Indiana can be a scary place. Many US States are big enough to have a rural/urban divide, but Indiana also has more than its fair share of guys like the Nazi sympathizer, Tony Zirkle. Liberals often accuse Republicans of wholesale borrowing from the fascist playbooks (with varying degrees of accuracy), but this dude isn't even disputing it. In fact, it is one of his campaign platforms. The Republican party hasn't expelled Zirkle, probably because there is a good chance he'll win. I wonder what his record as prosecutor was? What sort of cases did he bring of questionable merit?
On the face of it, Tony Zirkle looks like the perfect candidate for Congress: He attended the Naval Academy, he has a degree from Georgetown, and he went on to be a top prosecutor in Indiana, crusading against Internet pornography.
There’s only one problem — or maybe more than one, as far as the Indiana Republican Party is concerned.
Zirkle, who is seeking the GOP nomination for the state’s 2nd Congressional District, believes — among other things — that whites are victims of a "genocide," that the races should be segregated into different states and that pornography is a Jewish plot against women.
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The personal-injury lawyer says he’s running for Congress to combat "the genocide of the white race" that pornography is causing — an "unholy pornocaust" against white Christian women.
"We now have a small army of male black porn stars that are sifting through five, ten, fifteen thousand women," he said. "One man can now genocide the wombs of thousands of women," infecting them with sexually transmitted diseases that leave them barren.
He calls it "Porn mule womb slaughter . . . the most effective weapon of mass destruction."
In an interview, Zirkle told FOXNews.com he doesn't think he is too far out of the Republican mainstream. He believes the solution to STDs and out-of-wedlock births is to separate blacks and whites into segregated states, but he says that's fully in the tradition of the party.
"The original Republican party" felt the same way, he said. "Abraham Lincoln called for African-Americans to be deported back to Africa." [From The Indiana Congressional Candidate the GOP Wishes Would Go Away - Politics | Republican Party | Democratic Party | Political Spectrum]
In 2006, Zirkle captured 30 percent of the primary vote, so his views aren't out of line with a large percentage of the residents of his district. Scary. Yet, I'd still be ecstatic if the US allowed multiparty governments, like in Europe. Never going to happen, but watching Congress would be a lot more fun if fringe wingnuts like Zirkle were part of the coalition.
For the record, Zirkle claims he isn't really a Nazi, he just likes their dental plan:
Zirkle, said he "just spoke off the top of [his] head" at the Nazi gathering, where he addressed the crowd in front of a giant portrait of Hitler. He insisted he had no prior connections to the group and that he’s not a member of the Nazi party.
"What most people don’t know about me is that I’m the father of three beautiful Jewish Christian children," he said, explaining that his wife had converted from Judaism to Christianity. "I’m obviously not going to be out for gassing innocent Jews."
Yet he blames Jews for much of the plight of white women in America. "The massive number of Jews in the [pornography] industry basically brag about it," he said, asserting that "most of the early porn stars were Jewish men."
Well, for sure, Zirkle and his supporters and sympathizers are not voting for Obama, nor Clinton for that matter.
Crooks and Liars has video footage of Zirkle celebrating Hitler's 119th birthday at a convention in Chicago
