One common thread in the ideologies of well-known militia, libertarians, Koch's, Tea Party and other noecons is an appreciation and following of the works of W. Cleon Skousen.
Both Skousen and Fred Koch were early Birchers.
Let's find us some Koch out in the wild🐯🌴, shall we? 😆
Do an advanced search for "Skousen", and you'll see a steady stream of people (maybe some bots 2) promoting the works of Skousen.
Citizens for Responsible Education has been attacking public education in MA. Speaking at one of their forums were representatives from Massachusetts Family Institute and American Enterprise Institute.
The president of Massachusetts Family Institute came from Alliance Defending Freedom. He is also director of Renew Massachusetts Coalition.
The executive director...
They also run a program called Catholic Citizenship.
Not exactly non-partisan, but wutchagonna do?
Massachusetts Family Institute has been working with
First Liberty and Alliance Defending Freedom on cases that do & could end up in front of SCOTUS.
Getting back to Skousen for a second, there are other Skousens in the arena - Mark and Joel Skousen.
Is that Tea Party comrade Mike Lee?
The real danger of libertarian/Tea Partiers, is that they readily reference disinformation agents and conspiracy theorists. 🙄
And look who provides a quote for Skousen's book. 🧐
Yeah.
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The takeover of the Republican party and J6 made so much more sense to me when viewing them in terms of the Tea Party. Of course there is no formal Tea Part per se, and members often blend in under Freedom Caucus or Liberty Caucus monikers.
Ron Paul (and I assume Rand Paul) has the creepiest group of followers...er...supporters?
Where to even start?
There's Walter Reddy, who has tried - multiple times - to establish his own form of currency. Got him in some trouble w/SEC over a decade ago.
In this 2015 interview, Reddy was pushing some thin sheets of gold & silver as an "alternate" currency. He did mention he was working with "states" to make it legally above-board.
Mentioned his friend Bernard von Nothouse...
Bernard got into trouble for his Liberty Dollars around the same time as Reddy. Bernard's coins looked so much like US currency that it was considered counterfeiting.
Pardoned by Trump.
Still creating an alternate currency, and appears to be including crypto?
The money that worked so hard to take away women's reproductive rights, put our access to contraceptives at risk, and laid the groundwork for a rise in anti-LGBTQ fear-mongering.
Previously mentioned was Communio Foundation, but note the involvement of Sean Fieler...
Yes I know Sean is credited for funding the multitude of anti-abortion and other assorted catholic orgs, but I can't help but wonder if he isn't just the conduit for Leo's $ ?
Sean sits on the board of many of the recipients of Chiaroscuro Foundation's $