File Name: 3160.txt Ä Area: A_THEIST: A_T ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Msg#: 82 Date: 05-23-95 21:03 From: Randy Edwards Read: Yes Replied: No To: All Mark: Subj: Re: [2 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 019b6c28 @SPLIT: 22 May 95 17:17:49 @325/805 02328 02/03 +++++++++++ Virginia, and Washington, D.C. in 1984. Bray has said Just as there is a time to separate from apostate churches, so there is a time to separate from renegade political parties. We need a new one. Work to build the U.S. Taxpayers Party. * Randall Terry -- The founder of Operation Rescue (OR) stumps the country for USTP. This I can promise you, he declared last summer, you will never, ever see a pro-death, pro-sodomite moderate in the U.S. Taxpayers Party. * Joseph Slovenec -- USTP candidate for U.S. Senate from Ohio, Slovenec is a former leader of OR. Longtime OR activist Wendy Wright is Slovenec's campaign spokesperson. * David Shedlock -- USTP National Committee, Iowa. Shedlock, communications director for OR of Iowa, has frequently been arrested in connection with his anti-abortion activities. * Lowell Patterson -- USTP National Committee, New Jersey. Patterson is the director of ABBA Pregnancy Crisis Center in Cinnaminson, NJ. * Julie Makimaa -- National Secretary, and USTP National Committee, Florida. Makimaa is the founder of Fortress International which fights for the rights of unborn babies conceived in sexual assault. * George Grant -- Author of False Choices: The Legacy of Planned Parenthood was a featured speaker at the USTP founding convention in 1992. According to USTP literature, he chairs the Taxpayers Party of Tennessee. Grant recently co-signed An Open Letter to Pro-Life Republicans attacking Planned Parenthood and the Republican Party as evil. We are supporting the U.S. Taxpayers Party they declared, because it's right. (Emphasis in the original) No wavering, no waffling, no mumbling, no juggling, no mixed signals, just the truth. USTP and the GOP Although the USTP seems to have attracted few Republicans so far, its very existence pressures the GOP to toe a conservative, and anti-abortion line. While Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition is basically aligned with the GOP, Coalition Executive Director Ralph Reed, says that people of faith might form a third party, if the GOP changes its anti-abortion position. The USTP hopes that day will come and is preparing. New Right fund-raising specialist Richard Viguerie has joined the USTA National Committee and such prominent Republicans as Pat Buchanan and former Members of Congress William Dannemayer (R-CA) and Ron Paul (R-TX) have spoken at USTP events. Reed's outburst echoes a history of similar threats. Christian Right leaders Gary Jarmin and Robert Grant in 1988 threatened to lead the Christian Right out of the GOP if George Bush did not stop "Christian bashing" Pat Robertson. The USTP gives some credence to Reed's threat, suggesting that the Christian Right has a place to which to bolt. Meanwhile, the USTP has another message for the GOP. Joe Slovenec as the USTP candidate for U.S. Senate from Ohio, says that if his campaign causes Democrat Joel Hyatt to win over Republican Michael DeWine, that would send a message to the GOP not to run "weak," candidates. USTP: Little Big Tent While the GOP struggles to keep itself together under the big tent theory, the upstart USTP has managed to erect a small, but spacious tent of its own. The USTP is home even to the armed, the racist, and the anti-Semitic: * Rev. Matthew Trewhella --USTP National Committee, Wisconsin. A signer of Paul Hill's Defensive Action statement, Trewhella leads the anti-abortion group Missionaries to the Pre-Born. At the USTP Wisconsin state convention, he called for the formation of armed militias, such as the one he leads through his church. Newsweek reports that one member of the Missionaries (who lived in Trewhella's basement for five months in 1990) kept a journal which included apparent plans for a guerrilla campaign of clinic bombings and assassinations of doctors. What's more, a 100 page guerrilla army manual was sold by the USTP of Wisconsin at their May convention. Among the manual's justifications for armed resistance to the federal government is legalized abortion. * William K. Shearer -- Member, USTP National Committee, California. Was a member of the National Executive Committee of the Populist Party, in 1984 when the group was dominated by Neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan leaders. * Dr. Curtis Caine -- USTP National Committee, Mississippi. He embarrassed the Southern Baptist Convention's Christian Life Commission in 1989, when he defended apartheid in South Africa and called Martin Luther King a fraud. Caine also heads the Jackson chapter of the John Birch Society. * Byron Dale -- At the U.S. Taxpayers Party of Wisconsin State -- 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)