With the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Dickson became what he calls "a great Russophile" and dedicated himself to the preservation and exaltation of the white race, under siege from Miami to Moscow. Freed from the trappings of American patriotism implicit in the cold warrior's pose, Dickson became a full-fledged antigovernment white nationalist. Dickson's post-Cold War efforts to save the white race have consisted largely of intellectual exercises. Although he belongs to the Council of Conservative Citizens -- a hate group with ties to some elected GOP officials that is the contemporary incarnation of the pro-segregation White Citizens Councils -- and was a close personal friend of the late leader of the far-right British National Party, John Tyndall, Dickson himself prefers the lectern and the study to the soapbox. (Occasionally, though, he will still take to the courtroom. In 1996, he filed a suit against an Atlanta suburb that sought to ban the flying of the Confederate stars and bars during a parade associated with the Olympics.) Dickson also has had a long association with Holocaust denial organizations including membership on the editorial board of The Barnes Review, a journal that specializes in that topic. His most regular appearances over the last 15 years have been his lectures at the biannual conference of American Renaissance, the journal addressing "racial differences and their consequences," launched by Jared Taylor in 1991. The pseudo-academic monthly gives a genteel sheen and articulate voice to what is essentially a racist vision of ethnically "pure" states. Dickson's keynote AR speech of May 2006 bemoaned the state of crisis in which the white race found itself, nowhere more so than in America. "There comes a time," declared Dickson, "when the crisis is such that only a Corsican lieutenant can restore things." (The reference is to Napoleon Bonaparte, who crowned himself emperor of France.) Dickson went on to argue that his "old friend" David Duke's strong showing in the 1991 Louisiana governor's race - "better than Hitler" -- during a period of relative prosperity bodes well. We merely await, Dickson said, an economic catastrophe: "The worse the better. Let the bad times roll. That will be our opportunity." https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2006/how-klan-lawyer-sam-dickson-got-rich
В 2018 Диксон снова ездил в Россию. Его контакт - Дмитрий Сергеевич Овешников, ведущий консультант аппарата Комитета Совета Федерации по международным делам и создатель информационно-аналитического портала "Цезариум".
NEW ON SITE: "What You Did Last Summer: Atlanta Attorney Michael A. Dominy, Sam Dickson, and US-Russia Far-Right Networking"https://t.co/bMV8bybHdv
Lawyer Michael Dominy traveled to Russia w/ racist leader Sam Dickson & others in 2018. They networked w/ gov. consultant. #gapolpic.twitter.com/c1HyfscTZx - Atlanta Antifascists (@afainatl) December 16, 2019
Вопросами проживания, размещения, встречи иностранных гостей занимался координатор форума Юрий Любомирский. Он посетовал в беседе с NT, что визы не получили Стефан Якобсон из «Партии Шведов», Даниэль Карлсен из «Датской партии» - он выступал по видео-связи - и член испанской «Национальной демократии» Гонзало Мартин Гарсия. С властью, по его словам, организаторы контактировали минимально: лишь уведомили МИД о приезде иностранной делегации. Кстати, в прошлом году провести аналогичный форум в Петербурге не удалось из-за проблем с визами для участников. Источник NT, близкий к организаторам, рассказал, что списки гостей форума накануне мероприятия отправляли в Центр «Э» питерского главка. Также, по его словам, организаторы по окончании форума отправили отчет о его освещении в СМИ в администрацию президента. «Первый раз об этом слышу», - опроверг информацию источника NT Любомирский. https://newtimes.ru/articles/detail/96422/
Доусон занимался активной поддержкой Трампа на выборах 2016.
The Patriot News Agency website popped up in July, soon after it became clear that Donald J. Trump would win the Republican presidential nomination, bearing a logo of a red, white and blue eagle and the motto “Built by patriots, for patriots.” Tucked away on a corner of the site, next to links for Twitter and YouTube, is a link to another social media platform that most Americans have never heard of: VKontakte, the Russian equivalent of Facebook. It is a clue that Patriot News, like many sites that appeared out of nowhere and pumped out pro-Trump hoaxes tying his opponent Hillary Clinton to Satanism, pedophilia and other conspiracies, is actually run by foreigners based overseas. But while most of those others seem be the work of young, apolitical opportunists cashing in on a conservative appetite for viral nonsense, operators of Patriot News had an explicitly partisan motivation: getting Mr. Trump elected. Patriot News - whose postings were viewed and shared tens of thousands of times in the United States - is among a constellation of websites run out of the United Kingdom that are linked to James Dowson, a far-right political activist who advocated Britain’s exit from the European Union and is a fan of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. A vocal proponent of Christian nationalist, anti-immigrant movements in Europe, Mr. Dowson, 52, has spoken at a conference of far-right leaders in Russia and makes no secret of his hope that Mr. Trump will usher in an era of rapprochement with Mr. Putin. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/17/world/europe/russia-propaganda-elections.html
В марте 2015 Джордж Пэкер писал в New Yorker, что, хотя участники питерского форума - маргинальные клоуны, этот форум отражает мировой тренд отката от либерализма. Он пока еще не видит Трампа в качестве кандидата в президенты и упоминает Теда Круза, как пример антилиберального кандидата.
What unites this loose tribe of anti-Semites, homophobes, fundamentalists, power worshipers, militarists, and mystics is a hatred of liberalism-a social order based on individual rights, pluralism, tolerance, and international coöperation. They’re marginal figures at best, not without comic potential, and individually they’re probably not worth discussing, if only they didn’t constitute the extreme tip of a global reaction against liberalism. This reaction is the most powerful political force of our time, not just in terms of its electoral success but in its intellectual self-confidence and persuasiveness. And it has little in the way of comic value. It springs from diverse causes in different places and can take widely different forms-far from all of them Fascist, and some of them mutually hostile. We see versions of it in China’s reversion toward Maoism under Xi Jinping; in the rise of the National Front (most recently in Sunday’s local elections) and other European parties on the far right and far left; in the Islamist authoritarianism of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan; in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rejection of a two-state solution in his triumphant campaign last week, and in the abandonment, by some of his American supporters, of Israeli democracy as a value; in the Iranian clerical leadership’s doctrinaire hostility to “Western” ideas; and, in this country, in the resurgence of American exceptionalism as a galvanizing force on the Republican right. (Senator Ted Cruz, who just became the first announced Republican Presidential candidate, makes George W. Bush seem like a one-world humanitarian.) This reaction knows no partisan or national affiliation, and transcends ordinary ideological divides. Its Venezuelan adherents, who call themselves revolutionary leftists, have made common cause with Russian conservatives and Iranian theocrats. No one in American politics resembles Putin more than Cruz, who regularly denounces the Russian leader (along with Barack Obama for not standing up to him). The Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov is an Islamist who organized violent protests against Charlie Hebdo after the January 7th attack in Paris; he’s also a loyal soldier for Putin, an anti-Islamist who counts support for Bashar al-Assad as necessary in the fight against terrorism. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Iranian Supreme Leader, is an unelected anti-Semite, but he and Netanyahu, the elected leader of the Jewish state, speak a similar language of unquestionable national destiny that overlooks the reality of the millions of people who don’t fit within it. <...> Nationalism usually means blind support for one’s country, but it doesn’t require a nation-state. These days, one of the most potent and volatile forms of nationalism is Islamism, which crosses and erases borders. In the broadest sense, it means allegiance to one’s group: allegiance without shades of gray, excluding the claims of other groups; allegiance in the pursuit of power as the group’s right; allegiance regardless of the facts. Nationalism transcends states, and individuals everywhere carry its seeds. We’re all tribal; we all have loyalties and biases; we all harbor an unexamined and indefensible sense of belonging to the chosen group. There’s a little Putin in everyone, forever picking at old scabs, whipping up team spirit, settling scores-us against them, a hateful sort of love. Acknowledging these things is the only antidote to being governed by them. https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/a-hateful-sort-of-love
Через пять лет в заглавном номере The Atlantic Пэкер пишет о победе, одержанной Трампом в деле разрушения американского федерального правительства.
In his fourth year in power, Trump has largely succeeded in making the executive branch work on his personal behalf. He hasn’t done it by figuring out how to operate the bureaucratic levers of power, or by installing leaders with a vision of policy that he shares, or by channeling a popular groundswell into government action. He’s done it by punishing perceived enemies, co‑opting craven allies, and driving out career officials of competence and integrity. The result is a thin layer of political loyalists on top of a cowed bureaucracy. Justice and State were obvious targets for Trump, but the rest of the executive branch is being similarly, if more quietly, bent to his will. One of every 14 political appointees in the Trump administration is a lobbyist; they largely run domestic policy. Trump’s biggest donors now have easy access to agency heads and to the president himself, as they swell his reelection coffers. In the last quarter of 2019, while being impeached, Trump raised nearly $50 million. His corruption of power, unprecedented in recent American history, only compounds the money corruption that first created the swamp. Within the federal government, career officials are weighing outside job opportunities against their pension plans and their commitment to their oaths. More than 1,000 scientists have left the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Agriculture, and other agencies, according to The Washington Post. Almost 80 percent of employees at the National Institute of Food and Agriculture have quit. The Labor Department has made deep cuts in the number of safety inspectors, and worker deaths nationwide have increased dramatically, while recalls of unsafe consumer products have dropped off. When passing laws and changing regulations prove onerous, the Trump administration simply guts the government of expertise so that basic functions wither away, the well-connected feed on the remains, and the survivors keep their heads down, until the day comes when they face the same choice as McCabe and Yovanovitch: do Trump’s dirty work or be destroyed. Four years is an emergency. Eight years is a permanent condition. “Things can hold together to the end of the first term, but after that, things fall apart,” Malinowski said. “People start leaving in droves. It’s one thing to commit four years of your life to the institution in the hope that you can be there for its restoration. It’s another to commit eight years. I can’t even wrap my head around what that would be like.” https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/04/how-to-destroy-a-government/606793/
With the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Dickson became what he calls "a great Russophile" and dedicated himself to the preservation and exaltation of the white race, under siege from Miami to Moscow. Freed from the trappings of American patriotism implicit in the cold warrior's pose, Dickson became a full-fledged antigovernment white nationalist.
Dickson's post-Cold War efforts to save the white race have consisted largely of intellectual exercises. Although he belongs to the Council of Conservative Citizens -- a hate group with ties to some elected GOP officials that is the contemporary incarnation of the pro-segregation White Citizens Councils -- and was a close personal friend of the late leader of the far-right British National Party, John Tyndall, Dickson himself prefers the lectern and the study to the soapbox. (Occasionally, though, he will still take to the courtroom. In 1996, he filed a suit against an Atlanta suburb that sought to ban the flying of the Confederate stars and bars during a parade associated with the Olympics.)
Dickson also has had a long association with Holocaust denial organizations including membership on the editorial board of The Barnes Review, a journal that specializes in that topic.
His most regular appearances over the last 15 years have been his lectures at the biannual conference of American Renaissance, the journal addressing "racial differences and their consequences," launched by Jared Taylor in 1991. The pseudo-academic monthly gives a genteel sheen and articulate voice to what is essentially a racist vision of ethnically "pure" states. Dickson's keynote AR speech of May 2006 bemoaned the state of crisis in which the white race found itself, nowhere more so than in America.
"There comes a time," declared Dickson, "when the crisis is such that only a Corsican lieutenant can restore things." (The reference is to Napoleon Bonaparte, who crowned himself emperor of France.) Dickson went on to argue that his "old friend" David Duke's strong showing in the 1991 Louisiana governor's race - "better than Hitler" -- during a period of relative prosperity bodes well. We merely await, Dickson said, an economic catastrophe: "The worse the better. Let the bad times roll. That will be our opportunity."
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2006/how-klan-lawyer-sam-dickson-got-rich
В 2018 Диксон снова ездил в Россию. Его контакт - Дмитрий Сергеевич Овешников, ведущий консультант аппарата Комитета Совета Федерации по международным делам и создатель информационно-аналитического портала "Цезариум".
NEW ON SITE:
"What You Did Last Summer: Atlanta Attorney Michael A. Dominy, Sam Dickson, and US-Russia Far-Right Networking"https://t.co/bMV8bybHdv
Lawyer Michael Dominy traveled to Russia w/ racist leader Sam Dickson & others in 2018. They networked w/ gov. consultant. #gapol pic.twitter.com/c1HyfscTZx
- Atlanta Antifascists (@afainatl) December 16, 2019
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Официальный координатор форума в Петербурге - руководитель петербургского отделения партии "Родина" Юрий Любомирский.
https://rodina.ru/novosti/V-Sankt-Peterburge-projdyot-Mezhdunarodnyj-russkij-konservativnyj-forum
Вопросами проживания, размещения, встречи иностранных гостей занимался координатор форума Юрий Любомирский. Он посетовал в беседе с NT, что визы не получили Стефан Якобсон из «Партии Шведов», Даниэль Карлсен из «Датской партии» - он выступал по видео-связи - и член испанской «Национальной демократии» Гонзало Мартин Гарсия. С властью, по его словам, организаторы контактировали минимально: лишь уведомили МИД о приезде иностранной делегации. Кстати, в прошлом году провести аналогичный форум в Петербурге не удалось из-за проблем с визами для участников.
Источник NT, близкий к организаторам, рассказал, что списки гостей форума накануне мероприятия отправляли в Центр «Э» питерского главка. Также, по его словам, организаторы по окончании форума отправили отчет о его освещении в СМИ в администрацию президента. «Первый раз об этом слышу», - опроверг информацию источника NT Любомирский.
https://newtimes.ru/articles/detail/96422/
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https://www.interpretermag.com/russian-politicians-building-an-international-extreme-right-alliance/
Доусон занимался активной поддержкой Трампа на выборах 2016.
The Patriot News Agency website popped up in July, soon after it became clear that Donald J. Trump would win the Republican presidential nomination, bearing a logo of a red, white and blue eagle and the motto “Built by patriots, for patriots.”
Tucked away on a corner of the site, next to links for Twitter and YouTube, is a link to another social media platform that most Americans have never heard of: VKontakte, the Russian equivalent of Facebook. It is a clue that Patriot News, like many sites that appeared out of nowhere and pumped out pro-Trump hoaxes tying his opponent Hillary Clinton to Satanism, pedophilia and other conspiracies, is actually run by foreigners based overseas.
But while most of those others seem be the work of young, apolitical opportunists cashing in on a conservative appetite for viral nonsense, operators of Patriot News had an explicitly partisan motivation: getting Mr. Trump elected.
Patriot News - whose postings were viewed and shared tens of thousands of times in the United States - is among a constellation of websites run out of the United Kingdom that are linked to James Dowson, a far-right political activist who advocated Britain’s exit from the European Union and is a fan of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. A vocal proponent of Christian nationalist, anti-immigrant movements in Europe, Mr. Dowson, 52, has spoken at a conference of far-right leaders in Russia and makes no secret of his hope that Mr. Trump will usher in an era of rapprochement with Mr. Putin.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/17/world/europe/russia-propaganda-elections.html
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What unites this loose tribe of anti-Semites, homophobes, fundamentalists, power worshipers, militarists, and mystics is a hatred of liberalism-a social order based on individual rights, pluralism, tolerance, and international coöperation. They’re marginal figures at best, not without comic potential, and individually they’re probably not worth discussing, if only they didn’t constitute the extreme tip of a global reaction against liberalism. This reaction is the most powerful political force of our time, not just in terms of its electoral success but in its intellectual self-confidence and persuasiveness. And it has little in the way of comic value. It springs from diverse causes in different places and can take widely different forms-far from all of them Fascist, and some of them mutually hostile. We see versions of it in China’s reversion toward Maoism under Xi Jinping; in the rise of the National Front (most recently in Sunday’s local elections) and other European parties on the far right and far left; in the Islamist authoritarianism of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan; in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rejection of a two-state solution in his triumphant campaign last week, and in the abandonment, by some of his American supporters, of Israeli democracy as a value; in the Iranian clerical leadership’s doctrinaire hostility to “Western” ideas; and, in this country, in the resurgence of American exceptionalism as a galvanizing force on the Republican right. (Senator Ted Cruz, who just became the first announced Republican Presidential candidate, makes George W. Bush seem like a one-world humanitarian.)
This reaction knows no partisan or national affiliation, and transcends ordinary ideological divides. Its Venezuelan adherents, who call themselves revolutionary leftists, have made common cause with Russian conservatives and Iranian theocrats. No one in American politics resembles Putin more than Cruz, who regularly denounces the Russian leader (along with Barack Obama for not standing up to him). The Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov is an Islamist who organized violent protests against Charlie Hebdo after the January 7th attack in Paris; he’s also a loyal soldier for Putin, an anti-Islamist who counts support for Bashar al-Assad as necessary in the fight against terrorism. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Iranian Supreme Leader, is an unelected anti-Semite, but he and Netanyahu, the elected leader of the Jewish state, speak a similar language of unquestionable national destiny that overlooks the reality of the millions of people who don’t fit within it. <...>
Nationalism usually means blind support for one’s country, but it doesn’t require a nation-state. These days, one of the most potent and volatile forms of nationalism is Islamism, which crosses and erases borders. In the broadest sense, it means allegiance to one’s group: allegiance without shades of gray, excluding the claims of other groups; allegiance in the pursuit of power as the group’s right; allegiance regardless of the facts. Nationalism transcends states, and individuals everywhere carry its seeds. We’re all tribal; we all have loyalties and biases; we all harbor an unexamined and indefensible sense of belonging to the chosen group. There’s a little Putin in everyone, forever picking at old scabs, whipping up team spirit, settling scores-us against them, a hateful sort of love. Acknowledging these things is the only antidote to being governed by them.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/a-hateful-sort-of-love
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Через пять лет в заглавном номере The Atlantic Пэкер пишет о победе, одержанной Трампом в деле разрушения американского федерального правительства.
In his fourth year in power, Trump has largely succeeded in making the executive branch work on his personal behalf. He hasn’t done it by figuring out how to operate the bureaucratic levers of power, or by installing leaders with a vision of policy that he shares, or by channeling a popular groundswell into government action. He’s done it by punishing perceived enemies, co‑opting craven allies, and driving out career officials of competence and integrity. The result is a thin layer of political loyalists on top of a cowed bureaucracy.
Justice and State were obvious targets for Trump, but the rest of the executive branch is being similarly, if more quietly, bent to his will. One of every 14 political appointees in the Trump administration is a lobbyist; they largely run domestic policy. Trump’s biggest donors now have easy access to agency heads and to the president himself, as they swell his reelection coffers. In the last quarter of 2019, while being impeached, Trump raised nearly $50 million. His corruption of power, unprecedented in recent American history, only compounds the money corruption that first created the swamp.
Within the federal government, career officials are weighing outside job opportunities against their pension plans and their commitment to their oaths. More than 1,000 scientists have left the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Agriculture, and other agencies, according to The Washington Post. Almost 80 percent of employees at the National Institute of Food and Agriculture have quit. The Labor Department has made deep cuts in the number of safety inspectors, and worker deaths nationwide have increased dramatically, while recalls of unsafe consumer products have dropped off. When passing laws and changing regulations prove onerous, the Trump administration simply guts the government of expertise so that basic functions wither away, the well-connected feed on the remains, and the survivors keep their heads down, until the day comes when they face the same choice as McCabe and Yovanovitch: do Trump’s dirty work or be destroyed.
Four years is an emergency. Eight years is a permanent condition. “Things can hold together to the end of the first term, but after that, things fall apart,” Malinowski said. “People start leaving in droves. It’s one thing to commit four years of your life to the institution in the hope that you can be there for its restoration. It’s another to commit eight years. I can’t even wrap my head around what that would be like.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/04/how-to-destroy-a-government/606793/
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