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Backgrounder: American Third Position
Response to the American Third Position from White Supremacists and A3P's Plans for Expansion
Posted: July 9, 2010
Response to A3P from white supremacists
A3P's emergence has been viewed with cautious optimism by various online white supremacist and anti-Semitic outlets. TOQ Online, the Web site for the "scholarly" racist journal The Occidental Quarterly (to which MacDonald is a regular contributor) deemed it a "hopeful sign." Posts on VNN, the anti-Semitic neo-Nazi forum, and Stormfront wondered if it would become "America's BNP," a reference to the far-right British National Party, which won two seats to the European Parliament in elections in June 2009.
A3P's plans for expansion
Although the group is based in California, that state requires parties to have more than 88,000 registered members or more than 889,000 petition signatures to be listed on the election ballot, obstacles A3P is unlikely to overcome. In addition to Florida, William Johnson, A3P's chairman, has identified Delaware, Mississippi, Connecticut and Vermont as states with "easily surmountable hurdles" for ballot qualification, and says that the party's initial organizing efforts will be directed there.
By February 13, 2010, A3P reported that it had been working to organize leaders in every state and would "soon recognize a state leadership in Georgia, Arizona, Arkansas, and Nevada. A3P also reported that it is working to achieve "ballot access" in a number of other states.
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