http://barefootandprogressive.blogspot.com/2008/06/can-billy-woo-white-supremacist-vote.html

CLARKSVILLE, IN–The Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), a white supremacist organization that has strong ties to the mainstream via members that are elected officials, will be holding their annual conference next month in a Holiday Inn near Louisville, Kentucky. This will be the second time this year that a major hotel chain was the location of a white supremacist conference, and this event is listing as speakers a former actor who has worked with Eddie Murphy and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and a Canadian fascist who was most recently seen at National Vanguard’s Conference in Elmwood Park, NJ on Mother’s Day Weekend.

June 16 and 17 is when the CCC is to hold their 2006 National Conference at the Clarksville, Indiana Holiday Inn. This is considered a suburb of Louisville, Kentucky, which in recent years has seen a rag tag group of Klan members attempting to organize that reports say may put together a rally in the near future with the National Socialist Movement. The CCC event had been announced months ago, but it was only recently that the location was published on one of their websites.

The Conference boasts a slate of speakers that are considered conference regulars. CCC member and author Brent Nelson. Col. Robert Slimp, and lawyer Sam Dickson, who once represented Daniel “KKK Guy” Carver from the Howard Stern Wack Pack, will be among those regulars speaking. In addition Minuteman and CCC member Joe McCutchen will also be on hand to speak at the conference.

Co-hosting the event will be actor Sonny Landham, who has appeared in 48 Hrs., Predator, The Warriors and a string of porn films in the seventies. He is a new member of the CCC and has been very active particularly around the issue of immigration.
# pauliecannoli Says:
July 26, 2008 at 1:37 am edit

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SONNY LANDHAM TO ADDRESS EXPANDED CRITICISM OF COMMENTS ON WEEKLY FILIBUSTER

Louisville, Kentucky – Sonny Landham, Libertarian nominee for the US Senate in Kentucky will address media attention regarding his Wednesday degrading comments of the Arab American community.

Landham will appear tonight for a full hour alongside representatives from the Arab-Americam community on a special edition of The Weekly Filibuster airing live tonight at 10PM EDT at http://www.weeklyfilbuster.com.

Landham will take listener calls at (347) 205-9993.
# pauliecannoli Says:
July 26, 2008 at 1:45 am edit

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Can Billy woo the woman vote in KY?

This might be an obstacle:

The legal page is the report on the activity that is presently consuming my life, and has consumed my life since 1998. The legal will explain how a mentally ill wife and a liberal guided federal government railroaded me into federal prison.

Well, that might not be too bad, maybe there’s an explanati…..

During divorce proceedings in 1998, Sonny’s wife Belita ran to a women’s abuse center, due to her fear of losing money and custody of their daughter, Priscilla. Even though Sonny had never struck his wife or children (Rachel Landham is a step-daughter) [the foregoing statement was made by Belita and Rachel], the fascist women’s abuse groups of Kentucky and the federal government through judicial terrorism framed Sonny, and he did thirty-one (31) months in federal prison

Go back and look at the linked webpage. That quote comes not from Ron Paul, but rather from the attached article by Lew Rockwell. Regardless of whether Ron Paul would agree with the quote, it is inaccurate to attribute it to him.

Ron Paul is a libertarian who likes to use conservative rhetoric, while Bob Barr is a conservative who likes to use libertarian rhetoric. I actually think much of Barr’s metamorphosis is legit, but he has a long way to go to be as libertarian as Ron Paul.

It’s ironic that someone mentioned a Paul/Barr ticket, since that’s exactly what I was hoping for a few months ago. It would have gotten a ton of media exposure, and would have spared the LP the embarrassment of being represented by the insufferable WAR.

You Gave Us the Building Address
What is Building Address?

1740 WINCHESTER AVE
409
ASHLAND KY 41101-7645

However, I would much prefer a candidate who was “racist” against Arabs but did not want to bomb them, to a “cosmopolitan” faux-libertarian (like Brink Lindsey) who may love the Arab man’s brown skin but want to murder him with Carl Milsted’s weapons.

Of course, I would honestly prefer none of the above, but one is clearly worse than the other.

Yes, he is saying that Arabs have no property rights, but that’s only part of it. His racist and bigoted views towards Arabs are blinding him to the fact that it’s our energy policy and foreign policy of interventionism that are at the root of high energy prices. He wants to blame someone? Blame the current administration for getting us into this mess. Yet Landham doesn’t even do that.

Although his opposition to private property rights, which is proven by his support for Debs and Hoffa, is a major factor in his rhetoric, his racist views of Arabs are the lion’s share of the problem. And it’s a problem that we need to acknowledge, or we’re in trouble.

And, because of that paradigm of his, people like Landham prove my point: sane, true libertarians need to distance themselves from the label “libertarian” and embrace other labels that are better than the one they’ve clung onto.

It’s the reason why I now identify myself as a “free marketeer” and not as a “libertarian.” And I wish just above every true, ideologically pure libertarian would do the same.

How about if he said he should bomb Korean grocers in Los Angeles if their prices are too high? Seems like the same logic.

Hate speech and racism aside, he is opposed to property rights.

This nonsensical claptrap regarding “the difference serving a steak on fine china or serving it on the lid of a garbage can that smells bad and has maggots crawling all over it” is simply that — claptrap!!

You simply forget that Landham despises all Arabs with a passion. He has smeared a wide gamut of Arabs (or, if you prefer, Middle Eastern people) who are not a monolithic ethnic group at all. He looks at them the same way a KKK member looks at a black man. Sprinkling an entire group of people with racial epithets s no different from that same KKK member calling a black man the N word.

If I recall, Greg, you’re Armenian-American. Excuse me, but isn’t your ethnic heritage a part of the Middle Eastern culture? Aren’t your grandparents from Armenia, who happen to be Arabic as well and part of the Middle Eastern region on that side of the globe? If Landham saw you, he would look at you in the same way that a white supremacist looks at a black man, calls him the N word, and lynches him.

Landham has demonized and denigrated an entire culture, especially that culture has never committed one ounce of terrorism. This is sheer hate, racism, prejudice, and bigotry on his part. Since he’s Native American, what if a white man makes a blatant racist statements about American Indians, referring to them as a bunch of tribal people who live in teepees, shoot arrows, wear weird American Indian clothing, and sneak up on people with the intent to attack them? I doubt Landham would appreciate that.

This pipsqueak refers to Arabs, including Muslim-practicing Arabs as “camel dung shovelers,” “camel jockeys,” and “terrorists.” I’m surprised he didn’t employ a more racist slur like “sand n****r”!!!

Jesus Christ, Greg, this is something racist and bigoted anti-Arab Republitoids like Eric Dondero Rittberg, Larry Elder, and Bruce Cohen would say. Hell, just a few years ago, Dondero sent out a mass email, urging the Bush administration to carpet bomb Mecca. How can you just simply shrug it off and justify your statement like that? Please, I’d really, really like to know and understand that.

Landham has a right to his racist views. As disgusting, putrid, and pathetic as they are, he’s entitled to his beliefs. But he has no business using his racist views in his official capacity as a Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate. He has no moral and ethical right to do this, and, since he’s unapologetic, the Kentucky LP has a responsibility to respond to this. If the members of that party have spines, they would rescind their nomination of this jerk.

I know Libertarians would say that this guy is a Hollywood actor and his run would give us an enormous amount of press coverage because he’s “famous.” But there’s an error in that thinking here:

a.) He’s not THAT famous. His only “famous” credential is that he played a commando battling the Predator with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura in Predator;

b.) His “credible candidacy” will only sink the LP, despite what the LINOs (who are neocons, by and large) say on this subject, although the Kentucky LP has already slit its own throat when they handed its senatorial ticket to this clod;

and

c.) If they wanted a “credible candidate” to headline that ticket, why didn’t they get Britney Spears? Jessica Simpson? Tom Cruise? Jessica Alba? Oh, let’s not forget Will Smith. Hell, he doesn’t have to believe in libertarianism. All he has to do is raise money for the Party, expand their vote totals, and get craploads of media coverage. Hell, it would be great PR for the KY LP and the LP as well.

Landham is a loser and a loon. If the Kentucky Libertarians know what’s good for them, if they have any huge backbones, they’d get rid of this guy.

That’s all I have to say on this matter for now.

Yours in Liberty,

Todd Andrew Barnett
Vice-Chair, Boston Tea Party
http://www.bostontea.us

I noticed that as I hit “Submit”. There’s kinda a lack of an edit button here. =P

“Candidates like this are a result of poor articulation of what libertarianism is.”

Or perhaps the other way around; candidates like this are the cause of poor articulation of what libertarianism is…

“There is literally no comparison between Ron Paul and Bob Barr.”

Nah, that’s going too far. As much as you criticize Barr — often rightly so — he’s no demon. Barr may have more deviations than Paul, but the general message is largely the same.

It’s not always a question of what is and is not consistent with libertarian philosophy — the presentation is important also.

Big government advocates succeeded because they were able to make big government sound appealing. Libertarians have the better product, but are failing to make it sound as appealing as it actually is.

But seriously – this kind of problem of a freak show candidate mis-representing a third party – this won’t be the last time we see it and I’m sure it isn’t the first time. If I were a Lib I’d be busting my ass trying to get him off the ballot.