[R-G] Racists Soft Sell - American Third Position

[Gary Crethers]

Racists Soft Sell-American Third Position
This is an article on Racists disguising themselves as a  legitimate political 
party. They want to capture the angry white voter  and get them to support their 
positions.
From San Diego CityBeat
Wednesday, Sep 08, 2010
White out
American Third Position, a white-nationalist political group, spreads to San 
Diego County
By Dave Maass
On the back patio of an Irish pub in Carlsbad, an organizer from a  new 
political group is sipping an iced tea and smoking cigarettes in the  shade of 
an umbrella.
The former Army Ranger and small-business owner is wearing a plaid  ivy cap over 
a shaved head. His T-shirt advertises “American Third  Position: Liberty, 
Sovereignty, Identity.”
Though he asked CityBeat to withhold his surname, Damon is open about  his 
views. He believes the government doesn’t represent the common man,  that 
immigrants are a threat to public safety and employment  (particularly in San 
Diego County, where he grew up) and that white  Americans must become conscious 
of their race. He doesn’t censor himself  when a server walks by, and he pays no 
mind to the customers a few  tables over. That’s the point of American Third 
Position—it’s white  nationalism packaged for a mainstream audience.
Damon wasn’t always so tempered with his rhetoric. He was involved  with 
neo-Nazi groups in the past—he has protested, pamphleteered and  brawled. “In my 
youth, like I think a lot of people are, I was just at  odds with the world, and 
you get a little angry and you move with that  because it’s kinda all you know,” 
he says. “As I got older and a little  wiser, I saw that what I was doing wasn’t 
really reaching the regular  white guy on the street.”
Based in Orange County, the political group registered itself with  the 
California Secretary of State late in 2009. Representatives have set  up tables 
and small demonstrations in Long Beach and Huntington Beach,  where young men 
and women wave U.S. flags and hold posters that say  “Support Arizona” and 
“American Jobs for American People.” San Diego  County may be the next target 
for the group, which is, on its face,  indistinguishable from a Tea Party or 
other libertarian organization.
There is a difference, though: A3P aspires to be the party that  exclusively 
represents the interests of white people. It’s this element  that has attracted 
the attention of local groups like the San Diego  Immigrant Rights Consortium, 
which has republished articles from the  Southern Poverty Law Center, an 
anti-hate group, on its blog. The  Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish group that 
tracks anti-Semitism, has  compiled extensive dossiers on the group’s leaders 
and their ties to  alleged racist and extremist organizations.
Rather than deny it, A3P Chairman William Johnson, an L.A.-based  attorney, puts 
the group in context with the current political climate.
“I’ve been quite involved for maybe close to 30 years, and I’ve  worked in 
different organizations, and they’ve never been successful,”  Johnson says. 
“They’ve always caused a lot of grief to my family and me  because a lot of 
people dislike my views. But this is the first time now  that I’m finding an 
acceptance toward my positions. I think we’re  seeing a monumental shift in 
public opinion. While I’ve not changed my  views, public perception of my views 
is changing even as we speak.”
The group plans to run candidates in every state; this year, it  raised 
money—through online “money bombs”—for Ryan Murdough, a white  nationalist and 
A3P state chairman running as a Republican in a New  Hampshire state 
representative race.
“If you care to compare us with the Ron Paul money bomb, I’d have to  say it was 
‘modest,’” Johnson chuckles. He worked “extensively” on  Paul’s 2008 
presidential campaign. “I think that we raised an  encouraging amount of money, 
but it’s a modest sum.”
Gustavo Arellano, who covers the hate-group beat for OC Weekly, an  alternative 
newspaper in Orange County (he also writes the popular “Ask a  Mexican” column), 
has declared a sort of media war on A3P. From the  beginning of the year, he 
began publishing in-depth investigations into  the group in order to reveal 
their extremist undertones despite their  almost-mainstream message.
One difference between A3P and other alleged hate groups, Arellano  says, is 
that A3P attempts to establish legitimacy through prominent  figures such as 
Johnson and Kevin MacDonald, a tenured professor at  California State 
University, Long Beach.
Johnson had previously run for superior court judge until Los  Angeles’ 
Metropolitan News-Enterprise revealed that he was the author of  the infamous 
Pace Amendment, a legal proposal that would limit  citizenship to Americans of 
European descent and result in the  deportation of everyone else. Mac- Donald 
has also been at the center of  controversy for his academic writing on Jews 
from an “evolutionary  point of view” and in terms of political power.
“As I called them in my story, they’re basically skinheads in suits,”  Arellano 
says. “If you read their position papers, it’s very much an  America for white 
people only.”
MacDonald complains that he has been harassed on campus since 2006  for his 
writing and that those protests picked up steam this year in  response to the 
formation of A3P. He argues that, as whites face the  real possibility of 
becoming the minority in certain parts of the  country, the race must recognize 
its common interests and fight for them  as other ethnic groups, such as La Raza 
and the NAACP, have.
“Often times, people like myself are called white supremacists,”  MacDonald 
says. “This is not an IQ-based argument that we’re somehow  superior. It’s just 
that we have interests different from other people.  It’s entirely OK for us to 
assert those interests.”
These white interests include immigration, affirmative action and  
employment—issues that MacDonald says are equally important to the  mainstream 
Tea Party movement. He notes that Tea Partiers are  overwhelmingly white.
“In my view, white people already believe what we believe,” MacDonald  says. 
“But they are intimidated by being associated with skinheads and  that kind of 
stuff. They don’t want to be seen as stupid and violent. I  can understand 
that.”
And that’s why A3P frowns upon the hostile, incendiary activities common among 
white-nationalist groups.
“If I go as a ‘skinhead’ and push the hate, I’m only going to be able  to 
connect with somebody that thinks and feels the same way,” Damon  says about his 
recruiting methods. “If I talk to you one-on-one,  man-to-man about just normal 
problems in life, I can enlighten you on a  bit more stuff. We can have an 
open-minded conversation and show this  person that the government is against 
us.”
At that point, it’s easy for Damon to introduce the issue of race, not in terms 
of hate, but in terms of pride.
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