Bush's Stealth Defenders
The VRWC's Worst and Most Racist Elements Descend Upon Florida
by Tamara Baker

Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2000 -- SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA (AmpolNS) -- You knew it had to happen. The only surprise was that it took so long.

The same folks responsible for the ten-year campaign to smear and destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton -- a campaign brilliantly detailed in Joe Conason's and Gene Lyons' book The Hunting of the President, currently available in hardcover and soon to be released in paperback form  -- are now down in Florida working on George W. Bush's behalf.

Remember that the Governors Bush and Karl Rove all knew and admired Lee Atwater, the man who first set in motion the never-ending series of blatant smears against the Clintons. One cannot separate the vast right-wing conspiracy from the rest of the Republican Party. 

This was brought home with force to me Sunday, upon the receipt of this Landmark Legal Foundation press release forwarded to me by Celeste Harrison Whitlow, founder and operator of the Political Amazon website:

Friday November 17, 2000; 5:48 PM ET

FBI Asked to Probe Gore Camp Threats Against Katherine Harris

The Landmark Legal Foundation has asked the FBI to probe reported threats by campaign aides to Vice President Al Gore against Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris.

In a statement released late Friday to WABC radio's Sean Hannity, Landmark Legal Foundation President Mark Levin announced:

"Landmark Legal Foundation has contacted FBI Director Louis Freeh, requesting that the Federal Bureau of Investigation initiate a federal criminal probe into a report that aides to Vice President Al Gore are attempting to intimidate the Secretary of State of Florida, Katherine Harris." 

"If reported accurately the statements attributed to Gore campaign officials appear to be made for the purpose of intimidating a public official, Katherine Harris, in the execution of her duties."

"Landmark asserts that the FBI has federal jurisdiction to undertake an investigation on several bases, among them, the Gore campaign received federal matching funds and the Gore campaign participates in interstate commerce."

This is laughable on its face, but Landmark knows that by putting it into a spiffed-up format and couched in all manner of ten-dollar pseudo-legalese, they can impress the rubes who pony up their donations. And it makes Papa Scaife happy and keeps him signing those checks.

Do note, dear reader, that it is Landmark and not the Southeastern Legal Foundation entering into the fray. The SLF, thanks to founder Matt Glavin's personal peccadilloes, is a tad too tainted at the moment for the VRWC to use, or else it would not only be issuing bogus press releases, but also rushing to the 11th circuit. Instead, we have some bogus right-to-life group  making the filings before the 11th Federal Circuit's judges in Atlanta. (Dear me, Mr. Holmes, as Professor Moriarity would say: whatever happened to the VRWC's alleged respect for states' rights?)

The LLF is by no means the only arm of the Get-Clinton/Gore Cabal currently operating in Florida and environs.

The white-power folks over at Stormfront ( -- and I highly recommend accessing their vile site via http://www.anonymizer.com, so that you don't wind up with their cookies, or anything else from them, in your PC) are leading the anti-Gore/Lieberman counter-demos in Palm Beach and environs, carefully concealing their racism under the cloak of Neo-Confederacy and 'States' Rights' (ah, so States' Rights only apply for racists?).

These folks are the ones hurling abuse and worse at the good people of Palm Beach right now. They, and persons like them, booed Jesse Jackson off the stage at his own rally last week, the one he held to draw attention to the racially-based vote fraud he believes the GOP committed in Florida. If you'd rather not give these Nazis a click, go check out the excellent Village Voice article on them instead.

Here's an excerpt:

"...Likewise, Black said that he is counseling fellow "pro-white" extremists to show up to support Bush, but not to emphasize their controversial stances such as support for the Confederate flag. 

"That's the kind of thing that I'm sure the Bush campaign doesn't want us to get into. That's not the focus of it right now," he said. Still, at heart, the protests are about race. "It's an implicit racial issue here, which most people understand. But it's probably not to our advantage to turn it into an explicit one...."

You'd think that a "uniter, not a divider" would be a little more vocal about "friends" like these.

But so far, there has not been a word of criticism from the Bush camp concerning the soldiers of hate and racism rushing to Dubya's defense -- their tacit approval makes this a stealth campaign to rally hatemongers to the side of the wannabe president.