Christian Falangist Party of America

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The Christian Falangist Party of America (or CFPA) was a Christian Right and falangist political party in the United States. The Party was founded in Philadelphia on September 14, 1985, the third anniversary of the assassination of Bashir Gemayel, whose Lebanese Kataeb Party provided the inspiration for the CFPA.[1] The following year in 1986 the party adopted Engelbert Dollfuss as their second spiritual mentor. Since that time, it has yet to field any candidates for office. A 2004 presidential write-in bid by then national director Kurt Weber-Heller was abandoned when Weber-Heller left the party to join the Franciscan Order.

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[edit] Overview

The Christian Falangist logos are: a cross with four equal perpendicular arms, an adaptation of the arms of the Kataeb (a red, typical dimension cross with a triangular slice removed from the descending limb). This cross was originally used by the French crusader, Guy de Lusignan, and; the Jerusalem Cross (or, Crusader's Cross) [2] Although named after the Spanish movement led by Francisco Franco, the party does not quote or draw inspiration from that movement but tends to look towards the Kataeb as its ideological forefather.

The CFPA, which remained minuscule and not very well noticed for several years after its inception, grew steadily since September 11, 2001.[3]

Their past director and founder, a former militia lieutenant, and also founder of the Christian Zionists Of America [4] is Patricio Cortés Bridges. In 2007 the Christian Falangist Party of Germany (Christlich Falangistischen Partei Deutschlands)[5] was formed, it is modeled after the CFPA and Patricio Bridges was instrumental in getting the CFPD established as the first Christian Falangist Party in Europe.

As of the 12 February 2008 the Christian Falangist Party has desolved, and the director Patrico Bridges as formed a new party. The National Capitalist Party.

In March a party member from Virginia took over the party.[6]

[edit] Message

"A farewell message from the former head of the Christian Falangist Party of America, Matt Macke.

After working hard for 22 years and putting in untold hours of time and money into the Christian Falangist Party of America I feel I have invested in a lost cause. With very little support and initiative from the majority of the members of the CFPA I have decided to leave this organization. The name Falangist has been forever tainted thanks to the Spanish Falange and their ties to neo-Nazis and Fascists. Another point of dissatisfaction and one I could never understand was the reluctance of the the Lebanese Kataeb and the Lebanese Forces to officially align with the CFPA. Maybe they were too busy with their own problems to bother with us or maybe we were too small of an organization for them to think we were important enough. And there is also the possibility that the CFPA was too Zionist for their liking. No matter the reason it is too late now as the CFPA will in all likelihood die unless the separate state chapters keep it alive.

I am giving politics one more shot and I'm in the finishing process of forming another organization a break away party, so to speak, from the CFPA. As the CFPA has stated before "National Capitalism is one of the tenants of our party's beliefs." I have taken that tenant one step further And on February 12th of this year the National Capitalist Party was born. Any member of the CFPA who chooses to follow me in this venture and is actually willing to work for this new party and movement then you are more than welcome to join as a charter member and can contact me at nationalcapitalist@gmail.com all other party members are on their own and I bid you farewell.

Matt Macke and Patricio Bridges, Director, National Capitalist Party"[7]

[edit] Platform

The party espoused a largely authoritarian ideology, opposing both social and economic liberalism. It was uncompromisingly pro-life, opposed gun control and called for outlawing public displays of homosexual behavior. To clarify their position, the party website stated "[t]hat what consenting adults do in private is between them and God and not the government's business no matter how filthy, perverted and disgusting it is."[8]. The party's views on Islam and Freemasonry, as well as its loathing of political correctness and the New Age movement are notable. The party also took a hard line against anti-Semitism, declaring that the rights of Jewish as well as Christian immigrants must be respected. CFPA opposed further Muslim immigration.[9] The party believed that the Crusades were essentially defensive in nature, an immediate reaction to the Byzantine rout in the Battle of Manzikert in 1071, and also a long overdue reaction to centuries of abuse of Christians and Pilgrims in the Holy Land and the Levant.

The party stated that the reason it existed was in order to "defend Christians in the United States from official 'Christophobia' in the public sphere" and educate the public about the "true nature" of the "Islamic threat" to western civilization.

The Party also espoused a brand of "economic nationalism" focused on regulating the labor practices of large corporations and trade protectionism. It also desired to restore the silver standard.

The Christian Falangist Party of America still has several state chapters including North Carolina[10], Louisiana[11], Pennsylvania[12] and Washington[13]. It also has a blog[14].

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