The Nader Cult?

This ad for LetNaderDebate.org has been running predominately on, as far as I can tell, right wing blogs. Some of their ads show this image before bragging about the ad being rejected by dKos. So given that we have an ad for a candidate that the Republicans have supported all election season because he could take votes away from Kerry in critical swing states, running on mostly right wing blogs, I did some digging to see if their were any ties to Republican money going into these ads.

I didn't find any Republican ties. What I did find is that these ads are being produced and paid for by a cult.

Seriously.

One of LetNaderDebate.org's co-founders is Rich Sokolow, who is connected with Rainbow Lobby and the New Alliance Party, as proven in this House of Representatives document from 7/20/90.

Who exactly are the Rainbow Lobby and New Alliance Party (NAP)? Well, we're not talking about and amalgamation between Jesse Jackson (that would be his Rainbow Coalitiion) and white power groups (that would be the National Alliance). NAP and Rainbow Lobby are one and the same. Nader met with them earlier this year, and the Nation's Doug Ireland covered the story and has a good description of what NAP is all about.

What in the world is Ralph Nader doing in bed with the ultrasectarian cult-racket formerly known as the New Alliance Party?

That's the question raised by Nader's January 11 appearance as the featured speaker at a conference in Bedford, New Hampshire, of so-called "independents" that is nothing more than a front for the New Alliance crazies. The conference was arranged by something called the Choosing an Independent President 2004 Campaign ("ChIP"). ChIP's organizers--or "convenors," as they style themselves--are none other than Dr. Fred Newman, the cult's guru, a master manipulator and former associate of mad Lyndon LaRouche; and Dr. Lenora Fulani, the Afro-American former presidential candidate of the New Alliance Party, whom Newman describes as his "greatest creation."

Newman controls his followers through a brainwashing scheme--which he baptized "Social Therapy"--that has been described by one deprogrammed former member of his group as a "sophisticated indoctrination methodology which impairs critical thinking skills and which uses repression, dependency and guilt-inducing techniques to control and lure patients into political activity and, ultimately, into blind allegiance to Newman."

There's nothing at all "independent" about Newman and Fulani's latest creation, ChIP. It's just the latest in a skein of more than two dozen front groups and rackets Newman has created, all of which have as their ultimate goal nothing more than enlarging the cult and subsidizing Newman's and Fulani's lavish lifestyles.

All of that sounds pretty creepy. Why is Nader letting such a group front for him? Worse yet, is Nader letting this cult use him as a cash cow to net more members?

Now I wish that I found ties to filthy Republican lucre. I'm kind of freaked out by all of this cult business.