[lbo-talk] historical ironies

Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Thu Jun 26 12:54:21 PDT 2003


Just read some details about General Walker in, "The Terrorist Next Door, " Daniel Levitas book on Christian Identity (which Norma McCorvey of Roe v. Wade, has gotten involved with, http://www.barf.org/articles/0080/ ) and the militia movement.

A founder of Young Americans for Freedom http://www.free-market.net/features/bookofthemonth/klatch.html , the hard core opponents of SDS, Bob Baumann, later became a Congressman from MD. Closeted Gay. The Gay 80's in Review ... Robert bauman is arrBsted for sex with a 16-year-old male prostitute. ... leaving on the books a penalty of $1,000 or 10 years in jail for homosexual intercourse. ... http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Heights/5393/gay80review.html

Neo-Nazi movement gossip scuttlebutt, has it that Matt Koehl, leader of the ANP, after George Lincoln Rockwell, was killed by a disgrintled ex- follower was the lover of Eustace Mullins, close friend of Ezra Pound. Mullins in the early 50's while getting to know Ezra at St. Elizabeth Mental Hosp. wrote, "The Secrets of the Federal Reserve." http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm
> ...The original book, published under the title Mullins On The Federal
> Reserve, was commissioned by the poet Ezra Pound in 1948. Ezra Pound was
> a political prisoner for thirteen and a half years at St. Elizabeth’s
> Hospital, Washington, D.C. (a Federal institution for the insane). His
> release was accomplished largely through the efforts of Mr. Mullins.
<SNIP>

In the old SFPL bldg. on the top floor, once there was an exhibit on gay history. In a glass case was a series of letters from major Right-Wing poobah, Marvin Liebman, founder of numerous RW groups like The Committee of One Million (anti-PRC, pro-Taiwan lobby) to and from William F. Buckley, Jr. on Liebman's coming out in the 70's.

Reagan had a gay speech writer, Terry Dolan of NCPAC. Died of "it"

When Lee Atwater died, in his will he donated tons of clothes to a D.C. AIDS support org. Another Sixties: The New Right, Part II, Paul Lyons

Atwater was a good old boy Southerner http://www.lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/ Texts/Scholarly/Lyons_Another_60s_02.html Lyons,btw, has a new book coming out on the Philadephia New Left.



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