HenryMakow.com – April 30, 2026

I just learned that my old friend Clarence “Tony” Horace Blizzard, age 92, of Altus, Arkansas died on October 7, 2025, in Fort Smith, Arkansas. 

I have a couple of readers, old-timers, who belong to a dying breed of patriots who uphold Christian values, freedom, and the American dream.  Tony Blizzard, left, has been making cogent comments on this site for 20 years (“Tony B”).  He was a collaborator with “Mady” de Shishmareff (1882-1970) who produced the best introduction to The Protocols of Zion under the title Waters Flowing Eastward (1953.)  Here he describes working in the late 1990s for Willis Carto’s Spotlight, the forerunner of the American Free Press. 

Below these recollections is an article he wrote on hate speech in the 1990s for Spotlight. His colleague Michael Collins Piper, (1960-2015) one of the greatest patriot journalists, said it was the only Spotlight article by another author that he saved. I’ve retitled it, “Hate Speech Stems from Hatred of Evil.”  Patriot movement pioneer, Tony Blizzard is an authentic American.

By Tony Blizzard – (henrymakow.com) 

Don’t remember exactly my time at the Spotlight and AFP.  About five years in all.  Latter 1990s – quit right after 9/11.  At Liberty Lobby I had several titles.  Started as the librarian making some sanity out of the confusion of years of collections of articles, books, publications on all sorts of subjects exposed by The Spotlight.

Wrote articles from the beginning.  My central Spotlight pullout on homeschooling was the second most published pullout in the history of the paper.  I was asked to write it because I had homeschooled my kids when it was a felony and the state stole your children if caught.  Even then I had to fight Willis who wanted a sit-down copy of government schooling.  Had to sneak into it that the beauty of homeschooling was letting a child take off on an interest, just giving guidance.  With today’s computers, homeschooled kids can learn more in months than four-year college grads will ever learn.  They are also in demand by corporations and even colleges.

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