04.01.10
Pennsyltucky Newspaper Funnies with Poker Face
Updated
Although the Allentown Morning Call seems not to have yet noticed that local rock band Poker Face was on Hutaree iPods, the rival Easton newspaper, the Express-Times — did. However, even in this, the more interesting stuff on the band — quoted below — was overlooked.
Said the Easton newspaper here:
A group of Christian militants arrested last week for plotting to murder police officers might have been listening to music from the Lehigh Valley while they prepared.
One of the songs by Poker Face, an Allentown-based rock band, has been featured in a militia training video used by Hutaree, the Michigan-based Christian militia group.
Nine members of Hutaree were arrested last weekend for plotting to shoot a police officer then plant homemade bombs at his police funeral and kill even more officers.
Poker Face, a staple of the Lehigh Valley music scene for two decades, dubs itself a “protest rock” band whose mission is “to expose the lies and scandals coming out of the Union’s Capitol,” according to its Web site.
Paul Topete, singer and guitarist for the four-man band, said he has had no interaction with Hutaree or any knowledge about the group’s activities beyond the use of the song.
However, Topete defended militias in general and told the Detroit Free Press the charges against Hutaree “sound like they’re trumped up.”
[Other Poker Face lyrics include] “Rise up! Rise up! Militias throughout the world / It’s time to end The Order’s globalist plans. / The Revolution is the only solution / When good government has gone bad.”
The Detroit Free Press has been covering the Hutaree and a story yesterday had this to say in reference to the Lehigh Valley band:
One of the [Hutaree’s] Facebook friends is Paul Topete, singer of the band Pokerface, from Allentown, Pa. Topete said Tuesday that he has had a few interactions with Hutaree because militia members play his band’s music for training videos.
“These are defensive training videos,” Topete said, describing his music as revolutionary protest rock. “Militias are defensive. We love our country, and we love our constitution, and we are not the ones trying to subvert our country.
Yep, it’s something of an honorific when your protest band calling for removal of “Obamas commie-fascist nation” has its music adapted for white Christian identity militia training videos.
The next comments — bluntly self-impeaching as they are — come from a long interview with Poker Face’s Paul Topete here.
Freedom Fighters will mainly come from the liberty-loving common man, whose ideology can be reduced to Life, Liberty and Property or simpler terms … Freedom vs Tyranny, and no taxation without representation. People from other groups will enjoin the fight, but it will be of convenience, and jumping on a bandwagon. Remember, all –isms of the last 500 years came from and grew out of the Sabbatean-Jewish mindset. Bolshevism, Communism, Socialism, Feminism, Jacobism, Neo-Conism . . . It is these satanic Jews, and the Rosicrucian Goyim henchmen that need to be erased from our planet. They are the cancer that is destroying humanity. All for the sake of greed and power. They want what little you and I have, while we want NOTHING of them or their ill-gotten fortunes. We believe in live, let live, while they practice: just who will get to live in the future.
The satanic Jews as a cancer destroying humanity slip of the tongue certainly stands to win a lot of friends for the band once it gets into even wider circulation.
But there’s more, lots more:
American Patriot talk radio has done a lot for us. Especially after we were attacked by a racist organization called OPP who are funded and directed by everyone’s favorite traitors, the [Anti-Defamation League] & the [Southern Poverty Law Center]. Both organizations should be investigated, tried and imprisoned for their roles in the 1995 Domestic
Terrorism bombing of the Federal Murrah building in Oklahoma City. Instead the false flag patsy Tim McVeigh, took the Lee Harvey Oswald FALL for it.
And a couple years ago, a Poker Face gig was cancelled at Rutgers University, for now obvious reasons.
Topete explains his view of it:
The event at Rutgers University was cancelled on us. We where suppose to have played for the New Jersey State Libertarians. Instead this story about our gig getting canceled by these twats’ efforts reached an international audience and gained Poker Face an even greater listening audience then [sic] before … Thanks to Darnell … We were labelled haters, racists, supremacists, anti-semites for just saying and posting the truth about the holoco$t, the domination of the African slave trade into the New World by Jewish merchants, Israel and NeoCons behind 9/11 events, Globalist forces shoving the North American Union and the Illegal alien Invasion down our throats etc … go to our politically incorrect forum board for yourselves …
Poker Face’s homepage links directly to the “Barnes Review,” an agency devoted to Holocaust denial. It is semi-well known for infamously asserting Hitler was an overlooked candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize.
And as if that is not enough, there is Poker Face’s link to an Internet radio broadcast called Pastor Dan, in which long anti-Semitic white Christian identity sermons are served up for consumption. (On their website it’s called ‘Yaweh by Design’.)
In November, the Morning Call newspaper wrote about Poker Face’s new record. The paper somehow managed to miss all of this, accidentally making a good argument that Tribune Company’s firing of everyone it can in editorial for the sake of the bottom line doesn’t make a better product. It’s apparent stripping editorial of experience and talent does not make the place a richer source of accuracy and helpful consumer news.
The Call’s unintentionally hilarious review is here.
Yesterday, DD wrote of it here.
Said the Morning Call of Poker Face:
There is a goofy brilliance on “Peace or War: Songs for the Revolution,??? and I mean that as a compliment. In a time when so many bands sound alike, these guys are following their own road.
Knock, knock — features editor Jodi Duckett! Anyone home?
Commented another website in 2008, on Poker Face’s rocking out for presidential candidate Ron Paul:
In the stuffy world of politics, the Ron Paul campaign has earned the reputation of being something like a raucous, freedom-loving party. A raucous, freedom-loving party with lots of paranoid bigots. So it would probably be more surprising if the band reportedly headlining RonPaulapalooza didn’t have a few teeny-tiny problems with the Jews, who they feel are trying to destroy everybody. The band Poker Face enjoys churning out a hard-chargin’ “freedom rock” that they developed under the influence of Boston, the Beatles, and Frank Zappa, as well as a firm conviction that the Holocaust did not happen and that the Jews are in fact the lead agents of a “Satanic World Order.”
The original announcement at Ron Paul Warroom.
Amusingly understated Morning Call newspaper music blog headline. Ongoing discussion title on Poker Face website: “The Holohaux & the neo-religious CULT of Holohauxianity ~ Witnesses to the Gas Chambers of Auschwitz – there are none.”
Anyway, this friends-of-the-Hutaree thing could be inspiration for more Poker Face material. Now the FBI probably really is watching them.
Poker Face — Morning Call ‘Band of the Week’.
The Morning Call finally gets around to covering Poker Face but still can’t quite puts its finger on all the vexing details.
mike knapp said,
April 3, 2010 at 7:17 am
Awww…. another whiney d-bag whose afwaid of da militias… and all dem crazy white folk.
Get a life.
Last I checked, Poker Face aren’t then ones taking your rights away.
Your government is. But you are happy in your illusion of comfort.
Its OK. The market correction (called a depression) will take care of that for you.
Enjoy.
Mike
Dan McKinney said,
April 7, 2010 at 3:26 am
George – Thanks for the excellent blog!
Pokerface neglects to use phrases like “Jewish conspiracy” or “Holohoax” in their lyrics, mainstream media interviews, or press releases. Instead, Paul likes to hint darkly that their are “forces” trying to enslave us. Oddly, no local media outlet has ever taken the bait and asked, “Well, who exactly ARE these forces?”
Still waiting for the day when the Call or Express Times does a real story on Paul and his outreach into the “Patriot” community, and goes past simply asking a few questions, and does a little homework.