From Constitution Party of Wisconsin Chairman Riley J. Hood:
I hear from people who would join the Constitution Party of Wisconsin (CPoW), but only if they can come in at the top. Some requests have been that I sign up for their pyramid scheme, or that we change our Party’s name, or combine with other “third parties.” Others want conformity to their particular sect.
I don’t believe in “multi-layered marketing” concepts. I don’t have personal funds for any pyramid scheme, much less everybody’s pyramid scheme.
Our Party’s Constitution states that our name is the Constitution Party of Wisconsin. We were called the Tax-Payer Party before that. One name change is enough. I still field calls from people who consider themselves Taxpayer Party supporters. I reject those Progressives who want to rename us “the People’s Constitution Party,” which sounds like “Peoples Republic of China.”
Regarding other “third parties,” I have only heard from third-party sodomites, pro-aborts, skeptics and atheists who are bent on our dissolution and destruction. We are under no obligation to join with the enemies of God and the enemies of this Nation.
I hear from people who want CPoW to cater to their sect. Sabbatarians want CPoW to meet on Sunday. I will refer you to our US Constitution:
“If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days, Sundays excepted after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like manner as if he had signed it, ….” Article I Section 7 Paragraph 2.
The Constitution is not the Bible, or a theological treatise yet, “Sundays excepted,” recognizes Sunday as the Lord’s Day. CPoW recognizes Sunday as the Lord’s Day. Our meetings are on Saturday. For those people who have a conflict with that, you could still join as a Friend of the Party, and you could still help CPoW on the other five days of the week, but we will not change our practice.
Regarding the Mormon world-view, CPoW rejects it. The US Constitution was not written under Divine inspiration; only the Holy Bible holds that distinction. I am bold to affirm that God is the Divine Author of the Bible, and Christians are the authors of American Liberty. No one at CPoW is persecuting Mormons but this State Chairman will never quote Mormon writings or theology.
CPoW rejects the Masonic world-view stating that the Koran, Upanishads and the teachings of Buddha all contain “truth.” We reject the “Universal Fatherhood of God and the Universal Brotherhood of Man,” throughout our Platform. If all religions are true, then why are nations based on these false religions so poverty stricken, and their rulers tyrannical?
I do my best to respect people’s liberty of conscious, but the Constitution Party of Wisconsin is looking for people who will support our Party based on our Platform, and our merits. If you think I am trampling your “Constitutional Rights,” you are confusing a public office with a private office. Political Parties are private entities. Our nation affirms freedom of association, there is no God-given Inalienable Right to infiltrate a private group with an alien agenda. If you want to re-secure the Right to Life, Reinstate the Moral Order, and limit the civil government to Constitutional authority, then join CPoW right now and stop making excuses.
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Thanks to Cody Quirk for the link.
Yes.
Thank you all for your words and encouragement. It’s heartwarming to read. It’s beautiful that this site is a community and has a human face in addition to the politics that I feel gets lost even on social media….I hope this makes sense? IPR is indeed a special corner of the internet.
I wasn’t sure how you’d all receive what I said and that’s why I waited this long to respond. I was being sincere. I was a bit rambling at points, but I had a lot I wanted to get across, rapidly decreasing phone battery, and I felt I really had to make amends for what I said/wrote/ did in the past.
The internet is amazing but for me it replaced real life, sort of like an escape from responsibility and having to work towards any type of success – nothing is given for free. I’ve neglected to enjoy the real world and make the most of it. Gonna change that.
Enough about me. Have a great day everyone. I’m looking forward to 2016 election coverage!
Didn’t know he could dictate to state parties. LOL
Fluckiger must’ve had a fit when he found out about it I guess.
Trouble in paradise?
Interesting, I noticed this article has been removed from their website. I wonder why?
Good thing IPR reposted it here in time so the online public can better understand the true motivations of the Constitution Party.
Exactly!
I agree. That last part was my whole point.
Agreed, and agreed.
I don’t know the personal history here with CPoW, but I think Jed is write that, small and dysfunctional and advocating loathsome things or not, they are a state affiliate of the 3rd-largest minor party and they did run candidates on the ballot for two statewide offices in 2014, both of whom cleared the 1% vote test for future ballot access for the C.P. in Wisconsin. I’m not impressed with their efforts, I think they’re circling the drain. And paulie is correct, they got 70 write-in votes in the last Senate election after their petition failed, in a year when the LP nominee got 70,000 votes, but then again LP and GP of Wisconsin have had statewide petitions fail in the past too. If we’re going to post releases from GP and LP state/local affiliates on matters like the Milwaukee streetcar or Dontre Hamilton, seems reasonable to post the occasional CPoW diatribe, within reason in terms of frequency.
If the content of it makes CPoW look foolish and is mocked by commenters, that’s CPoW’s problem, not ours. If national CP seeks to take action against their affiliate for crossing whatever line, that’s up to them as well, though I don’t see that happening.
So, this Hood fool thinks that America is supposed to be a theocracy, and that’s a “merit”? LOL
Sorry, Riley, you’re a simpleton who has no clue what morality is, because you’re basing your morality on the interpretations of sociopaths about a book written by primitive, pre-scientific desert-dwellers. Also, I think you meant to write “liberty of conscience,” not “liberty of conscious.”
However, even though you are a mistake-riddled and “theocracy-added” (and addled) copy of the Libertarian Party, you do get one thing right: you are a private entity, and can conduct yourself in any manner you wish, without trampling anyone’s rights. In order to trample anyone’s rights, you would have to actually win an election.
Luckily for us all, there is very little likelihood of that happening.
It’s slightly tempting, although I probably won’t 🙂
“How often should IPR cover it if I were to do that?”
If that affiliate got candidates on the ballot, as the Wisconsin CP affiliate does, then it would all be fair game. Field candidates for public office & we’ll give you a platform to spread your message.
Well, I was exaggerating for effect, LOL.
And that state affiliate reportedly has about 6 active members, plus he got 70 write in votes statewide.
As far as I know we don’t have a Green Party in Alabama right now. Suppose I were to switch over to them and start writing the most outrageous stories I could think of, as the new chair of the Green Party of Alabama. An old comment on IPR suggests some possible essay titles:
“Soylent Green: A fresh perspective”
“Burn cops, not pot fields”
“Human extinction, a necessary path to zero carbon emissions”
“The human virus”
“Animal, plant and bacterial rights: an idea whose time has come”
“Humans: Eat shit and die; a billion flies can’t be wrong”
“Thank Gaia for AIDS”
I’m sure I could generate fresh manu…I mean content. I could generate fresh content like that several times a week, no problem. How often should IPR cover it if I were to do that?
Glad it has helped you and that you are taking this step.
Socializing online, going to political events and socializing in person, staying busy with political volunteering of various sorts, travelling around and petitioning the general public – it’s all been a kind of therapy for me.
The latter part could mean a lot of different things…LOL
Amen! Same here.
See https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2008/12/sean-haugh-is-no-longer-employed-by-the-libertarian-party/#comment-31637 for much more detail.
Paul, no way am I going to post multiple Hood pieces in the same day, but IMO any party that fields candidates warrants coverage. I also wouldn’t call him an insignificant wacko, he’s the chair of a state affiliate of a national political party. If there was an LP or GP state chair saying similar things, I would still give them the same amount of coverage.
Also, the vast majority of what I post is LP & GP & independents, so I do take into account size of party vs. amount of coverage. I keep a running count of the number of articles I post about each party. Here’s the top 10 so far:
Libertarian Party – 310
Green Party – 248
Independents – 244
Constitution Party – 92
Party for Socialism and Liberation – 42
Reform Party – 32
Peace and Freedom Party – 26
Socialist Party USA – 25
United Independent Party – 25
Independent American Party – 22
“Should we post about the America Nazi Party several times every week too?”
If they placed candidates on the ballot under the party name, I doubt it would be several times a week but they would warrant more coverage. As it stands I’ve posted two ANP articles, mostly just because we hadn’t covered them before.
“That’s just my opinion. Jed has a different opinion, and he’s doing the work of posting articles – more consistently than I am lately – so his opinion at this point should probably count more than mine. Really, it should in most cases be the only opinion that really counts as long as he actually does the work and there’s not overwhelming outcry against it, but I’ll still voice my opinion nevertheless.”
I very much value your opinion.
Well yeah. When I say I am not as bad as when I was younger, that’s only in relative terms. I certainly continue to have many “issues.”
A) I don’t think Riley Hood speaks for everyone in the CP
B) Anyone who has been here much is already pretty familiar with his viewpoints, and anyone who stops by here rarely will be mystified why we are promoting this insignificant wacko so heavily, and perhaps surmise incorrectly that we must somehow sympathize with his views since we are doing so much to spread them
C) A few people will find it humorous, but how long can you laugh at the same joke? Should we post about the America Nazi Party several times every week too? If it’s actually true that CPoW has half a dozen active members as claimed in the thread above, even the nazi and marxist sectlets are bigger. And some of them post multiple articles a day, too. As far as I know Riley Hood’s major electoral claim to fame is getting a few dozen write in votes, and being state chair of a party that’s big enough to hold its convention in a standard size motel room (maybe even one that has one bed) or at a single normal sized table at a restaurant (they won’t even have to move tables together for them).
Any comment with more than one link is always automatically held up for moderation by the automated spam filter. And I can no longer do anything about it, since I don’t have access to the settings any longer.
Regarding Hood’s articles and very minor parties my opinion hasn’t changed that we should cover them, but rarely. The frequency of coverage a party or candidate receives should be at least somewhat roughly in the ballpark of its membership/vote totals/other measures of support. I know we are trying to remedy the same situation leading to relative lack of coverage of any alt parties and independents in the MSM, but should IPR post three articles a day from a “state party” with “half a dozen active members” according to one source here if they happen to have a prolific writer? If there are 50 marxist sect parties that put together are 5% of the support of the LP and 10% of the support of the Greens, roughly speaking, should they each get equal coverage to the LP and Greens?
That’s just my opinion. Jed has a different opinion, and he’s doing the work of posting articles – more consistently than I am lately – so his opinion at this point should probably count more than mine. Really, it should in most cases be the only opinion that really counts as long as he actually does the work and there’s not overwhelming outcry against it, but I’ll still voice my opinion nevertheless.
Certainly post “Don’t you know there is a war on?” too; IPR readers & bloggers ought to get better exposed to the CP’s perspective on the Muslim religion 😉
Cool. Will do.
Got it. In the future though, do email me. That way I have it saved in my inbox for future reference, and I do check my email in the morning/afternoon when I do my postings.
I will post the personhood one either tonight or tomorrow.
Just gave you a list of url links to his recent articles and it says ‘Your comment is awaiting moderation’, fyi.
Agreed on the last sentence.
Better yet, here’s a list of recent articles he has put out-
https://cpowmilwaukeecounty.wordpress.com/2014/12/06/dont-you-know-there-is-a-war-on/
https://cpowmilwaukeecounty.wordpress.com/2015/01/12/lets-go-all-the-way/
https://cpowmilwaukeecounty.wordpress.com/2015/01/16/personhood-now/
Have at it Jed!
“In the meantime, I think IPR ought to start reposting Hood’s articles on here again.
In fact he recently did one on the Personhood movement.”
Email it to me. I’ll gladly post anything minor-party-related as long as it’s relevant, but I can’t search everywhere for everything, I need people to send me tips & links.
Things I don’t consider relevant:
*Stuff from parties that don’t participate electorally. I do make exceptions if it’s a party we’ve never covered before or if it’s about something newsworthy, like a convention, but in general my rule has become if they haven’t had a candidate for something, somewhere, in four years or more, I’m not interested.
*Trivial matters such as an increase in Facebook likes. News flash: no one cares.
*Video/audio only, my internet connection is slow & I can’t be arsed to download stuff to see if it’s newsworthy. Has to be either text only or text article w/ additional video/audio.
*A party/candidate posting something somebody else wrote. The AFP does this a lot.
*Quarantined subject matter.
*Minor parties in foreign countries. Others may post it, I’m not particularly interested.
Other than that everything is fair game, and as Mr. Hood is a state party chairman his views are newsworthy for IPR.
In the meantime, I think IPR ought to start reposting Hood’s articles on here again.
In fact he recently did one on the Personhood movement.
The most astonishing thing to me, as I’ve grown older, is that I’m still “a work in progress”. I never would have expected, as a kid, that I wouldn’t have all the answers as a grown-up. It appears I’m not alone in that.
I can attest that not only do we all do stupid stuff when we’re young, but in my case at least, we continue to do stupid stuff even once we’re not so young. I won’t bore anybody with a list of my problems (which are something of a combination of many of the issues described by Jed here and by Paulie elsewhere). Just suffice it to say that I have quite a few of them, and for the most part, they are my own fault.
I don’t really have much sage advice, except to just say that, whatever your mistakes, try not to spend too much time beating yourself up over them. By all means, acknowledge them, and try not to make the same mistakes in the future. But just sitting around dwelling on all your regrets is really not very productive. I should know, as I have wasted far too much time doing just that.
I’ll echo the suggestions about getting a GED. You may feel like you’re tired of school, and you want to do something else, but when you get to college you’ll be dealing with people who are more at your same intellectual level, plus when you select a major, those people are interested in the same things you are.
Getting a college degree certainly isn’t a guarantee of success, but it is a good thing to do while you’re figuring out what you really want to do all day. Girls in college should be a little more mature, also, and you won’t have as much of a cheerleaders and jocks versus the smart kids emphasis (I know that last comment sets me up for negative responses, not that the typical IPR reader was likely a cheerleader or jock). Anyway, you’re young enough that it should be easy for you to pick up and get back on the right track.
We all do stupid things when we’re young, and I likely will continue as I’m still young. We all have crap in our lives, mine’s been less stupid things I did and more stupid things I didn’t do. My mom died five years ago, and ever since then I’ve gone nowhere. I have no job, almost no money or resources, and yet have been stupid enough not to seek help for my obviously crippling depression. It’s one thing for me to talk about it online, but I’m too stubborn to actually ask for help, and I know it. Right now I am at least trying to get a job, which is more than I’ve done in a long time.
I will say that IPR has helped immensely, it’s given me something to do, even if I don’t get paid for it. That’s invaluable.
So yeah, this is about the first time I’ve really talked much about my personal life on here, which is also a step. So thanks for inspiring me to talk about all this. Opening up, trusting people, and all that has never been my strong suit.
Chris, I do feel I owe you an apology as well. I said some particularly nasty things about you once or twice, and while I felt justified at the time, I do realize there was a better way to handle it. I am sorry for that. You’ve owned up to your shortcomings like a man, but those shortcomings were no excuse to accuse you of being our Nazi troll Vernon with no real evidence to back that up. I have my own flaws to deal with and am in no position to pass judgment on others.
Oh yeah… younger paulie.. here you go
It’s magical.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDYNuD4CwlI
Chris,
Glad to hear you are doing better. I notice you did not discuss your current ideology, although that’s fine. A lot of times it’s just a surface reflection of deeper issues underneath anyway.
Regarding a few specific things you said:
Don’t worry about that too much. Get a GED if you haven’t done it yet. The tests should be pretty easy for you, they are unbelievably easy as shit and I would say just based on your writing here that you would breeze through them….although I don’t know how you are at math, but that part is easy too. I have a hard time believing it wouldn’t be laughably easy for you. Then go to college. Community college would probably be the best place to start, it’s less expensive, has less of a social/party atmosphere, you don’t have to move to go to one, and it has more flexible class schedules if you are working full time. After that, try to get a 4 year degree, it will be a lot easier to do once you have the lower level courses knocked out in community college. If you have a college degree I don’t know who would care whether you finished high school or got a GED.
YMMV, but personally I find it kind of therapeutic to post my issues in public fora, even if no one truly cares, and every once in a while I do get useful feedback. Biggest thing is to not be embarrassed by whatever it is. If it is real, it is real, for better or for worse, and bottling it up is never good. At least that is what I found. I’ve talked about all sorts of crazy crap I have done and been thru on here and I am glad I did.
Don’t be so dramatic. Some of it was pretty bad, but really, it’s the internet. People use it to blow off steam. I think most people understand that and take things that are said online with that in mind. Maybe I missed some of the worst things you posted, but honestly, out of what I did see – I’ve seen much, much worse. I’ve dealt with everything up to and including death threats online. I got at least one enema nozzle of a troll who has a “fan” site much of which is dedicated to me with the most vile crap he can pull out of his colon, and a couple of other troll/mentally ill types who frequently make “fan” postings about me on their sites. One of them regularly claims that I am actually the first one. And the first one seems to possibly have some kind of access to surveillance of where I stay at and phone and email conversations I have etc. Pretty creepy and a little unsettling. But, hey, screw it, it’s the internet and I’ve already outlived my life expectancy repeatedly so how big of a deal can it possibly be?
LOL, well it can’t be a smear since it’s true.
That’s small potatoes compared to some of the bad things I have done. And some of them will continue to have a negative impact on my life for the foreseeable future. Some of the consequences I haven’t even begun to experience yet. But, hey, life is full of second, third and umpteenth chances, especially online.
Don’t forget you can still post articles. They just have to be approved by another writer here before they go live, for now. And you can always comment.
That was me. And I also said I have dealt with many of the same issues, especially when I was younger. I was every bit as angry and arrogant as my old photos show (and those were after I mellowed out a lot…I was camera shy back when I was at my worst).
Good. That’s more important than what you believe, anyway.
Very glad to hear it.
My advice…don’t renounce US citizenship. You may not like trying to make a life in Poland as much as you think you will. It could be a much bigger mistake, and a lot harder to recover from, than dropping out of high school. Poland’s a tough place for young people; most are either unemployed, forced to live with their parents for economic reasons throughout their 20s, or underemployed with little or no job security, no benefits, low wages. Yes, the US has these problems for young adults also, but not nearly to the extent of Poland. Really, far more people under 30 are in those situations than not in Poland. So long story short, see for yourself, but leave yourself a way to come back if you change your mind.
My advice is of course worth every penny you paid for it.
Wow! Just freakin’ wow! As an “elder statesman” all I can say is if all this is on the level… wow! It took me 30 years to get to where most of the “mea culpa” posters got to in less that 10% of that time. I guess IPR really IS a special place!!
Great to hear, Kyzstoff.
I know you said you werent a member of A3P, I hope that means you’ve rejected white nationalism or separatism altogether. For someone who is angry, I’m sure it can be an alluring alternative, but it sounds like you’re doing better and I hope you’ve been able to focus on more positive alternatives. As one of the founder writers and previous editors and then publishers of IPR, trust me when I say that what you just wrote was awesome–it’s great to know IPR impacted someone positively.
Like Chris and Cody, I also admit to making mistakes here during my time commenting as Catholic Trotskyist, and I have done a lot of growing.
I’m glad you’re doing better, Krzysztoff! We’ve missed you! <3
It takes a decent, big man to admit to serious mistakes and errors in character, Chris, yet there are times when ALL of us fuck up at one point in our lives, or do things which we later regret. Fortunately your mistakes and past actions can be fixed, and if you’re sincere about what you just said now, then I’m willing to forgive & be your friend again.
I admit I made some foolish mistakes myself early on in the political field, and my beliefs then were based on ignorance and a narrow perspective then, in fact some of the LP bloggers I used to clash with, especially during the 2008 & 2012 presidential elections, I am now in agreement with their arguments and views, and certainly regret not becoming libertarian sooner and having to undergo all the internal backstabbing & drama with the constitutionalist parties I used to be a member of- when in fact I should’ve just left constitutionalism during the 2002-2006 fighting in the CP over the platform, religion, and the abortion issue.
After all, it indirectly lead to my first marriage ending in divorce.
While I wasn’t entirely at fault for the blowback that happened, I certainly screwed over my former position with IPR by quoting too much of news articles from a certain paper that then used a frivolous, sue-crazy firm to go after IPR and give Trent and the others a serious legal & financial headache, which my being kick out in a way was justified and certainly humbled me in due time.
Fortunately that firm is now defunct after other websites stood up and gave them a serious taste of their own medicine in court, leading to their dissolution.
Anyway, you’re still young and you can correct many of the wrongs you have caused, and I think your post here has done a good amount of that.
Btw, you can correct your dropping out of high school by getting you GED, if you haven’t done so already, yet having a GED is indeed a equal substitute for a diploma.
Oh, and I actually thought you were quite justified in your expose’ work on the CP.
Chris, I accept your apology, I just really hope you’re sincere about all of this & continue to grow as a person.
Ok let me just say this, since I was brought up in this thread.
I don’t know nearly much about politics as I once would have naively believed. I’ve grown out of certain delusions. I have very little experience in the job sector, I’m not well read on any if the pressing issues of our modern-day society, my high school experience was an utter train wreck/freak show…yeah, I dropped out (WORST MISTAKE I EVER THAT HAUNTS ME EVERY SINGLE DAY)and there’ve been other failures, too many to list…and probably not well suited for discussion in a public forum. Let’s just say
Now that that’s out of the way, I have to add that I’m ashamed at many of the things I wrote on IPR. I acted like a narcissistic asshole. No…I was one. I was a little bitch, shooting off my horn at anything or anyone. Brutal attacks thrown left and right, derogatory, mean spirited, quite frankly inappropriate attacks on Paulie, Jed, Dr. Stevens, Mr. Hood/CP entity. many others…I stooped to such disgusting lows that even the most provocative Charlie Hebdo satyrist wouldn’t contemplate…I was an uncivilized, wild animal.
And yet the IPR community fought the venom spewing rom my warped brain, channelled through a dirty keyboard with …understanding, compassion, empathy…as my Sherman’s March charged on full throttle, gaining steam at breakneck speeds, discarding all dissenting opinions and even leading some hardened IPR warriors to seriously start questioning their continued relationship with their fortress of information they had built through blood, sweat and tears in the battle against the American duopoly.
Paulie basically gave me a chance to make money gathering signatures…a very lucky opportunity, really; i blew him off and wasted his time. He offered constructive criticism on articles; I ignored it. He never censored/removed a word I wrote when he could have for many a good reason; I didn’t appreciate it – if anything I notched up my nastiness to higher levels. He even offered to give me a one year, 25 FRN membership to the LP despite his own budget constraints in those days when I did, actually, find myself attracted to libertarianism. What did I do? Epithets (including smearing him as a wandering Gypsy, felon with no stable job) nastiness, wasted his time.
Jill always offered such generously positive feedback and encouragement. Like Paulie, she gave me the freedom to post basically anything. And I do think she’s the nicest person on IPR, and I mean that with great respect to all the other good folks on this site. She left an uplifting comment on my April 1st Bob Barr “satire” piece – the ONLY positive comment on my post, it made my day! 🙂 After I went off the rails of sanity, she made the 100% right call by asking Warren to downgrade my quite liberal IPR contritubor privelages.
Warren Redlich gave me sound tips for life and even tapped into his professional expertise when I inquired through email. He was fair, very much so.
Everyone was fair, Cody, Josh Fauver, those I interview for IPR posts.
…..
Believe me, looking back on a number of my rants, ugly attacks at IPR members, third party figures, organizations (CP comes to mind first)..my stomach churns. I’m ashamed. I ignited flamewars of fury and anger, lashed out at people, disrupted meaningful discussions with my filth. Etc etc etc.
WHAT I SAID TO JED REGARDING HIS ORIENTATION WAS WRONG AND HAS NO PLACE IN ANY DISCOURSE, IT WAS THE ACT OF A HEARTLESS INTERNET BULLY- Jed I am sorry, this completely uncalled for, the most spiteful thing I said on this forum. Terrible and inhumane, that’s what it was! —
I pissed off swaths of valuable writers, activists, readers, leaders. All of whom felt passionate about improving the world albeit in different (sometimes radically so) ways. I wasted many individuals’ time, i.e. I stole from them. I committed transgressions against this IPR, and this fact is impossible to refute.
I submitted some good content; but that was in the beginning. The good was significantly overshadowed by the bad; it’s what caught so much attention. Someone said IPR was becoming an gossip rag and the tons of negativity hit a sore spot with many. Rightfully so.
Finally…it was brought up on one of those long LNC threads by someone that I may be unstable…these concerns were justified, yes. They were brought up by others in my personal life, like friends, girls, counsellors, teachers. I could scribble out a few tomes on my experiences with the U.S. mental health treatment system, but I digress. I’ve had issues, yes. Severe ones? Yes.
And….let me says this, I’ve gotten better, MUCH better, though it was a hell of a journey. can see how my actions affect others; I’m no longer emotionally blind. No longer devoid of the most important characteristic terrestrial dwellers – empathy. I’ve quashed most of the boiling hate engulfing my soul..hate born out of existensial envy and my refusal to take responsibility for a plethora of my own horrible decisions. Learning to be grateful.
Alienation from the world, my fault, I never tried before to “assimilate” with others, I was alone..
I found IPR and with that first Wells story, I felt like I was more than just a nothing..
IPR lifted me from days of truly dark depression. I felt good, I felt uplifted…
IPR made a tremendous impact on my life. It really did. True story.
CONCLUSION
It’s been said that “an idle mind is the devil’s playground.” Case in point with me. I’ve realized a great deal, spent countless days devoted to analyzing my past, and I will now begin the work.
God bless you all at IPR. Keep up the good work.
PS: I’m not active in the American Freedom Party, though their webmaster sent me a membership card in July. I’ll be in Poland within five years, long after the card expires.
PSS
Battery on phone almost dead, hopefully I’ll edit some tomorrow.
Well, he did say the fact that I was on the LNC shows the LP is a joke, and a few other choice comments, so I don’t think he likes me all that much, LOL.
“If he really takes his ideology seriously, wouldn’t he think the world be better off with one less Jew (me)? ”
All Nazis make exceptions. http://www.cracked.com/article_21614_5-things-i-learned-as-neo-nazi.html
It’s not clear from his statements whether he embraced white supremacism or whether he was into it all along and just not being honest til he finally “came out”. I do remember his saying Hood is right about a lot of things in an IPR comment (I can’t remember which thread now) and liking Hood and CPoW on FB. I haven’t checked since then.
LOL, well at least he requests to be friends again with you. He has not been trying to friend me again. Although, he did tell me he hoped I would feel better when I mentioned some of my health issues on email with IPR writers, which he is still subscribed to or at least was at the time. If he really takes his ideology seriously, wouldn’t he think the world be better off with one less Jew (me)?
As may have been predicted with a couple of rash and impulsive teenagers/young adults, Chris and Joshua came at it hard and fast and shot their load quickly. Every once in a while they have another article posting spree, but staying power and consistency is not their forte, and much as I told them when they were criticizing us for being too LP-centric and I challenged them to put up a competing site, creating a comment community like we have here (or as they imagined it, bigger and better) is not as simple as just throwing up a bunch of articles.
Well his A3PReport sure did fizzle out.
I do know that Chris has embraced white supremacy and supports the AFP, yet I don’t know if he supports Hood now.
However I have defriended him on fb and have rejected his friend requests twice.
“Well, I am not entirely ‘godless’ or ‘America-hating,’ although by his standards I certainly am.”
Same here. I once had a fundie on Twitter call me an “America-hating liberTROLLian”, which I absolutely think is hilarious. I’m thinking of getting a t-shirt with that on it.
“CPoW rejects the Masonic world-view stating that the Koran, Upanishads and the teachings of Buddha all contain “truth.” We reject the “Universal Fatherhood of God and the Universal Brotherhood of Man,” throughout our Platform. If all religions are true, then why are nations based on these false religions so poverty stricken, and their rulers tyrannical?”
Many nominally Christian nations in Latin America and Africa are poverty-stricken and have tyrannical rulers. A recent Frontline documentary about Putin’s rise to power reveals that ultra-Christian Russia has a median individual net worth below India (equal to less than a thousand US dollars), and that 110 individuals own 35% of the nation’s wealth, including Putin himself, who controls assets estimated to be worth around $40 billion US through various shell companies. There’s certainly been no shortage of tyranny and poverty throughout the nearly two millenia of supposedly Christian governments in Europe.
Japan is a non-Christian nation that is relatively wealthy and non-tyrannical. Some of the highest per capita wealth in the world is in Muslim-run oil kingdoms. Several of the world’s fastest growing economies are on the Asian Pacific rim, and a few of them, while not quite up to first world standards, are relatively wealthy and non-tyrannical compared to most of the world. During the middle ages the Muslim world was less poverty-stricken and less tyrannical than Christian Europe. Although Islam worldwide has been trending in a fundamentalist direction recently, largely due to Western military intervention in majority Muslim areas, at least until recently quite a few majority Muslim nations (Turkey, Lebanon, etc) were at least relatively prosperous and non-tyrannical.
Looking at the broader picture of history and the world, poverty and tyranny fails as a test to distinguish those professing to be Christians from other religions.
I’m sure he lives there solely for research purposes. One must respect the man’s commitment in investigating the evils that threaten our society.
These articles are a guilty pleasure of mine. And the picture never fails to make me laugh.
By his own account in a different article Riley Hood lives in a Milwaukee neighborhood that is that city’s epicenter of openly gay people, potheads and atheists – not exactly rural.
Well, I am not entirely “godless” or “America-hating,” although by his standards I certainly am. Libertine? Yeah. Sodomite? It’s not at all clear from the bible account what the deadly sin of Sodom actually was; it may have been pedophilia or rape or any number of things. And as defined by law, many and probably most straight people are also sodomites (by some definitions, people who enjoy anal sex, whether gay or straight; some definitions also include oral sex, gay or straight, as well).
So with those caveats, he also makes me very proud to be a Godless America-hating libertine sodomite.
It’s not much of an office. They don’t even have state chapters in some states, so in all likelihood he is the only one who even wants the position. That, or he has a tiny group of followers, which is big enough to drive away or outvote anyone other than them who bothers to show up, which is probably hardly anyone and not very often.
Grundmann for one, and Don Stone in Illinois. I believe Lesiak has now said he’s become a fan of Hood, and likes him on FB, IIRC.
He forgot not to eat the yellow snow or the brown acid, or maybe it was the other way around.
CPoW just barely retained ballot status, by the skin of their teeth. Their nominees for state treasurer and secretary of state (the only cands they ran) both barely got over 1%, which is the vote test. LP and Green nominees for downticket statewide office all got 2-3%.
When asked about my C.P. opponent for SoS, I would quip that he was running on the KJV-only platform and leave it at that. Aside from a last minute small radio a buy and a couple of press releases about how anti-abortion they are, we barely saw or heard from them in 2014. I think their active membership is something like a half dozen- most of the non-crazies have already migrated over to LPWI.
Plus I believe that much of the rural areas in the upper Midwest are still part of the Bible Belt.
Honestly Jill, many in his state party and a good portion of the CP membership consider him a “righteous” Christian that preaches “the truth”, including some of the southern CP leaders, and especially people like Don Grundmann and Washington CP leader Robert Peck.
Pretty much those on the comment threads of his articles encouraging him are his most vocal supporters. Though there might be some of the little hyper-Calvinist/fundamentalist churches that also might support him.
Mr. J. Hood makes me very proud to be a Godless America-hating libertine sodomite.
I can’t believe this guy is still in office.
Cody, do you know if he has any fans outside of Wisconsin?
Is there something in the water up there to create people like this? Maybe he’s been snowed in too long, or something.
Thanks for posting this. I think in a few weeks, I might do an article talking about coming on board with the LP.
One thing is for sure, I will certainly be doing some apologizing in it to a few LP bloggers that I used to butt heads with in the various forums and threads.
I don’t think history and research are Mr. Bro Perm’s (Hood’s) strong points.
Riley J. Hood: >> CPoW rejects the Masonic world-view stating that the Koran, Upanishads and the teachings of Buddha all contain “truth.” <<
Yet Paul recognized that "all truth belongs to God," and that even pagans at times see and speak philosophical truths, because they are surrounded by God's truth and thus can't help seeing it.
Several times, Paul quoted from pagan philosophers and poets. He quotes from both Aratus and Cleanthes in Acts 17:28, both 3rd century B.C. pagans, in his speech to the Athenians.
Paul tried "to be all things to all men" (provided it did not subvert his Christian message), so he would attract believers from among all men.
Among Jews, Paul quoted from Jewish scripture to show that Jesus was the messiah promised by God. Among pagans, Paul quoted from pagan philosophers and poets when helpful to show the truth of Christ.
I am now a bigger supporter of the LP after reading this.