So, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, new? Oh, just elected an actual neo-Nazi to your GOP Central Committee? Sounds like good times! Let us learn some stuff about Steve Smith (haha, probably not that Steve Smith), who has just been elected to your central committee with the rabid support of totally not racist Teabaggers.
Recruited into the neo-Nazi movement while he was stationed at Fort Bragg in the 1990s, Smith, of Pittston, Penn., has been active in an extraordinary array of white nationalist, skinhead, and neo-Nazi groups, including American Third Position, Keystone United (formerly Keystone State Skinheads), and the Council of Conservative Citizens. He is a former Aryan Nations member and former leader of the Philadelphia chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of White People, which was created by former Klan leader David Duke but is no longer associated with him. Smith also belongs to a Pennsylvania-based group called the European American Action Coalition (EAAC), which according to its website was formed in fall 2011 “by a few well known White activists in the great and historic state of Pennsylvania.”
Well, at least Steve Smith ain’t hidin’ it. He announced the certification of his election on WhiteNewsNow.
But surely, Southern Poverty Law Center, there is more?
In March 2003, he and two other [Keystone State Skinheads, which he cofounded] members were arrested in Scranton for beating up Antoni Williams, a black man, using stones and chunks of pavement. Smith pleaded guilty to terrorist threats and ethnic intimidation and received a 60-day sentence and probation.
60 DAYS? But why would they put such a patriot hero in jail for his political actions! Surely that is 60 days too many for an upstanding (now) GOP elected official hero! OPPRESSION! AMERIKKA! WORSE THAN CUBA! AND SO FORTH!
Now tell us about how the Tea Party is totally not racist please.
To advance his goals, Smith has distanced himself somewhat from his violent past and focused on political activism. As state chairman for American Third Position (A3P), a white nationalist political party that aims to deport immigrants and return the United States to white rule, he has for several years been working the crowds at local Tea Party gatherings, which he once described as “fertile grounds for our activists.”
Well, that’s good enough for us!
[SPLC via ThinkProgress]
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I read that the super fun Nazi couple who named their child "Adolph Hitler" lost custody of their kids. Something tells me they will be breeding four more to replace them.
Everytime I see that I laugh because the mouthbreathing morans couldn't even spell Adolf right
I support the parents in this, because I really want to name the next babby I pump out "Cthulhu"
So, wait, you're a ladyperson? Or science has advanced faster than I knew and boyparts can now do the same thing?
My next is gonna be named Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus.
See, I'm not going for the silly names, I mean, come on…. Adolph? WTF.
I mean naming your kids Albert Speer and Eva Braun is one thing!
Again? This is like the third one they had go into child services.
Nothing like an under -the-radar 'Krauthammer'.
I can see them having 12 more spelling out Adolf Hitler via the first letter of each spawn's name… just to show 'em.
"GOP Central Committee?"
Sounds Communist actually.
Sayyyyyy, you know who else had a central committee?
Grand Central Station?
Roger Alies?
Roger "Father of A Thousand" Lies.
Just one shard of the evil toxic fragments of the Nixon Administration, left to poison our Body Politic.
The Crips?
The People's Front of Judea?
Fuck off! We're the Judean People's Front!
I thought we were the Popular Front?
Splitters.
The Central Scrutinizer?
Damn your eyes, CREature.
This is the precise reason for your No-Clickie-Linkee policy.
Same county where three judges sold children into
slaveryjuvenile detention facilities for a million bucks. Not surprising.Between this and all the religious demagogues coming out as warm to the idea of mass murder, I think getting dual citizenship is going to be the next fashion trend among your liberals and minorities (and I mean actually doing it, not making non-committal Facebook posts about Canada and England or whatever.)
Apparently, according to a friend of mine with dual US-Canadian citizenship, the US doesn't allow that now. If you got it in the past, fine, but, from now on, when you leave, don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.
Tell that to Michele Bachman.
I'm sure Marcus will valiantly block that door before it gets anywhere near She1y's ass.
Only if the knob is rectum-level, otherwise she's on her own
With *his own* ass, of course.
Not true.
You can have dual citizenship. What they did do was tighten the rules on renouncing American citizenship
Used to be, you basically had to bomb an embassy to declare you weren't American.
Now all it takes is an affirmative statement, apparently.
Take me, for instance. I have dual Yurpeen-Amercian citizenship. All I'd have to do is say "I quit Amercia" and State would frogmarch me to JFK and stick me on a plane.
Wait…..NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I WAS KIDD–
It's OK, actor. You're in **AmerICA** now.
Don't worry, you didn't say "pork" or "Mexico", so "The Machine" didn't notice.
"received a 60-day sentence"
Did he write a sequel to "Mein Kampf" while he was in the slammer?
Yes, but "Mein Wilkes-Barre" doesn't have the same impact.
Triumph of the Wilkes-Barre, however, was a classic.
Yes, he tweeted it.
I think it was on the level of "Mein Pet Goat"
Looks like Santorum should have stayed in past the Pennsylvania Primary.
Ladies and Gentlemen, your new Post-Racial America.
But, but… Bill O'Reilly said we're post-racial, so it must be true!
He meant "post-RACIST." It means you can now post racist shit all over the internets.
He's only a member of five racist groups, not seven. Progress!
"White Rule", huh? Isn't that a little short to measure with? I mean, 5.5'' is not that long, no matter how proud you are of it.
I much prefer a "Black Rule".
Heh. That was a long way to go for that, but worth it.
A LONG way, Tommm? A LONG way? (waggles eyebrows meaningfully)
At least the Pennsylvania Republican party doesn't have 78 to 81 Communists.
Actually there are two wide receivers in the NFL named Steve Smith: the one the Editrix linked to and another who plays for the Giants. What a world.
It's about time my home state starts to catch up to those slacker assholes in Arizona and Mississippi and Alabama and…oh, fuck it…
I am with you. This is not exactly TGIF material, is it?
Is Luzerne the Swiss city where Mitt keeps his money?
I thought it was "The One Tea That's Always Clear As A Bell", just like Zombie Burl Ives would've wanted & insisted upon.
Why doesn't he just change his name to Roger Racist?
I found the 60 days a little hard to believe. This seems to indicate they just intimidated him; 3 guys yelled stuff and threw a brick (and I guess missed?).
So not only skinheads but enormous pussies as well.
Bragged the shit up to impress their white trash friends.
It's Luzerne County, out there you'll find lots of people flying the flag of treason, and it's home to the small town of Hazleton, which was the first to try to start their own immigration policy and passed their own racist anti-immigrant law before Arizona went statewide with theirs. Not a surprise at all.
Night of the Living Duh
Nothing is sadder than the oppressed white man in Amercia.
Seriously, these Neo-Nazi fuckers are sad, and sorry assed excuses for Americans. Read a history book, ya dumbfuck..
This is true. If you're a white heterosexual male in Pennsylvania and you still feel like you're getting the short end of the stick, you kind of suck at life.
Sixty days in jail? Why down here in North Carolina, they'd give him a $50 fine an his own local radio talk show.
He and his brother used to take turns dancing with Adolph while the band played "Night of the Pottston Flood."
I promise never to be away from wonkette (do I have to quit using all the names for wonkette from the old days?) and it is totally different, with a lot of RED. What's up with that?
Here in the Dust Bowl, electing a racist would be standard, because of, you know, Jesus, so I don't actually see anything that needs commenting about.
Red. Mommyblog. Editrix is having her period. Wait a week, it'll be black again
who else is on the committee, the acquitted murderers of Luis Ramirez?
Further proof that liberals are the real racists for pointing out obvious racism.
There you go, always politicizing things by mentioning that a self-proclaimed white supremacist is a white supremacist.
Stephen A. Smith (The Black Howard Cosell) Libel!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O6m79FdUlk
Do you know who else liked Godwin threads?
http://www.godwin.org/ ???
Um, Hitler?
But…, but…, FOX News insists that the 'baggers and GOP don't have a racist bone in their bodies. They can't be wrong, after all, the word "news" is in their title.
They're technically right – all of the Baggers/GOPpers racism is in their cold hearts and small minds – their bones are neutral.
Referring to the tea part as "fertile" seems oddly appropriate somehow.
Also not so odd, too.
I don't know. When I think of tea party, I think of 400lb women with 3 missing toes (and counting!) riding on Hoverrounds and hooked up to oxygen tanks.
Librul democrats r the real racists.
Thank gawd for the edit feature. I almost made that "to never be." With all these un and under employed English majors reading the wonkette, they would probably lobby the Editrix to have me ban-hammemred.
I wouldn't. You are loved. However I iz one of those that kent spell r prufree.d
Always knew Steve Smith was a racist when he put that puck off of Grant Fuhr's leg into his own net…
Absolutely. He never would have done that to a white goalie.
Springtime for Luzerne County.
Winter for the rest of us.
We're not all douchebags in PA. There's Bob Casey and Baconzgood.
Bob Casey has me wondering at times.
And you have….ummmm, oh, but you did provide us with….uhhhhhh….
Roberto Clemente played there. That buys a lot of forgiveness (at least for me.)
I'll see your Clemente and raise you a Schilling
Well there's a little thing called the United States of America that was created here.
And BACONZGOOD!
Oh, god, I got to say that THREE TIMES this past month.
All this guy is saying is that Pennsylvania needs more "breathing space" by annexing West Virginia and invading Ohio.
Actually, I'd be fine with PA congealing with OH and WV, and forming the By God Nation of RedNeckisTardistan – and then just fucking off
He won a tight race against Zombie Joe Paterno.
Tricked Zombie Joe by calling out "who dropped the soap."
He announced the certification of his election on WhiteNewsNow.
So, there *is* an official Whine news source, besides FOX News? Thought so…
I'm sure Jonah Goldberg will be discussing why he must be a closet Democrat shortly on NRO.
BTW, one small point, if the County Committee in PA is similar to the way it works in NJ, you could probably get elected with a half dozen votes. It's broken down by voting district and most people skip over it because they have no fucking idea what it even is.
The one power these groups have is to pick replacements if there is a resignation on a town or county board (assuming it's a Republican seat). Other than that they are just the suckers who get stuck putting up and taking down yard signs.
I'm thinking of starting a business that caters to caucasians wishing* to experience minority status and ostracization firsthand.
We'd send you up to Toronto Ontario in the cheapest of airline class available. Then you'd get flown up to an extreme north Inuktitut village in Nunavut Canada, via the least comfortable, coldest, old crate of bush plane available. There you would experience extreme everything; having to fend for yourself essentially while you work hard to gain any trust or kinship with the village's inhabitants.
Only problem I'm having with the business model is that the Inuktitut are just such nice folks that they aren't quite keen on this whole ostracizing thing – but they'd do it for the laughs. Still in negotiations. The other option is of course some long lost tribal experience in the deep of Africa or perhaps South America – but the only problem I'm having with that is that it just seems such a shame to clutter up their lives with any outsiders. Hmmm.
* otherwise "unwilling" participants would be received with glee; as we would provide all the necessary duct tape and burlap sack hoods and just enough necessary sustenance during the flights up to make it all they dreamed.
Airdrop them into the middle of the DRC.
Point taken – but DRC still leaves one too close, in my opinion, to civilization. Go take a peek at a map of Nunavut.
True, but in the DRC they might be closer to their ideal of free-roving small arms for everyone.
Parachute them into the highlands of Papua/New Guinea, someplace where there are still cannibals.
Camden, New Jersey. It's a lot closer.
Alt cap: "Yer other right, numb-nuts!"
Wait until he finds out there were more black and brown babies born
And in an interesting juxtaposition with the election of an anti-immigrant bigot, Luzerne County saw the nation’s largest county-level increase of Hispanics between 2000 and 2010.
All of whom need to consult this, stat:
http://www.luzernecounty.org/county/departments_a…
Surprise, surprise, surprise………..
Is it just me or has the GOP invested in a louder dog whistle?
More like a dog siren, but one that can be heard by everyone. Just a regular bigass air-raid siren, basically.
Honey BadgerGOP don't give a fuck who hears it.I was going to respond, but edgydrifter basically flatout channeled me.
Me too. My bad for not reading the whole thread.
I think they swallowed the dog whistle. Now they have to shout with that distant squeaky noise like in the cartoons.
The dog whistles have become air raid sirens.
Steve Smith, let me introduce you to Anti Racist Action.. Have fun, guys.
Brokey linky.
What's "American Third Position"? Doggie?
Standing with one foot in front of the other with the heel of the front foot touching the middle of the back foot.
Anal, of course.
Retrograde Neanderthal, apparently.
Wide stance.
"Third Position" (whatever that is) is merely a fantasy for the typical lard-ass 'Merkin, who's too broken-winded and obese to manage anything more than flat on his back, hoping that his equally flabby mate can find his ween and not crush him while attempting the straddle
As state chairman for American Third Position (A3P), a white nationalist political party that aims to deport immigrants and return the United States to white rule…
It's almost as though these so-called white nationalists have no idea that a completely non-caucasian bunch of folks had the run of these two whole continents for 13,000 years before their racist-ass ancestors showed up. But I guess you build a fictional nationalist movement with the racist motherfuckers you have, not the racist motherfuckers you want.
But, but… Jeebus gave us all this land. Otherwise why would he have invented small pox?
Must be something to feel like you got it all figured out.
Never quite understood the certainty of these bozos. Then again, I doubt they'd be wanting to discuss Heisenberg's principal over some pinot either.
There seems to be more groups than there are neo-nazis. Can't they all agree on who to hate? Power in numbers, people.
To advance his goals, Smith has distanced himself somewhat from his violent past and focused on political activism. As state chairman for American Third Position (A3P), a white nationalist political party that aims to deport immigrants and return the United States to white rule
Not quite succeeding on that "distancing himself somewhat from his violent past" thing-a-ma-jig, now are we?
No, see, he's now a totally peaceful white supremacist who wants to have the police beat non-white people instead of lynch mobs.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Remember when the Republicans pretended to not embrace outright Nazis?
Also, Ron Paul libel. Also.
By the way, A3P is the same group in a story here a week or two ago about that poor non-racist "whites' rights" group that got attacked by folks that hate white supremacists– er, I mean got attacked for no reason at all.
One nice thing about the Tea Party is their fondness for bumper stickers and crazy lawn signs. Prior to this movement you would have to be around a person while they were drunk before they would demonstrate blatant racism.
Steve, you can't claim your non-racist medal until you utter the words "Some of my best friends are black." There, that outta do 'er.
That guy who got beat up with chunks of pavement was the real racist!
Does Pennsyltucky have a Stand Your Pavement law?
Well if not, it's about fuckin' time!!!
Well … YEAH. He ought to know better than to WAWB (wander around while Black) in THAT neighbourhood.
He'd better be in favor of tax cuts or the Republicans will toss his ass out of there!
This, of course, proves that Democrats are the real racists.
At least the GOP has taken responsible action to counter the racism within its ranks by forcefully coming forward to denounce it and by distancing itself from people like Donald Trump and Joe Arpaio. Wait, what?
After the revolution, human voters in Luzerne County will not be eligible to vote. They'll be replaced by spider monkeys imported from Peru. Spider monkeys are far better at deductive reasoning.
This guy should have been run out of the room when he showed up. While we can snark at this all we want, the horrifying reality is the Republicans have given cover to a white supremacist neo-Nazi convicted hate criminal. Yes, the GOTeaP may reap what they have sown, but in the end so will the rest of us. The Wiemar like responses of the Democrats in the face of this demonic tide have been hapless and ineffectual, and in the case of some complacent to the point of being complicit. I have no faith in the future.
CCC – what he couldn't make the first string?
this is kinda OT but did anybody here fucking boehner yesterday? talking about how committed the republicans were to job creatin and growth as he tried to defend that stupid gender selection anti-abortion bill?
i involuntarily laughed out loud.
then repeatedly banged my head against the counter.
You know who else did a little jail time before his eventual rise to power?
Yeah, go ahead and laugh it up now…
I know. Chilling parallels.
Al Capone?
Bill Gates?
gee dubya?
Pennsylvania Uber Alles? Look for the victory banquet serving beer and deep-fried Twinkies.
I remember saying somewhere in these blogs, maybe a month after O's inauguration, when so much shit had already gone down, that O and the Democrats had created a power vacuum which would be filled by the hardest of the hard right nasties. And I was right.
I hate Pennsylvania Nazis…
Sixty days? He should have written a biography while inside, but is probably illiterate, so nevermind.
But at least this one isn't a lying dogwhistle chickenshit like Romney, or Rove, or any of the other Leaders. But otherwise a very dangerous person.
American Third Position (A3P)
So, there's something else beside missionary and doggie?
dude, everybody knows that steve smith is in journey. duh.
You know what else is fertile ground?
A stinking pile of shit.
But he's a nice NaZi, and he calls his mother every day.
"I am Zombie Prescott Bush & I approve this candidate."
All those swine should have been tried and convicted and served time for their crimes. We wouldn't have this mess today if not for those schmucks.
Seriously. The only lesson Cheney, Rumsfield, Rove, et.al. took away from the Nixon Administration was "Don't Get Caught." If we had just hammered a lot of those bastards down, perhaps the lesson would have been "Crime Doesn't Pay"
Or, at least, "It's not worth it".
Nice of you to tell me that AFTER THE FACT, CRE! (Hatin' on the CREatue with srs hateines of hateful.)
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