{"id":23405,"date":"2011-01-11T15:54:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T05:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=23405"},"modified":"2011-01-11T16:34:40","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T06:34:40","slug":"political-views-of-arizona-suspect-jared-lee-loughner-related-to-third-position-or-national-anarchism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=23405","title":{"rendered":"Political Views of Arizona Suspect Jared Lee Loughner Related to Third Position or National Anarchism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3L1lsLU-kUw\">Department of I only have my right arm!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/content9.flixster.com\/photo\/10\/67\/21\/10672115_gal.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ernesto Aguilar has had a <a href=\"http:\/\/ernestoaguilar.org\/political-views-arizona-suspect-jared-lee-loughner-related-national-anarchism\/\">crack<\/a> at sorting out the bizarro views of alleged mass murderer <a href=\"http:\/\/encyclopediadramatica.com\/Jared_Lee_Loughner\">Jared Lee Loughner<\/a>. Ernesto (see below) reckons that Loughner&#8217;s political perspective may be in closest accord with the bizarro neo-fascist and White supremacist kvlt known as &#8216;Third Positionism&#8217; or &#8216;national anarchism&#8217;. I&#8217;m unconvinced. Loughner&#8217;s political opinions, such as they may be, are couched in terms which suggest that they are not, to put it mildly, the outcome of rational analysis but, rather more obviously, serious mental illness. As such, imputing a sensible worldview to the unfortunate Loughner is fraught with difficulty, and his online persona lends itself to all sorts of interpretations. Anyway, God Hates Fags.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Qpkxoql4xz0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>In Australia meanwhile, the staff at <a href=\"http:\/\/whitelawtowers.wordpress.com\/\">Whitelaw Towers<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/whitelawtowers.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/29\/jim-perren\/\">Jim Perren<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/whitelawtowers.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/29\/peter-campbell\/\">Peter Campbell<\/a>) have revealed that the leader and likely only member of the &#8216;Western Australian National Anarchists&#8217; is an UWA student named <a href=\"http:\/\/anarchonation.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/06\/western-australian-national-anarchists\/\">Nicholas Cole<\/a>. As far as I can tell, Nicholas, is <em>The Last Aryan Man Standing<\/em> as far as the groupuscule in Australia is concerned, its fuhrer Welf Herfurth having now opted to join a neo-Nazi skinhead gang called <a href=\"http:\/\/anarchonation.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/23\/blood-honour-australia-vs-volksfront-australia\/\">&#8216;Volksfront Australia&#8217;<\/a>, and his most excitable teenage follower, Scott Harrison, having chosen to join a White supremacist kvlt known as &#8216;Creativity&#8217;. The bad blood between the Australia First Party (Whitelaw Towers) and the Australian Protectionist Party (Nicholas Cole), as well as that between Volksfront (Herfurth) and Blood &#038; Honour (Harrison), will presumably continue to produce friction and leaks of one kind or another.<\/p>\n<p>In other exciting development(s), the blog known as &#8216;National Anarchist Women&#8217; has become <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s7qPUK90wXM\">&#8216;Europid Musings&#8217;<\/a>: a &#8216;Europid&#8217; being, I presume, synonymous with Caucasian; hence White. (Or possibly not. Who knows? Eighteenth century German scholar Johann Friedrich Blumenbach was perhaps the first to nominate &#8216;White&#8217; people as being &#8216;Caucasian&#8217;.) In any event, my favourite &#8216;national anarchist&#8217; blog is by <a href=\"http:\/\/afronativens85-newdawn.blogspot.com\/\">Lloyd Lacy<\/a>, who currently holds the dubious honour of being the only black to publicly endorse the weirdoes. That Lloyd (<em>aka<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/PanFascist85\">Afro\/Indigenous Fascist Party<\/a>) admires Hitler and the Nazis, hates Jews, and believes that a secretive cabal of Levantines run the world is not exactly an obstacle to his joining the masses flocking to the N\/A banner&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p>The political ideology of <noindex><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/10\/us\/politics\/10giffords.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jared Lee Loughner<\/a><\/noindex>, arrested in weekend Arizona shootings resulting in two deaths and the attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), is still being debated. However, his viewpoints brought for me association with an odd \u201cpost-left\u201d stripe of quasi-anarchist politics, which I am curious about investigating.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, when I heard about Loughner and the fight over his beliefs, I wondered if his philosophy might be neither what the left or right thinks, and instead be a hybrid of many beliefs \u2014 not unlike the Third Position politics seemingly popular with outfits like American Renaissance,[<a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=14048\">*<\/a>] a group he is allegedly connected with \u2014 inside what seems to be a&nbsp;<noindex><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diggersrealm.com\/mt\/archives\/003503.html\" target=\"_blank\">deranged mind<\/a><\/noindex>.<\/p>\n<p>First, there\u2019s a good bit of study indicating Jared Lee Loughner may harbor more than a <noindex><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racismreview.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/09\/white-power-white-terrorism\/\" target=\"_blank\">few ultraright perspectives<\/a><\/noindex>.<\/p>\n<p>Media reports indicating Loughner may have ties to the racist American Renaissance group are among issues remarked on by researchers. Jared Taylor of AR, for his part, <noindex><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/blogs\/weigel\/archive\/2011\/01\/10\/renaissance-man.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">denied the accusations<\/a><\/noindex>. Such may be simply gamesmanship; the Southern Poverty Law Center has nailed various groups and individuals for millions of dollars in damages for crimes committed by followers.<\/p>\n<p>The SPLC\u2019s&nbsp;<noindex><a href=\"http:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/09\/who-is-jared-lee-loughner\/\">Hatewatch<\/a><\/noindex> notes Loughner\u2019s references to grammar echo the writings of far-right conspiracy theorist <noindex><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/milwaukee\/113176989.html\" target=\"_blank\">David Wynn Miller<\/a><\/noindex>, who believes the government uses grammar to enslave Americans. [<em>See also<\/em> : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.primitivism.com\/language.htm\">Language: Origin and Meaning<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.primitivism.com\/time.htm\">Time And its Discontents<\/a>, John Zerzan.] Political Research Associates\u2019 <noindex><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talk2action.org\/story\/2011\/1\/9\/16240\/71598\" target=\"_blank\">Chip Berlet<\/a><\/noindex> says Jared Loughner\u2019s reputed writings on a \u201csecond\u201d U.S. Constitution is a common calling card of the far right, which contends post-Reconstruction amendments are invalid.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, conservatives are&nbsp;<noindex><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sodahead.com\/united-states\/jared-lee-loughner-another-tragedy-where-the-left-blames-the-right-and-it-turns-out-to-be-a-leftw\/question-1433743\/\" target=\"_blank\">tagging Loughner a leftist<\/a><\/noindex>. There are at least some whiffs of that as well.<\/p>\n<p>Among the references includes Twitter posts by someone who reportedly knew Jared Loughner. Confirmation of that relationship is still unclear. The right also says his interest in <em>The Communist Manifesto<\/em> and burning U.S. flags in his Youtube videos&nbsp;makes him left-leaning.<\/p>\n<p>Few in the media are talking about Third Position politics, a fringe belief that there is an alternative to socialism and capitalism and which has a white supremacist edge to its vision of power. Folks like <noindex><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adl.org\/learn\/ext_us\/tom-metzger\/ideology.asp?LEARN_Cat=Extremism&amp;LEARN_SubCat=Extremism_in_America&amp;xpicked=2&amp;item=7\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Metzger<\/a><\/noindex>, who lost a suit brought by the SPLC in 1990 for crimes committed by skinheads under his tutelage, are advocates of it. And, though American Renaissance isn\u2019t publicly associated as a Third Position group, its line could easily be seen in that light.<\/p>\n<p>For people interested in radicalism, it is easy to mistake more sinister (e.g. racist) militancy for run-of-the-mill protest.&nbsp;Extremes of the libertarian <noindex><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Left-libertarianism\" target=\"_blank\">left<\/a><\/noindex> and <noindex><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Right-libertarianism\" target=\"_blank\">right<\/a><\/noindex>, not unlike those espoused by Loughner, see the end of government as an ideal from which they can create a better society. For some, such ideas are revolutionary, even patriotic.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, many left and right anarchists do not support Jared Loughner. However, one <noindex><a href=\"http:\/\/news.infoshop.org\/article.php?story=20110109052719325\" target=\"_blank\">anti-authoritarian view<\/a><\/noindex> on this tragedy notwithstanding, it seemed to me some of what we apparently know so far of Loughner\u2019s seemingly contradictory ideas fit nicely into a belief system called national anarchism.<\/p>\n<p>National anarchism, which has held itself outside the left and right spectrums, has been around for decades. Its politics are solidly anti-statist, extreme libertarian and racist. Not quite fascist (national anarchism rejects Nazism and fascism) nor left (rejecting feminism and interracial dating, among other items), national anarchists consider themselves revolutionaries. The <noindex><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National-Anarchism\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/noindex> page should give you a little background.<\/p>\n<p>Left anarchists contend national anarchism attempts to coopt their politics and have been battling national anarchists for years. A <noindex><a href=\"http:\/\/littlegreenfootballs.com\/page\/228264_Even_In_The_Bay_Area_Nationali\" target=\"_blank\">2010 brawl<\/a><\/noindex> resulted in several arrests.<\/p>\n<p><noindex><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2011\/01\/08\/youtube-videos-of-ar.html\" target=\"_blank\">BoingBoing<\/a><\/noindex> recently posted transcripts of Loughner\u2019s Youtube videos and a remark from someone who claims to have known Loughner (calling him very liberal). One transcript reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If I define terrorist then a terrorist is a person who employs terror or terrorism, especially as a political weapon.<\/p>\n<p>I define terrorist.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, a terrorist is a person who employs terror or terrorism, especially as a political weapon.<\/p>\n<p>If you call me a terrorist then the argument to call me a terrorist is Ad hominem. You call me a terrorist.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the argument to call me a terrorist is Ad hominem.<\/p>\n<p>Every United States Military recruit at MEPS in Phoenix is receiving one mini bible before the tests.<\/p>\n<p>Jared Loughner is a United States Military recruit at MEPS in Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, Jared Loughner is receiving one mini bible before the tests.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t write a belief on my Army application, and the recruiter wrote on the application: None.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of citizens in the United States of America have never read the United States of America\u2019s Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t have to accept the federalist laws.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, read the United States of America\u2019s Constitution to apprehend all of the current treasonous laws.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re literate, listener?<\/p>\n<p>If the property owners and government official are no longer in ownership of their land and laws from a revolution then the revolutionary\u2019s from the revolution are in control of the land and laws.<\/p>\n<p>The property owners and government officials are no longer in ownership of their land and laws from a revolution.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the revolutionary\u2019s from the revolution are in control of the land and laws.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Undoubtedly, Loughner is interested in some traditionally far-right beliefs related to the Constitution and law. However, his preoccupation with being a terrorist and revolutionary reminded me of many a leftist I\u2019ve known. If the comments about his left leanings are to be believed, Loughner\u2019s alleged American Renaissance ties (to be proven) and anti-state opinions reminded me of national anarchism, which is a marginalized belief for both right and left.<\/p>\n<p>More is sure to come out in the next few days.<\/p>\n<p><noindex><a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2011\/01\/unabomber_lawyer_will_represent_alleged_giffords_shooter_jared_lee_loughner.php\" target=\"_blank\">Talking Points Memo<\/a><\/noindex> reports Loughner will be represented in court by Judy Clarke, who represented \u201cUnabomber\u201d Ted Kaczynski and assisted in the case of confessed al-Qaeda operative Zacarias Moussaoui.<\/p>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Department of I only have my right arm! 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