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From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: American Populist (sic) Party.
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Date: Fri, 5-Apr-85 11:37:26 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr  5 11:37:26 1985
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I was tempted to quote more, but I'll restrain myself:

> 	RESPECT RACIAL AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY.  Every race has both the right
> 	and the duty to persue its destiny free from interference by another
> 	race. ...  The Populist Party will not permit any racial 
> 	minority, through control of the media, culture distortion, or 
> 	revolutionary political activity, to divide or factionalize the
> 	majority of the society-nation in which the minority lives.

> 	REPULSE IMMIGRATION.  Repeal the Third-World-oriented immigration law
> 	of 1965 and replace it with one which works to preserve America's
> 	cultural heritage in the face of a population explosion among backward
> 	peoples and a no-population-growth among the founding stock of the 
> 	nation....

Without commenting on what I feel are its equally dangerous and
reprehensible stands on economic and military issues, I'll just say this:
yes, the barely veiled racism you can see in the above paragraphs ("backward
peoples" versus the "founding stock of the nation") is real.  Find out more
about the so-called "Populist" Party and you'll find that this racism is one
of its cornerstones.  The APP is another group in the same bag as the KKK,
the neo-Nazis, The Order, etc.  In fact, my own opinion is that their
membership overlaps quite a bit -- in Austin, at least, there are periodic
flurries in which pamphlets and posters of these and similar groups appear
all at once around town.

It's a shame that they've expropriated the term "Populist" for themselves --
the term "populist" (with or without a capital P) has been associated with
political movements of great merit in this country for a long time, and I
hate to see it dragged through the mud.

--- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
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