Congressional candidate Jake Towne attacked by the ADL for doing an event with Rock band Poker Face (updated)

The Following is an establishment HIT PIECE on Liberty Candidate Jake Towne, and the Rock Band Pokerface. We at deadlinelive.info in NO WAY endorse or agree with this opinion. Having done an event with Mr Towne at Vally Forge PA and having known Pokerface for many years, I can say with all confidence that neither are “racist”. Wish we could say the same about the ADL! ~ JB

Express-Times staff
(wont put your name on the story huh?)

It’s a “freedom concert” and Poker Face is playing for free. However, their appearance at the show could cost Jake Towne something more valuable to a candidate than money — voters.

Towne, an independent, is seeking to unseat Charlie Dent in the 15th Congressional District. Poker Face is an Allentown-based rock band labeled xenophobic and anti-Semitic by the Anti-Defamation League.

Click here to read what the ADL has to say about Poker Face and vice versa.

Towne, of Lower Nazareth Township, said bands performing at the show don’t represent the ideals of his campaign and that an act believed to be anti-Semitic wouldn’t have been invited to perform. He acknowledged, though, that Poker Face tends to “go overboard.”

The ADL in April condemned the band because of its loose affiliation with a Michigan group of Christian militants that allegedly plotted to kill police officers. The group, called Hutaree, featured a Poker Face song in its militia training video and the band linked Hutaree’s website to its homepage.

Paul Topete, a singer and guitarist in the band, said the freedom concert, “has nothing to do with race, religion or the false accusations put forth by the ADL.”

Barry Morrison, ADL regional director for eastern Pennsylvania, said candidates should refrain from associating with groups that have a history of prejudices.

Read Colin McEvoy’s complete report (Below): Congressional candidate Jake Towne to host concert featuring Poker Face, a band condemned as anti-Semitic by the Anti-Defamation League

Congressional candidate Jake Towne to host concert featuring Poker Face, a band condemned as anti-Semitic by the Anti-Defamation League
Saturday, July 24, 2010
By COLIN MCEVOY
The Express-Times

An Allentown-based rock band that has been condemned as xenophobic and anti-Semitic by a national advocacy group will perform at a campaign concert organized by independent congressional candidate Jake Towne.

Poker Face is among five bands expected to perform at a “Freedom Concert” Towne will host Friday to celebrate his filing for a spot on the U.S. Congressional race ballot against incumbent Rep. Charlie Dent, R-Lehigh Valley.

Towne said he does not endorse all of the band’s statements, which he acknowledged sometimes “go overboard.”

“Any of the bands that are present at the freedom concert do not necessarily reflect the views of my campaign,” he said.

But Towne said he does not embrace the position of the Anti-Defamation League, which claims the band espouses anti-government, anti-immigration and anti-Semitic ideologies.

“If any of the bands were believed to be anti-Semites, they would not have been invited to play at the concert,” Towne said.

Paul Topete, singer and guitarist for the four-man band, said Poker Face has played for many presidential and congressional candidates in the past, including members of the Republican, Libertarian, Reform, Constitution and U.S. Marijuana parties.

“This show has nothing to do with race, religion or the false accusations put forth by the ADL,” Topete said. “This is about a benefit concert to help a candidate who will do what’s best for all Pennsylvanians without exclusion.”

Topete added, “As far as Jake Towne goes, he is the only candidate we have seen that represents all of Pennsylvanians. Not just white Pennsylvanians or Jewish Pennsylvanians or corporate Pennsylvanians, but all Pennsylvanians.”

The ADL publicly condemned Poker Face in April, in light of its loose connection with a Michigan-based group of Christian militants arrested for plotting to kill police officers.

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* Poker Face lost 8 gigs because of pressure from ADL and it is time they “face the music”.

Additionally, the ADL was involved with organizing a KKK rally in Philly.
Every Philly paper exposed this blatant fraud and the event permits were revoked by the city.

UPDATE 7.30.10 ————————- Just got this from Paul today:

Dear Friends, Fans and Family

We were scheduled to play tonight for the Independent Candidate Jake Townes Freedom Concert. But due to enormous pressure from the bottom pond scum feeders – the ADL, Jake folded on Wednesday, only two days from the show. We are still very proud that Jake lasted that long. He is a good man that loves this country very very much.

The freedom concert is still going on. If you had plan on going, PLEASE GO ANYWAY. If you had plan on donating something to the campaign, no matter how small or not, please still consider doing so. And support this non-owned, smart independent thinker who has some good ideas of his own. The two other establishment, candidates, cant bend over enough for the Global Order. Do we really need any more of the status quo. Isnt that what got us here to begin with. Both sides couldn’t sell Americas manufacturing base any faster then they could. Remember, the lesser of two tyrannies is still tyranny. Got that!

http://towneforcongress.com/events/freedom-concert-on-july-30th/

Also yesterday, Poker Face got some incredible amount of HATE-Love from the local Main Stream papers. Front page on both. You read that right… FRONT PAGE ON BOTH. Its like we killed somebody to get that kind of exposure. What did we actually do? Its because we have our own opinions on historical events in the past, and we also expose Jewish & Israeli crimes and genocides, and the established order does not like that.. We have had the ADL on our ass like the blood sucking ticks that they are.

Anyway here are various links to yesterdays insanity.

7/29/10 http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/news/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1280376351120190.xml&coll=3

http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-pennsylvania-poker-face-towne-deba20100728,0,4148338.story

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/white/mc-bill-white-dent-debate-20100728,0,5681007.column

http://discussions.mcall.com/20/allnews/mc-pennsylvania-poker-face-towne-deba20100728/10?page=2

http://discussions.mcall.com/20/allnews/mc-bill-white-dent-debate-20100728/10?page=2

http://blogs.mcall.com/penn_ave/2010/07/wanted-noncontroversial-band-to-play-at-freedom-concert.html

Can you believe all of that. Really? A little band like poker face, influencing a US Congressional Race for the 15th district in PA. Poker Face rated to have full color pictures of our last two CDs presented to the local masses. We are still shaking our heads.

The current seat holder Chuckles Dent was using Jakes association with us as the reason why he wouldn’t debate him. Please goto the front of our home page and hear the dialog that went down on Tuesday.

But it is still not over… This morning at 8:40 am, on WAEB AM 790 in Allentown, the local political hack Bobby Gunther Walsh is having me up for 10 minutes to try to roast me and the band over the PC coals for our beliefs and opinions. Please say some prayers that Father instills in me the right words for the people to hear. In the end, all of this publicity has hurt a little on the short run, but is doing us a huge favor in the long run. Maybe the free speech issue that surrounds all of this with the ADL, is what puts us on the national map. You never know, but it seems to be headed in that direction.

Please help us by spreading the word that we are under attack. Jump on the threads that I shared above. Educate those around you. The ADL fears us so much that we have had 4 front page articles about us in the last four months. Incredible! That’s what happens when you still have an opinion and stand up for it. Remember that 1 – person with courage is a majority. May our example encourage others to stand up to the new thought-police and their thought crimes.

Peace be with
Paul and poker face

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