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White Supremacists Plan to Recruit at July 4th Tea Parties

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Bloodnok5/26/2009 7:44:07 pm PDT

re: #372 reine.de.tout

One of the problems I see with attending these is this: Not everyone is as well-informed as we are here, THANKS in large part to Killgore.

And many of those folks will be easy targets for sneaky “recruitment” by the types of groups mentioned in the main post. And if we lend ourselves to success of these events by attending, we are participating in that recruitment also, UNLESS we are willing to attend and sound the alarm, so to speak, when we see “recruitment” materials being passed out. And honestly, I would simply not be up to that.

Good post. And it’s the IDEAS that we should be frightened of and not necessarily that Ron Paul will pick up a few voters.

My mother is exactly as you describe. She does not follow the blogosphere and barely knows who Ron Paul is. But talking to her last month I realized that “somehow” she has picked up the idea that the Fed should be abolished, that we should be isolationist and that the fair tax seems like a good idea. Again, she was not visited by anyone affiliated with Paul, never read his literature and does not use the Internet. These ideas are becoming mainstreamed in several different venues.

I’m not worried about Ron Paul picking up supporters. I’m nervous that his ideas, or far, far worse ones will gain traction. Tea Parties are just one place where this is happening. Many conservatives are too smart to let this happen and that’s a good thing.