Tom Metzger

Sam Pawlett epawlett at uniserve.com
Wed Jan 13 19:32:35 PST 1999


James Ridgeway in his _Blood in the Face_ mentions that Tom Metzger calls himself a "racist trotskyist". His favorite writer is Jack London, "the white workin' man is getting the shaft in this country" blah-blah-blah. When Metzger came to Vancouver he needed a police escort _out of the country_.

Sam Pawlett

"Frances Bolton (PHI)" wrote:


> On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> > Yes, he takes an explicitly anticapitalist line sometimes, amidst his
> > ravings about LA becoming a Turd World city. I used to call his WAR Update
> > hotline every now & then; its number was 760-723-8996. I just tried to
> > check if it still was, but the line was busy.
>
> I just called. It is still the WAR hotline. Not sure when it was last
> updated--the big WAR news was that Clinton has not one but two
> illegitimate Black children. Then a recording of a talk radio show came on
> with the hosts talking with "Dwayne," who claimed to be the second
> illegitimate child. I didn't listen to the interview. When the phone was
> ringing I had this moment of intense fear that Tom Metzger would answer
> the phone. He didn't.
>
> frances



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