American Third Position Party

American Third Position Party
Chairman	William D. Johnson
Senate leader	None
House leader	None
Founded	January 5, 2010[1]
Headquarters	Westminster, California
Ideology	Paleoconservatism, White supremacism, Third Position
Political position	Fiscal: Third Position Social: Far-right
International affiliation	None
Seats in the Senate	None
Seats in the House	None
Website
http://www.american3rdposition.org/
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The American Third Position Party (A3P) is a third positionist American political party which promotes white supremacy.^[2][3][4][5] It was founded in 2010 partially to channel the right-wing populist resentment engendered by the financial crisis of 2007–2010 and the policies of the Obama administration^[6] and defines its principal mission as representing the political interests of white Americans.^[7] The party takes a strong stand against immigration^[8] and globalization,^[9] and strongly supports an anti-interventionist foreign policy.^[10] Although the party does not support labor unions, they do strongly support the labor rights of the American working class on a platform of placing American workers first over illegal immigrant workers and banning of overseas corporate relocation of American industry and technology.^[11]

Leadership

The party chairman is Los Angeles attorney William Daniel Johnson. Long Beach State University professor of psychology Kevin B. MacDonald has been named one of the eight party Directors, and is also a principal contributor to The Occidental Quarterly^[12][13] where he has contributed articles claiming that a suite of traits that he attributes to Jews, including higher-than-average verbal intelligence and ethnocentricism, have eugenically evolved to enhance the ability of Jews to conspire to out-compete non-Jews for resources while undermining the power and self-confidence of the white majorities in Europe and America whom he insists Jews seek to disposess.^[14][15][16] A 2006 article in The Nation magazine reports that MacDonald's 2004 Understanding Jewish Influence: A Study in Ethnic Activism "has turned MacDonald into a celebrity within white nationalist and neo-Nazi circles."^[17] Writing in the Journal of Church and State, Professor George Michael noted that MacDonald's work "has been well received by those in the racialist right, as it amounts to a theoretically sophisticated justification for anti-Semitism," and that on the far right MacDonald "has attained a near reverential status and is generally considered beyond reproach".^[18]

Political activities

William Johnson, Chairman of A3P, speaking at a rally.

New Hampshire state party chairman Ryan Murdough ran in the Republican Party of New Hampshire primary for a seat representing the Eighth District of the Grafton County delegation to the New Hampshire House of Representatives,^[19] but he was refused support by the Republican party, which called him a "despicable racist".^[20] He placed fifth out of five candidates in the Republican primary, garnering 296 votes (11%).^[21] Murdough is now the National Political Director for the National Socialist American Labor Party, a party which espouses Nazi beliefs.^[22]

Former Olympic athlete, and Populist Party Presidential candidate Bob Richards, publicly announced his membership in the American Third Position Party, during the summer of 2010.^[23]

In November 2009 the American Third Position Party filed papers with the office of the California Secretary of State, hoping to become a fully ballot-accessible party by the time of the June 2010 California primary election.^[24] However, the party failed to qualify and did not get on the 2010 ballot in California^[25] or any other state.^[26] The party received enough signatures to get Harry Bertram on the ballot for the 2011 West Virginia gubernatorial special election. ^[27] Bertram's campaign ran a television ad emphasizing his desire to advance the interests of white Americans. Bertram was soundly defeated in the election, coming in last place out of 5 candidates on the ballot and netting only 1,111 votes; less than 0.4 percent of the total. ^[28]

2012 presidential election

In January 2012, the American Third Position Party announced Merlin Miller as its presidential nominee for the 2012 presidential election. Virginia Abernethy was announced as his running mate. ^[29]

2012 hacked website incident

In early February 2012 members of the hacker group Anonymous released statements claiming to have hacked the website of the party as well as various forums and email accounts connected with the group, including that of Jamie Kelso, the websites operator.^[30][31] The front page of the party's website was defaced with #OpBlitzkrieg(the designated name used in January 2012 for a series of Anonymous cyber-attacks on German Neo-Nazi websites) and private information about the organization's members was released.^[32]

References

External links

• Official website