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Led by antigovernment ‘Patriot’ groups,
the radical right expands dramatically
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EDITORIAL
The Arizonification of America
BY MARK POTOK, EDITOR
when even leading conservatives worry out loud about the
right-wing vitriol and demonizing propaganda so commonplace in
contemporary America, you’ve got
to be concerned about where our
country is headed.
This January, former President
George W. Bush, speaking in a
question-and-answer session
at Texas’ Southern Methodist
University, warned that the nation seemed to be reliving its
worst anti-immigrant moments. “My point is, we’ve been
through this kind of period of isolationism, protectionism,
nativism” before, he said. “I’m a little concerned that we may
be going through the same period” again.
In a column around the same time, conservative commentator Linda Chavez, a Fox News analyst and former Reagan
White House official, warned against new nativist efforts to
end birthright citizenship. “Now, egged on by radical population control groups, some Republicans want to reinterpret the
Constitution and 11 decades of jurisprudence to subvert the
14th Amendment,” she wrote. “They are on a fool’s errand that
will do great damage to the Republican Party.”
Roll Call executive editor Morton Kondracke wrote
the same month that we are seeing “the Arizonification of
America,” a reference to the state that last year passed the
harshest anti-immigrant law in memory. “It has become a
state of Minuteman vigilantism, death threats against politicians and judges, talk-radio demagoguery, and bullying of
Latinos and rival politicians,” he said.
And neoconservative Bill Kristol, writing this February,
worried about the “hysteria” in contemporary conservativism
that he sees exemplified in a particularly voluble Fox News
host. “When Glenn Beck rants about the caliphate taking
over the Middle East from Morocco to the Philippines, and
lists (invents?) the connections between caliphate-promoters and the American left, he brings to mind no one so much
as Robert Welch and the John Birch Society,” Kristol wrote.
“He’s marginalizing himself, just as his predecessors did back
in the early 1960s.”
Given these warnings from leading conservatives, it is not
surprising that the Southern Poverty Law Center’s latest count
found that the number of hate groups operating in America last
year had risen to 1,002 from 932 in 2009. The number of nativist vigilante groups was up, too, from 309 in 2009 to 319 in 2010.
And there was truly explosive growth in the antigovernment
“Patriot” movement, which added 312 new groups last year,
skyrocketing 61% from 512 in 2009 to 824 last year.
As we explain in this issue, this dramatic growth of the radical right for the second consecutive year is related to anger
over the changing racial make-up of the country, the ailing
economy and the spreading of demonizing propaganda and
other kinds of hate speech in the political mainstream.
The white-hot political atmosphere is not limited to hardline nativist politicians, conspiracy-mongering cable news
hosts, or even openly radical hate groups. During the same
month when most of these conservative commentaries were
written, the nation witnessed an extraordinary series of
events that highlighted the atmosphere of political extremism.
On Jan. 8, a Tucson man opened fire in a parking lot on
U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Democrat of Arizona, killing six
people, critically wounding the congresswoman and badly
injuring another 12 people. Giffords’ assailant appeared to be
severely mentally ill, but he also seemed to have absorbed certain ideas from the radical right, including the notion that the
federal government is evil.
Six days later, a neo-Nazi named Jeffrey Harbin was
arrested in Arizona for possessing 12 grenade-like devices
packed with ball bearings — “to maximize human carnage,”
as a federal prosecutor put it. A member of the National
Socialist Movement, Harbin was heading for the border when
he was arrested.
Three days after that, on Jan. 17, police in Spokane, Wash.,
found and defused a sophisticated anti-personnel bomb that
had been hidden along the route of a Martin Luther King Jr.
Day parade. Officials said they were looking into local hate
groups as part of their search for the would-be mass murderer.
And on Jan. 24, police in Michigan arrested a man in a
car loaded with M-80s and other explosives in a parking lot
outside one of the nation’s largest mosques, packed at the
time with 500 mourners at a funeral. He was charged with
making a terroristic threat and possessing explosives with
unlawful intent.
We are living in a deeply polarized and dangerous
moment, and that may be nowhere more obvious than in the
state of Arizona, as Mort Kondracke pointed out. Perhaps no
one captured that better than Pima County Sheriff Clarence
Dupnik, speaking at a press conference after the Tucson
assassination attempt.
“[L]ook at unbalanced people, how they respond to the
vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down
the government,” the sheriff said. “The anger, the hatred,
the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be
outrageous and, unfortunately, Arizona has become sort
of the capital. We have become the mecca for prejudice
and bigotry.”
Sadly, much of the country is following Arizona’s lead. ▲
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Driven by anger over the country’s changing racial demographics, the continuing harsh economy and demonizing propaganda found increasingly in the political
mainstream, the number of radical-right groups has expanded dramatically. For the
second year in a row, the growth was led by the antigovernment “Patriot” movement, which saw more than 300 new organizations appear over a 12-month period.
21 Over the Cliff
32 Shariah Shock
35 The Year in Nativism
Cliff Kincaid has spent more than 30
years at Accuracy in Media, a far-right
organization that tirelessly attacks
the “liberal” media. In that time, he’s
cranked out reams of material savaging
global institutions, political liberals, global warming theorists and the
Catholic Church. But he reserves a special loathing for gay people.
Virtually all constitutional scholars and
other legal experts agree that Shariah
law — Muslim religious law — could
never be imposed on Americans. But a
measure banning the use of Shariah law
passed overwhelmingly in Oklahoma
after sponsor Rex Duncan claimed
Americans were “in a war for the survival of our country.”
The anti-immigration movement
savored a major victory last year with
the adoption of Arizona’s controversial S.B. 1070, the harshest nativist law
in memory. But as their issues were
increasingly adopted by the more mainstream political right, the rate of growth
of hard-line nativist and vigilante
groups slowed to a trickle.
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12 Behind the Academies
Two private academies in Mississippi, set up in 1968 for
white children fleeing public school integration, are still
being partly funded by a racist hate group.
14 Taking Aim
In a self-published novel, an Ohio law
school student targets the Southern
Poverty Law Center for an imaginary
assassination and dreams up a fanciful past
for white people.
17 Making Myths
The extreme-right version of American history pushed by the National Center for
Constitutional Studies is gaining adherents.
One of them is Fox’s Glenn Beck.
24 Electoral Extremism
Over 20 candidates with extreme right-wing
ideas ran for a variety of political offices
around America last year. Five of them
managed to win.
30 Tainted Thule
A leading member of the now-defunct White Order of
Thule describes the strange ideas of his “esoteric Nazi”
group and explains how he came to leave it.
DEPARTMENTS
3 Intelligence Briefs
A would-be clinic bomber calls himself a “Christian Osama”; a
neo-Nazi is again convicted for threats; bank bombers get death;
and other glimpses of extremism.
68 For the Record
A sampling of hate crimes and
hate group activities from the
fourth quarter of 2010 is summarized in state-by-state listings.
69 The Last Word
“Radical traditionalist” Catholics,
many of them anti-Semites,
gathered almost 500 years after
Galileo to insist that the universe really does revolve around
the earth.
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DEPUTY EDITOR
INTELLIGENCE BRIEFS
Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council
said critics of anti-gay religious right groups
had refused to debate the issues. In fact,
the criticism of his organization and others began with a televised debate between
Perkins and an SPLC official.
RELIGIOUS RIGHT
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Anti-Gay Groups, on the Defensive
After Criticism, Lash Out
When the Southern Poverty Law Center
(SPLC) last November announced that
it would be adding several so-called
“pro-family” organizations to its list of
hate groups because of their history of
using known falsehoods to attack gay
and lesbians, the religious right and its
allies responded with a call to “Start
Debating/Stop Hating,” saying the SPLC
was seeking to stifle discussion of the
issue. That was ironic, given that just
a few days after the announcement,
Intelligence Report Editor Mark Potok
debated Tony Perkins of the Family
Research Council (FRC) on MSNBC.
The FRC, which was one of the
named groups, led the effort in
December to take out a full-page adverIntelligence Briefs contributor: Ryan Lenz
ing peoples’ characters. These included
an FRC booklet entitled “Homosexual
Activists Work to Normalize Sex with
Boys” that claimed “one of the primary
goals of the homosexual rights movement is to abolish all age of consent laws
tisement in two Washington, D.C.,
and to eventually recognize pedophiles
newspapers. The ads accused “elements
as the ‘prophets’ of a new sexual order.”
of the radical Left” of trying to “shut
The exchange came at a time when
down informed discussion of policy
religious-right leaders have accused the
issues” — decrying those who attempt
federal government of being beholden
to suppress debate “through personal
assaults that aim only to malign an oppo- to a “homosexual agenda” that purportedly includes “feminizing”
nent’s character.” The ad
the armed forces through
was signed by 22 conservathe repeal of the so-called
tive members of Congress,
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
three governors and several
policy; enhanced physof the listed organizations.
ical airport pat-downs
In a response to the
that supposedly turn on
advertisement, the SPLC
gay security officials; and
pointed to a number of
demonizing an assistant
examples that suggested
state attorney general who
that it was the groups, in
Eugene Delgaudio
waged a personal smear
fact, that were malignspring 2011
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HATE IN THE MAINSTREAM
Andrew Shirvell
“They’re eating away at the foundation of American liberty, of
American freedom.”
– South Carolina State Sen. LARRY GROOMS (R), quoted in an Aug. 8 McClatchy
Newspapers article comparing illegal immigrants to termites
“The deep, dark, dirty secret of Islam: It is a religion that
promotes pedophilia — sex with children.”
— First Baptist Church of Dallas pastor ROBERT JEFFRESS, in an Aug. 22 service called
“Ask the Pastor”
“I hope all the queers are thrilled to see him. I am sure there will
be a couple legislative fruitloops there in the audience.”
— North Carolina State Rep. LARRY BROWN, in an E-mail sent to dozens of fellow
Republican legislators Sept. 27, after learning Democratic House Speaker Joe Hackney was getting
an award from a gay-rights group
“How is it for that for decades there were no bedbugs to speak
of in New York City or anywhere else in America? … Is it a
result of massive, massive waves of immigration from the
Third World?”
— Host MICHAEL SAVAGE, on the Dec. 1 edition of Talk Radio Network’s
“The Savage Nation”
“Congress, the White House and Hollywood, Wall Street, are
owned by the Zionists. No question, in my opinion.”
— HELEN THOMAS, in a Dec. 2 speech given six months after the legendary UPI
journalist resigned following other remarks widely criticized as anti-Semitic
“If God has changed his mind, he must want the West to die.”
— Family Research Institute chief PAUL CAMERON, in a Dec. 3 interview with The
[Colorado Springs, Colo.] Gazette, suggesting God agrees with his condemnation of homosexuality
“We have only one blue-eyed bomber and that was Timothy
McVeigh. And he wasn’t flying.”
— U.S. Rep. STEVE KING (R-Iowa), in a Dec. 6 interview with the online Right Side News,
discussing the purported advantages of profiling air travelers
— RUSH LIMBAUGH, on the Dec. 21 edition of Premiere Radio Network’s “The Rush
Limbaugh Show,” following the repeal of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy on gays
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“Both Harvard and Yale do have a lesbian, transgender, gay,
bisexual department… . I don’t know what you have to do to get
a degree in those studies.”
campaign against an openly gay student
at the University of Michigan.
Andrew Shirvell, an assistant attorney general in Michigan, was fired after
waging a vicious campaign against Chris
Armstrong, the University of Michigan
student body president. Shirvell, who
later said he had done nothing wrong,
used his personal blog to accuse
Armstrong of attempting to advance a
“radical homosexual agenda,” calling
him names like “Satan’s representative”
and a “privileged pervert.” Michigan
Attorney General Mike Cox ultimately
fired Shirvell for conduct unbecoming a
state employee.
Meanwhile, Virginia lawmaker
Eugene Delgaudio claimed last fall that
federal transportation officials were
motivated to implement new enhanced
passenger search procedures by the
“homosexual agenda,” not concerns
about terrorism.
Delgaudio, a Republican elected
to the Loudoun County Board of
Supervisors in 1999 and re-elected
twice, made the claims in an E-mail
sent in his role as president of the
conservative nonprofit group Public
Advocate of the United States. Calling
the U.S. Transportation Security
Administration’s (TSA) non-discrimination hiring policy “the federal
employee’s version of the Gay Bill of
Special Rights,” Delgaudio warned
“the next TSA official that gives you an
enhanced pat-down could be a practicing homosexual secretly getting
pleasure from your submission.”
ANTI-ABORTION EXTREMISM
Would-Be Clinic Bomber Saw
Himself as ‘Christian Osama’
ROGELIO V. SOLIS/AP IMAGES
The militant crusade against abortion
providers shows no signs of abating
in the aftermath of Dr. George Tiller’s
2009 assassination in Kansas — a murder that many in the anti-abortion
movement celebrated as a watershed
moment. Two years later, threats against
abortion providers continue with
unabated religious zeal.
One of the epicenters of anti-abortion extremism seems to be in North
Carolina, where the FBI in September
arrested Justin Carl Moose, the selfprofessed “Christian counterpart to
Osama bin Laden,” for conspiring to
bomb an abortion clinic. Moose told
a confidential FBI informant he was
the organizer of a “phantom cell” for
the Army of God, a theoretical group
(no real structure is known to exist)
composed of those who have attacked
abortion providers. He used his
Facebook page to issue communiqués,
even posting detailed bomb-making
instructions free for the taking.
FBI agents in Greensboro, N.C.,
began investigating Moose in early
August after Planned Parenthood contacted them and told them that a man
was advocating violence against their
clinics. Moose was arrested and agreed
to plead guilty in exchange for leniency. He faces 20 years in prison and
a maximum fine of $250,000, according to a plea agreement filed last
November in federal court. He was to
be sentenced in March.
Moose’s words to an online sympathizer left little doubt about whether he
might follow through with his threats:
“As far as I’m concerned, nothing is off
limits to stop abortion. Anything and
everything goes. I have learned a lot
from the muslim [sic] terrorists and
have no problem using their tactics.”
Also in North Carolina, the Rev.
Philip “Flip” Benham, director of the
Concord-based Operation Save America
and a long-time hardliner against abortion, ran into serious legal trouble of
his own. In November, the fundamentalist Christian minister was found
guilty of stalking a doctor who performs
abortions. Benham came to national
attention when he began papering
neighborhoods with hundreds of Old
West-style “Wanted” posters for doctors
in Charlotte who perform abortions.
The posters didn’t put a price on the
doctors’ lives, but in the aftermath of
Tiller’s murder in Kansas, many doctors
felt threatened, especially considering
the murderous outcome of similar fliers distributed in other states. David
Gunn in Florida and George Patterson
in Alabama, both doctors, were shot
and killed in 1993. Another doctor, John
Britton, was murdered a year later
in Florida. All were once featured on
“wanted” posters.
Meanwhile, investigators have begun
looking into whether Tiller’s killing was
connected to a broad network of radical
anti-abortion activists, one of gunman
Scott Roeder’s former roommates told
The Kansas City Star.
Tim Parks, Roeder’s friend
and former roommate, said
he and six others appeared
before a grand jury in October
for a line of questions focusing on the Bible study group
Roeder attended. The group,
which met for potlucks and
Scripture study, described
themselves as Messianic
Jews who, unlike mainstream
Rev. Philip “Flip” Benham
Jews, believe that Jesus was the Messiah
and that hastening his return would
usher in the end of the world.
In Boulder, Colo., Donald Hertz was
sentenced to five years of probation for
threatening the family of Dr. Warren
Hern, one of only a few physicians
nationwide who will perform late-term
abortions. Prosecutors said Hertz called
a clinic last summer and warned that
his “associates” in Utah planned to kill
Hern and members of his family. At the
time of the threats, Hern was under the
protection of U.S. Marshals.
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Once Again, Glenn Beck’s
Views Invoked by Extremists
Three men arrested in 2010 may have
been the latest right-wing fanatics
inspired to murder or threats of violence
by conservative Fox News commentator
Glenn Beck’s charismatic and sometimes
end-times-focused diatribes, according
to family members and attorneys.
Kenneth Kimbley, the self-proclaimed leader of the Brotherhood of
America Patriots, apparently interpreted Beck’s rants as a call to action. At
the time of his arrest in July after discussing attacks on local bridges with a
federal undercover agent, the 58-yearold had 20,000 rounds of ammunition,
a stock of firearms and materials to construct grenades, according to court
documents. He also conveyed threats
against President Obama to the agent,
describing extensive booby traps he had
built and proclaiming his militia would
“resist in the event the government
started rounding up patriots.” That is a
mainstay claim among militias driven
by conspiratorial ideologies that accuse
federal agencies of preparing concentration camps to one day round up
well-meaning patriots.
Kimbley pleaded guilty in November
to unlawful possession of a firearm and
attempt to make a firearm in violation
of federal law. In his defense, his public
defender attested, “Everything said by
Mr. Kimbley is no different than what
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with police officers on his way to San
Francisco last summer, where he allegedly planned shootings at the ACLU
and the Tides Foundation — two frequent targets of Beck’s rants (the Tides
Foundation was almost unknown to the
public until Beck began attacking it regularly). Williams later described Beck as
“like a schoolteacher on TV.”
Nearly two years ago, extremist
Richard Poplawski fatally shot three
Pittsburgh police officers when they
responded to a domestic dispute at his
home. The killings drew attention to the
allure of Beck’s rhetoric when a man
described as Poplawski’s best friend said
the killer was “obsessed” with some of
Beck’s theories.
Beck has denied any form of
responsibility for the extreme actions
of his viewers.
The “schoolteacher”: There is evidence suggesting several violent extremists took their cues
from Glenn Beck, but the Fox News host has
denied that his extreme rhetoric and conspiracymongering played any part in influencing those
who saw him as a mentor.
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Three Preachers Embroiled
in Sex Abuse Scandals
Polygamist and self-proclaimed prophet
Warren Jeffs — one of at least three
high-profile preachers embroiled in sex
abuse scandals — has been extradited to
Texas for a trial expected to begin sometime this year.
Jeffs is the imprisoned head of the
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), which
has its roots in a split in the Mormon
Church in 1890, when the main organization renounced polygamy. FLDS has
compounds in southern Utah, northern
Arizona, Texas, Colorado, South Dakota,
Canada and Mexico. Jeffs was convicted
in 2007 for his role in arranging the marriage of an unwilling 14-year-old girl to
her 19-year-old cousin six years
earlier. That conviction was
overturned, but authorities
plan to retry him and he
remains in prison.
The new charges
in Texas stem from
a 2008 raid at the
Yearning for Zion
ranch in Eldorado,
Warren Jeffs
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his idol, TV commentator Glenn Beck,
typically states on the air and is protected free speech.”
Kimbley remains in federal custody
and faces up to 10 years in prison when
he is sentenced this winter. Arrested with
Kimbley was Steven Eugene Winegar, 52,
who is under house arrest in Harpster,
Idaho, until his trial is scheduled.
In April, Charles Alan Wilson
was arrested by the FBI for repeatedly threatening to kill U.S. Sen. Patty
Murray (D-Wash.) in retribution for her
vote for health care reform, so-called
“Obamacare.” Wilson was sentenced in
October to a year and one day in prison.
In a letter submitted to attest to his good
character during sentencing, one of
Wilson’s cousins said that “his fears were
grown and fostered by Beck’s persuasive
personality” and that Wilson was “under
the spell that Glenn Beck cast, aided by
the turbulent times in our economy.”
A third man, Byron Williams, faces
counts of attempted murder and a host
of weapons charges after a shootout
EXTREMIST CULTS
Texas, where authorities initially put
more than 400 children in state custody
on the grounds the girls were being sexually abused and the boys groomed to be
sexual predators.
In addition to his controversial
teaching on the suitability of young girls
for marriage, the rawboned prophet has
preached to his more than 10,000 followers that “the black race is the people
through which the devil has always been
able to bring evil unto the earth,” and
that homosexual intimacy “is the worst
evil act you can do, next to murder.”
Tony Alamo, another preacher convicted for sexually abusing children,
made headlines again when a federal
appeals court upheld his conviction for
taking underage girls across state lines
to sexually exploit them.
Alamo, head of the virulently antigay Tony Alamo Christian Ministries,
was arrested in 2008 after 100 federal
and state investigators raided his compound in Texarkana, Ark., as part of a
child pornography investigation involving allegations of physical and sexual
abuse, polygamy and underage mar-
is because men are
being feminized
and women are
being masculine!
You cannot say, ‘I
was born this way’
… I don’t care what
scientists say!”
The lawsuit
alleges that Long
gave the boys
gifts of cars, college tuition and
overnight trips to
curry their favor.
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On the defense: Bishop Eddie Long, one of
America’s most homophobic black preachers,
has been accused by four men of coercing them
into sexual acts when they were teenagers.
riage. During trial, one of his followers
testified that Alamo, whose real name
is Bernie LaZar Hoffman, had taken an
8-year-old wife.
Alamo was sentenced to 175 years in
prison after he was convicted in 2009
on 10 counts of violating the Mann Act,
a century-old law originally aimed at
stopping women from being sold into
prostitution. He is being held in Tucson,
Ariz., where he was recently placed in
a special wing after he began threatening prosecutors and others connected to
his case.
Then there is the case of Bishop
Eddie Long. He’s accused by four men
of misusing his role as pastor, counselor
and bishop of the New Birth Missionary
Baptist Church in Georgia, one of the
largest megachurches in the nation,
to coerce them into sexual acts when
they were teens. As of press time, both
parties in the lawsuit had agreed to
mediation to avoid what was expected
to be a long and embarrassing civil trial,
scheduled this summer in the event of
an impasse in negotiations.
The Southern Poverty Law Center in
2007 identified the charismatic pastor
as “one of the most virulently homophobic black leaders in the religiously based
anti-gay movement.” In a videotaped
sermon, Long declared, “The problem
today, and the reason society is like it is,
NEO-NAZIS
National Socialist Leader
Again Convicted of
Threat Charges
Imprisoned former neo-Nazi leader Bill
White can’t get a break — even when he’s
broke. In a case that tested the limits of
free speech, an all-white jury in Chicago
found the ever-garrulous, imprisoned
White guilty of using his website to
threaten the foreman of a jury that convicted a fellow white supremacist.
White targeted Mark Hoffman, the
jury foreman in the 2004 trial of white
supremacist Matthew Hale, who was
found guilty of soliciting the murder of a
federal judge. Years after the trial, White
listed Hoffman’s address, telephone
number and other personal information on his Overthrow.com website and
called him a “gay, Jewish anti-racist,”
adding that he “played a leading role
in inciting both the conviction and the
harsh sentence that followed.”
White’s attorneys framed their
defense around his First Amendment
rights — a point the American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU) in Virginia
supported. The ACLU pointed out in
a friend-of-the-court brief that First
Amendment case law distinguishes
between protected free speech and
what is known as a “true threat” — a
threat that a reasonable third party
would take seriously. It argued that
White’s posting, which did not directly
propose violence against Offman, did
not amount to a true threat.
The jury, however, disagreed after
hearing evidence about the full context
of White’s website, which contained a
plethora of verbal attacks and threats
directed at various perceived enemies.
The verdict came just as White was
about to finish a two-and-a-half year sentence for making racially charged threats
against other enemies. He also will have to
pay $545,000 to five black Virginia Beach,
Va., women in a separate discrimination lawsuit; White had sent them vulgar,
threatening letters during their dispute
with a local landlord. The women were
awarded amounts ranging from $45,000 to
$65,000. White’s now-defunct American
National Socialist Workers Party was
found liable for another $280,000. (The
Southern Poverty Law Center assisted the
attorney for the women.)
It’s unclear just how much White can
pay (he once claimed to be worth more
than $2 million), but the plaintiffs can
seek to collect any assets he might acquire
over the next 40 years. Also, the financial
punishments against him will stand even
if he should file for bankruptcy.
The ruling ends a lucrative run White
enjoyed with his real estate empire in
Virginia, where he bought property in
largely black neighborhoods as part of
what he called a “ghetto beautification
project.” What an ugly brand of beauty
it was: White would boot out residents who could no longer afford to stay
without using Section 8 government
vouchers, which he refused to accept.
He sent letters calling his residents
“dirty parasites” and once wrote tenants
that his “patience with you and the government that coddles you runs thin.”
As if financial and judicial ruin were
not enough, an ironic twist left White’s
family targeted by threats from the
racist right last October. Apparently
angered by things White had said in
court, self-professed Aryan Brotherhood
member Timothy Grant Bland, 45, allegedly began a terror campaign against
White’s wife and daughter, calling in the
middle of the night to leave lewd and
sometimes hostile messages.
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“You’re a disgrace,” Bland said in one
phone call to White’s wife, Meghan,
according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
“Aryan Brotherhood is coming for you.”
Meghan White said Bland also texted
her pictures of his genitals — pictures
that were still on his cell phone when he
was arrested.
EXTREMIST COP-KILLERS
Father and Son Bank
Bombers Head To Death
Row in Oregon
With faces swept free of emotion,
Bruce Turnidge and his son, Joshua
Turnidge, received death sentences
in December for aggravated murder
charges stemming from the bombing of an Oregon bank that killed two
police officers.
During trial, a portrait of two
angry men emerged: delusional and
racist “Patriots” contemptuous of
the government and police and fearful that President Obama would take
away their right to possess guns. Both
father and son harbored antigovernment ideas and fantasized about
figures they viewed as antigovernJoshua Turnidge
Bruce Turnidge
ment heroes, including Oklahoma
City bomber Timothy McVeigh, who
she did so and promptly notified police.
was executed in 2003. Nevertheless,
William Hakim, a bomb technician with
it remains unclear exactly why the
the Oregon State Police, initially thought
Turnidges thought planting a bomb outthe boxed bomb was a hoax and began
side a suburban bank before a robbery
would strike a blow against federal power. dismantling the package.
The bomb went off unexpectedly.
The Turnidge bombing occurred
Prosecutors contended that it was set
on Dec. 12, 2008, when an employee at
Wells Fargo in Woodburn, Ore., received off by an unknown transmission of some
a call from a man instructing her and her kind, perhaps from a local CB radio.
Defense attorneys claimed that Hakim
fellow employees to leave the building.
set it off by hammering on the device.
When her manager told her to hang up,
Throwing their support behind Arizona’s highly controversial anti-immigrant S.B.
1070 law, as many as 60 members of the National Socialist Movement (NSM) were
subjected to a hail of stones and other missiles hurled by anti-racist protesters as
they marched toward the Sandra Day O’Connor Federal Court Building. The NSM,
which is the largest neo-Nazi group in the nation, targeted that building because
it was there that a federal judge stayed major portions of the law, which would
require immigrants to carry papers at all times and force police to demand those
papers in many circumstances. About 100 anti-racists clashed violently with NSM members as they marched — at one
point, a woman with the NSM was struck in the head by a projectile — and police in riot gear stepped in with tear gas and
pepper spray to quell the melee. Two people were arrested for throwing rocks at officers. In a heroic retelling of the day’s
events, the NSM sang the praises of its own “valiant members” and fulminated about the anti-racist “masked cowards”
who attacked them. After the march, the NSM crowd retired to an unknown location where they burned a swastika
and admired an altar of sorts, decorated with a Nazi flag and photos (from left) of late American Nazi Party founder
George Lincoln Rockwell, current NSM “commander” Jeff Schoep, and, naturally, a grimly determined Adolf Hitler.
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THE
BLOTTER
Updates on Extremism and The Law
The U.S.
Supreme
Court refused to hear
an appeal from former
Zachary Loren
Beck, a member of the neo-Nazi
Aryan Nations, withdrew from an agreement
White Knights of the Ku
Klux Klan member James
to plead guilty to federal
hate crime charges in a
Ford Seale, serving three
January 2010 attack on
life sentences at the fedthe lone black patron of a
eral prison in Terre Haute,
sports bar in Vancouver,
Ind., for his part in the
Wash. In 2005, Beck had
1964 beating deaths of
black teenagers Charles
pleaded guilty to assault
James Ford Seale
Eddie Moore and Henry
charges after shooting at
Hezekiah Dee, who Seale
Longview, Wash., police
suspected of civil rights
a year earlier. In 2003,
activism. Initial charges against Seale
he ran unsuccessfully for the Hayden,
were dismissed by Mississippi officials
Idaho, City Council.
in 1965, but the case was reopened and
he was convicted in 2007.
NOV. 19 A U.S. magistrate judge in
Detroit denied alleged members of the Hutaree Militia a hearing
OCT. 22 Daniel Cowart, the one-time
probationary member of the
they sought to contest government conspiracy allegations. Nine members of
Supreme White Alliance racist skinhead
the self-described group of “Christian
group who pleaded guilty in March to
warriors” were arrested last March
charges he plotted to kill then-Demand accused of plotting to murder a
ocratic presidential candidate Barack
police officer and then use bombs and
Obama in 2008, was sentenced to 14
missiles to kill hundreds of other offiyears in prison. In addition to Cowart
cers at the funeral in a bid to set off a
of Bells, Tenn., Paul Schlesselman of
national insurrection. The eight men
West Helena, Ark., was convicted in a
and one woman came from Michigan,
separate trial. The pair met over the
Internet and hatched plans for a robIndiana and Ohio.
bery and killing spree culminating in
Obama’s assassination.
NOV. 30 Allen Goff, an 18-year-old
white supremacist accused of
threatening
an American Indian teen
NOV. 8 Daniel Lee Jones, a regional
at gunpoint in Billings, Mont., pleaded
director of the now-defunct
not guilty to felony charges of assault
American Nationalist Socialist Workers
Party, was sentenced to 18 months in
with a weapon. Goff leads the Montana
Creators Assembly, an offshoot of the
prison for mailing a hangman’s noose
to F.M. Jason Upthegrove, former presneo-Nazi Creativity Movement. In 2009,
ident of the Lima, Ohio, chapter of the
Goff was charged with the racially motivated shooting of a Latino teen in the
NAACP. Upthegrove was targeted
leg, but claimed it was an accident and
after he criticized a drug raid that left
26-year-old Tarika Wilson dead and her was only convicted last July of weapons
charges. He got six months’ probation.
14-month-old son wounded.
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OCT. 4
NOV. 10
Actor Wesley Snipes began
a three-year federal prison
sentence in Pennsylvania for failing to
file income tax returns on millions of
dollars of earnings during the 1990s
and later. The 48-year-old star of the
“Blade” films and “Jungle Fever” had
long maintained his innocence, telling CNN’s Larry King a day earlier
that he wasn’t a tax protester, despite
abundant evidence that he actively
sought out and employed bogus taxavoidance advice from radical-right
“sovereign citizen” gurus.
DEC. 9
DEC. 9
A federal court in Bridgeport,
Conn., sentenced Edwin
Westmoreland to 40 months in prison
for providing weapons to an informant
posing as a representative of the Imperial
Klans of America. Westmoreland, a member of the Connecticut White Wolves
neo-Nazi group, had pleaded guilty in
June to selling guns to the informant,
who he knew was a convicted felon.
Prosecutors have said the plot, which
allegedly involved several other White
Wolves members, was part of a push to
boost the group’s status and geographic
base in the white supremacist movement.
Following two mistrials,
John Ditullio was convicted
of murder and sentenced to life in
prison for a 2006 knife attack that
badly wounded Patricia Wells and
killed her son’s 17-year-old friend,
Kristofer King. Ditullio, who was
a recruit in a racist skinhead group
called American Nazis , lived in a
trailer park with fellow members in
New Port Richey, Fla. , next to Wells’
home. Ditullio and his fellow neoNazis reportedly despised Wells
because she sometimes had black
house guests.
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A final goodbye: An honor guard was part
of a funeral service held in Ecuador for José
Sucuzhañy after he was murdered by nativists
in Brooklyn in 2008. Together with the murder
of another Ecuadorian immigrant in nearby Long
Island the same year, the killing drew national
attention to anti-Latino hate violence.
ANTI-IMMIGRANT HATE CRIME
Murder of Ecuadorian Man
Dismissed With A Shrug
Keith Phoenix — who confessed to the
2008 murder of an Ecuadorian immigrant in Brooklyn by saying, “So I killed
someone — that makes me a bad guy?”
— has been sentenced to more than 30
years in prison. The case drew national
outrage after the man’s death was captured on camera.
According to investigators, Phoenix
and another man, Hakim Scott, jumped
out of their sport utility vehicle and
began yelling racist slurs before pouncing on José Sucuzhañay and his brother
because they were Latino and, the attackers thought, gay. A camera on a nearby
tollbooth caught Phoenix laughing maniacally as he sped away, leaving Sucuzhañay
mortally wounded in the gutter.
Phoenix and Scott each received
37-year sentences in August, though
MIDLAND COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE (WHITE); FERNANDO VERGARA/AP IMAGES (COFFIN)
Before moving to a fortified position, White climbed into a sheriff’s
vehicle and taunted officers. “He got
on the radio and basically was spouting off things about the deputies and
law enforcement, making political and
religious statements and making comments urging the snipers to make him
a martyr,” Texas Department of Public
Safety spokesman John Barton told the
Odessa American.
In the 22-hour siege that followed,
police say White sporadically opened
fire on law enforcement helicopters
and officers from a large dirt mound
that contained trenches, bunkers and
firing positions. The dirt barricade,
which had a white cross and a flagpole
on top, was built near the trailer where
White lived without utilities on several
desolate acres.
White finally surrendered as SWAT
team members in an armored vehicle closed in on him. He was indicted
in December on three charges of
ANTIGOVERNMENT ‘PATRIOTS’
attempted capital murder and was being
Texas Secessionist
held on a $2 million bail.
This wasn’t the first confrontation
Charged With Shooting
between law enforcement and individOilman, Police Officers
uals associated with the ROT. In 1997,
Richard McLaren, who was then head
Victor Dewayne White was just
of the ROT, initiated a six-day standanother reclusive extremist with ties
off with hundreds of Texas Rangers
to white supremacist groups and the
after his followers kidnapped a neighRepublic of Texas (ROT), which claims
bor couple at gunpoint and demanded
Texas is a sovereign nation never
the release of a jailed movement memlegally annexed by the United States.
ber. One ROT member was killed
Then, in September, police say he
in the gunfight that followed, and
decided to wage a one-man war against
McLaren was eventually
local authorities in a viosentenced to 111 years in
lent standoff that left
prison for his role.
three people wounded in
In addition, John Joe
West Odessa.
Gray, a reported former
The standoff began
ROT member, has been
after an employee of
holed up on his remote
an oil company went to
property near Trinidad,
White’s property with
Texas, for the past decade
Ector County Sheriff ’s
— ever since posting
Deputy Ricky Tijerina
bail on charges that he
and Sgt. Steve McNeil
Victor Dewayne White
attacked a police officer
to access an oil well
during a traffic stop. He
to which the company
later sent a letter to authorities telling
owned rights. White allegedly began
them to bring along body bags if they
firing almost immediately, wounding
came after him.
all three men as they retreated.
Hakim and Woodburn Police Capt.
Thomas Tennant were killed in the
explosion. Woodburn Police Chief
Scott Russell lost his right leg, and bank
employee Laurie Perkett was injured.
One of the witnesses to the bombing,
an ATF agent, likened the Turnidge’s
bomb to those made by Eric Rudolph,
the anti-abortion terrorist known as
the “Olympic Park Bomber” who was
responsible for a series of bombings
between 1996 and 1998 that killed two
people and injured more than 100.
In a jail cell letter to his girlfriend
before the death sentence was handed
down, Joshua Turnidge vowed he would
fight to the death against those who
had “declared war” on him, and that his
last breath would come in battle. “I fear
my heart is growing cold with hate for
what they have done to us,” he wrote. “I
pledge to you that not a day will go by
that will not be filled with retribution.”
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Scott was cleared of the more serious
a conspiracy between the Chamber of
hate crime charges.
Commerce, churches and corporations to
That murder was among the more
“put the derrieres of illegal aliens in the
serious recent acts of violence against
pews,” project chairman Eli Cawley told
Latinos across the country. It came
KSL Newsradio in Salt Lake City.
amid a volatile anti-immigrant climate — vigilantes actively patrolling
HATE CRIMES
the borders with Mexico, fear-monMentally Disabled Navajo
gering filling the airwaves, and states
attempting to adopt sweeping changes
Man Branded With Swastika
to immigration policy that are likely to
lead to illegal racial profiling.
In the first known case filed under
Just days before Phoenix and Scott
the federal hate crimes law signed by
were sentenced, 18-year-old Christian
President Obama in 2009, three New
Vasquez was beaten repeatedly in the
Mexico men face charges after being
Staten Island, N.Y., neighborhood of
accused of using a heated wire coat
Port Richmond until his left eye swelled
hanger to brand a swastika on a menshut. According to police, his attacktally disabled Navajo man.
ers took $10 while yelling anti-Mexican
Paul Beebe, William Hatch and
slurs and “Go home.”
Jesse Sanford each face one count of
The case drew national attention
conspiracy and one count of violating
after Staten Island Borough President
the federal hate crimes law, also known
James Molinaro told the Staten Island
as the Matthew Shepard and James
Advance, “These are not bias incidents
Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
… these are criminal acts.” He later said
They also face state felony charges of
the victim “could have been anybody.”
kidnapping, conspiracy to commit kidIn Arizona, Jason Bush and his conapping, aggravated battery causing
defendant, a former teen prostitute
great bodily harm and conspiracy to
named Shawna Forde who started and
commit aggravated battery.
led a vigilante group called Minuteman
They are accused of more than
American Defense (MAD), went to trial
just branding
in January for killing a Latino father and Vincent Kee’s
daughter. Albert Gaxiola was also being
arm in April
charged as a co-conspirator in the mur2009. Police
ders. Bush and Forde will
face a possible death senThe price of hate: Swastikas were
tence if convicted. The three
shaven and branded on the body
are accused of attacking the
of a mentally disabled man in
2009. Now, the case has become
family — the mother of the
the first prosecuted under a new
family was wounded but
federal hate crimes law.
survived — in a bid to steal
money to fund Forde’s group.
Meanwhile, state leaders in Utah are under attack
after drawing up a five-point
plan to address immigration
reform. The so-called Utah
Compact is a declaration of
principles meant to guide the
state’s discussion of immigration reforms.
The Utah Minuteman
Project opposes those reforms,
calling the compact part of
say they shaved a swastika on the back
of his head, drew two horns on his
forehead and wrote the words “White
Power” across the back of his neck.
None of this seems incidental. The men
are believed to be associated with the
white supremacist movement, and a
search of Beebe’s apartment turned up
various items displaying Nazi iconography, including a Nazi flag mounted
on a wall and a baseball bat painted
with a swastika.
In his defense, Sanford’s attorney
claims Kee was a willing participant and that cell phone video footage
shows Kee agreeing to the brand. It was
meant, the men
say, as a Navajo
tribal symbol representing rolling
water. Throughout
history, the swastika has had many
meanings, including its associations
William Hatch
with many southwestern Native
American Indian
tribes — but its
use by the Nazis
is surely the
most frightening and lasting
associations.
The defense so
Jesse Sanford
far hinges on Kee,
who suffers from
fetal alcohol syndrome, a condition
that diminished
his mental capacity. Attorneys for
at least two of
the men say that
alone is reason to
Paul Beebe
doubt Kee’s claim
that the branding and markings
were done against his will. Defense
attorney Eric Morrow wrote that police
and other adults convinced Kee that
the branding was a criminal act. “At
this point, his words are not his own,”
Morrow wrote in court filings. ▲
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Behind the
Academies
Half a century after school desegregation
began, a racist hate group is still helping
fund two private Mississippi schools
BY HEIDI BEIRICH
O
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dents had withdrawn from public schools
to avoid mandatory desegregation.
Though the academies remain across
the South, their days of overtly catering
solely to whites have ended. But a minority presence at some schools can be hard to
find: The headmaster of Carroll Academy,
Steve Flemming, told the Intelligence
Report that the school has one non-white
student. Calhoun’s headmaster, Coach
Cameron White, said that his school had
four non-white students, some of whom
“may have black blood in their families.”
The Carroll and Calhoun academies,
which both were founded in 1968 and
offer classes from kindergarten through
high school, are revered by the CCC.
The CCC’s longtime national field coordinator, Bill Lord, who was president
of Carroll Academy for 14 years in the
1980s and 1990s, called them “the mira-
Carroll Academy’s school mascot is Colonel Reb
— the same symbol axed by the University of
Mississippi because of its evocation of the racist
doctrines of the Confederacy.
cle of the century.” In 2004, Lord wrote
in the Citizens Informer that the academies create “an atmosphere free of
social experiments” for those who want
to “associate with persons of like persuasion,” presumably meaning other whites.
According to his biographical profile,
Lord helped organize both Carroll and
Calhoun academies, as well as six others
in Arkansas and Tennessee.
The CCC works hard to support the
schools, holding barbecue fundraisers that bring in substantial donations.
In 1999, for instance, the CCC reported
that it had raised over $100,000 for
Calhoun Academy. The group also prominently features activities taking place at
the academies in its publications. The
CCC’s April-June 2010 Citizens Informer,
for example, ran a photo of the Carroll
Academy Lady Rebels basketball team
along with congratulations for having
won a championship.
In February 2010, Carroll Academy
hosted a CCC meeting that featured
Jeppi Barbour, brother of Mississippi
Gov. Haley Barbour, describing a petition drive for a ballot proposal the would
require voters to show ID before voting.
Photos show Jeppi Barbour in the academy’s library speaking to dozens of CCC
members. And the local CCC chapter
regularly meets in the school’s facilities.
In March 2009, the chapter’s meeting at
the academy featured an unnamed guest
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ld times certainly are not
forgotten in some parts
of the South. Two private
Mississippi academies, set
up in 1968 for white children facing the
unacceptable (to their parents) prospect
of sharing their classrooms with African
Americans, are still being enthusiastically funded by white supremacists.
Calhoun Academy in Calhoun City
and Carroll Academy in Carrollton
have been the beneficiaries of considerable financial support over the
past two decades from the Council of
Conservative Citizens (CCC), a crudely
white supremacist group whose website
has referred to blacks as “a retrograde
species of humanity” and whose newspaper, Citizens Informer, regularly
publishes articles condemning “race
mixing” and lamenting the decline of
white, European civilization.
The CCC is the direct descendant
of the segregationist White Citizens
Councils of the 1950s and 1960s, having
been largely built on the earlier councils’ mailing lists. The Supreme Court’s
landmark 1954 decision, Brown v. Board
of Education, ordering desegregation of
the nation’s public schools, sparked the
growth of the White Citizens Councils,
which declared, “We will not be integrated. We are proud of our white blood
and our white heritage of sixty centuries.” The councils’ first order of business
after the court decision was to create private, all-white schools that came to be
known as segregation, or seg, academies.
By 1975, at least a half million white stu-
A group of men helping to raise money for
Mississippi’s Carroll Academy gather in front of
a banner for the white supremacist Council of
Conservative Citizens, a school benefactor.
speaker who is “one of the top judges in
Mississippi, who gave a talk on the need
for conservative organizations across the
state to offset the liberals that are trying
to influence the courts.” (In recent years,
the CCC has avoided naming public figures who address the group because of the
ramifications of speaking to an openly racist group. Most politicians have strenuously
avoided the CCC since the late 1990s.)
In line with the CCC’s reverence for
all symbols of the Old South, Carroll
Academy’s sports teams are called
the Rebels and the school’s mascot —
featured prominently on its website
— is Colonel Reb. (The colonel is identical to the mascot of the University of
Mississippi that was axed seven years ago
because of its connection to the Confederacy
and its racist doctrines.) Several photos of a
recent barbecue fundraiser the CCC held
for the school are on the academy’s website,
including two that depict a big CCC banner
alongside a Confederate flag.
Calhoun Academy also gets considerable ink in the CCC’s newsletter. A picture in
April-June Citizens Informer shows a massive barbecue pit full of chicken that was
sold to help the school. “Tasty B-B-Q benefits Calhoun Academy,” reads the caption.
On another page the newsletter notes that
the barbecue event brought in over $1,600
for Calhoun, described as a “private school
organized by the Council.” A 2004 description of another barbecue fundraiser put on
by the local CCC chapter said the funds
from “the program are used to purchase
textbooks and visual aids for the school
library.” These events have been held for
nearly two decades for both schools.
Given the CCC’s long relationship
with Carroll Academy, it was surprising
how unaware headmaster Flemming
said he was about the group. He told the
Report that CCC members have children
in his academy and that the group is “supportive of the school.” But he said that he
was “not informed” about the nature of
the CCC, even though the group regularly meets on his campus. He declined
to condemn their racist views, saying that
he didn’t want “offend anyone” and that
“they have their right to feel how they
feel.” Flemming also told the Report that
the parents of his school’s one non-white
student “have never had a concern” about
white supremacists meeting at and helping to fund his academy.
For his part, White, the headmaster
at Calhoun Academy, told the Report
that the CCC donates only “about $4 a
year” to the school, which contradicts
the CCC’s published accounts of its fundraisers for the school. When asked about
the barbecue the group held earlier this
year to raise funds for the school, White
said his campus receives “no direct donations” and added that he didn’t know if
the CCC had “assisted in cooking” to
benefit the school. When asked about the
CCC’s views — one of its platform statements is a promise to “oppose all efforts
to mix the races of mankind” — White
said, “I wouldn’t comment on that.”
Both academies are accredited members of the Mississippi Association of
Independent Schools (MAIS), which
includes dozens of private academies
in Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas.
A search of the association’s accreditation materials could find no reference
to best practices or policies dealing
with racism or discrimination. But in a
November E-mail to the Report, MAIS
Executive Director David Derrick said:
“Policies of the Mississippi Association
of Independent Schools (MAIS) provide
that member schools shall not discriminate in enrollment on the basis of race.
Member schools, however, are autonomous in their decisions regarding
funding. There are no policies in place
that allow for, or require, review of funding sources of member schools.”
After the CCC’s support for these
schools was initially disclosed in October
on the Hatewatch blog, a sister Southern
Poverty Law Center publication to the
Intelligence Report, an anti-racist group
called Change.org organized two petition campaigns to stop racist funding
of the academies. By January MAIS had
changed its tone, demanding that the
schools end their financial relationship
with the CCC. ▲
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Taking Aim
A law student targets SPLC in an assassination fantasy.
Kyle Bristow also conjures up an imaginary past for white people
BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK
I
t was no surprise last October
when former hate group leader
Kyle Bristow self-published a
white nationalist novel featuring
the graphic assassination of a character
based on a prominent employee of the
Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
Bristow, after all, has had an outsized
ax to grind with the SPLC since his
undergraduate years at Michigan State
University. It was there that he first
attained notoriety for inviting hate group
spokesmen to speak on campus and for
promoting a video game centered on killing Mexican migrants.
Somewhat more surprising than the
book itself are the dozen gushing blurbs
Bristow collected in praise of his violently
racist debut novel, White Apocalypse.
Some of these blurbs are from usual suspects like Billy Roper, of White Revolution
and the Nationalist Party of America, and
James Edwards, of the hate radio program
“The Political Cesspool.” But the book also
received glowing praise from two academics with ties to well-known universities.
The first is Kevin MacDonald, professor of psychology at California State
University at Long Beach. McDonald
calls White Apocalypse “an emotionally
compelling account of Whites as historical victims of non-Whites — just the sort
of thing we need to motivate a renaissance among our people.”
Despite his high-sounding position,
MacDonald is a raging anti-Semite who
contends that Jews are driven by a genetically programmed evolutionary strategy
to undermine Western civilization.
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MacDonald, whose writings on Jews
have been condemned by his academic
colleagues, recently joined an explicitly
white supremacist group, the American
Third Position, which was started by a
man who has called for the deportation
of all Americans with any “ascertainable
trace of Negro blood.”
Another fan of Bristow’s novel is selfdescribed white “separatist” Virginia
Abernethy, a professor emerita at
Vanderbilt University medical school.
Abernethy calls White Apocalypse a “well-
Kyle Bristow’s fury at the SPLC is crystallized
in a scene from his self-published novel that
depicts a character obviously meant to be an
SPLC official being assassinated.
researched page-turner” and hopes it is
the first of many. “One looks forward to
much more from this author,” she writes.
Craig Bodeker, producer of the film “A
Conversation About Race,” also weighs in
with a prominent endorsement. Bodeker,
who persists in claiming he is no racist despite posting Internet comments
describing black people as “EVIL monkeys,” calls Bristow’s book “the jolt Whites
need to awaken from our suicidal slumber!”
Let’s hope no one takes Bristow’s
book seriously, let alone finds themselves
being “awakened” by it. Its plot is driven
by puerile prose and revolves around a
series of violent revenge fantasies against
Jewish professors, Latino and Native
American activists, and the SPLC.
Targeting Enemies
Much of White Apocalypse is spent
d ra m a t i z i n g o n e m a n ’s c r u s a d e
against the “evil, anti-Western” activities of an Atlanta-based organization
called the “Center for Diversity and
Multiculturalism.” The organization,
with its “hate group list” and large
legal staff, is clearly modeled on the
Montgomery, Ala.-based SPLC. The book
also includes characters whose roles
match that of two SPLC senior staffers: Mark Potok, the director of SPLC’s
Intelligence Project and editor of this
magazine, and Heidi Beirich, the SPLC’s
director of research.
On page 195, the Potok character —
the Center’s spokesman, named David
Greenberg, who Bristow describes as an
“oily, curly haired troll” — has just fin-
FROM KYLE BRISTOW’S FACEBOOK PAGE
While a student at Michigan State University,
Kyle Bristow took time out from posting racist
insults to display his unusual sense of humor.
ished delivering testimony in a federal
courthouse. As Greenberg stands outside
the building, the novel’s hero, a one-man
militia named Jack Schoenherr (which
translates roughly from the German as “Mr.
Handsome”) fires a bullet from his AR-15
from the roof of a nearby parking garage.
Bristow describes the event as follows:
“The supersonic projectile hit the leftist agitator one inch below the eye, and the
bullet exited the back of his head nanoseconds later. … Brain, blood, and skull
fragments burst forth from what was
once Greenberg’s head, and the leftist
was blown off both of his feet. Greenberg
died instantly, and his last words were ‘We
must destroy the plague that is Western
culture.’ Ironically, Western culture got
him first. From Valhalla [a celebration
hall in Scandinavian mythology], Thor, the
archenemy of trolls, smiled at the accomplishment of the epitome of Western Man.”
When asked to comment on what is
obviously a murder fantasy concerning
the SPLC’s Potok, Bristow replied via
E-mail to this reporter that any parallels
were purely coincidental.
“Dear Guttersnipe,” read Bristow’s
response, “I do not ‘fantasize’ about anyone’s death. I do, however, fantasize quite
often of taking the country over and implementing a real right-wing agenda that
would make [archconservative MSNBC
commentator] Pat Buchanan and the late
Sam Francis [the chief editor of the white
supremacist Council of Conservative
Citizens] proud. What I mean by this is the
most offensive thing possible, and what this
is I will leave to your imagination.”
Precious little imagination is required.
With its anti-Semitism and racist
venom, White Apocalypse is the latest
entry into a long tradition of American
hate-fiction animated by the hatreds,
fantasies, and frustrations that fester
in far-right circles. The most famous of
the genre in recent times is, of course,
the late neo-Nazi William Pierce’s
The Turner Diaries, a race-war novel
that inspired the 1995 Oklahoma City
bombing and the murderous acts of the
domestic terrorist group, the Order, in
the mid-1980s.
Bristow’s book makes clear that
his current heroes include not just
marginal far-right figures, but also conservative commentators employed by
major cable news and radio networks.
Early in the novel, Bristow quotes “Dr.
Michael Savage” approvingly, an obvious reference to hate-radio jock Michael
Savage. The book’s militia tough-guy
hero offers a reading list that includes
Pat Buchanan’s The Suicide of the West.
Nor does it take long to figure out that
the name of his protagonist, Samuel
Buchanan, is meant as homage to Pat
Buchanan and Buchanan’s late friend,
one-time Washington Times columnist
Samuel Francis.
Bristow, now a law student at the
University of Toledo, forged most of
his connections to the radical right as
the 21-year-old campus director of the
Michigan State University chapter of
Young Americans for Freedom (YAF). He
gained notoriety (as well as the SPLC’s
hate group designation) for inviting wellknown extremists to speak on campus,
such as the leader of the whites-only
British National Party, Holocaust denier
Nick Griffin, and for stunts like advocating a video game in which players earned
points by shooting Mexican migrants at
the border.
While representing YAF, Bristow
earned notice from bookers and hosts
at Fox News Channel. As Bristow still
proudly boasts on his website, he once
appeared on The O’Reilly Factor and has
been quoted on-air by Sean Hannity.
Bristow’s national television appearances occurred back when he was a lowly
student activist. Today, he is a self-published author on a crusade not merely to
entertain or inspire to violence his fellow white nationalists, but to reveal the
true story of their Stone Age ancestors,
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who, he firmly believes, settled North
America some 20,000 years ago.
Stone Age Aryans
To the extent that Bristow’s violent novel
can be said to service an idea, that idea
is a newly resurgent fad on the far-right
known as the “Solutrean Hypothesis.” The
hero of White Apocalypse is on a mission
to give the hypothesis its proper hearing. SPLC villains are the main obstacles
standing in his way.
The crux of Bristow’s “repressed
knowledge” is the belief that Stone Age
European explorers first settled the
North American continent millennia
before the Asian settlers known to history as Native Americans.
The origin of the idea lies in the 1933 discovery of an arrow- and spearhead known
as a “Clovis point.” Its design led archeologists to coin the term “Clovis culture” to
refer to what they believed was distinctive
about a wave of settlers who crossed the
Bering Straight from Eastern Siberia during the last ice age, around 14,000 BCE.
Soon after the Clovis discovery, an
archaeologist named Frank Hibben
began writing about the similarities
between the Clovis points found in North
America and those designed by a Stone
Age Southwestern European civilization
known as the Solutrean. While overwhelmingly dismissed by his peers, Hibben’s
hypothesis struck a resonant chord with
Americans who liked the idea that the
discovery and settlement of the Western
Hemisphere was a prehistoric triumph of
European, not Asian, will and technology.
Over the next 60 years, the Solutrean
Hypothesis of a European-American “lost
race” gained a handful of adherents, but
it was generally considered crank science
and dismissed. The hypothesis gained
new life and professional traction only in
the late 1990s. It was then that two archeologists associated with the Smithsonian
Institution, Dennis Stanford and Brace
Bradley, claimed to be in a position to
finally build on Hibben’s original theory.
The major event in this renaissance
occurred in 1996, when archeologists discovered a skeleton in Washington State
that was described as having “Caucasoid”
features. Although a report by the National
Park Service Archaeology and Ethnology
Program later declared that the remains
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“Brain, blood, and skull fragments burst forth
from what was once Greenberg’s head.”
— kyle bristow, enthusiastically describing the murder of a civil rights activist
were Native American and only 9,000
years old, white nationalist advocates of
the Solutrean Hypothesis seized on the initial reports to revive the idea that Europeans
were the first to settle the Western
Hemisphere. They were further encouraged
a few years later, when Stanford and Bradley
announced what they claimed was further
evidence of prehistoric Solutrean settlement. This evidence was largely based on a
negative discovery: They reported finding
no trace of Clovis technology in the Asian
areas that the Native Americans supposedly
came from. This argument was matched
with a complex and contested history of the
lineage of a mitochondrial DNA called haplogroup X found in some mummified North
American remains.
As it had been in the 1930s, the archeology profession was once again largely
dismissive of the new and improved
Solutrean Hypothesis. The anthropologist Lawrence Guy Straus summed up
the still-reigning consensus view that the
Clovis civilization was native, and not
dependent on contact with Solutreans,
in a 2000 interview with National
Geographic. “One of the great failings of
archaeology,” he told the magazine, “is
a continuous falling back on the notion
that if a couple of things [like Clovis
arrowheads] resemble one another, they
have to have the same source. But these
similarities appear and reappear time
and again in different places.”
The ‘Real’ Native Americans
Despite any real proof that Solutreans
settled North America, the hypothesis
over the last decade has continued to
gain white nationalist adherents who
have seized on it to stage a prehistoric
white persecution drama. If Europeans
settled North America first, then the
Asians that followed them — now known
as Native Americans — not only have no
claim on the land, but also must have
committed genocide against the original
white settlers, who did not survive to tell
their story. This is the meaning of the
title of Bristow’s novel, White Apocalypse,
which he dedicates to “the real Native
Americans”—i.e., the descendents of Stone
Age Europeans. The title for Bristow’s promotional site for the book, meanwhile, is
named The Solutrean Liberation Front,
after the fictional group created by the novel’s assassin-hero, Jack Schoenherr.
Unfortunately for Bristow and his
fellow white nationalist Solutrean proponents, the hypothesis as understood
even by sympathetic archeologists does
not exactly jibe with their reading.
Shortly after Bristow released
his book, the watchdog group YAF
Watch contacted Dennis Stanford,
the most prominent proponent of the
Solutrean Hypothesis and head of the
National Museum of Natural History’s
Archaeology Division. His take on the
crude appropriation of his ideas by white
nationalists was not sympathetic.
“There are several major problems”
with using the Solutrean Hypothesis to
advance a white nationalist racial politics,
said Stanford. The biggest, he explained,
is that “even if the Solutrean hypothesis
is demonstrated, there is no evidence that
these people were the same race as modern
Europeans; in fact, they most likely were
not the same race. Their origin in Europe
is a major research question. At the present,
most scholars believe the people who made
the European Solutrean artifacts came out
of North Africa [around] 25,000 years ago.”
The other leading proponent of the
Solutrean Hypothesis, Bruce Bradley, is no
better disposed to the efforts that Bristow
and others are making to use it as intellectual fuel for the white power movement.
“It is quite likely that [if ] these events
happened, [it was] before ‘racial’ diversification occurred,” Bradley, now an
associate professor of experimental
archeology at the University of Exeter
in England, told the Intelligence Report.
“Any facile explanations about the possible implications in relation to modern
history will certainly be discredited.”
Bristow has shown to the world he’s
not much of a writer. It turns out he’s an
even worse armchair archeologist. ▲
Making Myths
With the rise of the right, the National
Center for Constitutional Studies’ bizarre
version of U.S. history is gaining adherents
BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK ILLUSTRATION BY DANIEL ADEL
F
AIRMONT, W. Va. — One fine
Saturday morning last year,
around 60 mostly middle-aged
conservatives trickled onto the
otherwise deserted campus of Fairmont
State University. Clutching notebooks
and coffee cups, they looked like groggy
Continuing Ed students as they took seats
in a modern lecture hall on the ground
floor of the school’s engineering building. In a sense, they were Continuing Ed
students. The room had been booked
months in advance for a one-day, introlevel history and civics seminar entitled,
“The Making of America.”
But this was no ordinary summer
school. Randall McNeely, the seminar’s
kindly, awkward, and heavy-set instructor, held no advanced degree and made
no claims to being a scholar of any kind.
He was, rather, a product of rote training
in a religious and apocalyptic interpretation of American history that has roots
in the racist right of the last century.
His students for the day had learned
about the class not in the Fairmont State
summer catalog, but from the website
of the obscure nonprofit run by fringe
Mormons. Founded as the Freeman
Institute in Provo, Utah, in 1971, the outfit now goes by the name National Center
for Constitutional Studies (NCSS), and
works out of a remote farmhouse in
Malta, Idaho (population 177).
This humble base of operations,
however, constrains neither the outfit’s
national ambitions nor its missionary
zeal. The NCCS has been touring the
country and propagating its ultraconservative Mormon message for nearly four
decades. Yet its message has never been
in greater demand than in 2010. Since the
rise of the Tea Party circuit, the all-volunteer NCCS has experienced exploding
interest from Tea Party-affiliated groups
such as the 9.12 Project and the Tea Party
Patriots. On any given Saturday, several
of nearly 20 “Making of America” lecturers are giving seminars across the
country in spaces like the rented classroom in Fairmont, with $10 tickets and
NCCS book sales paying for their travel
and expenses.
Along with a busier schedule, the
NCCS also has a growing list of allies. In
the media, it has found a powerful voice
in the form of Fox News’ Glenn Beck,
who is a Mormon himself and has used
his pulpit to advocate for NCCS books
and ideas. Through Beck’s sustained
and energetic advocacy, once-forgotten NCCS tracts of Mormon-flavored
pseudo-history such as The 5,000 Year
Leap have become unlikely online bestsellers. As a result, traveling volunteer
NCCS lecturers like McNeely today have
no shortage of students eager to learn his
version of “truth.”
“In our time together, we’re going to
learn the truth about American history
and what our government is supposed
to do—and not do,” said McNeely, after
opening the August seminar in Fairmont
with a Christian prayer and a patriotic
song of his own authorship. “We’re going
to learn sound principles. Once we have
possession of these sound principles,
we can solve nearly every problem in
America, the way the Founders would
have liked.”
As the morning progressed, it became
clear that the NCCS worldview and program were based on three major pillars:
understanding the divine guidance
that has allowed the United States to
thrive; rejecting the tyrannical, implicitly sinful, nature of the modern federal
government; and preparing for a divine
reckoning that will bring down America’s
government and possibly tear society as
we know it asunder, thus allowing those
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Second verse, same as the first: Fox News conspiracy theorist Glenn Beck draws many
of his more bizarre ideas from the late W. Cleon Skousen, a rabid anti-communist who
wrote of evil cabals of internationalist bankers and government officials.
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Keepers, a group of ex-police
and military personnel who
publicly promise to resist
orders if they find those orders
at odds with their understanding of the Constitution.
At the 2010 National Liberty
Unity Summit, a powwow of
far-right groups, NCCS president Earl Taylor delivered
the keynote address following speeches
by leading Oath Keepers Richard Mack
and Guy Cunningham.
But mostly, the NCCS focuses on its seminars. And business has never been better.
“We’re trying to flood the nation,” NCCS
president Taylor told The Washington Post
in June. “And it’s happening.”
Communists, Capitalists and Jews
Students of the American far right may
not recognize the anodyne-sounding NCCS, but they no doubt know the
name of its founder, the late W. Cleon
Skousen. By the time Skousen founded
The Freeman Institute in 1971 (the name
was changed to NCCS in 1984), the
bespectacled former police chief had
become a minor legend in the annals of
right-wing radicalism. Throughout the
late 1950s and 60s, following 11 years
of mostly administrative work in the
FBI, Skousen toured the country whipping up anti-communist (and anti-civil
rights) hysteria under the banner of the
John Birch Society. Among the stories
in Skousen’s fantastical arsenal was the
claim that New Dealer Harry Hopkins
gave the Soviets “50 suitcases” worth of
information on the Manhattan Project
and nearly half of the nation’s supply of
enriched uranium. When the John Birch
Society came under attack for its founder’s claim that Dwight Eisenhower was a
communist agent, Skousen wrote a pamphlet titled The Communist Attack on the
John Birch Society.
In the 1970s, he penned an influential
tract of New World Order conspiracism,
The Naked Capitalist, which described
a cabal of scheming, internationalistminded bankers and government officials
set on destroying the Constitution by
manipulating left and liberal groups
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with sound principles — i.e., godly NCCS
graduates — to rebuild the republic along
“sounder,” more pious lines.
America’s return to extremely limited
government, as they think God intended,
is destined to happen, NCCS lecturers
teach, because God has already shown an
interventionist role in American history.
According to the NCCS, the founding
of the United States was nothing short
of a “miracle” in the literal sense of the
word. God is watching, in other words,
and he is not happy. Teaching out of the
seminar’s 131-page illustrated workbook,
McNeely argued that the current federal
government is guilty of a “usurpation
of power.” It is, therefore, illegitimate,
though McNeely never actually uttered
that word. Governmental powers should
be used sparingly, he explained, limited
largely to the common defense and the
elimination of “debauchery and vice.”
In some ways, the NCCS worldview
can sound remarkably similar to that of
antigovernment “Patriots,” whose movement has exploded in the last two years.
So it’s not much of a surprise that it has
found a number of new organizational
allies among “Constitutionalist” groups
such as the conspiracy-obsessed John
Birch Society, the ultraconservative “profamily” group Eagle Forum, and the Oath
WILLIAM J. SMITH /AP IMAGES (BENSON AND EISENHOWER);
around the world. The purpose of liberal internationalist groups such as the
Council on Foreign Relations, Skousen
believed, is to push “U.S. foreign policy
toward the establishment of a worldwide collectivist society.”
Among the sources Skousen cited
to substantiate this claim was is a former czarist army officer named Arsene de
Goulevitch, whose own sources included
Boris Brasol, a White Russian émigré who
provided Henry Ford with the first English
translation of the Jew-bashing classic,
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and later
became a supporter of Nazi Germany.
The controversy that surrounded
Skousen’s growing public profile in the
1960s and early 70s caused a debate
within the Mormon Church leadership.
For many church leaders, Skousen was
Benson quote: “The Greatest Watchdog
of our Freedom is an informed electorate.” But Benson had a decidedly illiberal
understanding of just what an informed
electorate should believe. Benson read
America’s history (and future) through
a looking glass of apocalyptic Mormon
theology and folklore. He believed that
the Constitution would one day “hang
from a thread,” at which time Mormons
would assume leadership of the nation
and rescue it from certain and irrevocable disaster. (These ideas are not part of
official Mormon Church doctrine.)
Benson was also an advocate for
Bircher-style conspiracy theories.
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, he
saw the hand of communism in every
social welfare policy and fought them
as both immoral and unconstitutional.
Mormon leader Ezra Taft Benson, a close ally of
W. Cleon Skousen, had powerful acquaintances
who included President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Benson rabidly opposed the civil rights movement and once allowed an essay of his to be
printed as an introduction to a particularly
vicious and racist book.
A rabid foe of the civil rights movement,
Benson in 1971 allowed one of his anticivil rights talks to be reprinted as the
introduction to a book of race hate called
Black Hammer: A Study of Black Power,
Red Influence, and White Alternatives.
The book’s cover featured the severed,
bloody head of an African American. By
the end of the decade, his politics had
taken a similar turn to that of his friend
Skousen. During a 1972 general conference of the Church of Latter-day Saints,
Benson recommended all Mormons read
Gary Allen’s New World Order tract None
Dare Call it A Conspiracy.
Such was the state of Skousen and
Benson’s politics (and intellectual seriousness) when they celebrated the
opening of the Freeman Institute on
July 4, 1971, in a converted storefront
judo studio just off the Brigham Young
University campus in Provo, Utah. The
bringing unwanted attention to the institution, which until then had generally
eschewed involvement in politics. But
Skousen also had allies in high places.
The strongest and most loyal of them was
Ezra Taft Benson, a Mormon Apostle and
future church president.
As with Skousen, Benson remains
an icon among many ultraconservative
Mormons, and his name is routinely
invoked during NCCS lectures. The
flyer for the NCCS seminar in Fairmont
prominently displayed, as do so many
materials produced by the NCCS, a
purpose of the Freemen Institute, said
its literature, was to “inspire Americans
to return to the Founders’ original success formula.”
‘Christ or Chaos’
Skousen’s new institute, then as now,
was not greeted by universal acclaim
among his fellow Mormons. Edwin
Brown Firmage, a professor of law at
the University of Utah, complained
to the Mormon magazine Sunstone in
1981: “Skousen is teaching right-wing
fundamentalism with a constitutional
veneer. How anyone can prove that
civil rights and welfare are unconstitutional is beyond me. For his people,
‘Constitutional’ is just a right-wing buzzword.” A reporter from the Philadelphia
Inquirer, Larry Eichel, reached the same
conclusion after attending one of
Skousen’s lectures in the birthplace
of the Constitution. “He preached
a political return to the eighteenth
century,” wrote a dismayed Eichel.
The reporter was off by a century, but his point was well taken.
What the Mormon constitutionalism pioneered by Skousen pines
after most is the federal government
of the mid-nineteenth century. If
the NCCS could stop the clock anywhere, it would be 1867, the year
before the passage of the Fourteenth
Amendment. Like today’s Tenther
movement, whose adherents cite the
Tenth Amendment to advocate the
sovereignty of the states over federal
government power, Skousen argued that
constitutional decline began when the
federal government overrode the states
to grant and enforce equality under the
law.
Skousen first laid out his views on
the Constitution in 1981, with the publication of The 5,000 Year Leap. Now the
central text of Glenn Beck’s 9.12 Project
— the Fox host calls the book “divinely
inspired” — Leap is an illustrated recipe for turning the United States into 50
little theocracies, each dictating morality according to its own religious ethics.
These ethics, argues Skousen in Leap,
should be transmitted through “extensive Bible reading” in public schools.
The project of the book is clear, even if
its author never came right out and said
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Glenn Beck calls The Five Thosand Year Leap,
which argues for turning America into 50 minitheocracies, “divinely inspired.”
rent NCCS president, Earl Taylor, is not
unknown to echo some of Skousen’s
controversial views. At a Mesa, Ariz.,
seminar earlier this year, a Washington
Post reporter heard Taylor argue that
Thomas Jefferson hesitated to free his
own slaves because of his “benevolence.”
As Taylor often does, he defended this
interpretation by referencing his participation in a walking tour. “If you’ve been
to Monticello and you see how Jefferson
cared for them, they didn’t want to leave,”
the Post writer quotes Taylor as saying.
Glenn Beck and the Apocalypse
Defenders of the NCCS argue that the
outfit, run by the grandfatherly Taylor,
is merely teaching good old-fashioned
civics to interested Americans. But
while there is a large amount of straight,
accurate history included in “Making of
America” seminars, the lessons are about
much more than just the Constitution.
The organization’s larger mission is to
crudely propagandize against America’s
secular foundations and sow doubt over
the legitimacy of the modern welfare and
regulatory state, using a textbook written
by a notorious conspiracist who adhered
to apocalyptic folklore. And like Skousen,
current NCCS lecturers believe that time
is quickly running out.
There is a dark, often unspoken,
subtext to the NCCS’s crusade to promote the “sound principles” of proper
Constitutional government. That subtext is a belief in the imminent collapse
of civilization. This collapse is interwoven in the bombastic teachings
of NCCS friend and ally Glenn Beck,
whose Doomsday-drenched shows are
profitably promoted by fear-mongering
purveyors of everything from gold bullion to “crisis gardens” and emergency
radios. The NCCS has done much to
encourage and spread a deeply apocalyptic worldview among far-right Mormons,
of whom Beck is only the most famous.
The NCCS views its education crusade as crucial for rebuilding America
after a coming cataclysm; thus, “The
Making of America” is best seen as a
God-centric civics class for the bomb
shelter. Speaking last year in Mesa, Ariz.,
Taylor spoke cryptically of the need for
“the Good Lord’s help” to take America
“into a much better phase of existence
lasting for a thousand years.”
Taylor’s remarks only make sense
in the context of a cleansing, holy
wrath, after which will emerge pure
Constitutional defenders ready to build
a new society on the ashes of the old.
“I fear that the United States is going
to have to go through the ringer,” said
Taylor. “It’s gonna be rough.”
“When the time comes, when the people who are in power for the power and
the glory, and there is no more power
and glory left, they’ll probably be looking around asking, ‘Can anybody help?’
And you’ll say, ‘Yeah, I’ve got some ideas.
Come on over and eat a little something.’
Because there probably won’t be much
food anyway, but if you’re wise, you’ll
have some.”
At this depressing image of future
Constitutional scholars discussing the
evils of the income tax and battling
“debauchery” amid the scarred ruins of a
post-Apocalyptic America, Taylor brightens up.
“We’re gonna win this thing,” he said.
“I’ve read the last chapter, like you have,
and in the end, we’re gonna win this thing.”
“Isn’t that great?” ▲
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it. Others would prove bolder in explaining the importance of Leap. In Ronald
Mann’s introduction to Leap’s 10th-anniversary edition, he praises Skousen for
grasping America’s choice of “Christ or
chaos” and for acknowledging that its
future depends on “accepting and demonstrating God’s government.”
The project started by Leap was
furthered a few years later with the publication of The Miracle of America. After
reducing its contents to a smaller workbook suitable for one- and seven-day
seminars, Skousen again hit the road.
During the first “Making of America”
tour, he demonized the federal regulatory agencies, arguing for the abolition
of everything from the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration to
the Environmental Protection Agency.
He wanted to repeal the minimum
wage, smash unions, nullify anti-discrimination laws, sell off public lands
and national parks, end the direct election of senators, kill the income tax and
the estate tax, knock down state-level
walls separating church and state, and, of
course, raze the Federal Reserve System.
Skousen’s rolling theocratic lecture
tour ran into problems in 1987, when outsiders started examining the contents of
the book on which the seminars were
based. The Making of America, it turned
out, presented a history of slavery that
could have been written by a propagandist for the Ku Klux Klan. Skousen relied
for his interpretation of slavery on historian Fred Albert Shannon’s Economic
History of the People of the United States
(1934). Quoting Shannon, Skousen
described African-American children as
“pickaninnies” and described American
slave owners as the “worst victims” of the
slavery system. He further explained that
“[slave] gangs in transit were usually a
cheerful lot, though the presence of a
number of the more vicious type sometimes made it necessary for them all to
go in chains.” Shannon and Skousen also
cast a skeptical eye on accounts of cruelty by slave masters and expressed much
more interest in the “fear” Southern
whites had while trying to protect “white
civilization” from slave revolts.
Newer editions of The Making of
America lack the glaring racism of
Skousen’s original version. But the cur-
Over the Cliff
Accuracy in Media’s Cliff Kincaid revels in
attacking the ‘liberal’ press. But he reserves a
special loathing for homosexuals
BY LARRY KELLER ILLUSTRATION BY JEFFREY SMITH
C
liff Kincaid is one of the
American far right’s most
energetic and obsessive propagandists. For more than
30 years at Accuracy in Media (AIM), a
right-wing outfit opposed to the “liberal”
media, Kincaid has cranked out reams
of material — rife with innuendo and
speculation but light on facts —aimed at
buttressing his far-right, xenophobic and
homophobic views.
What’s more, some in the media mainstream actually take him seriously.
Aside from his editorial role at
AIM, the notably humorless Kincaid
also runs an antigovernment “Patriot”
group, America’s Survival, whose stated
mission is to “expose the influence of
global institutions,” mostly meaning the
United Nations and the International
Criminal Court. Ten days after
Walter Cronkite’s death,
Kincaid wrote that the
famous news anchor
had been a globalist “one-worlder.”
Since 2008, the
group’s obsession has been
President
Obama.
While
complaining mightily
about the
mainstream
media’s supposed bias, Kincaid — who
declined a request for comment from the
Intelligence Report — revels in his own,
citing as authorities in his articles farright ideologues and organizations that
share his politics.
And what exactly are his views?
Basically, Kincaid advances a hodgepodge of fairly run-of-the-mill, far-right
conspiracy theories and allegations:
President Obama has “well-documented
socialist connections,” is the product of
a “mysterious upbringing as a Muslim in
Indonesia,” and may well not have been
born in this country. Hillary Clinton is
a lesbian. Global warming is a “fraudulent scheme.” And the Roman Catholic
Church has been hijacked “by Marxist
elements” and is “facilitating the foreign invasion of the U.S.” by northbound
Latinos.
But Kincaid reserves a special loathing for gays and lesbians.
He has blamed gays for corrupting
the military and making America more
vulnerable to terrorism. He says the “prohomosexual media” has created the false
perception of “overwhelming public support” for repeal of the military’s “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. “Establishment
journalists,” he has written, “are aligned
with academia” (“sexual perverts masquerading as scholars”) in supporting
transgendered individuals — “a cruel
hoax to undermine the already shaky
foundation of the traditional family.” He
can’t contain his rage at the Republicans
for not expelling gays from their ranks,
titling a recent article, “Is the GOP
becoming the Gay Old Party?” And he
has been one of the staunchest defenders
of a draconian proposed law in Uganda
that would impose the death penalty on
large numbers of gay men — a proposal
so radical that even many hard-line U.S.
anti-gay groups have felt constrained to
denounce it. To Kincaid, the proposed
law seems merely “designed to send a
message to … the foreign homosexual
lobby to keep their hands off Uganda’s
families and kids.”
Kincaid has taken his anti-gay message on the road recently, participating
in an August conference put on by the
hard-edged Americans for Truth about
Homosexuality where he promised to
expose “gay influence on the media”
and “the homosexual drive for the
‘right’ to donate possibly infected
and contaminated blood to
the nation’s blood
supply.”
Kincaid might
be easily dismissed were it
not for his ability
to reach the general public. He
has appeared
regularly on
Fox Ne w s
programs and
he’s been featured on other
major television networks as well.
Hate radio’s Michael Savage, who has
an audience of some 8 million people,
has had him on. He’s a regular at the
annual Conservative Political Action
Conference, a major event for conservative Republicans. He’s appeared at
other conservative confabs, such as last
April’s Jericho March & Conference in
Washington, D.C., where he joined a mix
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Accuracy in Media (AIM) has celebrated anticommunist witch hunter Joseph McCarthy (left)
and insisted that Clinton deputy White House
counsel Vince Foster (right) was murdered. Cliff
Kincaid, who once worked for Iran-Contra scandal figure Oliver North (center left) is now the
principal writer at AIM, which was founded in
1969 by Reed Irvine (center right).
of religious-right activists and conspiracyoriented Patriot groups. Moreover, he’s
working to extend his organization’s influence well into the future — AIM has become
a prime training ground for aspiring “conservative” journalists.
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Calling the Kettle Black
In the event he bothers to substantiate his positions at all, Kincaid typically
relies on sources who parrot his views.
Take global warming. While there is
consensus among the vast majority of climatologists worldwide that the earth is
warming and human activity is the cause,
Kincaid sees a scam perpetrated by the
“religious left,” among others. In an article last January, Kincaid tried to buttress
this allegation by quoting from a bizarre
book by James Wanliss, a physics professor at tiny Presbyterian College in South
Carolina.
Wanliss argues that the environmental movement “is a religion with a vision
of sin and repentance, heaven and hell.
Its communion is organic food. Its sacraments are sex, abortion, and when all
else fails, sterilization. Its saints are Al
Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change. Both professing
Protestants and Roman Catholics bear a
burden of guilt for the current political
mess we are in with the global warming
and other hysterias.”
Despite his self-appointed role as a
media monitor, Kincaid often settles in
his own work for simple speculation.
In an article last February, for example,
Kincaid quoted from a couple of poems
that Barrack Obama wrote at age 19 about
his father. “But what if it was really about
[Frank Marshall] Davis?” Kincaid asked
about one of them, referring to a man he
has described as Obama’s communist
mentor, a “sex pervert and pothead.”
“Perverts” seem to occupy a good portion of Kincaid’s waking hours.
In 2005, he said news organizations should engage in a “Quit Gay Sex”
campaign against “the dangerous and
addictive homosexual lifestyle.” In the
years since, he has repeatedly railed
about the alleged “homosexual agenda.”
Today, he never misses an opportunity
to tell his readers that MSNBC host
Rachel Maddow is a lesbian and that
she and Washington Post editorial writer
Jonathan Capehart are part of a “homosexual cabal.” Nationally syndicated
conservative columnist Kathleen Parker
isn’t gay, but Kincaid declared her conservatism “a farce and a fraud” after the
Pulitzer Prize winner criticized the antigay Uganda legislation.
The Homosexual Addenda
Kincaid, who describes himself as a
married father of three, gets especially
worked up when writing about gays in
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Joe McCarthy to Vince Foster
Born in Kansas City, Mo., in 1954, Cliff
Kincaid graduated with a B.A. from
the University of Toledo and went to
Washington, D.C., via a national journalism program headed by conservative
author M. Stanton Evans, a contributing editor to Human Events, a weekly
magazine. (Last year, AIM gave Evans
an award to honor his “groundbreaking
research into the media’s vilification of
Senator Joe McCarthy” and his book,
Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story
of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight
Against America’s Enemies.)
Kincaid spent seven years at Human
Events and also worked as an editorial
writer and newsletter editor for IranContra scandal figure Oliver North at
North’s Freedom Alliance foundation.
In addition, Kincaid worked for Citizens
United, a right-wing organization fixated
on Bill Clinton that created the racially
charged Willie Horton TV ads in 1988
that helped doom the presidential aspirations of Democrat Michael Dukakis.
In 1978, Kincaid joined Accuracy in
Media. He has been a prolific and wordy
contributor ever since.
AIM was founded as a nonprofit in
1969 by economist Reed Irvine to correct what Irvine saw as serious media
errors. In truth, he was only concerned
with liberal media errors. (Just last year,
AIM sponsored a so-called Conservative
Leadership Summit to Confront Media
Bias, with Kincaid joining other far-right
media and political figures for a six-hour
talkfest on the topic.)
In its early years, AIM sent letters to
newspaper editors asking for corrections.
If newspapers refused, AIM bought ads
in the publications with its corrections.
Eventually, AIM began to buy stock in
major media companies, enabling its
representatives to speak at shareholder
meetings.
When Kincaid came on board in 1978,
the AIM Report was six years old. He
and AIM savaged the Clintons, promoting the theory, which became received
wisdom on the far right, that Clinton
deputy White House counsel Vince
Foster was murdered. (He was not.) Not
coincidentally, that claim also was zealously pursued by conservative billionaire
Richard Mellon Scaife, a major financial
backer of AIM.
That kind of backing has helped to
make AIM far better financed than most
groups with similar views. As of April
2009, it held $3.6 million in net assets.
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the military. In May, he raised what he
apparently saw as the haunting specter
of homosexual soldiers wearing women’s uniforms if the “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell” policy were repealed. He predicted
that straight soldiers would “probably
leave in disgust and dismay,” while others would “choose never to sign up.” The
military would be a “shambles,” the war
on terrorism “jeopardized,” and a draft
required “with soldiers reporting to the
male homosexuals already there and in
command positions.” And then this gem:
“They will demand sexual favors to rise
in the ranks. … [I]t is a recipe for national
suicide.”
Last year, AIM published a guest column by Scott Lively, a pastor who runs
the anti-gay hate group Abiding Truth
Ministries and co-founded another antigay hate group, Watchmen on the Walls.
Lively is co-author of The Pink Swastika:
Homosexuality in the Nazi Party, which
falsely claims that “the Nazi party was
entirely controlled by militaristic male
homosexuals throughout its short history.” (In fact, Hitler violently purged
gays within the party’s own ranks and
sent thousands of others to concentration camps.)
Backing up Kincaid’s arguments, Lively
warned of a mass exodus of “normal men”
from the military if homosexuals were
allowed to serve openly. “Will proud
young men being honed to become
weapons of aggression against America’s
enemies tolerate being ogled in the showers or touched inappropriately or bunking
near sexually-active sodomites?” Lively
wondered darkly. Eventually, he warned,
there could be “a homosexual takeover of
the military branches.”
It was Lively, too, who Kincaid relied
upon heavily as a supposed expert for an
article he wrote last year — one of several — that supported what has become
widely known as Uganda’s proposed “kill
the gays” law. Lively was one of three
American evangelical Christians who in
2009 visited Uganda to conduct a seminar titled, “Exposing the Truth Behind
Homosexuality and the Homosexual
Agenda” that was heard by thousands of
that nation’s citizens. The anti-gay legislation was introduced a month after the
Americans’ visit.
Lively suggested that the proposed
law was a rational response to the homosexuality of a Ugandan king more than a
century earlier and to U.S. and European
activists “working aggressively to re-
students from bullying.
When Jennings was appointed in May
2009 to a position in the Office of Safe
& Drug Free Schools, Kincaid and AIM
responded with several columns containing some of their most vicious vitriol to
date. For one thing, Kincaid began promoting the theory that GLSEN had praised a
“communist pervert.” That would be Harry
Hay, who Jennings once said inspired
him. Kincaid noted the gay-rights pioneer had supported the North American
Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA),
and claimed that Hay was a communist.
In fact, Jennings had only praised Hay’s
role in the start-up of the first ongoing gay
rights group in 1948, not NAMBLA.
Even so, one of AIM’s student interns
posted a blog item last December on
AIM’s website describing Jennings as
“President Obama’s favorite pedophile.”
The next day, the organization that says
it specializes in finding liberal
media inaccuracies removed
Cliff Kincaid (left) claims
the item and posted a halfthat controversy over
hearted apology, conceding
Uganda’s infamous “kill
that it had no evidence of
the gays” bill was really
a White House ploy to
Jennings “being a pedophile
draw attention away from
and personally teaching perthe “real scandal” of its
verted sexual practices to
appointment of Kevin
young people.”
Jennings (right) to the
But it was a bone that
Department of Education.
Jennings founded a group
AIM just couldn’t let go of.
dedicated to protecting
“We continue to urge the
straight and gay schoolmedia to vigorously investichildren from bullying.
gate Jennings’ background”
and his “role in promoting
the homosexual agenda and
exposing children to discussions of dangerous sexual
homosexualize their nation.” When both practices,” AIM said, listing three veheThe Washington Post and The New York mently anti-gay websites as sources.
Times editorialized in favor of the United
Despite Kincaid’s repeated efforts to
States ending foreign aid to Uganda if the get him ousted, Jennings remains at the
proposed legislation became law, Kincaid Department of Education.
wrote that the threat of rescinding forThe irony of Kincaid’s stated mission
eign aid “to force a country to accept the of correcting media bias and his own
homosexual lifestyle is morally wrong.” regular flouting of basic journalistic stanThe true reason for the “orchestrated dards apparently escapes him entirely. As
controversy” surrounding the Uganda bill, the Jennings episode and others demaccording to Kincaid, was to divert atten- onstrate, Kincaid is perfectly willing to
tion from the “real scandal” of the Obama engage in speculation, distorted halfAdministration’s appointment of Kevin truths, and unproved assertions of fact. If
Jennings to a post in the Department of that means gays and others are depicted
Education. Jennings founded the Gay, in an entirely false and demonizing light,
Lesbian and Straight Education Network, so be it. That is “accuracy in media” —
or GLSEN, to protect both gay and straight Cliff Kincaid-style. ▲
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ELECTORAL EXTREMISM
Over 20 candidates with radical-right ideas ran for public office in
last year’s election contests. Five of them actually won
BY ROBERT STEINBACK
AMERICANS ARE GENERALLY POSSESSED OF AN OPTIMISM that the democratic
electoral process will filter out extremists, radicals and dangerous ideologues. Indeed,
there is a temptation to chortle with satisfaction that the number of voters who wrote
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seats in an undersized fast-food restaurant.
Still, a 2010 candidate who has argued that private businesses should be free to deny service to black people now sits in the U.S. Senate. A candidate who believes the Southern states should
secede again and form a confederacy dominated by white people won a seat in the Arkansas legislature,
while an antigovernment “Patriot” who grossly exaggerates the criminality of undocumented immigrants (who studies have shown are on average much less criminal than native-born Americans) captured
a California Assembly seat. Even failure energized some right-wing extremists: A white supremacist
received one of every three votes cast in his New York congressional district, while another in West
Virginia received enough votes for his “party” to boast of a moral victory.
The Intelligence Report has compiled an accounting of 22 men and one woman with extreme rightwing views who sought public office during the 2010 election season — including five who succeeded.
Those who won their races are marked “elected.”
Harry Bertram
OFFICE SOUGHT
Board of Education,
Monongalia, W. Va.
PARTY American Third
Position (A3P)
RESULTS General election:
Finished last among three
candidates, receiving 14.1% (2,582 votes) of
the 18,256 votes cast.
EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY White nationalism
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Jim Condit Jr.
OFFICE SOUGHT
U.S. House of Representatives, Ohio District 8
PARTY Constitution
RESULTS General election: Finished last
among four candidates, receiving 1.7%
(3,701 votes) of the 217,436 votes cast.
EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Anti-Semitic,
conspiracy-mongering
Condit promotes anti-Semitic and antiZionist conspiracy theories. He believes
the Federal Reserve Bank is engineering
a New World Order. He embraces the
theories of the late Father Denis Fahey,
an Irish Catholic priest who stridently
opposed institutions he felt conflicted
with Catholic order, including communism, freemasonry and Judaism, all of
which he believed were intertwined.
Condit in 2007 said he believed that
“Zionists” had successfully infiltrated
the Vatican II Catholic reform conferences in the 1960s intent on “bending
the doctrines of the Catholic Church
to accord with the demands of the
Zionist interests.” Condit once stated
that a “Phase II” of the Sept. 11 attacks,
intended to benefit the Israeli government, was imminent.
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Bertram ran openly as an A3P candidate. A3P’s founder, William Daniel
Johnson, supports the deportation of all
non-white immigrants and U.S. citizens,
including anyone with any “ascertainable trace of Negro blood.” Bertram for
years personally distributed to white
people in Ohio and West Virginia copies of Don Wassall’s Nationalist Times,
which promotes white nationalist and
anti-Semitic ideologies as well as government conspiracy theories. In a video,
Bertram denounced “gay and lesbian
studies” as “liberal nonsense.” Bertram
received the enthusiastic endorsement
of Jamie Kelso, a long-time associate of
top Klansmen and now operator of the
White News Now website.
Tim Donnelly
ELECTED
OFFICE SOUGHT
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California State Assembly,
District 59
PARTY Republican
RESULTS Primary: Finished
first among six candidates, receiving 30.3%
(12,449 votes) of the 41,112 votes cast.
General election: Won with 57.3% (82,475
votes) of the 144,007 votes cast.
EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Anti-immigration, antigovernment “Patriot”
Donnelly in 2005 founded what became
the largest anti-immigrant Minuteman
chapter in California. He advocates a
California version of Arizona’s S.B. 1070,
which makes it a state crime to be in this
country illegally. Donnelly is prone to
exaggeration. In interviews, he claimed to
have heard the screams of women being
raped in the Mexican desert near the border. According to LA Weekly, Donnelly
once wrote that Muslim extremists were
proselytizing to “so-called ‘innocent’ illegal aliens” with the aim of destroying the
American Southwest. “It is not a stretch,”
he wrote, “to picture a revolt in Los
Angeles, whose population is comprised
of [sic] over 50 percent illegal aliens. At
the [current] rate of influx and births, it
will be 80 percent illegal alien within a
decade.” A more reliable estimate places
the number of undocumented immigrants
in Los Angeles County at about 7.3% of
its population of 10.4 million. Donnelly
claimed undocumented immigrants
accounted for “nearly one-third of our
prison space” — a demonizing assertion,
once also pushed by CNN’s Lou Dobbs,
with no basis in fact.
Jeff Hall
OFFICE SOUGHT Western
Municipal Water District
Board of Directors,
Division 2, Riverside, Calif.
PARTY National Socialist
Movement
RESULTS General election:
Received 27.8% (8,139 votes) of the 29,243
votes cast.
EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Neo-Nazi
Hall is California director and southwest regional leader of the National
Socialist Movement (NSM) — currently
the nation’s largest neo-Nazi group. The
NSM is known for its swastika-waving,
sieg-heiling rallies, many of them held in
minority neighborhoods, and its Hitler
worship. Hall affirmed in a Los Angeles
Times interview his belief that all nonwhites should be deported. “I want a
white nation,” he said. “I don’t hide what
I am, and I don’t water that down.” After
the election, Hall wrote, “It is a great victory when a National Socialist candidate
receives over a quarter of the votes for an
elected position in his district.”
Dwayne Hemingway-El
OFFICE SOUGHT Mayor, High Point, N.C.
PARTY Unspecified
RESULTS General election: Received 7.9%
(1,718 votes) of the 21,503 votes cast.
EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Antigovernment “sovereign citizen”
Hemingway-El describes himself as
a member of the Louisiana-based
Washitaw De Dugdamoundwah, also
known as the Washitaw Moorish Nation
and the Washitaw Empire. The group
“It is a great victory when a National
Socialist candidate receives over a quarter of the votes for an elected position in
his district.” — Jeff Hall, Riverside, California
claims status as a sovereign entity not
subject to U.S. or state laws, and says
the 828,000-square-mile territory of
the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 was
land stolen from the Washitaw, a predominantly black group, by the United
States. The group’s leader once filed an
$80 quadrillion claim against the United
States. State authorities have investigated allegations the group has engaged
in money laundering, offshore banking
fraud and other practices derived from
its antigovernment “common law,” or
“sovereign citizen,” ideology. Though
Hemingway-El invokes sovereign citizen
ideas, he told an interviewer he does not
advocate defying the law. He complied
with a state law requiring candidates
for public office to swear they are U.S.
citizens.
Dan Maes
OFFICE SOUGHT
Governor, Colorado
PARTY Tea Party-backed
Republican
RESULTS Primary: Won
with 50.7% (197,629
votes) of the 390,108
votes cast. General election: Finished third
with 11.1% (199,034 votes) of the 1,787,730
votes cast. (See also Tom Tancredo, below.)
EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY World-government
conspiracy theorist
Maes interpreted a United Nationssponsored program encouraging cities
to promote bicycle riding as being part
of a plot to undermine American sovereignty. “This is bigger than it looks like on
the surface, and it could threaten our personal freedoms,” Maes said, according to
the Denver Post. “At first, I thought, ‘Gosh,
public transportation, what’s wrong with
that, and what’s wrong with people parking their cars and riding their bikes? … But
if you do your homework and research,
you realize ICLEI [the U.N.’s International
Council for Local Environmental
Initiatives] is part of a greater strategy to
rein in American cities under a United
Nations treaty.” Denver is one of 600
American member cities of ICLEI, which
promotes sustainable development.
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Loy Mauch
ELECTED
OFFICE SOUGHT
Arkansas House of
Representatives,
District 26
PARTY Republican
RESULTS Primary:
Unopposed. General election: Won with 53.4% (4,041 votes) of the
7,561 votes cast.
EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Neo-Confederate,
white nationalist
Ray McBerry Jr.
OFFICE SOUGHT
Governor, Georgia
PARTY Republican
RESULTS Primary: Finished
sixth in a field of seven,
receiving 2.5% (17,171 votes)
of the 680,499 votes cast.
EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Neo-Confederate,
white nationalist
McBerry is a former member of the
Georgia chapter of the League of the South
(see Loy Mauch, above), and served as its
chair before resigning in October. “We
believe in the League of the South that
for the most part, the South is inherently
more conservative and more Christian in
our values and our political beliefs than
much of the other parts of America. …
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Tom Metzger
OFFICE SOUGHT U.S. House
of Representatives,
Indiana District 3
PARTY Unspecified
RESULTS Received 0.005%
(10 votes) of the 185,049
votes cast.
EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Neo-Nazi, Ku Klux Klan,
Christian Identity
A guttural racist, Metzger is a former
California grand dragon of the Knights
of the Ku Klux Klan. In the mid-1980s,
he founded White Aryan Resistance
(WAR), one of the leading neo-Nazi
groups of the period. In a 2002 interview,
Metzger said, “My total concern is with
the survival of the white European people in North America.” He is an ordained
minister of Christian Identity theology, whose adherents typically believe
that Jews are the literal “seed of Satan,”
people of color are soulless “mud people,” and the Bible is the history of the
white race. He promotes a particularly
nasty version of anti-Semitism. “Jews are
supreme masters of manipulation and
deceit,” according to Metzger’s website.
“They run and distort our foreign policy
because lazy and corrupt non-Jew leaders had previously found them valuable
as grifters.” Metzger’s 2010 race was a
far cry from his earlier, more successful
runs for public office. In 1980, he won
the three-way Democratic primary for
California’s 43rd Congressional District
with 37.1% (33,071 votes) of the votes cast
before going on to lose the general election with 13.4% (46,361 votes). In 1982,
Metzger ran in an 11-way Democratic
primary for Senate in California, coming in sixth with 2.8% (76,502 votes) of
the votes cast.
Frazier Glenn Miller Jr.
OFFICE SOUGHT U.S. Senate, Missouri
PARTY Unspecified
RESULTS General election: Received
0.0004% (7 votes) of the 1,943,899
votes cast.
EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY White supremacist,
anti-Semitic
Miller promised that if elected, he would
“work … to expose the jewish [sic] domination of the US government, the mass
media, the federal reserve bank [sic], and
the decadent American culture.” He has
advocated incentive payments to white
Americans to produce white children.
Miller formerly headed the Carolina
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which later
morphed into the White Patriot Party.
Miller went on the lam in 1986 after
“Every non-White on the planet has to
become extinct. We need to remove
these minor-league amateur races out of
the game, and refine the playoff brackets
a bit, if you get my meaning. The whole
world is ours, and the only part of the
earth that non-Whites should inherit is
however much it requires to cover them.”
— Billy Roper, Arkansas
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Mauch is a member of the League of the
South (LOS), a neo-Confederate organization formed in 1994 that advocates a
second Southern secession and espouses
bitter hostility toward the United States
– an “alien occupier.” The LOS envisions
a Christian theocratic state run by an
“Anglo-Celtic” – that is, white – elite that
would legally dominate both racial and
religious minorities. In a 2008 interview,
Mauch referred to the Confederate battle flag as “a symbol of Jesus Christ above
all else. It’s a symbol of Biblical government.” (The LOS also describes the battle
flag as the “antithesis” of the Stars and
Stripes.) For seven years, Mauch also was
a local unit “commander” with the Sons
of Confederate Veterans (SCV), stepping down in 2009. Over the last decade,
the Southern heritage group has been
wracked by a kind of internal civil war
between moderates and racial extremists.
[T]he South is the only part of America that
is still American to any degree,” McBerry
states in a video. He refuses to salute the
American flag. The League of the South’s
founder routinely attacks egalitarianism
as a radical-left “Jacobin” doctrine and
opposes interracial marriage; its essayists
have defended legal segregation as a doctrine meant to ensure the racial integrity of
both white and black Americans.
mailing a letter to 5,000 people calling
for “total war” against the feds, blacks
and Jews. Authorities finally tear-gassed
him out of a mobile home in Ozark, Mo.
Miller testified against 14 leading white
supremacists in a 1988 Arkansas sedition
trial and is still viewed as a “white race
traitor” by many former allies, although
he remains an active white supremacist.
Miller had run in three earlier electoral
campaigns. In 1984, he came in eighth
in a 10-way Democratic primary race
for North Carolina governor, receiving
0.61% (5,790 votes) of the votes cast. In
1986, he received 3.17% (6,662 votes) of
the votes cast in the Republican primary
for U.S. Senate, coming in last in a field
of three. And in 2006, Miller received
0.01% (23 votes) of the votes cast in his
bid as an independent for Missouri’s 7th
Congressional District, coming in last in a
three-way race.
Ryan Joseph Murdough
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OFFICE SOUGHT New Hampshire House of
Representatives, District 8
PARTY Republican and American Third
Position (A3P)
RESULTS Primary: Finished last among five
candidates for three seats, securing 11.3%
(296 votes) of the 2,623 votes cast.
EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY White supremacist
Murdough is the New Hampshire
state chairman of A3P (see also Harry
Bertram, above), a white supremacist
political party whose leader, William
Daniel Johnson, advocates the deportation of all non-whites, even U.S. citizens,
including anyone with any “ascertainable trace of Negro blood.” Another A3P
leader, Kevin B. MacDonald, has claimed
that Jews are genetically programmed to
undermine Gentile societies. Murdough
claims he isn’t a racist because he doesn’t
hate people of other races. “I just don’t
want to live around areas that are heavily,
predominantly non-white,” he told the
Concord Monitor. However, according
to writer Mark Berman on the Opposing
Views website, Murdough once tweeted,
“In celebration of Black History month, I
am going to recognize what they do best,
commit crime, get AIDS/STD’s, blame
whitey, cry racism.”
Chelene Nightingale
OFFICE SOUGHT
Governor, California
PARTY Constitution
RESULTS General election:
Finished third, receiving
1.7% (166,308 votes) of
the 10,095,185 votes cast.
EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Patriot, anti-immigration, “birther,” conspiracy theorist
Nightingale was director of Save Our
State, an anti-illegal immigration group
in California, when she joined the
Constitution Party in 2009. She espouses
numerous right-wing conspiracy theories, including “chemtrails” and the claim
that 9/11 was an “inside job.” In May,
Nightingale conjured up several familiar demons of the radical right, saying,
“[T]he Bilderbergs, George Soros, the cartels – they’re all working on the destruction
of America with their open borders.” After
the election, Nightingale became spokeswoman for the SoCal Patriot Coalition,
whose founder is Jeff Schwilk, former leader of the San Diego Minutemen
(SDMM). The SDMM was a border-patrol
group so extreme that even the groups from
which it cribbed its name – the Minuteman
Project and the Minuteman Civil Defense
Corps – wanted nothing to do with it.
Schwilk’s SDMM members accosted
and physically intimidated migrants and
would-be day-labor employers.
Norm Olson
OFFICE SOUGHT Lieutenant governor, Alaska
PARTY Alaskan Independence
RESULTS Withdrew before election.
EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Antigovernment
“Patriot” militia, conspiracy theorist
Olson in the early 1990s founded the
Michigan Militia, which was thrust into the
national spotlight after the 1995 Oklahoma
City bombing. Olson told reporters then
that conspirators Terry Nichols and
Timothy McVeigh had attended a meeting but were not encouraged to return.
Olson was booted out of the Michigan
Militia after offering the bizarre theory that
the Japanese government was behind the
McVeigh bombing — a statement he later
said he should have “fully corroborated.”
By 2005, Olson had moved to Alaska, where
he soon formed the Alaska Citizens Militia
(ACM). The ACM lists 17 “acts of war” on
its website, including “Mandatory medical
anything” and “Involuntary involvement
in anything.”
Rand Paul
ELECTED
OFFICE SOUGHT
U.S. Senate, Kentucky
PARTY Tea Party-backed
Republican
RESULTS Primary: Won
with 58.8% (206,986
votes) of the 352,275
votes cast. General election Won with
55.7% (755,411 votes) of the 1,356,468
votes cast.
EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Right-wing libertarian
Paul rode Tea Party support to upset the
Kentucky GOP’s preferred candidate.
During the campaign, many of Paul’s
unorthodox political beliefs came to light,
including his assertion that private businesses shouldn’t have been compelled to
comply with the Civil Rights Act of 1964
that barred discrimination. In a 2002 letter
to the Bowling Green Daily News, Paul also
criticized the Fair Housing Act, explaining
that “a free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means
allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on skin color.” After winning the
Republican primary and being subjected
to national criticism, Paul issued a press
release declaring “unequivocally” that
he would not support any effort to repeal
the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that he had
criticized just days earlier. This January,
Paul sent out a fundraising letter declaring that Hillary Clinton and the “global
gun-grabbers” at the United Nations are
trying “finally strip you and me of ALL
our freedoms” by signing a treaty that
would “almost certainly” force the U.S.
to “CONFISCATE and DESTROY” all
“unauthorized” civilian firearms. (In fact,
the treaty being discussed has nothing to
do with regulating guns in the U.S., something that would be impossible in any event
under the Constitution.) Paul added that
“the United Nations has been hell-bent
on bringing the United States to its knees”
since its founding in 1945. Last fall, he said
he wanted to abolish the U.S. Department
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of Education so it couldn’t, for instance,
mandate teaching kindergartners “that
Susie has two mommies,” a reference
to same-sex couples with children. On
immigration, Paul wants to erect a physical or electronic fence along all U.S. land
borders, complete with “satellite surveillance” and “helicopter stations,” and
deploy “any unnecessary foreign units”
of the American military to the border.
Jim Rizoli
OFFICE SOUGHT
Massachusetts House of
Representatives, 6th
Middlesex District
PARTY Unspecified
RESULTS General election:
Finished last of three candidates, receiving 8.8% (1,226 votes) of the
14,009 votes cast.
EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Anti-immigrant,
Holocaust denier
Rizoli, along with his twin brother Joe,
has used his public-access cable television
show — “Illegal Immigration Chat” — to
spout relentless and vicious attacks on the
“criminaliens” who make up the Brazilian
community of Framingham, Mass., which
comprises about 20% of the town’s population. “Framingham has been turned into
a Brazilian slave camp,” Jim Rizoli told
reporters in 2006. Rizoli, who run a nativist extremist group with his brother called
Concerned Citizens and Friends of Illegal
Immigration Law Enforcement, has also
repeatedly suggested that the Holocaust did
not occur or has been greatly exaggerated.
OFFICE SOUGHT
Governor, Arkansas
PARTY Unspecified (ran as
a write-in candidate)
RESULTS General election:
Received 0.006% (49 votes)
of the 781,381 votes cast.
EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY White supremacist,
neo-Nazi
After a long career with other neo-Nazi
groups, Roper founded his own white
supremacist White Revolution (WR) in
2002. Its mission statement: “We seek to
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James C. “Jim” Russell
OFFICE SOUGHT U.S. House of
Representatives, New York District 18
PARTY Republican
RESULTS Primary: Unopposed. General election: Received 37.6% (70,413 votes) of the
187,364 votes cast.
EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY White supremacist,
anti-Semitic
Russell is on the editorial advisory board
of The Occidental Quarterly, a white
nationalist publication. He denounces
interracial marriage and has written
favorably of eugenics, the long-discredited pseudo-science of race breeding. In
a 2001 article, Russell noted an “excellent inquiry” by Elmer Pendell: “In our
own civilization we see a lessening of the
struggle for survival. Welfare does away
with natural selection. … Compassion,
unfortunately, is the enemy of biological
progress.” To this, Russell added, “While
liberals and universalists constantly yammer about ‘bringing us all together,’ and
how ‘diversity is our strength,’ it may be
suggested that … culture in human societies … must establish a sense of group
identity so that the individual knows
whom to act altruistically toward and
whom to mate with.” Russell quoted T.S.
Eliot’s formula for the ideal society: “The
population should be homogeneous.
What is still more important is unity of
religious background, and reasons of race
and culture combine to make any large
number of free-thinking Jews undesirable.” The New York Republican Party
withdrew its support of Russell after
news organizations wrote about the article during his campaign.
Daniel B. Schruender
OFFICE SOUGHT
Unified School District board, Rialto, Calif.
PARTY Unspecified
RESULTS General election: Finished last
among six candidates for two open seats,
receiving 9.6% (2,290 votes) of the 23,756
votes cast.
EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Neo-Nazi
Schruender formerly headed the
California chapter of the neo-Nazi
Aryan Nations, which broke up into
weak and small factions around the
country after being financially crippled by a Southern Poverty Law Center
lawsuit in 2000 and the 2004 death of
founder Richard Butler. Schruender’s
personal blog, “Sense and Sensibility”
carries a sub-headline describing the
site as “now affiliated with the American
Nazi Party,” and Schruender describes
himself there as an “official supporter”
of the group. The blog is replete with
swastikas, attacks on Jews, a reference
to President Obama as “King Kongo
Obongo,” and a photograph of Adolf
Hitler — “our REAL commander,” as
the shot is captioned. As media scrutiny increased during the campaign,
Shruender complained, “The Jew media
is really doing a hatchet job on me since
they found out I’m running for school
board and in Aryan Nations.”
Jeffrey Stankiewicz
OFFICE SOUGHT Tax assessor, Boundary
County, Idaho
PARTY Constitution
RESULTS General election: Received 19.6%
(654 votes) of the 3,330 votes cast.
EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Antigovernment militia
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Billy Roper
secure the existence of our people and
a future for our children by creating the
opportunity for the establishment of a
government which has only the interests
of our group [white people] in mind.” In
an E-mail to members of the neo-Nazi
National Alliance (of which he was then
deputy membership coordinator) immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist
attacks, Roper said, “The enemy of our
enemy is, for now at least, our friends.
…[A]nyone who is willing to drive a
plane into a building to kill jews [sic] is
alright [sic] by me. I wish our members
had half as much testicular fortitude.” In
a 2005 interview, Roper added: “Every
non-White on the planet has to become
extinct. We need to remove these minorleague amateur races out of the game,
and refine the playoff brackets a bit, if
you get my meaning. The whole world is
ours, and the only part of the earth that
non-Whites should inherit is however
much it requires to cover them.”
Stankiewicz serves as major of the 21st
Battalion of the North Idaho Light Foot
Militia. “We have our enemies,” he
told the Bonners Ferry Herald in 2009.
“China and Russia are both building up
military and flexing their muscles.” His
battalion, he said, is preparing for an
economic collapse. “We don’t want this
to happen, we hope it doesn’t happen,
but we want to be prepared for it if it
does,” he said, sounding themes familiar
in the antigovernment “Patriot” movement. “When the truck stops delivering
food and people’s federal checks stop
coming there could be rioting in cities.” The militia’s “standards” include
not only repelling foreign aggression
and invasions but also “encouraging
and showing reason why all citizens
should stand stoutly against socialism,
fascism, communism, humanism and
all forms of tyranny.” Stankiewicz has
called President Obama a socialist.
Tom Tancredo
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OFFICE SOUGHT
Governor, Colorado.
PARTY American
Constitution
RESULTS General election: Finished second in
a three-way race with
36.4% (651,232 votes) of the 1,787,730
votes cast. (See Dan Maes, above.)
EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Anti-immigration, conspiracy theorist
Tancredo promotes a hard-line “deport
’em all” stance on immigration. As a
congressman, he introduced bills to
virtually choke off all immigration. In
2005, he declared – inaccurately – that
federal prisons were overflowing with
undocumented immigrants. “They’re
coming here to kill you, and you, and
me, and my grandchildren,” he said.
In 2006, Tancredo addressed a crowd
that included many members of the
neo-Confederate League of the South
(see Loy Mauch, above) from a podium
draped in a Confederate battle flag and
joined in the singing of “Dixie,” a favorite
anthem of white supremacists. Tancredo
in 2006 referred to Miami as a “Third
World country.” In 2009, he called the
National Council of La Raza, the nation’s
largest Hispanic civil rights organization, a “Latino KKK without the hoods
or the noose.”
James A. Traficant Jr.
OFFICE SOUGHT
U.S. House of
Representatives, Ohio
District 17.
PARTY Independent
RESULTS General election:
Received 16% (30,556
votes) of the 190,666 votes cast.
EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Anti-Semitic, conspiracy theorist
Traficant served nine years in Congress
before being convicted of bribery, racketeering and other charges and serving
seven years in prison. He told Fox News:
“I believe that Israel has a powerful
stranglehold on the American government. … They control both members of
the House and the Senate. They have us
involved in wars in which we have little or no interest. … They [Jews] control
much of the media, they control much
of the commerce of the country, and …
they own the Congress.” Traficant gave a
lengthy interview to American Free Press,
a newspaper founded and run by longtime racist, anti-Semite and Christian
Identity adherent Willis Carto.
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U.S. Rep. Steve King
REELECTED
OFFICE SOUGHT
U.S. House of
Representatives, Iowa
District 5
PARTY Republican
RESULTS Primary:
Unopposed. General election: Won with 63.9% (128,363 votes) of
the 200,812 votes cast.
EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Anti-immigrant, anti-gay
King has a long record of inflammatory
and inaccurate statements about undocumented immigrants. In May 2006, he
published the grossly exaggerated claim
that undocumented immigrants killed
an average of 25 Americans per day –
either by murder or by illegal activities
such as driving drunk. If true, that would
be the equivalent of more than half of
all homicides nationwide in most years.
King has also warned that if marriage
is not restricted to one man and one
woman, children could be taken away
and raised collectively in “warehouses.”
King extolled Sen. Joseph McCarthy
of 1950s communist-hunting infamy as
a “hero for America.” For a time, King
publicly questioned details of President
Obama’s birth certificate, although
he later backed away from extreme
“birther” rhetoric.
Russell Pearce
REELECTED
OFFICE SOUGHT
Arizona Senate, District 18
PARTY Republican
RESULTS Primary:
Unopposed. General election: Won with 56.6%
(17,552 votes) of the
31,023 votes cast.
EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Anti-immigrant
Pearce gained national prominence
as the principal sponsor and nominal author of Arizona’s S.B. 1070,
which makes it a state crime to be
in this country as an undocumented
immigrant. A federal judge enjoined
parts of that bill, and the Obama
administration has challenged its
c o n st i t u t i o n a l i t y. Bu t n u m e ro u s
other state legislatures, caught up in
anti-immigrant fever, have vowed to
pursue similar laws. Pearce’s profile is
spangled with associations with rightwing extremists, including neo-Nazi
J.T. Ready, a former member of the
National Socialist Movement. Pearce
once endorsed Ready (and described
him as “a true patriot”) when Ready
ran for the Mesa City Council in 2006.
A former deputy sheriff, Pearce also
forwarded an anti-Semitic article from
the neo-Nazi National Alliance to supporters in October 2005. When the
matter became public, Pearce claimed
he hadn’t fully read it. ▲
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Tainted Thule
A leading member of a now-defunct ‘esoteric’
neo-Nazi group describes its unusual beliefs
and how he came to reject them
Espousing highbrow “Aryan” ideas, the White Order of Thule
(WOT) was a neo-Nazi spiritualist group in the closing years of
the 1990s (the name Thule refers to the northernmost habitable
regions known to ancient Greek geographers). Founded by imprisoned cocaine dealer Peter Georgacarakos, art student Michael
Lujan and new age occultist Joseph Kerrick — eccentrics who
considered themselves the intellectual vanguard of the white
supremacy movement — WOT required inductees to advance
through “degrees of membership,” studying German philosopher
Friedrich Nietzsche, Adolf Hitler and others. The group’s belief
system promoted “Nietzschean notions of the Superman against
Judeo-Christian religion,” as well as the darker sides of paganism, scholar Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke wrote in Black Sun: Aryan
Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity, a seminal 2003 work on what’s often called “esoteric Nazism.” Among
the White Order’s core beliefs was the idea of Aryan superiority as supposedly embodied in Greco-Roman culture. While WOT
avoided overt acts of violence in promoting an all-white nation in
North America, one of its more prominent members, Leo Felton,
went to prison for plotting to bomb Jewish and black landmarks
and incite a race war. (After his arrest, to the shock of his comrades and his skinhead girlfriend, it emerged that Felton’s father
was black.) Nathan Pett, also known as Nate Zorn, was a member
of the group and worked on both of its publications — Crossing
the Abyss, a newsletter that claimed to shed “light on the murky
area between cutting-edge Aryan pagan spirituality and revolutionary realpolitik,” and another called Fenris Wolf. Today an
avowed critic of the white supremacy movement, Pett spoke with
the Southern Poverty Law Center about the White Order and his
own eventual dismissal of racist ideas.
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How would you describe the makeup
and identity of the White Order of
Thule?
They were a very motley crew of eccentric people that weren’t satisfied or
didn’t fit in with [more traditional neoNazi groups like] the Hammerskins
or the American Front or the National
Alliance. It was this pseudo-intellectual group, guys who were smarter than
some of the knucklehead skinheads I
knew. The group catered to people who
felt that they wanted something a little smarter, more professional, and a
little bit more elitist. But it was really
a prison-run fascist book club, more
or less. I say that because most of the
members hadn’t met each other.
What were the group’s core beliefs?
The more intellectual people would deny
it, but it’s all the same crap [as in less
pretentious parts of the white supremacist movement] in hindsight for me.
They would combine theosophy [a
mystical religious philosophy founded
in the 19th century that also influenced some German Nazis] with
pagan beliefs, primarily more
Greco-Roman, which is different than most of the other
racist groups obsessed
with the Nordic thing.
They rejected that in
favor of this more
Mediterranean, rightwing, pagan mindset.
And as you got
more into what
they called study,
you started to find
they also dabbled in things like
Christian mysticism,
but rejected mainstream Christianity
and Christian Identity
[a racist variant of
Christianity that says Jews
are biologically descended
from Satan and people of
color do not have souls] as
unsound. Now you might ask,
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why? They’re all racist and they’re all
the same. But they don’t look at it that
way. It was an alternative to the other
white separatist, white nationalist,
white supremacist groups.
Did that thinking draw a large base of followers when the group was most active?
We had a hard time getting a lot of
followers because, as you know, the
white power movement is very right
wing. That goes back to the John Birch
Society [that was founded in 1958], very
anti-communist. But the White Order
would promote things like Stalin as a
good leader, and so forth. And that’s
why the group never caught on — the
white supremacist movement will
always be right wing. It will always be
anti-communist and xenophobic.
Of course, I always felt bringing leftist philosophy into this was just a front.
I don’t really think you can be a neoNazi and truly be a leftist thinker or a
progressive or a liberal. Instead, it was
catering to people that were looking for
an alternative religion, people who felt
they wanted something supposedly a
little smarter. You’re dealing with a con
artist, after all. Peter Georgacarakos was
the number one con artist you will ever
deal with. I mean, let’s face it: the group
is a cult. It was about getting people to
join and follow the leader, very similar
to Jim Jones’ People’s Temple.
A cult? What can you say about that?
It was very much a cult of personality
surrounding one man, Georgacarakos.
He wanted to be the godhead of this
group. It’s kind of why Lujan got tired
of it, and why I got tired of it. Overall,
he’s a good example of why when you
talk about any type of discrimination,
whether its discrimination against people because of sexual orientation,
or their economic background,
or their nationality, or
their religion, or race,
there’s always a Hitler
type that wants
to be a figurehead. And that’s
Georgacarakos.
The others
wanted to follow the leader
— Joseph
Kerrick was
more or less
a former hippie, new
age kind of
cult person.
He has been
in every new
age cult that
you can think
of. Mike Lujan is
another guy. He’s
what you call a joiner and followed
Charles Manson for years.
Was the group sizeable enough to be
divided into chapters?
The chapter thing is funny. Let’s face it
— the White Order of Thule had such
a small amount of people. The chapter in Virginia was just Michael Lujan
and a P.O. box. The same with me in
Washington state. I was the only guy
there. I had one or two people I knew
who I tried to get interested, but it was
so bizarre to most white supremacists
to do the weird mix of philosophy. Most
people just didn’t want to get into it,
you know? It was so esoteric. People
couldn’t understand what the hell it
meant, including me.
So did you feel conned when you left
the group?
Something happened when I worked
at a fish market in Baton Rouge, near
the Louisiana State University campus. Louisiana is a strange place for a
white supremacist [because of its multicultural population]. I still don’t
understand how David Duke can have
so much support.
But this was a big market of about
50 to 100 employees. Everyone was
Caucasian, except for a Hispanic
woman and a black guy. And here is the
ironic thing about that — the guy that
I identified with more than anybody
else was the black guy. We had a similar sense of humor and we really hit it
off, because we were basically forced to
have to work together. He was such a
good guy that it started to really make
me doubt my own beliefs. I actually
thought, “If I wasn’t a damn skinhead,
this guy would have been a great friend.”
So it’s like living a double life, and
I started to get wise to the fact I was
being lied to. And that puts a lot of
doubt in your mind. ▲
The White Order of Thule’s sigil — a sign or image that is considered magical — was
designed by Joseph Kerrick and incorporates a Nazi swastika.
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Shariah
Shock
Oklahoma has forbidden Islamic religious
code. But its new law is nothing more than
political posturing and Muslim-bashing
klahoma State Rep. Cory
Williams is exasperated. He
was one of only 12 state legislators to resist the political
stampede to put before voters a referendum to prohibit state judges from
considering Islamic Shariah or international law in their rulings.
He derided his colleagues’ fervor as
“irresponsible” and “pandering.” Voters,
Williams said, “think that their legislators are not screwing around and putting
things on the ballot [ just] to get a certain
electorate out there. They think that if
the legislators put it there, then there’s an
issue” that must be addressed, he told the
Intelligence Report. “What they don’t pay
us to do is be political assholes.”
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Legal experts say banning Shariah
law is superfluous; there is no mechanism by which any foreign criminal or
civil code can trump U.S. laws. Business
experts add that such a ban could hurt
the image of domestic companies doing
business overseas. Yet when Oklahoma
voters got the chance to vote on State
Question 755, the so-called “Save Our
State Amendment,” 70% approved it.
Rep. Rex Duncan, who authored and
co-sponsored the House joint resolution
that later was presented to voters as S.Q.
755, said it was a “pre-emptive strike” that
would stop “activist judges” from imposing the type of repressive justice found in
the most oppressive Islamic regimes.
Duncan made national news with
his proposal. In June, he told MSNBC’s
Contessa Brewer that Oklahoma voters
Could it Happen Here?
Shariah law is derived from the Koran
and the teachings of Mohammed. Like
other systems of religious law – Jewish
Halachic law, for instance – it establishes guidelines for major life events like
marriage, birth and death, and outlines
conduct that is forbidden and required.
Interpretations of what the rules are and
precisely how they are to be followed
vary among different branches of Islam
and among Muslims as individuals. It also
varies among Muslim-majority countries,
whose implementation of Shariah law
ranges from nominal to strict. In coun-
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“understand that this is a war for the survival of America. It’s a cultural war, it’s a
social war, it’s a war for the survival of
our country.”
Two days after the vote, Muneer
Awad, a lawyer and executive director
of Oklahoma’s chapter of the Council
on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR),
filed a lawsuit alleging that the amendment violated his and other Muslims’
constitutional rights. U.S. District Judge
Vicki Miles-LaGrange issued a preliminary injunction on Nov. 29 to prevent the
vote from being certified.
FROM JIHADWATCH.ORG
At loggerheads: State Rep. Rex Duncan (left)
says he pushed a legally meaningless ban on
using Shariah law in Oklahoma because “it’s a
war for survival of our country.” but for Muslim
Muneer Awad, who wants to be buried according to his religion’s custom, the ban feels more
like a war on him and other Muslims.
tries like Saudi Arabia, where there is
little or no separation of secular and religious authority, courts of law may mete
out punishments according to Shariah
law as interpreted by imams.
Awad’s challenge to the Save Our
State Amendment got little visible support from his fellow Oklahomans.
Islamophobes, however, had a field day.
Reposting an article titled “Taliban chops
off man’s hand for theft,” JihadWatch.
org’s Robert Spencer asked, “Isn’t it great
that Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange has
made Oklahoma safe for Sharia?”
That the punishment in question was
meted out in an illegal court controlled
by a banned branch of the Taliban operating in lawless northwest Pakistan
clearly didn’t matter to Spencer, a longtime Muslim-basher who co-heads Stop
Islamization of America with blogger
Pamela Geller of AtlasShrugs.com, a
leader in condemning an Islamic center
planned for lower Manhattan last year.
Unlike Spencer, legal scholars do distinguish between “law” as defined by
rogue Taliban thugs and law as it is used
American courtrooms — and they say
comparisons like the one Spencer made
are baloney.
“Oklahoma law, like the law of every
other state in the country, prohibits people from chopping other peoples’ hands
off. An imam cannot chop a hand off.
Anyone who did would be in violation of
very serious criminal law and they would
go to jail,” said Paul Finkelman, President
William McKinley Distinguished Professor
of Law and Public Policy at Albany (N.Y.)
Law School and Editor-in-Chief of Religion
and American Law: An Encyclopedia.
Joseph Thai, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Oklahoma,
agreed. “The reason that won’t happen is
the same reason it has never happened.
We have never had anyone’s hand cut off
in Oklahoma because we have this background principle that states will not
enforce foreign laws that are contrary to
the law of the states. … It is not just stuff
like cutting off hands and genital mutilation; Oklahoma will not enforce Texas
law if it’s contrary to Oklahoma law,” he
said. “We do not enforce foreign law that
is contrary to state policy. We never have
and we never will.”
That doesn’t mean certain Shariah
principles would never find application
in Oklahoma, which is home to an estimated 20,000-30,000 Muslims. Awad,
for instance, specifies in his will that
his body be prepared in accord with
Islamic law as described in “Shahih
Bukhari, Volume 2, Book 23, Number
345.” Although there is no contradiction between this Islamic tradition and
Oklahoma state law, the execution of
wills is subject to court oversight — and if
Oklahoma courts were forbidden to heed
Shariah law, Awad argued in his petition
Muslim-basher Robert Spencer, whose Jihad
Watch website is quick to accuse groups of
links to terrorism, suggested falsely that an
Oklahoma judge was making the state a haven
for Islamic religious law.
for an injunction, his will could not be
carried out, violating his constitutional
right to freely exercise his religion.
Awad has been outspoken in denouncing the law as unconstitutional, bigoted,
and prejudicial to Muslims. In return for his
trouble, he’s received an avalanche of hate
mail — some of it from beyond Oklahoma.
“The Muslims are so fucking stupid
that they don’t realize southern people
have our own brand of justice,” wrote a
man from Texas, who may or may not
have realized the irony of his remark.
“Again, muslim asshead(s), you are not
welcome in The United States. Go fuck
camels and whatever else you do like
worshipping devils in some other country that will have you. Get out of America.
You are not welcome here!!!”
Wrote another: “[W]e will work
together in this country Jews and
Gentiles to destroy those mosques built
here, and cover them with the blood of
swine, because you’re [sic] religion is
nothing more than a superstition.”
And a third: “Take your Islamic laws,
shove them up your ass and go back to
where you came from. You lice infested
bastards are not welcome and that goes,
[sic] for that Black Bastard that sits in the
White House.”
Rex Duncan’s ‘Enemy’
Duncan, the resolution’s enthusiastic author, told the media that he was
inspired by a 2010 case in New Jersey
family court, where a judge denied a
Muslim woman’s request for a restraining order against her husband, who was
raping and beating her.
The New Jersey judge did not deny
the woman’s allegations of abuse, but
he ruled that the husband’s responsibility for his behavior was mitigated
because his understanding of Shariah
law informed him that he was entitled
to have intercourse with his wife whenever he desired. Under New Jersey law,
nonconsensual sex is rape even between
a married couple.
A state appeals court pointedly overturned the decision, saying it clearly
violated the legal principal that no foreign law can supplant U.S. law. But
the mere fact that the clearly erroneous lower court ruling could happen in
America at all was enough to convince
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Duncan that Oklahoma was in desperate need of protection – even though no
problems regarding Shariah law had ever
been reported in Oklahoma.
Duncan did not reply to repeated
requests for interviews from the
Intelligence Report. In the interview
with MSNBC’s Brewer, however, he said:
“Oklahomans recognize that America
was founded on Judeo-Christian values,
and we’re unapologetically grateful that
God has blessed America and blessed
Oklahoma. And State Question 755, the
Save Our State Amendment, is just a simple effort to ensure that our courts are
not used to undermine those founding
principles and turn Oklahoma into something that our founding fathers and our
great-grandparents wouldn’t recognize.”
“Frankly, it’s the face of the enemy. It’s
the face of the enemy, and we need to call
it what it is,” he added. “Oklahomans are
going to do that, and they’re going show
other states what it looks like to take a leadership role in saving their own future and
the sanctity of their state court system.”
Joseph Thai, the Oklahoma law professor, could hardly disagree more
strongly. “The repudiation of the New
Jersey case by the New Jersey court of
appeals demonstrates that our legal system works, that we do not allow foreign
law,” he said. “Why in the absence of 755
has this never happened? It’s because
American courts will not enforce foreign
laws that are contrary to public policy.”
As it happens, at least one matter
involving Shariah law has been adjudicated in Oklahoma state court. The
outcome aligned precisely with what
Finkelman and Thai predicted.
The judge, who requested anonymity to
avoid any possible impact on Awad’s lawsuit, told the Report what happened when
a married Muslim couple brought a dispute
over a premarital dowry agreement to the
courtroom. Oklahoma law does not recognize dowry rights, so the judge ruled that
the agreement was not enforceable under
state law. Neither party appealed.
“I’m not going to enforce anything
that is contrary to Oklahoma law,” the
judge explained.
Islamophobia on Steroids
S.Q. 755 did not materialize in a vacuum. Like fungus in a damp climate,
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its growth was encouraged by a recent
mushrooming of Islamophobia across
America. Impassioned and hate-filled
reactions to last spring’s announcement
that a 13-story Muslim community center
and mosque would be going up several
blocks from New York City’s Ground
Zero shifted into violence within months.
In May, a pipe bomb went off at a
Florida mosque while 60 people were
inside. In August, a knife-wielding passenger attacked his Muslim cab driver
in New York City, and an arsonist damaged equipment at the site of a planned
mosque in Murfreesboro, Tenn. In
September, it took a phone call from
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to persuade Florida pastor Terry Jones to call
off plans to lead “International Burn a
Koran Day” on the anniversary of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
(Undaunted, Jones has now designated
March 20 as “International Judge a
Koran Day.” You can “burn it! Drown it!
Shred it! Shoot it!” his church’s website
proclaimed.)
Anti-Muslim activists helped S.Q.
755’s sponsors spread their message of
intolerance and fear. Brigitte Gabriel’s
ACT! For America spent $45,000 to promote the amendment, targeting voters
with radio ads and robo-calls voiced by
former CIA Director James Woolsey. By
fall, ACT chapters had begun to spring
up across Oklahoma.
Williams said the effect of his vote
against putting the “Save Our State”
amendment on the ballot was “painful”
during campaign season. His Republican
challenger sent out postcards with pictures of shadowy, burqua-clad figures,
claiming that Williams wanted Shariah
to be the law of the land. Williams beat
him anyway, but only by a slim margin
— 280 votes out of 9,500 cast.
Likely fearing a similar backlash, the
Oklahoma business community was
silent — even though the amendment
could directly affect its interests. “It is a
regular part of our transactional practice
to deal with the laws of other nations,”
said lawyer Louis Price of Oklahoma
City’s McAfee & Taft. “When you’re dealing with a global economy, it’s hard to say
‘Yeah, you can do business with us, but
only if you use our laws.’”
Asked if he expected anyone in busi-
ness community to join Awad in his suit,
Price said, “Individual businesses would
tend not to pick fights on hypothetical
matters. … [A]nd [the amendment] is still
a hypothetical for our concerns.”
Hypothetical or not, businesses did
foresee the amendment could cause
problems, and while they preferred not
to “pick fights” themselves, they had little hesitation asking Awad and CAIR to
fight on their behalf. “We had people in
the business community calling and asking us to bring up the international law
aspect in press conferences,” Awad told
the Report. “I think they hoped someone
else would stand up because they didn’t
want to get muddied.”
Voters in other states may soon
have to decide where they stand on
the question of forbidding their judges
to consider to Shariah law. Lawmakers
in at least six states – Arizona, Florida,
Louisiana, South Carolina, Tennessee
and Utah – made campaign promises to
introduce similar proposals. Legislators
in Wyoming and Texas have already
introduced anti-Shariah resolutions, and
the conservative American Center for
Law and Justice (ACLJ) has pledged its
support to states that need help writing
and defending anti-Shariah laws. Jordan
Sekulow, director of ACLJ international
operations (his father, Jay, is the group’s
chief counsel), is soliciting signatures for
an online petition to ban Shariah law in
U.S. courts. According to The Christian
Century, Sekulow is also “advising”
Oklahoma State Sen. Anthony Sykes, who
co-authored and co-sponsored the resolution that became S.Q. 755.
While the ACLJ pursues its multiplatform anti-Muslim agenda, Awad
also is fighting the battle on more than
one front. In the court of law, he is on
the offense. But in the court of public
opinion, he must strike a careful balance
between making his case against the law
and being sensitive to the plight of his coreligionists across the state.
When Awad first came to Oklahoma,
he believed that drawing attention to
people spouting anti-Muslim vitriol
would shame them into silence. But just
a few months in the state have shattered
that illusion, he told the Intelligence
Report. “Some people,” he said, “can’t
be shamed.” ▲
The Year in Nativism
Growth in the hard core of the nativist movement is slowing as the
battle over immigration moves into the nation’s courts
BY HEIDI BEIRICH
FROM WHITEREFERENCE.BLOGSPOT.COM
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wo major trends were evident last year in the hard-line
anti-immigration movement.
Most worryingly, a cadre
of racial extremists began patrolling
Arizona for undocumented border-crossers. Led by neo-Nazi J.T. Ready, they
scour the deserts while armed with semiautomatic rifles and clad in fatigues,
military-style helmets and Kevlar vests.
Pictures of their exploits show terrified
migrants forced to the ground by guntoting captors.
At the same time, many nativist activists expanded their alliances with other
far-right political movements, a trend
that first began to take shape in 2009. In
the past year, major nativist leaders have
allied their organizations with antigovernment “Patriot” groups or fringe Tea Party
factions. In some cases, they have created
new far-right hybrid entities of their own.
Nativists received a burst of energy
with the signing last April of Arizona’s
S.B. 1070, a harsh anti-immigration
ordinance that makes the failure of
non-citizens to carry immigration documents a crime and obligates police to
check immigration status when there is
“reasonable suspicion” that someone is
undocumented. Anti-immigrant groups
were highly active in pushing for the
law, which is currently held up in federal
court. Legislators in several states are set
to introduce copycats, which may further
inflame anti-immigrant sentiment. Even
so, the movement is no longer growing at
the rapid pace of prior years.
According to the Southern Poverty
Law Center’s (SPLC) latest count, the
number of what the SPLC characterizes
as “nativist extremist” groups — organizations that do not limit themselves to
pushing for legislative change or more
border patrols, but rather target suspected undocumented immigrants at
work sites or when they cross the border — is up slightly, rising to 319 last
year from 309 groups in 2009. Still, it is
noteworthy that the movement’s rate of
growth slowed considerably, with the
three largest groups — the Minuteman
Civil Defense Corps, the Minuteman
Project, and the Federal Immigration
Reform and Enforcement (FIRE)
Coalition — staying about the same size
as last year. In fact, without the activism
surrounding S.B. 1070, the movement
might well have shrunk in 2010.
The slowed growth of the movement
is a big change. Between 2008 and 2009,
the groups skyrocketed nearly 80%, rising to 309 from 173. A year earlier, the
number of groups went up 20%, from
144 to 173. This slower growth is partly
attributable to leadership battles that
have drained the energy of some groups.
It also reflects the relocation of some
nativists into other sectors of the far right
that have concerns beyond immigration.
As hard-line nativism has gone mainstream, the
growth of anti-immigrant groups patrolling the
border for crossing migrants has slowed.
Toil and Trouble
As neo-Nazis like one-time National
Socialist Movement member J.T. Ready
became more prominent on the nativist scene this past year, one of the major
early nativist leaders exited the scene
ignominiously. In June, allegations surfaced in court documents that Chris
Simcox — arguably the highest profile
individual in the movement, a man who
co-founded of the Minuteman Project in
2005 and, later, founded the Minuteman
Civil Defense Corps (MCDC) — had
threatened to kill his wife and family in
a 2009 domestic dispute. It turned out
that a restraining order had been issued
against Simcox in April, when his third
wife, Alena, filed for divorce. This was
not the first time that Simcox had been
accused of violent behavior by a spouse.
His second wife told the Intelligence
Report in 2005 that she filed for full custody of their teenage son because she
feared Simcox had suffered a mental
breakdown, was sometimes violent and
seemed dangerous.
In early July, after a short period
when Simcox disappeared from public view (prompting one bounty hunter
working for his wife to issue a “Wanted”
poster), he released an E-newsletter,
“The Simcox Report,” that defended his
actions. In it, Simcox accused his wife
of having been involved in an adulterous relationship with Stacy O’Connell,
a former member of MCDC with whom
Simcox had feuded for years (O’Connell
and Alena Simcox denied the allegations). The soap opera intensified when
it emerged that O’Connell ran the bounty
hunting service that put up the “Wanted”
poster for Simcox.
Meanwhile, MCDC’s leadership
spent 2010 in complete disarray. When
Simcox announced in April 2009 that he
would run for the Arizona Senate seat
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Building Bridges
Certain nativist extremists are gaining political muscle by building bridges
to other kinds of far-right groups, with
many nativists morphing into Tea Party
activists or redefining themselves more
broadly as opposed to the federal government’s authority in general.
This trend began in 2009, when nativist extremist groups first began to find
common cause with the antigovernment Patriot movement, which includes
militias and similar groups. That the
two movements dovetail in many ways
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309
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held by John McCain, MCDC was left
in the hands of his long-time lieutenant,
Carmen Mercer. Mercer shut the organization down in March 2010, after being
accused by Arizona’s attorney general of
involvement in a property scam.
In a March 22 E-mail to supporters
announcing the shutdown, Mercer nevertheless encouraged former MCDC
members to continue their work independently. “I predict Americans, on their
own, will lock, load and do what the feckless cowards in Washington refuse to do
— and frankly I hope Americans do take
up arms to defend this great nation,” she
wrote in her “urgent alert.”
This missive came after Mercer sent a
hot-blooded E-mail out the week before
urging supporters to bring their long
arms to the border and to “forcefully
engage” the “criminals” who try to cross
without documentation.
Despite having claimed MCDC was
no more, Mercer within a few months
was again posting on MCDC’s website
as though nothing had happened.
Long an Arizona entity, MCDC now
lists Herndon, Va., as its headquarters
address and sends those wishing to
contact it by mail to the far-right advocacy group, Declaration Alliance, that
is headed by conservative activist Alan
Keyes. The alliance had long helped raise
money for MCDC. But earlier this year,
Mercer reported that MCDC was going
broke after breaking off relations with
the group. Apparently, they have now
mended their rift.
The turmoil had little effect on the
size of the group, which had 77 chapters
in 30 states in 2010. That’s up by two
chapters from last year.
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NATIVIST EXTREMIST GROUPS
is not entirely surprising. Both cotton to
Revolutionary War rhetoric and imagery, and the first major nativist extremist
group, the Minuteman Project, branded
itself intentionally with a name right out
of the American Revolution.
The Federal Immigration Reform and
Enforcement Coalition (FIRE), which is
the largest nativist extremist group with
136 chapters in 35 states (up one chapter
from 2009), took up the antigovernment
flag in 2009 when it launched The Patriot
Coalition. FIRE is best known for a website that allows individuals to inform on
employers of undocumented workers
and for aggressive protests aimed at the
undocumented.
In August, the group went one step
further down the Patriot road, cosponsoring a national conference in
Pennsylvania that brought together a
motley crew of far-right activists, conspiracy-minded groups like the John
Birch Society and an array of other opponents of the Obama Administration.
Patriot hero Richard Mack, a former
Arizona sheriff who believes that county
sheriffs are the highest authority and can
ignore demands from the federal government, spoke to the conference. The
event’s core theme — “demand [states’]
sovereignty from the tyranny of the
Federal government”— sounded more
like a paean to the Confederacy and
“states’ rights” than a complaint about
immigration.
FIRE National Director Jeff Lewis is
active in several antigovernment groups,
three of which he heads. Billing himself
as “a direct descendant of the original American Revolutionaries,” Lewis
is listed as a delegate on the website of
We the People (WTP), a federal government-hating outfit led by prominent
tax protester Bob Schulz; he also participated in WTP’s 2009 “Continental
Congress” and is listed as a leader in the
North Carolina chapter. (The congress
issued documents warning that any
infringement on the people’s liberty as
laid out in the Constitution is “an act of
WAR” that “the People and their Militias
have the Right and Duty to repel.”)
Another example of a nativistturned-patriot is Al Garza, who was vice
president of MCDC until he quit the
group in August 2009. Garza went on to
form The Patriots Coalition, not to be
confused with FIRE’s Patriot Coalition,
another group that merges the ideas of
the nativist movement with those of
the Patriots. Its website is filled with
images of Revolutionary War troops and
the Constitution and laments, “God and
country are being taken away each day.”
Garza was helped in this effort by Joanne
Daley, his local Tea Party coordinator,
according to The Nation. Daley, who led
protests against Obama’s health care plan
in Arizona and ran a Cochise County
chapter of Glenn Beck’s 9.12 Project, is
on the group’s board.
Arguably the most obnoxious nativist
extremist, Jeff Schwilk, became a full-time
antigovernment activist in 2010. Schwilk,
founder of the San Diego Minutemen, has
subsumed his anti-immigrant activities
into a larger cause and now concentrates
more on his Southern California Patriot
Coalition, or SoCal Patriots. Instead of
harassing migrant camps and pro-immigrant activists, Schwilk now focuses on
gun rights and antigovernment issues.
“Our fight is all political now,” Schwilk
told The Nation in October. “Our fight is
in our cities, county and state, and federal
governments.”
Sipping With the Tea Parties
The Tea Party movement, too, has
become home to many nativist extrem-
ists. These groups saw their interests
first align during the healthcare debate,
as medical coverage for undocumented
immigrants became a flashpoint issue.
The lines between the movements have
become increasingly blurred, with leaders making official appearances at each
other’s events.
S.B. 1070, the Arizona law that
requires police to ask for proof of legal
residency from people they believe could
be undocumented immigrants, helped to
deepen this relationship. Tea Party activists gathered thousands of signatures in
favor of the law and the Tea Party Nation,
one of several Tea Party factions, cosponsored a rally in support of the law
in Phoenix on June 5.
Jim Gilchrist, who co-founded the
Minuteman Project with Simcox in
2005 and now runs his own outfit of
the same name, glommed on to the
Tea Party movement in the last year.
In late November, Gilchrist attended a
“Minuteman Tea Party” event in Texas
that his website claims had more than
2,000 attendees. Gilchrist hasn’t been to
the border in quite some time, preferring
to work the right-wing circuit and post
anti-immigration material on his website. Reaching out to the right has helped
Gilchrist’s Minuteman Project (MMP). It
had 38 chapters in 2010, up from 35 the
year before.
MMP Executive Director Stephen
Eichler joined his colleague Gilchrist in
the Tea Party movement. Eichler is now
listed as the executive director (and
“general trouble maker”) on TeaParty.
org. That Tea Party faction is led by Dale
Robertson, who gained some notoriety for displaying arguably racist signs
during protests of Obama’s health care
proposals. The anti-immigrant influence
at TeaParty.org is clear. The site lists as
part of its “non-negotiable core beliefs”
that “Illegal Aliens Are Here illegally.”
The group also has issued E-mail alerts
that blame an “illegal alien putsch” and
“invasion” for “the pestilence of National
Socialism” that it claims is on the rise in
America.
At the Extremes
This January, Shawna Forde, formerly of
the Gilchrist’s Minuteman Project and
then the leader of her own Minuteman
American Defense (MAD) group, was
scheduled to go on trial in Arizona for
the murder of a Latino man and his
9-year-old daughter. Forde’s case is a
reminder of how anti-immigrant fervor
can explode into extreme violence. Pima
County authorities allege that Forde and
two accomplices, one of whom had ties
to the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations, invaded
their victims’ home in search of drugs
and cash to fund MAD border activities.
That tragic and horrifying incident
makes the appearance of neo-Nazi J.T.
Ready and his immigrant-hunting pals
all the more worrisome. Until recently
a member of the National Socialist
Movement (NSM), Ready and his U.S.
Border Rangers, an armed group largely
peopled by other NSM members, have
detained a number of migrants. Last July,
Ready called a press conference in Pinal
County’s Vekol Valley, known as a drug
trafficking and illegal immigration route,
where he paraded his heavily armed
group for the news cameras. “This is the
Minuteman Project on steroids. We’ve
got people with assault weapons. … We
will use lawful, deadly force when appropriate,” Ready told a TV reporter.
One NSM member and avid patroller,
Harry Hughes, posted to the Web plenty
of photos of the migrants the group said
it stopped. Hughes really doesn’t like
Mexicans, citing approvingly on his
blog an article that says: “Mexican illegal aliens are revolting. And they know
it. It is their purpose to disrupt us, interfere with us and give us diseases that we
haven’t had in this country for 100 years.”
Hughes’ anger, by his own account, sometimes spills over into action. In July 2007,
Hughes posted on a racist forum that he
had shot a Mexican family’s dog. Hughes
said the charges were later dropped and
“the Mexicans [sic] home mysteriously
burned down.” The NSM border outings
are slated to continue.
What follows is a state-by-state
tally of the 319 groups that the SPLC lists
as nativist extremist groups. In the case
of the three major formations — the
Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, the
Minuteman Project and the Federation
Immigration Reform and Enforcement
Coalition — acronyms have been
added to help identify their affiliated
chapters. >>
ALABAMA (6)
Yuma
Federal Immigration
Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition
Southeast Alabama
Statewide
Minuteman Civil
Defense Corps
(MCDC)
Arab
Blountsville
River Region Minutemen (MCDC)
Millbrook
Tennessee Valley Minutemen (MCDC)
Rogersville
ARKANSAS (1)
ALASKA (1)
Minuteman Civil
Defense Corps of
Alaska
Homer
ARIZONA (18)
American Freedom
Riders
Phoenix
Arizona-Maricopa
Patriots 1st Division
MMP (MMP)
Maricopa
Federal Immigration
Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition
Green Valley
North Phoenix
Phoenix
Pinal County
Tucson
Minuteman Civil
Defense Corps
(MCDC)
Cochise County
Green Valley
Lake Havasu City
La Paz County
Phoenix
Prescott
Tucson
Mohave County
Minutemen
Mohave County
Patriots Coalition
Huachuca City
Riders Against Illegal
Aliens
Phoenix
Yuma Patriots
Federal Immigration
Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition
Northwest Arkansas
CALIFORNIA (61)
Antelope Valley
Minutemen
Antelope Valley
Border Patrol Auxiliary
San Diego
California State University Minuteman
Project Club (MMP)
Long Beach
Campo Minutemen
Campo
Carlsbad Citizens
Brigade
Carlsbad
Castro Valley
Minutemen
Castro Valley
Central Coast
Minutemen
Salinas
Crispus Attucks
Brigade
Los Angeles
Desert Cities Minutemen (MCDC)
Palm Desert
East Bay Minutemen
(MCDC)
Walnut Creek
Escondido Minutemen
Brigade
Escondido
Federal Immigration
Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition
Antelope Valley
Coachella Valley
East San Francisco Bay
El Cajon
Lake Elsinore
Long Beach
Marina del Rey
Menifee Valley
Moreno Valley
North Edwards and
Boron
Northern California
Oceanside
Redlands
Riverside
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San Diego
San Gabriel Valley
San Juan Capistrano
Santa Cruz County
Silicon Valley
Sonoma County
South Coastal Orange
County
Southeast Riverside
County
South Lake Tahoe
Statewide
Ventura County
Vista
West Sacramento
Friends of the Border
Patrol
Covina
Golden Gate
Minutemen
San Francisco
Kern County Minutemen (MMP)
Bakersfield
Los Angeles Minutemen (MCDC)
Los Angeles
Minuteman Civil
Defense Corps
(MCDC)
Boulevard
Minuteman Project
(MMP)
Ontario
San Clemente
Mountain Minutemen
Jacumba
No Invaders.Org
Running Springs
North Bay Minutemen
San Francisco
Northern California
Minutemen (MCDC)
Napa
Operation Generation
(MMP)
Costa Mesa
Sacramento Region
Minutemen (MCDC)
Sacramento
San Diego Citizen’s
Brigade
San Diego
San Diego Minutemen
San Diego
San Fernando Valley
Minutemen (MMP)
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Ventura
Sonoma County Minutemen (MCDC)
Sonoma
Southern California
Minuteman Project
(MMP)
Southern California
Southern California
Patriot Coalition
Southern California
Southern Sierra Minuteman Project
Chapter (MMP)
Bodfish
Ventura County Minutemen (MMP)
Thousand Oaks
Vista Citizens Brigade
Vista
WE THE PEOPLE California’s Crusader
Victorville
COLORADO (4)
Colorado Minuteman
Project (MMP)
Statewide
Minuteman Civil
Defense Corps
(MCDC)
Denver
Grand Valley
Minuteman Project
Statewide
CONNECTICUT (3)
Federal Immigration
Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition
Danbury
Prospect
United States Citizens
for Immigration Law
Enforcement
West Redding
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
(1)
Defend DC
Washington
FLORIDA (17)
Central Florida Minutemen (MCDC)
Orlando
Central Florida Patriots Minuteman
Project (MMP)
Central Florida
Dixie County
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Minutemen
Old Town
Federal Immigration
Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition
Central Florida
Lady Lake
Lee and Collier
County
Pinellas County
Sarasota
South Palm Beach
County
Treasure Coast
Floridians for Immigration Enforcement,
Inc.
Palm Beach
Legal Immigrants
of Miami-A Minuteman Project Chapter
(MMP)
Miami
The MinuteMan@FSU
(MMP)
Tallahassee
Minuteman Civil
Defense Corps
(MCDC)
Haines City
Miami
Report Illegals
Pompano Beach
Space Coast Minutemen (MCDC)
Melbourne
GEORGIA (15)
Cherokee Minutemen
Canton
The Dustin Inman
Society
Marietta
Federal Immigration
Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition
Atlanta
Central Savannah
River Area
Cobb County
Gwinnett County
North Georgia
Statewide
Middle Georgia Minutemen (MCDC)
Macon
Minuteman Civil
Defense Corps
(MCDC)
Athens
Atlanta
Augusta
Minuteman Project
(MMP)
Atlanta
Northwest Georgia
Minutemen (MCDC)
Dalton
Southwest Georgia
Minutemen (MCDC)
Albany
HAWAII (2)
Federal Immigration
Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition
Waikiki
Hawaii Minuteman
Project (MMP)
Oahu
IDAHO (1)
Federal Immigration
Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition
Statewide
ILLINOIS (6)
Chicago Minuteman
Project (MMP)
Lindenhurst
Federal Immigration
Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition
Chicago
Lake County
Statewide
Illinois Minutemen A Minuteman Project
Chapter (MMP)
Dix
Minutemen Midwest
Harvard
INDIANA (7)
Federal Immigration
Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition
Elkhart County
Fort Wayne
Northern Indiana
Southeast Indiana
Southern Indiana
Indiana Federation for
Immigration Reform
and Enforcement
Valparaiso
Minuteman Civil
Defense Corps
(MCDC)
Southern Indiana
IOWA (10)
Cherokee County
Minutemen (MCDC)
Cherokee
Des Moines Minutemen (MCDC)
Des Moines
Harrison County Minutemen (MCDC)
Logan
Minuteman Civil
Defense Corps
(MCDC)
Council Bluffs
Denison
Griswold
Iowa City
Shelby County Minutemen (MCDC)
Shelby County
Taylor County Minutemen (MCDC)
Taylor County
Woodbury County
Minutemen (MCDC)
Woodbury County
KANSAS (6)
Burlington Minutemen (MCDC)
Burlington
Federal Immigration
Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition
Statewide
Heart of America
Minutemen (MCDC)
Kansas City
Minuteman Civil
Defense Corps
(MCDC)
Emporia
Topeka
Wichita
Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition
Northeast Louisiana
Southeast Louisiana
MCDC of Louisiana
(MCDCC)
Leesville
MAINE (1)
Minuteman Civil
Defense Corps
(MCDC)
Hanover
MARYLAND (17)
Help Save Maryland
Anne Arundel County
Baltimore
Baltimore County
Calvert County
Caroline County
Carroll County
Charles County
Frederick County
Harford County
Howard County
Montgomery County
Prince George’s
County
Queen Anne’s County
Rockville
St. Mary’s County
Talbot County
Old Line State
Minutemen - A Minuteman Project
Chapter (MMP)
Jefferson
MASSACHUSETTS (4)
Federal Immigration
Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition
Lancaster
Metro West
North Shores
Southeast
Massachusetts
KENTUCKY (3)
MICHIGAN (3)
Federal Immigration
Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition
Meade County
Richmond
Minuteman Civil
Defense Corps
(MCDC)
Lexington
Federal Immigration
Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition
Jackson County
Mid Michigan
Western Michigan
LOUISIANA (3)
Federal Immigration
MINNESOTA (5)
Federal Immigration
Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition
Statewide
Twin Cities
Minnesota Minuteman Project (MMP)
Statewide
Minnesota Minutemen (MCDC)
Mound
Minnesotans Seeking
Immigration Reform
Hanska
MISSISSIPPI (1)
Minuteman Project of
Mississippi (MMP)
Statewide
MISSOURI (4)
Federal Immigration Reform and
Enforcement (FIRE)
CoalitionChristian
County
Minuteman Civil
Defense Corps
(MCDC)
Joplin
Kansas City
Springfield Minutemen (MCDC)
Springfield
MONTANA (3)
Eastern Montana
Minutemen (MCDC)
Ryegate
MCDC of Montana
(MCDC)
Missoula
Minuteman Civil
Defense Corps
(MCDC)
Western Montana
NEBRASKA (4)
Federal Immigration
Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition
Omaha
Lincoln Minutemen
(MCDC)
Lincoln
MCDC of Nebraska
(MCDC)
Omaha
Minuteman Civil
Defense Corps
(MCDC)
Grand Island
NEVADA (8)
Americans4America
Las Vegas
Federal Immigration
Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition
Las Vegas
Northern Nevada
Southern Nevada
Statewide
Nevada Action
Coalition
Las Vegas
Nevada Las Vegas
Minuteman Project
(MMP)
Las Vegas
Pahrump Minutemen
Pahrump
NEW HAMPSHIRE (1)
Federal Immigration
Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition
Statewide
NEW JERSEY (8)
Federal Immigration
Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition
Bergen County
Cape May County
Statewide
MCDC of New Jersey
(MCDC)
Bound Brook
Minuteman Project
(MMP)
Bergen County
Trenton
New Jersey Citizens for Immigration
Control
Carlstadt
United Patriots of
America
Lindenhurst
NEW MEXICO (1)
Federal Immigration
Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition
El Paso
NEW YORK (5)
Federal Immigration
Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition
Nassau County
Staten Island
Statewide
MCDC of New York
(MCDC)
Freeport
Minuteman Project
(MMP)
New York
NORTH CAROLINA (9)
Americans for
Legal Immigration
(ALIPAC)
Raleigh
Federal Immigration
Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition
North Central North
Carolina
Northwest North
Carolina
Piedmont Region
Piedmont Triad Area
Statewide
Triangle Region
Western North
Carolina
Triangle Minutemen
Patriots (MMP)
Pittsboro
OHIO (9)
Federal Immigration
Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition
Columbiana County
Darke County
Dayton
Northeast Ohio
Statewide
MCDC of Ohio
(MCDC)
Cincinnati
Minuteman Civil
Defense Corps
(MCDC)
Cleveland
Columbus
Northeast Ohio Stern
Warning Chapter
(MMP)
Northeast Ohio
OKLAHOMA (3)
Federal Immigration
Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition
Muskogee
Minuteman Project
(MMP)
Tulsa
Oklahoma Minutemen (MCDC)
Oklahoma City
OREGON (4)
MCDC of Oregon
(MCDC)
Salem
Oregon Brigade Minuteman Project
(MMP)
Statewide
Oregonians for Immigration Reform
McMinville
Oregon Minutemen
(MMP)
Bend
PENNSYLVANIA (9)
Federal Immigration
Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition
Albrightsville
Berks County
Northeast
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Spring City
Great Lakes Minuteman Project (MMP)
Union City
Pennsylvania Minuteman Project (MMP)
Statewide
Pennsylvanians for
Immigration Control
and Enforcement
Warminster
Voice of the People
Shenandoah
RHODE ISLAND (4)
Federal Immigration
Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition
Statewide
Rhode Island Minutemen (MCDC)
Providence
Rhode Island Minutemen (MMP)
Statewide
Rhode Islanders for
Immigration Law
Enforcement (MMP)
Central Falls
SOUTH CAROLINA (6)
Federal Immigration
Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition
Beaufort County
Charleston
Horry County
North Charleston
Horry County Minutemen (MCDC)
Surfside Beach
Low Country Minutemen (MCDC)
Charleston
TENNESSEE (5)
Federal Immigration
Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition
Knox County
Lebanon
Oak Ridge
Rutherford County
Warren County
TEXAS (16)
Federal Immigration
Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition
Central Texas
Conroe
Dallas/Ft. Worth
Metroplex
HarrisCounty
Hidalgo County
Hill Country
San Antonio
Statewide
Tarrant County
Minuteman Civil
Defense Corps
(MCDC)
Austin
Minuteman Project
(MMP)
Lone Star
North Texas Minuteman Project (MMP)
North Texas
Texans for Immigration Reform
Houston
Texas Border
Volunteers
Conroe
Texas Minuteman
Project (MMP)
Arlington
U.S. Border Watch
Spring
UTAH (9)
Federal Immigration
Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition
Cache Valley
Greater Salt Lake City
Layton
Ogden
Southern Utah
South Salt Lake City
Statewide
Southern Utah
Minutemen (MCDC)
St. George
Utah Minutemen
Project (MMP)
Salt Lake City
VIRGINIA (6)
Centreville Citizens
Coalition
Centreville
Declaration Alliance
(MCDC)
Herndon
Help Save Hampton
Roads
Hampton Roads
Help Save Manassas
Manassas
Minuteman Civil
Defense Corps
(MCDC)
Herndon
Save the Old
Dominion
Manassas
WASHINGTON (4)
Federal Immigration
Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition
Eastern Washington
King County
Statewide
MCDC of Washington
Yakima
WISCONSIN (3)
Federal Immigration
Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Coalition
Southeast Wisconsin
MCDC of Wisconsin
Oconto Falls
Midwest Coalition
to Reduce
Immigration
La Valle
WYOMING (2)
MCDC of
Wyoming
Casper
New Castle
Minutemen
Newcastle ▲
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GROUPS TOP
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THEYEARINHATE
&EXTREMISM
Led by the antigovernment ‘Patriot’
movement, the American radical right
is continuing to expand rapidly
F
BY MARK POTOK ILLUSTRATION BY SEAN MCCABE
or the second year in a row,
the radical right in America
expanded explosively in 2010,
driven by resentment over
the changing racial demographics of the
country, frustration over the government’s
handling of the economy, and the mainstreaming of conspiracy theories and
other demonizing propaganda aimed at
various minorities. For many on the radical right, anger is focusing on President
Obama, who is seen as embodying everything that’s wrong with the country.
Hate groups topped 1,000 for the first
time since the Southern Poverty Law
Center began counting such groups in the
1980s. Anti-immigrant vigilante groups,
despite having some of the political wind
taken out of their sails by the adoption of
hard-line anti-immigration laws around
the country, continued to rise slowly. But
by far the most dramatic growth came in
the antigovernment “Patriot” movement
— conspiracy-minded organizations that
see the federal government as their primary enemy — which gained more than
300 new groups, a jump of over 60%.
Taken together, these three strands of
the radical right — the hatemongers, the
nativists and the antigovernment zealots
— increased from 1,753 groups in 2009 to
2,145 in 2010, a 22% rise. That followed a
2008-2009 increase of 40%.
What may be most remarkable is that
this growth of right-wing extremism came
even as politicians around the country,
blown by gusts from the Tea Parties and
other conservative formations, tacked
hard to the right, co-opting many of the
issues important to extremists. Last April,
for instance, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer
signed S.B. 1070, the harshest anti-immigrant law in memory, setting off a tsunami
of proposals for similar laws across the
country. Continuing growth of the radical
right could be curtailed as a result of this
shift, especially since Republicans, many
of them highly conservative, recaptured
the U.S. House last fall.
But despite those historic Republican
gains, the early signs suggest that even
as the more mainstream political right
strengthens, the radical right has
remained highly energized. In an 11-day
HATE GROUPS 2000–2010
1002
926
932
888
844
803
751
676
762
708
602
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
period this January, a neo-Nazi was
arrested headed for the Arizona border
with a dozen homemade grenades; a terrorist bomb attack on a Martin Luther
King Jr. Day parade in Spokane, Wash.,
was averted after police dismantled a
sophisticated anti-personnel weapon;
and a man who officials said had a long
history of antigovernment activities was
arrested outside a packed mosque in
Dearborn, Mich., and charged with possessing explosives with unlawful intent.
That’s in addition, the same month, to the
shooting of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords
in Arizona, an attack that left six dead
and may have had a political dimension.
It’s also clear that other kinds of radical
activity are on the rise. Since the murder last May 20 of two West Memphis,
Ark., police officers by two members of
the so-called “sovereign citizens” movement, police from around the country
have contacted the Southern Poverty Law
Center (SPLC) to report what one detective in Kentucky described as a “dramatic
increase” in sovereign activity. Sovereign
citizens, who, like militias, are part of the
larger Patriot movement, believe that the
federal government has no right to tax or
regulate them and, as a result, often come
into conflict with police and tax authorities. Another sign of their increased
activity came early this year, when the
spring 2011
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Treasury Department, in a report assessing
what the IRS faces in 2011, said its biggest
challenge will be the “attacks and threats
against IRS employees and facilities [that]
have risen steadily in recent years.”
Extremist ideas have not been limited to the radical right; already this year,
state legislators have offered up a raft
of proposals influenced by such ideas.
In Arizona, the author of the S.B. 1070
law — a man who just became Senate
president on the basis of his harshly
nativist rhetoric — proposed a law this
January that would allow his state to
refuse to obey any federal law or regulation it cared to. In Virginia, a state
legislator wants to pass a law aimed at
creating an alternative currency “in the
event of the destruction of the Federal
Reserve System’s currency” — a longstanding fear of right-wing extremists.
And in Montana, a state senator is working to pass a statute called the “Sheriffs
First Act” that would require federal law
enforcement to ask local sheriffs’ permission to act in their counties or face
jail. All three laws are almost certainly
unconstitutional, legal experts say, and
they all originate in ideas that first came
from ideologues of the radical right.
There also are new attempts by
nativist forces to roll back birthright citizenship, which makes all children born
in the U.S. citizens. Such laws have been
introduced this year in Congress, and a
coalition of state legislators is promising
to do the same in their states. And then
there’s Oklahoma, where 70% of voters
last November approved a measure to
forbid judges to consider Islamic law in
the state’s courtrooms (see story, p. 32)
— a completely groundless fear, but one
pushed nonetheless by Islamophobes.
Since then, lawmakers have promised
to pass similar laws in Arizona, Florida,
Louisiana, South Carolina, Tennessee
and Utah.
After the Giffords assassination
attempt, a kind of national dialogue
began about the political vitriol that
increasingly passes for “mainstream”
political debate. But it didn’t seem to get
very far. Four days after the shooting, a
campaign called the Civility Project —
a two-year effort led by an evangelical
conservative tied to top Republicans —
said it was shutting down because of a
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PATRIOT & MILITIA GROUPS 1995–2010
858
809
523
824
512
435
441
370
330
217
221
194
171
158
143
171
152
132
147
131
149
127
1995
1996
1997
1998
68
72
73
1999
2000
2001
54
45
52
35
52
43
42
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
lack of interest and furious opposition.
“The worst E-mails I received about the
Civility Project were from conservatives
with just unbelievable language about
communists and some words I wouldn’t
use in this phone call,” director Mark
DeMoss told The New York Times. “This
political divide has become so sharp that
everything is black and white, and too
many conservatives can see no redeeming value in any” opponent.
A Washington Post/ABC News poll
this January captured the atmosphere
well. It found that 82% of Americans
saw their country’s political discourse
as “negative.” Even more remarkably,
the poll determined that 49% thought
that negative tone could or already had
encouraged political violence.
Last year’s rise in hate groups (see
map, p. 43, and list, p. 44) was the latest in
a trend stretching all the way back to the
year 2000, when the SPLC counted 602
such groups. Since then, they have risen
steadily, mainly on the basis of exploiting
the issue of undocumented immigration
from Mexico and Central America. Last
year, the number of hate groups rose to
1,002 from 932, a 7.5% increase over the
previous year and a 66% rise since 2000.
At the same time, what the SPLC
defines as “nativist extremist” groups
— organizations that go beyond mere
advocacy of restrictive immigration policy
to actually confront or harass suspected
immigrants or their employers — rose
slightly, despite the fact that most of their
key issues had been taken up by mainstream politicians (see story, p. 35, and
list, p. 37). There were 319 such groups in
2010, up 3% from 309 in 2009.
2009
2010
But like the year before, it was the
antigovernment Patriot groups that grew
most dramatically (see list, p. 57), at least
partly on the basis of furious rhetoric
from the right aimed at the nation’s first
black president — a man who has come
to represent to at least some Americans
ongoing changes in the racial makeup of
the country. The Patriot groups, which
had risen and fallen once before during the militia movement of the 1990s,
first came roaring back in 2009, when
they rose 244% to 512 from 149 a year
earlier. In 2010, they rose again sharply,
adding 312 new groups to reach 824, a
61% increase. The highest prior count of
Patriot groups came in 1996, when the
SPLC found 858 (see also chart, above).
It’s hard to predict where this volatile situation will lead. Conservatives
last November made great gains and
some of them are championing a surprising number of the issues pushed by
the radical right — a fact that could help
deflate some of the even more extreme
political forces. But those GOP electoral
advances also left the Congress divided
and increasingly lined up against the
Democratic president, which is likely to
paralyze the country on such key issues
as immigration reform.
What seems certain is that President
Obama will continue to serve as a lightning rod for many on the political right,
a man who represents both the federal
government and the fact that the racial
make-up of the United States is changing,
something that upsets a significant number of white Americans. And that suggests
that the polarized politics of this country
could get worse before they get better. ▲
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0.0004% (7 votes) of the 1,943,899
votes cast.
EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY White supremacist,
anti-Semitic
CO
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“Every non-White on the planet has to
become extinct. We need to remove
these minor-league amateur races out of
the game, and refine the playoff brackets
a bit, if you get my meaning. The whole
world is ours, and the only part of the
earth that non-Whites should inherit is
however much it requires to cover them.”
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OFFICE SOUGHT U.S. Senate, Missouri
Miller promised that if elected, he would
“work … to expose the jewish [sic] domination of the US government, the mass
media, the federal reserve bank [sic], and
the decadent American culture.” He has
advocated incentive payments to white
Americans to produce white children.
Miller formerly headed the Carolina
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which later
morphed into the White Patriot Party.
Miller went on the lam in 1986 after
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McBerry is a former member of the
Georgia chapter of the League of the South
(see Loy Mauch, above), and served as its
chair before resigning in October. “We
believe in the League of the South that
for the most part, the South is inherently
more conservative and more Christian in
our values and our political beliefs than
much of the other parts of America. …
A guttural racist, Metzger is a former
California grand dragon of the Knights
of the Ku Klux Klan. In the mid-1980s,
he founded White Aryan Resistance
(WAR), one of the leading neo-Nazi
groups of the period. In a 2002 interview,
Metzger said, “My total concern is with
the survival of the white European people in North America.” He is an ordained
minister of Christian Identity theology, whose adherents typically believe
that Jews are the literal “seed of Satan,”
people of color are soulless “mud people,” and the Bible is the history of the
white race. He promotes a particularly
nasty version of anti-Semitism. “Jews are
N O R T H D A KOTA
M O N TA N A
FO
Governor, Georgia
PARTY Republican
RESULTS Primary: Finished
sixth in a field of seven,
receiving 2.5% (17,171 votes)
of the 680,499 votes cast.
EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Neo-Confederate,
white nationalist
of Representatives,
Indiana District 3
PARTY Unspecified
RESULTS Received 0.005%
(10 votes) of the 185,049
votes cast.
EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Neo-Nazi, Ku Klux Klan,
Christian Identity
WA S H I N GTO N
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OFFICE SOUGHT
OFFICE SOUGHT U.S. House
A Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center
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Ray McBerry Jr.
Tom Metzger
IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
DANNY JOHNSTON/AP IMAGES (MAUCH); STEPHEN MORTON/AP IMAGES (MCBERRY); BARBARA MINTON/AP IMAGES (METZGER); DAVID S. HOLLOWAY/GETTY IMAGES (ROPER)
Mauch is a member of the League of the
South (LOS), a neo-Confederate organization formed in 1994 that advocates a
second Southern secession and espouses
bitter hostility toward the United States
– an “alien occupier.” The LOS envisions
a Christian theocratic state run by an
“Anglo-Celtic” – that is, white – elite that
would legally dominate both racial and
religious minorities. In a 2008 interview,
Mauch referred to the Confederate battle flag as “a symbol of Jesus Christ above
all else. It’s a symbol of Biblical government.” (The LOS also describes the battle
flag as the “antithesis” of the Stars and
Stripes.) For seven years, Mauch also was
a local unit “commander” with the Sons
of Confederate Veterans (SCV), stepping down in 2009. Over the last decade,
the Southern heritage group has been
wracked by a kind of internal civil war
between moderates and racial extremists.
Intelligence
Report
ON
Arkansas House of
Representatives,
District 26
PARTY Republican
RESULTS Primary:
Unopposed. General election: Won with 53.4% (4,041 votes) of the
7,561 votes cast.
EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Neo-Confederate,
white nationalist
ACTIVE HATE GROUPS
supreme masters of manipulation and
deceit,” according to Metzger’s website.
“They run and distort our foreign policy
because lazy and corrupt non-Jew leaders had previously found them valuable
as grifters.” Metzger’s 2010 race was a
far cry from his earlier, more successful
runs for public office. In 1980, he won
the three-way Democratic primary for
California’s 43rd Congressional District
with 37.1% (33,071 votes) of the votes cast
before going on to lose the general election with 13.4% (46,361 votes). In 1982,
Metzger ran in an 11-way Democratic
primary for Senate in California, coming in sixth with 2.8% (76,502 votes) of
the votes cast.
RM
OFFICE SOUGHT
[T]he South is the only part of America that
is still American to any degree,” McBerry
states in a video. He refuses to salute the
American flag. The League of the South’s
founder routinely attacks egalitarianism
as a radical-left “Jacobin” doctrine and
opposes interracial marriage; its essayists
have defended legal segregation as a doctrine meant to ensure the racial integrity of
both white and black Americans.
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Loy Mauch
ALASKA
WA
221
NEO-NAZI
170
WHITE NATIONALIST
136
RACIST SKINHEAD
136
CHRISTIAN IDENTITY
F LO R I DA
HA
KU KLUX KLAN
BLACK SEPARATIST
149
NEO-CONFEDERATE
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122
HATE GROUPS BY STATE
For specific details about hate groups in your state, go to www.splcenter.org/hatemap
0
20
40
60
80
TTS
ACTIVE
HATE
GROUPS
IN THE UNITED STATES 2010
WA
13
ND
4
MT
13
ID
13
OR
15
NV
15
SD
2
WY
5
UT
6
CO
19
NM
3
KS
6
OK
23
TX
59
AK
0
WI
8
IA
6
NE
8
CA
68
AZ
22
MN
7
this list of 1002 active hate groups (map, p. 43),
up from the 932 groups listed a year before, is based
on information gathered by the Intelligence Project
from hate group publications, citizen reports, law
enforcement agencies, field sources and news
reports. Only organizations known to be active in
2010, whether that activity included marches, rallies, speeches, meetings, leafletting, publishing
literature or criminal acts, were counted in the listing. Entities that appear to exist only in cyberspace
are not included because they are likely to be individual Web publishers who like to falsely portray
themselves as powerful, organized groups. This
listing contains all known chapters of hate organizations. If the group has a known headquarters, it
appears first in the listing of the group’s chapters,
and is marked with an asterisk (*).
MO
26
AR
29
NH 5
VT 2 ME
3
MI
35
NY
31
MA
10
PA 36
RI
2
IL IN OH
CT 6
29 24 32
NJ 47
WV
DE 5
VA
KY 15 13 29
MD 17
DC 12
NC 28
TN 35
MS AL
LA 40 33
25
GA
39
SC
30
FL
49
HI
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GROUP CHAPTERS
Groups are categorized as Ku Klux Klan, Neo-Nazi, White Nationalist, Racist Skinhead, Christian Identity, Neo-Confederate,
Black Separatist, and General Hate. Because skinheads are migratory and often not affiliated with groups, this listing understates their
numbers. Christian Identity describes a religion that is fundamentally racist and anti-Semitic. Black Separatist groups are organizations
whose ideologies include tenets of racially based hatred. Neo-Confederate groups seek to revive many of the racist principles of the
antebellum South. White Nationalist groups espouse white supremacy or white separatism but generally avoid anti-Semitism. General
Hate groups espouse ideologies of hatred and include the sub-categories of Anti-Gay groups, Anti-Immigrant groups, Holocaust Denial
groups, Racist Music labels, Radical Traditionalist Catholic groups (which reject core Catholic teachings and espouse anti-Semitism),
and Other (a variety of groups endorsing a hodge-podge of hate doctrines).
KU KLUX KLAN
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When the Klan was formed in 1865, it was a
single, unitary organization. Today, there are
dozens of competing Klan groups.
Aryan Nations
Knights of the Ku
Klux Klan
Ashland, AL*
Sharpsburg, MD
Association of Georgia
Klans Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan
Conyers, GA
Association of
Independent Klansmen
Knights Of The Ku
Klux Klan
Maryland
Bayou Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan
Homer, LA*
Smackover, AR
Brotherhood of Klans
Knights of the Ku
Klux Klan
Marion, OH*
Alabama
Arkansas
Arizona
California
Colorado
District of Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maryland
Michigan
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
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Richmond, VA
Vermont
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Dixie Rangers of the
Ku Klux Klan
Walker, LA
The Empire Knights of
the Ku Klux Klan
Homosassa Springs, FL
Fraternal White
Knights of the KKK
Charles City, IA
Imperial Klans of
America Knights of
the Ku Klux Klan
Dawson Springs, KY*
Johnstown, PA
International Keystone
Knights of the Ku
Klux Klan
Colt, AR*
Headland, AL
Sheridan, AR
Young Harris, GA
Elwood, IN
Cleveland, OH
Knight Riders Knights
of the Ku Klux Klan
Ellijay, GA*
Live Oak, FL
Bainbridge, GA
Brunswick, GA
Byron, GA
Harrisburg, IL
Pelham, NC
Abingdon, VA
Knight Riders Knights
of the Ku Klux Klan
(W. Va.)
Beckley, WV*
Montgomery Co., AL
Arkansas
Georgia
Indiana
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maryland
Mississippi
Ohio
South Carolina
Tennessee
Knights of the Ku
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Klux Klan
Harrison, AR*
Newport, TN
Knights of the Southern Cross Soldiers of
the Ku Klux Klan
Powhatan, VA
Ku Klux Klan LLC
Compton, AR
Mississippi White
Knights of the Ku
Klux Klan
Petal, MS*
Brookhaven, MS
Jackson, MS
Meridian, MS
Mize, MS
Pearl, MS
Philadelphia, MS
Ripley, MS
Shannon, MS
WA
1
Warrenville, SC
Brush Creek, TN
Kanawha County, WV
Original Knights of
America Knights of
the Ku Klux Klan
Philadelphia, MS*
Booneville, MS
Supreme White
Knights of the Ku
Klux Klan
Van Wert, OH*
Illinois
Bloomington, IN
Kentucky
Missouri
New York
Texas Rebel Knights
of the Ku Klux Klan
Splendora, TX
Traditional Christian
Knights of the Ku
Klux Klan
Carlsbad, TX
North Carolina
Traditionalist American Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan
Potosi, MO*
ND
2
MT
1
ID
1
OR
1
NV
1
UT
2
CO
2
NM
2
KS
1
OK
9
TX
23
AK
0
MO
5
AR
9
LA
12
IL
6
MI
7
IN
7
NY
3
OH
9
KY 7
TN 15
MS AL
15 8
PA 5
WV
5 VA
7
NC 5
FL
5
Arkansas
Florida
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
North Carolina
Ohio
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Virginia
West Virginia
True Invisible Empire
Knights of the Ku
Klux Klan
Tim Donnelly
NJ 2
DE 1
MD 5
DC 1
California State Assembly,
District 59
PARTY Republican
RESULTS Primary: Finished
first among six candidates, receiving 30.3%
(12,449 votes) of the 41,112 votes cast.
General election: Won with 57.3% (82,475
votes) of the 144,007 votes cast.
EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Anti-immigration, antigovernment “Patriot”
MA 1
RI 2
CT 1
West College Corner,
IN
Louisiana
Maryland
Massachusetts
Battle Creek, MI
Gladwin, MI
Mississippi
Missouri
Nebraska
Mays Landing, NJ
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Monroe, MI
New Mexico
Ohio
Dayton, OH
Oklahoma
Atoka, OK
Henryetta, OK
Holdenville, OK
Oklahoma City, OK
Shawnee, OK
Tulsa, OK
Pennsylvania
Abilene, TX
ArkLaTex Region, TX
Beaumont, TX
Buffalo, TX
Corpus Christi, TX
Dallas, TX
Forney, TX
Fort Worth, TX
Goose Creek, TX
ELECTED
OFFICE SOUGHT
SC
GA 4
10
HI
0
Tupelo, MS
Mountain State
Knights of the Ku
Klux Klan
Hartford, KY*
Delaware County, OH
Davidson County, TN
Washington Co., VT
Kanawha County, WV
National Knights of
the Ku Klux Klan
South Bend, IN*
Maricopa County, AZ
Georgia
Kentucky
New Hampshire
Oregon
Pennsylvania
North Providence, RI
South Carolina
Kingsport, TN
Texas
Utah
Virginia
Gordonsville, VA
Washington
United Realms of
America Knights of
the Ku Klux Klan
Shelbina, MO*
Ukiah, CA
United White Knights
of the Ku Klux Klan
Longview, TX*
South West Region, AR
Illinois
Homer, LA
Monroe, LA
Sarepta, LA
Shreveport, LA
South Louisiana
Region, LA
Tullos, LA
Michigan
Detroit, MI
NH 1
ME
VT 2
0
WI
1
IA
2
NE
2
CA
3
AZ
3
MN
0
SD
1
WY
3
Pulaski, TN*
Anderson, AL
Cullman, AL
Toney, AL
Nashua, IA
Tennessee
Brush Creek, TN
Estill Springs, TN
Hohenwald, TN
Robertson County, TN
Whiteville, TN
Woodbury, TN
United Knights of
Tennessee Ku Klux
Klan
Morristown, TN
United Northern and
Southern Knights of
the Ku Klux Klan
Fraser, MI*
Alabama
Arizona
California
Longmont, CO
Connecticut
Delaware
Hampton, FL
Georgia
Chicago, IL
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Donnelly in 2005 founded what became
the largest anti-immigrant Minuteman
chapter in California. He advocates a
California version of Arizona’s S.B. 1070,
which makes it a state crime to be in this
country illegally. Donnelly is prone to
exaggeration. In interviews, he claimed to
have heard the screams of women being
raped in the Mexican desert near the border. According to LA Weekly, Donnelly
once wrote that Muslim extremists were
proselytizing to “so-called ‘innocent’ illegal aliens” with the aim of destroying the
American Southwest. “It is not a stretch,”
he wrote, “to picture a revolt in Los
Angeles, whose population is comprised
of [sic] over 50 percent illegal aliens. At
the [current] rate of influx and births, it
will be 80 percent illegal alien within a
decade.” A more reliable estimate places
the number of undocumented immigrants
in Los Angeles County at about 7.3% of
its population of 10.4 million. Donnelly
claimed undocumented immigrants
accounted for “nearly one-third of our
prison space” — a demonizing assertion,
once also pushed by CNN’s Lou Dobbs,
with no basis in fact.
Jeff Hall
OFFICE SOUGHT Western
Municipal Water District
Board of Directors,
Division 2, Riverside, Calif.
PARTY National Socialist
Movement
RESULTS General election:
Received 27.8% (8,139 votes) of the 29,243
votes cast.
EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Neo-Nazi
Hall is California director and southwest regional leader of the National
Socialist Movement (NSM) — currently
the nation’s largest neo-Nazi group. The
NSM is known for its swastika-waving,
sieg-heiling rallies, many of them held in
minority neighborhoods, and its Hitler
worship. Hall affirmed in a Los Angeles
Times interview his belief that all nonwhites should be deported. “I want a
white nation,” he said. “I don’t hide what
I am, and I don’t water that down.” After
the election, Hall wrote, “It is a great victory when a National Socialist candidate
receives over a quarter of the votes for an
elected position in his district.”
Dwayne Hemingway-El
OFFICE SOUGHT Mayor, High Point, N.C.
PARTY Unspecified
RESULTS General election: Received 7.9%
(1,718 votes) of the 21,503 votes cast.
EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Antigovernment “sovereign citizen”
Hemingway-El describes himself as
a member of the Louisiana-based
Washitaw De Dugdamoundwah, also
known as the Washitaw Moorish Nation
and the Washitaw Empire. The group
“It is a great victory when a National
Socialist candidate receives over a quarter of the votes for an elected position in
his district.” — Jeff Hall, Riverside, California
claims status as a sovereign entity not
subject to U.S. or state laws, and says
the 828,000-square-mile territory of
the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 was
land stolen from the Washitaw, a predominantly black group, by the United
States. The group’s leader once filed an
$80 quadrillion claim against the United
States. State authorities have investigated allegations the group has engaged
in money laundering, offshore banking
fraud and other practices derived from
its antigovernment “common law,” or
“sovereign citizen,” ideology. Though
Hemingway-El invokes sovereign citizen
ideas, he told an interviewer he does not
advocate defying the law. He complied
with a state law requiring candidates
for public office to swear they are U.S.
citizens.
Dan Maes
OFFICE SOUGHT
Governor, Colorado
PARTY Tea Party-backed
Republican
RESULTS Primary: Won
with 50.7% (197,629
votes) of the 390,108
votes cast. General election: Finished third
with 11.1% (199,034 votes) of the 1,787,730
votes cast. (See also Tom Tancredo, below.)
EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY World-government
conspiracy theorist
Maes interpreted a United Nationssponsored program encouraging cities
to promote bicycle riding as being part
of a plot to undermine American sovereignty. “This is bigger than it looks like on
the surface, and it could threaten our personal freedoms,” Maes said, according to
the Denver Post. “At first, I thought, ‘Gosh,
public transportation, what’s wrong with
that, and what’s wrong with people parking their cars and riding their bikes? … But
if you do your homework and research,
you realize ICLEI [the U.N.’s International
Council for Local Environmental
Initiatives] is part of a greater strategy to
rein in American cities under a United
Nations treaty.” Denver is one of 600
American member cities of ICLEI, which
promotes sustainable development.
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KU KLUX KLAN
221
When the Klan was formed in 1865, it was a single,
unitary organization. Today, there are dozens of
competing Klan groups.
Aryan Nations
Knights of the Ku
Klux Klan
Ashland, AL*
Sharpsburg, MD
Association of Georgia
Klans Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan
Conyers, GA
Association of
Independent Klansmen
Knights Of The Ku
Klux Klan
Maryland
Bayou Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan
Homer, LA*
Smackover, AR
Brotherhood of Klans
Knights of the Ku
Klux Klan
Marion, OH*
Alabama
Arkansas
Arizona
California
Colorado
District of Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maryland
Michigan
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
44
Richmond, VA
Vermont
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Dixie Rangers of the
Ku Klux Klan
Walker, LA
The Empire Knights of
the Ku Klux Klan
Homosassa Springs, FL
Fraternal White
Knights of the KKK
Charles City, IA
Imperial Klans of
America Knights of
the Ku Klux Klan
Dawson Springs, KY*
Johnstown, PA
International Keystone
Knights of the Ku
Klux Klan
Colt, AR*
Headland, AL
Sheridan, AR
Young Harris, GA
Elwood, IN
Cleveland, OH
Knight Riders Knights
of the Ku Klux Klan
Ellijay, GA*
Live Oak, FL
Bainbridge, GA
Brunswick, GA
Byron, GA
Harrisburg, IL
Pelham, NC
Abingdon, VA
Knight Riders Knights
of the Ku Klux Klan
(W. Va.)
Beckley, WV*
Montgomery Co., AL
Arkansas
Georgia
Indiana
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maryland
Mississippi
Ohio
South Carolina
Tennessee
Knights of the Ku
splc intelligence report
Klux Klan
Harrison, AR*
Newport, TN
Knights of the Southern Cross Soldiers of
the Ku Klux Klan
Powhatan, VA
Ku Klux Klan LLC
Compton, AR
Mississippi White
Knights of the Ku
Klux Klan
Petal, MS*
Brookhaven, MS
Jackson, MS
Meridian, MS
Mize, MS
Pearl, MS
Philadelphia, MS
Ripley, MS
Shannon, MS
WA
1
Warrenville, SC
Brush Creek, TN
Kanawha County, WV
Original Knights of
America Knights of
the Ku Klux Klan
Philadelphia, MS*
Booneville, MS
Supreme White
Knights of the Ku
Klux Klan
Van Wert, OH*
Illinois
Bloomington, IN
Kentucky
Missouri
New York
Texas Rebel Knights
of the Ku Klux Klan
Splendora, TX
Traditional Christian
Knights of the Ku
Klux Klan
Carlsbad, TX
North Carolina
Traditionalist American Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan
Potosi, MO*
ND
2
MT
1
ID
1
OR
1
NV
1
UT
2
CO
2
NM
2
KS
1
OK
9
TX
23
AK
0
MO
5
AR
9
IL
6
MI
7
IN
7
NY
3
OH
9
KY 7
TN 15
MS AL
LA 15 8
12
GA
10
PA 5
WV
5 VA
7
NC 5
FL
5
Arkansas
Florida
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
North Carolina
Ohio
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Virginia
West Virginia
True Invisible Empire
Knights of the Ku
Klux Klan
NJ 2
DE 1
MD 5
DC 1
MA 1
RI 2
CT 1
SC
4
HI
0
Tupelo, MS
Mountain State
Knights of the Ku
Klux Klan
Hartford, KY*
Delaware County, OH
Davidson County, TN
Washington Co., VT
Kanawha County, WV
National Knights of
the Ku Klux Klan
South Bend, IN*
Maricopa County, AZ
Georgia
Kentucky
New Hampshire
Oregon
Pennsylvania
North Providence, RI
South Carolina
Kingsport, TN
Texas
Utah
Virginia
Gordonsville, VA
Washington
United Realms of
America Knights of
the Ku Klux Klan
Shelbina, MO*
Ukiah, CA
United White Knights
of the Ku Klux Klan
Longview, TX*
South West Region, AR
Illinois
Homer, LA
Monroe, LA
Sarepta, LA
Shreveport, LA
South Louisiana
Region, LA
Tullos, LA
Michigan
Detroit, MI
NH 1
ME
VT 2
0
WI
1
IA
2
NE
2
CA
3
AZ
3
MN
0
SD
1
WY
3
Pulaski, TN*
Anderson, AL
Cullman, AL
Toney, AL
Nashua, IA
Tennessee
Brush Creek, TN
Estill Springs, TN
Hohenwald, TN
Robertson County, TN
Whiteville, TN
Woodbury, TN
United Knights of
Tennessee Ku Klux
Klan
Morristown, TN
United Northern and
Southern Knights of
the Ku Klux Klan
Fraser, MI*
Alabama
Arizona
California
Longmont, CO
Connecticut
Delaware
Hampton, FL
Georgia
Chicago, IL
West College Corner,
IN
Louisiana
Maryland
Massachusetts
Battle Creek, MI
Gladwin, MI
Mississippi
Missouri
Nebraska
Mays Landing, NJ
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Monroe, MI
New Mexico
Ohio
Dayton, OH
Oklahoma
Atoka, OK
Henryetta, OK
Holdenville, OK
Oklahoma City, OK
Shawnee, OK
Tulsa, OK
Pennsylvania
Abilene, TX
ArkLaTex Region, TX
Beaumont, TX
Buffalo, TX
Corpus Christi, TX
Dallas, TX
Forney, TX
Fort Worth, TX
Goose Creek, TX
Klan
Houston, TX
Marshall, TX
Midlothian, TX
Panhandle Region, TX
San Antonio, TX
San Saba, TX
Vidor, TX
Waco, TX
Wichita Falls, TX
Wyoming
Movement
Zion, IL*
Denver County, CO
Connecticut
Maryland
Billings, MT
Bozeman, MT
Helena, MT
Kalispell, MT
Laurel, MT
Lockwood, MT
Miles City, MT
Missoula, MT
Chillicothe, OH
Texas
Wise, VA
Mountain, WI
Laramie County, WY
Gallows Tree Wotansvolk Alliance
Grand Rapids, MI
Illinois National
Socialist Front
Peoria, IL*
Palatine, IL
Knights of the Nordic
Order
Cardiff, AL
Maryland National
Socialist Party
Elkridge, MD
National Alliance
Hillsboro, WV*
Sacramento, CA
Columbus, GA
Raleigh, NC
Las Vegas, NV
Cincinnati, OH
Cheyenne, WY
Virgil White Knights
of the Ku Klux Klan
Virginia ▲
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This listing of neo-Nazi groups does not include
racist skinheads, although most of them hold
neo-Nazi beliefs.
American National
Socialist Party
Chillicothe, OH*
Arizona
Corning, CA
Colorado
Bonita Springs, FL
Iowa
Michigan
Mississippi
Montana
Nevada
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Milton, WA
American Nazi Party
Westland, MI*
Aryan Nations
Coeur d’Alene, ID*
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Wanaque, NJ
New York
Oregon
Tennessee
Aryan Nations
(offshoot)
St. Cloud, FL*
Lexington, SC
Aryan Nations 88
Calhoun, LA*
Ashland, AL
Arizona
Arkansas
Poway, CA
Colorado
Wilmington, DE
Bonita Springs, FL
Statesboro, GA
Boise, ID
Illinois
Iowa
Kansas
Sharpsburg, MD
Michigan
Isle, MN
Florissant, MO
Mississippi
Montana
WA
4
ND
2
MT
10
ID
3
OR
4
NV
4
Spencer, NC
North Bergen, NJ
Nevada
North Dakota
Chillicothe, OH
Oklahoma
Charleston, SC
Antioch, TN
Wills Point, TX
Virginia
Tacoma, WA
Battalion 14
Jackson, MI
Christian Defense
League
Mandeville, LA
The Creativity
Alliance
Clovis, CA
Georgia
Philadelphia, PA
Mountain City, TN
Draper, UT
Virginia
The Creativity
MN
3
SD
0
WY
2
NE
4
UT
2
CO
6
AZ
6
NM
0
CA
9
KS
3
OK
4
TX
8
AK
0
NH 0
VT 0 ME
1
WI
4
IA
2
MO
2
AR
3
IL
6
MI
8
IN
2
NY
3
OH
6
KY 1
TN 5
MS AL
2
LA 3
2
GA
6
PA 4
WV
3 VA
3
NC 3
SC
5
FL
9
HI
0
Parma, OH
Dallas/Fort Worth, TX
Nationalist Coalition
St. Petersburg, FL*
Mesa, AZ
Denver, CO
National Socialist
American Labor Party
Burbank, CA*
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
New Castle, ME
New York
Toledo, OH
Texas
Washington
National Socialist
Aryan Order
Davison, MI
National Socialist
Freedom Movement
Tulsa, OK
National Socialist German Workers
Party
Lincoln, NE
National Socialist
Movement
Detroit, MI*
Mesa, AZ
Phoenix, AZ
Dulzura, CA
Riverside, CA
Hudson, CO
Connecticut
Delaware
Lake Worth, FL
Tampa Bay, FL
NJ 5
DE 2
MD 5
DC 0
MA 1
RI 0
CT 2
South Georgia, GA
Schiller Park, IL
Wakarusa, IN
Haysville, KS
Lansing, KS
Kentucky
Suffolk County, MA
Elkridge, MD
Wyoming, MI
Minneapolis, MN
Rochester, MN
Oak Grove, MO
Tupelo, MS
Birmingham, NJ
Browns Mills, NJ
Clifton, NJ
Nevada
Brooklyn, NY
Oklahoma City, OK
Oregon
Medford, OR
Portland, OR
Lehigh Valley, PA
Mather, PA
Philadelphia, PA
South Carolina
Greenville, SC
Spartanburg, SC
Central Tennessee
East Tennessee
Texas
Lubbock, TX
Tyler, TX
Utah
Vancouver, WA
Berlin, WI
Green Bay, WI
Kanawha County, WV
Romney, WV
Wyoming
Nordwave
Lake Worth, FL
SS Regalia
Edgewater, MD
White Aryan
Resistance
Warsaw, IN
White Brothers of
America
Canton, IL
White Knights of
America
Tonopah, AZ*
Whitney, TX
White Revolution
Russellville, AR*
Orange County, CA
Loxahatchee, FL
Woodstock, GA
Wilmington, NC
Omaha, NE
Union Grove, WI ▲
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45
WA
2
ND
0
MT
0
ID
2
OR
1
NV
5
MN
1
SD
0
WY
0
IA
0
NE
0
UT
0
CO
1
AZ
2
NM
0
CA
10
KS
0
OK
2
TX
3
NH 2
VT 0 ME
0
WI
1
MO
4
AR
1
LA
4
IL
4
MI
2
IN
4
NY
7
OH
2
KY 0
TN 7
MS AL
11
8
AK
0
GA
6
PA 2
WV
2 VA
8
NC 5
NJ 4
DE 0
MD 2
DC 2
MA 2
RI 0
CT 1
SC
9
FL
7
HI
0
WHITE NATIONALIST
136
White nationalist groups espouse white supremacist or white separatist ideologies, often focusing
on the alleged inferiority of nonwhites. Groups
listed in several other categories could also be
described as white nationalist.
American Nationalist Union
Las Vegas, NV
American Renaissance/New Century
Foundation
Oakton, VA*
Southern California
Chicago, IL
Arlington, VA
American Third
Position
Westminster, CA*
Arizona
San Diego, CA
Ashland, NH
Butler, NJ
Nevada
New York
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
Monongalia Co., WV
Aryan Wear
Keller, TX
Bay Area National
Anarchists
Dublin, CA
British National Party
Overseas Unit
Berryville, VA
Center for Perpetual
Diversity
Gaithersburg, MD
Charles Darwin
Research Institute
Port Huron, MI
Conservative Citizens
Foundation, Inc
St. Louis, MO
Council for Social and
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Institute
Augusta, GA
New Century
Productions
Littleton, CO
North East White
Pride
Haverhill, MA*
Connecticut
New Hampshire
New Jersey
Northern Voice
Bookstore
Las Vegas, NV
Northwest Front
Seattle, WA
Occidental Dissent
Birmingham, AL
Occidental Quarterly/Charles Martel
Society
Augusta, GA
Pacifica Forum
Eugene, OR
Patriotic Flags
Summerville, SC
Pioneer Fund
New York, NY
The Political Cesspool
Bartlett, TN
Proud Aryan Brothers
Kokomo, IN
Racial Nationalist
Party of America
Lockport, NY
Representative
Columbia, SC
Woodruff, SC
Memphis, TN
Dallas/Fort Worth, TX
Irving, TX
Richmond, VA
European Americans
United
Sacramento, CA
Euro Pride Apparel
Summerville, SC
The Fitzgerald Griffin
Foundation
Vienna, VA
Folk and Faith
Idaho Falls, ID
Free American
Tucson, AZ
Freedom 14
Orange County, CA
Free Edgar Steele
Sagle, ID
Heritage and Destiny
Falls Church, VA
Iron Rain Nationalists
Utica, NY*
Chicago, IL
The Kinist Institute
Orlando, FL
The League of American Patriots
Garfield, NJ
Nationalist
Movement
Learned, MS
National Policy
Government Education Foundation
Raleigh, NC
Scott-Townsend
Publishers
Washington, DC
Sigrdrifa
Vancouver, WA
Stormfront
West Palm Beach, FL
Temple 88
Farmington, WV
Tip of the Spear Consulting Services
Palm Beach Co., FL
VDARE Foundation
Warrenton, VA
Voice of Reason
Broadcast Network
Pasadena, CA
Washington Summit
Publishers
Augusta, GA
White Boy Society
Illinois
White Christian
Soldiers
Lee’s Summit, MO
White Ethnic Preservation Coalition
Green Bay, WI
Women for Aryan
Unity
Brooklyn, NY
WTM Enterprises
Roanoke, IN ▲
White Nationalist
Economic Studies
Washington, DC
Council of Conservative Citizens
St. Louis, MO*
Anniston, AL
Birmingham, AL
Cullman, AL
Florence, AL
Huntsville, AL
Jasper, AL
Montgomery, AL
Little Rock, AR
San Francisco, CA
Southern California
Citrus County, FL
Jacksonville, FL
Tampa Bay, FL
East Georgia
Chicago, IL
Carmel, IN
Indianapolis, IN
Shreveport, LA
St. Amant, LA
Silver Spring, MD
Caledonia, MI
Minneapolis/St. Paul,
MN
St. Louis, MO
Byram, MS
Calhoun City, MS
Greenwood, MS
Holly Springs, MS
Jackson, MS
Mathiston, MS
Pineywoods, MS
Tupelo, MS
Vaiden, MS
Clemmons, NC
Forest City, NC
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Yadkinville, NC
Fort Lee, NJ
Las Vegas, NV
New York, NY
Parishville, NY
Cleveland, OH
Oklahoma City, OK
Revere, PA
Charleston, SC
Greenville, SC
Saluda, SC
Summerville, SC
West Columbia, SC
Bartlett, TN
Erwin, TN
Franklin, TN
Knoxville/
Chattanooga, TN
South Central
Tennessee
Southwest Virginia
Do Right Foundation
Las Vegas, NV
East Coast White
Unity
Chelsea, MA
European American
Issues Forum
San Bruno, CA
European American Unity and Rights
Organization
Mandeville, LA*
Jacksonville, FL
Columbus, GA
Savannah, GA
Thibodaux, LA
Ripley, MS
Cleveland, OH
Tulsa, OK
WA
2
ND
0
MT
0
ID
3
OR
4
NV
1
WY
0
UT
0
CO
2
NM
0
KS
1
OK
1
TX
5
NH 0
ME
VT 0
2
WI
1
IA
2
NE
1
CA
10
AZ
3
MN
0
SD
0
IL
5
MO
5
IN
4
NY
1
OH
7
KY 2
TN 2
AR
2
LA
0
MI
6
MS AL
4
2
AK
0
GA
3
PA 10
WV
0 VA
5
NC 5
MA 1
RI 0
CT 1
NJ 23
DE 0
MD 1
DC 0
SC
0
FL
9
HI
0
RACIST SKINHEAD
136
Skinheads are migratory and often not affiliated with groups. This listing understates
their numbers.
AC Skins
Absecon, NJ
Atlantic City, NJ
Browns Mills, NJ
Galloway, NJ
Skinhea
Linwood, NJ
Little Egg Harbor
City, NJ
Manchester
Township, NJ
Marlton, NJ
Somers Point, NJ
Wildwood, NJ
Woodbine, NJ
American Front
Sacramento, CA
St. Cloud, FL
Hackensack, NJ
Haledon, NJ
Roselle, NJ
Aryan Terror Brigade
Flemington, NJ*
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Florida
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Massachusetts
Missouri
Fords, NJ
New York
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
Texas
Bergen County
Hooligans
Garfield, NJ
Wallington, NJ
Blood and Honour
American Division
Portland, OR*
Arkansas
Northern California
Southern California
Lakeland, FL
Maine
Michigan
Lake St. Louis, MO
Mississippi
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Blood and Honour
U.S.A.
Littleton, CO
Salem, OH
Flemington, NJ
Richardson, TX
California Skinheads
Fresno, CA
Confederate
Hammerskins
Orlando, FL*
Huntsville, AL
Jacksonville, FL
North Carolina
Dallas, TX
Petersburg, VA
Connecticut White
Wolves
Stratford, CT
Coors Family
Skinheads
Big Bear Lake, CA
Crew 38
Huntsville, AL
New Port Richey, FL
Nampa, ID
Detroit, MI
Mississippi
North Carolina
Oregon
Allentown, PA
Tennessee
Virginia
Seattle, WA
Firm 22
Indiana*
Georgia
Michigan
Newark, OH
Crum Lynne, PA
Folkish Women Front
Mississippi
Golden State
Skinheads
California
Independent Skins
Southwest
Cleburne, TX*
Callahan, FL
Keystone United
Harrisburg, PA*
Altoona, PA
Philadelphia, PA
Wilkes Barre/
Scranton, PA
Maryland State
Skinheads
Baltimore, MD
Midland
Hammerskins
Wichita, KS
Northern
Hammerskins
Illinois
Detroit, MI
Northwest
WA
1
ND
0
MT
0
ID
2
OR
0
NV
0
CO
1
NM
1
KS
0
OK
0
TX
2
Missouri
New Jersey
Nevada
North Carolina
Texas
United Society of
Aryan Skinheads
San Diego, CA
Vinlanders
Mesa, AZ
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Illinois
Knightstown, IN
Michigan
Missouri
Cherry Hill, NJ
Closter, NJ
Pt. Pleasant Beach, NJ
Ohio
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Volksfront
MO
3
IL
1
LA
1
MI
2
IN
1
NY
0
OH
1
KY 2
TN 1
AR
2
MS AL
0
1
AK
0
GA
1
PA 0
WV
0 VA
1
NC 0
SC
0
FL
0
HI
0
CHRISTIAN IDENTITY
26
Christian Identity describes a religion that is fundamentally racist
and anti-Semitic. Some groups listed in other categories, such as the
neo-Nazi Aryan Nations and several Klan groups, also hold Christian
Identity beliefs.
11th Hour Remnant
Messenger
Santa Fe, NM
Abundant Life
Fellowship
Morgantown, IN
America’s Promise
Ministries
Sandpoint, ID
By Yahweh’s Design
Stevensville, MI
Christ’s Gospel
Fellowship
Spokane, WA
Christian Identity
Church — Aryan
Nations
Simms, TX
Church of Jesus Christ
Bergman, AR
The Church of Jesus
Christ Christian /
Aryan Nations
Granby, MO
Portland, OR*
Phoenix, AZ
California
Pensacola, FL
Chicago, IL
Iowa
Maine
Detroit, MI
Mississippi
Bridgeton, MO
Nebraska
Cleveland, OH
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Norfolk, VA
Western
Hammerskins
San Diego, CA
White Power
Skinheads
Shelby, OH ▲
NH 0
VT 0 ME
0
WI
0
IA
0
NE
1
CA
0
AZ
0
MN
1
SD
0
WY
0
UT
0
Hammerskins
Portland, OR
Washington
Old Glory Skins
Georgia
North Carolina
Virginia
Retaliator Skinhead
Nation
Gilmanton, WI*
Arizona
Skinhead
Stormtroopers
Portage, IN
Supreme White
Alliance
Ohio*
Georgia
Iowa
Idaho
Chicago, IL
Kentucky
NJ 0
DE 0
MD 0
DC 0
MA 0
RI 0
CT 0
Ecclesiastical Council for the Restoration
of Covenant Israel
(ECRCI)
Chicago, IL
Fellowship of God’s
Covenant People
Burlington, KY
First Century Christian Ministries
The Woodlands, TX
Kingdom Identity
Ministries
Harrison, AR
Kinsman Redeemer
Ministries
Alexandria, KY
Mission to Israel
Scottsbluff, NE
Non-Universal
Teaching Ministries
Fostoria, OH
Reformed Church of
Israel
Schell City, MO
Scriptures for
Identity
Church of the Sons of
Yhvh
Calhoun, LA
Church of True Israel
Hayden, ID
Covenant People’s
Ministry
Brooks, GA
spring 2011
47
America Ministries
Laporte, CO
The Shepherd’s Call
Ministries
New Tazewell, TN
United Church of
WA
2
YHWH
Lincoln, AL
Virginia Publishing
Company
Lynchburg, VA
Watchmen Bible
ND
0
MT
0
ID
0
OR
4
NV
2
WY
0
UT
0
CO
1
KS
0
OK
4
NM
0
TX
8
NH 0
VT 0 ME
0
WI
1
IA
0
NE
2
CA
14
AZ
3
MN
1
SD
0
Study Group
Wappapello, MO
Weisman Publications
Burnsville, MN
Yahweh’s Truth
Linwood, MI ▲
MO
5
IL
2
IN
2
NY
7
OH
5
KY 2
TN 3
AR
3
LA
3
MI
8
MS AL
3
5
AK
0
GA
6
PA 9
WV
0 VA
2
NC 8
MA 2
RI 0
CT 1
NJ 12
DE 1
MD 3
DC 4
SC
3
FL
10
HI
0
149
BLACK SEPARATIST
Greensboro, NC
Atlantic City, NJ
Newark, NJ
Plainfield, NJ
Willingboro, NJ
Las Vegas, NV
Brooklyn, NY
Harlem, NY
Rochester, NY
Akron, OH
Cincinnati, OH
Columbus, OH
Youngstown, OH
Portland, OR
Philadelphia, PA
Pittsburgh, PA
Charleston, SC
Columbia, SC
Memphis, TN
Nashville, TN
Austin, TX
Dallas, TX
Fort Worth, TX
Houston, TX
Richmond, VA
Seattle, WA
Milwaukee, WI
New Black Panther
Party
Washington, DC*
St. Louis, MO
Newark, NJ
Trenton, NJ
Houston, TX
United Nuwaubian
Nation of Moors/
All Eyes on Egypt
Bookstore
Milledgeville, GA*
Stone Mountain, GA ▲
NEO-CONFEDERATE
Black separatist groups are organizations whose
ideologies include tenets of racially based hatred.
The Israelite Church
of God in Jesus Christ
New York, NY*
Washington, DC
Fort Myers, FL
North Miami, FL
Orlando, FL
West Palm Beach, FL
Baltimore, MD
North Minneapolis, MN
Kansas City, MO
Fayetteville, NC
Goldsboro, NC
Wilmington, NC
Omaha, NE
Asbury Park, NJ
Camden, NJ
Jersey City, NJ
Vineland, NJ
Lawton, OK
Oklahoma City, OK
Tulsa, OK
Beaverton, OR
Portland, OR
Allentown, PA
Coatesville, PA
Norristown, PA
Philadelphia, PA (2)
Pittsburgh, PA
National Black Foot
Soldier Network
Mobile, AL
Little Rock, AR
48
Tampa, FL
Atlanta, GA
Columbus, GA
Indianapolis, IN
Louisville, KY
New Orleans, LA
Shreveport, LA
Boston, MA
Baltimore, MD
Detroit, MI
Flint, MI
Grand, MI
Jackson, MI
St. Louis, MO
Greenville, MS
Greenwood, MS
Southaven, MS
Charlotte, NC
Durham, NC
Fayetteville, NC
Neo-Confederate groups seek to revive many of
42 the racist principles of the antebellum South.
Black Sep
Los Angeles, CA
Oakland, CA
San Diego, CA
Washington, DC
Gainesville, FL
Jacksonville, FL
Atlanta, GA
Savannah, GA
Chicago, IL
Indiana
Louisville, KY
Shreveport, LA
Boston, MA
Baltimore, MD
Detroit, MI
Muskegon, MI
Oak Park, MI
Taylor, MI
St. Joseph, MO
St. Louis, MO
Sanford, NC
Omaha, NE
New Jersey
Jersey City, NJ
Las Vegas, NV
New York
New Hartford, NY
Rochester, NY
Cincinnati, OH
Ardmore, OK
Portland, OR
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
splc intelligence report
Knoxville, TN
Beaumont, TX
Dallas, TX
Houston, TX
Virginia Beach, VA
Seattle, WA
Nation of Islam
Chicago, IL*
Birmingham, AL
Mobile, AL
Montgomery, AL
Tuscaloosa, AL
Little Rock, AR
Pine Bluff, AR
Phoenix, AZ
Compton, CA
Fresno, CA
Inland Empire, CA
Long Beach, CA
Los Angeles, CA
Oakland, CA
Richmond, CA
Sacramento, CA
San Diego, CA
San Francisco, CA
Stockton, CA
Aurora, CO
Bridgeport, CT
Washington, DC
Wilmington, DE
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Miami, FL
Orlando, FL
WA
0
ND
0
MT
1
ID
0
OR
0
NV
0
MN
0
SD
0
WY
0
IA
0
NE
0
UT
0
CO
0
AZ
0
NM
0
CA
1
KS
0
OK
2
TX
1
NH 0
VT 0 ME
0
WI
0
MO
1
AR
2
IL
0
MI
0
IN
1
OH
0
KY 1
TN 2
MS AL
7
LA 2
1
AK
0
NY
0
GA
5
PA 0
WV
0 VA
1
NC 1
NJ 0
DE 0
MD 1
DC 0
MA 0
RI 0
CT 0
SC
7
FL
5
HI
0
Brian Pace Trading
Booneville, MS
Dixie Republic
Travelers Rest, SC
Kingdom Treasure
Ministries
Owasso, OK
League of the South
Killen, AL*
Hackneyville, AL
Montgomery, AL
Selma, AL
Tuscaloosa, AL
Weogufka, AL
Wetumpka, AL
Hot Springs, AR
Mammoth Spring, AR
Scotts Valley, CA
Goldenrod, FL
Jacksonville, FL
Key West, FL
Polk County, FL
Southeast Florida
Barnesville, GA
Macon, GA
McDonough, GA
North Georgia
Statesboro, GA
Lexington, KY
Monroe, LA
Prince Frederick, MD
West Plains, MO
Mendenhall, MS
Big Fork, MT
Wilmington, NC
Oklahoma
Abbeville, SC
Columbia, SC
Laurens, SC
Lobelville, TN
LaPorte, TX
Marion, VA
League of the South
Institute
Clemson, SC
League of the South/
Southern Patriot Shop
Cayce, SC
League of the South/
Southern Patriot
Super Store
Abbeville, SC
Livin’ the Legacy
Nashville, IN
Mary Noel Kershaw
Foundation
Lobelville, TN ▲
Neo Co
late Heart of Mary
Richmond, NH
St. Joseph Forum
South Bend, IN
St. Michael’s Parish/
Mount St. Michael
Spokane, WA
Tradition in Action
Los Angeles, CA
GENERAL HATE
122
These organizations are subdivided into anti-gay, anti-immigrant,
Holocaust denial, racist music, and radical traditionalist Catholic
groups. A final “other” sub-category includes groups espousing a
variety of hateful doctrines.
ANTI-GAY (17)
Abiding Truth
Ministries
Springfield, MA
America Forever
Sandy, UT
American Family
Association
Tupelo, MS
Americans for Truth
About Homosexuality
Naperville, IL
American Vision
Powder Springs, GA
Bethesda Christian
Institute
San Antonio, TX
Biblical Family
Advocate
San Diego, CA
Chalcedon Foundation
Vallecito, CA
Faithful Word Baptist
Church
Tempe, AZ
Family Research
Council
Washington, DC
Family Research
Institute
Colorado Springs, CO
Heterosexuals
Organized for a Moral
Environment
Downers Grove, IL
Illinois Family
Institute
Carol Stream, IL
Mass Resistance
Waltham, MA
Traditional Values
Coalition
Anaheim, CA*
Washington, DC
Westboro Baptist
Church
Topeka, KS
ANTI-IMMIGRANT (13)
American Border
Patrol
Sierra Vista, AZ
American Immigration
Control Foundation/
Americans for
Immigration Control
Monterey, VA
American Patrol/
Voice of Citizens
Together
Sherman Oaks, CA
Border Guardians
Livingston, TX
California Coalition for
Immigration Reform
Huntington Beach, CA
Concerned Citizens
and Friends of
Illegal Immigration
Law Enforcement
Framingham, MA
Emigration Party of
Nevada
Henderson, NV
Federation for
American Immigration Reform
Washington, DC
Press 2 For English
Jackson, MS
Save Our State
San Bernardino, CA
Social Contract Press
Petoskey, MI
United for a Sovereign America (USA)
Phoenix, AZ
US Border Guard &
Border Rangers
Mesa, AZ
ANTI-MUSLIM (5)
9/11 Christian Center
at Ground Zero
New York, NY
Casa D’Ice Signs
North Versailles, PA
Christian Phalange
Newton, NC
Right Wing Extreme
Gainesville, GA
Stop the Islamization
of America (SIOA)
New York, NY
HOLOCAUST DENIAL (8)
Barnes Review/
Foundation for
Economic Liberty, Inc.
Washington, DC
Campaign for Radical
Truth in History
Coeur d’Alene, ID
Castle Hill Publishers
New York, NY
Inconvenient History
San Ysidro, CA
Institute for
Historical Review
Fountain Valley, CA
Institute for Historical Review Store
Newport Beach, CA
The International
Conspiratological
Association
Coeur d’Alene, ID
Noontide Press
Newport Beach, CA
RACIST MUSIC (15)
Desastrious Records
Springtown, TX
Diehard Records
Chesapeake, OH
DJ GOR
Bedford, PA
Fetch the Rope
Bozeman, MT
Final Stand Records
Newark, DE
Get Some 88
Castaic, CA
Heritage Connection
Harrison, AR
ISD Records
Lancaster, OH
Life Rune Industries
North Highlands, CA
Micetrap Distribution
Maple Shade, NJ
MSR Productions
Wheat Ridge, CO
Poker Face
Allentown, PA
Resistance Records
Hillsboro, WV
Tightrope
Calico Rock, AR
Unholy Records
Marlinton, WV
RADICAL TRADITIONAL
CATHOLIC (17)
Alliance for Catholic
Tradition
Pleasant Unity, PA
Catholic Apologetics
International Publishing, Inc.
State Line, PA
WA
1
ID
2
OR
1
NV
2
MN
1
CO
6
NM
0
KS
1
OK
1
TX
9
AK
0
NH 2
ME
VT 0
0
WI
0
IA
0
NE
0
CA
21
AZ
7
a2z Publications
Las Vegas, NV
American Free Press
Washington, DC
Artisan Publishers
Muskogee, OK
SD
1
WY
0
UT
2
OTHER (47)
ND
0
MT
1
Jewish Defense
League
Los Angeles, CA*
Arizona
San Diego, CA
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Skokie, IL
Louisiana
Michigan
South Carolina
Texas
Jewish Task Force
Fresh Meadows, NY
M.A.C.S. Klan
Merchandise
Louisiana
MO
1
AR
7
LA
2
IL
5
MI
2
IN
3
NY
10
OH
2
KY 0
TN 0
MS AL
2
0
GA
2
PA 6
WV
3 VA
2
NC 1
NJ 1
DE 1
MD 0
DC 5
MA 3
RI 0
CT 0
SC
2
FL
4
HI
0
Catholic Counterpoint
Broomall, PA
Catholic Family News/
Catholic Family
Ministries, Inc.
Niagara Falls, NY
Culture Wars/
Fidelity Press
South Bend, IN
The Fatima Crusader/
International Fatima
Rosary Crusade
Constable, NY
IHM Media
Richmond, NH
IHS Press
Odessa, TX
In the Spirit of
Chartres Committee
Suffolk, VA
Legion of St. Louis
Odessa, TX
Most Holy Family
Monastery
Fillmore, NY
OMNI Christian Book
Club
Palmdale, CA
The Remnant/The
Remnant Press
Forest Lake, MN
Slaves of the Immacu-
Bill Keller Ministries
St. Petersburg, FL
Chick Publications
Ontario, CA
Christian Books and
Things
Harrison, AR
Cross Bearer Ministry
Indianapolis, IN
Cultural Studies Press
New York, NY
Dove World Outreach
Center
Gainesville, FL
Freedom Defense
Initiative (FDI)
New York, NY
Fundamentalist Latter
Day Saints
Hildale, UT*
Colorado City, AZ
Cotopaxi, CO
Custer County, CO
Florence, CO
Mancos, CO
Pringle, SD
Eldorado, TX
Holy Nation of Odin
Kingsburg, CA
Illinois United
Palatine, IL
Invictus Books
Wentzville, MO
National Prayer
Network
Clackamas, OR
National Vanguard
Books
Hillsboro, WV
Ozark Craft LC
Harrison, AR
Power of Prophecy
Austin, TX
The Redneck Shop
Laurens, SC
Sons of Aesir
Motorcycle Club
Maricopa County, AZ
Tony Alamo Christian
Ministries
Fouke, AR*
Fort Smith, AR
Canyon Country, CA
New York, NY
Texarkana, TX
Truth Triumphant
Eustis, FL
Vinland Folk
Resistance
Kingsburg, CA
Voz de Aztlan
Whittier, CA
White Pride Home
School Resource
Center
Bergman, AR ▲
General
Hate
spring 2011
49
Hate Websites
in the U.S.
This list of 657 U.S.-based hate sites active on the World Wide Web in 2010 includes pages from Ku Klux Klan,
Neo-Nazi, White Nationalist, Racist Skinhead, Christian Identity, Neo-Confederate, Black Separatist, and
General Hate groups. Web sites tend to move from server to server or shut down without notice, so they may be
hard to locate. Sites marked with an asterisk (*) are organizations that actively promote hate beyond the mere
publishing of Internet material (see also hate group listing, p. 44). Their locations are listed.
KU KLUX KLAN (49)
Aryan Nations Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan*
aryannationsknights.us/Home.html
Ashland, AL
Association of Georgia Klans Knights
of the Ku Klux Klan*
associationofklanskkkk.weebly.com/
index.html
Conyers, GA
Association of Independent Klansmen
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan*
independentklansmen.webs.com
Maryland
Brotherhood of Klans Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan*
knightskkk.com
BrotherhoodofKlans.com
KnightsKuKluxKlan.com
Marion, OH
Church of the National Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan*
cnkkkk.net
South Bend, IN
Dixie Rangers Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan*
dixierangerskkk.com
Walker, LA
The Empire Knights of the
Ku klux Klan*
knights311.org
Homosassa Springs, FL
Fraternal White Knights*
fraternalwhiteknights.com
Charles City, IA
Imperial Klans of America*
kkkk.net
realmofky.blogspot.com
Dawson Springs, KY
kkkk.net/Realm%20Links%20Folder/
RealmOfPennsylvania.html
Johnstown, PA
International Keystone Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan Inc.*
ikkkkk.org
Colt, AR
Jason Robb Blog
jasonrobb.blogspot.com
Knight Riders Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan*
knightriderskkkk.com
knightriderskkkk.org
Ellijay, GA
50
splc intelligence report
Knight Riders Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan (WV)*
kkkknights.com
Beckley, WV
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan*
arkpower-light.com
Concord, AR
kkk.com
kkk.bz
Harrison, AR
newporttennessee.net
Newport, TN
Knights of the Southern Cross Soldiers
of the Ku Klux Klan*
knightsofthesoutherncrosssoldiersofthekukluxklan.com
Powhatan, VA
Knights Party Veterans League
knightspartyveteransleague.com/
index-1.html
Ku Klux Klan, LLC*
kukluxklan.bz
Compton, AR
Mississippi White Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan*
mwkkkk.com
Petal, MS
Mountain State Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan*
mskkkk.tripod.com/index.html
Hartford, KY
National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan*
arizonacnkkkk.webs.com
Arizona
cnkkkkgeorgia.weebly.com
Georgia
nationalknightsindiana.webs.com
Indiana
cnksc.weebly.com/index.html
South Carolina
cnkkkktennessee.com/index.php/Home
Tennessee
cnkkkkwv.comuf.com
West Virginia
New Empire Knights of the Ku Klux
Klan International LLC*
theklan1865.com
Clemmons, NC
Order of the Ku Klux Klan
kkklan.com
Original Knights of America Knights
of the Ku Klux Klan*
originalknightsofamerica.webs.com
Philadelphia, MS
Rachel Pendergraft Blog
rachelpendergraft.blogspot.com
Southern Alliance of Klans
sakkkk.com
Supreme White Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan*
supremewhiteknights.com
Van Wert, OH
Texas Rebel Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan*
texasrebelknightskkk.com
Splendora, TX
Thomas Robb Blog
tarobb.blogspot.com
Traditional Christian Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan*
nctckkkk.net
North Carolina
tckkkk.org
Carlsbad, TX
Traditionalist American Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan*
traditionalistamericanknights.com
Potosi, MO
True Invisible Empire Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan*
tiekkkk.webs.com
Pulaski, TN
United Northern and Southern Knights
of the Ku Klux Klan*
unskkkk.com
Fraser, MI
United Realms of America Knights of
the Ku Klux Klan*
curakkkk.com
Ukiah, CA
United White Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan*
uwkkkk.com
Midlothian, TX
World Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
worldknights.org
NEO-NAZI (67)
1488 Folk
1488folk.com
Adolf the Great
adolfthegreat.com
American National Socialist
Policy Institute
anspi.club.officelive.com
American Nazi Party*
americannaziparty.com
Westland, MI
Aryan Front
aryan-front.com
Aryan Nations*
aryannationsrevival.org
Coeur d’Alene, ID
Aryan Nations (offshoot)*
posse-comitatus.org
aryan-nations.org
Lexington, SC
Aryan Nations 88*
aryannations88information.blogspot.com
AryanNations88.com
Athol, ID
Aryan Volk of Midgard Forum
aryanvolkofmidgard.com
Bowles For President
bowlesblog.blogspot.com/index.html
Christian Defense League*
cdlreport.com
Mandeville, LA
Church of Jesus Christ Christian/
Aryan Nations National Headquarters
aryannations88hq.blogspot.com
The Creativity Alliance*
creativityalliance.com
sites.google.com/site/deseretcreators
Draper, UT
rahowadirectory.com/georgia
Georgia
The Creativity Movement*
illinoiscreators.com
Zion, IL
rahowa.us/maryland
Maryland
rahowa.us
Emmet, MI
creativitymovement.com/ohio
Ohio
creativitymovement.com/virginia
Virginia
ENationalist
enationalist.com/portal/index
Friends of a New Dawn
friendsofanewdawm.proboards.com/
index.cgi
Gallows Tree Wotansvolk Alliance
wotansvolk.com
wotansreich.webs.com
Grand Rapids, MI
Illinois National Socialist Front*
illinoisnsf.com
Peoria, IL
Iron Will Radio
ironwillradio.com
Jew Crime
jew-crime.com
Lebensborn Assembly Church
lebensbornassemblychurch.com
Libertarian National Socialist
Green Party
nazi.org
Maryland National Socialist Party Blog*
mdnaziparty.blogspot.com
Eldridge, MD
National Alliance*
natvan.com
natall.com
Hillsboro, WV
National Alliance Earl Turners Blog
earlturneralliance.wordpress.com
National Alliance News
natallnews.com
National Socialist American Labor Party*
nsalp.org
Burbank, CA
nsalpfl.blogspot.com
Florida
National Socialist Aryan Order*
nsaryanorder.tripod.com
Davison, MI
National Socialist Black Metal
nsbm.org
National Socialist German
Workers Party*
nazi-lauck-nsdapao.com
Lincoln, NE
National Socialist Movement*
webspawner.com/users/nsmmaryland88/index.html
Maryland
nsm88.org
whitepowerchat.com/nsmforum
Detroit, MI
nsm88nv.com
Nevada
nukeisrael.com
Portland, OR
nsmspartanburg.20fr.com
Enoree, SC
National Socialist Movement Radio
nsm88radio.com
National Socialist Punk
nazipunk.8k.com
Nationalist Coalition*
ncoal.com
St Petersburg, FL
New Order*
theneworder.org
Milwaukee, WI
Nordwave*
nordwave.net
Lake Worth, FL
NSM 88 Records
nsm88records.com
NSM88 Womens Division
wd.nsm88.org
NSM Blog
blog.nsm88.org
NSM South Carolina Blog
nsmsouthcarolina.blogspot.com
NS Publications*
nspublications.com
Wyandotte, MI
PA Creator
PACreator.com
SS Regalia*
ssregalia.com
Edgewater, MD
Third Reich Books
third-reich-books.com
White Aryan Resistance*
resist.com
Warsaw, IN
White Brothers of America*
whitebrothersofamerica.webs.com
Canton, IL
White Honor
whitehonor.com
White Knights of America*
whiteknightsofamerica.com
Tonopah, AZ
White Pride MI
whitepridemi.webs.com
White Revolution*
whiterevolution.com
Russellville, AR
whiterevolution-ne.org
Omaha, NE
WHITE NATIONALIST (187)
Access St. Louis!
accessstlouis.blogspot.com
Age of Treason
age-of-treason.blogspot.com
AlterMedia International
altermedia.info
Alternative Right
AlternativeRight.com
American Italian White Separatist Front
angelfire.com/rebellion2/aiwsf
American National Conference
ancpage.com
American Nationalist Union*
anu.org
anunews.net
castefootball.us
Las Vegas, NV
American Renaissance/
New Century Foundation*
chicagoamren.com
Chicago, IL
amren.com
nc-f.org
Oakton, VA
American Third Position*
american3p.com
Los Angeles, CA
A Race Against Time
araceagainsttime.blogspot.com
AryansBook
aryansbook.com
Aryan Wear*
aryanwear.com
Keller, TX
Bay Area National Anarchists*
bayareanationalanarchists.com
Birdman Bryant: The World’s Most
Controversial Author
thebirdman.org
Celtic Reign
celticreign.com
Center for Perpetual Diversity*
perpetualdiversity.com
Gaithersburg, MD
Charles Darwin Research Institute*
charlesdarwinresearch.org
Port Huron, MI
Christian Legal Reformation Club
clrc.net
The Color of Crime
colorofcrime.com
Conspiracy Penpal
conspiracypenpal.com
Council of Conservative Citizens*
alcofcc.wordpress.com
Jasper, AL
arcofcc.freeservers.com/index.html
Little Rock, AR
northcalcofcc.wordpress.com
California
scccc.wordpress.com
Southern California
hoosiernation.us
Carmel, IN
lacofcc.wordpress.com
Louisiana
arklatexcofcc.webs.com/www.cofcc.org
Shreveport, LA
cofcc.org
saintlouiscofcc.wordpress.com
countenance.wordpress.com
St. Louis, MO
mississippicouncilofconservativecitizens.wordpress.com
Jackson, MS
cofccnc.wordpress.com
North Carolina
heritagelost.wordpress.com
Charleston, SC
midtncouncil.wordpress.com
Franklin, TN
Daughters of Boudica
daughtersofboudica.com
David Duke Online
davidduke.com
davidduke.org
David Lane’s Pyramid Prophecy
freetheorder.org/DavidLane/
whywotan.html
Day of the Rope Blogspot
dayoftherope.blogspot.com
Defensive Racism
defensiveracism.com
delray times
delraytimes.blogspot.com
Detroit is Crap
detroitiscrap.com
Diversity is Chaos
diversityischaos.blogspot.com
Do Right Foundation*
doright.org
Law Vegas, NV
Dr. Virginia Deane Abernethy
virginiaabernethy.com
EAU School of Western Culture
europeanamericansunited.org/school1
European American Issues Forum*
eaif.org
San Bruno, CA
European Americans United*
europeanamericansunited.org
Sacramento, CA
European American Unity and
Rights Organization*
whitecivilrights.com
Mandeville, LA
European Caucasian Preservation
University
e-CPU.blogspot.com
European Union Times
eutimes.net
Euro Pride Apparel*
europeanpride.com
Summerville, SC
Faith, Folk, and Family*
odinist.com/othala/index.php
Maple Shade, NJ
Fallen Freedom
fallenfreedom.blogspot.com
The First Freedom
gulftel.com/firstfreedom
The Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation*
fgfbooks.com
Vienna, VA
Folk and Faith*
folkandfaith.com
Idaho Falls, ID
The Foremost Problem
theforemostproblem.blogspot.com
Frank Roman’s Blog
frankroman.wordpress.com
Free American Magazine Online*
freeamerican.com
Tucson, AZ
Free Edgar Steele*
edgarsteele.blogspot.com
free-edgar-steele.com
Sagle, ID
Future Generations
eugenics.net
Get Some 88
getsome88.com
Guy White Making Sense On Race
guywhite.wordpress.com
Honest Media Today
honestmediatoday.com
Iron Rain Nationalists *
irnnfchicago.tripod.com/index.html
Chicago, IL
irnnf.20.forumer.com
Utica, NY
Jamie Kelso’s Blog
stormfront.org/forum/blog.php?u=5122
Jared Taylor
jaredtaylor.org
Jewish Tribal Review
jewishtribalreview.org
Jew Watch
jewwatch.com
John De Nugent
johndenugent.com
johndenugent.org
Kentuckyanna True News
kentuckyannatruenews.blogspot.com
Kevin MacDonald Blog
kevinmacdonald.net/Blog.htm
The Kinist Institute*
kinism.net
Orlando, FL
Koinen’s Corner
koinenscorner.blogspot.com
Latte Island
latteisland.blogspot.com
The League of American Patriots*
leagueap.org
Garfield, NJ
Lee in the Mountains
leeinthemountains.wordpress.com
Louis Beam
louisbeam.com
Malevolent Freedom
malevolentfreedom.org
The Mankind Quarterly
mankindquarterly.org
March of the Titans A History of the
spring 2011
51
White Race
white-history.com
Merlin’s Castle
stormfront.org/forum/blog.
php?u=30943
Micetrap Radio
aryanradio.com
Nationalist Library
nationalistlibrary.com
Nationalist Movement*
nationalist.org
Learned, MS
National Policy Institute*
nationalpolicyinstitute.org
Augusta, GA
NationalSalvation.net
nationalsalvation.net
Nation of Cowards
nationofcowards.us
Natural Consequences
naturalconsequences.blogspot.com
NeoEugenics
neoeugenics.com
New Century Productions*
aconversationaboutrace.com
Littleton, CO
New Nation News
newnation.org
New Nation News Reporters Forum
newnation.vg/forums/index.php
New Saxon
newsaxon.com
NewsNet14
1488.net
newsnet14.com
Nicholas Stix, Uncensored
nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com
Noahide News
samliquidation.com/noahidenews30.htm
No New World Order
nonwo.com
North East White Pride*
newp.org
Haverhill, MA
Northern Voice Bookstore*
northernvoicebookstore.com
Las Vegas, NV
Northwest Front*
northwestfront.org
Seattle, WA
Northwest Homeland Blogspot
northwestfront.org/blog
No War for Israel
nowarforisrael.com
Occidental Dissent*
occidentaldissent.com
Birmingham, AL
The Occidental Observer
theoccidentalobserver.com
Occidental Origin
occidentalorigin.com
Occidental Quarterly/
Charles Martel Society*
theoccidentalquarterly.com
toqonline.com
Augusta, GA
Odin’s Reich
odinsreich.com
Order of White Knights
52
splc intelligence report
orderofwhiteknights.org
Original Dissent
originaldissent.com
OURGAZETTEER.ORG
ourgazetteer.org/?page_id=2
Pacifica Forum*
pacificaforum.org
Eugene, OR
Patriotic Flags*
patriotic-flags.com
Summerville, SC
Pioneer Fund*
pioneerfund.org
New York, NY
The Political Cesspool Blog*
thepoliticalcesspool.org
thepoliticalcesspool.org/jamesedwards
Bartlett, TN
Political Soldier.net and Final Conflict
politicalsoldier.net
Professor Kevin MacDonald, CSULB,
Department of Psychology
kevinmacdonald.net
Proud Aryan Brothers*
proudaryanbrothers.webs.com
Kokomo, IN
Put Troops on the Border
puttroopsontheborder.com
Racial Compact
racialcompact.com
Racial Nationalist Library
library.flawlesslogic.com
Racial Nationalist Party of America*
rnpaheadquarters.org
Lockport, NY
Radio Free Mississippi
rebelarmy.com
Representative Government
Education Foundation*
repgov.org
Raleigh, NC
Revilo Oliver
revilo-oliver.com
robertsgriffin.com
robertsgriffin.com
The Sam Francis Letter
samfranciscolumn.blogspot.com
The Scarecrow Chronicles
stormfront.org/forum/blog.
php?u=180274
Scott-Townsend Publishers*
scott-townsend.com
Washington, DC
Shots Fired
shotsfired.us
Sigrdrifa Publications*
sigrdrifa.net
Vancouver, WA
SolarGeneral.com White Nationalist
News Portal
solargeneral.com
Solutrean Liberation Front
solutreanliberationfront.blogspot.com
Spirit Water Blood
spiritwaterblood.com
Stalking the Wild Taboo
lrainc.com/swtaboo/index.html
The State of White America
thestateofwhiteamerica.blogspot.com
Stormfront*
stormfront.org
wpww.com
West Palm Beach, FL
Temple 88*
temple88.com
Farmington, WV
Thewhitechrist’s Weblog
thewhitechrist.wordpress.com
Thoughtcrime — Harold Covington
downwithjugears.blogspot.com
Tightrope
tightrope.cc
Tip of the Spear Consulting Services*
tipofthespear.tv
Palm Beach County, FL
Tomislav Sunic (Tom Sunic)
tomsunic.info
Truck_Roy Blog
stormfront.org/forum/blog.
php?u=115496
The Truth About Panzerfaust Records
anthonypierpont.com
Vanguard News Network
vanguardnewsnetwork.com
govnn.com
Vanguard News Network Forum
vnnforum.com
Vanishing American
vanishingamerican.blogspot.com
VDARE.com: Blog Articles
blog.vdare.com
VDARE Foundation*
vdare.com
Warrenton, VA
View From the Right
amnation.com/vfr
Vinland Folk Patriots
vinlandfolkresistance.com
Voice of Reason Broadcast Network*
reasonradionetwork.com
Pasadena, CA
Wake Up or Die
wakeupordie.com
Washington Summit Publishers*
wspublishers.com
Augusta, GA
Welcome Kinsmen Blog
stormfront.org/forum/blog.
php?u=110896
Western Voices World News
wvwnews.net
Whitaker Online
whitakeronline.org
White Boy Society*
localwhiteboy.com
whiteboysociety.net/news.php
Illinois
White Boy Society Blog
whiteboysociety.blogspot.com
White Christian Heritage Festival
whitechristianheritagefestival.org
White Christian Soldiers*
angelfire.com/ny2/Lansky2000/cda.
html
Lee’s Summit, MO
White History
white-history.com
White Racial Patriots
tworca.org
White Survival
whitesurvival.wordpress.com
Why Blacks Suck
whyblackssuck.blogspot.com
WNTube
wntube.net
Women for Aryan Unity*
w-a-u.net
Brooklyn, NY
W.O.T.A.N.
allfatherwotan.org
WPWW — The Folk
wpww-thefolk.com
WTM Enterprises*
thornwalker.com/ditch/index.html
Roanoke, IN
Yggdrasil’s Library
whitenationalism.com
Young John’s Blog
yjohn.wordpress.com
RACIST SKINHEAD (24)
American Front*
americanfront.org
Sacramento, CA
Aryan Terror Brigade*
atb8318.webs.com
Flemington, NJ
Blood and Honour American
Division Forum
28american.proboards.com
Blood and Honour U.S.A.*
wix.com/bloodandhonourco/
bloodandhonourcolorado
Littleton, CO
bloodandhonour-usa.com
kriegsberichter.com
Richardson, TX
California Skinheads*
caskinhead.com
Fresno, CA
Crew 38*
crew38.com
Florida
Folkish Womens Front*
folkishwomensfront.com
folkishwomensfronthomeschool.
blogspot.com
Mississippi
Hammerskin Nation
hammerskins.net
Hooligan Site
hooligansite.com
Independent Skins*
independentskins.com
Cleburne, TX
Keystone United*
keystoneunited.com
kss88.com
Harrisburg, PA
Maryland State Skinheads*
marylandskinheads.com
Baltimore, MD
Old Glory Skins*
old-glory-skinheads.webs.com
North Carolina
Skinheadz
skinheadz.com
Supreme White Alliance*
supreme-white-alliance.net
swa43.com
Central City, KY
Vinlanders Social Club*
vinlanders.com
Knightstown, IN
Volksfront*
volksfrontinternational.com
Portland, OR
White Power Skinheads*
whitepowerskinheads.com
Shelby, OH
Wolf Lair Radio
wolflairradio.com
CHRISTIAN IDENTITY (42)
11th Hour Remnant Messenger*
11thhourremnantmessenger.vpweb.com
Santa Fe, NM
Abundant Life Fellowship*
abundant-life-fellowship.org
Morgantown, IN
Adam’s Bible
adamsbible.com
America’s Promise Ministries*
amprom.org
Sandpoint, ID
Aryan Nations Revival
aryannationsrevival.org
By Yahweh’s Design*
blogtalkradio.com/byd
Stevensville, MI
Children of Yahweh
israelect.com/ChildrenOfYahweh
Christian Identity
christian-identity.com
Christian Identity Church —
Aryan Nations*
christian-aryannations.webs.com
Simms, TX
Christogenea
christogenea.org
Church of Jesus Christ — Aryan
aryanchurch.blogspot.com
The Church of Jesus Christ Christian/
Aryan Nations Blog*
cjcc-an.blogspot.com
Granby, MO
Church of Jesus Christ/
Thomas Robb Ministries*
christianidentitychurch.net
Bergman, AR
Church of the Sons of Yhvh*
churchofthesonsofyhvh.org
Calhoun, LA
Church of True Israel*
churchoftrueisrael.com
Hayden, ID
Covenant People’s Ministry*
covenantpeoplesministry.com
cpm.noonhost.com
Brooks, GA
Dr. James P. Wickstrom
posse-comitatus-usa.blogspot.com
doctorjamespwickstrom.blogspot.com
Ecclesiastical Council for the
Restoration of Covenant Israel*
anglo-saxonisrael.com
Chicago, IL
First Century Christian Ministries*
angloisrael.com
The Woodlands, TX
God Save America Again
godsaveamericaagain.com
Israel Elect
israelect.com
Israelite Watchmen
israelitewatchmen.com
Jesus Was Not a Jew
jesuswasnotajew.com
Kingdom Identity Ministries*
kingidentity.com
Harrison, AR
Kinsman Redeemer Ministries*
kinsmanredeemer.com
Alexandria, KY
Mission To Israel*
missiontoisrael.org
Scottsbluff, NE
Non-Universal Teaching Ministries*
emahiser.christogenea.org/site
Fostoria, OH
Pastor Bill’s Christian Identity Page
cichaplain.blogspot.com
Philip Luger Blog
philipluger.blogspot.com
Reformed Church of Israel*
reformedchurchofisrael.com
Schell City, MO
Scriptures for America*
scripturesforamerica.org
scripturesforamerica.com
Laporte, CO
Serpent’s Seed
serpentseed.com
The Shepherd’s Call Ministries*
oneyahweh.com
New Tazewell, TN
Skip Baker
skipbaker.com
United Church of YHWH*
ucoy.christogenea.org
Lincoln, AL
Virginia Publishing Company*
richardhoskins.com
Lynchburg, VA
Watchmen Bible Study Group*
biblestudysite.com
Wappapello, MO
Weisman Publications*
seek-info.com
Burnsville, MN
Yahweh’s Truth*
posse-comitatus-usa.blogspot.com
Linwood, MI
NEO-CONFEDERATE (27)
Brian Pace Trading*
brianpacetrading.com
Booneville, MS
Confederate American Pride
confederateamericanpride.com
Dixie Republic*
dixieoutpost.net
dixierepublic.com
Travelers Rest, SC
Florida League of the South
Online Store
cafepress.com/freeflorida
Kingdom Treasure Ministries*
truthinhistory.org
Owasso, OK
League of the South*
auburnlos.20m.com
Auburn, AL
dixienet.org
leagueofthesouth.net
Killen, AL
arKSlos.org
Mammoth Springs, AR
freeflorida.org
Jacksonville, FL
coolchange.net
Northeast Florida
southerncrescentlos.org
Barnesville, GA
georgialos.org
McDonough, GA
georgials.org
Statesboro, GA
louisiana.chapterlos.org
Monroe, LA
missourilos.org
West Plains, MO
northcarolina.chapterlos.org
Wilmington, NC
abbevillecolos.wordpress.com
Abbeville, SC
sclos.org
Columbia, SC
freetennessee.org
Lobelville, TN
texaslos.org
LaPorte, TX
virginialos.org
Marion, VA
League of the South/Southern Patriot
Super Store*
spsstore.com
Abbeville, SC
Living Well is the Best Revenge
bigchiefrevenge.blogspot.com
Livin’ the Legacy*
livinthelegacy.com
Nashville, IN
BLACK SEPARATIST (47)
Black Lawyers for Justice
blfj.org
Blacks and Jews Newspage
blacksandjews.com
Final Call
finalcall.com
The Israelite Church of God
In Jesus Christ*
icgjcmd.org
Baltimore, MD
icgjcpgh.org
Pittsburgh, PA
The Last Crusade
thelastcrusade.org
National Black Foot Solider Network*
nationalblackfootsoldiernetwork.wordpress.com
California
Nation of Islam*
noituscaloosastudygroup.blogspot.com
Tuscaloosa, AL
noipb.org
Pine Bluff, AR
noiwest.com
Los Angeles, CA
muhammadmosque51.org
Aurora, CO
muhammadstempleofislam41.org
Bridgeport, CT
noidc.org
Washington, DC
muhammadmosque15.org
Atlanta, GA
noicolumbusga.org/Local.htm
Columbus, GA
noi.org
Chicago, IL
noimm74.wordpress.com
Indianapolis, IN
noineworleans.org
New Orleans, LA
noishreveport.org
Shreveport, LA
noibaltimore.org
Baltimore, MD
thenationspeaks.org
Dorchester, MA
noidetroit.org
Detroit, MI
noigrandrapids.com
Grand Rapids, MI
noims.org
Southaven, MS
muhammadmosque28.org
St. Louis, MO
muhammad75.wordpress.com
Las Vegas, NV
muhammadmosqueno25.com
Newark, NJ
mosque7.org
New York, NY
mosque36.com
Charlotte, NC
mosque34.org
Durham, NC
noifayettevillenc.webs.com
Fayetteville, NC
noiakron37.com
Akron, OH
muhummadmosque9.org
Youngstown, OH
muhammadstemple12.faithweb.com
Philadelphia, PA
pghmosque22.org
Pittsburgh, PA
noicharlestonsc.org
Charleston, SC
muhammadmosque55.com/index2.html
Memphis, TN
noinashville.org
Nashville, TN
austinnoi.com/index.html
Austin, TX
noidallas.org/index2.html
Dallas, TX
noifortworth.ning.com
Fort Worth, TX
noiswregion.org
Houston, TX
muhammadmosque24.org
Richmond, VA
mosque3.org
spring 2011
53
Milwaukee, WI
New Black Panther Party*
newblackpanther.com
Washington, DC
United Nation of Moors/
All Eyes on Egypt Online Bookstore*
alleyesonegyptbookstore.com
Milledgeville, GA
alleyesonegypt.net/page/
page/307358.htm
Stone Mountain, GA
GENERAL HATE (214)
ANTI-GAY (21)
Abiding Truth Ministries*
abidingtruth.com
defendthefamily.com
Springfield, MA
America Forever*
americaforever.com
Sandy, UT
American Family Association*
afa.net
Tupelo, MS
Americans for Truth About
Homosexuality*
americansfortruth.com
Naperville, IL
American Vision*
americanvision.org
Powder Springs, GA
Article8.org
article8.org
Bethesda Christian Institute*
bcisa.org
San Antonio, TX
Biblical Family Advocates*
bfamilyadvocates.com
San Diego, CA
Chalcedon Foundation*
chalcedon.edu/blog/blog.php
Vallecito, CA
Chalcedon Store
chalcedonstore.com
Chris Armstrong Watch
chris-armstrong-watch.blogspot.com
Faithful Word Baptist Church*
faithfulworldbaptist.org
Tempe, AZ
Family Research Council*
frc.org
Washington, DC
Family Research Institute*
familyresearchinst.org
Colorado Springs, CO
Heterosexuals Organized for a
Moral Environment*
home60515.com
Downers Grove, IL
Illinois Family Institute*
illinoisfamily.org
Carol Stream, IL
Mass Resistance*
massresistance.org
Waltham, MA
The Traditional Values Coalition*
traditionalvalues.org
Anaheim, CA
Westboro Baptist Church*
54
splc intelligence report
godhatesfags.com
Topeka, KS
You Can Run, But You Cannot Hide,
International (Ministries)
youcanruninternational.com
ANTI-IMMIGRANT (20)
American Border Patrol*
americanborderpatrol.com
Sierra Vista, AZ
American Immigration Control
Foundation/Americans for
Immigration Control*
aicfoundation.com
immigrationcontrol.com
Monterey, VA
American Patrol/Voice of
Citizens Together*
americanpatrol.com
Sherman Oaks, CA
Border Guardians*
borderguardians.org
Livingston, TX
California Coalition for
Immigration Reform*
ccir.net
Huntington Beach, CA
Concerned Citizens and Friends of
Illegal Immigration Law
Enforcement*
ccfile.org
Framingham, MA
Federation for American
Immigration Reform*
fairus.org/site/PageServer
Washington, DC
I Hate Illegals
web.mac.com/buffalorick/iWeb/Buffalo%20Rick%20Galeener/I%20
Hate%20Illegals.html
Mexican Criminals of OR
mexicancriminalsofOR.wordpress.com
NeuterMexicans
neutermexicans.com
NoAztlan.org
noaztlan.org
Press 2 for English*
p2fe.com
Jackson, MS
Save Our State*
saveourstate.info/index.php
San Bernardino, CA
Send The Border Jumpers Home
sendtheborderjumpershome.info
Social Contract Press*
thesocialcontract.com
Petoskey, MI
Stop the Invasion of OR
stoptheinvasionofOR.wordpress.com
United for a Sovereign America (USA)*
immigrationbuzz.com
Phoenix, AZ
Washington Grassroots Granny
grassrootsgranny.com
We Hate Gringos
wehategringos.com
ANTI-MUSLIM (8)
6th Column Against Jihad
thethirdjihad.com/?gclid=CKnsqdjwt5
0CFQOenAodEzEHkQ
9/11 Christian Center at Ground Zero*
911christiancenter.com
New York, NY
Atlas Shrugs
atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com
Casa D’Ice Signs*
casadice.com/signs/index.htm
North Versailles, PA
Christian Phalange*
phalange.com
Newton, NC
Florida Security Council
floridasecuritycouncil.org
Right Wing Extreme*
rightwingextreme.us
Gainesville, GA
Stop the Islamization of America (SIOA)*
sioaonline.com
New York, NY
HOLOCAUST DENIAL (18)
Barnes Review/Foundation for
Economic Liberty*
barnesreview.org
Washington, DC
Campaign for Radical Truth in History*
revisionisthistory.org
Coeur d’Alene, ID
Committee for Open Debate
on the Holocaust
codoh.com
The Forbidden Truth
theforbiddentruth.net
Friedrich Paul Berg’s ‘NaziGassings.com’
nazigassings.com
Historical Revisionism by Virj
Historisch Onderzoek
vho.org
Holocaust Denial Videos
holocaustdenialvideos.com
Holocaust Historiography Project
historiography-project.org
Inconvenient History*
inconvenienthistory.com/index.php
San Ysidro, CA
Institute For Historical Review*
ihr.org
Newport Beach, CA
Institute for Historical Review Store
ihrstore.com
The International Conspiratological
Association*
conspiratology.com
Coeur d’Alene, ID
Noontide Press*
noontidepress.com
Newport Beach, CA
One Person With Proof
bradleysmithsblog.blogspot.com
On the Contrary
revisionistreview.blogspot.com
The Piper Report
mikepiperreport.com
The Revisionist Clarion
revurevi.net/revclar/clarindex.html
The Zundelsite — Dedicated to Ernst
Zundel — Prisoner of Conscience
zundelsite.org
RACIST MUSIC (23)
Aryan 88 — The Official Johnny
Rebel Website
aryan88.com/whiterider/officialjr
Battlecry
battlecrymusic.com
Desastrious.com*
desastrious.com
Springtown, TX
Diehard Records*
diehardrecords.net
Chesapeake, OH
DJ GOR*
djgor.com
Bedford, PA
Fetch the Rope*
fetchtherope.com
Bozeman, MT
Final Stand Records*
finalstandrecords.com
Newark, DE
Get Some 88*
getsome88.com
Castaic, CA
Heritage Connection*
heritageconnection.tv
Harrison, AR
ISD Records*
isdrecords.com
Lancaster, OH
Label 56 Music
label56.com
Life Rune Industries*
liferune.net
North Highlands, CA
Micetrap Distribution*
whitepride.net
whitepride.com
micetrap.net
Maple Shade, NJ
MSR Productions*
msrproductions.com
Wheat Ridge, CO
NS88 Videos
ns88.com
Poker Face*
pokerface.com
Allentown, PA
Radio White
radiowhite.com
Resistance Records*
resistance.com
Hillsboro, WV
Satanic Skinhead Propaganda
satanichatefulwarskin.com
Unholy Records*
unholyrecords.com
Marlinton, WV
Victory Forever
victoryforever.com
RADICAL TRADITIONAL
CATHOLIC (17)
Catholic Aplogetics
International Publishing/
Bellarmine Theological Forum*
catholicintl.com
State Line, PA
Catholic Counterpoint*
catholiccounterpoint.com
Broomall, PA
Catholic Family News/
Catholic Family Ministries, Inc.*
cfnews.org/cfn.htm
Niagara Falls, NY
Catholicism.org
catholicism.org
Culture Wars/Fidelity Press*
culturewars.com
South Bend, IN
FATIMA NETWORK*
fatima.org
Constable, NY
Hutton Gibson — Defending the Faith
of Our Fathers
huttongibson.com
IHM Media*
sai-cs.org
Richmond, NH
In the Spirit of Chartres Committee*
realcatholicism.net
Suffolk, VA
The Legion of St. Louis*
legionofstlouis.com
Odessa, TX
Most Holy Family Monastery*
mostholyfamilymonastery.com
Fillmore, NY
Omni Christian Book Club*
omnicbc.com
Palmdale, CA
The Remnant Online*
remnantnewspaper.com
Forest Lake, MN
Slaves of the Immaculate
Heart of Mary*
catholicism.org
Richmond, NH
St. Joseph Forum*
stjosephforum.org
South Bend, IN
St. Michael’s Parish/
Mount St. Michael*
stmichaels.org
Spokane, WA
Tradition In Action*
traditioninaction.org
Los Angeles, CA
OTHER (107)
88Tube
88tube.net
a2z Publications*
a2zpublications.com
Las Vegas, NV
AlanStang.com
alanstang.com
Alex Jones’ Prison Planet
prisonplanet.com
American Free Press*
americanfreepress.net
Washington, DC
Artisan Publishers*
artisanpublishers.com
Muskogee, OK
Aryanism
aryanism.net
Attorney Jason Robb
jasonrobb.blogspot.com
Bad Eagle
badeagle.com
Bamboo Delight Company
bamboo-delight.com
The Beast Obama
beastobama.com
Bill Keller Ministries (Bill Keller)*
liveprayer.com
St. Petersburg, FL
Billy the Heretic
billytheheretic.com
Chick Publications*
chick.com/default.asp
Ontario, CA
Chimpout.com
chimpout.org
chimpout.com/forum/index.php
Christian Books and Things*
christianbooksandthings.net/index1.htm
Harrison, AR
Cultural Studies Press*
culturalstudiespress.com
New York, NY
Diversity is Crap
diversityiscrap.com
Dove World Outreach Center*
doveworld.org
standupamericanow.org
Gainesville, FL
Eric Hufschmid
erichufschmid.net
Ether Zone
etherzone.com
Ethnic Crime Reports
ethniccrime.blogspot.com
Freedom Defense Initiative (FDI)*
freedomdefense.typepad.com
New York, NY
The French Connection
iamthewitness.com
Genocide of African Americans
in America
genocideofafricanamericans.8m.com
Gentile Alliance
gentilealliance.org
Globalization, Immigration, &
Political Correctness
immigration-globalization.blogspot.com
HateLawsExposed.org
hatelawsexposed.org
The Heretical Press
heretical.com
Hitler Historical Museum
hitler.org
Holy Nation of Odin*
holynationofodin.org
Kingsburg, CA
Invictus Books*
invictusbooks.com
Wentzville, MO
Irateirishman
irateirishman.com/blog
James Hart for Congress
jameshartforcongress.com
Jew Crimes
jewcrimes.com
Jewish Defense League*
jdl.org
Los Angeles, CA
Jewish Task Force*
jtf.org
Fresh Meadows, NY
judenfrei
judenfrei.org
Judicial-Inc.org
judicial-inc.biz
La Verite Interdi
laveriteinterdi.theproductjudge.com
LaTrine’s Blawg
latrinejakscoon.blogspot.com
Lemming Report
lemmingreport.blogspot.com
M.A.C.S. Klan Merchandise*
macsconfederate.com
Louisiana
Mind If I Do A J? Forum
mindifidoaj.com/forum
Missing Links: The Truth About 9/11
911missinglinks.com
mynameisjoecortina
mynameisjoecortina.wordpress.com
National Vanguard Books*
natvanbooks.com
Hillsboro, WV
News from the West
newsfromthewest.blogspot.com
Niggermania!
niggermania.com
niggermania.net
NiviusVir’s Blog
niviusvir.wordpress.com
NordicHeathenVinlander Blog
stormfront.org/forum/blog.
php?u=174725
Obambi.com
obambi.com
Ozark Craft LC*
ozarkcraft.net
Harrison, AR
Patriot Militia.com
patriotmilitia.com
Pilgrimage to Monsalvat
pilgrimagetomonsalvat.blogspot.com
Power of Prophecy*
texemarrs.com
powerofprophecy.com
Austin, TX
Pragmatic Witness
whitewraithe.wordpress.com
Pro Think: The Study of Parasitism
prothink.org
Racist Jokes
racist-jokes.com
mohammedbaboor.angelfire.com
Real Zionist News
realzionistnews.com
The Redneck Shop*
theoriginalredneckshop.com
Laurens, SC
Snippits and Snappits
snippits-and-slappits.blogspot.com
Sons of Aesir Motorcycle Club*
sonsofaesirmc.com
Maricopa County, AZ
The Sovereign States
sovereignstates.org
Spiritually Smart
spirituallysmart.com
The Spoils of War
silentconsort.com
Subverted Nation
subvertednation.net
Take Our World Back
takeourworldback.com
This is Zionism
thisiszionism.blogspot.com
Thug Report
thugreport.com
THY WEAPON OF WAR
thy-weapon-of-war.blogspot.com
Tony Alamo Christian Ministries*
alamoministries.com
Fouke, AR
Truth in Our Time
truthinourtime.com
T-Shirt Hell
tshirthell.com/hell.shtml
Vanquishing Georgia
vanquishinggeorgia.blogspot.com
The Vatic Project
vaticproject.blogspot.com
Vinland Folk Resistance*
vinlandfolkresistance.com/index.html
Kingsburg, CA
Voz de Aztlan*
aztlan.net
Whittier, CA
Wake Up America!!!
wake-up-america.net
West Coast
westcoastinroch.com
Westboro Baptist Church*
godhatesamerica.com
godhatesireland.com
godhatescanada.com
godhatesmexico.com
godhatessweden.com
godhatestheworld.com
hatemongers.com
jewskilledjesus.com
priestsrapeboys.com
blogs.godhatesamerica.com
blogs.sparenot.com
blogs.sparenot.com/index.php/workmen
blogs.sparenot.com/index.php/
dearmargie
blogs.sparenot.com/index.php/
dearshirley
blogs.sparenot.com/index.php/fred7
blogs.sparenot.com/index.php/obama
signmovies.net
westborobaptistchurch.com
Topeka, KS
White Pride Home School
Resource Center*
whitepridehomeschool.com
Bergman, AR
White Pride T.V.
whitepride.tv
Wing TV
wingtv.net
ZSIDOZAS — The Jewish Question
zsidozas.wordpress.com ▲
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‘Patriot’
Groups
The Intelligence Project identified 824 anti-government “Patriot” groups
that were active in 2010. Of these groups, 330 were militias, marked
with an asterisk, and the remainder includes “common-law” courts,
publishers, ministries and citizens’ groups. Generally, Patriot groups
define themselves as opposed to the “New World Order,” engage in
groundless conspiracy theorizing, or advocate or adhere to extreme
antigovernment doctrines. Listing here does not imply that the groups
themselves advocate or engage in violence or other criminal activities, or
are racist. The list was compiled from field reports, Patriot publications,
the Internet, law enforcement sources and news reports. Groups are
identified by the city, county or region where they are located.
ALABAMA (13)
2nd Alabama Militia, Co. A*
Mobile
Alabama Shoals Badgers*
Tuscumbia
Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day
Alarm Riders
Statewide
America Can Be Free
Newton
Confederate States Home Guard*
Statewide
Constitution Party
Montgomery
Free Patriot Press
Birmingham
Jefferson Rangers
Birmingham
John Birch Society
Statewide
Oath Keepers
Statewide
Ordo Militis Gladius*
Robertsdale
THREE%ER
Pinson
We the People
Madison County
ALASKA (10)
Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day
Alarm Riders
Statewide
Alaska Citizens Militia*
Delta Junction
Nikiski
Alaska Peacemakers Militia*
Fairbanks
Confederate States Home Guard*
Statewide
Constitution Party (Alaskan
Independence Party)
Soldotna
John Birch Society
56
splc intelligence report
Statewide
Oath Keepers
Statewide
Second Amendment Task Force
Fairbanks
We the People
Homer
ARIZONA (18)
Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day
Alarm Riders
Statewide
American Grand Jury
Nogales
American Patriot Friends Network
Peoria
Arizona Citizens Militia*
Douglas
Maricopa County
Pima County
Arizona Militia*
Glendale
Cochise County Militia*
Tombstone
Committee of Safety
Mesa
Constitution Party
Goodyear
Hour of the Time
Eagar
John Birch Society
Statewide
Northern Arizona Militia*
Flagstaff
Oath Keepers
Statewide
Riders United for a Sovereign
America, Corp.
Phoenix
Shadow Mountain Bank
Ash Fork
UnitedStates.fm
Golden Valley
We Are Change
Statewide
ARKANSAS (14)
Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day
Alarm Riders
Statewide
Arkansas Militia*
Eastern
Little Rock
Northeast
South Central
Southwest
Western
Constitution Party
Fayetteville
John Birch Society
Statewide
Liberty Tree Rangers*
Statewide
Militia of Washington County*
Fayetteville
Oath Keepers
Statewide
We Are Change
Bentonville
Searcy
CALIFORNIA (31)
Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day
Alarm Riders
Statewide
American Armenian Militia*
Los Angeles/San Fernando Valley
Area
American Independent Party
Vacaville
California State Militia — 31st Field
Force Squad Alpha/SOG*
Orange County
Confederate States Home Guard*
Statewide
Constitution Party
Riverside
The Dorean Group
Union City
Educate Yourself
Costa Mesa
Freedom Force International
Thousand Oaks
Freedom Law School
Phelan
Free Enterprise Society
Fresno
Guardians of the Free Republics
Soquel
Northern California State Militia*
Butte County
Falcon Creek
Sacramento
Solano County
Stockton
Sunnyvale
Tehama County
Oath Keepers
High Desert
Northern
San Diego
Southern
Second Amendment Committee
Hanford
State of California Unorganized
Militia*
Monrovia
Truth Radio
Delano
We Are Change
Chico
Oakland
Sacramento
San Francisco Bay Area
WorldNetDaily
Long Beach
COLORADO (12)
America First Party
Boulder
American Freedom Network
Johnstown
Constitution Party
Arvada
Discharge Debt
Broomfield
eMilitary Manuals
Montrose
EZREMEDY4U
Arvada
John Birch Society
Aurora
Oath Keepers
Statewide
We Are Change
Colorado Springs
Huerfano
Statewide
We the People
Gunnison
CONNECTICUT (8)
Committees of Safety
Weston
Connecticut 51st Militia
Statewide
Connecticut Patriot Alliance
Canterbury
Connecticut Survivalist Alliance
Middlefield
John Birch Society
Statewide
Oath Keepers
Statewide
We Are Change
Meriden
We the People
Statewide
DELAWARE (3)
Constitution Party
Bear
Oath Keepers
Statewide
We the People
Statewide
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (4)
Oath Keepers
Washington, DC
We the People
Washington, DC
WorldNetDaily
Washington, DC
WorldNetDaily Books
Washington, DC
FLORIDA (23)
Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day
Alarm Riders
Statewide
America First Party of Florida
Fort White
Confederate States Home Guard*
Ft. Lauderdale
Raiford
Constitution Party
West Palm Beach
Florida Constitution Guard*
Orlando
Florida Free Militia*
Palm Coast
Florida Preparedness Group*
Daytona
Gainesville
Miami
Orlando
Palm Beach County
St. Augustine
St. Lucie County
Statewide
Tampa
North Florida Survival Group*
Statewide
Oath Keepers
Statewide
We Are Change
Fort Walton Beach
Jacksonville
Orlando
Tampa
We the People
Statewide
GEORGIA (34)
Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day
Alarm Riders
Statewide
Confederate States Home Guard*
Tate
Constitution Party
Woodstock
Georgia Militia*
Bartow County
Blairsville
Bulloch County
Camden County
Catoosa County
Chatham County
Cobb County (2)
Coweta County
Douglas County
Franklin County
Fulton County
Gwinnett County
Jackson County
Meriwether County
Paulding County
Richmond County
Statewide
Stephens County
It’s Over
Morganton
John Birch Society
Statewide
Militia of Georgia*
Lawrenceville
Militia Recruiting Command*
Columbus
The Moorish Science Temple of
America 1928
Atlanta
Oath Keepers
Statewide
Preamble Trust
Atlanta
Society for American Sovereignty
Marrietta
We Are Change
Atlanta
Columbus
LaGrange
Trenton
HAWAII (3)
Constitution Party
Honolulu
ISA (Spiritual Sovereignty)
Kapaa
Oath Keepers
Statewide
IDAHO (13)
Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day
Alarm Riders
Statewide
Commercial Redemption
Boise
Constitution Party
Parma
Idaho Observer
Spirit Lake
National Center for Constitutional
Studies
Malta
North Idaho Light Foot Militia*
Bonner County
Boundary County
Kootenai County
Oath Keepers
Statewide
Police & Military Against the New
World Order
Kamiah
Status Is Freedom
Boise
We Are Change
Statewide
We the People
Statewide
ILLINOIS (19)
135th Illinois Volunteer Cavalry*
Statewide
Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day
Alarm Riders
Statewide
America First Party of Illinois
Rolling Meadows
Camp FEMA
Northbrook
Constitution Party
East Peoria
Illinois Sons of Liberty*
Cook County
Fulton County
Kane County
Knox County
Macon County
McHenry County
Statewide
Will County
Winnebago County
Illinois State Militia (Unorganized)
167th Battalion, 21st FF*
Statewide
Martial Law Survival
Thomson
Oath Keepers
Statewide
Restore the Republic
Northbrook
We the People
Statewide
INDIANA (43)
4th Regiment Watchmen of
Indiana*
Clark County
Crawford County
Dearborn County
Fortville
Rush County
Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day
Alarm Riders
Statewide
Constitution Party
Indianapolis
Indiana Citizens Volunteer Militia,
3rd Brigade*
Tippecanoe County
Indiana Constitutional Militia*
Statewide
Indiana Militia Corps*
Ingalls
Northeast
Northwest
Pendleton
Southeast
Southwest
Indianapolis Baptist Temple
Indianapolis
Indiana Sedentary Militia — 29th
Battalion*
Southwest Indiana
Indiana’s Greene County Militia*
Greene County
Indiana Sons of Liberty*
Clay County
Daviess County
Elkart County
Floyd County
Grant County
Hamiliton County
Henry County
Howard County
Johnson County
La Porte County
Miami County
Porter County
Scott County
St. Joseph County
Steuben County
Tippecanoe County
Vigo County
Wabash County
Wayne County
Indiana State Militia 14th
Regiment*
Owen County
John Birch Society
Indianapolis
National Organization for the
Repeal of the Federal Reserve Act
(NORFED)
Evansville
Oath Keepers
Statewide
Sons of Liberty
Columbus
We the People
Statewide
IOWA (10)
2nd Iowa Colonial Marines*
Statewide
Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day
Alarm Riders
Statewide
Confederate States Home Guard*
Mason City
Constitution Party
Eldon
Oskaloosa
Oath Keepers
Statewide
We Are Change
Cedar Falls
Des Moines
Quad Cities
We the People
Statewide
KANSAS (8)
Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day
Alarm Riders
Statewide
Constitution Party
Wichita
The Freeman Perspective
Lawrence
John Birch Society
Statewide
Kansas State Militia*
Wichita
Oath Keepers
Statewide
We Are Change
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57
Lawrence
Statewide
KENTUCKY (16)
1st Joint Public Militia*
Bowling Green
Louisville
Marshall County
Northern
Statewide
Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day
Alarm Riders
Jefferson County
Confederate States Home Guard*
Marion
Constitution Party
Lexington
Great Registry Post
Simpsonville
John Birch Society
Statewide
Kentucky Section 8 Militia*
Central
Kentucky State Militia —
Ohio Valley Command*
Louisville
Oath Keepers
Statewide
PatriotResistance.com
Lexington
Take Back Kentucky
Clarkson
We the People
Statewide
LOUISIANA (11)
Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day
Alarm Riders
Statewide
Constitution Party
Mandeville
Louisiana Militia*
Statewide
Oath Keepers
Statewide
Truth Attack
Shreveport
Washitaw Empire de
Dugdahmoundyah
Monroe
We Are Change
Arcadia
New Orleans
Shreveport
Slidell
We the People
Statewide
MAINE (12)
Constitution Party
New Castle
John Birch Society
Statewide
Maine Constitutional Militia*
Statewide
Maine Highlands Defense Force*
Bangor
Maine Patriot Militia*
58
splc intelligence report
Berwick
Maine Sons of Liberty*
Cumberland County
Sanford
Oath Keepers
Statewide
Sovereignty International, Inc.
Bangor
We Are Change
New England Area
Portland
We the People
Statewide
MARYLAND (5)
America’s Survival, Inc.
Owings
Oath Keepers
Statewide
Save A Patriot Fellowship
Westminster
We Are Change
Statewide
We the People
Statewide
MASSACHUSETTS (6)
America First Party of
Massachusetts
New Bedford
Constitution Party
Amesbury
Oath Keepers
Statewide
We Are Change
Boston
Cape Cod
We the People
Statewide
MICHIGAN (66)
Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day
Alarm Riders
Statewide
America First Party of Michigan
Ypsilanti
Delta 5 Mobile Light Infantry
Militia*
Eaton County
East-Central Volunteer Militia of
Michigan*
Lapeer County
The Heartland USA
Sagola
Hutaree Militia*
Southern Michigan Area
Jackson County Volunteers*
Jackson County
John Birch Society
Statewide
Lenawee County Free and
Independent Militia*
Adrian
Lost Horizons
Commerce Township
Michigan Militia*
Lansing
Redford
Michigan Militia Corps Wolverines
8th Division — 19th Brigade*
South Central Michigan Area
Michigan Patriot Alliance*
Arenac County
Bay County
Cheboygan County
Clinton County
Crawford County
Genessee County
Jackson County
Lapeer County
Macomb County
Midland County
Oakland County
Oceana County
Saginaw County
Sanilac County
Shiawassee County
St. Clair County
Statewide
Tuscola County
MILITIA 5th Division MI*
Clare County
Ionia County
Isabella County
Kent County
Lake County
Mason County
Mecosta County
Montcalm County
Muskegon County
Newaygo County
Oceana County
Osceola County
Ottawa County
MILITIA 5th Division MI —
9th Brigade Sniper School*
Mecosta County
Moorish Republic Trust
Oak Park
Northern Michigan Backyard
Protection Militia*
Northern
Oakland County Volunteers*
Oakland County
Oath Keepers
Statewide
Patriot Broadcasting Network
Dexter
Republic of the United States
Portage
Southeast Michigan Volunteer
Militia*
Livingston County
Macomb County
Oakland County
Washtenaw County
Wayne County
Southwest Michigan Volunteer
Militia*
Southwest
We Are Change
Battlecreek
Clio
Detroit
Flint
Royal Oak
Schoolcraft
Statewide
West Central Michigan Volunteer
Militia*
Grand Rapids
West Michigan Volunteer Militia*
Muskegon County
MINNESOTA (8)
Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day
Alarm Riders
Statewide
Constitution Party
Redwood Falls
John Birch Society
Statewide
Oath Keepers
Statewide
We Are Change
Duluth
Minneapolis
Statewide
We the People
Statewide
MISSISSIPPI (9)
Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day
Alarm Riders
Statewide
America First Party of Mississippi
Greenwood
Constitution Defense Militia of
Attala County*
Attala County
Constitution Party
Pontoc
East Central Mississippi Militia*
East Central
Mississippi Militia*
Southaven
Oath Keepers
Statewide
South Mississippi State Militia*
South
We the People
Statewide
MISSOURI (20)
America First Party of Missouri
Imperial
Confederate States Home Guard*
Rogersville
Constitution Party
Arnold
Don’t Tread on Me
Columbia
John Birch Society
St. Peters
Liberty Restoration Project
Kansas City
Springfield
St. Louis
Missouri Militia*
Joplin (2)
Springfield
St. Louis
West Central
Oath Keepers
Statewide
Our Sammie
Statewide
Take Back Washington
Versailles
United American Freedom
Foundation
Grandview
We the People
Statewide
William Lewis Films
Columbia
WorldNetDaily
Blue Springs
MONTANA (9)
Celebrating Conservatism
Missoula
Constitution Party
Great Falls
John Birch Society
Statewide
Lincoln County Watch
Bozeman
Militia of Montana*
Noxon
Oath Keepers
Bozeman
We Are Change
Billings
Missoula
We the People
Statewide
NEBRASKA (11)
Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day
Alarm Riders
Statewide
Constitution Party
Omaha
John Birch Society
Statewide
The Nebraska State Militia*
Statewide
Nebraska State Militia —
Tall Grass Guard*
Douglas County
Oath Keepers
Bellevue
Statewide
We Are Change
Omaha
South Sioux City
Tri-Cities Area
We the People
Statewide
NEVADA (9)
America First Leadership
Las Vegas
Center for Action
Sandy Valley
Nevada Action Coalition
Las Vegas
Oath Keepers
Northern
Southern
Southern Nevada Militia*
Statewide
Sovereign People’s Court for the
United States of America
Las Vegas
We Are Change
Reno
We the People
Statewide
NEW HAMPSHIRE (5)
America First Party of New
Hampshire
Windham
New Hampshire Patriot Militia*
Statewide
Oath Keepers
Statewide
We the People
Statewide
What Really Happened
Concord
NEW JERSEY (9)
Constitution Party
Cinnaminson
The Great Seal Moorish Science
Temple of America, Inc.
Asbury Park
John Birch Society
Ringwood
New Jersey Militia*
Trenton
Oath Keepers
Statewide
We Are Change
Cape May
Statewide
We the People
Statewide
Wolfpack Militia*
Statewide
NEW MEXICO (17)
Constitution Party
Albuquerque
John Birch Society
Statewide
New Mexico Citizen’s Militia*
Chaves County
Dona Ana County
Grant County
Los Lunas
Otero County
Sandoval County
San Juan County
Oath Keepers
Statewide
Southern New Mexico Militia*
Chaves County
Curry County
Dona Ana County
Hidalgo County
Otero County
We Are Change
Statewide
We the People
Statewide
NEW YORK (34)
Aboriginal Law Institute
New York
America First Party of New York
Lynbrook
Beneficiaries of Commerce
Clifton Park
Constitution Party
New York
Empire State Militia*
Northwestern
Oneida Area
Staten Island
Statewide
Ulster County Area
Westchester Area
The Jekyll Island Project
Queensbury
New York Liberty Council
Albany
Oath Keepers
Chatham
We Are Change
Hempstead
Ithaca
Long Island
New York
Northern
Staten Island
We The People
Queensbury
Statewide
West New York Patriots*
Chautauqua County
Chemung County
Erie County
Jefferson County
Livingston County
Monroe County
Oneida County
Onondaga County
Ontario County
Southern
Statewide
Steuben County
You Have Tread On Me
New York
NORTH CAROLINA (22)
Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day
Alarm Riders
Statewide
Constitution Party
Fuquay-Varina
Cultural Freedom
Norlina
Cultural Freedom Bookstore
Fayetteville
Granny Warriors
Leicester
John Birch Society
Raleigh
North Carolina American Republic
Charlotte
North Carolina Citizens Militia*
Charlotte
Coastal Area
Sandhills Area
Waynesville
North Carolina Regional Militia*
Coastal Chapter
Mountain Chapter
Piedmont Chapter
Oath Keepers
Statewide
Preamble Trust
Charlotte
United Nations of Turtle Island
Lumberton
Washitaw Empire de
Dugdahmoundyah
High Point
Washitaw Nation
Greensboro
We Are Change
Mount Airy
Statewide
We the People
Statewide
NORTH DAKOTA (6)
Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day
Alarm Riders
Statewide
Constitution Party
Mandan
John Birch Society
Statewide
Little Shell Pembina Band of North
America
Pembina River Area
Oath Keepers
Statewide
We the People
Statewide
OHIO (27)
Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day
Alarm Riders
Statewide
America First Party of Ohio
Cleveland
Clock of Destiny Moorish International Order of the Great Seal of 360
Cleveland
Confederate States Home Guard*
Chillicothe
Constitutional Militia of Clark
County*
Clark County
Constitution Party
Delaware
John Birch Society
Columbus
North Coast Citizens Militia*
Northwest Ohio/Southwest
Pennsylvania
Northeastern Ohio Defense Force
3BN*
Lisbon
Northwestern Ohio Defense Force
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4BN*
Kenton
Oath Keepers
Statewide
Willoughby
Ohio Defense Force State
Headquarters*
Zanesville
Ohio Militia*
Statewide
Ohio Minutemen Militia*
Central Region
Northeast Region
Northwest Region
Southwest Region
Statewide
Ohio Patriot Guard*
Ashtabula County
Ohio Valley Freedom Fighters —
Northern Command*
Southeast Ohio
Richland County Citizens for the
2nd Amendment
Ontario
Southeastern Ohio Defense Force
1BN ODF*
Belmont County
Zanesville
Southwestern Ohio Defense Force
5BN*
Lebanon
Unorganized Militia of Champaign
County*
Saint Paris
We the People
Statewide
OKLAHOMA (8)
Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day
Alarm Riders
Statewide
Billy Hill Militia*
Statewide
Confederate States Home Guard*
Stillwater
Constitution Party
Chandler
John Birch Society
Statewide
Oath Keepers
Statewide
OK SAFE, Inc. (Oklahomans for
Sovereignty and Free Enterprise)
Tulsa
We the People
Statewide
OREGON (24)
America is Crying Tyranny: Created
by NMC Services
Beaverton
American Patriot Party
Ashland
The American’s Sovereign Bulletin
Central Point
Basileia Ouranous
Summer Lake
60
splc intelligence report
Constitution Party
Hubbard
Embassy of Heaven
Stayton
Emissary Publications
Clackamas
Freedom Bound International
Klamath Falls
The Intel Hub
La Pine
John Birch Society
Statewide
McCutcheons Ink.
Central Point
Oath Keepers
Statewide
Oregon Militia Alliance*
Statewide
Oregon Militia Corps*
Statewide
Oregon Watchmen*
Statewide
Real Debt Elimination
Cave Junction
Southern Oregon Militia*
Eagle Point
We Are Change
Cave Junction
Eugene
Florence
Portland
Salem
We the People
Statewide
WorldNetDaily
Medford
PENNSYLVANIA (20)
2-4 MACHSA*
Hanover
America First Party of Pennsylvania
Ridgway
Berks County Tea Party
Reading
Confederate States Home Guard*
Grove City
Constitution Party
Blawnox
Keystone Freedom Fighters*
Gettysburg
Oath Keepers
Kutztown
Statewide
Pennsylvania 1st Rifle*
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Citizens Militia*
Statewide
Pennsylvania Unorganized Militia*
Ford City
Sisyphus Press
State College
We Are Change
Harrisburg
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Scranton
We the Aboriginal People
Philadelphia
We the People
Statewide
WING TV
State College
Wolf Creek Rangers (100th) North
Liberty Militia*
North Liberty
RHODE ISLAND (4)
Constitution Party
Middletown
Oath Keepers
Statewide
Patriot Freedom
West Warwick
We the People
Statewide
SOUTH CAROLINA (16)
1st Mountain Lightfoot Brigade*
Greenville
Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day
Alarm Riders
Myrtle Beach
Statewide
Confederate State Home Guard*
Gray Court
Constitution Party
Greenville
John Birch Society
Greenville
Long Cane Militia*
Greenwood County
Oath Keepers
Statewide
The Patriot Network
Anderson
South Carolina 1st BN Central
Midlands*
Statewide
South Carolina Civilian Militia*
Lower State
Middle State
Washitaw Empire de
Dugdahmoundyah
Columbia
We Are Change
Columbia
Greenville
We the People
Statewide
SOUTH DAKOTA (4)
Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day
Alarm Riders
Statewide
Constitution Party
Brandon
Oath Keepers
Statewide
We the People
Statewide
TENNESSEE (16)
1st Tennessee Rifles UMIT*
Lafayette
Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day
Alarm Riders
Statewide
Confederate States Home Guard*
Greenville
Constitution Party
Englewood
The East Tennessee Militia*
East
Lawful Path
Lynnville
Oath Keepers
Statewide
The Order of Constitution
Defenders
Chattanooga
Tennessee Sons of Liberty
Nashville
US Grand Jury Institute
Nolensville
We Are Change
Cookeville
Johnson City
Knoxville
Memphis
Nashville
We the People
Statewide
TEXAS (80)
AMARA Temple of Moorish Science
Arlington
The American Open Currency
Standard
Frisco
American Patriots for Freedom
Foundation*
Spring
Brave New Books
Austin
Buffalo Creek Press
Cleburne
Central Texas Militia*
Central
Church of God Evangelistic
Association
Waxahachie
Concho Valley Volunteer Militia*
San Angelo
Confederate States Home Guard*
Port Lavaca
Constitution Party
Cleburne
Constitution Society
Austin
Dallas City Troop (DCT)*
Carrollton
Freedom School
Austin
The Freemen Project*
Houston
John Birch Society
Corpus Christi
The Liberty Regulators*
Houston
North Central Texas Patriots*
Dallas
Oath Keepers
Statewide
The Order of Constitution
Defenders
Houston
PatrioticSpace
Waco
Republic Broadcasting
Round Rock
Republic of Texas
Bastrop County
Bexar County
Bowie County
Brazos County
Colorado County
Fayette County
Galveston County
Goliad County
Harris County
Harrison County
Houston County
Jackson County
Jasper County
Jefferson County
Lamar County
Liberty County
Matagorda County
Milam County
Montgomery County
Nacogdoches County
Red River County
Refugio County
Robertson County
Rusk County
Sabine County
Shelby County
Travis County
Victoria County
Washington County
Southeast Texas Patriots*
Sugar Land
Southwest Desert Militia*
West Texas
Texas Central — District 14
Patriots*
Lockhart
Texas Militia*
Huntington
The Texas Militia*
Austin
College Station
Conroe
Corpus Christi
Dallas
Fort Worth
Houston
Katy
Killeen
Laredo
New Braunfels
San Antonio
Statewide
Waco
Wichita Falls
Winnsboro
Texas Patriot’s Militia*
Statewide
Texas Well Regulated Militia*
Edwards County
We Are Change
Austin
Dallas
Fort Worth
Pasadena
San Antonio
San Marcos
Tyler
We the People
Statewide
UTAH (13)
Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day
Alarm Riders
Statewide
Confederate States Home Guard*
Salt Lake City
Constitution Party
Layton
Hutaree Militia*
Statewide
JoelSkousen.com
Orem
Liberty News Radio
Highland
Oath Keepers
Statewide
Remnant Saints International
Patriot Alliance
Ephraim
We Are Change
Orem
Salt Lake City
West Valley City
We the People
Statewide
Winston Shrout — Solutions in
Commerce
Santa Clara
VERMONT (3)
Constitution Party
Williston
Oath Keepers
Statewide
We the People
Statewide
VIRGINIA (12)
Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day
Alarm Riders
Statewide
The Autonomous Authchthon International Muurish Gansul
Norfolk
Confederate States Home Guard*
Salem
Constitution Party
Vienna
NAU WAR ROOM
Vienna
Oath Keepers
Statewide
U.S. National Party
Oakton
Virginia Citizens Militia*
Roanoke
We Are Change
Shenandoah
Statewide
We the People
Statewide
WorldNetDaily
Catharpin
WASHINGTON (27)
Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day
Alarm Riders
Statewide
Church of Sovereigns: Sacred Family
Temple of the Living Saint
Satsop
Confederate States Home Guard*
Lakewood
Constitution Party
Kent
Debt Free Sovereign Trust
Blaine
Eastern Washington Lightfoot
Militia — 63rd Lightfoot Btn*
Spokane County
Grant County Militia*
Grant County
Grays Harbor Civilian Defense
Force*
Grays Harbor County
John Birch Society
Puyallup
Kissata*
Statewide
Kitsap County WA Militia*
Kitsap County
National Association of Rural Land
Owners
Fall City
Northwest Washington Recon —
73rd BN 42nd FF*
Grant
Oath Keepers
Statewide
Peoples’ Patriot Coalition Militia*
Western
Sovereign-Citizenship
Satsop
Sovereign Trust
Blaine
Washington State Civil Defense*
Northwest
Washington State Militia*
Kalama
Longview
Ridgefield
Statewide
Woodland
We Are Change
Bellingham
Seattle
Spokane
We the People
Statewide
WEST VIRGINIA (7)
Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day
Alarm Riders
Kanawha County
Constitution Party
Martinsburg
Oath Keepers
Statewide
Ohio Valley Minutemen CVM*
Statewide
We Are Change
Huntington
Statewide
We the People
Statewide
WISCONSIN (18)
Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day
Alarm Riders
Statewide
America First Party of Wisconsin
Muscoda
American Opinion Publishing
Appleton
Confederate States Home Guard*
Somerset
Constitution Party
Ripon
John Birch Society
Appleton
John Birch Society Shop
Appleton
Oath Keepers
Statewide
People’s Awareness Coalition
Kieler
Southeast Wisconsin Volunteers*
Southeast Wisconsin
We Are Change
Green Bay
Kenosha
Madison
Milwaukee
Oshkosh
Racine
Stockbridge
We the People
Statewide
WYOMING (4)
Constitution Party
Afton
John Birch Society
Statewide
Oath Keepers
Statewide
We the People
Statewide ▲
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‘Patriot’
Websites
This list of 484 sites on the World Wide Web includes pages linked to
the anti-government “Patriot” movement, which generally defines itself
as opposed to the “New World Order,” engages in groundless conspiracy
theorizing, or advocates or adheres to extreme antigovernment doctrines.
Pages were current in 2010, but sites tend to move from server to server
or shut down without notice, so they may be hard to locate. Of the sites,
110 were connected to militias or militia ideology; the rest, grouped in
the Other Patriot category, include sites associated with “common-law
courts,” publishers, ministries and citizens’ groups. Listing here does not
imply that the individuals or groups with websites advocate or engage in
violence or other criminal activity or are racist. Listings indicated with
an asterisk (*) belong to actual groups that promote Patriot doctrine
beyond the mere publishing of their Internet material.
MILITIA (110)
1st Joint Public Militia —
105th Blue Guard*
nkymilitia.weebly.com
Northern Kentucky
1st Joint Public Militia — Ohio
Valley Freedom Fighters*
ovfreedomfighters.com/index.html
Louisville, KY
1st Tennessee Rifles UMIT*
1sttnrifles.net
Lafayette, TN
2-4 MACHSA*
machsa.org
Hanover, PA
2nd Alabama Militia, Co. A*
freewebs.com/alabamamilitia/index.
htm
Mobile, AL
4th Regiment Watchmen of Indiana*
patriotresistance.com/
MILITIAPAGE-4thReg-WatchmenOfIndiana.html
Dearborn County, IN
A Well Regulated Militia
awrm.org
Alaska Citizens Militia*
centralasaskamilitia.com
Delta Junction, AK
alaskacitizensmilitia.com
Nikiski, AK
American Armenian Militia*
americanarmenianmilitia.com
Los Angeles, CA
Arizona Citizens Militia*
arizonamilitia.com
Douglas, AZ
Arizona Militia*
62
splc intelligence report
arizonamilitia.com/20090514.htm
Glendale, AZ
Arkansas Militia*
arkansasmilitia.us
Little Rock, AR
Billy Hill Militia*
billyhillmilitia.com
Oklahoma
California State Militia — 31st Field
Force Squad Alpha/SOG*
californiastatemilitia.yolasite.com
Orange County, CA
Cochise County Militia*
cochisecountymilitia.org
Tombstone, AZ
Confederate States Home Guard*
confederateamericanpride.com/
CSM.html
Tate, GA
confederatestatesguard.ning.com
Rogersville, MO
Constitution Defense Militia of
Attala County*
attalamilitia.webs.com
Attala County, MS
Constitutional Militia of Clark Co.*
ccsg0.tripod.com
Clark County, OH
Dallas City Troop*
dallascitytroop.org
Carrollton, TX
Delta 5 Mobile Light Infantry
Militia*
delta5mlim.webs.com
South Central Michigan
East Central Mississippi Militia*
mississippimilitia.com
East Central Mississippi
East-Central Volunteer Militia
of Michigan*
michiganmilitia.com
Lapeer County, MI
Eastern Washington Lightfoot
Militia-63rd Lightfoot Btn*
wa63lightfoot.us
Spokane County, WA
The East Tennessee Militia*
freewebs.com/easttennesseemilitia/
index.htm
Eastern Tennessee
Florida Free Militia*
floridafreemilitia.com
Palm Coast, FL
The Freemen Project*
thefreemenproject.com
Houston, TX
Georgia Militia*
georgiamilitia.net
Lawrenceville, GA
gamilitia.com
Georgia
Grant County Militia*
grantcountymililtia.com
Grant County, WA
Grays Harbor Civilian Defense
Force*
graysharborciviliandefenseforce.
weebly.com
militias.ning.com/group/GraysHarb
orCivilianDefenseForce?comment
Id=3567481%3AComment%3A83
053&xg_source=activity
Grays Harbor County, WA
Hutaree Militia*
hutaree.com
Utah
Illinois Sons of Liberty*
illinoissonsofliberty.com
Illinois
Illinois State Militia (Unorganized)
167th Battalion, 21st FF*
ilstm.bravehost.com
Illinois
Indiana Militia Corps*
IndianaMilitia.org
Pendleton, IN
Indiana State Militia 14th
Regiment*
14thregofism.tripod.com
Owen County, IN
Indiana’s Greene County Militia*
fortunecity.com/victorian/
crayon/881/gcm.html
Greene County, IN
Jackson County Volunteers*
jacksonccm.org
Jackson County, MI
Kansas State Militia*
kansasstatemilitia.webs.com
Wichita Area, KS
Kentucky’s Section 8 Militia*
freewebs.com/section8militia
Central Kentucky
Kentucky State Militia*
freewebs.com/privatecitizensofky
Louisville, KY
Kissata*
kissata.homestead.com
Washington
Kitsap County WA Militia*
militias.ning.com/profile/
KitsapCountyWAMilitia?xg_
source=activity
Kitsap County, WA
Lenawee County Free and
Independent Militia*
lenaweemilitia.com
Adrian, MI
Maine Constitutional Militia*
mainepatriot.741.com/aboutmcm.htm
Maine
Maine Highlands Defense Force*
mainepatriot.net
Bangor, ME
The Maine Patriot Board
frost.bbboy.net/themainepatriotboard
Maine Patriot Militia*
mainepatriotmilitia.webs.com
Berwick, ME
Maine Sons of Liberty*
unitedmilitiasofmaine.webs.com/
mainesonsofliberty.htm
Sanford, ME
Michigan Militia*
michiganmilitia.com/capcity.htm
Lansing, MI
michiganmilitia.com
Redford, MI
Michigan Militia Corps Wolverines
8th Division*
mmcw8thdiv.22web.net
South Central Michigan
Michigan Patriot Alliance*
michiganpatriotalliance.com
Michigan
MILITIA 5th Division MI*
oocities.com/mecostacountymichigan/headquarters.html
Mecosta County, MI
Militia of Montana*
militiaofmontana.com
Noxon, MT
Militia of Washington County*
arkansasmilitia.org
Fayetteville, AR
Militia Recruiting Command*
gomilitia.com
Columbus, GA
Mississippi Militia*
mississippimilitia.us
Southaven, MS
Missouri Militia*
missourimilitia.com
St. Louis, MO
Missouri Militia — 1st Battalion/
3rd Brigade*
3rdbrigade.missourimilitia.com
Joplin, MO
Missouri Militia — 4th Battalion/
8th Brigade*
8thbrigade.missourimilitia.com
Springfield, MO
Modern Minuteman
modernminuteman.net
MrLockandload.com
mrlockandload.com
The Nebraska State Militia*
nebraskamilitia.com
Nebraska
Nebraska State Militia —
Tall Grass Guard*
tallgrassguard.tripod.com
Douglas County, NE
New Hampshire Patriot Militia*
nhmilitia.com
New Hampshire
New Jersey Militia*
njmilitia.org
Trenton, NJ
New Mexico Citizen’s Militia*
newmexicomilitia.tripod.com
Los Lunas, NM
North Carolina Citizens Militia*
ncmilitia.org
Waynesville, NC
North Carolina Citizens Militia
Mecklenburg County Militia*
mcmilitia.org
Mecklenburg County, NC
North Carolina Regional Militia*
ncregionalmilitia.org/Home.html
Piedmont Region, NC
Northeast Ohio Defense Force*
neodf.org
Lisbon, OH
Northern California State Militia*
cal-militia.com
Sunnyvale, CA
Northern Michigan Backyard
Protection Militia*
nmbpm.webs.com
Northern Michigan
North Florida Survival Group*
northfloridasurvival.webs.com
North Florida
North Idaho Light Foot Militia*
northidaho21lightfoot.org
Boundary County, ID
Northwest Washington Recon —
73rd BN 42nd FF*
angelfire.com/wa3/nwwr1
Grant, WA
Ohio Defense Force Home Guard*
sodf.org
Zanesville, OH
Ohio Minutemen Militia*
ohiominutemen.webs.com
Ohio
Ohio Valley Freedom Fighters —
Northern Command*
ovff-nc.blogspot.com
Southeast Ohio
Ohio Valley Minutemen CVM*
ovmcpg.blogspot.com
West Virginia
Oregon Militia Alliance*
countryrebel118174.webs.com
Oregon
Oregon Militia Corps*
oregonmilitia.homestead.com
Oregon
Oregon Watchmen*
oregonwatchmen.org
Oregon
Pennsylvania Unorganized Militia*
1stpa-militia.net
Ford City, PA
Peoples’ Patriot Coalition Militia*
ppcmilitia.com
Western Washington
SOCAL 1st PATRIOT UNIT
socal1stmilitia.webs.com
Southeast Michigan
Volunteer Militia*
michiganmilitia.com/SMVM/smvm.
htm
Detroit, MI
Southern Nevada Militia*
snmilitia.webs.com
Southern Nevada
Southern New Mexico Militia*
snmmilitia.tripod.com
Dona Ana County, NM
Southern Oregon Militia*
inlibertyandfreedom.com/index.htm
Eagle Point, OR
Southwest Desert Militia*
southwestdesertmilitia.com
sdm.cogia.net
West Texas
State of California
Unorganized Militia*
californiamilitia.com
Monrovia, CA
Texas Militia*
texasmilitia.info
Huntington, TX
The Texas Militia*
texasmilitia.org
Texas
Texas Patriot’s Militia*
texaspatriotmilitia.org
Texas
Unorganized Militia of
Champaign County*
champaigncounty.tripod.com
Saint Paris, OH
Virginia Citizens Militia*
virginiamilitia.org
Roanoke, VA
Washington State Civil Defense*
wacivildefense.com
Northwest Washington
Washington State Militia*
wastatemilitia.com
wsmswbattalion.weebly.com
15thwsm.weebly.com
Washington
The Well Regulated American
Militias
wellregulatedamericanmilitias.com
West Central Michigan Volunteer
Militia*
volunteermilitia.com
Grand Rapids, MI
West Michigan Volunteer Militia*
freewebs.com/westmivolunteermilitia
West Michigan
Wolf Creek Rangers (100th) North
Liberty Militia*
wolfcreekrangers.yolasite.com/
100th-western-pennsylvania.php
North Liberty, PA
Wolfpack Militia*
3sog.org/COCORNER.html
New Jersey
MEDIA (15)
America News Network (American
Freedom Network)*
americanewsnet.com
Johnstown, CO
American Resistance Radio
americanresistanceradio.com
freedomfighterradio.net
The Federal Observer
federalobserver.com
Freedom’s Phoenix
freedomsphoenix.com
Genesis Communication Network
gcnlive.com
Idaho Observer*
proliberty.com/observer
Spirit Lake, ID
Liberty News Radio*
libertynewsradio.com
Highland, UT
Liberty Tree Radio
libertytreeradio.4mg.com/index.html
The New American
thenewamerican.com
Patriot Broadcasting Network*
pbn.4mg.com
Dexter, MI
The Power Hour
thepowerhour.com
Radio Liberty
radioliberty.com
Republic Broadcasting*
republicbroadcasting.org
Round Rock, TX
Truth Radio Network*
truthradio.com
Delano, CA
MINISTRIES (3)
Church of God Evangelistic Association (Newswatch Magazine)*
newswatchmagazine.org
Waxahachie, TX
Iahushua
iahushua.com
Indianapolis Baptist Temple*
indianapolisbaptisttemple.com
Indianapolis, IN
PUBLISHING (5)
American Opinion Publishing*
aobs-store.com
Appleton, WI
Buffalo Creek Press*
buffalo-creek-press.com
Cleburne, TX
Emissary Publications Midnight
Messenger*
midnight-emissary.com
Clackamas, OR
The Freeman Perspective*
thefreemanperspective.blogspot.com
Lawrence, KS
Shop JBS*
shopjbs.org
Outagamie County, WI
SUPPORT (183)
The 10th Amendment on the
7th of August
10thonthe7th.org
Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day
Alarm Riders*
alarmandmuster.com
Myrtle Beach, SC
America First Leadership*
afleadership.org
Las Vegas, NV
America First Party*
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americafirstparty.org
Boulder, CO
The American Open Currency
Standard*
opencurrency.com
Frisco, TX
American Patriot Friends Network*
apfn.org
Peoria, AZ
American Patriot Network
civil-liberties.com
American Patriot Party*
americanpatriotparty.cc
Ashland, OR
American Sons of Liberty
americansonsofliberty.com
America’s Survival, Inc.*
usasurvival.org
Owings, MD
The Amero Currency
amerocurrency.com
AssaultWeb.Net
Assaultweb.net
Barefoot’s World
barefootsworld.net
Berks County Tea Party*
berksteaparty.org
Reading, PA
Celebrating Conservatism*
montanaconservative.wordpress.
com/?ref=spelling
Missoula, MT
Center for Action*
bogritz.com
Sandy Valley, NV
Citizens for a Constitutional
Republic Firebase For Freedom
citizensforaconstitutionalrepublic.com
Committee of Safety*
committee.org
Mesa, AZ
Committees of Safety*
committeesofsafety.org
Weston, CT
Connecticut 51st Militia*
ctmilitia.homestead.com/home.html
Connecticut
Connecticut Patriot Alliance*
ctpatriotalliance.com
Canterbury, CT
Connecticut Survivalist Alliance*
digivill.net/~iirg/csa.html
Middlefield, CT
Constitution Society*
constitution.org
Austin, TX
The C.R.E.S.T. (The Constitutional
Rights Enforcement & Support Team)
thecrest.ws
64
splc intelligence report
David Wynn Miller
dwmlc.com
Dprogram.net
dprogram.net
Educate Yourself*
educate-yourself.org
Costa Mesa, CA
Extremum Spiritum
extremumspiritum.com
Flyover Press
flyoverpress.com
Freedom Fighters for America
freedomfightersforamerica.com
Freedom Force International*
Freedom-Force.org
Thousand Oaks, CA
Freedom Law School*
livefreenow.org
Phelan, CA
Freedom Underground
freedomunderground.org
Free Enterprise Society*
freeenterprisesociety.com
Fresno, CA
The Freeman Perspective*
freemantv.whynotnews.eu
Lawrence, KS
Free Patriot Press*
freepatriot-press.com
Birmingham, AL
Free Republic
freerepublic.com
Got Freedom?
gotfreedom.org
Granny Warriors*
grannywarriors.com
Leicester, NC
The Heartland USA*
theheartlandusa.com
Sagola, MI
Hour of the Time*
hourofthetime.com
Eagar, AZ
Infowars.com
infowars.com
The Intel Hub*
theintelhub.com
La Pine, OR
Jack McLamb — Police & Military
Against the New World Order*
jackmclamb.us
Kamiah, ID
The JAG Hunter
thejaghunter.wordpress.com
The Jekyll Island Project*
jekyllislandproject.com
Queensbury, NY
JoelSkousen.com*
joelskousen.com
Orem, UT
LewRockwell.com
lewrockwell.com
Liberty Dollar of Chambersburg
chambersburglibertydollar.com
Liberty Restoration Project*
libertyrestorationproject.org
St. Louis, MO
LizMichael.com
lizmichael.com
The Mental Militia Forums
thementalmilitiaforums.com/forums
Minuteman Patriot
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Wyoming
We the People Foundation*
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wethepeoplefoundation.org
Queensbury, NY
What Really Happened*
whatreallyhappened.com
Concord, NH
WorldNetDaily*
wnd.com
Washington, DC
WorldNetDaily Books*
wndbooks.wnd.com
Washington, DC
You Have Tread On Me*
youhavetreadonme.com
New York, NY
Zion’s Camp
zionscamp.yuku.com
VENDOR (14)
Brave New Books*
bravenewbookstore.com
Austin, TX
Camp FEMA*
campfema.com
Northbrook, IL
Don’t Tread on Me*
donttreadonmemovie.com
Columbia, MO
eMilitary Manuals*
emilitarymanuals.com/orgmilitia.htm
Montrose, CO
Frugal Squirrel’s Homepage for
Patriots, Survivalists, and Gun
Owners
frugalsquirrels.com
It’s Over*
its-over.info
Morganton, GA
Lawful Path*
lawfulpath.com
Lynnville, TN
Martial Law Survival*
martiallawsurvival.com
Thomson, IL
National Center for
Constitutional Studies*
nccs.net
Malta, ID
New York Liberty Council*
nylibertycouncil.com
Albany, NY
The Order of Constitution
Defenders.com*
constitutiondefender.com
Chattanooga, TN
Sons of Liberty*
sons-of-liberty.net
Columbus, IN
William Lewis Films*
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Columbia, MO
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WING TV*
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State College, PA
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American Independent Party*
aipca.org
Lemon Grove, CA
Christian Exodus
christianexodus.com
Constitution Party*
alconstitutionparty.org
Cullman, AL
cparkansas.org
Fayetteville, AR
azconstitutionparty.com
Golden, AZ
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Constitution Party —
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Vienna, VA
John Birch Society*
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Appleton, WI
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Bozeman, MT
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Alabama
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wyoming
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Anderson, SC
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group/aboriginallawfirm
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Newton, AL
America is Crying Tyranny:
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Nogales, AZ
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Central Point, OR
Ancient Order of Free Asiatics
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Norfolk, VA
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Summer Lake, OR
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Clifton Park, NY
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sovereigncopwatch.ning.com
sovereign-citizenship.net/home.html
title4flag.ning.com
Satsop, WA
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Boise, ID
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cultural-freedom.com
Norlina, NC
Cultural Freedom Bookstore*
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Fayetteville, NC
Debt Free Sovereign Trust*
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Blaine, WA
Discharge Debt*
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Bloomfield, CO
Dixieland Law Journal
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The Dorean Group*
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Union City, CA
Embassy of Heaven*
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Stayton, OR
EZREMEDY4U*
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Arvada, CO
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For the Entity of This Vessel
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Simpsonville, KY
Guardians of the Free Republics*
guardiansofthefreerepublics.com
gotfr.org
Soquel, CA
ISA (Spiritual Sovereignty)*
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Kapaa, HI
Little Shell Pembina Band of
North America*
officialpnlsbna.org/membershipupdate.html
Pembina River Area, ND
Lost Horizons*
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Commerce Township, MI
McCutcheons Ink.*
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Central Point, OR
Moorish Republic Trust*
moorishrepublic.com
Oak Park, MI
The Moorish Science Temple of
America 1928*
themoorishsciencetempleofamerica.org
Atlanta, GA
Our Sammie*
oursammie.net
Missouri
Preamble Trust*
preambletrust.com
Charlotte, NC
Private Bankers Forum
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Real Debt Elimination*
real-debt-elimination.com
Cave Junction, OR
The Redemption Service (TM)
redemptionservice.com
Republic of the United States of
America*
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Portage, MI
Save Our Sheriff
saveoursheriff.com
Shadow Mountain Bank*
shadowmountainbank.org
Ash Fork, AZ
Sovereign-Citizenship.Net*
sovereign-citizenship.net
Satsop, WA
Sovereign Trust*
sovereigntrust.info
Blaine, WA
State Citizens Service Center
Research Headquarters
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Status is Freedom*
StatusIsFreedom.com
Boise, ID
Team Law
teamlaw.org
United Nations of Turtle Island*
unitednationsofturtleisland.com
Lumberton, NC
US Grand Jury Institute*
usgrandjury.org
Nolensville, TN
Washitaw Empire de
Dugdahmoundyah*
EmpireWashitaw.org
Columbia, SC
We the Aboriginal People*
wetheaboriginalpeople.com
Philadelphia, PA ▲
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FOR THE RECORD
incidents of apparent hate crimes and hate group activities listed in for the record are
drawn primarily from media sources. These incidents include only a fraction of the approximately
191,000 reported and unreported hate crimes that a 2005 government report estimated annually.
This listing carries a selection of incidents from the fourth quarter of 2010. Any additional listings
can be found on the Intelligence Project’s website at www.splcenter.org.
CALIFORNIA
INDIANA
San Francisco • Nov. 29, 2010
A Muslim cab driver was allegedly
attacked by a passenger who allegedly robbed him while making
references to Osama Bin Laden.
Westminster • Oct. 22, 2010
Bloomington • Oct. 31, 2010
Eight Asian students at Indiana
University were allegedly attacked
and robbed by a group of black
men and women who used antiAsian slurs during the incident.
John DeLoach, a 20-year-old
white man, pled guilty to one felony count of hate crime battery
causing injury and one felony
count of hate crime assault causing injury in connection with
a September incident where
he yelled racial slurs at a black
woman and her white male friend
and then punched the man.
DeLoach was sentenced to four
years in prison.
KENTUCKY
FLORIDA
Jacksonville • Dec. 8, 2010
Eric Francis Sandefur, 17, was
charged with attempted murder
after he allegedly stabbed a homeless man.
New Port Richey • Dec. 16, 2010
Neo-Nazi John Ditullio Jr., 24,
was sentenced to life in prison
after being convicted of firstdegree murder and attempted
second-degree murder after he
attacked a white neighbor with
a knife for having a black friend
and a gay son in 2006. Ditullio
then stabbed to death 17-year-old
Kristopher King, a friend of the
woman’s son.
IDAHO
Twin Falls • Dec. 22, 2010
A Muslim woman shopping with
her two children was allegedly
threatened by a man who claimed
he had killed Muslims and
planned to kill more and that he
had a concealed weapon. The man
was charged with felony malicious harassment.
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Louisville • Dec. 6, 2010
White supremacist Johnny Logan
Spencer, 28, was sentenced to 33
months in prison for writing a
poem depicting the fatal shooting
of President Obama.
LOUISIANA
Baton Rouge • Dec. 11, 2010
Racially charged text messages,
including one containing a picture
of a black man hanging from a tree,
were sent to several black female
city council members.
MAINE
Portland • Nov. 11, 2010
A group of teens allegedly beat and
kicked a 17-year-old black youth
and bit off part of his ear.
MASSACHUSETTS
Dartmouth • Nov. 6, 2010
An anti-gay slur was spraypainted on the car of an openly
gay student at the University of
Massachusetts-Dartmouth.
Springfield • Nov. 1, 2010
Benjamin Haskell, 24, was sentenced to nine years in prison and
ordered to pay $1.7 million in restitution for setting afire a church
being built for a predominantly
black congregation in November
2008 because he was angry over
Barack Obama’s presidential victory hours earlier.
MICHIGAN
Saginaw • Nov. 17, 2010
A note with the words “All shall
perish” and three tombstones
with three black students’ names
inscribed on them was left in
an eighth-grade black student’s
locker by a white student.
while punching her in the face and
trying to hit her son.
NEBRASKA
Cincinnati • Dec. 14, 2010
An E-mail was sent to the Islamic
Association of Cincinnati that
stated, “You should know that you
are not wanted in Cincinnati … We
don’t want you here. Mohammad
is a joke. Go back to your desert.
Beware. We may just declare jihad
on you.”
Lincoln • Oct. 25, 2010
Thod T. Kuaygong, a native of
Africa, was charged with committing a hate crime assault after
allegedly yelling he was a racist and hated white people.
He then punched a white man
who attempted to intervene as
Kuaygong was trying to convince
a 19-year-old woman, who is also
a native of Africa, to come home
with him because she needed to be
“with her people.”
NEW JERSEY
Sparta • Oct. 13, 2010
Paul Rinaldi, 24, a former instructor at a school for people with
developmental disabilities, was
charged with bias intimidation
and endangering the welfare of
an incompetent person after he,
while still an instructor at the
school, allegedly punched an
autistic black woman in the stomach on Sept. 22 while calling her a
racial slur and asking an onlooking
staff member, “Do you want to see
a gorilla cry?”
NEW YORK
Long Island • Nov. 2, 2010
Richard Vitale, a retired New
York City police officer, his sons
Richard Jr. and Gregory, and
Christopher Makmaltchi and
Nicholas Lazarus were charged
with assault after they allegedly
beat a Turkish immigrant with
American flags while telling him
to get out of their country.
New York • Oct. 14, 2010
A Muslim woman and her 4-yearold son were allegedly attacked by
a man who called her “a terrorist”
OHIO
OREGON
Portland • Nov. 8, 2010
Daniel Lee Jones, former regional
director of the neo-Nazi American
National Socialist Workers Party,
was sentenced to 18 months in
prison for mailing a noose to an
Ohio NAACP chapter president
in 2008.
PENNSYLVANIA
Dover • Dec. 22, 2010
A 14-year-old student faces
juvenile charges of ethnic intimidation, criminal mischief,
institutional vandalism, disorderly conduct and terrorist
threats after he allegedly scribbled the letters “KKK,” the words
“white power” and a swastika in
an intermediation school restroom and then left a message on
a 12-year-old black student’s cell
phone in which he threatened to
hang and burn the victim.
TENNESSEE
Jackson • Oct. 22, 2010
Daniel Cowart, 22, a former probationary member with the Supreme
White Alliance skinhead group,
was sentenced to 14 years in prison
for his role in plotting multiple
robberies, the killing of dozens of
black people and the assassination of then-presidential candidate
Barack Obama in 2008. ▲
THE LAST WORD
Star Dreck
Anti-Semitic ‘radical traditionalist’ Catholics insist the universe
revolves around the Earth. The devil reportedly disagrees
WWW.GALILEOWASWRONG.BLOGSPOT.COM
BY ROBERT STEINBACK
south bend, ind. — it took some 350
years for the Roman Catholic Church to
finally admit it was wrong to have found
pioneering astronomer Galileo Galilei
“vehemently suspect of heresy” in 1633
for affirming Nicolaus Copernicus’
groundbreaking 1543 theory that the
earth and planets revolve around the
sun. But there remains a strain of “radical traditionalist” Catholics who
basically tore up Pope John Paul II’s
1992 acknowledgement and is still adamant that the Bible’s accounts of an
earth-centered universe are literal truth
— and that the church was right to convict the old stargazer all those years ago.
Eight of the world’s leading proponents of neo-Dark Ages cosmology
(with one token dinosaur-age conspiracy theorist thrown in) met here on
Nov. 6 for the First Annual Catholic
Conference on Geocentrism — the theory that the earth sits motionless at
the center of the universe. The oneday seminar was entitled, “Galileo Was
Wrong: The Church Was Right.”
“Seminar” might be generous
phrasing: The presentation was a mindnumbing, 15-hour-long sermon-cum-pep
rally for radical traditionalist Catholic
apologists desperate to debunk any science that suggests the Bible shouldn’t
be interpreted literally. Numerous biblical passages describe the earth as at rest,
with the sun in transit around it.
About 90 mostly Catholic devotees,
curious skeptics and feisty college students who converged on South Bend
endured a series of one-sided monologues declaring that theorists from
Copernicus and Galileo to Einstein and
Hawking were wrong about celestial
physics. Though much of it was difficult
for mathematical mortals to follow, the
presenters’ gambit was clear enough:
Can anyone really prove the earth isn’t
cial church condemnation and have
rendered him unwelcome in most mainstream Catholic circles.
E. Michael Jones, who also was
at the gathering, has used his South
Bend-based magazine Culture Wars
to viciously
denounce the
“Jewish world
view” and has
expressed enthusiasm for many core
Nazi ideas about
Jews (a sampling
of his magazine’s
cover stories:
“Judaizing: Then
and Now,” “The
Judaism of Hitler”
and “Shylock
A “geocentrist” conference held in Indiana used the same name as a book
Comes to Notre
(above) co-authored by one of its main participants, Robert Sungenis.
Dame”). Martin G.
Sungenis rejects modern Catholic teachings on both the motion of the
Selbrede, who also
planets and toleration of the Jews.
spoke, is vice-president of the Chalcedon Foundation, the
“If we’re saying that the earth is in
leading think tank of the Bible-literalist
the center of the universe and it’s not
Christian Reconstruction theology; the
moving, that means Someone, with a
foundation has never renounced the raccapital S, put it there,” said the conferist, homophobic and anti-Semitic views
ence’s principal speaker and emcee,
of its late founder, R.J. Rushdoony.
Robert Sungenis, founder of Catholic
Except for some of Jones’ anti-JewApologetics International. “You can’t
ish books being offered for sale, there
have the earth at the center of the
universe by chance. … The devil is a pow- was little evidence of these unsavory
connections at the conference.
erful foe and he will use something like
The best moments of the gather[the model of a sun-centered solar sysing came when 15 or so bright college
tem] to win his battle. If [scientists] have
students finally got to confront the purto admit that the earth is in the center of
the universe, where does the power shift ported experts at the end of the long
day. The panel struggled with and occaback to? It shifts back to the church.”
sionally mocked their questions and
Some of the South Bend presenthost Sungenis at times seemed to bristle
ers have taken their certainty about
at the students’ audacity.
what they see as literal biblical truth to
If such an attitude is typical of all
hateful extremes far more consequenlike-minded theorists, it’s easy to sciential than dismissing Galileo: Sungenis
tifically postulate that geocentrism is a
has published a number of venomously
lot of solar hot air. ▲
anti-Semitic screeds that drew offisitting still? That’s tougher than it
sounds: Even though astrophysicists tell
us that every body in the universe is in
motion, it will always appear that the
thing you’re on is standing still relative
to everything else.
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