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Date Posted: 11:17:30 06/23/13 Sun
here's a snapshot from The Wikipedia Article on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Freedom_Party.
You'll notice several things.
1) They use generalized terms such as "White supremacy" "neo-Nazi".
2) the links are sourced to The Southern Poverty Law Center.
3) the entire article has been locked.
In other words, you're not allowed to alter the content.
But apparently, it's okay for Zionists to control that entire website.
4) you can find THOUSANDS of articles on youtube which repeat the same basic line of dogma... "it's a white supremacist, neo-nazi group". etc. etc. Yet ironically, NO other ethnic group gets judged regardless of their actions.
SO, even though the Chinese are practicing Eugenics, There's no mention of "China Supremacism".
Let's also consider the conflicts being waged throughout the world.
{{pp-semi-indef}}{{Infobox American Political Party
|party_name=American Freedom Party
|party_articletitle=American Freedom Party
|party_logo=[[File:American3PositionParty.png|250px]]
|chairman=William D. Johnson
|launch=January 5, 2010[[http://american3p.org/?p=188 American Third Position Party], "A3P Launch Marked by Tabletop Outreach" (January 5th, 2010 - retrieved on January 13th, 2010).]
|ideology=[[Paleoconservatism]],
[[White supremacism]],
[[Third Position]]
|fiscalpolicy = [[Third Position]]
|socialpolicy = [[Far-right politics|Far-right]]
|international= ''None''
|senateleader = ''None''
|SENseats = ''None''
|houseleader = ''None''
|HRseats = ''None''
|colors =
|headquarters = [[Westminster, California|Westminster]], [[California]]
|website = http://american3rdposition.com/
|footnotes =
}}
{{Third Position}}
The '''American Freedom Party''' (formerly the '''American Third Position Party''' or '''A3P''') is a [[Third Position|third positionist]] [[Political parties in the United States|American political party]] which promotes [[white supremacy]].[{{cite web|url=http://news.yahoo.com/ron-paul-campaign-denies-white-supremacist-ties-alleged-050317926.html|title=Ron Paul campaign denies white supremacist ties alleged by Anonymous|publisher=[[Yahoo! News]]|date=2012-02-03|accessdate=2012-02-18}}][{{cite web|url=http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/summer/filling-the-void|title=New White Supremacist Party has Mass Electoral Ambitions|author=Larry Keller|publisher=[[Southern Poverty Law Center]]|accessdate=2012-02-03}}][{{cite newspaper|url=http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201107151596?page=2|newspaper=[[The Charleston Gazette]]|title=Labor changing mind on Tomblin?|author=Alison Knezevich|date=2011-06-15}}][{{cite web|url=http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-02-01/europe/31011989_1_bnp-emails-hacker-group|title=Anonymous Has Revealed The British National Party's Links To An American White Supremacist Group|publisher=[[Business Insider]]|author=Sanya Khetani|date=2012-02-01|accessdate=2012-02-18}}] It was officially launched in January 2010[{{cite web|title=A3P Scheduled to Launch 1/4/10|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20100123060703/http://american3p.org/|publisher=A3P}}] (although in November 2009 it filed papers to get on a ballot in California) partially to channel the [[right-wing populism|right-wing populist]] resentment engendered by the [[financial crisis of 2007–2010]] and the policies of the [[Presidency of Barack Obama|Obama administration]].[{{cite journal| author = [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] | title = Prof Has New Job Running Racist Political Party: Academic Anti-Semitism | date = Spring 2010 | url = http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/spring/psych-prof-has-new-job-running-racist | accessdate = 2010-04-28| archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20100424195400/http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/spring/psych-prof-has-new-job-running-racist| archivedate= 24 April 2010 | deadurl= no}}]
==Leadership==
The party chairman is [[Los Angeles]] [[Attorney at law|attorney]] [[William Daniel Johnson]]. [[California State University, Long Beach|Long Beach State University]] professor of [[psychology]] [[Kevin B. MacDonald]] has been named one of the eight party Directors, and is also a principal contributor to ''[[The Occidental Quarterly]]''[[http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_14127622 Long Beach Press-Telegram], "Controversial CSULB professor MacDonald is director of new political party," by Kevin Butler (January 5th, 2010 - retrieved on January 13th, 2010).][[http://www.ocweekly.com/2010-01-21/news/long-beach-state-kevin-macdonald-american-third-position-party/ Orange County Weekly], "Long Beach State Professor Kevin MacDonald Helps Mainstream a New White Supremacist Political Party," by Gustavo Arellano (January 21st, 2010 - retrieved on March 13th, 2010).] where he has contributed articles claiming that a suite of traits that he attributes to [[Jew]]s, including higher-than-average verbal intelligence and [[ethnocentricism]], have [[eugenics|eugenically]] and culturally evolved to enhance the ability of Jews to out-compete [[gentiles|non-Jews]] for resources. MacDonald believes this advantage has been used by a number of Jews to advance Jewish group interests and end potential [[antisemitism]] by either deliberately or inadvertently undermining the power and self-confidence of the [[white people|European-derived]] majorities in the [[Western world]].[*Kevin MacDonald:''[http://toqonline.com/archives/v3n2/TOQv3n2MacDonald.pdf Understanding Jewish Influence I: Background Traits for Jewish Activism]''. TOQonline.com. Retrieved on 2011-10-25.][*Kevin MacDonald:''[http://www.toqonline.com/archives/v3n3/TOQv3n3MacDonald.pdf Understanding Jewish Influence II: Zionism and the Internal Dynamics of Judaism]''. TOQonline.com. Retrieved on 2011-10-25.][Kevin MacDonald:''[http://www.toqonline.com/archives/v4n2/TOQv4n2MacDonald.pdf Understanding Jewish Influence III: Neoconservatism as a Jewish Movement]''. TOQonline.com. Retrieved on 2011-10-25.]
A 2006 article in ''The Nation'' magazine reports that MacDonald's 2004 ''Understanding Jewish Influence: A Study in Ethnic Activism'' "has turned MacDonald into a celebrity within white nationalist and neo-Nazi circles."["[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060410/blumenthal Republicanizing the Race Card.]". ''The Nation''. Posted online, March 23, 2006.] Writing in the ''[[Journal of Church and State]],'' Professor [[George Michael (professor)|George Michael]] noted that MacDonald's work "has been well received by those in the racialist right, as it amounts to a theoretically sophisticated justification for anti-Semitism," and that on the far right MacDonald "has attained a near reverential status and is generally considered beyond reproach".[[[George Michael (professor)|George Michael]], "[http://www.kevinmacdonald.net/JC&S48-2006.pdf Professor Kevin MacDonald's critique of Judaism: legitimate scholarship or the intellectualization of anti-semitism?]", ''Journal of Church and State'', September 22, 2006.]
==Political activities==
[[File:William Johnson Chairman of the A3P.png|thumb|left|William Johnson, Chairman of A3P, speaking at a rally.]]
[[New Hampshire]] state party chairman Ryan Murdough ran in the [[Republican Party of New Hampshire]] primary for a seat representing the Eighth District of the [[Grafton County, New Hampshire|Grafton County]] delegation to the [[New Hampshire House of Representatives]],[{{cite web|url=http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/candidate-keep-states-complexion-white?page=0,0|publisher=Concord Monitor|title=Candidate: Keep state's complexion white|author=Ray Duckler|date=2010-07-11|accessdate=2010-07-17| archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20100716170145/http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/candidate-keep-states-complexion-white?page=0,0| archivedate= 16 July 2010 | deadurl= no}}] but he was refused support by the Republican party, which called him a "despicable racist".[{{cite newspaper|url=http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=John+DiStaso's+Granite+Status:+State+GOP+rejects+Ashland+NH+House+candidate+as+'despicable+racist'&articleId=6fb730a1-de0f-4f2e-9be6-9609498f1e2d|newspaper=New Hampshire Union-Leader|date=2010-07-07}}] He placed fifth out of five candidates in the Republican primary, garnering 296 votes (11%).[[http://www.sos.nh.gov/stateprimary%202010/grafreprep.pdf New Hampshire 2010 primary results]] Murdough was the National Political Director for the [[List of white nationalist organizations#United States|National Socialist American Labor Party]], a party which espouses Nazi beliefs.[{{cite web|url=http://www.nsalp.org|title=The National Socialist American Labor Party|publisher=N.S.A.L.P.|accessdate=2013-02-22| archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20110108125843/http://www.nsalp.org/| archivedate= 8 January 2011 | deadurl= no}}]
In November 2009 the American Third Position Party filed papers with the office of the [[California]] [[Secretary of State of California|Secretary of State]], hoping to become a fully ballot-accessible party by the time of the June 2010 California [[primary election]].[[http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections//ccrov/pdf/2009/november/09175da.pdf Office of the California Secretary of State], "County Clerk/Registrar of Voters (CC/ROV) Memorandum #09175," by Deirdre Avent (November 13th, 2009 - retrieved on January 13th, 2010).] However, the party failed to qualify and did not get on the 2010 ballot in California[[http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_f.htm Secretary of State: Qualified political parties for the November 2, 2010 general election]] or any other state.[[http://www.ballot-access.org/2010/05/03/american-third-position-web-page-most-visited-of-any-u-s-political-party/ Ballot Access News]] The party received enough signatures to get Harry Bertram on the ballot for the [[West Virginia gubernatorial special election, 2011|2011 West Virginia gubernatorial special election]].[{{cite web|url=http://www.sos.wv.gov/elections/Pages/2011CandidatesforGovernor.aspx|title=2011 Candidates for Governor}}] Bertram's campaign ran a television ad emphasizing his desire to advance the interests of white Americans. Bertram was soundly defeated in the election, coming in last place out of 5 candidates on the ballot and netting only 1,111 votes; less than 0.4 percent of the total.[{{cite web|url=http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/elections/2011/by_county/WV_Governor_1004.html?SITE=AP&SECTION=POLITICS|title=West Virginia - County Vote Results}}]
==2012 hacked website incident==
In early February 2012 members of the hacker group [[Anonymous (group)|Anonymous]] released statements claiming to have hacked the website of the party as well as various forums and email accounts connected with the group, including that of [[Jamie Kelso]], the websites operator.[{{cite web|title=Ron Paul, the American Third Position Party and Stormfront|url=http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/291000/20120201/anonymous-ron-paul-neo-nazi-bnp-a3p.htm#ixzz1lMgqHky7|publisher=[[International Business Times]]|date=2012-02-01|author= Gianluca Mezzofiore|accessdate=2012-02-04}}][{{cite web|url=http://news.yahoo.com/ron-paul-campaign-denies-white-supremacist-ties-alleged-050317926.html|title=Ron Paul campaign denies white supremacist ties alleged by Anonymous|date=|accessdate=2012-02-04}}]
The front page of the party's website was defaced with #OpBlitzkrieg (the designated name used in January 2012 for a series of Anonymous cyber-attacks on German Neo-Nazi websites) and private information about the organization's members was released.[{{cite web|title='ANONYMOUS' hits White Supremacist sites|url=http://news.intelwire.com/2012/02/anonymous-hits-several-white.html|publisher=Intelwire|date=2012-02-01|accessdate=2012-02-04}}]
==2012 presidential election==
In January 2012, the American Third Position Party announced [[Merlin Miller]] as its presidential nominee for the [[United States Presidential Election, 2012|2012 presidential election]]. [[Virginia Abernethy]] was announced as his running mate.[{{cite web|url=http://american3rdposition.com/american-voice/the-sunic-journal-the-american-third-position-party%E2%80%94the-hope-of-our-future/|title=American Third Position Party Presidential Ticket}}]
==Electoral participation==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year !! Office !! Candidate !! On the ballot as !! Votes !! Position
|-
| 2011|| [[Governor of West Virginia]]|| Harry Bertram || American Third Position || 1,111 (0.37%)[[http://apps.sos.wv.gov/elections/results/results.aspx?year=2011&eid=10&county=Statewide] West Virginia SOS Elections, accessed 10 November 2012.]|| 5/5
|-
| 2012|| [[West Virginia House of Delegates]], District 51|| Harry Bertram|| American Third Position || 1,110 (0.88%)[[[West Virginia gubernatorial special election, 2011#cite note-25]] West Virginia SOS Elections, accessed 10 November 2012.] || 11/11
|-
| 2012|| [[President of the United States]]|| [[Merlin Miller]] & [[Virginia Abernethy]]|| American Third Position || 2,703 (0.00%)[[http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=2012&minper=0&f=1&off=0&elect=0 US Election Atlas] at http://uselectionatlas.org, accessed 10 November 2012.] || 18/27
|}
== Name change ==
On February 1, 2013, the party's website carried an announcement that the party was changing its name to "American Freedom Party", although the values and mission would remain unchanged.
==References==
{{reflist}}
==External links==
* [http://american3rdposition.com/ Official website]
{{United States political parties}}
{{White nationalism}}
[[Category:American Third Position Party|*]]
[[Category:Nationalist parties in the United States]]
[[Category:Political parties established in 2010]]
[[Category:Identity politics in the United States]]
[[Category:Far-right political parties in the United States]]
[[Category:2010 establishments in the United States]]
[[Category:Article Feedback 5 Additional Articles]]
[[Category:Westminster, California]]
[[Category:White supremacist groups in the United States]]
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