Did John McCain post on FreeRepublic.com? [View All]

[RJ Connors]

I was reading an article the other day about hate groups in America and the increase interest they are experiencing now that America has elected a black man to the office of President.

I decided to visit the Southern Poverty Law Center to look at some things, which I do from time to time, and while I was there I thought I would see if they are finally listing FreeRepublic.com as a hate site. Given some of the comments over there since the election I think it is more important that someone is monitoring this site today, now more than ever. I only found a couple of listing but one seriously blew me away. SPLC is generally a pretty reliable site and source for information so I usually see them as being a reliable source for information on hate groups. But I have to admit this article was just so bizarre that I had to give it a second glance. While the article has a date of 2003 it still is seriously concerning if true.

Anyway, thought I would post it here and see what others think.


Defending Dixie

'A Natural Revulsion'

Something else about McCain is even rarer: he belongs to a hate group — the League of the South (LOS) — that shares some of American Renaissance's views on race. The League, a white-supremacist organization that opposes racial intermarriage, has defended historical segregation and even slavery, and advocates a second Southern secession from the U.S.
Washington Times readers have not been informed of McCain's hate-group membership, even when he's written on subjects near and dear to the hearts of his co-religionists. (McCain has been identified as a League member on DixieNet, the Web site that has reprinted several of his stories and essays from the Times, and he's mentioned his affiliation with the League in on-line postings.)

If McCain and his editors followed the usual rules of journalistic ethics, steering him clear of subjects related to his partisan beliefs, his hate-group membership might not be an issue. But the 43-year-old Georgia native, who left the Rome News-Tribune (circulation 17,000) for The Washington Times in 1997, has specialized in subjects that are vital to League of the South members: race, religion, guns, immigration, and controversies over Confederate flags and "heritage."

An avid poster on Internet discussion groups, McCain has aired strong personal views on these subjects. In December, New York Press media critic Michelangelo Signiorile published some of McCain's contributions to FreeRepublic.com, written under the pseudonym BurkeCalhounDabney.

McCain asserted that the civil rights movement inspired "black criminality" by encouraging people to get arrested at demonstrations. "I am disturbed … by Jackson's idea that 'breaking white folks' rules' was somehow inherently just," McCain wrote. "If rules were to be broken merely because they were the work of white folks, then hasn't Jackson gone a long way toward explaining the explosion of black criminality that began in the 1960s?"

Signiorile, who was alerted by a reader to McCain's postings, told the Intelligence Report he was "amazed" by what he found. In one posting, McCain suggested that Harvard University President Lawrence Summers be "persecuted and run out of town" for supporting gay rights.

(The rest of the article can be found here: Defending Dixie Apparently this is a paper from 2003 but if true it is still concerning.