I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
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EAST LANSING — Kyle Bristow, the chair of Young Americans for Freedom at Michigan State University, has ties to the white supremacy movement — something Bristow flatly denied in this past spring.
In a Michigan State News interview on March 15, Bristow denied the student group was anything like Nazis or the KKK.
“They don’t have a right to compare us to Nazis or the KKK when we’re not like that,” Bristow was quoted as saying in the State News (http://www.statenews…).
MSU YAF was designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center http://www.SPLCenter…) in April. As the organization’s chair, Bristow was listed as the leader of a hate group, by the SPLC which publishes an annual listing of hate groups around the United States and distributes it to over 50 thousand law enforcement agencies.
But an investigation has turned up evidence that Bristow has ties to the white supremacy movement.
The ties were found on Facebook.com.
Continued -Bristow co-administered a group on the site called The American Patriot Movement (http://msu.facebook….). He has since removed himself as an administrator. The Facebook group links directly to a now nonoperational website (Americanpatriot.org).
The group’s other administrator is Preston Wiginton. Wiginton is also listed as the owner of americanpatriot.org. Wiginton is an active poster on the white supremacy movement website stormfront.org. He uses the handle of “True American Patriot” when posting on Stormfront.org.
Here is a partial listing of some of the things he has posted on the website:
“Skinheads by all means daily show their bravery, honour and commitment by wearing their badge (tats) and uniform (boots and shaved head).
To all Skins – B&H – Hammerskins – Independents – State Crews – this is why unity is a must. Our petty differences are just that, petty, compared to the future we face. And that future are days like the title of this thread – except you could add – white person murdured, white girl addicted and white girl made into sex slave.
From the nothern border of mexico – somewhere in Texas where addictions, slaves and murders happen every day.”
http://www.stormfron…“Yes the internet has been great for communication. But we need to be seen in the streets. When was the last time CNN logged on to see how many people were on Stormfront?
Keep up the good work – but get out every once in a while and talk to those of like minded thinking who may not be on any of the boards which you are active. Plus there is nothing like personal contact.
Also get out so the antis can see you.”
http://www.stormfron…
In another facebook group administered by Bristow, “Jobs a White man won’t do”, he uses Wiginton’s contact email as the administration email contact of the group. Many posts on the group support Wiginton’s racist attitudes.
MichiganMessenger.com emailed Kyle Bristow for comment, but received no response back from him.
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