Defender of Hate Group Leader Campaigning to Head GOP
Saul Anuzis, leader of the Michigan GOP until last year, earlier this week that he would be challenging Michael Steele for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee (RNC). Anuzis had made a failed but significant run against Steele, the party鈥檚 first black leader, for the same post in 2009.
Writing about his hopes for the RNC, Anuzis, an avid Twitter user and blogger, especially his tech-savviness at online social networking as an asset for making electoral gains for the party. What Anuzis didn鈥檛 mention was the kind of contacts he cultivated offline in Michigan, in particular his vocal support of the right-wing extremist Kyle Bristow. Bristow led the Michigan State University campus branch of Young Americans For Freedom (MSU-YAF) and was so virulent in his politics that the Southern Poverty Law Center (人兽性交) began listing it as a hate group in 2006. Bristow also served as a Republican precinct delegate.
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Bristow鈥檚 MSU-YAF engaged in extensive racist activities. One of its first stunts was presenting a 13-point agenda that would have established a 鈥淐aucasian caucus鈥� at MSU and, in turn, eliminated all student government representation for practically every other non-white, non-heterosexual, non-male or non-Christian student group at the university. Bristow was on record saying, 鈥淗omosexuality kills people almost to a degree worse than cigarettes. 鈥� these [pro-gay rights] groups are complicit with murder.鈥� MSU-YAF sponsored a 鈥淐atch an Illegal Immigrant Day鈥� contest, held a 鈥淜oran Desecration鈥� competition, jokingly threatened to distribute smallpox-infested blankets to Native American students, and posted 鈥淕ays Spread AIDS鈥� flyers across campus. Bristow鈥檚 YAF also brought several extremists to speak at the MSU campus, including Holocaust denier Nick Griffin, leader of the whites-only British National Party (for more on YAF, read ).
None of this seemed to bother Anuzis. 鈥淭his [Bristow] is exactly the type of young kid we want out there,鈥� Anuzis, then already the GOP state chair, said on a radio program in May 2007, the year after MSU-YAF鈥檚 more outrageous activities were made public. 鈥淚鈥檝e known Kyle for years and I can tell you I have never heard him say a racist or bigoted or sexist thing, ever.鈥� Just this past October, Anuzis鈥� Michigan GOP issued a press release a Democratic candidate for secretary of state because she once interned at the 人兽性交, which the release said used 鈥渇ear and intimidation鈥� in its hate group listings.
Since receiving this outpouring of support from Anuzis, Bristow has graduated to the top ranks of the American radical right. Now a law student at the University of Toledo, Bristow recently self-published a novel, White Apocalypse, whose revolves around a series of violent revenge fantasies against Jewish professors, Latino and Native American activists. A major subplot ends in the bloody assassination of a character apparently based on an 人兽性交 staffer. Several notable white supremacists and anti-Semites have endorsed the novel.
Attempts to reach Anuzis to discuss Bristow were unsuccessful.
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