Archive/File: people/g/gritz.bo gritz.PART From: NLG Civil Liberties CommitteeSubject: Complete PART report on Bo Gritz /* Written 9:28 am Sep 20, 1992 by cberlet in cdp:publiceye */ /* ---------- "Complete PART report on Bo Gritz" ---------- */ FRONT MAN FOR FASCISM: "Bo" Gritz and the Racist Populist Party A Background Research Report by People Against Racist Terror (PART), Burbank, California Copyright 1992, PART | For more information about the campaign to oppose Gritz and | the Populists, contact PART, People Against Racist Terror, | P.O. Box 1990, Burbank CA 91507 ====================================================================== This is the text of the PART report on Bo Gritz. A previous unauthorized edited version containing less than half of the full text of the PART report was circulated previously on electronic networks. That text should deleted and replaced with this complete version, which includes the PART address. Only circulate the full text. ====================================================================== FRONT MAN FOR FASCISM: "Bo" Gritz and the Racist Populist Party Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas. "Bo" Gritz and his supporters must know the truth of this bit of country common sense. Yet four years ago, Bo Gritz (rhymes with Knights) accepted a nomination to run for Vice-President of the United States on a ticket with "former" Ku Klux Klan grand dragon David Duke, from the Populist Party. And now, Bo is preparing to run as the Populist Party candidate for President in 1992. In 1988, Bo had the good sense to resign from the ticket and run for Congress from Nevada instead. But even as neo-nazi David Duke parlayed the credibility he got from his Populist presidential run into electoral success in Louisiana as a Republican, Bo Gritz has attached himself irrevocably to the Populist Party as its candidate for President. In recent years, Gritz has re-established a good deal of the credibility he lost several years ago after his naked self- promotion for an abortive "raid" on south-east Asia. He claimed he was going to find and free MIA's supposedly still held captive. Whereas then, Gritz directed most of his fund-raising efforts at the Hollywood right, like Clint Eastwood and William Shatner, he has recently been focusing his speaking and fund- raising activities in California and elsewhere around the country more at progressives and others concerned about George Bush and the New World Order. Gritz has been speaking out about his discoveries of CIA involvement in heroin trading in south-east Asia and his awareness while heading Green Beret counter-insurgency efforts in Latin America of similar involvement in cocaine dealing. As a result, he has been developing a wide audience, and to some degree a following, among opponents of U.S. intervention in the Third World. Leftists and even pacifists, who would otherwise be extremely suspicious of this militarist, have gone to hear him speak and been impressed by his exposes of government double-dealing and corruption. He has had substantial air-time on Pacifica radio; representatives of groups such as the Christic Institute have made joint appearances with him. Now, Gritz is trying to influence such people into supporting his Populist Party presidential bid. The Populist Party, in spite of its friendly, democratic sounding name, is an amalgamation of "former" Klansmen, nazis, and other racist far-right wingers that was cobbled together in 1984 with the support of Willis Carto, long considered an anti-Semite and Hitler apologist, and his Liberty Lobby. Carto was a member of the Populists' National Executive Committee from its inception. The Party's first presidential candidate in 1984, Rev. Bob Richards, virtually ceased campaigning in embarrassment over the racist nature of the party apparatus. Duke, its 1988 nominee, of course had no such misgivings. Its first chairman, Robert Weems, a former Mississippi KKK leader, described its strategy; "We Populists have adopted a tri-partisan approach... we share with Lyndon LaRouche..., within both major parties and through the Populist Party itself." (Lyndon LaRouche is another neo-nazi political figure backed by Carto who is now in federal prison.) Carrying out this strategy, the KKK/Populist David Duke ran in the Democratic Presidential primaries, then in the general election as a Populist, then in a special election in Louisiana as a Republican. He used the notoriety, name recognition, and national fund-raising base he built with the Populists to win a seat in the state legislature and espouse his "sanitized" racism. Even after winning office as a Republican in 1989, Duke met with the Populists, including such party stalwarts as Chicago nazi leader Art Jones. "Bo" has been following the same multi-party strategy. Even after he resigned from the Populist ticket with Duke in 19888, to run in the Republican primary in Nevada, he wrote to the party, "I intend to offer the Populist Party platform in my campaign, and carry it forward in public office." Luckily, he lost in the primary. What is the Populist Party platform and who are the Populist leaders? Racism and racists, only thinly disguised. Don Wassall, the Pennsylvania state chairman who became National Executive Director and now is locked in a power struggle with Carto--the latest in a series of faction fights over control of party finances--used the party's newspaper, the Populist Observer, to reprint explicitly racist material from the "National Democratic Front," an avowed white supremacist group based in Maryland. Ralph Forbes, who ran Duke's Populist Campaign, is another "ex" nazi and "ex" Klansman, who then switched parties to run for office in Arkansas. While with the Populists, he ran a "Christian Identity"-oriented radio ministry called "The Sword of Christ." He recently filed suit to prevent a medical school in his state from teaching about abortions. Forbes continues to be closely associated with the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan leader Thom Robb, who recently declared that the KKK intends to train "one thousand David Dukes." Van Loman, who chaired the Ohio chapter of the Populist Party, and ran under its banner for the Cincinnati City Council, was formerly the Grand Dragon of the Ohio Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Jerry Pope, once the state Populist chair in Kentucky, was an organizer of the National States Rights Party, the segregationist, anti-semitic grouping led by convicted Birmingham church bomber J.B. Stoner. (Interestingly, when Duke switched to the Republicans and won a seat in the Louisiana legislature, his opponent, endorsed by the "official" Republican apparatus from Reagan and Bush on down, had also been a member of the racist NSRP.) In Washington State, in 1989, the United Front Against Fascism held several successful demonstrations against the Populists, thwarting their efforts to obtain ballot status in one county. As a result, anti-racist organizers received death threats, The Christian Sons of Liberty, an "Identity" group central to Populist organizing there, put out viscous red-baiting and anti-gay attacks on UFAF leaders. The CSL published home addresses of UFAF organizers, in a clear attempt to foment violence. Locally in California, the Populist Part is cut from the same mold. California has always been one of the strongest state affiliates of the Populists. David Duke raised 11% of the funds for his Louisiana legislative race in California. Half the money for his gubernatorial campaign came from outside of Louisiana, much of it from California. Local leaders of the Populists have included former San Fernando/Simi Valley Klan leader Dennis Hilligoss, and Harbor-area nazi activist Joe Fields, an associate of Nazi party chieftain Stan Witek and Tom Metzger of WAR (White Aryan Resistance). Fields is, in fact, a member of the party's National Executive Committee. Behind the Gritz campaign, the Populists have become the most active neo-nazi group in southern California, and are successfully uniting a variety of racists in their ranks. This year, the Populists have sponsored several programs in Orange County, one featuring John Tyndall, leader of the neo-nazi National Front in England. Another spotlighted the impeached ex-governor of Arizona, Evan Mecham, whose reactionary forces have allied with fundamentalist preacher Pat Robertson to take over the Republican Party in his home state. Among the participants at the Populist parlay was Kim Badynski, head of the virulent Northwest Knights of the Ku Klux Klan based in Washington State. In Ventura County and up north to Alameda County, the California Populists have held party meetings to commemorate Aldolf Hitler's birthday. Such Populist organizing legitimizes the fear and hatred of the privileged for the oppressed that generates hate crime. The danger of the Populists and the Gritz campaign is not that he will win the presidency. As of this writing, the Populists have not yet achieved ballot status in any state; (although here in California, they will presumably run under the American Independent banner, a recognized state party still on the ballot since running George Wallace for President in the sixties). The real danger is that the Populists will succeed in further legitimizing racist and anti-semitic politics. They have a long-range goal, of unifying Christian rightists and Christian patriots, anti-abortionists and anti-semites, into an apparatus dominated by neo-nazis. With Gritz, they have the added bonus at the same time of coopting or at least disarming progressive forces that would have otherwise have exposed and opposed them. Unifying with Gritz would inevitably discredit the white left with the movements for immigrants rights, Black empowerment, women's liberation and gay and lesbian dignity. No one concerned about conspiracies and abuse of government power, about spiritual development or the survival of the planet, should offer the racist and fascistic oriented Populist Party a shred of legitimacy. The Ku Klux Klan has always been the number one racist conspiratorial group in U.S. history, seeking power to carry out its divisive and destructive program. The Populist Party is the latest hood these night riders have put on to mask their identities so they can win popular support for carrying out their racist terror. DON'T BE HOOD-WINKED! The problem with "Bo" Gritz's Populist candidacy is not merely one of guilt by association with neo-nazis. Gritz himself openly embraces the Populists' politics of anti-semitism, racism, anti-immigrant hysteria and anti-gay bigotry. As criticism has begun to emerge of the Populists, Gritz has claimed in his speaking engagements that he has "cleaned house" since the Duke days. But this is an outright lie. Joe Fields, for example, the open neo-nazi who heads the Populists in L.A., is also a current national officer of the Party. What's more, Gritz's connections to racists and anti-semites extend beyond the ranks of the Populist Party itself. For example, Gritz is a member of the board of the Populist Action Committee (PAC), established by Willis Carto of the Spotlight. Although Carto is on the outs with the current leadership of the Populist Party, accusing them of financial mismanagement, he supports Gritz, and Gritz in turn supports the PAC's approach of backing sympathetic Democrats and Republicans as well as Populists. While many of Gritz's southern California speaking appearances seem directed at progressives, the bulk of his organizing and speech-making is carried out through the apparatus of the "Christian Identity" movement, which preaches that Anglo-Americans are the true "chosen people" of the Bible, that Jews are satan-spawn, and that non-whites are "pre-Adamic," that is, sub-human. The Coalition for Human Dignity in Portland, OR has documented the involvement of the so-called "Christian Patriot" Identity churches in the Gritz campaign in that state, as well as participation by nazi skins. In particular, Gritz is closely tied to the Rev. Pete Peters, a national leader of Christian Identity based in Ft. Collins, CO. Gritz has spoken at Peters' "Scriptures for America" Rocky Mountain Bible Retreat, also attended by such noted anti- semites as "Col." Jack Mohr and by KKK defense attorney Kirk Lyons. Lyons' Patriotic Defense Foundation has represented nazi boneheads, the Order white supremacy underground sedition defendants, and is now coordination Tom Metzger's appeal of his liability for the nazi skin killing of an Ethiopian refugee. Gritz has spoken at similar Christian Identity gatherings in the northwest, in Nampa, Idaho, and in North Carolina, where he has shared the rostrum with neo-nazis. The connection to Mohr and Peters is particularly striking because the two were part of the incident which precipitated the murderous birth of the "Order" or "Bruder Schweigen," a neo-nazi underground, in the early 1980's. Richard Mathews and David Lane, the founders of this clandestine, para-military outfit, hooked up at Peter's La Porte based "church." And it was the humiliation of Jack Mohr, a guest of Peter's in Colorado, by Denver talk show host Alan Berg, which prompted the Order conspirators to execute Berg and initiate their reign of racist terror. (This incident was dramatized in the films "Talk Radio" and "Betrayed.") Mohr, meanwhile, has been promoting the Populist Party since its inception through his para-military network, the Christian Patriots Defense League. In a speech to Peter's retreat, Gritz acknowledged that the money to print his self-published campaign autobiography, "Called to Serve," came from Rev. Peters. "Called to Serve" spells out Gritz's own far-right views pretty clearly. He refers to the "Rockefeller/Rothschild" Federal Reserve System as being controlled by "seven Jewish families." This is not a momentary aberration or a slip of the tongue. At his "Call for Action '90" conference in Nevada, Gritz featured the anti-semitic views of Eustace Mullins in analyzing the Federal reserve, and he distributes the work of Mullins, who was a supporter of Erza Pound and the Italian fascists. Reflecting his Christian Identity beliefs, Gritz refers to America in "Called to Serve" as "the new Zion," and white Christians as "the gathering tribes of Israel." These views are also reflected and expressed in Gritz's own campaign literature for his Populist candidacy. In a four- page brochure signed and authorized by Gritz, the ex-Green Beret couches his program less in electoral than in revolutionist terms. "We can, we will, we must oust 'the' government and restore 'our' sovereignty. We need a second American Revolution." The racist nature of this revolutionism is evident in the rest of the platform he puts forward. Referring to his enemy as "seditious bankers" and "satanic globalists," Gritz pledges to "derail their plans and send them back into the abyss." The platform is full of xenophobia and racism. "It's time to return America to the Americans,... halt the illegal immigration that is turning America into a Third World country,... end affirmative action,... end this country's decedent, degenerate ways. I've spent my life fighting for America, and now it's time to fight again. Will you be a part of my grassroots army?" This militaristic rhetoric, wrapped in thinly-veiled code words for anti-Semitism, racism, sexism, and homophobia, is an invitation to his followers to engage in cross-burnings, gay- bashings and vandalism. Nor does Gritz try to separate himself from the party as a whole. He specifically tries to develop "coat- tails" in his campaign literature, calling on his backers to support other Populist candidates for state and local offices. The Populists have been using Gritz's candidacy to step up their racist organizing all around the country. PART learned about the Populists' L.A. organizing and its local anti- immigrant, anti-semitic activities while distributing a leaflet headed "Bo Knows the Truth About the Racist Populist Party," at an appearance by Gritz at the L.A. airport Hilton. Typically, that event was sponsored not by the Populists themselves, but by a local "new age" bookstore, Mandala Books, which has been running a conspiracy lecture series. They invited the Christic Institute to have a table after becoming worried about Bo's racist and rightist affiliates. But the Populists also had a table at the event, and were out in force. They began anti- Jewish harassment of the anti-racist activist who was distributing the expose of their racist nature, calling him alternately a Communist and an agent of the Mossad (Israeli espionage), and saying he looked like Jewish attorney Alan Dershowitz. Many of the several hundred people drawn to the event were evidently disturbed by the Populists' tactics, and questioned Gritz about his connections with them during the event. Gritz defended the party and was more open about his won rightist politics than he has been in the past. PART exposed and demonstrated outside a gathering of the Populists at the Hastings Ranch public library in Pasadena, CA in September. They were meeting to plan a "Borderwatch" demonstration for later in the month. They had a speaker from a group called "Stop Immigration Now," which has been involved with "Light Up the Border" demonstrations in San Diego. Another planned speaker, an Arab doctor who went on a delegation to Jordan led by Nord Davis, a white racist from North Carolina who was opposed to the Gulf War, canceled after PART exposed the meeting and the racist nature of the Populists. We expressed outrage that the Populists would be promoting anti-immigrant hysteria on the eve of Mexican independence day, and propagating anti-semitism in the midst of the Jewish high holidays. The following month, the Populists met at the library again under heavy police guard. Five counter-demonstrators were arrested, and several brutally wrestled down and struck by police in riot gear. A contingent of about half a dozen Black men associated with the Self Determination Committee have attended the Populist events in Pasadena. The Self-Determination Committee, run by a Black pseudo-nationalist named Robert Brock, has been prominently allying itself with white supremacist in southern California for several years. Brock's most notable association has been with Daniel Johnson, author of the so-called Pace Amendment to the Constitution, which would restrict U.S. citizenship to people of northern European extraction. The Populists have picked up members from the pace Amendment Advocates, which closed its Glendale, CA headquarters after Johnson moved to Montana to run for Congress. They also seem to be emphasizing the anti-Jewish and anti-immigrant aspects of their politics to cement an alliance of convenience with Brock's group. Fields tries to cite this opportunistic alliance to claim that the Populists are not racist. Told they had to put up a bond to cover the costs of police protection and that they could not exclude people from the library, the Populists tried to meet elsewhere. In November, the Populists' youth front group, Students for America, tried to sponsor a Populist-inspired conference at Pasadena City College Featuring Fields, Brock and a speaker from the American Independent Party (the right-racist group with ballot status in California which ran both George Wallace and unreconstructed white racist Lester Maddox for president). The college canceled, evidently for reasons of security, after the nature of the gathering was exposed. (PCC students had been among those arrested at the library demonstrations.) The Populists then tried to secure the meeting hall of the American Friends Service Committee in Pasadena under false pretenses. The AFSC also canceled when they were informed of who it actually was trying to rent their facility. The youth group which fronted for the Populists in Pasadena, "Students for America," is also organizing on at least one other campus in this area. Students for America was set up nationally as the shell of a youth formation for the Populists but now seems to be taking on a real existence. The chapter at Cal State University in Northridge, scene of several reason {{sic}} hat incidents directed against lesbians and gays, Jews and Mexicans, planned to bring embattled L.A. police chief Daryl Gates to the campus to speak on Wednesday, Nov. 13. Gates canceled at noon on the day of his scheduled appearance, supposedly because of fears of security problems, after students from the BSU, MEChA and SQUISH, a new lesbian and gay group, planned to demonstrate. Stefan Khachaturian, who described himself as a regional coordinator for Students for America, vowed that Gates would come to speak to a private, closed meeting of the group. Students for America is also reportedly organizing in the "Inland Empire" area of Riverside and San Bernardino counties, east of Los Angeles. JOE FIELDS: THE FACE OF THE POPULISTS The head of the L.A. County chapter of the Populists, also a member of its national executive committee, who chaired the Pasadena meeting, is Joe Fields. One Joe Fields in national leadership is more than enough to discredit any political formation, and Fields is typical, not exceptional, in the ranks of the Populists. Fields has been a nazi activist of long- standing in the L.A. Harbor area. He has also become a national "footnote" to the story of David Duke's campaign for governor of Louisiana, after a tape recorded interview with Fields and Duke was widely circulated. On the tape, Fields openly asserted his nazi identity and beliefs, such as that the Jews deserve "everything they get, even extermination," while Duke admonishes him to be more discreet. It's ironic that Fields, who boasts on the tape that he would "never deny" he is a nazi, now is denying it, having taken Duke's advice to heart. Fields specifically opposes democracy on the tape, noting that it allows "anything that can claim to be human to vote." His speech is riddled with references to "kikes" and "niggers." Now Fields professes to be a supporter of the Bill of Rights, but on the tape he declares matter of factly that he would suppress any speech that he deems not in the interest of the white race. Like David Duke, Fields has made a career since his youth of his neo-nazi politics. On the tape he expresses the admiration he has had for Hitler and the nazis ever since he saw war movies as a little boy. While a student at L.A. Harbor College, Fields ran a series of articles in the student newspaper calling the Holocaust a hoax, some taken without attribution from right-wing publications. He was disciplined for meeting on campus with Tom Metzger to plan the distribution of "holo-Hoax" material. Later, openly acknowledging his nazi affiliation, Fields joined three other nazi party members in wearing swastikas into an Oktoberfest celebration at a German restaurant. The nazis were expelled after refusing to remove the nazi regalia (and because the bathroom had been vandalized with nazi graffiti on their previous visit.) Fields sued, represented by the ACLU, and won. (On the gape, Fields refers to his defenders as the "ACL-Jew".) One of Fields' co-plaintiffs in the swastika case, nazi party chieftain Stan Witek, was convicted on weapons and assault charges and more recently for conspiracy for burning crosses in L.A. along with Tom Metzger during this same period of time. Fields himself got into a brawl with Jewish activists at a City Council action in 1988 on the swastika case. After "leaving" the nazis, Fields was closely associated with the Institute for Historical Review, set up to question Hitler's genocide by Willis Carto, publisher of the Spotlight and founder of the Populist Party. He married a South African woman. Like David Duke, who underwent plastic surgery, Fields has changed his appearance; he has trimmed down from a weight that once exceeded 300 pounds. But neither man has changed his white supremacist politics. Remember - a vote for "Bo" Gritz is a vote for Joe Fields and the politics of hate he represents. PART is planning a continuing campaign against Gritz and the Populists. Gritz and such backers of his as Craig Hulet (a/k/a K>C. De Pass) have been getting a lot of air time on KPFK here in L.A. and other Pacifica Stations. His material has been reprinted and promoted by the progressive oriented conspiracy catalog from Prevailing Winds Research in Santa Barbara. Hulet, who also has been involved in Spotlight and Liberty Lobby circles, claims to be apolitical but against racism himself, and to have his disagreements with Gritz. Yet he is urging the left to disregard or mute criticism of Gritz, claiming such criticisms are really coming from George Bush and the "globalists." Gritz returned the favor by promoting a Hulet meeting in Seattle in October 1991. The PWR promo for Gritz's literature includes a pamphlet by long- time anti-semite Eustice Mullins. The Christic Institute, for another example, allowed itself to be used to give Gritz credibility, at the same time that it presents itself as an anti- racist organization. After several exposes and criticism of this connection, Christic has begun to back away from Gritz. They issued a somewhat self-contradictory disclaimer of their involvement. After saying that Christic "does not form alliances with racist or anti-semitic extremists," Sara Nelson, the national director of the Christic Institute in a letter to In These Times objecting to an article documenting Christic participation in Gritz- sponsored activities, goes on to say, "we can be accused of not having severed our relationship with him earlier than we did." Christic needs to more forthcoming about what that "relationship" was, and why they were unaware of this years-long involvement with the Populists. Even in this letter, Nelson says only that "the charges against Gritz, if true, are extremely serious." In reprinting the letter in their own newsletter, Christic frames it with the assertion that they had no formal relationship with Gritz and were "saddened and shocked" to hear of his affiliation. In another chilling example, progressives associated with "Vox Populi," an attempted anti-intervention coffee-house in the Venice area, helped a local activist who calls himself "Tom Reveille" to start up a "pirate" radio station, a mini- transmitter not covered by the FCC. Reveille turned out to be a follower of Willis Carto, the notorious anti-semite. He has received funds with which to continue broadcasting from Carto, and devotes his air time to questioning the Holocaust. Reveille has admitted meeting with Joe Fields and with open members of the Nazi Party. Meanwhile, programmers at KPFK and KPFA continue to grant substantial air time to Gritz and other who advocate an alliance of the left and right (including racists) against George Bush, while denying access to their air to researchers and activists who would expose these dangerous developments. The "new age" movement is another area where Gritz, the Populists, and other racists have been recruiting. The Alexandria II bookstore in Pasadena has held a book-signing party for Gritz, to peddle "Called to Serve." It has distributed "Phoenix Express," a bizarre "new age" publication with supposedly "channeled" writing from spirits which support Gritz and have regurgitated the vicious anti-semitic forgery "Protocols of the Elders of Zion." Mandala Bookstore in Santa Monica, despite expressing misgivings about the Populists, continues to sponsor Gritz and other similar speakers, mixed in with John Stock well or Daniel Sheehan as if there were no distinction. Another area of intense Gritz/Populist recruitment is among "conspiracy buffs." The Spotlight crowd, through Carto's "Noontide Press," has always mixed claims of CIA double-dealing with theories about Jewish/Masonic domination. Thus Willis Carto has promoted Mark Lane's conspiracy theories about the Kennedy assassination and rightist Fletcher Prouty's "insider" exposes of the CIA; Craig Hulet relies on Anthony Sutton, whose books are mainly marketed by neo-nazi, for a critique of the Trilateral Commission. Some people are swallowing this bait, and getting hooked for the rest of the Populist politics. Prevailing Winds Research's catalog continues to offer Gritz's material without any disclaimer or warning, as if it were equivalent to the anti- imperialist analyses of Michael Parenti or the anti-fascist exposes by Russ Bellant which they also offer. Groups in Portland, Colorado, San Francisco, and L.A., are marketing video and audio tapes of Gritz and/or Hulet on a similarly co-equal basis with those of anti-war and anti-imperialist speakers. This is highly irresponsible. Progressives and anti-racists must draw a clear line that exposes and condemns Gritz and his racist and neo-fascist allies in the Populist Party. The Christic Institute, for example, needs to recognize that the "unity" Gritz and the Populists are talking about is the same unity as that of the nazi-klan united front which took the lives of five anti-klan protesters in Greensboro, North Carolina -- a case where Christic represented the families of those killed by the nazis. Christic's association with Gritz and the rest of the racist Populists, even if unwitting, is an unjustifiable insult to the memory of those martyrs and must end immediately and totally. Christic should join the campaign to expose Bo's campaign for the fascist vehicle it is. Christic should take the lead in condemning the Gritz campaign, rather than demanding retractions from those who have raised criticisms and concerns. It should share frankly and self-critically with its followers in the process of deception and rationalization by which it was hoodwinked, so that other can escape the same fate. ================================================================== For more information about the campaign to oppose Gritz and the Populists, contact PART, People Against Racist Terror, P.O. Box 1990, Burbank CA 91507
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