Eustace Mullins

Eustace Mullins, an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist for over half a century, died on February 2, 2010, a month short of his 87th birthday. Throughout his life, Mullins produced numerous books, essays and articles and delivered scores of speeches and lectures with a common bigoted theme: that Jews are allegedly responsible for many of the problems and evils that have confronted the modern world. Ezra Pound, the well-known anti-Semitic poet, was reportedly Mullins's mentor and teacher, starting in the late 1940s. Throughout his long career as a propagandist, Mullins wrote numerous anti-Semitic works, including Secrets of the Federal Reserve , a re-hash of his anti-Semitic theories about the origins of the Federal Reserve and The Curse of Canaan, Mullins's biblical "analysis" asserting that an ages-long conflict has taken place between the builders of civilization and the Canaanites (i.e., the Jews), who sought to destroy civilized life on earth. Mullins also had a long history of being a contributing writer or editor to various extremist publications. From October 2001 until November 2006, he served on the Southeastern and Eastern Regional Bureaus of the anti-Semitic conspiracy-oriented newspaper American Free Press (AFP) , as well as its predecessor, The Spotlight . From at least 1993 through 2009, Mullins was a contributing editor to Criminal Politics, an anti-Semitic conspiracy-oriented magazine. In 2009, Mullins, despite his advanced age, embarked on a tour around the country to promote his theories. He reportedly visited North Carolina, Florida, California, Texas, and Ohio before suffering a stroke in January 2010. Mullins died a month later in Texas, at the home of a caretaker. In August 2009, Mullins was a guest speaker at a meeting of the Washington, D.C., chapter of the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens, where he spoke about "'The World Order' tyranny and its many facets such as the Federal Reserve system." In January 2009, Pete Peters leader of the anti-Semitic Christian Identity organization Scriptures for America, interviewed Mullins on his radio program. On the show, Mullins recounted how he formed a relationship with Erza Pound and learned about "the Jewish issue." In March 2008, on his 85th birthday, Mullins announced the founding of the so-called "Restore America Project." The project's Web site says that is "committed to improving the lives of every citizen of the United States of America." It added, "We believe that the truth has been so misrepresented that many churches, politicians and organizations have mislead [sic] our citizens either through ignorance or media and educational brainwashing that we no longer can focus on those destructive elements in our country. We wish to educate those who are hungry for truth so we can build a better world for our children." Mullins frequently made appearances at extremist events and on extremist Internet radio shows and Web sites to discuss his conspiracy theories. On January 17, 2007, Mullins promoted his Federal Reserve conspiracy book on Truthnet Radio, a show based in Yukon, Oklahoma, that has also hosted other anti-Semites. On December 20, 2006, Mullins appeared as a guest on the white supremacist Vanguard News Network's Internet-based radio show, run by neo-Nazi Alex Linder. A Web page announcing the program also promoted Mullin's book, The Biological Jew, a virulently anti-Semitic book in which Mullins calls the very existence of Jews a "hate crime against nature." That same month, Mullins was a guest on "The French Connection," a radio show run by Daryl Bradford Smith, who also operates an anti-Semitic Web site that names "Zionists" as the "masterminds of the September 11 attack." In September 2006, Mullins spoke at a "Free Speech Conference" hosted by American Free Press and The Barnes Review, a Holocaust denial publication founded by Willis Carto. He gave a lecture about his conspiracy theories regarding the Federal Reserve and spoke