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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vernon Imrich)
Thu Jul 14 18:18:10 1994
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 94 18:11:32 -0400
From: vimrich@flying-cloud.mit.edu (Vernon Imrich)
To: libertarians@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 94 14:14:20 PDT
From: Tom Isenberg <tomis@microsoft.com>
Subject: Fulani and the Patriot Party
To: libernet@Dartmouth.EDU
Lenora Fulani, head of the New Alliance Party, has formed her new party
which she claims to be a coalition of third parties (which ones, she
hasn't specified.) On a local radio interview, I heard her predict that
the LP would soon join in. (I called up and disabused her of that notion.)
Her latest attempt at political revolution is called the Patriot Party,
which is rather ironic given Fulani's warmed-over Marxism. It will be
amusing to watch as right-wingers and Populists (who often call
themselves the "Patriot movement") breathlessly attend their first
meetings of something called the Patriot Party, only to discover that
Fulani (who is black) does not share their (frequent) racial prejudice
(at least not the same one) and is not exactly a Constitutionalist.
Imagine setting up a blind date between John Birch and Angela Davis...
I suppose that Fulani is aware of what she's doing. She knows the NAP
was unable to sell Marxlism and color-consciousness to a large
audience. She now sees herself competing with Perot for the
"independents." Of course, she is promoting the idea of United We Stand
joining her new party. Can you imagine the platform debates at the
first Patriot Party convention? I'm tempted to go and watch!
Fulani has an interesting history. Fulani and Lyndon LaRouche both
founded the (socialist) U.S. Labor Party way back when. They eventually
parted ways, disbanding the Labor Party, and she went kooky left and
formed the NAP, he went kooky right and masqueraded as a Democrat.
National Public Radio and other mainstream media (the NYT, etc. ) have
done exposes of Fulani and her New Alliance Party, basically branding
the NAP as a psychotherapy cult. Fulani allegedly runs therapy clinics
where the solution to your psychological problems always seems to boil
down to hitting the pavement on behalf of the NAP to collect money and
signatures, etc. (since your problems are caused by having the wrong
political consciousness.) This reputation has destroyed the NAP's
chances with the many left-liberal organizations who have been
disgusted with the NAP as a coalition partner.
Recently, she has courted Farrakhan's supporters and was included with
Farrakhan in the recent NAACP summit, much to the dismay of other NAACP
supporters.
--
Tom Isenberg
INTERNET: tomis@microsoft.com
