politics (100 page)

23.
“Where Will It End,” NAAWP News, no. 34, p. 10.

24.
“Where Will It End,” NAAWP News, no. 34. “It can end in racial civil war, in mongrelization, or it can end only to make way for a new beginning, the beginning of an all-white nation on this continent,” Duke’s National Association for the Advancement of White People concluded.

12. Origin of the Populist Party and the Break with Reaganism

  
1.
Dardanelle, Arkansas,
www.arkansas.com/city-listings/city_detail/city/Dardanelle
;
Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri & Oklahoma Tourbook
, AAA, 2008, p. 37.

  
2.
R. K. Travler, “Christians Laud New Party; Plan National Day of Prayer,”
The Spotlight
, April 2, 1984, p. 26.

  
3.
“Forbes Joined by Whites in Battle re Integration,”
The National Chronicle
20, no. 9 (March 18, 1971), includes pub box title “The Supremacy of the White Man Must Be Upheld,” states that Forbes was active in the American Nazi Party from 1961 through 1968; Ralph Forbes,
Straight Shootin’
,
The Chaplain’s Report to White-Christian-America
, January 1983.

  
4.
“Mrs. Stucki, Keys of Heaven—Ralph Forbes, Why we need a populist party by Bob Weems, Mt. Nebo, Arkansas, April 21, 1984,” videotape.

  
5.
Leonard Zeskind (State of the Union), “Klan and Skins Rally in Georgia,”
Searchlight
, October 1989. Includes photo taken by author on September 2, 1989, of Weems in a Klan robe holding a sign reading “NAACP Planet of the Apes, One Nation Under ZOG.”

  
6.
“Klan Rally in Jackson, Mississippi,”
The White Patriot: Worldwide Voice of the Aryan People
2, no. 2 (March 1982): 2; Leonard Zeskind (unsigned), “When is a ‘Populist’ Really a Klansman?,”
The Hammer
7 (Summer 1984): 14–15; “Klan chaplain offers as candidate for the Fourth District seat,”
Daily Herald
(Biloxi-Gulfport, Mississippi), April 20, 1981, “Robert Weems of Florence, the grand chaplain of the Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi.”

  
7.
Robert Weems, “Why we need a populist party,” April 21, 1984, from videotape.

  
8.
Ibid.

  
9.
Ibid.

10.
Richard A. Viguerie,
The Establishment vs. The People: Is a New Populist Revolt on the Way?
(Chicago: Regnery Gateway, Inc., 1983).

11.
Robert Allen,
Reluctant Reformers: The Impact of Racism on American Social Reform Movements
(Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1974), pp. 49–79.

12.
Michael Kazin,
The Populist Persuasion: An American History
(New York: Basic Books, 1995). Kazin is not without his critics, including Lawrence Goodwyn, author of
The Populist Moment: A Short History of Agrarian Revolt in America
. Nevertheless, all of Kazin’s critics, by pointing to the varying and much different definitions of “real” populism, actually prove Kazin’s point that “populism” is by itself an elastic term, devoid of specific ideological content.

13.
“Report—Populist Convention, Nashville, TN 8/18–19. 1984.”

14.
Ibid.; “Report on the 1984 Populist Party Convention in Nashville, Tenn., August 17–19,” communication forwarded to author.

15.
Seymour Martin Lipset and Earl Raab,
The Politics of Unreason: Right-Wing Extremism in America 1790–1970
(New York: Harper & Row, 1970), p. 353. Cites Shearer as an AIP California factional spokesman in 1968 and leader at that time of the White Citizens Council of California.

16.
Thomas James, “Ideological Merger Is Good for You,”
The Spotlight
, April 9, 1984, p. 17; Populist Party, “National Convention August 17–19, 1984,” agenda item, “Sunday August 19, 10:35 a.m. School of Politics, Dean William K. Shearer, Asst. Dean Willis A. Carto”; “Populist Party Executive Committee Looks to Future,”
The American Independent
, William K. Shearer, publisher, January 1985.

17.
Joe Brennan, “Populists Tap Richards and Salaman,”
The Spotlight
, September 3, 1984; Kristine Jacobs, “The Populist Party, Liberty Lobby Merges with American Independence Party,”
Interchange Report
5, no. 2 (Fall 1984). Cites differences between Bob Richards and Willis Carto.

18.
“Candidates Espouse America First,”
The Spotlight
, September 3, 1984, pp. 1–3.

19.
“Report—Populist Convention, Nashville, TN 8/18–19. 1984,” communication to author. Report misspells Keith Shive’s name as “Scheib,” because the reporter only heard the name rather than saw it in print.

20.
“Report on the 1984 Populist Party Convention in Nashville, Tenn., August 17–19,” p. 3.

21.
Randall Williams, letter to Lynn Wells, October 25, 1985; Richards registered his own political action committee; Kristine Jacobs, “The Populist Party, Liberty Lobby Merges with American Independence Party,”
Interchange Report
V, no. 2 (Fall 1984).

22.
The American Independent
, William K. Shearer, publisher, January 1985 (for debt); Federal Election Commission records show the Populists receiving 66,241 votes; Michael Collins Piper, “Populist Party Showing Fast Growth,”
The Spotlight
, January 7 and 14, 1985 (cites vote total at 63,864).

23.
Leonard Zeskind, “It’s Not Populism: America’s New Populist Party a Fraud by Racists and Anti-Semites,” Ken Lawrence, writing and research assistance, National Anti-Klan Network and Klanwatch Project of Southern Poverty Law Center, 1984.

24.
William Shearer,
The American Independent
, November 1984, p. 4; William K. Shearer, “Populists for American First Ignore Irresponsible Attacks,”
The Spotlight
, December 17, 1984, p. 2.

25.
William K. Shearer, “Political Parties Have Duty to Present Responsible Image,”
The California Statesman
, January 1986, p. 3.

26.
“Populist Party Demands Accounting of Funds from Wily Willis Carto, He Responds by Trying to Destroy the Party,”
The California Statesman
, April 1986; “No, Mr. Carto, Populists Are Not Republicans, Democrats, or Nazis,”
The American Independent
, May 1986; William K. Shearer, “Liberty Lobby v. Shearer,”
The California Statesman
, March 1991: “In early June 1987, I resigned as a member of the Populist Party’s executive committee.”

27.
Richard Butler, “Editorial: At WAR,”
Calling Our Nation
45:2.

28.
“Rolland Victor, the Populist Party’s national vice-chairman for agriculture,” photo cutline,
The Spotlight
, July 22, 1985, p. 22.

29.
Populist Party of Iowa, a non-profit corporation, plantiff v. Federal Reserve Board, defendant
, United States Court for the Southern District of Iowa, 85-626-B, filed August 2, 1985; “Harvesting Fear,”
Iowa Illustrated
television program, KWWL-TV, Waterloo, Iowa, November 10, 1985.

30.
Leonard Zeskind and Daniel Levitas (for Prairiefire Rural Action),
Far-Right Racist and Anti-Semitic Organizations Active in the Middle West and Iowa
(Center for Democratic Renewal, 1985), p. 12.

31.
Sheldon Emry,
Billions for the Bankers, Debts for the People
, 30-page pamphlet, America’s Promise, Phoenix, Arizona, n.d.

32.
James Ridgeway, conversation with author, February 1986.

33.
Lou Harris and Associates, Inc., “A Study of Anti-Semitism in Rural Iowa and Nebraska,” conducted for the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, February 1986, p. 7.

34.
Author, notes and documents on mainstream liberal farm-related trainings, meetings, and other events between 1983 and 1988; Levitas,
The Terrorist Next Door
, pp. 278–83.

13. Europeans and Southerners at the Institute for Historical Review

  
1.
Joseph Smith, “Revisionists Hold 7th Annual Conference Despite Opposition,”
The Spotlight
, March 3, 1986; Michael Collins Piper, “Revisionists Slate 1986 Conference,”
The Spotlight
, January 17, 1986; Russell Bellant,
Old Nazis, the New Right and the Republican Party
(Boston: South End Press, 1988, 1989, 1991).

  
2.
Label Vitterman, communication to author describing the proceedings of the IHR conference, February 26, 1986; William Morrison from Angriff Press and World Service Library (video distributor) attended the conference, Russel Veh of the National Socialist League showed up, but stayed on the meeting’s perimeter.

  
3.
Evelyn Rich, communication to Center for Democratic Renewal, Joe Fields with pin.

  
4.
Label Vitterman, communication with author, February 26, 1986.

  
5.
“Joseph Moldiano,” IHR Screen, memo-letter dated January 31, 1986; “Statement for Admission to Private Meeting,” January 31, 1986.

  
6.
Label Vitterman, communication to author.

  
7.
Don Warren, communication to author, October 15, 1987 (Remer and Klapprott attended IHR’s 1987 conference); “State Department Censorship Can’t Scuttle 8th Conference,”
IHR Newsletter
, October/November 1987.

  
8.
“State Department Censorship Can’t Scuttle 8th Conference”: “Klapprott was indicted and tried in the notorious Sedition Trial of 1944,” but not convicted.

  
9.
Sam Dickson,
Shattering the Icon of Abraham Lincoln
, Institute for Historical Review, July 1993, “This paper was presented to the Seventh International Revisionist Conference, 1986 . . . ,” (Lincoln like FDR, p. 17; crafty politician, p. 3; Northern sectionalist, p. 4; “opponent of slavery” and “committed to Negro equality at the inception of his career,”p. 5; opposed Polk’s war, p. 5).

10.
Sam Dickson,
Shattering the Icon of Abraham Lincoln
, p. 7.

11.
Who’s Who in American Law, 1979 edition; Sam Dickson, transcription of June 19, 1986, program on WGST-Radio (the Atlanta program featured Sam Dickson and Lynn Wells as guests); Dickson repeatedly denied being a “white supremacist,” despite the fact that he sneered at the notion of racial egalitarianism at every possible venue.

12.
Sam Dickson, WGST-Radio (“As to my being against democracy,” he claimed, “the founders of this country were against democracy”); Charles W. Griffin III, “Outside the Mainstream, at Home in Cobb County,”
Fulton County Daily Report
, August 7, 1991.

13.
“Consolidated Vote State Democratic and Republican General Primary Election August 8, 1978.” Compiled by Ben W. Forston, Jr., secretary of state, Atlanta, Georgia; Sam Dickson, “Campaign Financing Disclosure Report,” filed August 22, 1978.

14.
Sam Dickson, WGST-Radio, “Dear Friend” invitation letter for Georgia Weekend on October 27, 1985, n.d., signed “Sincerely, Sam G. Dickson.”

15.
Sam Dickson, WGST-Radio.

16.
Ibid.

17.
Dr. E. R. Fields, “My Awakening,” n.d. (Fields describes his education, his participation in various anti-Semitic enterprises, and the founding of the NSRP); “The History of the
Thunderbolt
,” n.d., no author listed (but this four-pager bears the unmistakable style of Ed Fields), includes description of Fields as editor of a publication for the Columbians called
The Thunderbolt
; a 1984 split in the NSRP left Jerry Ray (brother of assassin James Earl Ray) in charge of the remains of the NSRP, and Fields held on to
The Thunderbolt
; Jerry Ray, letter with attachments to Lynn Wells, September 5, 1984.

18.
Author, personal observation of Ed Fields at multiple Labor Day weekend Klan marches in Gainesville and other north Georgia communities from 1986–1991.

19.
Frederick J. Simonelli,
American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999); Patsy Sims,
The Klan
2nd ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996); Evelyn Rich, communication to Center for Democratic Renewal, n.d. (February 1986).

20.
Evelyn Rich, written communication with Center for Democratic Renewal, verbal communication with author, February 21, 1986.

21.
Ibid.

22.
Sam Dickson,
Shattering the Icon
, p. 2.

23.
Wilmot Robertson,
Dispossessed Majority
(Howard Allen Enterprises, 1987), p. 14. Robertson cited Stephens from Charles and Mary Beard in
The Rise of American Civilization
; an Internet version of Stephens’s speech has different punctuation.

24.
Ibid., p. 77.

25.
Ibid., p. 78.

26.
Wilmot Robertson,
The Ethnostate
(Cape Canaveral, Fla.: Howard Allen Enterprises, 1992), p. 13.

27.
Robertson,
Dispossessed Majority
, p. 151.

28.
Ibid., pp. 14–15; Ted O’Keefe, “Mead, Freeman, Boas: Jewish Anthropology Comes of Age in America,”
National Vanguard
, June 1983.

29.
“The IHR Radio Project,”
IHR Newsletter
, April 1986; “The IHR Radio Project,”
IHR Newsletter
, July 1986 (“The Radio Project as a source for radio news journalists to get the “other side” of the holocaust”); Label Vitterman, personal communication to author, February 1986.

30.
“Farrakhan Says Libyan Leader Will Address Convention,” United Press International, February 23, 1985; Mattias Gardell,
Countdown to Armageddon: Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam
(London: C. Hurst and Company, 1996).

14. White Riot in Forsyth County on King Day

  
1.
Jesse Helms, “Remarks of Senator Jesse Helms,”
Congressional Quarterly
129, no. 130 (October 32, 1983), S13452–S13461, republished and distributed as a pamphlet; Dr.E. R. Fields, “Martin Luther King’s Communist Record,”
White Patriot
, April 1986, p. 2; “A Report on the King Holiday Protest March and Rally,”
White Patriot
, April 1986, p. 1.