It’s taken ten years, but the neo-Nazis have finally discovered this website. It would seem they didn’t like something that I’d written a few days ago exposing the background of a white supremacist by the name of Daniel Johnson, who is running to represent Michigan’s 11th district in Congress. And they’ve been leaving comments all evening, both on my site, and that of Stormfront.org. (You can read all of their comments by clicking on that first link.)
One Stormfront commenter went so far as to say that, as a race traitor, I was the same as “a child molester” and deserved “all the same recrimination.” Another encouraged fellow white nationalists to vote for the Republican candidate in the race, and not Johnson, who is running as a member of the Natural Law Party. “I know he’s probably a great guy,” this individual said of Johnson, “but please don’t vote for him. The Republican candidate, Kerry Bentivolio, is one of the best major candidates running for national office this year. We can’t let Syed Taj win. And, no, I’m not being like one of those morons who says ‘any vote for a 3rd party is a vote for Obama’. In the Presidential race, by voting Republican or Democrat you’re voting for ZOG. By voting for Kerry Bentivolio, you’re voting against ZOG.” ZOG, for those of you who aren’t up on your conspiracy theories, is shorthand in white power circles for the Zionist Occupation Government, which, according to the far right, has been seeking to control the entire earth since before Henry Ford first started publishing The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Bentivolio, you might be interested to know, has been described in the press as “a reindeer rancher some party officials have labeled as an extremist.” And, when they say “party,” they don’t mean the Democratic party. They mean the Republican party. (Yes, Republicans consider him to be an extremist.) Bentivolio is an acolyte of Ron Paul, who’s campaign is being funded to a large extent by Liberty for All, a Texas-based organization with ties to Paul. I haven’t seen polling data, but, according to today’s Detroit Free Press, he’s favored to win the heavily Republican district, which, until recently, had been thought to be an easy win for Thaddeus McCotter. McCotter, though, as you may remember, was recently forced to drop out of the race, after it was discovered that a majority of the signatures submitted with his nominating petition had been forged. Bentivolio, who had sought to challenge McCotter in the primary, it would seem, was simply in the right place at the right time, when McCotter was forced out. The Republican establishment tried desperately to field a more palatable candidate at the last minute to go up against him, but couldn’t. (Bentivolio, before turning to politics, was a teacher at Fowlerville High School, a job which he was apparently forced to leave after an investigation involving his repeated intimidation of students.)
By my count, there have been eight comments left on this site so far by white nationalists, and I’d like to ask you to join me in contributing a dollar for each one of them to the campaign of Syed Taj, the man running against Bentivolio and Johnson. Actually, if you could, I’d like to ask for you to give a dollar for every comment left over the 24 hour period ending tomorrow at 8:00 PM, which is what I intend to do. Can I count on you to do that? As I think I made pretty clear at the top of the post, it’s imperative that Taj win this race, and I think that we could really make a big impact, not only by directing a few dollars to Taj’s campaign, but by reaching out to our friends and neighbors in Plymouth, Canton, Livonia, Westland, Novi, Milford, South Lyon, and Wayne, and letting them know about Bentivolio, Johnson and the men, like those who gather at Stormfront.org, who support them.
You can make donations to Taj either through his site (see link above), or through Act Blue.
And please share this post by way of Facebook. As the election is only a month away, we haven’t much time to get the word out.
update: OK, the number of white nationalist comments has doubled since I started writing this post. As of midnight, there are 15 comments from the members of Stromfront.
27 Comments
It’s now $15.
I had no idea that Bentivolio was such a radical. I was focused on Johnson. This is a more important race than I thought.
You delete em? Aw man…
I popped corn and errythn.
So this blog is going back to being informative/reliable?
Shit. Now I gotta buy a TV.
I’ d post a comment, but I haven’ t a fucking clue what you are on about. What is a, “white power group”, and how are they different to a, “black power group”, something you don’ t seem to ever concern yourself with?
And what the hell is a white supemscist? Is that like a jewish supremacist who claims he belongs to the chosen people of God?
Sorry to appear ignorant, but I’ ve never met any people belonging to either of the two groups you single out, so I think you will appreciate my position.
Oh, one last question if I may. Is the site, ” Stormfront”, the one who’ s members proclaim they are proud to be white? I quite like that sentiment actually. If you ain’ t proud of who you are, then how can you be proud of anything, like our achievements in life and the achievements of our kith and kin? Or maybe you think pride is a bad thing? Should we whip ourselves if we feel pride?
Hope you can help.
The comments in question have not been deleted. They can be found in the earlier thread concerning Daniel Johnson.
http://markmaynard.com/2012/09/candidate-for-michigans-11th-congressional-district-asks-if-youre-concerned-about-the-future-of-the-white-race/
Donated!
Donated.
Liberty For All is the PAC of a 21 year old Libertarian millionaire. The following is from the Daily Beast.
Read more:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/03/21-year-old-millionaire-buys-his-way-to-political-influence.html
It’s inherited money. The following is from Mother Jones.
Read more:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/05/john-ramsey-liberty-for-all-super-pac
The Stormfront discussion is entertaining.
“I wonder how they figured out he was one of us?”
Maybe it was the phone call he placed to thousands of voters, introducing himself as a white nationalist.
There is really nothing wrong with being “proud” of being white, just as there is nothing wrong with wanting “men’s rights”. The problem is that white power groups are all a bunch of racist sacks of shit who, instead of talking up the awesome shit white people have done, go around hating on black people. White people have done some awesome shit, you guys! Cotton gin? White person. Polio vaccine? White person. Vibrator? White person. So sure, you can be proud of being a cracker but I don’t think you have to hate on non-whites to do so.
(Similarly for the “men’s rights” groups which IME are fronts for misogynists who rant about “feminist views” in colleges. You can certainly want equal rights for all…I just don’t think you have to call me a cunt quite so much to do so)
When I was in high school (in Mississippi) I once asked someone why we don’t have “white history month.”
The response was,
“Every month is white history month, you fool”
I was like, “yeah, you’re right.”
Count me in.
Okay, this is bizarre.
William Daniel Johnson is a corporate attorney in the Los Angeles area who does seem to have a long history of taking advantage of lax residency requirements to run for Congress in other states.
The Politics1.com page on Michigan congressional races describes this Daniel Johnson as a “Business Development Manager, USMC Veteran & ’08 Candidate”. http://politics1.com/mi.htm
A 2008 candidate? In 2008, William Daniel Johnson was running for Los Angeles County superior court judge. A quick look at the Wayback Machine for politics1.com shows that this Daniel Johnson was running as the Libertarian candidate for Michigan’s second congressional district http://web.archive.org/web/20081030150242/http://www.politics1.com/mi.htm and you can follow a link to his website at http://web.archive.org/web/20081029224214/http://danjohnson.lpwm.org/ – yes there’s a photo and this is not William Daniel Johnson. Ballotpedia has a page on Daniel Johnson running in MI-11 at http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Daniel_Johnson_%28Michigan%29 and the photo shown there is definitely William Daniel Johnson the California white supremacist.
I’m not exactly convinced this Daniel Johnson is the same William Daniel Johnson, but I’m not yet completely convinced he isn’t either. The white supremacist phone message is a big clue that they are the same.
My best guess right now is that the Daniel Johnson running this year in MI-11 is indeed William Daniel Johnson, but the Dan Johnson who ran in MI-2 in 2008 is not the same person and politics1.com has incorrect information about the current candidate. But who knows?
This is a bunch of garbage innuendo that has no place in American politics.
Imagine my disgust when I listened to my voice mails this evening and discovered a campaign message from this pig, going on about “European Americans” and race. I actually had to look him up because I was shocked that someone would just blatantly put that crap in public like that. Syed Taj gets my vote.
The final number, by my count, was 26.
@TeacherPatti obviously didn’t come up in Ann Arbor schools. The cotton gin was first imagined by a slave, not Eli Whitney. http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi127.htm
.. and the reason why white men have dominated the scientific gains in recorded history, is because whiteness has been privileged since colonial times, and maleness an eon longer than that. So Eli Whitney, being a white inventor, could patent and idea that a slave could not. Also written history is created in the image of an oppressor – its been violently whitewashed all the way to the elementary school book. Native American genocide, WWII internment camps, and US occupation of Haiti are hallmarks of our contemporary ignorance because of this.
Donated!
Touche. Sound arguments. Keep up the great effort.
Imagine a truly divers world without racist white ppepl and how wonderful it could be! There would be no more war or hatred and all the world would live in peace and harmony. I would doughnate my mony to get rid of Nazi but i am on welfare eva since hateful white billionaire republicraps stole my job. Pleez vote Obama 2012!
Syed Taj is an extremist Muslim associated with “Council on American-Islamic Relations”. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has been connected to the terrorist organization Hamas, a federal judge said in a July 2009 ruling unsealed last week.
Why should anyone in this District vote for this pro-Islamic extremist sympathizer?
Mark, you sound like a Communist agitator.
Why don’t you try going and talking to Taj yourself, Rose? I’m sure he’d be happy to speak with you.
@Peter Larson
Why should I go speak to Syed Taj? I can read his background on my own. Taj admitted accepting money from the CAIR front. And let’s be honest. CAIR is a front for extreme Islamists.
I would be happier speaking with an American who puts America First! And that is who I am voting for.
From the CAIR website:
CAIR’s advocacy model is the antithesis of the narrative of anti-American extremists. Indeed, our track record of success solidly repudiates extremist arguments that Muslims cannot get fair treatment in our nation.
CAIR advocates for American Muslims through the media, government and all legal, traditional avenues available to public interest groups. CAIR staff and volunteers proactively train our community in strategies to improve grassroots ability to take their due roles in civic affairs and redress grievances.
Our moral position is clear. We unequivocally condemn terrorism. Any group that hurts civilians deserves condemnation. As recently as January, 2009, CAIR’s vigorous condemnation of violence committed in the name of Islam was acknowledged by the United States Institute of Peace in its report “Islamic Peacemaking Since 9/11.”
We are proud of our principled advocacy for just and peaceful resolutions to conflicts even when that advocacy requires stances that are not viewed as politically correct.
In truth, however, condemnations alone do not solve problems. That is why CAIR’s moral position, which is prompted by the basic Islamic principle that no one has the right to take innocent life, is backed by action. CAIR has its sent staff to Baghdad to appeal for the release of a kidnapped American journalist; produced anti-terror public service announcements in English, Arabic and Urdu; coordinated an Islamic anti-terror religious ruling (fatwa); raised money for rebuilding churches in the wake of Middle East violence and called on Islamic religious leaders to deliver anti-terror messages in their sermons.
CAIR has condemned specific terrorist actions against Muslims, Christians, Jews, Hindus, Americans, Spaniards, Turks, Israelis, Saudis, Russians, Egyptians, Jordanians, Iraqis, British, and so on.
CAIR has condemned specific terrorist groups by name. On 3/11/2009, the 5th anniversary of the tragic Madrid attacks, CAIR issued a statement saying, “We unequivocally condemn all acts of terrorism, whether carried out by al-Qa’ida, the Real IRA, FARC, Hamas, ETA, or any other group designated by the U.S. Department of State as a ‘Foreign Terrorist Organization.’”
In 2007, CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad joined 137 other Muslim leaders and scholars from around the world in sending a first-of-its-kind open letter designed to promote understanding between Muslims and Christians worldwide. The letter, entitled “A Common Word Between Us and You,” was sent to Pope Benedict XVI, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and more than 20 other Christian leaders. Awad is also an original endorser of the Amman Message and its three points of tolerance.
Anti-American extremists are well aware of our rejection of their views. Following CAIR’s criticism of remarks by an extremist leader, a German blogger noted that some within the “jihadi community…issu[ed] angry rants about the apparent treachery of American Muslims, including specifically the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).” Alleged Tampa Bay extremist Sami Osmakac, who was charged in 2012 with plotting to attack location in Florida, also railed against CAIR.
We find that our detractors prefer to nitpick—to give a facetious example: “You did not condemn terror against Brazilians, ergo you must support it”—rather than acknowledge our resoundingly clear words and deeds.
To allow ourselves to focus on promoting a more positive society rather than writing a specific condemnation of every group or addressing murderous behavior toward every ethnic and religious group on the planet, we have adopted a simple, comprehensive message: “We condemn terrorism whenever it happens, wherever it happens, whoever commits it. Period.”
http://www.cair.com/AboutUs/MisinformationandConspiracyTheoriesAboutCAIR.aspx
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