On 6/29/07, Sean McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:White ethnic militants are a negligible factor in contemporary American politics...
So negligible that the GOP for decades has had Ethnic Outreach Committees full of the most Fascist, anti-Communist sectors aligned with WACL. Drawn upon in the Reagan era to support the Contras vs. the FSLN in Nicaragua. (Kill a commie health care clinic worker in a rural town in Nicaragua for Christ!) Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party by Russ Bellant, http://books.google.com/books?id=ZWAHmLuZeIoC&dq=OLD+NAZIS,+THE+NEW+RIGHT,+AND+THE+REPUBLICAN+PARTY&pg=PP1&ots=rdv2Iz_Pas&sig=vyRwlepqiDcnn0Btf2uV2FiAy10&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fq%3DOLD%2BNAZIS%252C%2BTHE%2BNEW%2BRIGHT%252C%2BAND%2BTHE%2BREPUBLICAN%2BPARTY%26ie%3Dutf-8%26oe%3Dutf-8%26aq%3Dt%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26client%3Dfirefox-a&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title On WACL, http://www.namebase.org/sources/HB.html The World Anti-Communist League (WACL) was founded in 1966 as a public relations arm for Taiwan and South Korea. WACL didn't attract much notice in the U.S. until John Singlaub's United States Council for World Freedom, the American branch of WACL, was launched in 1981 with a loan from Taiwan and soon began raising money for the contras. Singlaub and his supporters also operated through a network of similar groups: Western Goals, Council for the Defense of Freedom, American Security Council, Council for Inter-American Security, and the Conservative Caucus. But WACL is particularly known for its international conferences that attract "American congressmen and senators, archbishops, members of Parliament, bank presidents, and scientists. There, they have been in the company of Nazi collaborators, Japanese war criminals, Latin death squad leaders, disciples of Moon's Unification Church, and fugitive Italian terrorists." There's even a CIA connection. Ray Cline, station chief in Taiwan from 1958-1962 and later deputy director for intelligence, attended conferences in 1980, 1983, and 1984. The authors believe that covert U.S. funding played a role in the establishment of WACL, and note that Cline was in a position to be helpful when preparatory meetings were held in 1958. ISBN 0-396-08517-2 -- Michael Pugliese
