For The Record #168
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For decades, American political intellectual culture has ascribed the conspiratorial workings of fascism to the efforts of “lone nuts,” thereby misrepresenting deliberate treachery as psychopathology. When Buford Furrow (above, right) killed a Filipino-American mail carrier and shot up a Jewish Community Center in August of 1999, this trusted Aryan Nations functionary was represented as a lone nut by the media, despite his obvious and public political connections. This program demonstrates areas of overlap between the political milieu that spawned Furrow and the political milieu that spawned
Lee Harvey Oswald, one of America’s prototypical “lone nuts”. (In numerous other broadcasts, Mr. Emory has demonstrated that Oswald was neither a lone nut nor a communist, but a patsy who had been set up by the forces of international fascism to take the fall for President Kennedy’s assassination.) Read more »
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