Molly Bohannon Forbes Staff I cover breaking news. Oct 12, 2023,05:13pm EDT
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People cheer and applaud in the main tent during the ReAwaken America Tour at Cornerstone Church in ... [+]Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved
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* Smith is scheduled to speak at 1:15 p.m. on Friday, according to a video listing speakers, though they don’t say what Smith will be discussing.
* Smith is popular among the far-right and has recommended neo-Nazi propaganda such as a World War II movie that paints Germany as the victim and questions the taught history of the war, posts memes denying the Holocaust on social media and said on an episode of the far-right The Pete Quinones Show podcast that Jewish people are behind “all of these things that are used to control us.”
Smith has been a frequent guest on the ReAwaken America tour, which was founded by Flynn and Clark as a conference for “freedom-loving Americans,” according to its website. Smith said on the Moms on a Mission podcast .. https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4011487 .. in August that attendees of the tour supported him financially after his gym was shut down and that he has been to every tour—save for two—since then. The site for the tour claims the 21 ReAwaken conferences over the last two years have been completely sold out, though tickets are still available for this week’s Miami event and the upcoming conference in Tulare, California. According to the Los Angeles Times .. https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-10-12/reawaken-america-trump-maga-qanon-christian-nationalism , at the latest ReAwaken conference in Nevada, almost 70 speakers spoke to attendees about poisonous vaccines, “a cabal of global leaders is engaged in child sex trafficking” and conspiracies that the 2020 election was stolen. In addition to criticism over his antisemitic [means anti-Jewish there] beliefs, Smith faced criticism for multiple drunk driving incidents—one of which killed a man .. https://nj1015.com/ian-smith-family-of-victim-kevin-ade/ .. in 2007. After he made headlines for refusing to close .. https://www.nj.com/news/2020/05/defiant-nj-gym-ordered-closed-by-nj-attorney-general.html .. his New Jersey gym and adhere to Covid-19 protocols, Smith also had an unsuccessful congressional run .. https://ballotpedia.org/Ian_Smith .. in 2022 to represent New Jersey’s 3rd District. In March, Smith and the other owners of the gym were ordered to pay nearly $124,000 in fines, according to the Star-Ledger .. https://www.nj.com/news/2023/03/nj-gym-owners-who-defied-murphys-covid-rules-must-pay-124k-in-fines-court-rules.html .
Molly Bohannon I am a Colorado-based reporter. Before joining Forbes, I covered education and local government in Fort Collins, Colorado. I am a graduate of...
was any relation to the late Ian Smith of the late Rhodesia. Guess more likely not than likely, still the thought led to a couple of decent articles with similarities in past unwise and exploitive settlement disputes to today as in Israel ..
How To Kill A Country Turning a breadbasket into a basket case in ten easy steps—the Robert Mugabe way By Samantha Power [...] Mugabe's belief that he can strengthen his flagging popularity by destroying a resented but economically vital minority group is one that dictators elsewhere have shared. Paranoid about their diminishing support, Stalin wiped out the wealthy kulak farming class, Idi Amin purged Uganda's Indian commercial class, and, of course, Hitler went after Jewish businesses even though Germany was already reeling from the Depression. Whatever spikes in popularity these moves generated, the economic damage was profound, and the dictators had to exert great effort to mask it. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/12/how-to-kill-a-country/302845/
Shades of illegal settlements of today. And it strikes me that your Ian Smith of today will work his evil to create trouble and torment only to lose in the end, as the late Ian Smith was defeated:
Ian Smith, 88, white supremacist and former leader of Rhodesia By Alan Cowell Nov. 21, 2007 Ian Smith, the former prime minister of Britain's rebellious colony of Rhodesia, who once promised that white rule in Africa would endure for 1,000 years, died Tuesday in South Africa. He was 88. [...] In the autumn of 1979, however, Britain presided over what was to be its final conference on Rhodesia. Only Smith, a member of Muzorewa's delegation, resisted the terms that led to British-supervised elections and lawful independence the next spring. Mugabe came to power. The white Rhodesians' rebellion had finally crumbled. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/21/world/africa/21iht-obits.1.8417707.html
Am not seeing parallels. Only plenty of similarities.
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[Excellent] Mandela and the Question of Violence .. the bottom one of yours was so excellent here it is in full .. i'm looking forward to reading it again One should never lose sight of why America preaches nonviolence to some people while urging other people to arms. Ta-Nehisi Coates Dec 11 2013, 3:11 PM ET December, 2013 - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=94895526
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