David Duke

2008-04-11T22:39:35Z

OswaldSpengler:

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'''David Ernest Duke''' (born July 1, 1950) is a former member of the [[Louisiana House of Representatives]]. In the past, Duke has run for office both as a [[Democrat]], as a [[Republican]], and as the 1988 Presidential candidate of the [[Populist Party]]. David Duke was once a Grand Wizard of the [[Ku Klux Klan]]. <ref>David Duke. My awakening. Free Speech Press, 2008</ref> Duke has taken an activist stance in the anti-war movement. He has stated,

:[[Cindy Sheehan]] is absolutely right. Her son signed up in the military to defend America, not Israel...In advancing this war for Israel, government and media advocates obviously couldn’t get Americans behind the war by saying it was a war for Israel. They had to make up bogus reasons for the war, such as saying that Iraq was an imminent threat to America and that Saddam had [[weapons of mass destruction]]. <ref>[http://www.davidduke.com/index.php?p=350 Why Cindy Sheehan is Right!], David Duke, 8/14/2005. </ref>

Duke unsuccessfully ran for the Senate in the open primary in 1990 against [[J. Bennett Johnston]]. In 1991, he ran unsuccessfully for governor against [[Edwin E. Edwards]].

Duke participated in the "International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust" in 2006 held in Iran.

==References==
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==External Links==
*[http://www.davidduke.com/ David Duke's Official Website]

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Christian Identity

2008-04-11T22:31:16Z

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[[Image:Wickstrom nazi.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Leading Christian Identity pastor James Wickstrom: "''The only way to totally eliminate racial strife in the United States and throughout the world is to bury every Jew on earth.''"]]
'''Christian Identity''' is a white supremacist movement which asserts that the "[[Aryan]]", or white people of [[Europe|European]] descent, are the descendants of the [[Lost Tribes of Israel]] of the [[Bible]], and that the [[Jews]] are not, but are rather the offspring of [[Satan]]. They believe that while [[Adam]] and [[Eve]] were white people created in the image of [[God]], non-white people ("mud people") were created separately from whites, and they generally assert that [[salvation]] is only available to white people. While they claim Christianity as their religion, the Christian community rejects their claim and find their position to be abhorrent and at odds with Christian beliefs. Christian Identity groups or churches can be found in virtually every region of the United States, although they are small in number, having between 2,000 to 50,000 adherents. It has also engaged in [[crime|criminal]] behavior ranging from [[hate crime]]s to acts of [[terrorism]].

==Background==
The religion grew from '''British-Israelism''' and moved to the [[United States]] in the 1930s, becoming increasingly [[Anti-Semitism|anti-Semitic]] under the leadership of [[Wesley Swift]] who founded the [[Church of Jesus Christ Christian]]. Within Christian Identity some adherents believe in Swift's "two-seed" theory that the [[seduction of Eve]] by the Serpent was sexual, resulting in the conception of [[Cain]] who was the father of the Jewish people; thus all Jews are descendants of the devil. Some Identity adherents assert a "one-seed" theory. The religion also incorporates [[millennialism]] or the belief that the world is in its final days.

Many Identity adherents believe Jews, blacks, [[Communism|communists]], [[Homosexuality|homosexuals]] and race-traitors have seized control of the United States. They refer to [[Washington, D.C.]] as the '''Zionist Occupational Government''' (ZOG). The novel "''[[The Turner Diaries]]''" in which an underground white army leads a revolution against ZOG is popular among them.

Not all Ku Klux Klan groups adhere entirely to Christian Identity, but those that do call themselves the '''Fifth Era Klan''', which was introduced to mark what they hoped would be the fifth period of growth by the Klan since its inception.

==General beliefs==
Persons who believe in Christian Identity generally:
* support White Power & Aryan Supremacy
* believe in black [[gene|genetic]] inferiority
* believe in a [[fiction]]al romanticized notion of Aryan culture
* are virulently anti-communist;
* manifest a [[jingoism|jingoistic]] [[patriotism]]
* mistrust [[government]] & [[law enforcement]];
* fear black power
* see media coverage of non-Aryans as a Jewish-Communist Plot
* believe black politicians are pawns of Jews;
* believe black activism is directed from [[Moscow]] or [[Tel Aviv]]
* often practice armed [[survivalism]] as a defensive necessity.

==Anti-Semitism==
Leading Christian Identity [[pastor]] [[James Wickstrom]], regarding the Nazi story, [http://aish.com/holocaust/overview/he05k06a.htm "The Poisonous Mushroom"]has stated:
<blockquote> ''Just as poisonous mushrooms spring up everywhere, so the Jew is found in every country in the world. Just as poisonous mushrooms often lead to the most dreadful calamity, so the Jew is the cause of misery and distress, illness and death. The above tale tells the truth about the Jewish poison mushroom. They show the many shapes the Jew assumes. They show the depravity and baseness of the Jewish race. They show the Jew for what he really is: The Devil in human form.''</blockquote>

On the Jews as "a mongrel blood race" Wickstrom states:<blockquote>''And it is proven fact, that the jews and Whites are of a different race. It also shows in itself as to how the jews have financed the Blacks, who were unknowing of the jews plan to use them against the Whites. The jews are of Asiatic blood. They are a mongrel blood race, whose desire is to destroy all pure races on this earth using racial mongrelization (diversity and pluralism), mainly against the White race, the Black race, and the Oriental Race.</blockquote>

Wickstrom advocates the mass killing of Jewish people: the Southern Poverty Law Center cited an interview<ref>Buchanan, Susy [http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=507 ''Return of the Pastor''] SPLC. Accessed 11 March 2008</ref> with Wickstrom in which he proposed giving Jewish people "the holocaust they rightly deserve:"<blockquote>''I'd like to see these Jews all be brought to the VA [Veterans Administration hospital] and wooden chairs be put down on the lawn. Tie the Jews in. Bring these veterans down who have been mutilated, physically mutilated, their lives ruined without the opportunity of a family or children, and give them baseball bats and let them beat these Jews to death! Every one of them! Take these chairs and Jews after they're beaten to death, throw 'em in the wood chipper! And from the wood chipper let the remains go into a big incinerary truck, which is right behind the wood chipper, and give them the holocaust they rightly deserve!''</blockquote>

==Terrorism==
In North Dakota in 1983, Identity believer Gordon Kahl killed two U.S. Marshals who had come to arrest him for a parole violation. A four-month manhunt ended in another shootout in [[Arkansas]], where Kahl killed a local sheriff before he himself was killed.

The same year, the white supremacist terrorist group known as '''The Order''' began a series of armed robberies, murders and counterfeiting operations. Several members of the gang belonged to Christian Identity, including David Tate, who in 1985 killed a Missouri State Highway Patrol officer attempting to reach an Identity survivalist compound called ''The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord'' (CSA). An ensuing standoff resulted in the demise of the CSA and the arrest of its leadership. Subsequently, several Christian Identity groups attempted to follow in the footsteps of The Order, including '''The Order II''' and the '''Arizona Patriots''', who committed bombings and an attempted armored car robbery, respectively.

In the 1990s, Christian Identity criminal activity included efforts by an [[Oklahoma]] Identity minister, Willie Ray Lampley, to commit a series of bombings in the summer of 1995 in the wake of the [[Oklahoma City bombing]] by [[Timothy McVeigh]]. The following year, the '''Montana Freemen''', whose leaders were Identity, made headlines for their "paper terrorism" tactics and their 81-day standoff with the federal government. In 1998, Eric Rudolph, who had been associated with Identity ministers such as Nord Davis and Dan Gayman, became a fugitive after bombing gay bars, the Atlanta Summer Olympics, and an [[abortion]] clinic. The following year, Buford Furrow went on a shooting spree at a Jewish Community Center in [[Los Angeles]], wounding four children and an adult, and later killing a Filipino-American postal worker

Another example of Christian Identity terrorism can be found in the concept of the '''Phineas Priesthood''', set forth by Richard Kelly Hoskins in his 1990 book ''Vigilantes of Christendom''. The Priesthood is based on the concept of the obscure Biblical character [[Phinehas]], an Israelite who used a spear to slay a "race-mixing" fellow Israelite and the Midianite woman with whom he had sex. Hoskins conjured up the idea of an elite class of "Phineas Priests," self-anointed warriors who would use extreme measures to attack race-mixers, gays, or abortionists, among other targets. Over the years, some have committed crimes using the Phineas Priest label, including a group of about eight who committed bombings and bank robberies in the [[Spokane]], Washington, area in 1996 (four of whom were caught and sentenced to lengthy prison terms). In 2002, two Aryan Nations splinter groups openly adopted Phineas Priest names or symbols.<ref>[http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/Christian_Identity.asp?xpicked=4&item=Christian_ID ''Christian Identity''] ADL. Accessed 11 March 2008</ref>

==Christian Identity influences==
*[[Howard Rand]]
*[[William Cameron]]
*[[Wesley Swift]]
*[[Bertrand Comparet]]
*[[Richard Butler]]
*[[William Potter Gale]]
*[[James K. Warner]]
*[[Sheldon Emry]]
*[[Dave Barley]]
*[[Pete Peters]]

==Known Christian Identity organizations==
*America's Promise Ministries
*Aryan Nations
*Aryan Nations/Tabernacle of the Phineas Priesthood
*Christian Research
*Church of Israel
*Church of the True Israel
*Fellowship of God's Covenant People
*Gospel Ministries
*Imperial Klans of America
*Kingdom Identity Ministries
*Mission to Israel
*New Christian Crusade Church
*Our Savior's Church (Gainesville, MO)
*Present Truth Ministries
*Scriptures for America/La Porte Church of Christ
*Sheriff's Posse Comitatus
*Stone Kingdom Ministries
*Thomas Robb Ministries/Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
*Virginia Christian Israelites
*Virginia Publishing Company
*White Camelia Knights
*Elohim City (Adair County, OK)

==References==
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==Sources==
* Kaplan, Jeffrey. ''Radical Religion In America'' (Syracuse University Press, 1997).

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Marine Le Pen

2008-04-11T22:28:01Z

OswaldSpengler:

'''Marine Le Pen''' is the vice-President of the Front National, a [[French]] anti-immigration party, and the youngest daughter of [[Jean-Marie Le Pen]], the President of the FN.

'''Family Life'''

Ms. Le Pen has 3 children, and also has 2 sisters, Ms. Marie-Caroline Le Pen and Ms. Yann-Marechal Le Pen.

'''Administrative positions'''

Ms. Le Pen was born on 5 August 1968. She graduated with a lawyer's diploma in 1992 and from 1998 to 2004 lead the legal service of the FN. From 2000 onwards she was a member of the political bureau of the FN, and in the 2003 FN congress in Nice, was elected as one of the 8 vice-presidents. In 2007, she was the strategy advisor for the presidental campaign of Mr Le Pen in the 2007 French presidental elections.

In 2003 she became the chairwoman of the ''Generations Le Pen'' organization, a youth organization of the FN to promote the thought and works of Jean-Marie Le Pen .

'''Election Candidate'''

She was elected to the European parliament in the 2004 European elections. In 2004 she ran for office in the Ile-De-France in theRegional elections, getting into the second round with 11%. She has also run for the legislative seat representing the city of Henin-Beaumont in the Nord Pas De Calais area in France in the legislative elections of 2002 and 2007. She got into the second round in the 2007 June legislative elections, and Ms. Le Pen gained 42% of the vote, the best result of the FN in the legislative elections of 2007, the only FN candidate to get into the second round. She is currently a candidate in Henin-Beaumont for the municipal elections in March 2008.

'''Violence against Ms. Le Pen'''

Ms. Le Pen has been the target of violence - although not directed at her alone, the Le Pen family was a target when Mr. Le Pen's home in Paris was bombed in 1976. In the June 2007 legislative elections following the announcement of her 42% showing, some youths decided to attack her car with projectiles. They have been brought to court for this behaviour. More recently, she was aggressed on 23 September 2007 by 2 youths with a gun, and they fired a shot. Fortuntely, she was evacuated by her bodyguard, and the youths have been identified, and have been deported from the Nord-Pas-De-Calais department.

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