Samuel Francis (Council of Conservative Citzens) dead

[bluestateguy]

Not LBN because it was on the 15th.

He was a staunch Confederate sympathyizer, but also a big critic of neoconservatism.

http://insider.washingtontimes.com/articles/print.php?StoryID=20050216-111354-3083r

Samuel Francis, a syndicated columnist and author, died Tuesday night at a Washington-area hospital of complications following major heart surgery. He was 57.
Mr. Francis was an editorial writer for The Washington Times and served from 1987 to 1991 as the deputy editorial page editor. He remained a staff columnist through September 1995.
Mr. Francis received the Distinguished Writing Award for editorial writing from the American Society of Newspaper Editors in both 1989 and 1990, and was a finalist for the Scripps Howard Foundation's National Journalism Award (Walker Stone Prize) for editorial writing for those years.
Mr. Francis emerged in the 1990s as a leading voice of traditional conservatism.
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[Orrin_73]

1. He was a big time racist!

n/t

[Straight Shooter]

2. Never heard of him.

And if he wrote for the WT, he was a reactionary, not a conservative. JMHO. Time to start calling these people what they are.

[pretzel4gore]

3. 57 seems young....geeb (brother of jeb) is 57

the milk fed ninnies usually live alot longer then that...rumsefell is 90 or 95 and he still looks like a baby's arse, cheney is so old his maggots up and retired!...he looks like fresh fruit (mango? crabapple?)

[Sapere_Aude]

6. dude

First off, shout out to the DU, this is my first post.

Secondly, the guy was a really messed up individual (like all the Conservatives) but i don't really think its a overly nice thing to do by celebrating on the guys grave. I'm really sad to hear the guy is dead. although I don't like what he says, I did read a few of his articles before, and they were... OK.

anyway, this is my point: i don't think celebrating peoples death is the right thing to do.

[starroute]

4. He was an old-fashioned racist and white nationalist

Here's something I found a few months ago at an apparently racist site, though it doesn't seem to be there any more. If this is what his friends were saying about him, and if even the Washington Times can't stomach him, you know the guy has got to be bad news!

Samuel Francis has been described as the “philosopher-general of American white nationalism,” More than any of his white nationalist peers Francis has successfully adapted his ideology to fit changes in geo-politics since the end of the cold war and articulated it as a battle plan for taking white nationalism to middle America.

Like Buchanan, Francis used to be part of the conservative establishment he now blasts. He once worked for North Carolina Senator John East and the Heritage Foundation – a leading conservative think-tank. In 1986, Francis began writing editorials for the Washington Times – the newspaper owned by Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church. His columns earned him 2 awards from the American Society of Newspaper Editors. When Buchanan announced his first run for office, Francis took over Buchanan’s nationally syndicated Washington Times column.

Francis got into trouble after his appearance at a 1994 American Renaissance Conference where he put forth his connection between race and nation, “The civilization that we as whites created in Europe and America could not have developed apart from the genetic endowments of the creating people.” He was first demoted from the Washington Times, and then fired after he wrote a column attacking Christian clergy who were seeking to atone for the sin of racism.

[alfredo]

5. Just in case he is still alive,

bury him face down so if he tries to dig his way out...

[KG]

7. Cthulhu awaits this scum.