THE REAL LOONY LEFT

Politics1 has a profile on Randy Crow, a candidate for the Democratic nomination who is not getting the attention he deserves because Dennis Kucinich is hogging the limelight:

Today’s candidate: Randy Crow (D-NC), as he’s already qualified for the New Hampshire primary ballot. Crow — a small businessman and former realtor — was an unsuccessful candidate for the Wilmington City Council in 1997. Then he ran for Congress in the 1998 primary (spending $200 and losing by a lopsided vote of 94% to 6%) … then he ran for President in the 2000 primaries (he got on the ballot in New Hampshire and Louisiana) … then he ran another losing primary for Congress later in 2000 (losing by a 93% to 7% vote) .. then he lost for Council again … and most recently finished last place (9th – 1%) in the 2002 US Senate primary. Undaunted, he’s running for President again in 2004. In an email to Politics1 in 2000, Crow explained his motives: “I am involved in politics to get rid of filthy communists and lots of others.” He also believes the FBI blew up TWA Flight 800 with a laser and was somehow involved in the downing of Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan’s 2000 campaign plane. On his website, Crow repeatedly expresses open hatred towards Jews (Example: “Vietnam was a zioni$t manipulated War designed to kill our Christian kids and install na$i communi$t zioni$m in the Vietnam region”). Most of the contents of Crow’s site, however, appear to be rambling conspiracy tirades against various envisioned enemies: “It has been 13 years since the FBI fessed up to the fact they were investigating me. All my files are classified … In 1994 the Federal Force manipulated a bunch of mess which questioned my sanity … I think the Force had some weird blood work done on me or possibly put a computer chip in me.” Crow was upset that we quoted these various passages in his P2004 profile so he printed a rather long, rambling screed on his site denouncing Politics1 as a “zioni$t” tool out to destroy him (he even attacked us for referring to him above as — gasp — a “former realtor” because, he notes, he only dabbled in real estate in the past). Be sure to read his articles on why he says Louie Freeh and the FBI killed Princess Di … how President Bush Sr. ordered the 1963 hit on JFK … and how the CIA and zioni$ts “framed” two black men as the suspects in the DC sniper shootings as part of an elaborate plot to ban gun ownership.

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