
A cache of emails and private messages obtained by hacking group Anonymous reveal Nick Griffin may have had a meeting with Republican candidate Ron Paul at a conference in Washington DC. These messages from a white supremacist group are the latest blow to Paul, who has spent much of this week continuing to disavow racist newsletters printed in his name in the nineties.
Hackers infiltrated the website of the racist American Third Position Party (A3P) and an affiliated message board, WhiteNewsNow. The data dump which followed suggests Paul’s campaign team and A3P share more members than he’d like to admit.
In private messages, A3P webmaster, active Ron Paul campaigner and renowned white-nationalist Jamie Kelso boasts to supporters that he has a number of “buddies” in the Paul Camp, including Jeff Imbar, who he describes as Paul’s “#2 man in Illinois.” Imbar is a member of A3P and senior staff member at WhiteNewsNow.
In another message, Kelso outlines details of his plans to attend the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington DC with Nick Griffin, and that he/they would be meeting Ron Paul on the trip.
“We’ll be meeting up with Nick Griffin on Wednesday night … a few of us. I let Nick know about the CPAC … Nick loved the idea of getting to this … since there will be 10,000+ right-wing White folks [there] … Ron Paul will be there Fri. afternoon. Want to meet up with him?”
Kelso, who can be seen here trying to convert moderate Republicans to his racist worldview at CPAC 2011, acted as Griffin’s “fixer” for his 2010 jolly to the colonies. He paid for Griffin’s plane tickets and, according to one hacked email, tried to sneak his entourage into the conference on subsidised student tickets.
Paul has form when it comes to accepting help from racists. During his 2008 presidential run, he took a $500 donation from the founder of the white supremacist Stormfront website, whose motto is “White Pride, Worldwide” and ignored widespread pressure for him to return the cash.
Unfortunately for our Nick, it seems A3P’s affection for him has cooled somewhat of late, with one member complaining that Griffin was “being stupid with producers of granny porn.”