Showing posts with label American Freedom Party. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American Freedom Party. Show all posts

Monday, February 8, 2021

Thomas Eugene Bowie

 



Thomas Eugene Bowie, October, 1959 -

VP candidate for American Freedom Party (2016)

Running mate with nominee: Robert W. Whitaker (1941-2017)
Popular vote: ? (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

The American Third Position Party (or A3P) was created in 2009 as a political venue for white nationalism. Historically the "third position" in 20th century Europe meant a rejection of Marxism and of mainstream traditional democracy capitalism while finding a third alternative, i.e. fascism.

The founders of the group included those with close ties to skinheads, Nazis, the KKK, Holocaust deniers, anti-Semites, League of American Patriots, and other white supremacist groups. In January 2012 the A3P nominated Merlin Miller for US President, described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as "an independent filmmaker and military veteran who has expressed dislike for interracial marriage and claimed that Hollywood is under 'Jewish-Zionist control.' He has written for the Holocaust-denying Barnes Review and the white nationalist Occidental Observer."

In Feb. 2013 the A3P changed their name to the American Freedom Party, not to be confused with Larry Brant Sargeant's Party of the same name in the 1976 election. Miller had meanwhile started his own political group, the American Eagle Party, forcing the AFP to regroup. In Mar. 2015 the AFP nominated Kenn Gividen (b. 1953) of Indiana for President and Bob Whitaker of South Carolina as his VP. They filed with the FEC the same month. Gividen had previously been active with the Libertarian Party as a state candidate and expressed white nationalist ("Of course I'm pro-White. And you should also be as well.") and revisionist history views on his website.

The nominee's website included a long list called "Kenn's Laws." Some of the more polemic samples--

Kenn's Law #1
Liberals will reduce every conversation to an accusation of white racism.

Kenn's Law #2
If liberals were logical they wouldn't be liberals.

Kenn's Law #3
Every major news story will be accompanied by at least one major conspiracy theory.

Kenn's Law #4
Each tweak made by government to improve a given policy will result in compounded flaws as the tweaks, themselves, are inherently rife with errancy and, therefore, will require manifold tweaking.

Kenn's Law #13
Whenever a white person defends him/herself against black violence, the white person will be identified as the racist aggressor and the black attacker the victim.

Kenn's Law #14
You will never meet a cult member who knows he is a cult member.

Kenn's Law #16
Urban blight follows white flight.

Kenn's Law #27
A most effective means of deprogramming minds infected with the cultural Marxism virus is exposing those minds to reality.

Kenn's Law #28
Tax hikes beget spending spikes.

Kenn's Law #29
The liberal allusion to inclusion is an illusion.

Kenn's Law #33
The only place in America where white-on-black violence is more prevalent that black-on-white violence is Hollywood, Calif.

Kenn's Law #36
Immediately after liberals accuse you of racism, they will announce the date. "Don't know know it's [year]!"

Kenn's Law #38
The concept of cultural Marxism can be condensed to one simple sentence: White people are the oppressing bourgeois and non-white people are their oppressed proletariat.

Kenn's Law #39
Most anyone can convince most anyone to hate most anyone by accusing most anyone of being a racist.

Gividen resigned as the nominee in July 2015. Whitaker was then elevated to the top spot and filed with the FEC for President under the AFP in Aug., 2015.

When he had originally been selected as the VP, Whitaker wrote--

I will campaign on White Genocide.

Kenn, our presidential nominee, knows that and agrees with it. Let’s take a moment to APPRECIATE that. Any other right splinter party like the American Party and certainly the Libertarians would scream bloody murder and get rid of me instantly ...

I now favor the vice presidential slot because the head of the ticket has to travel, which is a non-go for me, but also because Kenn’s function is entirely different from what I see as a vice presidential nominee’s: The lead man on the ticket has to make speeches and handle ALL issues. Further, I have new vision for a vice presidential nominee, or at least THIS one. The vice president is famous for having no Function. His only job, outside of keeping his heart beating in case the president fails in that function, is to preside over the Senate. But the Senate goes right on along when there is no Vice President.

The vice presidency has no FUNCTION. Instead of a FUNCTION, we will make the Vice Presidency a MESSAGE. Same ticket, two candidates – one who is willing to perform the FUNCTIONS of the Presidency, and the other a MESSAGE: END WHITE GENOCIDE.


The Southern Poverty Law Center, who called Whitaker "an aging segregationist with a history of drug abuse" pointed out that the VP nominee brought with him a cadre of loyal followers that should concern any organization charged with monitoring hate groups, and added--

Despite the bizarre reality that Gividen and Whitaker claim they will run separate campaigns, the ticket has already excited the racist right, in no small part because of Whitaker’s role in drafting The Mantra.

A 221-word attack on multiculturalism peppered with cries of "white genocide," The Mantra has grown wildly popular on the racist right, with sections appearing on banners hanging from Interstate overpasses and on billboards ...

A self-professed “genius,” Whitaker has a history in politics, though a dubious one. While he claims on his blog to have been the message man in the Reagan administration responsible for crushing communism, bringing down the Berlin Wall and saving the Hubble Space Telescope, Whitaker is closer to a hard-drinking grandfatherly Forest Gump. He once claimed to have an amphetamine habit that dropped his IQ to 100 ...

“There is not a modest bone in my body,” Whitaker wrote in 2004. “I AM a genius. I was born with one hell of a brain, and I scare our enemies because I am so smart I can laugh them to shame. I am at so high a level that a PhD or a big-time news anchor doesn’t mean a thing to me.” ...

According to Whitaker’s followers, he’s a former clandestine CIA agent and mercenary in Rhodesia who helped craft the propaganda message that ended the Soviet Union — claims for which there is no known historical record ...


The following months presented a barrage of mixed messages from the AFP about who was what in their electoral adventures.

In Oct. 2015 the AFP initiated a robocall campaign for Whitaker--

We robocall you at home because the media won’t carry our message.
Asia for the Asians, Africa for the Africans, but White countries for EVERYBODY!?
Flooding ALL & ONLY White countries with the third world overflow IS White Genocide.
Recently, Senator Jeff Sessions openly opposed flooding the U.S. with third world non-white refugees.
Bob Whitaker, the American Freedom Party’s candidate for president, LAUDS Senator Sessions for his stance, and adds that “DIVERSITY,” is chasing down the last White person.
If you support the present policy of flooding all White countries with third world non-whites, YOU are anti-WHITE.
Diversity equals White Genocide.
Join the American Freedom Party today and support Bob Whitaker for President.
Please help get Bob Whitaker on the Alabama ballot.


The AFP website released the following puzzling news release on Nov. 7, 2015--

American Freedom Party Announces Presidential Candidate Tom Bowie
Web Team | November 7, 2015 |

The American Freedom Party’s presidential candidate Bob Whitaker recently withdrew from the race and Tom Bowie has accepted the presidential nomination.

Thomas Bowie is just an average blue-collar guy who awoke to the fact that this so-called “Race Problem” was just an Anti-White Scam to promote White Genocide.

Tom was raised by his Grandparents and his Grandfather made a living as a sharecropper and eventually gained a small family farm of his own.

Tom Bowie attended vocational training while still in High School to become a florist and landscaper. However he ended up talking to a recruiter and joined the USMC at age 17 shortly after graduation.

After Military service Tom worked as a laborer in construction until he became a commercial waterman working for himself for many years.

He joined The Maryland Defense Force under the Maryland Military Department; where he used his position as an opportunity for volunteering within his community where he logged in 1,000s of hours of community activity over his years of service. He received many awards including the Maryland Commendation Metal and Meritorious Service Metal.

With the go ahead from his battalion commander 1SG Bowie formed a S.T.A.R. (State Tactical And Response) Team trained to respond rapidly and assist local and state authorities in any emergency. 1SG Bowie and S.T.A.R. Team responded to events ranging from Forest Fire, Tornado and Emergency Shelter Operations.

1SG Bowie also chartered an Explorer troop under the Boy Scouts of America Program with backing from his battalion commander, so that young Men and Women could gain skills for a possible military career while serving their community.

Later he took a job with the State of Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene as a Health and Safety Specialist and Special Police Officer.

Since becoming aware of the ongoing program of White Genocide, Tom Bowie has dedicated himself to raising awareness and opening discussions on this topic to help ensure the survival of his race, the White race.

“Tom is just the kind of candidate anti-whites who yell about the working class want to keep out of elections, said Whitaker, who has organized marches of thousands of real working people in Washington, DC.

“And like me,” says Whitaker, “Tom condemns today’s doctrine of white self-hatred and sees so-called “Diversity” for what it is, white genocide.”


The weird part is that on the same day, on Whitaker's own campaign website, the exact same news release was posted except the leading sentence read, "The American Freedom Party’s presidential candidate Bob Whitaker recently welcomed Tom Bowie as his vice presidential running mate."

The SPLC profiled Bowie at the time he became the running-mate--

Tom Bowie is the latest white nationalist running as the VP candidate for AFP. Bowie fills the void left by Bob Whitaker, who made the move to presidential candidate after an illness sidelined Ken Gividen, AFP’s original choice.

Little is known about Bowie, who certainly has a much lower profile than that of Whitaker or Gividen. Bowie is, however, a prolific poster on Stormfront, the Internet’s first hate site, founded 20 years ago by Alabama Klansman Don Black. To date, Bowie has posted over 3,100 times on it. Bowie is also an Internet radio host and can be heard weekly on the Pro-White American Radio Show hosted on TalkShoe.com, an online radio community.

Bowie’s postings and radio comments demonstrate his support of AFP’s Mantra platform. Back in 2010, in a comment on the website of the white nationalist radio show Political Cesspool, Bowie wrote, “I’ve been using the Mantra for a while now with great success. I’m not sure just how many people I said it to over time but it gives our people the hope and knowledge that we can fix things.” Five years later, Bowie’s Twitter account reads similarly. On October 14 of this year he wrote,  “We're running out of places for #WhiteFlight because #Diversity is chasing down the last #White anywhere.”

In an interview in Dec. 2015, Whitaker addressed growing AFP support for Trump as the Republican candidate was attracting followers from the KKK, Nazis, white supremacists, and other factions of the far Right--

My feelings about Donald Trump, the party supports him, I mean, they don’t really—I don’t think the FP really supports me one way or the other.  But I am able as—we’ve had about 300,000, I think, robocalls.  We’ve gotten the message out that diversity is White Genocide.  That’s what I was addressed to do.  I think that Trump will do what every Republican always does.  He’ll talk big right now about the United States, protecting our borders and all that stuff.  Then, like all conservatives, he will get down on his knees and begin to weep about White Guilt and about how he loves everybody and the usual stuff you see Republicans grovel, like old southerners, you know, they’re all just so good at groveling.  And I think he’ll end up doing that.  If he doesn’t, that would—like I say these days, anybody who runs for a Republican nomination, I assume that he’s a groveler, and he gives the other side, the anti-Whites, anything they want.

William Daniel Johnson, Chairman of the AFP, financed robocalls in Jan. 2016 in Iowa in support of Trump and the AFP official website ran a graphic declaring "Donald Trump has our official endorsement." At this point you can understand why it is difficult to determine who the AFP was really backing.

A Feb. 2016 Youtube was posted interviewing Whitaker/Bowie as the AFP ticket.

In Apr. 2016, Whitaker refiled with the FEC changing his party affiliation to "none," indicating he was still in the race but not with the AFP.

Whitaker made an announcement on May 20, 2016 that he was continuing to run for President, but as an Independent and without Bowie--

The Whitaker for President Campaign is Now Independent

The Whitaker for President Campaign continues and it surges forward.

At the beginning of April, Bob Whitaker and his then VP Tom Bowie made the decision to leave the American Freedom Party (AFP) due to the fact that the party was going off message.

The AFP’s whole approach is to get media attention, any media attention, but it doesn’t matter the ineffectiveness of the media reports. They also decided to moderate the message, choosing to go with “Physical Administrative Removal of Peoples of European Extraction”, instead of our most effective and VIRAL meme to date, WHITE GENOCIDE.

But Bob and his team didn’t want to stop there, since we have achieved so much exposure to White Genocide with Bob running for President.

Bob is now running an independent campaign, with no party affiliation and no VP. Tom Bowie has decided to stay on with the AFP. He is now their presidential candidate.

With Bob still being a candidate, we get all the same candidate benefits as an independent. We still get the “Equal Access Broadcasting” rights.

So we plan to use those rights.

With donations to Bob’s campaign, we will be able to do more robocalls and reach hundreds of thousands of people with our message, while gaining considerable media attention at the same time.

With the equal access broadcasting rights, we also get radio ads for $10 per 30 seconds. These we can’t start until four months prior to the general election. Robocalls we can do now.

Bob’s campaign is far from over, and we plan to use it for as much as we can until November.

As Bob said recently “When the big news was the AFP having Jared Taylor speaking for them instead of me, MY big news was that ‘white genocide’ had just gone OFFICIALLY viral.” And, after watching the CNN show United Shades of America, which featured our billboard and people using our terms like pro-white and white genocide Bob said, “Lord, what can I say? We’re dictating the whole dialogue now.”

With your support we can continue to surge forward in exposing this anti-white system and its program of White Genocide.

Please Donate to Bob Whitaker for President 2016.


In May, 2016, Tom Bowie of Harrison, Ark. filed with the FEC for President under the American Freedom Party banner.

After that both the Whitaker and Bowie campaigns appeared to fizzle. Bowie's social media accounts of that era do not mention his candidacy. Neither one of them were registered as write-ins in any state that I can locate and no votes for them were reported on Election Day.

On Apr. 27, 2017, Whitaker launched his 2020 campaign, declaring--

Bob Whitaker launches 2020 presidential run, saying, “Trump is a FAKE president”

“A REAL president would call for the immediate defunding of any college that allows anti-white campus thugs to shut down free speech,” states 2020 Stop White Genocide presidential candidate Bob Whitaker.
Bob stated that as real president he would take these measures and many others:
1. Insist on a free and open discussion of the crime of white genocide without threats of harassment, job loss or imprisonment for the discussants.
2. Fight to restore to their former positions persons like this young lady who was fired by the Attorney General of West Virginia for publicly opposing white genocide.
3. Prosecute churches, charities, etc. that violate their tax status by engaging in political action to carry out White Genocide.
When asked if he supports actions by President Trump that may at least slow White Genocide, Whitaker replied,
“We have a fake president because we haven’t woken up Whites to their genocide so that they demand a real president.”
Bob asks us all to spread the STOP WHITE GENOCIDE message through banners, fliers (see here, here, here and here), emails, and repeating our memes everywhere we can.


Robert Whitaker died on June 3, 2017. If he and Bowie had been elected as a ticket, Bowie would have served as President for most of the term. Bowie himself apparently continued his political activity under the name of the Stop White Genocide Party, participating in events associated with anti-Gay, Christian identity, and Klan-allied groups.

Election history:
2016 - US President (American Freedom Party) - defeated

Other occupations: US Marine Corps, florist, landscaper, Health and Safety Specialist for State of Maryland Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene, construction
 
Notes:
Gividen and Whitaker were both listed by Thrillist among "The Most Bizarre Presidential Candidates Running In 2016."

Saturday, December 19, 2020

Harry Valentine Bertram

 



Harry Valentine Bertram, December 12, 1959 (Wheeling, W. Va.) -

VP candidate for American Third Position (aka Independent) (2012)

Running mate with nominee: Merlin Lloyd Miller (b. 1956)
Popular vote: 957 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

The American Third Position Party (or A3P) was created in 2009 as a political venue for white nationalism. Historically the "third position" in 20th century Europe meant a rejection of Marxism and of mainstream traditional democracy capitalism while finding a third alternative, i.e. fascism.

The founders of the group included those with close ties to skinheads, Nazis, the KKK, Holocaust deniers, anti-Semites, League of American Patriots, and other white supremacist groups. In January 2012 the A3P nominated Merlin Miller for US President, described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as "an independent filmmaker and military veteran who has expressed dislike for interracial marriage and claimed that Hollywood is under 'Jewish-Zionist control.' He has written for the Holocaust-denying Barnes Review and the white nationalist Occidental Observer."

In Feb. 2012 the group Anonymous hacked into the A3P website. They uncovered working connections between the Party and Ron Paul, such as fundraising and organizing events. The documents revealed A3P leaders felt that Paul's mostly white, male, anti-government following would be fertile ground for recruitment.

In Sept. 2012 Miller met former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and discussed the "Zionist-controlled media" in the US. According to Salon, Miller at that meeting "stated that he believes 9/11 was a Mossad-orchestrated event carried out with 'considerable inside help.'"

During the campaign Miller had been one of the candidates attempting to gain the nomination in the ill-fated Americans Elect project.

Miller's issues included--

-Eliminating the Federal Reserve
-Pulling out of NAFTA, GATT, and WTO
-Imposing strict tariffs
-"Tax dollars are aggressively collected from our people and funneled to so-called minorities, criminals, and persons unwilling to work. We will cut all programs that provide an incentive for people to be anything other than hard-working and productive."
-"The same schools that once taught our children the knowledge, skills, culture, and traditions necessary to maintain and enhance our nation are now controlled by social and cultural Marxists ...  We encourage a full curriculum of American History be taught. This will instill in our young people knowledge of and pride in the history, cultures and heritage of the pioneers of the U.S., and not the poisonous politically correct nonsense being fed to our children today."
-"Unfortunately, many white American men and women have misplaced their priorities: Individualism and hyper-materialism have become more important than family and community. Millions of our youth have been coerced into destructive Marxist politically correct philosophy through television, radio and print media. The exclusive groups that dominate these mass media outlets have methodically imposed a degenerate influence on our people. We must return to a strengthened family unit as the norm for society. We support traditional marriage. We must revitalize the sense of community in the U.S. that we had shared for two hundred years."

-Withdraw from the UN and NATO.
-Close military bases overseas.
-"Immigration. Enough is enough.

During the 1960’s, our immigration system was transformed to favor persons from Third World countries incapable of assimilating into any European homeland. If current demographic trends continue, our people will become a minority in America within only a few decades. We cannot let our children grow up in a nation that is fast becoming the Brazil of the Northern Hemisphere. The vast majority of immigrants, both legal and illegal, come from nations in Latin America, Asia and Africa lacking in education, science, art, law, governance or industrial achievements in any way comparable to ours. Numerous studies have confirmed that there is no net economic benefit to the U.S. economy from Third World immigration due to the added costs of education, infrastructure, health care, welfare programs and law enforcement.

    We will deport all illegal and criminal aliens.
    We will impose massive penalties for employing or assisting them.
    We will use the U.S. military for border security and build an impenetrable southern fence.
    We will immediately put an indefinite moratorium on all immigration.
    We will provide immigrants and their children who have become citizens since 1965 with generous grants to assist their voluntary return to their respective countries of origin.
    We will also eliminate birthright citizenship, chain migration and asylum."
-"A nation’s character is determined by its people – and racial demographics are a primary determinant. America’s founding fathers were European derived and this great country was settled and built through their efforts and that of their progeny. Less than 50 years ago our nation was still 90% White, with approximately 10% black, and a very small representation of other races. Since then we have been undermined by internationalists seeking to destroy the 'liberty, sovereignty, and identity' of America.

These changes have not led to utopia, as crime and discord have resulted, as well as our economic decline. American values, heritage, and even language are under massive assault and we are quickly degenerating from a predominantly White, Christian nation — which led the world by its positive example — to a third world “tower of Babel”. At our current rate of demographic change, an American born in 1965 (part of the 90% majority) will die at the modest age of 77, as a minority in their own country!

This is bizarre and not happening by accident. During the 20th century, socialist global elites hijacked American institutions and media, and began indoctrinating our people into accepting “cultural Marxism” and “political correctness” — complete with multiculturalism, miscegenation, radical feminism and unnatural characterizations. White people were made to feel “guilty” for past wrongs, real or imagined, and have been ruthlessly attacked for showing any pride in their race, traditions, or heritage.

A3P stands to protect White American interests, as no other political party has shown interest in doing. This does not make us racist, but protective of our rights – which every other race or group is encouraged and praised for doing. Discriminatory “affirmative action” programs and the invasion of illegal immigrants adversely affect the welfare of all Americans, but especially the White majority.

We hold no animosity to other races, languages, religions, or heritages — in fact, we respect their differences. Indeed, America’s Black citizens have also suffered from these vast changes in the traditional fabric of American society, as jobs have been taken by illegal immigrants, and drug use and crime have become epidemic.

The goal of A3P is therefore to restore the legitimacy of White identity and expressions of White interests. We want to stop the divisive, orchestrated destruction of America and restore her to greatness."
-"The American Third Position Party believes that government policy in the United States discriminates against white Americans, the majority population, and that white Americans need their own political party to fight this discrimination."


Miller had two running-mates, Virginia Abernethy of Tennessee and Harry Bertram of West Virginia. Abernethy seems to have been the official VP while Bertram was a stand-in.

At the same time Bertram was in the VP slot, he was also a A3P candidate for the West Virginia House of Delegates. In addition to A3P, Bertram seems to have been deeply involved with the American Nationalist Union, later called the American Freedom Union, and was their candidate for the State House in 2018 according to his ballot listing. If anything, Bertram was even more outspoken and visceral in his white nationalism than Miller.

The SPLC described Bertram's 2012 legislative run--

He is running as a candidate of the American Third Position (A3P), a political party originally founded by racist skinheads in southern California in 2009 whose goals include deporting immigrants and placing the U.S. under white rule. The group’s mission statement claims that the U.S. government discriminates against white Americans and warns that whites will soon become a minority. In 2010, the group’s chairman, William Daniel Johnson, told the white nationalist “Political Cesspool” radio show that the foundation of the party is the “racial nationalist movement.” Nevertheless, Bertram dismisses the idea that the A3P is a racist party, insisting instead that it is merely “nationalist.” That’s a noteworthy claim, given that Bertram is listed as a “senior moderator” on WhiteNewsNow, a website run by Jamie Kelso, a longtime racist activist and former member of the neo-Nazi National Alliance. In addition, during his run for governor, Bertram released a television campaign ad in which he called himself “the voice for white American issues.” A3P chief Johnson’s proposed radio ad for Bertram — the text of which included, racist websites reported, “Vote Harry Bertram for Governor because we must secure a future for White America and our children” — was rejected by the West Virginia station he approached.

Miller's total popular vote was 2,713. The Miller/Abernethy ticket received the lion's share of the vote, 1,739, where they were on the ballot in Tennessee finishing 7th out of 7 (0.07%). They were also registered write-ins in Washington, which did not report vote totals for that category. The Miller/Bertram ticket could be found on the ballot in New Jersey (664) and Colorado (267) and were write-ins in Maryland (26). Miller was not listed with a running-mate as a write-in in New York (6) and West Virginia (11).

Bertram finished 11th out of the 11 candidates for that 2012 West Virginia House of Delegates election with 0.88% of the vote.

In Feb. 2013 the A3P changed their name to the American Freedom Party.

Looks like Miller made another try in 2016 under the newly formed American Eagle Party but failed to attain ballot status in any state. Meanwhile in that year, the American Freedom Party did nominate a ticket, but both individuals resigned their positions. The Party apparently experienced a civil war over the issue of whether or not to support Donald Trump.
 
Election history:  
2008 - West Virginia House of Delegates (Republican) - defeated
2010 - Board of Education, Monongalia, W. Va. (American Third Position) - defeated
2011 - Governor of West Virginia (American Third Position) - defeated
2012 - West Virginia House of Delegates (American Third Position) - defeated
2014 - West Virginia Senate (American Freedom Party) - defeated
2018 - West Virginia House of Delegates (American Freedom Union) - defeated

Other occupations: US Army, Maytag repairman, locomotive engineer   

Notes:
I didn't know Maytag repairmen really existed.

Friday, December 18, 2020

Virginia Deane Abernethy

 







Virginia Deane Abernethy, October 4, 1934 (Havana, Cuba) -

VP candidate for American Third Position (aka Independent) (2012)

Running mate with nominee: Merlin Lloyd Miller (b. 1956)
Popular vote: 1,739 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

The American Third Position Party (or A3P) was created in 2009 as a political venue for white nationalism. Historically the "third position" in 20th century Europe meant a rejection of Marxism and of mainstream traditional democracy capitalism while finding a third alternative, i.e. fascism.

The founders of the group included those with close ties to skinheads, Nazis, the KKK, Holocaust deniers, anti-Semites, League of American Patriots, and other white supremacist groups. In January 2012 the A3P nominated Merlin Miller for US President, described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as "an independent filmmaker and military veteran who has expressed dislike for interracial marriage and claimed that Hollywood is under 'Jewish-Zionist control.' He has written for the Holocaust-denying Barnes Review and the white nationalist Occidental Observer."

In Feb. 2012 the group Anonymous hacked into the A3P website. They uncovered working connections between the Party and Ron Paul, such as fundraising and organizing events. The documents revealed A3P leaders felt that Paul's mostly white, male, anti-government following would be fertile ground for recruitment.

In Sept. 2012 Miller met former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and discussed the "Zionist-controlled media" in the US. According to Salon, Miller at that meeting "stated that he believes 9/11 was a Mossad-orchestrated event carried out with 'considerable inside help.'"

During the campaign Miller had been one of the candidates attempting to gain the nomination in the ill-fated Americans Elect project.

Miller's issues included--

-Eliminating the Federal Reserve
-Pulling out of NAFTA, GATT, and WTO
-Imposing strict tariffs
-"Tax dollars are aggressively collected from our people and funneled to so-called minorities, criminals, and persons unwilling to work. We will cut all programs that provide an incentive for people to be anything other than hard-working and productive."
-"The same schools that once taught our children the knowledge, skills, culture, and traditions necessary to maintain and enhance our nation are now controlled by social and cultural Marxists ...  We encourage a full curriculum of American History be taught. This will instill in our young people knowledge of and pride in the history, cultures and heritage of the pioneers of the U.S., and not the poisonous politically correct nonsense being fed to our children today."
-"Unfortunately, many white American men and women have misplaced their priorities: Individualism and hyper-materialism have become more important than family and community. Millions of our youth have been coerced into destructive Marxist politically correct philosophy through television, radio and print media. The exclusive groups that dominate these mass media outlets have methodically imposed a degenerate influence on our people. We must return to a strengthened family unit as the norm for society. We support traditional marriage. We must revitalize the sense of community in the U.S. that we had shared for two hundred years."

-Withdraw from the UN and NATO.
-Close military bases overseas.
-"Immigration. Enough is enough.

During the 1960’s, our immigration system was transformed to favor persons from Third World countries incapable of assimilating into any European homeland. If current demographic trends continue, our people will become a minority in America within only a few decades. We cannot let our children grow up in a nation that is fast becoming the Brazil of the Northern Hemisphere. The vast majority of immigrants, both legal and illegal, come from nations in Latin America, Asia and Africa lacking in education, science, art, law, governance or industrial achievements in any way comparable to ours. Numerous studies have confirmed that there is no net economic benefit to the U.S. economy from Third World immigration due to the added costs of education, infrastructure, health care, welfare programs and law enforcement.

    We will deport all illegal and criminal aliens.
    We will impose massive penalties for employing or assisting them.
    We will use the U.S. military for border security and build an impenetrable southern fence.
    We will immediately put an indefinite moratorium on all immigration.
    We will provide immigrants and their children who have become citizens since 1965 with generous grants to assist their voluntary return to their respective countries of origin.
    We will also eliminate birthright citizenship, chain migration and asylum."
-"A nation’s character is determined by its people – and racial demographics are a primary determinant. America’s founding fathers were European derived and this great country was settled and built through their efforts and that of their progeny. Less than 50 years ago our nation was still 90% White, with approximately 10% black, and a very small representation of other races. Since then we have been undermined by internationalists seeking to destroy the 'liberty, sovereignty, and identity' of America.

These changes have not led to utopia, as crime and discord have resulted, as well as our economic decline. American values, heritage, and even language are under massive assault and we are quickly degenerating from a predominantly White, Christian nation — which led the world by its positive example — to a third world “tower of Babel”. At our current rate of demographic change, an American born in 1965 (part of the 90% majority) will die at the modest age of 77, as a minority in their own country!

This is bizarre and not happening by accident. During the 20th century, socialist global elites hijacked American institutions and media, and began indoctrinating our people into accepting “cultural Marxism” and “political correctness” — complete with multiculturalism, miscegenation, radical feminism and unnatural characterizations. White people were made to feel “guilty” for past wrongs, real or imagined, and have been ruthlessly attacked for showing any pride in their race, traditions, or heritage.

A3P stands to protect White American interests, as no other political party has shown interest in doing. This does not make us racist, but protective of our rights – which every other race or group is encouraged and praised for doing. Discriminatory “affirmative action” programs and the invasion of illegal immigrants adversely affect the welfare of all Americans, but especially the White majority.

We hold no animosity to other races, languages, religions, or heritages — in fact, we respect their differences. Indeed, America’s Black citizens have also suffered from these vast changes in the traditional fabric of American society, as jobs have been taken by illegal immigrants, and drug use and crime have become epidemic.

The goal of A3P is therefore to restore the legitimacy of White identity and expressions of White interests. We want to stop the divisive, orchestrated destruction of America and restore her to greatness."
-"The American Third Position Party believes that government policy in the United States discriminates against white Americans, the majority population, and that white Americans need their own political party to fight this discrimination."

Miller had two running-mates, Virginia Abernethy of Tennessee and Harry Bertram of West Virginia. Abernethy seems to have been the official VP while Bertram was a stand-in.

The 78-year old Abernethy, a self-described "ethnic separatist" with a Ph.D. from Harvard who had last worked as a professor at Vanderbilt, added some academic dressing to the ticket.

The Southern Poverty Law Center began their profile of Abernethy with--

As a professor emeritus of psychiatry and anthropology at Vanderbilt University, Virginia Abernethy pushes repugnant, race-based politics from behind an academic veneer. She has a long history of alliances with groups such as the racist political party American Third Position (renamed the American Freedom Party in 2013), and the white nationalist Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC). In addition, she was chairwoman in 2001 of the advisory board pushing Arizona's anti-immigrant Proposition 200, aka Protect Arizona Now.

The Anti-Defamation League described her as well--

Abernethy’s white supremacist views and ties to white supremacist organizations are well known. In the 2012 Presidential elections, Abernethy ran as a vice-presidential candidate for the white supremacist political party, American Third Position (A3P). Abernethy serves on the editorial advisory board of the white supremacist publication Occidental Quarterly, edited by anti-Semitic professor Kevin MacDonald.  Abernethy has also addressed a white supremacist organization, the Council of Conservative Citizens (CofCC), on a number of occasions. She has referred to herself as an “ethnic separatist.” In a 2012 interview with The Tennessean, Abernethy stated, “Separatism says, ‘Birds of a feather flock together.’ I say, ‘Let them.’ What I see is rampant racial discrimination against European-Americans. And I am not in favor of discrimination.”

It seemed that in 2012 Miller and Abernethy were both residents of Tennessee, and being from the same state would have posed a Constitutional problem in the event of their victory on Election Day.

Miller's total popular vote was 2,713. The Miller/Abernethy ticket received the lion's share of the vote, 1,739, where they were on the ballot in Tennessee finishing 7th out of 7 (0.07%). They were also registered write-ins in Washington, which did not report vote totals for that category. The Miller/Bertram ticket could be found on the ballot in New Jersey (664) and Colorado (267) and were write-ins in Maryland (26). Miller was not listed with a running-mate as a write-in in New York (6) and West Virginia (11).

In Feb. 2013 the A3P changed their name to the American Freedom Party, not to be confused with Larry Brant Sargeant's Party of the same name in the 1976 election.

Looks like Miller made another try in 2016 under the newly formed American Eagle Party but failed to attain ballot status in any state. Meanwhile in that year, the American Freedom Party did nominate a ticket, but both individuals resigned their positions. The Party apparently experienced a civil war over the issue of whether or not to support Donald Trump.

Election history: none

Other occupations: anthropologist, teacher, author, editor, board member American Third Position

Notes:
Born to American parents in Havana, Cuba.
Was first a Democrat, then a Republican, then Independent.
Raised partly in Argentina. Family returned to the US after WWII.

Sunday, December 8, 2019

Perry David Sargeant


 The Sargeant brothers, Perry (above) and Larry (below)



Perry David Sargeant, June 17, 1929 (Spokane, Wash.) - October 22, 2016 (Elko, Nev.)

VP candidate for American Freedom Party (1976)

Running mate with nominee: Larry Brant Sargeant (b 1931)
Popular vote: ? (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

Larry Brant Sargeant was a heavy equipment operator in Yerington, Nev. Apparently a former member of the LDS Church, he started his own religion called House of Israel around 1962 and 15 years later he said that was also the time he formed the American Freedom Party. He told reporters he had made an attempt to run for President in the 1972 election but withdrew.

He began his second presidential campaign in 1975. A few quotations in the early stages of his effort included parts of his Party platform as well as comments regarding President Ford, the only person ever to have ascended to that office through appointment upon the twin resignations in disgrace of Spiro Agnew and Richard Nixon rather than being elected:

With an unshakeable faith in the Almighty God, we can show our fellow Americans that government of the people, by the people, and for the people must begin at home-- not in Washington, D.C.

The people of this nation don't have a President at all (all you have is a bird perched under the people's roof, claiming squatters rights).

Under the oath and covenant of the Constitution of the United States of America, the right to select a president and vice-president shall now and forever remain with the people. No man may be put upon them by force or compulsory means. When Richard M. Nixon resigned and Gerald Ford became the president, his first duty should have been to the people to have an open and immediate election for president and vice-president. The Supreme Court failed in their responsibility to act on this violations of the peoples' rights.


I am calling for an immediate and open election for president and vice-president of this nation of the people, by the people and for the people.

Sargeant also called for a flat 10% income tax on wages, drop all business and corporate tax, raise minimum wage to $10 an hour (in 1976 I was working for $1.90 an hour so 10 bucks an hour seemed huge) introduce free medical care, have states take over welfare by starting welfare work farms, and invite other nations to become a US territory simply by ratifying the US Constitution with the eventual possibility of statehood.

He described himself as a servant of the Lord and friend of labor unions. One newspaper reported "Sargeant stated he would do away with many of the federal agencies and establish state marshalls to control the country."

Sargeant picked his brother, Perry David Sargeant of Elko, Nev., as his running mate. Unlike his younger brother, Perry remained active with the LDS Church.

On April 26, 1976, Larry stated that while in Carson City he was "stripped of his Holy Priesthood garments and placed in prison garbs and thrown into a drunk tank, without being charged for a crime or allowed to post bail." He later filed suit for $200 billion dollars.

The Sargeant/Sargeant ticket was a write-in project and probably an uncertified one at that. The fact the brothers were residents of the same state would probably have caused a Constitutional crisis had they been elected.

Larry Brant Sargeant ran for President again in 1980, 1988, and 1992 (and possibly in other years) under his American Freedom Party banner, apparently without a running mate. He had already started on his second career as a vandal who attacked Mormon statuary with knives, hammers, and axes-- crimes for which he eventually did some hard time. It seems he was, according to him, performing God's will. He was also engaged in a third career of filing frequent lawsuits that many viewed as frivolous. He eventually moved to the Colville, Wash. area.

Election history: none

Other occupations: berry picker, logging business, insurance salesman, cattle ranch worker, barb-wire fence business

Buried: Burns Memorial Garden (Elko, Nev.)

Notes:
Perry was raised in Alberta, Elmerton Wash., Portland Or., and Newport Or.
Larry claimed Thomas Jefferson was his "fourth great grandfather" which if true means I am related
 to Perry David Sargeant as we share an immigrant ancestor, Christopher Branch, with our 3rd
 President.
Nice to finally see a fellow Spokane native on the third party Vice-Presidential roster.