File Name: 3159.txt Ä Area: A_THEIST: A_T ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Msg#: 81 Date: 05-23-95 21:03 From: Randy Edwards Read: Yes Replied: No To: All Mark: Subj: Re: [1 of 3] Bushwacked! ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ * Original Message Posted via ANEWS * Date: 22 May 95 17:17:48 * From: Randy Edwards @ 1:325/805 * To: All * Forwarded by: Christopher Baker @ 1:374/14 * Message text was not edited! @MSGID: 1:325/805 019b6c25 @SPLIT: 22 May 95 17:17:49 @325/805 02328 01/03 +++++++++++ Reply-To: Arm The Spirit Copyright 1995, Planned Federation of America - Public Policy Institute _FRONTLINES RESEARCH In Defense of Reproductive Health, Education, and Democracy_, Volume 1, Number 3, November 1994 BACORR had asked that this be put on-line. This is without the footnotes. _______________________________________________ ** BUSHWACKED! The USTP & THE FAR RIGHT ** by Sandi DuBowski and John Goetz The U.S. Taxpayers Party is the new political home to a growing and unusual convergence of militant anti-abortion leaders, elements of the violent and racist right, the John Birch Society, and far-right politicians. The U.S. Taxpayers Party (USTP) platform is a mix of radical libertarianism, conspiracy theories, obscure constitutional interpretations and the most militant anti-abortion plank of any political party in the country. The USTP would abolish most non-military functions of the federal government: notably the IRS, the FEC, welfare, and the Federal Reserve System. There is also a theocratic strain. Randall Terry for example, says that the party believes all civic law should emerge from biblical law. The party platform further claims, The U.S. Constitution established a republic under God, not a democracy and Rights come from God, not the State! You Are Above the Law! the USTP advises. And, according to USTP any juror can nullify bad laws and decide not only the facts placed in evidence but also the validity or applicability of every law. HOWARD PHILLIPS -- BUSHWACKED! Howard Phillips ability to forge a political party out of previously fractious factions arises from his history in politics. Phillips briefly headed the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) under President Nixon in 1973. During his tenure Phillips led a nationally publicized drive to terminate the agency and its programs. After he left OEO, in 1974, Phillips founded The Conservative Caucus -- his organizational base ever since. Phillips, along with Paul Weyrich, Richard Viguerie, William Rusher, and other leaders of what was then called the "New Right," sought to get Ronald Reagan to run as an independent in 1976 against then-President Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. When Reagan refused, they sought a merger with the American Independent Party (AIP), which ran Alabama Gov. George Wallace for President in 1968, winning five states against Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey. AIP, which has historically included elements of the Ku Klux Klan, and the John Birch Society, also refused. Phillips radical right resume also includes creating the Moral Majority in 1979, with Paul Weyrich and Rev. Jerry Falwell, and co-founding the Council for National Policy in 1982. In the 1980s, the Conservative Caucus started the drum beat to Defund the Left, a campaign to end federal funds to such groups as Planned Parenthood and the National Council of Churches. However by the late 1980's the Caucus had drifted away from more mainstream conservatism publicly worrying about Trotskyists in the Reagan White House. Phillips also openly supported apartheid in South Africa, opposing for example, efforts by the Bush administration to negotiate free elections in Namibia. Phillips graduated from Harvard as a protege of William S. Gill, who was a featured speaker at the USTP- related U.S. Taxpayers Alliance (USTA) national Issues Conference in July. Gill is a member of the Populist Action Committee, a political arm of Liberty Lobby, which, according to the Anti-Defamation League is the nation's leading anti- Semitic propaganda organization. Phillips founded USTA in 1990, and USTP in 1992 as an alternative for those who felt betrayed, (or Bushwacked as they are fond of saying) by the GOP of the Reagan and Bush years. Phillips' dream merger with AIP was finally consummated at the USTP National Convention in New Orleans in 1992. Phillips was nominated for President and Brig. Gen. Albion Knight (Ret.) for Vice President. The party qualified for the ballot in 21 states in 1992, and in 1994 is running 68 candidates in 8 states. THE ANTI ABORTION RIGHT The USTP is a 100% pro-life party -- meaning they oppose abortion in all cases. Thus the partisans and leaders of USTP include some of the most militant anti-abortion activists in the country: * Rev. Michael Bray -- A signer of Paul Hill's Defensive Action statement, which argues that the murder of abortion doctors is justified. Bray served four years in federal prison for conspiring to bomb 10 abortion clinics in Delaware, Maryland, -- MPost/2 v1.1 @ Origin: Spartacus Lives! * Home of ANEWS * Venceremos! * (1:325/805) *PATH: 325/805 3615/50 374/1 98 14 -!- GenMsg [0002] (cbak.rights@opus.global.org) ! Origin: Rights On!-A_THEIST Echo Mod/Host-Titusville_FL_USA (1:374/14)