I had vowed to give the minimum attention possible to Billy Roper, the white supremacist from Russellville who's a write-in candidate for governor. The Democrat-Gazette gave his hate a broad platform this morning.
Just for the record:
Michael Whiteley wrote an in-depth story on Roper for us in 2004. Here it is. Plus, here's a sidebar on a disaffected former follower.
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“I had vowed to give the minimum attention possible to Billy Roper, the white supremacist from Russellville who's a write-in candidate for governor.”
Why minimum attention, Boss? This lowlife SOB should be exposed (and often) for everything that he is, especially now that he’s a write-in candidate for governor.
Even those who might remember your 2004 article about Roper (I not among them, it's been six years for Christ's sake) should be reminded or informed for the first time of the evil this fool espouses.
Thus my thanks to Seth Blomeley and the ArkD-G for giving Roper’s hate “a broad platform this morning.” A few excerpts from Blomeley’s piece, if I may:
♦ A rural Pope County man running for governor as a write-in candidate praises Adolf Hitler as a “visionary and great leader” and wants “every race other than my own extinct.” Billy Roper, 38, who lives outside of Moreland, is chairman of a group called White Revolution.
♦ What would Roper do as governor? He lists a few points:
Make it a felony for any U.S. government employee to try to enforce any restriction on a personal firearm made and kept in the state.
Ban same-sex couples from adopting children or serving as foster parents.
Require all beneficiaries of state social services to be subjected to a monthly drug test.
Ban the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai Brith from giving seminars or training to any Arkansas law enforcement personnel. The two organizations, which track race-based groups, have been keeping tabs on Roper.
♦ In March 2009, Roper posted on the White Revolution website, “I am a National Socialist, and consider Hitler to have been a visionary and great leader. The world would have been a much better place had he been successful, certainly.”
♦ In a January interview with a blog called “Extreme Politics,” Roper said, “As far as the other races, I want to eliminate all of them. I’m a biological racist. I ... want every race except my own extinct.”
♦ Roper said he and other White Revolution members have been recruiting members at Tea Party rallies, targeting “young working-class whites.” He said other Tea Party members are older and worried about losing their Social Security and generally aren’t interested in joining White Revolution. He said his recruiting efforts have bothered some Tea Party organizers.
This SOB says it would be a moral victory if he gets only 10,000 votes. Let’s continue to expose the thug and make sure he’s deprived of even a “moral victory.”
Durango,
We wrote at length on his poisonous beliefs back when. He filed as a write-in to get precisely this kind of broad attention for just these viewpoints. A write-in won't win. He wins only to the extent his thoughts are rebroadcast. I, of course, have also done by reprinting Whiteley's prize-winning piece. Roper was quite happy about that one, too. It's the Say McIntosh dilemma all over again, except it is to libel Say or anyone to compare them to Billy Roper.
Just in the wildly unlikely event that he loses the race for governor, he'll run for president in 2012. (He's a shoo-in for prez.)
What a clown.
Unfortunately, Billy Roper will no doubt find a huge number of semi-silent sympathizers in the Tea Party.
Oh yeah, I remember Billy and his gang of Nazis protesting the second Conway Pride back in 2005. I still have the photos somewhere.
How this asshat got a teaching job in Arkansas even for a short time is scary.
Durango is right, as usual.
And to paraphrase Edmund Burke:
All that is needed for the forces of evil to triumph is for enough good men to [say] nothing.
SO reassuring. And SUCH a 180 from -- why, it seems like only yesterday: liberal self-congratulatory A-T bloggers up in arms about an anti-Semitic lie posted here.
Not objecting to the post itself: THAT bigotry was (still?) excused, defended, justified, dismissed or ignored (except by one blogger whose name rhymes with Sistertoldja).
Nope: righteous and self-congratulatory A-T bloggers were all up in arms about the blogger's anti-Semitic lie being EXPOSED. Even MENTIONED. Get the Whistleblower and all like that.
Which is TOTALLY unlike the Billy Roper situation here, where those same bloggers are raking him over the coals for his, um, hateful bigotry.
Message, 24fps? When evil enters the Arkansas Blog, be good and say nothing.
Edmund Burke from behind, honey.
Toujours avec amour.
Speaking of bigots, let's not forget THESE.
http://www.truth-out.org/no-dominion-the-l…
Remember the Jewish father who pulled his son from the Air Force Academy (after that family's men had served for generations) because of these Christians?
Mickey Weinstein's it. (People ask me my type? Him.)
Where are all the supposed OTHER Christians all over America marching in the streets, rallying and shouting down these armed theocrats?
Being "nice?" Being silent?
Got it.
Ah, my dear friend Norma, still thinking that anti-Zionists and anti-semitics are one and the same. Tsk, tsk. Next we will be hearing the Syrians, Saudis, Iraqis, Jordanians and Lebanonese are anti-semitic. Perhaps we should forget 2005 and Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman. After all, they were Zionists, getting full support from American leaders (after these two were exposed) such as Senator Clinton, Senator Frist, Senator Reid and others. They were in unison for their statements of "unconditional support for AIPAC, for Israel and for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.” Unconditional. Even as indictments were handed down for Rosen and Weissman.
By the way, Norma, where do the Christian Zionists fit into this scheme of things that you interpret so avidly?
Seems to be usual liberal progressive rambling...name calling at it's best. I am a White with great pride in my heritage and family. I have watched and listened as race is used to slander anyone with thw courage to stand front and center. I for one am Tired of my tax dollars going to those who are here illegally, to government who defiantly ignoring the American people. Slandering whites seems to be the game played ...while Obama's New Black Panthers are excused by the DOJ after calling for death to Crackers and White "Babies"...this does not make headlines ...no is asking Why is this being silenced..is it because Obama himself was part of organizing the NEW Black Panthers... calling people names, like neo-nazi and supremacist is the role of silencing the White Peoples of this country..hoping name calling will cause them to back off political issues that are not in the best interest of what all Americans need or want..we have a right to disagree, and Progressive liberals and Democrats are not the Rulers of the world or America... there are many many Americans, who do not agree or want the same government as projected by the failing Democratic Party. More interest is placed on the Illegals, the Islamics and Israel's problems in the Middle East than our own Military and Economy... failing to agree is open to name calling and tagging...
ZIONIST ARE IN OUR WHITE HOUSE...MIDDLE EAST WING IS CONTROLLED BY ISREAL...
SO NOW YOU CALL ME NEO-NAZI or WHITE SUPREMACIST ? WELL YOU ARE TRAITORS TO THE FREEDOM OF THOUGHT EXPRESSION AND EXISTENCE OF ALL AMERICANS WHO DISAGREE...you only expose your weakness and fear when you SMEAR SOMEONE ..
THIS COUNTRY IS IN TROUBLE, THE OBAMA ADINISTRATION HAS TORN DOWN AND DAMAGED almost every area you can fathom ...WE ARE FED UP WITH WASHINGTON, NEW BLOOD ..NEW COURAGE...WITHOUT FEAR IS WHAT WE NEED AND WANT ..
NOT MORE MEDIA PROPAGANDA.
Where was Mary 2001- 2009 when a man was declared the winner of the White House when his opponent got 540,000 more popular votes than the selectee of the establishment?
Cato, get over it, the Dems couldn't steal the elections no mater how hard they tried.
Mary, you talk of media propaganda, then spew a vile diatribe of falsifications and fear monegring. You take a coule of accurate points, then go completely off the reservation with that claptrap, wild-eyed anti-zionist whine. Cop a chill, puff a doobie.
You can say and throw out the numbers but we all knowt he electorial process is corrupt... I am not a Republican... if you are Not on the side of Liberal mania and the Progressive / Communist...then you are automatically called Republican ...again name calling..bashing... we have Shadow Government controling our country..and heads stuck in the sand....our economy is failng ...our troops fighting a war under restricted conditions, their food rationing cut, their care cut ..while illegals run rampant across our country .the unemployment rate is crushing us ..welfare is given to those who never paid a penny into the system or Social Security..we are making Illegal centers comfortable with computers and training ...dance classes, continential breakfasts..visiting hours un restricted till 12 at night..even exercise classes...all exposing the Audacity of the current President and administration...you call Mr. Roper a neo nazi...Well we have a President who is Clearly in ABUSE OF POWER, TREASONIST ACTIONS AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF U.S.A. and he calls for Amnesty along with it. while earning 6.5 million last year...why hasn't government taken pay cuts...while Obama plays golf for 40th time..and the country is falling apart..PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL INSANITY...or is it worse...NWO...
Well, see, Mary, that is where you are mistaken. Obungle is incompetent, sure, but he has no hatred, nor any love for this country. He is the Compleat Political animal. Just like anything you would get in Chicago. Roper, on the other hand, is a slavering pile of hate and murder. Don't know, but between the two, Roper and Obungle, I would take the Boy Blunder over any NeoNazi lover of Hitler any old day.
More and more people will ask the inevitable question as the economy gets worse and worse: just what was it that got won with World War 2? All I can see is more jobs overseas, more illegal aliens over here, and more debt. Whites could have gotten better terms from the Germans.
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