From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: WARNING: Spotlight et al: Nazis in "Populist" Clothing
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Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
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Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 21:17:56 GMT

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Topic 137       "Radio Free America" = ???      2 responses 
web:dzab        media    1:28 pm  Aug 23, 1992 

Hello!  Listening to my short-wave radio n the last few weeks, I 
noticed a curious broadcast called "Radio Free America". It is 
apparently carried on WWCR (World Wide Christian Radio), but the 
content is not your average sermon. 
 The general tone is outrage against the two mainstream U.S. 
 political parties, against the Federal U.S. administration and 
 most of its actions, foreign and domestic, and against the 
 "international money elite" of bankers and multi-national 
 corporations.  "Radio Free America" seems to be FOR the 
 "Sovereignty" program (a grass-roots initiative to rebuild U.S. 
 infrastructure by interest-free loans to local and regional 
 governments from the Federal Congress. Opposition to the current 
 U.S. money and banking system, based on banks charging the 
 government interest on its debt, is a closely related theme.  The 
 broadcast seems to be sponsored by Spotlight, described in the 
 ads as "Your POPULIST Newspaper," and by something called "The 
 Foundation for Economic Liberty".  Does anybody know more details 
 about this broadcasting outfit? Is this brand of "Populism" a 
 genuine democratic alternative to mainstream media, or is it a 
 front for a more sinister agenda? 

Thanks! --Danny Zabelishensky Guelph, Ontario, Canada 

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Topic 138       "Radio Free America" = ??? 
harelb  media    9:29 pm  Aug 23, 1992 

/* Written  5:53 pm  Aug 23, 1992 by harelb in cdp:media.issues */ 
The _Spotlight_ is the newspaper organ of Liberty Lobby, related 
to the Institute for Historical Review, which claims the Holocaust 
never happened, all of which form some type of neo-Nazi organization. 

It is of grave concern to see these folks (evidently having learned 
from David Duke) how they can "capture" folks with "Populist" rhetoric 
(some of which may be accurate; some of which we might even agree with) 
since their Old Party Line, like David Duke's, they know will no longer 
"sell," at least not outside an extremely small % of Americans. 

This is distressing not only because they can recruit people this way,  
but also because this way they "discredit" the message, including some 
quite accurate points (e.g. the power-money who own this country 
running the show in our "democracy"), so that "next time" when people 
hear similar things from the left/progressives, they will be so 
weary it will be much harder to get them to even listen. 

To the poster: please don't "feel dumb" as I know personally how 
reasonable these folks can decide to sound. In fact I read the first 
portion of your post with great expectation, given what was quoted 
about what the broadcasts were about, and were it not for my having 
come across these tactics before, and having heard of the _Spotlight_, 
I would have had little or nothing to cause warning light to go off... 

Harel 

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