Spartan Spectator Blog Revived

After shutting down in November the Spartan Spectator has been revived.

In a post dated January 22nd "Freedom Fighter" announced the renewal of the blog

We plan to use this space as a forum for the dissemination of interesting and important information regarding the state of our planet. We believe that Western Civilization is taking a slow and meandering path towards extinction, and that it is worth saving.

We believe that the virtues of Western Civilization can only be preserved through peoples of European heritage.

The Spartan Spectator, while not officially claiming to be the blog of YAF, still contains many of the YAF elements from before. It links to articles by Kyle Bristow in the Global Politician, as well as using the first three posts to highlight YAF bringing Jennifer Gratz, Walid Shoebat, and Nick Griffin to MSU.

MSU-YAF Announces End of Spartan Spectator

Kyle Bristow, the former Chair of MSU-YAF, announced that in the next few days he will be taking down the Spartan Spectator, the former blog of MSU-YAF. The blog was a continuation of The Spartan Spectator, a newspaper published by Jason Van Dyke .

This comes a few days after Bristow announced that MSU-YAF had decided to no longer have the Spartan Spectator be the official blog of MSU-YAF

Since I graduate from Michigan State University (an alleged institution of higher learning), the MSU-YAF officers and I decided that the Spartan Spectator will no longer be the official blog of MSU-YAF. Our options were: 1.) Keep the blog as the official MSU-YAF blog or 2.) Keep the blog, but make it not officially affiliated with the student organization. Since I am the one who posts the most on the blog, and since I graduate from this communist infested hellhole very soon, we decided that it would make more sense to have the blog's purpose slightly changed.

Those affiliated with MSU-YAF who have been able to post on the blog will continue to have the ability to do so.

That announcement came days after YAF Watch reported that Bristow had updated the blog to include an Othala Rune, a racist symbol taken from ancient Norse culture.

The Southern Poverty Law Center has written about the announcement.

Kyle Bristow, der Führer of the Michigan State University chapter of Young Americans for Freedom, or MSU-YAF, which the Southern Poverty Law Center has identified as a hate group, announced last Saturday that he planned to take the organization’s notoriously bigoted and mean-spirited blog, The Spartan Spectator, permanently offline “in a few days time.”

“I have decided that I will not blog anymore after I graduate from the communist-infested hellhole of Michigan State University,” stated Bristow, a senior international relations major. “I am moving on to bigger and better things, and I unfortunately will not have the time to continue blogging about the decline of Western civilization.”

As of this morning, the Spartan Spectator remained online.

Bristow’s announcement came just six days after YAF-Watch, a blog that tracks the activities (“antics” might be a better word) of MSU-YAF, reported that Bristow had updated the blog’s homepage banner with a red-white-and-blue Othala rune (right), a popular symbol with neo-Nazis, racist skinheads and practitioners of Wotanism, a racist variant of the neo-pagan Odinist religion.

The Spartan Specator’s most recent “poll” offered readers the option of selecting “Untermenschen” as the word that “best describes leftists.” Literally translated as “under man,” Untermenschen is a term from Nazi ideology used to describe Jews, Gypsies and any other persons who didn’t meet Hitler’s standards of Aryan purity.

In Bristow’s latest survey of the Spartan Spectator faithful, Untermenschen beat out “stupid,” “evil” and “degenerate” with 54 percent of the vote.

Jack Hoogendyk Lists Kyle Bristow in E-mail to supporters

Jack Hoogendyk, a conservative legislator and unsuccessful Senate candidate, recently sent out an e-mail to his supporters listing endorsements from state party members. The list in also available of Hoogendyk's campaign page.

From Jack Hoogendyk's e-mail (emphasis by YAFWATCH)

Overwhelming Support!

Greetings!

I've been in the race for party chair for just over one week. The level of support has been truly amazing. While I have been calling party officials, e-mails have been coming in from all over the state. Delegates and party activists have been writing and offering ideas, suggestions and enthusiastic support.

Thank you to all of you who are ready for a new direction, a return to the foundational principles that will inspire the base and bring in a new generation who are ready to take their state back for individual liberty, personal freedom and independence from an overreaching government!

Here is the latest edition of leaders, delegates and grassroots supporters who are on the team:

State Representatives
Dave Agema
Jack Brandenberg
John Garfield
Brian Palmer
Rick Shaffer
Fulton Sheen
John Stahl
John Stakoe
Glenn Steil

Elected Officials, City, County & Township
Nasim Ansari, County Commissioner
Dave Healy, Texas Township Supervisor
Nancy Nevers, Macomb Township Trustee
Margaret O'Brien, Portage City Council
Adam Stacey, County Commissioner
John Zull, County Commissioner

Party Officials - County & District
Mary Ellen Agar, Kalamazoo County Exec. Dir.
Carla Anderson, Dickinson County Chair
Jeff Andring, Monroe County Chair
John Brack, Kalamazoo County E.C.
Kyle Bristow, 12th District Vice Chair
Jonathon Brown, Luce County Chair
Judy Buchholtz, 12th District State Comm
John Chouinard, 13th District State Comm
Deborah DeBacker, 9th District E.C.; State Committeewoman
Judith Faye, 3rd District State Comm
Carolyn Flore, Missaukee County Chair
Linda Glisman, 9th District Vice Chair; 5th Precinct Delegate
Rita Hale - Alger County Chair
Phil Hardy, Tuscola County Chair
Linda Harmon, 14th District Secretary
Barbara A. Harrell, 9th District E.C.; Oakland County E.C.
Rev. Ronda Hawkins, 8th District E.C.
Dr. Bruce Henderson - 9th District E.C.
Gerry Hildenbrand, 6th District Chairman
Ronald Hunter, 10th District Treasurer
Erik N Koenig, Iron County Secretary
Arthur Koester - Treasurer - 14th Dist.
Dan Marcum, Montgomery County Chair
Kenneth Matesevac, Van Buren County Secretary
Mike Miller, Mecosta County E.C.
Theresa Mungioli - 9th Dist. E.C; State Committeewoman; Oakland Cty E.C.
Bonnie Patrick, 15th District Secretary
Greg Rotter - Cheboygan County Chair
Teresa Stayer - 9th District Exec. Comm.; State Committewoman
Mary Ellen Tryban, 1st District Secretary
Fredrick Wilson, Genesee County E.C.
Michael Yentzer, 15th District State Comm

. . .


If you would like to have your name added to the list, or if your name is on the wrong list, or if it is listed in error, please send an email to JackForChair@gmail.com. This list will be updated regularly as more names are added.

Mistake and apology

Dear Mr. Lennox,

I have received your e-mail of 18 November 2008 time stamped 1:08 p.m. I sincerely apologize that I did not contact you regarding the statements of Mr. Sylvester to verify the claim. You will find a correction posted on MichiganMessenger.com, as well as a public apology. In addition, this letter will be published on YAFWatch.blogspot.com to ensure the public knows of my error and my correction of it.

Thank you for responding to Michigan Messenger's coverage.

Sincerely,

Todd A. Heywood
sent via electronic mail

Bristow denies his run for MI-GOP Youth Chair

Kyle Bristow is denying that he is seeking the Youth Chair of the Michigan GOP. But GOP insiders say Bristow's press release was sent out by Dennis Lennox and approved by Bristow. For the full skinny on the story, check out the story on Michigan Messenger.

Defeated Candidate for U of M Board of Regents accepted endorsement from Kyle Bristow

A reader tipped YAF Watch off about Republican candidate for the University of Michigan Board of Regents Susan Brown accepting an endorsement from Kyle Bristow
(emphasis ours).

12th District

CHAIR: Dennis Buchholtz
VICE CHAIR: Kyle Bristow
SECRETARY: Victoria Rewiako-Smiley
TREASURER: P. Pete Vitale
STATE COMMITTEE MEMBERS: William Axtell, Judy Buchholtz

Susan Brown finished third in the race. She is just one of many Michigan Republicans who have recognized the hate group leader's role in the party.

Penn State YAF Chairman Condemns Kyle Bristow

In response to a letter from Kyle Bristow in the Penn State Collegian, Penn State YAF Chair Joe Ramagli dismissed Bristow's characterization of the goals of YAF.

Claims do not accurately reflect Penn State’s group

It is time once and for all to settle the claims about Young American’s for Freedom (YAF). I am quite disturbed by any accusation that our YAF chapter is hateful. Mr. Bristow wrote in his letter “Writer displays ignorance about issues that matter” (Oct. 29) that YAF is against what he called “sexual deviancy,non-Christian faiths, and feminism.” Penn State YAF by no means adheres to this message. I respect an individuals right to practice “sexual deviancy” if they so choose. Though I myself am a Christian, I believe we are only a free society if we allow others to freely exercise their own religion. Although I do not support the goals of radical feminism, I do adhere to the belief that the sexes are created equal.

I am just about sick of the easy and empty rhetoric people use to refer to our group as hateful. Yes, we are proud conservatives who will not apologize for such. We welcome dialogue with the university community about the issues that matter. We will not succumb to dialogue based on false accusations that are based on inaccuracies and do nothing to promote freedom of speech, freedom of expression,and, most of all, freedom of thought.

Joe Ramagli
chairman, Young Americans for Freedom
senior-journalism


This is not the first time that YAF has been rebuked by another YAF organization. The National YAF group threatened MSU-YAF, saying MSU's chapter would risk losing its charter when it announced plans to bring racist Jared Taylor to speak on campus. The event was canceled, and Bristow resigned his chairmanship shortly after.

University of Michigan YAF Chair Andrew Boyd distanced himself from MSU-YAF's and complained about being compared to the group.

Boyd said he does not support much of what MSU YAF and its chairman, Kyle Bristow, do. “It makes me frustrated we have to deal with these mis-perceptions that we are a hate group because of Kyle,” Boyd said.