I have been the chairman of the Michigan State University Young Americans for Freedom (MSU-YAF) chapter for over a year-and-a-half, and felt that it is time to step down so that the next generation of YAFers can replace me. MSU-YAF existed during the 1960s, but died off until 2001. The group was restarted by Max McPhail, who was the media relations person for the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (MCRI), which banned race-preference in Michigan. Other former YAF chairmen include Craig Burgers, Alex Hart, and Luke Pelican. The usual YAF chairman only holds the position for a year, so my year-and-one-semester reign is unique.
MSU-YAF was going to die out had I not taken the leadership role of the group at the end of my freshman year of college. Since that time, I have organized countless protests; have participated in debates on topics including embryonic stem cell research, race-preferences, and immigration; have organized speeches by Nick Griffin, chairman of the British National Party; Congressman Tom Tancredo; Chris Simcox, founder and president of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (we hosted him not once but twice); “urban conservative” Akindele Akinyemi; Ryan Sorba, the author of the forthcoming book The Born Gay Hoax; Mark Krikorian, the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies; and John Mangopoulos, a former congressional candidate and local conservative activist. I also organized screenings of Obsession, a movie about Islamic extremism, and Mind Your Own Business, a film about radical environmentalism. For the latter documentary, the film directors flew to Michigan State University from Romania for the event. I also organized the upcoming speech by Walid Shoebat, who is a former Islamic terrorist and now speaks out against Islam. Though MSU-YAF is not officially hosting Jared Taylor as a speaker this semester, I did see to it that he will be able to speak at a location near MSU and be hosted by another organization (the show will go on!). For all of these events, I organized them, raised the money to pay for them, and assisted with the advertisement—whether it was through posters, chalking, or through electronic medium.
I have been interviewed by Bill O’Reilly on The O’Reilly Factor, quoted by Sean Hannity on The Hannity & Colmes Show, and interviewed by the Detroit Free Press, Detroit News, Associated Press, Washington Post, CNN, and The New York Times. My aggressiveness with defending conservatism has caused students at Central Michigan University, Western Michigan University, University of Michigan-Flint, Olivet College, and colleges in Kentucky and Indiana to start YAF chapters. Nick Griffin, who spoke at Michigan State University, was once banned from speaking at universities in England. Because of our example of hosting him as a speaker, students at Oxford recently hosted him. Just last weekend, I received an email from a student who attends the University of Colorado who is interested in starting a YAF chapter. The influence that I as an individual had on political discourse while involved in YAF is immeasurable.
The Lansing State Journal has said of me that I am “the single-most reviled student at Michigan State University,” that I am a “die-hard conservative,” and am “the most vocal voice in East Lansing on issues like illegal immigration, English-only government and affirmative action.” The Detroit Wonk has said of me that I am “the most hated/prominent young right-winger on MSU’s campus.” The Michigan Conservative Dossier listed me as the top college conservative activist in the state of Michigan. I was recognized by the Phillips Foundation as one of the nation’s top conservative activists.
The extremely left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) decided to put my YAF chapter on their annually released “hate group” list. My critics at the SPLC have said of me that I am “incredibly anti-gay. And [am] terribly insensitive to immigration..." I do not know why they mentioned those two things, but they could also have said that I am terribly insensitive to abortion, race-preferences, socialism, supranational government, and Islamic extremism as well.
The experiences I have had as the chairman of MSU-YAF will stay with me for a lifetime. The incident where I raised a “Dump Debbie” placard as Senator Debbie Stabenow tried to deliver a speech at the MSU Student Union about environmental policy, being interviewed by Bill O’Reilly via satellite in the TV studio in Lansing, the time when MSU-YAF members drove to Kentucky to meet members of Kentucky-YAF at a gun show, the arrest of Jose Villagran at our first Chris Simcox speech, the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative victory party in which Jennifer Gratz thanked MSU-YAF in her victory speech for our work in ending race-preferences in Michigan, harassing the ACLU at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) every year for the last three years, and the attempted interrogation of me by MSU police at the police station are the more memorable moments that I have had as the leader of MSU-YAF.
Matt Ogonowski and Eric Thieleman will replace me as the leader of YAF—they will both serve as YAF co-chairmen. Over the course of the last month I have trained them how to run the organization, how to organize events, how to fundraise, how to deal with the media, and how to deal with the bureaucracy of the leftist regime that is referred to as the “MSU administration.” Eric Thieleman—from start to finish—organized the upcoming Cal Zandstrow speech that will take place on March 28th.
I have no regrets as to what I did, said, or planned to do while serving as the chairman of MSU-YAF. I am very proud of my exploits.
While I was driving back to Michigan State University from home today, I saw a solitary Bald Eagle flying above the expressway. It was flying in the same direction that I was driving. The eagle is a symbol of the freedom of my country that I hope to preserve for future generations of Americans. I find it fitting to pass the torch of freedom that I have carried for the last year-and-a-half on to the next generation of YAF leaders on the same day that I saw the eagle flying.
Western culture has not yielded any territory at Michigan State University since I served as the chairman of MSU-YAF. Neither will territory be yielded under the leadership of Matt Ogonowski and Eric Thieleman. They—like all people who advocate conservative politics, promote freedom, and defend Western civilization—will have my full support in all of their future endeavors.
In Freedom,
Kyle Bristow
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Kyle Bristow Resigns from YAF Chairman Position
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6 comments:
What the heck is going on here?????
I am waiting for the punchline... but I don't see it coming.
Nope, it's for real.
I served my time and Ogonowski and Thieleman are ready to replace me.
Thank God for the tree huggers who cared enough about the environment to protect that bald eagle.
It made nice material for your exit.
Dear Sir
I suggest you temper your pro-BNP stance.
BNP may be socially conservative (but certainly not Libertarian)
but they are fiscally Left-wing.
ECONOMY - British workers first!
Globalisation, with its export of jobs to the Third World, is
bringing ruin and unemployment to British industries and the communities that
depend on them. Accordingly, the BNP calls for the selective exclusion of
foreign-made goods from British markets and the reduction of foreign
imports.(Yes Osama Bin Laden opposes globalisation too, as do all
Socialists etc) We will ensure that our manufactured goods are, wherever
possible, produced in British factories, employing British workers.(Through
state intervention?? How left-wing!) When this is done, unemployment in
this country will be brought to an end, and secure, well-paid employment
will flourish,(Yes typical keynesian namby pamby Left-Wing nonsense) at last getting
our people back to work and ending the waste and injustice of having more
than 4 million people in a hidden army of the unemployed concealed by
Labour's statistical fiddles. We further believe that British industry,
commerce, land and other economic and natural assets
belong in the final analysis to the British nation and people.(thats
it the state must control everything, sounds nothing like what Lady Thatcher
said about there being no such thing as society) To that end we will
restore our economy and land to British ownership (BNP sounds eerily similar here to Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF and General Amin) . We also call for preference in
the job market to be given to native Britons (through state intervention
of course, thereby restricting right of association and the right of an
employer to employ whoever they damn well please!. I envisage some sort of ANC type affirmative action program to give the incompetent, uncompetitive and downright feckless a leg up and a handout) We will take
active steps to break up the socially, economically and politically damaging
monopolies now being established by the supermarket giants.(Through
state intervention/ blatant Anti-Free Market Capitalism) Finally we will seek to
give British workers a stake in the success and prosperity of the
enterprises whose profits their labour creates (Wow how Left-wing) by encouraging
worker shareholder and co-operative schemes.(wow Chairman Mao, Pol Pot and
Robert Mugabe and Winni Mandela would be so proud of them).
HEALTH - first-class healthcare for all!
We are wholly committed to a free, fully funded National Health
Service for all British citizens. We will revitalise the Health Service by
boosting staff and bed numbers, slashing unnecessary bureaucracy and by
addressing the root cause of low recruitment and retention - low pay.(and where
will the money come from, socialists always believe money comes from thin
air!)
We will see to it that no money is given in foreign aid while our own
hospitals are short of beds and the staff to run them. More emphasis
must be placed on healthy living with greater understanding of sickness
prevention through physical exercise, a healthier environment and improved
diets. (Sounds very new Labour doesnt it)
More utter tosh is to be found in their manifesto. The economy part
of their manifesto sounds no different from George Galloways extreme
left-wing 'Respect' party, the Green party or the former 'Socialist labour
party' of arthur scargill.
It urges 'Take all privatised social housing stock back under
council
ownserhip' it also says that if council housing is sold to tenants
the profits from the sale be ploughed into building yet more Council
housing!
Create a bulk transport tax regime that pushes supermarkets to
supply more local produce.
RENATIONALISE monopoly utilities and services (perhaps they should invite Alistair arling to join them), compensating only individual investors and pension funds. (this hatred of
Multi-nationals/Globalisation/Capitalism is very similar to that displayed by Socialist fanatic Hugo Chavez. As well as Islamic fanatics Osama Bin Laden and Dr Ayman Al Zawahiri).
So you see its not just about 'Rights for whites' after all is it.
But then a TRUE LIBERTARIAN opposes the idea of a 'white community' ' or
any other community. We are all individuals as Ayn Rand said and Lady Thatcher
said.
Drop your support for the Left-Wing BNP! )
PS I know you wont allow this post because as I said you are not a conservative you are a Left-Wing white supremacist who HATES free speech.
There is nothing Right-wing about 'Economic Nationalism'. Protectionism is Anti-Free Market and associated with Marxism.
In the Free-Market 'Survival of the fittest' applies. Is America weak? Can America not compete despite massive taxpayer funded subsidies to Industry and Agriculture? You need even more protectionism.
Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater were in favour of Free Market Capitalism and against Protectionism.
Reagan was certainly no doctrinaire free trader:
http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/crisis/2003/0917economicfolly.htm
(...)
By one reckoning, close to a quarter of American imports were covered by some form of trade restriction at the peak of Reagan protectionism
(...)
http://www.mises.org/freemarket_detail.aspx?control=489
(...)
But he advocated protectionism early in his 1980 campaign, saying to the U.S. auto industry: "Japan is part of the problem. This is where government can be legitimately involved. That is, to convince the Japanese in one way or another that, in their own interests, that deluge of cars must be slowed while our industry gets back on its feet..."
When he imposed a 100% tariff on selected Japanese electronic products for allegedly "dumping" computer memory chips, he said he did it "to enforce the principles of free and fair trade." And Treasury Secretary James A. Baker has boasted about the protectionist record: Reagan "has granted more import relief to U.S. industry than any of his predecessors in more than half a century."
(...)
One is led to ask: with free-traders like this, who needs
protectionists?
The administration has thus far:
Forced Japan to accept restraints on auto exports;
Tightened considerably the quotas on imported sugar;
Negotiated to increase the restrictiveness of the Multifiber Arrangement governing trade in textiles and apparel;
Required 18 countries, including Brazil, Spain, South
Korea, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, Finland, Australia, and the European Community, to accept "voluntary restraint agreements" that reduce their steel imports to the United States;
Imposed a 45% duty on Japanese motorcycles for the benefit of Harley Davidson, which admitted that superior
Japanese management was the cause of its problems;
Raised tariffs on Canadian lumber and cedar shingles;
Forced the Japanese into an agreement to control the price of computer memory chips;
Removed third-world countries on several occasions from the duty-free import program for developing nations;
Pressed Japan to force its automakers to buy more American-made parts;
Demanded that Taiwan, West Germany, Japan, and Switzerland restrain their exports of machine tools
(...)
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