Willis Carto and his Useful Idiots in the Whiteysphere

Plenty of stuff for ye in this post (0.00 / 0)

Thanks for seeing this through, donkeytale.

Here's a good link for folks to start getting the picture.

Conspiracy Theories and Far-Right Disinformation by Dr. Laniac

Ok, I'll copy and paste a bit I've come up with in the past starting with a quote from the above link.

{excerpted from an original 14 page thread on What Really Happened and its "Unofficial" forum. One can slog through that and by the end see how a sophisticated cybersmear script based around sock puppets was put in place against myself, may41970, and the_last_name_left.}

The rabbit hole goes much deeper than you would ever believe. Or so the conspiracy theorists of the world would have you believe. But dig behind the scenes of the conspiracy crowd, and you'll find another conspiracy.

Continuing Investigation Into Far-Right Disinformation

Right Woos Left by Chip Berlet

Here are more links exposing right woos left disinfo.

Research on: whatreallyhappened.com

UPDATE: TBRNews and the Real "Brian Harring"

Rivero ravaged The mysterious "S.

What Really Happens at whatreallyhappened.com?

The other side of the "What Really Happens" story

They can run, but they can't hide. The most interesting find I believe is that Mike Rivero was a supporter of the Special Forces Underground and The Resister, some dirtbag, racist publication put out by Steven Barry.

Racist ex-Green Beret boasts of secret army

   By James W. Crawley
   UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

   September 18, 2000

   FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- With a .45-caliber pistol resting with in easy reach, retired Green Beret Steven Barry commands a secret army of racists within the military' s elite forces from a ramshackle house just outside town.

   Or so he says.

   He has led the Special Forces Underground since 1992, when he founded the anti-Communist, anti-Jewish, white-supremacy group while he was on active duty. He also edits the group' s quarterly newsletter, The Resister.

   "The United States military was created by white men for white men to defend a white nation," Barry said during an interview at the small, white frame house, located a few miles from Fort Bragg' s main gate. "It wasn' t designed as a multicultural, diverse, touchy-feely, huggy-snuggly social experiment in race relations."

   Throughout the interview, Barry wore a kilt and no shirt -- his usual attire at home.

   Besides the pistol on his desk in a tiny office, what appeared to be a crude time bomb was nailed to the wall above his head. Barry, who has shot at firefighters from a nearby fire station when they wandered onto his land, didn' t say whether the device was real or fake.

   He enlisted in the Army in 1976 soon after flunking out of West Point. He qualified for Special Forces and taught at Fort Bragg before quitting the Army in 1985. Then, he re-enlisted in the Army and the Green Berets in 1989, finally retiring in 1997.

   In 1998, Barry ran for the local school board, campaigning to resegregate the schools. He withdrew before the election, claiming that if elected he would be unable to persuade others to create separate schools for whites and blacks.

   Barry complains that training standards are being lowered to accommodate more African-Americans in the Green Berets.

   "Twenty years ago, you could trust a black to do a job," he said. "Now it' s questionable."

   He also rails against the federal government -- he describes Washington as the "race commissariat" -- which has allowed women and gays in the military.

   The Special Forces Underground' s membership is unclear. Barry declined to reveal any numbers, but did say current Green Berets and other special-operations personnel belong to his group.

   The group' s newsletter is filled with diatribes against blacks, Latinos, gays, women, the Clinton administration and the military.

   Barry started The Resister during the early 1990s, soon after the sieges at Ruby Ridge and Waco.

   A copy of the newsletter was found in Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh' s car when he was arrested hours after the April 1995 bombing, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

   The center, which investigates and documents extremist groups, estimates The Resister has about 2,500 subscribers. Barry said subscribers include current and former military personnel along with civilians.

   Military officials and law center experts acknowledge that the Special Forces Underground is real but say its influence and membership within the military are small.

   Barry responded that Underground members and sympathizers are just that -- underground, keeping a low profile.

   "There' s not a major (military) installation where we don' t have someone."

This is from the Southern Poverty Law Center.

'A Defector In Place'

   The creator of an underground magazine aimed at the Special Forces is out of the Army but building up his role on the extremist right

   By Gregory A. Walker

   Eleven days after the April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing, Sergeant First Class Steven M. Barry, a.k.a. "J.F.A. Davidson," appeared on CBS' "60 Minutes."

   Questioned by reporter Steve Kroft, the Special Forces soldier - his face obscured and voice altered electronically to hide his identity - identified himself as the editor of an underground newsletter called The Resister. Introducing Barry's "political warfare journal," Kroft told his listeners that it used "the same inflammatory rhetoric espoused by the radical militia movement and portrays the U.S. government as the enemy."
   ...

Rense and Rivero are part of a wingnut machine. It is tied in with Dandelion Books. It is tied in with The Barnes Review and some asshat named Willis Carto.

Here is an interesting find.
Holocaust Denial Versus 9/11 Truth

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   The association of challenges to the official myth of 9/11 with deniers of the Nazi Holocaust of Jews is one of the more potent weapons in the arsenal of the apologists for the official myth, although its use so far has been limited. In a column in Scientific American attacking the 9/11 Truth Movement, Michael Shermer states:

   The mistaken belief that a handful of unexplained anomalies can undermine a well-established theory lies at the heart of all conspiratorial thinking (as well as creationism, Holocaust denial and the various crank theories of physics).

   Following this, Shermer launches into a straw-man attack against 9-11 Research implying that the website embraces the same "conspiratorial thinking" as Holocaust denial, despite the fact that 9-11 Research does not endorse Holocaust denial or Holocaust revisionism, and avoids uncritically linking to websites that do. It is easy to find writers and websites that openly mix 9/11 skepticism with Holocaust denial or revisionism. Some of the more prominent ones are:

   * Christoper Bollyn, writer for The American Free Press
   * The American Free Press , part of a parent organization that includes the Hitler-praising Barnes Review
   * Eric Hufschmid, the author of influential books and videos about the 9/11 attack.
   * Public-Action.com , a site that highlights the Waco massacre, speculates about 9/11 conspiracies, and promotes neo-Nazi websites
   * Serendipity.li , a site with extensive links to AmericanFreePress.net and public-action.com

   In January of 2007 CNN devoted a segment of Paula Zahn NOW to attacking all 9/11 'conspiracy theorists' as racists who assert that Jews were behind the attack...

   The Barnes Review Praises Hitler as Deserving of the Nobel Prize.

...

The American Free Press was Founded by Right Wing Ideologue Willis Carto

The American Free Press was founded by Willis Carto, believed by some critics to be the leading exponent of anti-Semitism in the United States in the latter half of the 20th century. Carto, widely considered a white supremacist, was co-founder of the Institute for Historical Review, which has championed Holocaust revisionism and has been accused of being a neo-Nazi organization. Carto also founded The Barnes Review, and the Liberty Lobby, best known for publishing the now-defunct paper The Spotlight. Carto and other editors from The Spotlight went on to establish the American Free Press.

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title: Liberty Lobby
authors: unknown
Liberty Lobby, however, remained under the control of Carto until the end. During the 1970s, as the old anti-Communism of the 1950s and 1960s fell out of favor, Carto redefined the public image of Liberty Lobby, increasingly taking on the public image of populist rather than conservative or right-wing. In 1975, Liberty Lobby began publishing a weekly newspaper called The Spotlight, which ran news and opinion articles with a very populist and anti-establishment slant on a variety of subjects, but gave little indication of being extreme-right or neo-Nazi. However, The Spotlight, critics charged, was intended as a subtle recruiting tool for the extreme right, using populist-sounding articles to attract people from all points on the political spectrum including liberals, moderates, and conservatives, and special-interest articles to attract people interested in such subjects as alternative medicine, while the newspaper subtly incorporated anti-Semitic and white racialist undertones in its articles, and carried advertisements in the classified section for openly neo-Nazi groups and books. The Spotlight for a while became the most widely-read periodical on the right in the United States, with circulation peaking around 200,000 in the early 1980s. While circulation experienced a steady drop after that, it continued to be published until Liberty Lobby's demise in 2001.

Eric Hufschmid was one of the first researchers of the 9/11 attack to come to prominence, with his 2002 book Painful Questions , and his 2003 video Painful Deceptions. Both of these highly original works pair the idea that the Twin Towers and WTC 7 were felled by controlled demolition with the idea that the Pentagon was hit by a small aircraft such as a Global Hawk drone rather than Flight 77. Neither the book nor the video betray Hufschmid as a Holocaust denier or racist -- positions he has since openly embraced or been accused of. However, less publicized writings of Hufschmid foreshadow these things, such as one with the punchline, 'Duh! The Jews!':

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title: Who would put explosives in WTC? And why?
author: Eric Hufschmid
None of the books or movies about the Holocaust are serious; rather, they try to stimulate pity of Jews and hatred of Nazis. The Holocaust stories are attempts to manipulate, not educate.

The Jews are simply exploiting the suffering and death of their fellow Jews. The moment a Jew suffers or dies, the other Jews look for ways to exploit the situation. It reminds me of the way cockroaches immediately begin eating one another when one of them dies.
page: 911research.wtc7.net/mirrors/guardian2/hufschmid/WhoBlewUpWTC.html

By 2006 Hufschmid was describing himself as a Holocaust denier. Several of his articles published in iamthewitness.com blame the 9/11 attack on Zionists and Jews. Hufschmid even describes The American Free Press , which apparently fired Christopher Bollyn, as connected to the Zionist "criminal network". In his more recent (and increasingly vitriolic) rants, Hufschmid consigns ever more people to the criminal network....

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title: 'No Planes on 9/11 and No Gas Chambers in the Holocaust'
authors: Mark Robinowitz
The 9/11 truth movement has attracted a lot of people who want to be instant experts. Some crave public recognition. Others, no doubt, have their unique psychological reasons, some good, some not so good. But those who make very bold conclusions while being ignorant of most of the available evidence run the risk of "foot in mouth" disease, and worse, their antics can rub off on the rest of us, especially if they seek to connect neo-Nazi pseudo historians and 9/11 truth activists in common cause.

Due to these (and other) efforts to link 9/11 skeptics with Holocaust denial, there are a fair number of citizens who think that 9/11 investigation is really all about blaming "the Jews" for the atrocity, both from those who want to blame the "jews" and those who think that 9/11 investigation is anti-semitism.

Not all "conspiracy theories" are true - some are blatant revisions of history to snare the gullible or those who let their anger get in the way of the facts.

The 9/11 truth movement should not be co-opted by those who want to pretend that one of the greatest crimes in history was oversold by Jews in order to justify a land grab in Palestine.

It would not be surprising if many of the voices most loudly advocating Holocaust Denial were "false flag" operatives of the Israeli government - since the fact that some crazy people promote these lies makes it more difficult to find political space to criticize Israeli human rights abuses (even though the two issues are quite separate).

I do not blame anyone who has fallen for Rivero's act. There is a right wing conspiracy to tarnish the investigation into 9/11 with racism against Jewish people. But the astroturfers can only get away with their shit for so long, until the truth emerges. I used to read Rivero's website a bit myself a few years back. I am pleased that at least something good has come out of the mess that is the Unofficial "WRH" forum, and that is finding out about all this other crap.

I'm not sure what is going on at that place any more. I am done wondering if 86Bush or "Moderator" are for real and have just been victims themselves of some insidious disinfo campaign. The big scoop is that there is this wingnut conspiracy to muddy the waters using the internet. We see how it has been done with chemtrails. Finally, I think these astroturfers don't have a clue about subtlety. All their bullshit tactics eventually get figured out, then all those buggers have left is to raise the noise to signal ratio. That is seen with the lies such as that myself and May41970 made racist comments on that board. All they have left are their petty mind games, while we have the links and integrity to face the truth no matter what it may be.

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by: socrates @ Sat May 30, 2009 at 20:18:01 PM CDT