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THE YEAR IN HATE & EXTREMISM HATE GROUPS TOP 1000

Led by antigovernment ‘Patriot’ groups, the radical right expands dramatically for the second year in a row EDITORIAL The Arizonification of America

BY MARK POTOK, EDITOR

when even leading conser- As we explain in this issue, this dramatic growth of the rad- vatives worry out loud about the ical right for the second consecutive year is related to anger right-wing vitriol and demoniz- over the changing racial make-up of the country, the ailing ing propaganda so commonplace in economy and the spreading of demonizing propaganda and contemporary America, you’ve got other kinds of hate speech in the political mainstream. to be concerned about where our The white-hot political atmosphere is not limited to hard- country is headed. line nativist politicians, conspiracy-mongering cable news This January, former President hosts, or even openly radical hate groups. During the same George W. Bush, speaking in a month when most of these conservative commentaries were question-and-answer session written, the nation witnessed an extraordinary series of at Texas’ Southern Methodist events that highlighted the atmosphere of political extremism. University, warned that the nation seemed to be reliving its On Jan. 8, a Tucson man opened fire in a parking lot on worst anti-immigrant moments. “My point is, we’ve been U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Democrat of Arizona, killing six through this kind of period of isolationism, protectionism, people, critically wounding the congresswoman and badly nativism” before, he said. “I’m a little concerned that we may injuring another 12 people. Giffords’ assailant appeared to be be going through the same period” again. severely mentally ill, but he also seemed to have absorbed cer- In a column around the same time, conservative commen- tain ideas from the radical right, including the notion that the tator Linda Chavez, a Fox News analyst and former Reagan federal government is evil. White House official, warned against new nativist efforts to Six days later, a neo-Nazi named Jeffrey Harbin was end birthright citizenship. “Now, egged on by radical popula- arrested in Arizona for possessing 12 grenade-like devices tion control groups, some Republicans want to reinterpret the packed with ball bearings — “to maximize human carnage,” Constitution and 11 decades of jurisprudence to subvert the as a federal prosecutor put it. A member of the National 14th Amendment,” she wrote. “They are on a fool’s errand that Socialist Movement, Harbin was heading for the border when will do great damage to the Republican Party.” he was arrested. Roll Call executive editor Morton Kondracke wrote Three days after that, on Jan. 17, police in Spokane, Wash., the same month that we are seeing “the Arizonification of found and defused a sophisticated anti-personnel bomb that America,” a reference to the state that last year passed the had been hidden along the route of a Martin Luther King Jr. harshest anti-immigrant law in memory. “It has become a Day parade. Officials said they were looking into local hate state of Minuteman vigilantism, death threats against poli- groups as part of their search for the would-be mass murderer. ticians and judges, talk-radio demagoguery, and bullying of And on Jan. 24, police in Michigan arrested a man in a Latinos and rival politicians,” he said. car loaded with M-80s and other explosives in a parking lot And neoconservative Bill Kristol, writing this February, outside one of the nation’s largest mosques, packed at the worried about the “hysteria” in contemporary conservativism time with 500 mourners at a funeral. He was charged with that he sees exemplified in a particularly voluble Fox News making a terroristic threat and possessing explosives with host. “When Glenn Beck rants about the caliphate taking unlawful intent. over the Middle East from Morocco to the Philippines, and We are living in a deeply polarized and dangerous lists (invents?) the connections between caliphate-promot- moment, and that may be nowhere more obvious than in the ers and the American left, he brings to mind no one so much state of Arizona, as Mort Kondracke pointed out. Perhaps no as Robert Welch and the John Birch Society,” Kristol wrote. one captured that better than Pima County Sheriff Clarence “He’s marginalizing himself, just as his predecessors did back Dupnik, speaking at a press conference after the Tucson in the early 1960s.” assassination attempt. Given these warnings from leading conservatives, it is not “[L]ook at unbalanced people, how they respond to the surprising that the Southern Poverty Law Center’s latest count vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down found that the number of hate groups operating in America last the government,” the sheriff said. “The anger, the hatred, year had risen to 1,002 from 932 in 2009. The number of nativ- the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be ist vigilante groups was up, too, from 309 in 2009 to 319 in 2010. outrageous and, unfortunately, Arizona has become sort And there was truly explosive growth in the antigovernment of the capital. We have become the mecca for prejudice “Patriot” movement, which added 312 new groups last year, and bigotry.” skyrocketing 61% from 512 in 2009 to 824 last year. Sadly, much of the country is following Arizona’s lead. L COVER ART BY SEAN MCCABE cial loathing for gay people. Catholic Church. But he reserves a spe als, global warming theorists and the global institutions, political liber cranked out reams of material savaging the “liberal” media. In that time, he’s organization that tirelessly attacks years at Accuracy in Media, a far-right Cliff Kincaid has spent more than 30 21 Over theCliff - - Intelligence Report vival of our country.” Americans were “in a war for the sur after sponsor Rex Duncan claimed passed overwhelmingly in Oklahoma measure banning the use of Shariah law never be imposed on Americans. But a law — Muslim religious law — could other legal experts agree that Shariah Virtually all constitutional scholars and 32 ment, which saw more than 300 new organizations appear over a 12-month period. second year in a row, the growth was led by the antigovernment “Patriot” move mainstream, the number of radical-right groups has expanded dramatically. 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DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH Heidi Beirich

DEPUTY EDITOR Robert Steinback 12 Behind the Academies STAFF WRITERS Two private academies in Mississippi, set up in 1968 for Ryan Lenz, Leah Nelson, Evelyn Schlatter white children fleeing public school integration, are still CHIEF INVESTIGATOR being partly funded by a racist hate group. Joseph Roy Sr.

SENIOR INTELLIGENCE ANALYST Laurie Wood 14 Taking Aim In a self-published novel, an Ohio law INFORMATION MANAGER Michelle Bramblett school student targets the Southern

RESEARCH ANALYSTS Poverty Law Center for an imaginary Anthony Griggs, Janet Smith assassination and dreams up a fanciful past PROGRAM ASSOCIATE for white people. Karla Griffin RESEARCHERS 17 Making Myths Angela Freeman, Karmetriya Jackson The extreme-right version of American his- DESIGN DIRECTOR Russell Estes tory pushed by the National Center for Constitutional Studies is gaining adherents. DESIGNERS Valerie Downes, Michelle Leland, Scott Phillips One of them is Fox’s Glenn Beck.

DESIGN PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Sunny Paulk 24 Electoral Extremism WEB PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Over 20 candidates with extreme right-wing Ryan King ideas ran for a variety of political offices WEB PRODUCTION around America last year. Five of them Chris Pow managed to win. MEDIA AND GENERAL INQUIRIES Mark Potok 30 Tainted Thule LAW ENFORCEMENT INQUIRIES Joseph Roy Sr. A leading member of the now-defunct White Order of SUBSCRIPTION REQUESTS Karla Griffin Southern Poverty Law Center Thule describes the strange ideas of his “esoteric Nazi” 400 Washington Ave. • Montgomery, AL 36104 group and explains how he came to leave it. (334) 956-8200 • www.intelligencereport.org

PUBLISHED BY THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER’S INTELLIGENCE PROJECT 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; SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER PRESIDENT and other glimpses of extremism. J. Richard Cohen

SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER FOUNDERS Morris Dees 68 For the Record Joseph J. Levin Jr. A sampling of hate crimes and LAW ENFORCEMENT SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER BOARD OF DIRECTORS hate group activities from the INQUIRIES WELCOMED Howard Mandell, Chair fourth quarter of 2010 is summa- Julian Bond, Andrew Fredman, The Intelligence Project of Lloyd “Vic” Hackley, Alan Howard, Marsha Levick, rized in state-by-state listings. the Southern Poverty Law James McElroy, Vanzetta McPherson, Center (SPLC) welcomes James Rucker, Ellen Sudow, David Wang 69 The Last Word law enforcement inquiries “Radical traditionalist” Catholics, regarding right-wing extrem- The Intelligence Report is published quarterly by the staff of the Intelligence ists and hate groups. Please Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center and provided free of charge to law many of them anti-Semites, direct questions during nor- enforcement officials, journalists, scholars and others. The Southern Poverty gathered almost 500 years after mal business hours to Joseph Law Center is supported entirely by private donations. No government funds are resources renewable 27.3% containing with inks Printed involved. © 2011 Southern Poverty Law Center. All rights reserved. Galileo to insist that the uni- Roy Sr. via the SPLC’s general verse really does revolve around number, (334) 956-8200. the earth.

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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 oth- ers began with a televised debate between Perkins and an SPLC official. RELIGIOUS RIGHT

ing peoples’ characters. These included Anti-Gay Groups, on the Defensive an FRC booklet entitled “Homosexual Activists Work to Normalize Sex with After Criticism, Lash Out Boys” that claimed “one of the primary goals of the homosexual rights move- When the Southern Poverty Law Center tisement in two Washington, D.C., ment is to abolish all age of consent laws (SPLC) last November announced that newspapers. The ads accused “elements and to eventually recognize pedophiles it would be adding several so-called of the radical Left” of trying to “shut as the ‘prophets’ of a new sexual order.” “pro-family” organizations to its list of down informed discussion of policy The exchange came at a time when hate groups because of their history of issues” — decrying those who attempt religious-right leaders have accused the using known falsehoods to attack gay to suppress debate “through personal federal government of being beholden and lesbians, the religious right and its assaults that aim only to malign an oppo- to a “homosexual agenda” that purport- allies responded with a call to “Start nent’s character.” The ad edly includes “feminizing” Debating/Stop Hating,” saying the SPLC was signed by 22 conserva- the armed forces through was seeking to stifle discussion of the tive members of Congress, the repeal of the so-called issue. That was ironic, given that just three governors and several “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” a few days after the announcement, of the listed organizations. policy; enhanced phys- Intelligence Report Editor Mark Potok In a response to the ical airport pat-downs P IMAGES

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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.” campaign against an openly gay student — North Carolina State Rep. LARRY BROWN, in an E-mail sent to dozens of fellow at the University of Michigan. Republican legislators Sept. 27, after learning Democratic House Speaker Joe Hackney was getting Andrew Shirvell, an assistant attor- an award from a gay-rights group ney general in Michigan, was fired after waging a vicious campaign against Chris Armstrong, the University of Michigan “How is it for that for decades there were no bedbugs to speak student body president. Shirvell, who of in New York City or anywhere else in America? … Is it a later said he had done nothing wrong, result of massive, massive waves of immigration from the used his personal blog to accuse Third World?” Armstrong of attempting to advance a — Host MICHAEL SAVAGE, on the Dec. 1 edition of Talk Radio Network’s “radical homosexual agenda,” calling “The Savage Nation” him names like “Satan’s representative” and a “privileged pervert.” Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox ultimately “Congress, the White House and Hollywood, Wall Street, are fired Shirvell for conduct unbecoming a owned by the Zionists. No question, in my opinion.” state employee. — HELEN THOMAS, in a Dec. 2 speech given six months after the legendary UPI Meanwhile, Virginia lawmaker journalist resigned following other remarks widely criticized as anti-Semitic Eugene Delgaudio claimed last fall that federal transportation officials were motivated to implement new enhanced “If God has changed his mind, he must want the West to die.” passenger search procedures by the — Family Research Institute chief PAUL CAMERON, in a Dec. 3 interview with The “homosexual agenda,” not concerns [Colorado Springs, Colo.] Gazette, suggesting God agrees with his condemnation of homosexuality about terrorism. Delgaudio, a Republican elected “We have only one blue-eyed bomber and that was Timothy to the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors in 1999 and re-elected McVeigh. And he wasn’t flying.” twice, made the claims in an E-mail STEVE KING Dec. 6 — U.S. Rep. (R-Iowa), in a interview with the online Right Side News, sent in his role as president of the discussing the purported advantages of profiling air travelers conservative nonprofit group Public Advocate of the United States. Calling “Both Harvard and Yale do have a lesbian, transgender, gay, the U.S. Transportation Security THE MICHIGAN DAILY bisexual department… . I don’t know what you have to do to get Administration’s (TSA) non-discrim- ination hiring policy “the federal a degree in those studies.” ,

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4 splc intelligence report ANTI-ABORTION EXTREMISM November in federal court. He was to Jews, believe that Jesus was the Messiah be sentenced in March. and that hastening his return would Would-Be Clinic Bomber Saw Moose’s words to an online sympa- usher in the end of the world. Himself as ‘Christian Osama’ thizer left little doubt about whether he In Boulder, Colo., Donald Hertz was might follow through with his threats: sentenced to five years of probation for The militant crusade against abortion “As far as I’m concerned, nothing is off threatening the family of Dr. Warren providers shows no signs of abating limits to stop abortion. Anything and Hern, one of only a few physicians in the aftermath of Dr. George Tiller’s everything goes. I have learned a lot nationwide who will perform late-term 2009 assassination in Kansas — a mur- from the muslim [sic] terrorists and abortions. Prosecutors said Hertz called der that many in the anti-abortion have no problem using their tactics.” a clinic last summer and warned that movement celebrated as a watershed Also in North Carolina, the Rev. his “associates” in Utah planned to kill moment. Two years later, threats against Philip “Flip” Benham, director of the Hern and members of his family. At the abortion providers continue with Concord-based Operation Save America time of the threats, Hern was under the unabated religious zeal. and a long-time hardliner against abor- protection of U.S. Marshals. One of the epicenters of anti-abor- tion, ran into serious legal trouble of tion extremism seems to be in North his own. In November, the fundamen- HATE IN THE MAINSTREAM Carolina, where the FBI in September talist Christian minister was found arrested Justin Carl Moose, the self- guilty of stalking a doctor who performs Once Again, Glenn Beck’s professed “Christian counterpart to abortions. Benham came to national Views Invoked by Extremists Osama bin Laden,” for conspiring to attention when he began papering bomb an abortion clinic. Moose told neighborhoods with hundreds of Old Three men arrested in 2010 may have a confidential FBI informant he was West-style “Wanted” posters for doctors been the latest right-wing fanatics the organizer of a “phantom cell” for in Charlotte who perform abortions. inspired to murder or threats of violence the Army of God, a theoretical group The posters didn’t put a price on the by conservative Fox News commentator (no real structure is known to exist) doctors’ lives, but in the aftermath of Glenn Beck’s charismatic and sometimes composed of those who have attacked Tiller’s murder in Kansas, many doctors end-times-focused diatribes, according abortion providers. He used his felt threatened, especially considering to family members and attorneys. Facebook page to issue communiqués, the murderous outcome of similar fli- Kenneth Kimbley, the self-pro- even posting detailed bomb-making ers distributed in other states. David claimed leader of the Brotherhood of instructions free for the taking. Gunn in Florida and George Patterson America Patriots, apparently inter- FBI agents in Greensboro, N.C., in Alabama, both doctors, were shot preted Beck’s rants as a call to action. At began investigating Moose in early and killed in 1993. Another doctor, John the time of his arrest in July after dis- August after Planned Parenthood con- Britton, was murdered a year later cussing attacks on local bridges with a tacted them and told them that a man in Florida. All were once featured on federal undercover agent, the 58-year- was advocating violence against their “wanted” posters. old had 20,000 rounds of ammunition, clinics. Moose was arrested and agreed Meanwhile, investigators have begun a stock of firearms and materials to con- to plead guilty in exchange for leni- looking into whether Tiller’s killing was struct grenades, according to court ency. He faces 20 years in prison and connected to a broad network of radical documents. He also conveyed threats a maximum fine of $250,000, accord- anti-abortion activists, one of gunman against President Obama to the agent, ing to a plea agreement filed last Scott Roeder’s former roommates told describing extensive booby traps he had The Kansas City Star. built and proclaiming his militia would Tim Parks, Roeder’s friend “resist in the event the government and former roommate, said started rounding up patriots.” That is a he and six others appeared mainstay claim among militias driven before a grand jury in October by conspiratorial ideologies that accuse for a line of questions focus- federal agencies of preparing concen- ing on the Bible study group tration camps to one day round up Roeder attended. The group, well-meaning patriots. which met for potlucks and Kimbley pleaded guilty in November Scripture study, described to unlawful possession of a firearm and themselves as Messianic attempt to make a firearm in violation IS/AP IMAGES IS/AP L O

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with police officers on his way to San Texas, where authorities initially put Francisco last summer, where he alleg- more than 400 children in state custody edly planned shootings at the ACLU on the grounds the girls were being sex- and the Tides Foundation — two fre- ually abused and the boys groomed to be quent targets of Beck’s rants (the Tides sexual predators. Foundation was almost unknown to the In addition to his controversial public until Beck began attacking it reg- teaching on the suitability of young girls ularly). Williams later described Beck as for marriage, the rawboned prophet has “like a schoolteacher on TV.” preached to his more than 10,000 fol- Nearly two years ago, extremist lowers that “the black race is the people Richard Poplawski fatally shot three through which the devil has always been Pittsburgh police officers when they able to bring evil unto the earth,” and responded to a domestic dispute at his that homosexual intimacy “is the worst home. The killings drew attention to the evil act you can do, next to murder.” allure of Beck’s rhetoric when a man Tony Alamo, another preacher con- described as Poplawski’s best friend said victed for sexually abusing children, the killer was “obsessed” with some of made headlines again when a federal Beck’s theories. appeals court upheld his conviction for Beck has denied any form of taking underage girls across state lines responsibility for the extreme actions to sexually exploit them. of his viewers. Alamo, head of the virulently anti- gay Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, The “schoolteacher”: There is evidence suggest- EXTREMIST CULTS was arrested in 2008 after 100 federal ing several violent extremists took their cues and state investigators raided his com- from Glenn Beck, but the Fox News host has denied that his extreme rhetoric and conspiracy- Three Preachers Embroiled pound in Texarkana, Ark., as part of a mongering played any part in influencing those in Sex Abuse Scandals child pornography investigation involv- who saw him as a mentor. ing allegations of physical and sexual Polygamist and self-proclaimed prophet abuse, polygamy and underage mar- his idol, TV commentator Glenn Beck, Warren Jeffs — one of at least three M typically states on the air and is pro- high-profile preachers embroiled in sex ICHAE L tected free speech.” abuse scandals — has been extradited to DINNEEN)/AP IMAGES ( Kimbley remains in federal custody Texas for a trial expected to begin some- and faces up to 10 years in prison when time this year. he is sentenced this winter. Arrested with Jeffs is the imprisoned head of the B Kimbley was Steven Eugene Winegar, 52, Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ ECK); who is under house arrest in Harpster, of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), which SAL T

L Idaho, until his trial is scheduled. has its roots in a split in the Mormon AKE TRIBUNE In April, Charles Alan Wilson Church in 1890, when the main organi- , T was arrested by the FBI for repeat- zation renounced polygamy. FLDS has RENT N edly threatening to kill U.S. Sen. Patty compounds in southern Utah, northern E L Murray (D-Wash.) in retribution for her Arizona, Texas, Colorado, South Dakota, SON/AP(JEFFS)IMAGES vote for health care reform, so-called Canada and Mexico. Jeffs was convicted “Obamacare.” Wilson was sentenced in in 2007 for his role in arranging the mar- October to a year and one day in prison. riage of an unwilling 14-year-old girl to In a letter submitted to attest to his good her 19-year-old cousin six years character during sentencing, one of earlier. That conviction was Wilson’s cousins said that “his fears were overturned, but authorities grown and fostered by Beck’s persuasive plan to retry him and he personality” and that Wilson was “under remains in prison. the spell that Glenn Beck cast, aided by The new charges the turbulent times in our economy.” in Texas stem from A third man, Byron Williams, faces a 2008 raid at the counts of attempted murder and a host Yearning for Zion of weapons charges after a shootout ranch in Eldorado, Warren Jeffs

6 splc intelligence report is because men are propose violence against Offman, did being feminized not amount to a true threat. and women are The jury, however, disagreed after being masculine! hearing evidence about the full context You cannot say, ‘I of White’s website, which contained a was born this way’ plethora of verbal attacks and threats … I don’t care what directed at various perceived enemies. scientists say!” The verdict came just as White was The lawsuit about to finish a two-and-a-half year sen- alleges that Long tence for making racially charged threats gave the boys against other enemies. He also will have to gifts of cars, col- pay $545,000 to five black Virginia Beach, lege tuition and Va., women in a separate discrimina- overnight trips to tion lawsuit; White had sent them vulgar, curry their favor. threatening letters during their dispute with a local landlord. The women were On the defense: Bishop Eddie Long, one of NEO-NAZIS awarded amounts ranging from $45,000 to America’s most homophobic black preachers, has been accused by four men of coercing them $65,000. White’s now-defunct American into sexual acts when they were teenagers. National Socialist Leader National Socialist Workers Party was Again Convicted of found liable for another $280,000. (The riage. During trial, one of his followers Southern Poverty Law Center assisted the testified that Alamo, whose real name Threat Charges attorney for the women.) is Bernie LaZar Hoffman, had taken an Imprisoned former neo-Nazi leader Bill It’s unclear just how much White can 8-year-old wife. White can’t get a break — even when he’s pay (he once claimed to be worth more Alamo was sentenced to 175 years in broke. In a case that tested the limits of than $2 million), but the plaintiffs can prison after he was convicted in 2009 free speech, an all-white jury in Chicago seek to collect any assets he might acquire on 10 counts of violating the Mann Act, found the ever-garrulous, imprisoned over the next 40 years. Also, the financial a century-old law originally aimed at White guilty of using his website to punishments against him will stand even stopping women from being sold into threaten the foreman of a jury that con- if he should file for bankruptcy. prostitution. He is being held in Tucson, victed a fellow white supremacist. The ruling ends a lucrative run White Ariz., where he was recently placed in White targeted Mark Hoffman, the enjoyed with his real estate empire in a special wing after he began threaten- jury foreman in the 2004 trial of white Virginia, where he bought property in ing prosecutors and others connected to supremacist Matthew Hale, who was largely black neighborhoods as part of his case. found guilty of soliciting the murder of a what he called a “ghetto beautification Then there is the case of Bishop federal judge. Years after the trial, White project.” What an ugly brand of beauty Eddie Long. He’s accused by four men listed Hoffman’s address, telephone it was: White would boot out resi- of misusing his role as pastor, counselor number and other personal informa- dents who could no longer afford to stay and bishop of the New Birth Missionary tion on his Overthrow.com website and without using Section 8 government Baptist Church in Georgia, one of the called him a “gay, Jewish anti-racist,” vouchers, which he refused to accept. largest megachurches in the nation, adding that he “played a leading role He sent letters calling his residents to coerce them into sexual acts when in inciting both the conviction and the “dirty parasites” and once wrote tenants they were teens. As of press time, both harsh sentence that followed.” that his “patience with you and the gov- parties in the lawsuit had agreed to White’s attorneys framed their ernment that coddles you runs thin.” mediation to avoid what was expected defense around his First Amendment As if financial and judicial ruin were to be a long and embarrassing civil trial, rights — a point the American Civil not enough, an ironic twist left White’s scheduled this summer in the event of Liberties Union (ACLU) in Virginia family targeted by threats from the an impasse in negotiations. supported. The ACLU pointed out in racist right last October. Apparently The Southern Poverty Law Center in a friend-of-the-court brief that First angered by things White had said in 2007 identified the charismatic pastor Amendment case law distinguishes court, self-professed Aryan Brotherhood as “one of the most virulently homopho- between protected free speech and member Timothy Grant Bland, 45, alleg- bic black leaders in the religiously based what is known as a “true threat” — a edly began a terror campaign against anti-gay movement.” In a videotaped threat that a reasonable third party White’s wife and daughter, calling in the MIS/AP IMAGES MIS/AP

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“You’re a disgrace,” Bland said in one During trial, a portrait of two phone call to White’s wife, Meghan, angry men emerged: delusional and according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. racist “Patriots” contemptuous of “Aryan Brotherhood is coming for you.” the government and police and fear- Meghan White said Bland also texted ful that President Obama would take her pictures of his genitals — pictures away their right to possess guns. Both that were still on his cell phone when he father and son harbored antigov- was arrested. ernment ideas and fantasized about figures they viewed as antigovern- Joshua Turnidge Bruce Turnidge EXTREMIST COP-KILLERS ment heroes, including Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, who Father and Son Bank was executed in 2003. Nevertheless, she did so and promptly notified police. Bombers Head To Death it remains unclear exactly why the William Hakim, a bomb technician with Turnidges thought planting a bomb out- the Oregon State Police, initially thought Row in Oregon side a suburban bank before a robbery the boxed bomb was a hoax and began With faces swept free of emotion, would strike a blow against federal power. dismantling the package. Bruce Turnidge and his son, Joshua The Turnidge bombing occurred The bomb went off unexpectedly. Turnidge, received death sentences on Dec. 12, 2008, when an employee at Prosecutors contended that it was set in December for aggravated murder Wells Fargo in Woodburn, Ore., received off by an unknown transmission of some charges stemming from the bomb- a call from a man instructing her and her kind, perhaps from a local CB radio. ing of an Oregon bank that killed two fellow employees to leave the building. Defense attorneys claimed that Hakim police officers. When her manager told her to hang up, set it off by hammering on the device. K OBBI R . BL AIR/AP IMAGES ( J OSH U A TU RNI D GE); M ARION C O U NOV. 13, 2010 • PHOENIX, ARIZ. NTY S HERIFF’S

Throwing their support behind Arizona’s highly controversial anti-immigrant S.B. O 1070 law, as many as 60 members of the National Socialist Movement (NSM) were FFICE/AP IMAGES (BR 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 U CE

it was there that a federal judge stayed major portions of the law, which would TU require immigrants to carry papers at all times and force police to demand those RNI D papers in many circumstances. About 100 anti-racists clashed violently with NSM members as they marched — at one GE); FROM WWW.NSM88.ORG ( 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. NSM )

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OCT. 4 The U.S. NOV. 10 Zachary Loren DEC. 9 Actor Wesley Snipes began Supreme Beck, a mem- a three-year federal prison Court refused to hear ber of the neo-Nazi sentence in Pennsylvania for failing to an appeal from former Aryan Nations, with- file income tax returns on millions of White Knights of the Ku drew from an agreement dollars of earnings during the 1990s Klux Klan member James to plead guilty to federal and later. The 48-year-old star of the Ford Seale, serving three hate crime charges in a “Blade” films and “Jungle Fever” had life sentences at the fed- January 2010 attack on long maintained his innocence, tell- eral prison in Terre Haute, the lone black patron of a ing CNN’s Larry King a day earlier Ind., for his part in the sports bar in Vancouver, that he wasn’t a tax protester, despite 1964 beating deaths of Wash. In 2005, Beck had abundant evidence that he actively black teenagers Charles James Ford Seale pleaded guilty to assault sought out and employed bogus tax- Eddie Moore and Henry charges after shooting at avoidance advice from radical-right Hezekiah Dee, who Seale Longview, Wash., police “sovereign citizen” gurus. suspected of civil rights a year earlier. In 2003, activism. Initial charges against Seale he ran unsuccessfully for the Hayden, DEC. 9 A federal court in Bridgeport, were dismissed by Mississippi officials Idaho, City Council. Conn. , sentenced Edwin in 1965, but the case was reopened and Westmoreland to 40 months in prison he was convicted in 2007. NOV. 19 A U.S. magistrate judge in for providing weapons to an informant D etroit denied alleged mem- posing as a representative of the Imperial OCT. 22 Daniel Cowart, the one-time bers of the Hutaree Militia a hearing Klans of America. Westmoreland, a mem- probationary member of the they sought to contest government con- ber of the Connecticut White Wolves Supreme White Alliance racist skinhead spiracy allegations. Nine members of neo-Nazi group, had pleaded guilty in group who pleaded guilty in March to the self-described group of “Christian June to selling guns to the informant, charges he plotted to kill then-Dem- warriors” were arrested last March who he knew was a convicted felon. ocratic presidential candidate Barack and accused of plotting to murder a Prosecutors have said the plot, which Obama in 2008, was sentenced to 14 police officer and then use bombs and allegedly involved several other White years in prison. In addition to Cowart missiles to kill hundreds of other offi- Wolves members, was part of a push to of Bells, Tenn., Paul Schlesselman of cers at the funeral in a bid to set off a boost the group’s status and geographic West Helena, Ark., was convicted in a national insurrection. The eight men base in the white supremacist movement. separate trial. The pair met over the and one woman came from Michigan, Internet and hatched plans for a rob- Indiana and Ohio. DEC. 16 Following two mistrials, bery and killing spree culminating in John Ditullio was convicted Obama’s assassination. NOV. 30 Allen Goff, an 18-year-old of murder and sentenced to life in white supremacist accused of prison for a 2006 knife attack that NOV. 8 Daniel Lee Jones, a regional threatening an American Indian teen badly wounded Patricia Wells and director of the now-defunct at gunpoint in Billings, Mont., pleaded killed her son’s 17-year-old friend, American Nationalist Socialist Workers not guilty to felony charges of assault Kristofer King. Ditullio, who was Party, was sentenced to 18 months in with a weapon. Goff leads the Montana a recruit in a racist skinhead group prison for mailing a hangman’s noose Creators Assembly, an offshoot of the called American Nazis, lived in a to F.M. Jason Upthegrove, former pres- neo-Nazi Creativity Movement. In 2009, trailer park with fellow members in ident of the Lima, Ohio, chapter of the Goff was charged with the racially moti- New Port Richey, Fla., next to Wells’ NAACP. Upthegrove was targeted vated shooting of a Latino teen in the home. Ditullio and his fellow neo- IS/AP IMAGES IS/AP L O

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L 26-year-old Tarika Wilson dead and her was only convicted last July of weapons because she sometimes had black OGE R 14-month-old son wounded. charges. He got six months’ probation. house guests.

spring 2011 9 INTELLIGENCE BRIEFS

Hakim and Woodburn Police Capt. Before moving to a fortified posi- Thomas Tennant were killed in the tion, White climbed into a sheriff’s explosion. Woodburn Police Chief vehicle and taunted officers. “He got Scott Russell lost his right leg, and bank on the radio and basically was spout- employee Laurie Perkett was injured. ing off things about the deputies and One of the witnesses to the bombing, law enforcement, making political and an ATF agent, likened the Turnidge’s religious statements and making com- bomb to those made by Eric Rudolph, ments urging the snipers to make him the anti-abortion terrorist known as a martyr,” Texas Department of Public the “Olympic Park Bomber” who was Safety spokesman John Barton told the responsible for a series of bombings Odessa American. between 1996 and 1998 that killed two In the 22-hour siege that followed, people and injured more than 100. police say White sporadically opened In a jail cell letter to his girlfriend fire on law enforcement helicopters before the death sentence was handed and officers from a large dirt mound down, Joshua Turnidge vowed he would that contained trenches, bunkers and fight to the death against those who firing positions. The dirt barricade, had “declared war” on him, and that his which had a white cross and a flagpole last breath would come in battle. “I fear on top, was built near the trailer where my heart is growing cold with hate for White lived without utilities on several what they have done to us,” he wrote. “I desolate acres. pledge to you that not a day will go by White finally surrendered as SWAT that will not be filled with retribution.” team members in an armored vehi- A final goodbye: An honor guard was part of a funeral service held in Ecuador for José cle closed in on him. He was indicted Sucuzhañy after he was murdered by nativists ANTIGOVERNMENT ‘PATRIOTS’ in December on three charges of in Brooklyn in 2008. Together with the murder attempted capital murder and was being of another Ecuadorian immigrant in nearby Long Texas Secessionist held on a $2 million bail. Island the same year, the killing drew national Charged With Shooting This wasn’t the first confrontation attention to anti-Latino hate violence. between law enforcement and individ- Oilman, Police Officers uals associated with the ROT. In 1997, ANTI-IMMIGRANT HATE CRIME Victor Dewayne White was just Richard McLaren, who was then head another reclusive extremist with ties of the ROT, initiated a six-day stand- Murder of Ecuadorian Man to white supremacist groups and the off with hundreds of Texas Rangers Dismissed With A Shrug Republic of Texas (ROT), which claims after his followers kidnapped a neigh- Texas is a sovereign nation never bor couple at gunpoint and demanded Keith Phoenix — who confessed to the legally annexed by the United States. the release of a jailed movement mem- 2008 murder of an Ecuadorian immi- Then, in September, police say he ber. One ROT member was killed grant in Brooklyn by saying, “So I killed decided to wage a one-man war against in the gunfight that followed, and someone — that makes me a bad guy?” local authorities in a vio- McLaren was eventually — has been sentenced to more than 30

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The standoff began Gray, a reported former According to investigators, Phoenix S HERIFF’S after an employee of ROT member, has been and another man, Hakim Scott, jumped O an oil company went to holed up on his remote out of their sport utility vehicle and FFICE (WHITE); White’s property with property near Trinidad, began yelling racist slurs before pounc- Ector County Sheriff’s Texas, for the past decade ing on José Sucuzhañay and his brother F Deputy Ricky Tijerina — ever since posting because they were Latino and, the attack- ERNAN D O

and Sgt. Steve McNeil Victor Dewayne White bail on charges that he ers thought, gay. A camera on a nearby V ERGARA/AP IMAGES (COFFIN) to access an oil well attacked a police officer tollbooth caught Phoenix laughing mania- to which the company during a traffic stop. He cally as he sped away, leaving Sucuzhañay owned rights. White allegedly began later sent a letter to authorities telling mortally wounded in the gutter. firing almost immediately, wounding them to bring along body bags if they Phoenix and Scott each received all three men as they retreated. came after him. 37-year sentences in August, though

10 splc intelligence report Scott was cleared of the more serious a conspiracy between the Chamber of say they shaved a swastika on the back hate crime charges. Commerce, churches and corporations to of his head, drew two horns on his That murder was among the more “put the derrieres of illegal aliens in the forehead and wrote the words “White serious recent acts of violence against pews,” project chairman Eli Cawley told Power” across the back of his neck. Latinos across the country. It came KSL Newsradio in Salt Lake City. None of this seems incidental. The men amid a volatile anti-immigrant cli- are believed to be associated with the mate — vigilantes actively patrolling HATE CRIMES white supremacist movement, and a the borders with Mexico, fear-mon- search of Beebe’s apartment turned up gering filling the airwaves, and states Mentally Disabled Navajo various items displaying Nazi iconog- attempting to adopt sweeping changes Man Branded With Swastika raphy, including a Nazi flag mounted to immigration policy that are likely to on a wall and a baseball bat painted lead to illegal racial profiling. In the first known case filed under with a swastika. Just days before Phoenix and Scott the federal hate crimes law signed by In his defense, Sanford’s attorney were sentenced, 18-year-old Christian President Obama in 2009, three New claims Kee was a willing partici- Vasquez was beaten repeatedly in the Mexico men face charges after being pant and that cell phone video footage Staten Island, N.Y., neighborhood of accused of using a heated wire coat shows Kee agreeing to the brand. It was Port Richmond until his left eye swelled hanger to brand a swastika on a men- meant, the men shut. According to police, his attack- tally disabled Navajo man. say, as a Navajo ers took $10 while yelling anti-Mexican Paul Beebe, William Hatch and tribal symbol rep- slurs and “Go home.” Jesse Sanford each face one count of resenting rolling The case drew national attention conspiracy and one count of violating water. Throughout after Staten Island Borough President the federal hate crimes law, also known history, the swas- James Molinaro told the Staten Island as the Matthew Shepard and James tika has had many Advance, “These are not bias incidents Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. meanings, includ- … these are criminal acts.” He later said They also face state felony charges of ing its associations the victim “could have been anybody.” kidnapping, conspiracy to commit kid- with many south- William Hatch In Arizona, Jason Bush and his co- napping, aggravated battery causing western Native defendant, a former teen prostitute great bodily harm and conspiracy to American Indian named Shawna Forde who started and commit aggravated battery. tribes — but its led a vigilante group called Minuteman They are accused of more than use by the Nazis American Defense (MAD), went to trial just branding is surely the in January for killing a Latino father and Vincent Kee’s most frighten- daughter. Albert Gaxiola was also being arm in April ing and lasting charged as a co-conspirator in the mur- 2009. Police associations. ders. Bush and Forde will The defense so face a possible death sen- far hinges on Kee, Jesse Sanford The price of hate: Swastikas were tence if convicted. The three shaven and branded on the body who suffers from are accused of attacking the of a mentally disabled man in fetal alcohol syn- family — the mother of the 2009. Now, the case has become drome, a condition family was wounded but the first prosecuted under a new that diminished survived — in a bid to steal federal hate crimes law. his mental capac- money to fund Forde’s group. ity. Attorneys for Meanwhile, state lead- at least two of ers in Utah are under attack the men say that after drawing up a five-point alone is reason to plan to address immigration doubt Kee’s claim Paul Beebe reform. The so-called Utah that the brand- Compact is a declaration of ing and markings principles meant to guide the were done against his will. Defense state’s discussion of immi- attorney Eric Morrow wrote that police

ICE DEPARTMENT/AP IMAGES ICE DEPARTMENT/AP gration reforms. and other adults convinced Kee that L O P The Utah Minuteman the branding was a criminal act. “At Project opposes those reforms, this point, his words are not his own,” ARMINGTON ARMINGTON F calling the compact part of Morrow wrote in court filings. L

spring 2011 11 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

ld times certainly are not dents had withdrawn from public schools forgotten in some parts to avoid mandatory desegregation. of the South. Two private Though the academies remain across Mississippi academies, set the South, their days of overtly catering Oup in 1968 for white children facing the solely to whites have ended. But a minor- cle of the century.” In 2004, Lord wrote unacceptable (to their parents) prospect ity presence at some schools can be hard to in the Citizens Informer that the acad- of sharing their classrooms with African find: The headmaster of Carroll Academy, emies create “an atmosphere free of Americans, are still being enthusiasti- Steve Flemming, told the Intelligence social experiments” for those who want cally funded by white supremacists. Report that the school has one non-white to “associate with persons of like persua- Calhoun Academy in Calhoun City student. Calhoun’s headmaster, Coach sion,” presumably meaning other whites. and Carroll Academy in Carrollton Cameron White, said that his school had According to his biographical profile, have been the beneficiaries of con- four non-white students, some of whom Lord helped organize both Carroll and siderable financial support over the “may have black blood in their families.” Calhoun academies, as well as six others past two decades from the Council of The Carroll and Calhoun academies, in Arkansas and Tennessee. Conservative Citizens (CCC), a crudely which both were founded in 1968 and The CCC works hard to support the white supremacist group whose website offer classes from kindergarten through schools, holding barbecue fundrais- has referred to blacks as “a retrograde high school, are revered by the CCC. ers that bring in substantial donations. species of humanity” and whose news- The CCC’s longtime national field coor- In 1999, for instance, the CCC reported paper, Citizens Informer, regularly dinator, Bill Lord, who was president that it had raised over $100,000 for publishes articles condemning “race of Carroll Academy for 14 years in the Calhoun Academy. The group also prom- mixing” and lamenting the decline of 1980s and 1990s, called them “the mira- inently features activities taking place at white, European civilization. the academies in its publications. The The CCC is the direct descendant CCC’s April-June 2010 Citizens Informer, of the segregationist White Citizens for example, ran a photo of the Carroll Councils of the 1950s and 1960s, having Academy Lady Rebels basketball team been largely built on the earlier coun- along with congratulations for having cils’ mailing lists. The Supreme Court’s won a championship. landmark 1954 decision, Brown v. Board In February 2010, Carroll Academy of Education, ordering desegregation of hosted a CCC meeting that featured the nation’s public schools, sparked the Jeppi Barbour, brother of Mississippi growth of the White Citizens Councils, Gov. Haley Barbour, describing a peti- which declared, “We will not be inte- tion drive for a ballot proposal the would grated. We are proud of our white blood require voters to show ID before voting. and our white heritage of sixty centu- Photos show Jeppi Barbour in the acad- ries.” The councils’ first order of business emy’s library speaking to dozens of CCC FROM CARRO after the court decision was to create pri- members. And the local CCC chapter

Carroll Academy’s school mascot is Colonel Reb LL vate, all-white schools that came to be regularly meets in the school’s facilities. ACA

— the same symbol axed by the University of D known as segregation, or seg, academies. In March 2009, the chapter’s meeting at EMY. Mississippi because of its evocation of the racist U By 1975, at least a half million white stu- doctrines of the Confederacy. the academy featured an unnamed guest S

12 splc intelligence report 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.

student “have never had a concern” about white supremacists meeting at and help- ing 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 fund- raisers 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 dona- tions” and added that he didn’t know if the CCC had “assisted in cooking” to benefit the school. When asked about the recent barbecue fundraiser the CCC held CCC’s views — one of its platform state- for the school are on the academy’s website, ments is a promise to “oppose all efforts including two that depict a big CCC banner to mix the races of mankind” — White alongside a Confederate flag. said, “I wouldn’t comment on that.” Calhoun Academy also gets consider- Both academies are accredited mem- able ink in the CCC’s newsletter. A picture in bers of the Mississippi Association of April-June Citizens Informer shows a mas- Independent Schools (MAIS), which sive barbecue pit full of chicken that was includes dozens of private academies sold to help the school. “Tasty B-B-Q ben- in Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas. efits Calhoun Academy,” reads the caption. A search of the association’s accredita- On another page the newsletter notes that tion materials could find no reference the barbecue event brought in over $1,600 to best practices or policies dealing for Calhoun, described as a “private school with racism or discrimination. But in a organized by the Council.” A 2004 descrip- November E-mail to the Report, MAIS tion of another barbecue fundraiser put on Executive Director David Derrick said: speaker who is “one of the top judges in by the local CCC chapter said the funds “Policies of the Mississippi Association Mississippi, who gave a talk on the need from “the program are used to purchase of Independent Schools (MAIS) provide for conservative organizations across the textbooks and visual aids for the school that member schools shall not discrimi- state to offset the liberals that are trying library.” These events have been held for nate in enrollment on the basis of race. to influence the courts.” (In recent years, nearly two decades for both schools. Member schools, however, are auton- the CCC has avoided naming public fig- Given the CCC’s long relationship omous in their decisions regarding ures who address the group because of the with Carroll Academy, it was surprising funding. There are no policies in place ramifications of speaking to an openly rac- how unaware headmaster Flemming that allow for, or require, review of fund- ist group. Most politicians have strenuously said he was about the group. He told the ing sources of member schools.” avoided the CCC since the late 1990s.) Report that CCC members have children After the CCC’s support for these In line with the CCC’s reverence for in his academy and that the group is “sup- schools was initially disclosed in October all symbols of the Old South, Carroll portive of the school.” But he said that he on the Hatewatch blog, a sister Southern Academy’s sports teams are called was “not informed” about the nature of Poverty Law Center publication to the the Rebels and the school’s mascot — the CCC, even though the group regu- Intelligence Report, an anti-racist group featured prominently on its website larly meets on his campus. He declined called Change.org organized two peti- — is Colonel Reb. (The colonel is iden- to condemn their racist views, saying that tion campaigns to stop racist funding tical to the mascot of the University of he didn’t want “offend anyone” and that of the academies. By January MAIS had Mississippi that was axed seven years ago “they have their right to feel how they changed its tone, demanding that the because of its connection to the Confederacy feel.” Flemming also told the Report that schools end their financial relationship and its racist doctrines.) Several photos of a the parents of his school’s one non-white with the CCC. L

spring 2011 13 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

t was no surprise last October MacDonald, whose writings on Jews researched page-turner” and hopes it is when former hate group leader have been condemned by his academic the first of many. “One looks forward to Kyle Bristow self-published a colleagues, recently joined an explicitly much more from this author,” she writes. white nationalist novel featuring white supremacist group, the American Craig Bodeker, producer of the film “A Ithe graphic assassination of a character Third Position, which was started by a Conversation About Race,” also weighs in based on a prominent employee of the man who has called for the deportation with a prominent endorsement. Bodeker, Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). of all Americans with any “ascertainable who persists in claiming he is no rac- Bristow, after all, has had an outsized trace of Negro blood.” ist despite posting Internet comments ax to grind with the SPLC since his Another fan of Bristow’s novel is self- describing black people as “EVIL mon- undergraduate years at Michigan State described white “separatist” Virginia keys,” calls Bristow’s book “the jolt Whites University. It was there that he first Abernethy, a professor emerita at need to awaken from our suicidal slumber!” attained notoriety for inviting hate group Vanderbilt University medical school. Let’s hope no one takes Bristow’s spokesmen to speak on campus and for Abernethy calls White Apocalypse a “well- book seriously, let alone finds themselves promoting a video game centered on kill- being “awakened” by it. Its plot is driven ing Mexican migrants. by puerile prose and revolves around a Somewhat more surprising than the series of violent revenge fantasies against book itself are the dozen gushing blurbs Jewish professors, Latino and Native Bristow collected in praise of his violently American activists, and the SPLC. racist debut novel, White Apocalypse. Some of these blurbs are from usual sus- Targeting Enemies pects like Billy Roper, of White Revolution Much of White Apocalypse is spent and the Nationalist Party of America, and dramatizing one man’s crusade James Edwards, of the hate radio program against the “evil, anti-Western” activ- “The Political Cesspool.” But the book also ities of an Atlanta-based organization received glowing praise from two academ- called the “Center for Diversity and ics with ties to well-known universities. Multiculturalism.” The organization, The first is Kevin MacDonald, pro- with its “hate group list” and large fessor of psychology at California State legal staff, is clearly modeled on the University at Long Beach. McDonald Montgomery, Ala.-based SPLC. The book calls White Apocalypse “an emotionally also includes characters whose roles compelling account of Whites as histor- match that of two SPLC senior staff- ical victims of non-Whites — just the sort ers: Mark Potok, the director of SPLC’s of thing we need to motivate a renais- Intelligence Project and editor of this sance among our people.” magazine, and Heidi Beirich, the SPLC’s Despite his high-sounding position, director of research. MacDonald is a raging anti-Semite who On page 195, the Potok character — Kyle Bristow’s fury at the SPLC is crystallized contends that Jews are driven by a genet- in a scene from his self-published novel that the Center’s spokesman, named David ically programmed evolutionary strategy depicts a character obviously meant to be an Greenberg, who Bristow describes as an to undermine Western civilization. SPLC official being assassinated. “oily, curly haired troll” — has just fin-

14 splc intelligence report 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 con- servative commentators employed by major cable news and radio networks. Early in the novel, Bristow quotes “Dr. Michael Savage” approvingly, an obvi- ous 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 While a student at Michigan State University, hall in Scandinavian mythology], Thor, the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF). He Kyle Bristow took time out from posting racist archenemy of trolls, smiled at the accom- gained notoriety (as well as the SPLC’s insults to display his unusual sense of humor. plishment of the epitome of Western Man.” hate group designation) for inviting well- When asked to comment on what is known extremists to speak on campus, ished delivering testimony in a federal obviously a murder fantasy concerning such as the leader of the whites-only courthouse. As Greenberg stands outside the SPLC’s Potok, Bristow replied via British National Party, Holocaust denier the building, the novel’s hero, a one-man E-mail to this reporter that any parallels Nick Griffin, and for stunts like advocat- militia named Jack Schoenherr (which were purely coincidental. ing a video game in which players earned translates roughly from the German as “Mr. “Dear Guttersnipe,” read Bristow’s points by shooting Mexican migrants at Handsome”) fires a bullet from his AR-15 response, “I do not ‘fantasize’ about any- the border. from the roof of a nearby parking garage. one’s death. I do, however, fantasize quite While representing YAF, Bristow Bristow describes the event as follows: often of taking the country over and imple- earned notice from bookers and hosts “The supersonic projectile hit the left- menting a real right-wing agenda that at Fox News Channel. As Bristow still ist agitator one inch below the eye, and the would make [archconservative MSNBC proudly boasts on his website, he once bullet exited the back of his head nano- commentator] Pat Buchanan and the late appeared on The O’Reilly Factor and has seconds later. … Brain, blood, and skull Sam Francis [the chief editor of the white been quoted on-air by Sean Hannity. fragments burst forth from what was supremacist Council of Conservative Bristow’s national television appear- once Greenberg’s head, and the leftist Citizens] proud. What I mean by this is the ances occurred back when he was a lowly was blown off both of his feet. Greenberg most offensive thing possible, and what this student activist. Today, he is a self-pub- died instantly, and his last words were ‘We is I will leave to your imagination.” lished author on a crusade not merely to must destroy the plague that is Western Precious little imagination is required. entertain or inspire to violence his fel- E BRISTOW’S FACEBOOK PAGE FACEBOOK E BRISTOW’S L culture.’ Ironically, Western culture got With its anti-Semitism and racist low white nationalists, but to reveal the

FROM KY FROM him first. From Valhalla [a celebration venom, White Apocalypse is the latest true story of their Stone Age ancestors,

spring 2011 15 who, he firmly believes, settled North “Brain, blood, and skull fragments burst forth America some 20,000 years ago. from what was once Greenberg’s head.” Stone Age Aryans — kyle bristow, enthusiastically describing the murder of a civil rights activist 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 were Native American and only 9,000 which he dedicates to “the real Native known as the “Solutrean Hypothesis.” The years old, white nationalist advocates of Americans”—i.e., the descendents of Stone hero of White Apocalypse is on a mission the Solutrean Hypothesis seized on the ini- Age Europeans. The title for Bristow’s pro- to give the hypothesis its proper hear- tial reports to revive the idea that Europeans motional site for the book, meanwhile, is ing. SPLC villains are the main obstacles were the first to settle the Western named The Solutrean Liberation Front, standing in his way. Hemisphere. They were further encouraged after the fictional group created by the nov- The crux of Bristow’s “repressed a few years later, when Stanford and Bradley el’s assassin-hero, Jack Schoenherr. knowledge” is the belief that Stone Age announced what they claimed was further Unfortunately for Bristow and his European explorers first settled the evidence of prehistoric Solutrean settle- fellow white nationalist Solutrean pro- North American continent millennia ment. This evidence was largely based on a ponents, the hypothesis as understood before the Asian settlers known to his- negative discovery: They reported finding even by sympathetic archeologists does tory as Native Americans. no trace of Clovis technology in the Asian not exactly jibe with their reading. The origin of the idea lies in the 1933 dis- areas that the Native Americans supposedly Shortly after Bristow released covery of an arrow- and spearhead known came from. This argument was matched his book, the watchdog group YAF as a “Clovis point.” Its design led archeol- with a complex and contested history of the Watch contacted Dennis Stanford, ogists to coin the term “Clovis culture” to lineage of a mitochondrial DNA called hap- the most prominent proponent of the refer to what they believed was distinctive logroup X found in some mummified North Solutrean Hypothesis and head of the about a wave of settlers who crossed the American remains. National Museum of Natural History’s Bering Straight from Eastern Siberia dur- As it had been in the 1930s, the arche- Archaeology Division. His take on the ing the last ice age, around 14,000 BCE. ology profession was once again largely crude appropriation of his ideas by white Soon after the Clovis discovery, an dismissive of the new and improved nationalists was not sympathetic. archaeologist named Frank Hibben Solutrean Hypothesis. The anthropol- “There are several major problems” began writing about the similarities ogist Lawrence Guy Straus summed up with using the Solutrean Hypothesis to between the Clovis points found in North the still-reigning consensus view that the advance a white nationalist racial politics, America and those designed by a Stone Clovis civilization was native, and not said Stanford. The biggest, he explained, Age Southwestern European civilization dependent on contact with Solutreans, is that “even if the Solutrean hypothesis known as the Solutrean. While overwhelm- in a 2000 interview with National is demonstrated, there is no evidence that ingly dismissed by his peers, Hibben’s Geographic. “One of the great failings of these people were the same race as modern hypothesis struck a resonant chord with archaeology,” he told the magazine, “is Europeans; in fact, they most likely were Americans who liked the idea that the a continuous falling back on the notion not the same race. Their origin in Europe discovery and settlement of the Western that if a couple of things [like Clovis is a major research question. At the present, Hemisphere was a prehistoric triumph of arrowheads] resemble one another, they most scholars believe the people who made European, not Asian, will and technology. have to have the same source. But these the European Solutrean artifacts came out Over the next 60 years, the Solutrean similarities appear and reappear time of North Africa [around] 25,000 years ago.” Hypothesis of a European-American “lost and again in different places.” The other leading proponent of the race” gained a handful of adherents, but Solutrean Hypothesis, Bruce Bradley, is no it was generally considered crank science The ‘Real’ Native Americans better disposed to the efforts that Bristow and dismissed. The hypothesis gained Despite any real proof that Solutreans and others are making to use it as intellec- new life and professional traction only in settled North America, the hypothesis tual fuel for the white power movement. the late 1990s. It was then that two arche- over the last decade has continued to “It is quite likely that [if ] these events ologists associated with the Smithsonian gain white nationalist adherents who happened, [it was] before ‘racial’ diver- Institution, Dennis Stanford and Brace have seized on it to stage a prehistoric sification occurred,” Bradley, now an Bradley, claimed to be in a position to white persecution drama. If Europeans associate professor of experimental finally build on Hibben’s original theory. settled North America first, then the archeology at the University of Exeter The major event in this renaissance Asians that followed them — now known in England, told the Intelligence Report. occurred in 1996, when archeologists dis- as Native Americans — not only have no “Any facile explanations about the pos- covered a skeleton in Washington State claim on the land, but also must have sible implications in relation to modern that was described as having “Caucasoid” committed genocide against the original history will certainly be discredited.” features. Although a report by the National white settlers, who did not survive to tell Bristow has shown to the world he’s Park Service Archaeology and Ethnology their story. This is the meaning of the not much of a writer. It turns out he’s an Program later declared that the remains title of Bristow’s novel, White Apocalypse, even worse armchair archeologist. L

16 splc intelligence report 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 ultraconser- vative 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-vol- unteer 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” lec- turers are giving seminars across the country in spaces like the rented class- room 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-forgot- ten NCCS tracts of Mormon-flavored pseudo-history such as The 5,000 Year Leap have become unlikely online best- sellers. As a result, traveling volunteer Making Myths NCCS lecturers like McNeely today have no shortage of students eager to learn his With the rise of the right, the National version of “truth.” “In our time together, we’re going to Center for Constitutional Studies’ bizarre learn the truth about American history version of U.S. history is gaining adherents and what our government is supposed to do—and not do,” said McNeely, after BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK ILLUSTRATION BY DANIEL ADEL opening the August seminar in Fairmont with a Christian prayer and a patriotic AIRMONT, W. Va. — One fine kindly, awkward, and heavy-set instruc- song of his own authorship. “We’re going Saturday morning last year, tor, held no advanced degree and made to learn sound principles. Once we have around 60 mostly middle-aged no claims to being a scholar of any kind. possession of these sound principles, conservatives trickled onto the He was, rather, a product of rote training we can solve nearly every problem in Fotherwise deserted campus of Fairmont in a religious and apocalyptic interpreta- America, the way the Founders would State University. Clutching notebooks tion of American history that has roots have liked.” and coffee cups, they looked like groggy in the racist right of the last century. As the morning progressed, it became Continuing Ed students as they took seats His students for the day had learned clear that the NCCS worldview and pro- in a modern lecture hall on the ground about the class not in the Fairmont State gram were based on three major pillars: floor of the school’s engineering build- summer catalog, but from the website understanding the divine guidance ing. In a sense, they were Continuing Ed of the obscure nonprofit run by fringe that has allowed the United States to students. The room had been booked Mormons. Founded as the Freeman thrive; rejecting the tyrannical, implic- months in advance for a one-day, intro- Institute in Provo, Utah, in 1971, the out- itly sinful, nature of the modern federal level history and civics seminar entitled, fit now goes by the name National Center government; and preparing for a divine “The Making of America.” for Constitutional Studies (NCSS), and reckoning that will bring down America’s But this was no ordinary summer works out of a remote farmhouse in government and possibly tear society as school. Randall McNeely, the seminar’s Malta, Idaho (population 177). we know it asunder, thus allowing those

spring 2011 17 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. with sound principles — i.e., godly NCCS Keepers, a group of ex-police graduates — to rebuild the republic along and military personnel who “sounder,” more pious lines. publicly promise to resist America’s return to extremely limited orders if they find those orders government, as they think God intended, at odds with their under- is destined to happen, NCCS lecturers standing of the Constitution. teach, because God has already shown an At the 2010 National Liberty interventionist role in American history. Unity Summit, a powwow of According to the NCCS, the founding far-right groups, NCCS pres- of the United States was nothing short ident Earl Taylor delivered of a “miracle” in the literal sense of the the keynote address following speeches FBI, Skousen toured the country whip- word. God is watching, in other words, by leading Oath Keepers Richard Mack ping up anti-communist (and anti-civil and he is not happy. Teaching out of the and Guy Cunningham. rights) hysteria under the banner of the seminar’s 131-page illustrated workbook, But mostly, the NCCS focuses on its sem- John Birch Society. Among the stories McNeely argued that the current federal inars. And business has never been better. in Skousen’s fantastical arsenal was the government is guilty of a “usurpation “We’re trying to flood the nation,” NCCS claim that New Dealer Harry Hopkins of power.” It is, therefore, illegitimate, president Taylor told The Washington Post gave the Soviets “50 suitcases” worth of though McNeely never actually uttered in June. “And it’s happening.” information on the Manhattan Project that word. Governmental powers should and nearly half of the nation’s supply of be used sparingly, he explained, limited Communists, Capitalists and Jews enriched uranium. When the John Birch AL EX W largely to the common defense and the Students of the American far right may Society came under attack for its found- ONG/ G

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ment has exploded in the last two years. The Freeman Institute in 1971 (the name In the 1970s, he penned an influential U RA S So it’s not much of a surprise that it has was changed to NCCS in 1984), the tract of New World Order conspiracism, EITZ/ D found a number of new organizational bespectacled former police chief had The Naked Capitalist, which described ESERET NEWS (SKO allies among “Constitutionalist” groups become a minor legend in the annals of a cabal of scheming, internationalist- such as the conspiracy-obsessed John right-wing radicalism. Throughout the minded bankers and government officials

Birch Society, the ultraconservative “pro- late 1950s and 60s, following 11 years set on destroying the Constitution by U SEN) family” group Eagle Forum, and the Oath of mostly administrative work in the manipulating left and liberal groups

18 splc intelligence report around the world. The purpose of lib- Benson quote: “The Greatest Watchdog purpose of the Freemen Institute, said eral internationalist groups such as the of our Freedom is an informed elector- its literature, was to “inspire Americans Council on Foreign Relations, Skousen ate.” But Benson had a decidedly illiberal to return to the Founders’ original suc- believed, is to push “U.S. foreign policy understanding of just what an informed cess formula.” toward the establishment of a world- electorate should believe. Benson read wide collectivist society.” America’s history (and future) through ‘Christ or Chaos’ Among the sources Skousen cited a looking glass of apocalyptic Mormon Skousen’s new institute, then as now, to substantiate this claim was is a for- theology and folklore. He believed that was not greeted by universal acclaim mer czarist army officer named Arsene de the Constitution would one day “hang among his fellow Mormons. Edwin Goulevitch, whose own sources included from a thread,” at which time Mormons Brown Firmage, a professor of law at Boris Brasol, a White Russian émigré who would assume leadership of the nation the University of Utah, complained provided Henry Ford with the first English and rescue it from certain and irrevoca- to the Mormon magazine Sunstone in translation of the Jew-bashing classic, ble disaster. (These ideas are not part of 1981: “Skousen is teaching right-wing Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and later official Mormon Church doctrine.) fundamentalism with a constitutional became a supporter of Nazi Germany. Benson was also an advocate for veneer. How anyone can prove that The controversy that surrounded Bircher-style conspiracy theories. civil rights and welfare are unconsti- Skousen’s growing public profile in the Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, he tutional is beyond me. For his people, 1960s and early 70s caused a debate saw the hand of communism in every ‘Constitutional’ is just a right-wing buzz- within the Mormon Church leadership. social welfare policy and fought them word.” A reporter from the Philadelphia For many church leaders, Skousen was as both immoral and unconstitutional. 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 cen- tury, but his point was well taken. What the Mormon constitution- alism pioneered by Skousen pines after most is the federal government of the mid-nineteenth century. If the NCCS could stop the clock any- where, it would be 1867, the year before the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment. Like today’s Tenther Mormon leader Ezra Taft Benson, a close ally of A rabid foe of the civil rights movement, movement, whose adherents cite the W. Cleon Skousen, had powerful acquaintances Benson in 1971 allowed one of his anti- Tenth Amendment to advocate the who included President Dwight D. Eisenhower. civil rights talks to be reprinted as the sovereignty of the states over federal Benson rabidly opposed the civil rights move- ment and once allowed an essay of his to be introduction to a book of race hate called government power, Skousen argued that printed as an introduction to a particularly Black Hammer: A Study of Black Power, constitutional decline began when the vicious and racist book. Red Influence, and White Alternatives. federal government overrode the states The book’s cover featured the severed, to grant and enforce equality under the bloody head of an African American. By law. bringing unwanted attention to the insti- the end of the decade, his politics had Skousen first laid out his views on tution, which until then had generally taken a similar turn to that of his friend the Constitution in 1981, with the pub- eschewed involvement in politics. But Skousen. During a 1972 general confer- lication of The 5,000 Year Leap. Now the Skousen also had allies in high places. ence of the Church of Latter-day Saints, central text of Glenn Beck’s 9.12 Project The strongest and most loyal of them was Benson recommended all Mormons read — the Fox host calls the book “divinely Ezra Taft Benson, a Mormon Apostle and Gary Allen’s New World Order tract None inspired” — Leap is an illustrated rec- EISENHOWER);

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spring 2011 19 it. Others would prove bolder in explain- to apocalyptic folklore. And like Skousen, ing the importance of Leap. In Ronald current NCCS lecturers believe that time Mann’s introduction to Leap’s 10th-anni- is quickly running out. versary edition, he praises Skousen for There is a dark, often unspoken, grasping America’s choice of “Christ or subtext to the NCCS’s crusade to pro- chaos” and for acknowledging that its mote the “sound principles” of proper future depends on “accepting and dem- Constitutional government. That sub- onstrating God’s government.” text is a belief in the imminent collapse The project started by Leap was of civilization. This collapse is inter- furthered a few years later with the pub- woven in the bombastic teachings lication of The Miracle of America. After of NCCS friend and ally Glenn Beck, reducing its contents to a smaller work- whose Doomsday-drenched shows are book suitable for one- and seven-day profitably promoted by fear-mongering seminars, Skousen again hit the road. purveyors of everything from gold bul- During the first “Making of America” lion to “crisis gardens” and emergency tour, he demonized the federal regula- radios. The NCCS has done much to tory agencies, arguing for the abolition encourage and spread a deeply apocalyp- of everything from the Occupational tic worldview among far-right Mormons, Safety and Health Administration to of whom Beck is only the most famous. the Environmental Protection Agency. The NCCS views its education cru- He wanted to repeal the minimum sade as crucial for rebuilding America wage, smash unions, nullify anti-dis- after a coming cataclysm; thus, “The crimination laws, sell off public lands Glenn Beck calls The Five Thosand Year Leap, Making of America” is best seen as a and national parks, end the direct elec- which argues for turning America into 50 mini- God-centric civics class for the bomb theocracies, “divinely inspired.” tion of senators, kill the income tax and shelter. Speaking last year in Mesa, Ariz., the estate tax, knock down state-level Taylor spoke cryptically of the need for walls separating church and state, and, of “the Good Lord’s help” to take America course, raze the Federal Reserve System. “into a much better phase of existence Skousen’s rolling theocratic lecture rent NCCS president, Earl Taylor, is not lasting for a thousand years.” tour ran into problems in 1987, when out- unknown to echo some of Skousen’s Taylor’s remarks only make sense siders started examining the contents of controversial views. At a Mesa, Ariz., in the context of a cleansing, holy the book on which the seminars were seminar earlier this year, a Washington wrath, after which will emerge pure based. The Making of America, it turned Post reporter heard Taylor argue that Constitutional defenders ready to build out, presented a history of slavery that Thomas Jefferson hesitated to free his a new society on the ashes of the old. could have been written by a propagan- own slaves because of his “benevolence.” “I fear that the United States is going dist for the Ku Klux Klan. Skousen relied As Taylor often does, he defended this to have to go through the ringer,” said for his interpretation of slavery on his- interpretation by referencing his partic- Taylor. “It’s gonna be rough.” torian Fred Albert Shannon’s Economic ipation in a walking tour. “If you’ve been “When the time comes, when the peo- History of the People of the United States to Monticello and you see how Jefferson ple who are in power for the power and (1934). Quoting Shannon, Skousen cared for them, they didn’t want to leave,” the glory, and there is no more power described African-American children as the Post writer quotes Taylor as saying. and glory left, they’ll probably be look- “pickaninnies” and described American ing around asking, ‘Can anybody help?’ slave owners as the “worst victims” of the Glenn Beck and the Apocalypse And you’ll say, ‘Yeah, I’ve got some ideas. slavery system. He further explained that Defenders of the NCCS argue that the Come on over and eat a little something.’ “[slave] gangs in transit were usually a outfit, run by the grandfatherly Taylor, Because there probably won’t be much cheerful lot, though the presence of a is merely teaching good old-fashioned food anyway, but if you’re wise, you’ll number of the more vicious type some- civics to interested Americans. But have some.” times made it necessary for them all to while there is a large amount of straight, At this depressing image of future go in chains.” Shannon and Skousen also accurate history included in “Making of Constitutional scholars discussing the cast a skeptical eye on accounts of cru- America” seminars, the lessons are about evils of the income tax and battling elty by slave masters and expressed much much more than just the Constitution. “debauchery” amid the scarred ruins of a more interest in the “fear” Southern The organization’s larger mission is to post-Apocalyptic America, Taylor bright- whites had while trying to protect “white crudely propagandize against America’s ens up. FROM SKO civilization” from slave revolts. secular foundations and sow doubt over “We’re gonna win this thing,” he said. 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20 splc intelligence report perception of “overwhelming public sup- port” for repeal of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. “Establishment Over the Cli! journalists,” he has written, “are aligned Accuracy in Media’s Cliff Kincaid revels in with academia” (“sexual perverts mas- querading as scholars”) in supporting attacking the ‘liberal’ press. But he reserves a transgendered individuals — “a cruel hoax to undermine the already shaky special loathing for homosexuals foundation of the traditional family.” He can’t contain his rage at the Republicans BY LARRY KELLER ILLUSTRATION BY JEFFREY SMITH for not expelling gays from their ranks, liff Kincaid is one of the President Obama has “well-documented titling a recent article, “Is the GOP American far right’s most socialist connections,” is the product of becoming the Gay Old Party?” And he energetic and obsessive pro- a “mysterious upbringing as a Muslim in has been one of the staunchest defenders pagandists. For more than Indonesia,” and may well not have been of a draconian proposed law in Uganda C30 years at Accuracy in Media (AIM), a born in this country. Hillary Clinton is that would impose the death penalty on right-wing outfit opposed to the “liberal” a lesbian. Global warming is a “fraudu- large numbers of gay men — a proposal media, Kincaid has cranked out reams lent scheme.” And the Roman Catholic so radical that even many hard-line U.S. of material — rife with innuendo and anti-gay groups have felt constrained to speculation but light on facts —aimed at denounce it. To Kincaid, the proposed buttressing his far-right, xenophobic and law seems merely “designed to send a homophobic views. message to … the foreign homosexual What’s more, some in the media main- lobby to keep their hands off Uganda’s stream actually take him seriously. families and kids.” Aside from his editorial role at Kincaid has taken his anti-gay mes- AIM, the notably humorless Kincaid sage on the road recently, participating also runs an antigovernment “Patriot” in an August conference put on by the group, America’s Survival, whose stated hard-edged Americans for Truth about mission is to “expose the influence of Homosexuality where he promised to global institutions,” mostly meaning the expose “gay influence on the media” United Nations and the International and “the homosexual drive for the Criminal Court. Ten days after ‘right’ to donate possibly infected Walter Cronkite’s death, and contaminated blood to Kincaid wrote that the the nation’s blood famous news anchor supply.” had been a global- Kincaid might ist “one-worlder.” be easily dis- Since 2008, the missed were it group’s obses- not for his ability sion has been to reach the gen- P r e s i d e n t eral public. He Obama. has appeared W h i l e regularly on complain- F o x N e w s ing mightily programs and about the he’s been fea- m a i n s t re a m tured on other media’s supposed bias, Kincaid — who Church has been hijacked “by Marxist major television networks as well. declined a request for comment from the elements” and is “facilitating the for- Hate radio’s Michael Savage, who has Intelligence Report — revels in his own, eign invasion of the U.S.” by northbound an audience of some 8 million people, citing as authorities in his articles far- Latinos. has had him on. He’s a regular at the right ideologues and organizations that But Kincaid reserves a special loath- annual Conservative Political Action share his politics. ing for gays and lesbians. Conference, a major event for conser- And what exactly are his views? He has blamed gays for corrupting vative Republicans. He’s appeared at Basically, Kincaid advances a hodge- the military and making America more other conservative confabs, such as last podge of fairly run-of-the-mill, far-right vulnerable to terrorism. He says the “pro- April’s Jericho March & Conference in conspiracy theories and allegations: homosexual media” has created the false Washington, D.C., where he joined a mix

spring 2011 21 Accuracy in Media (AIM) has celebrated anti- communist 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 scan- dal 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 conspiracy- media and political figures for a six-hour Its communion is organic food. Its sac- oriented Patriot groups. Moreover, he’s talkfest on the topic.) raments are sex, abortion, and when all working to extend his organization’s influ- In its early years, AIM sent letters to else fails, sterilization. Its saints are Al ence well into the future — AIM has become newspaper editors asking for corrections. Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel a prime training ground for aspiring “con- If newspapers refused, AIM bought ads on Climate Change. Both professing servative” journalists. in the publications with its corrections. Protestants and Roman Catholics bear a Eventually, AIM began to buy stock in burden of guilt for the current political Joe McCarthy to Vince Foster major media companies, enabling its mess we are in with the global warming Born in Kansas City, Mo., in 1954, Cliff representatives to speak at shareholder and other hysterias.” Kincaid graduated with a B.A. from meetings. Despite his self-appointed role as a the University of Toledo and went to When Kincaid came on board in 1978, media monitor, Kincaid often settles in Washington, D.C., via a national jour- the AIM Report was six years old. He his own work for simple speculation. nalism program headed by conservative and AIM savaged the Clintons, promot- In an article last February, for example, author M. Stanton Evans, a contribut- ing the theory, which became received Kincaid quoted from a couple of poems ing editor to Human Events, a weekly wisdom on the far right, that Clinton that Barrack Obama wrote at age 19 about magazine. (Last year, AIM gave Evans deputy White House counsel Vince his father. “But what if it was really about an award to honor his “groundbreaking Foster was murdered. (He was not.) Not [Frank Marshall] Davis?” Kincaid asked research into the media’s vilification of coincidentally, that claim also was zeal- about one of them, referring to a man he Senator Joe McCarthy” and his book, ously pursued by conservative billionaire has described as Obama’s communist Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story Richard Mellon Scaife, a major financial mentor, a “sex pervert and pothead.” of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight backer of AIM. “Perverts” seem to occupy a good por- Against America’s Enemies.) That kind of backing has helped to tion of Kincaid’s waking hours. Kincaid spent seven years at Human make AIM far better financed than most In 2005, he said news organiza- Events and also worked as an editorial groups with similar views. As of April tions should engage in a “Quit Gay Sex” writer and newsletter editor for Iran- 2009, it held $3.6 million in net assets. campaign against “the dangerous and Contra scandal figure Oliver North at addictive homosexual lifestyle.” In the North’s Freedom Alliance foundation. Calling the Kettle Black years since, he has repeatedly railed AP IMAGES (MCCARTHY); AP IMAGES (NORTH); FROM ACC In addition, Kincaid worked for Citizens In the event he bothers to substanti- about the alleged “homosexual agenda.” United, a right-wing organization fixated ate his positions at all, Kincaid typically Today, he never misses an opportunity on Bill Clinton that created the racially relies on sources who parrot his views. to tell his readers that MSNBC host charged Willie Horton TV ads in 1988 Take global warming. While there is Rachel Maddow is a lesbian and that that helped doom the presidential aspi- consensus among the vast majority of cli- she and Washington Post editorial writer rations of Democrat Michael Dukakis. matologists worldwide that the earth is Jonathan Capehart are part of a “homo- In 1978, Kincaid joined Accuracy in warming and human activity is the cause, sexual cabal.” Nationally syndicated Media. He has been a prolific and wordy Kincaid sees a scam perpetrated by the conservative columnist Kathleen Parker contributor ever since. “religious left,” among others. In an arti- isn’t gay, but Kincaid declared her con- U AIM was founded as a nonprofit in cle last January, Kincaid tried to buttress servatism “a farce and a fraud” after the RACY IN ME 1969 by economist Reed Irvine to cor- this allegation by quoting from a bizarre Pulitzer Prize winner criticized the anti- D rect what Irvine saw as serious media book by James Wanliss, a physics profes- gay Uganda legislation. (FOSTER) IMAGES AP (IRVINE); IA errors. In truth, he was only concerned sor at tiny Presbyterian College in South with liberal media errors. (Just last year, Carolina. The Homosexual Addenda AIM sponsored a so-called Conservative Wanliss argues that the environmen- Kincaid, who describes himself as a Leadership Summit to Confront Media tal movement “is a religion with a vision married father of three, gets especially Bias, with Kincaid joining other far-right of sin and repentance, heaven and hell. worked up when writing about gays in

22 splc intelligence report the military. In May, he raised what he wondered darkly. Eventually, he warned, students from bullying. apparently saw as the haunting specter there could be “a homosexual takeover of When Jennings was appointed in May of homosexual soldiers wearing wom- the military branches.” 2009 to a position in the Office of Safe en’s uniforms if the “Don’t Ask, Don’t It was Lively, too, who Kincaid relied & Drug Free Schools, Kincaid and AIM Tell” policy were repealed. He predicted upon heavily as a supposed expert for an responded with several columns contain- that straight soldiers would “probably article he wrote last year — one of sev- ing some of their most vicious vitriol to leave in disgust and dismay,” while oth- eral — that supported what has become date. For one thing, Kincaid began promot- ers would “choose never to sign up.” The widely known as Uganda’s proposed “kill ing the theory that GLSEN had praised a military would be a “shambles,” the war the gays” law. Lively was one of three “communist pervert.” That would be Harry on terrorism “jeopardized,” and a draft American evangelical Christians who in Hay, who Jennings once said inspired required “with soldiers reporting to the 2009 visited Uganda to conduct a semi- him. Kincaid noted the gay-rights pio- male homosexuals already there and in nar titled, “Exposing the Truth Behind neer had supported the North American command positions.” And then this gem: Homosexuality and the Homosexual Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), “They will demand sexual favors to rise Agenda” that was heard by thousands of and claimed that Hay was a communist. in the ranks. … [I]t is a recipe for national that nation’s citizens. The anti-gay legis- In fact, Jennings had only praised Hay’s suicide.” lation was introduced a month after the role in the start-up of the first ongoing gay Last year, AIM published a guest col- Americans’ visit. rights group in 1948, not NAMBLA. umn by Scott Lively, a pastor who runs Lively suggested that the proposed Even so, one of AIM’s student interns the anti-gay hate group Abiding Truth law was a rational response to the homo- posted a blog item last December on Ministries and co-founded another anti- sexuality of a Ugandan king more than a AIM’s website describing Jennings as gay hate group, Watchmen on the Walls. century earlier and to U.S. and European “President Obama’s favorite pedophile.” Lively is co-author of The Pink Swastika: activists “working aggressively to re- The next day, the organization that says it specializes in finding liberal media inaccuracies removed Cliff Kincaid (left) claims the item and posted a half- that controversy over Uganda’s infamous “kill hearted apology, conceding the gays” bill was really that it had no evidence of a White House ploy to Jennings “being a pedophile draw attention away from and personally teaching per- the “real scandal” of its verted sexual practices to appointment of Kevin Jennings (right) to the young people.” Department of Education. But it was a bone that Jennings founded a group AIM just couldn’t let go of. dedicated to protecting “We continue to urge the straight and gay school- media to vigorously investi- children from bullying. gate Jennings’ background” and his “role in promoting the homosexual agenda and exposing children to discus- sions of dangerous sexual Homosexuality in the Nazi Party, which homosexualize their nation.” When both practices,” AIM said, listing three vehe- falsely claims that “the Nazi party was The Washington Post and The New York mently anti-gay websites as sources. entirely controlled by militaristic male Times editorialized in favor of the United Despite Kincaid’s repeated efforts to homosexuals throughout its short his- States ending foreign aid to Uganda if the get him ousted, Jennings remains at the tory.” (In fact, Hitler violently purged proposed legislation became law, Kincaid Department of Education. gays within the party’s own ranks and wrote that the threat of rescinding for- The irony of Kincaid’s stated mission sent thousands of others to concentra- eign aid “to force a country to accept the of correcting media bias and his own

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spring 2011 23 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, 2010 there is a temptation to chortle with satisfaction that the number of voters who wrote ELECTIONS in neo-Nazi Billy Roper as their 2010 choice for governor of Arkansas wouldn’t fill the seats in an undersized fast-food restaurant. Still, a 2010 candidate who has argued that private businesses should be free to deny ser- vice 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 immi- grants (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 right- wing views who sought public office during the 2010 election season — including five who succeeded. Those who won their races are marked “elected.”

Harry Bertram which promotes white nationalist and Condit promotes anti-Semitic and anti- OFFICE SOUGHT anti-Semitic ideologies as well as gov- Zionist conspiracy theories. He believes Board of Education, ernment conspiracy theories. In a video, the Federal Reserve Bank is engineering Monongalia, W. Va. Bertram denounced “gay and lesbian a New World Order. He embraces the PARTY American Third studies” as “liberal nonsense.” Bertram theories of the late Father Denis Fahey, Position (A3P) received the enthusiastic endorsement an Irish Catholic priest who stridently RESULTS General election: of Jamie Kelso, a long-time associate of opposed institutions he felt conflicted Finished last among three top Klansmen and now operator of the with Catholic order, including commu- candidates, receiving 14.1% (2,582 votes) of White News Now website. nism, freemasonry and Judaism, all of the 18,256 votes cast. which he believed were intertwined. EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY White nationalism Condit in 2007 said he believed that Bertram ran openly as an A3P candi- Jim Condit Jr. “Zionists” had successfully infiltrated date. A3P’s founder, William Daniel OFFICE SOUGHT the Vatican II Catholic reform confer-

Johnson, supports the deportation of all U.S. House of Representatives, Ohio District 8 ences in the 1960s intent on “bending FROM BERTRAM2010.COM ( non-white immigrants and U.S. citizens, PARTY Constitution the doctrines of the Catholic Church including anyone with any “ascertain- RESULTS General election: Finished last to accord with the demands of the able trace of Negro blood.” Bertram for among four candidates, receiving 1.7% Zionist interests.” Condit once stated years personally distributed to white (3,701 votes) of the 217,436 votes cast. that a “Phase II” of the Sept. 11 attacks, B people in Ohio and West Virginia cop- EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Anti-Semitic, intended to benefit the Israeli govern- ERTRAM) ies of Don Wassall’s Nationalist Times, conspiracy-mongering ment, was imminent.

24 splc intelligence report Tim Donnelly ELECTED Je! Hall claims status as a sovereign entity not OFFICE SOUGHT OFFICE SOUGHT Western subject to U.S. or state laws, and says California State Assembly, Municipal Water District the 828,000-square-mile territory of District 59 Board of Directors, the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 was PARTY Republican Division 2, Riverside, Calif. land stolen from the Washitaw, a pre- RESULTS Primary: Finished PARTY National Socialist dominantly black group, by the United first among six candi- Movement States. The group’s leader once filed an dates, receiving 30.3% RESULTS General election: $80 quadrillion claim against the United (12,449 votes) of the 41,112 votes cast. Received 27.8% (8,139 votes) of the 29,243 States. State authorities have investi- General election: Won with 57.3% (82,475 votes cast. gated allegations the group has engaged votes) of the 144,007 votes cast. EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Neo-Nazi in money laundering, offshore banking EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Anti-immigration, anti- Hall is California director and south- fraud and other practices derived from government “Patriot” west regional leader of the National its antigovernment “common law,” or Donnelly in 2005 founded what became Socialist Movement (NSM) — currently “sovereign citizen,” ideology. Though the largest anti-immigrant Minuteman the nation’s largest neo-Nazi group. The Hemingway-El invokes sovereign citizen chapter in California. He advocates a NSM is known for its swastika-waving, ideas, he told an interviewer he does not California version of Arizona’s S.B. 1070, sieg-heiling rallies, many of them held in advocate defying the law. He complied which makes it a state crime to be in this minority neighborhoods, and its Hitler with a state law requiring candidates country illegally. Donnelly is prone to worship. Hall affirmed in a Los Angeles for public office to swear they are U.S. exaggeration. In interviews, he claimed to Times interview his belief that all non- citizens. have heard the screams of women being whites should be deported. “I want a raped in the Mexican desert near the bor- white nation,” he said. “I don’t hide what der. According to LA Weekly, Donnelly I am, and I don’t water that down.” After Dan Maes once wrote that Muslim extremists were the election, Hall wrote, “It is a great vic- OFFICE SOUGHT proselytizing to “so-called ‘innocent’ ille- tory when a National Socialist candidate Governor, Colorado gal aliens” with the aim of destroying the receives over a quarter of the votes for an PARTY Tea Party-backed American Southwest. “It is not a stretch,” elected position in his district.” Republican he wrote, “to picture a revolt in Los RESULTS Primary: Won Angeles, whose population is comprised with 50.7% (197,629 of [sic] over 50 percent illegal aliens. At Dwayne Hemingway-El votes) of the 390,108 the [current] rate of influx and births, it OFFICE SOUGHT Mayor, High Point, N.C. votes cast. General election: Finished third will be 80 percent illegal alien within a PARTY Unspecified with 11.1% (199,034 votes) of the 1,787,730 decade.” A more reliable estimate places RESULTS General election: Received 7.9% votes cast. (See also Tom Tancredo, below.) the number of undocumented immigrants (1,718 votes) of the 21,503 votes cast. EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY World-government in Los Angeles County at about 7.3% of EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Antigovernment “sov- conspiracy theorist its population of 10.4 million. Donnelly ereign citizen” Maes interpreted a United Nations- claimed undocumented immigrants Hemingway-El describes himself as sponsored program encouraging cities accounted for “nearly one-third of our a member of the Louisiana-based to promote bicycle riding as being part prison space” — a demonizing assertion, Washitaw De Dugdamoundwah, also of a plot to undermine American sover- RIESKI/AP IMAGES (MAES) IMAGES RIESKI/AP

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spring 2011 25 Loy Mauch ELECTED [T]he South is the only part of America that supreme masters of manipulation and OFFICE SOUGHT is still American to any degree,” McBerry deceit,” according to Metzger’s website. Arkansas House of states in a video. He refuses to salute the “They run and distort our foreign policy Representatives, American flag. The League of the South’s because lazy and corrupt non-Jew lead- District 26 founder routinely attacks egalitarianism ers had previously found them valuable PARTY Republican as a radical-left “Jacobin” doctrine and as grifters.” Metzger’s 2010 race was a RESULTS Primary: opposes interracial marriage; its essayists far cry from his earlier, more successful Unopposed. General elec- have defended legal segregation as a doc- runs for public office. In 1980, he won tion: Won with 53.4% (4,041 votes) of the trine meant to ensure the racial integrity of the three-way Democratic primary for 7,561 votes cast. both white and black Americans. California’s 43rd Congressional District EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Neo-Confederate, with 37.1% (33,071 votes) of the votes cast white nationalist before going on to lose the general elec- Mauch is a member of the League of the Tom Metzger tion with 13.4% (46,361 votes). In 1982, South (LOS), a neo-Confederate organi- OFFICE SOUGHT U.S. House Metzger ran in an 11-way Democratic zation formed in 1994 that advocates a of Representatives, primary for Senate in California, com- second Southern secession and espouses Indiana District 3 ing in sixth with 2.8% (76,502 votes) of bitter hostility toward the United States PARTY Unspecified the votes cast. – an “alien occupier.” The LOS envisions RESULTS Received 0.005% a Christian theocratic state run by an (10 votes) of the 185,049 “Anglo-Celtic” – that is, white – elite that votes cast. Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. would legally dominate both racial and EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Neo-Nazi, Ku Klux Klan, OFFICE SOUGHT U.S. Senate, Missouri religious minorities. In a 2008 interview, Christian Identity PARTY Unspecified Mauch referred to the Confederate bat- A guttural racist, Metzger is a former RESULTS General election: Received tle flag as “a symbol of Jesus Christ above California grand dragon of the Knights 0.0004% (7 votes) of the 1,943,899 all else. It’s a symbol of Biblical govern- of the Ku Klux Klan. In the mid-1980s, votes cast. ment.” (The LOS also describes the battle he founded White Aryan Resistance EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY White supremacist, flag as the “antithesis” of the Stars and (WAR), one of the leading neo-Nazi anti-Semitic

Stripes.) For seven years, Mauch also was groups of the period. In a 2002 interview, Miller promised that if elected, he would DANNY

a local unit “commander” with the Sons Metzger said, “My total concern is with “work … to expose the jewish [sic] dom- J OHNSTON/AP IMAGES (MA of Confederate Veterans (SCV), step- the survival of the white European peo- ination of the US government, the mass ping down in 2009. Over the last decade, ple in North America.” He is an ordained media, the federal reserve bank [sic], and the Southern heritage group has been minister of Christian Identity theol- the decadent American culture.” He has wracked by a kind of internal civil war ogy, whose adherents typically believe advocated incentive payments to white U between moderates and racial extremists. that Jews are the literal “seed of Satan,” Americans to produce white children. CH); S people of color are soulless “mud peo- Miller formerly headed the Carolina TEPHEN

ple,” and the Bible is the history of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which later M ORTON/AP IMAGES (MCBERRY); Ray McBerry Jr. white race. He promotes a particularly morphed into the White Patriot Party. OFFICE SOUGHT nasty version of anti-Semitism. “Jews are Miller went on the lam in 1986 after Governor, Georgia PARTY Republican RESULTS Primary: Finished “Every non-White on the planet has to B sixth in a field of seven, ARBARA

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26 splc intelligence report mailing a letter to 5,000 people calling Chelene Nightingale he soon formed the Alaska Citizens Militia for “total war” against the feds, blacks OFFICE SOUGHT (ACM). The ACM lists 17 “acts of war” on and Jews. Authorities finally tear-gassed Governor, California its website, including “Mandatory medical him out of a mobile home in Ozark, Mo. PARTY Constitution anything” and “Involuntary involvement Miller testified against 14 leading white RESULTS General election: in anything.” supremacists in a 1988 Arkansas sedition Finished third, receiving trial and is still viewed as a “white race 1.7% (166,308 votes) of traitor” by many former allies, although the 10,095,185 votes cast. Rand Paul ELECTED he remains an active white supremacist. EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Patriot, anti-immigra- OFFICE SOUGHT Miller had run in three earlier electoral tion, “birther,” conspiracy theorist U.S. Senate, Kentucky campaigns. In 1984, he came in eighth Nightingale was director of Save Our PARTY Tea Party-backed in a 10-way Democratic primary race State, an anti-illegal immigration group Republican for North Carolina governor, receiving in California, when she joined the RESULTS Primary: Won 0.61% (5,790 votes) of the votes cast. In Constitution Party in 2009. She espouses with 58.8% (206,986 1986, he received 3.17% (6,662 votes) of numerous right-wing conspiracy theo- votes) of the 352,275 the votes cast in the Republican primary ries, including “chemtrails” and the claim votes cast. General election Won with for U.S. Senate, coming in last in a field that 9/11 was an “inside job.” In May, 55.7% (755,411 votes) of the 1,356,468 of three. And in 2006, Miller received Nightingale conjured up several famil- votes cast. 0.01% (23 votes) of the votes cast in his iar demons of the radical right, saying, EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Right-wing libertarian bid as an independent for Missouri’s 7th “[T]he Bilderbergs, George Soros, the car- Paul rode Tea Party support to upset the Congressional District, coming in last in a tels – they’re all working on the destruction Kentucky GOP’s preferred candidate. three-way race. of America with their open borders.” After During the campaign, many of Paul’s the election, Nightingale became spokes- unorthodox political beliefs came to light, woman for the SoCal Patriot Coalition, including his assertion that private busi- Ryan Joseph Murdough whose founder is Jeff Schwilk, for- nesses shouldn’t have been compelled to OFFICE SOUGHT New Hampshire House of mer leader of the San Diego Minutemen comply with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Representatives, District 8 (SDMM). The SDMM was a border-patrol that barred discrimination. In a 2002 letter PARTY Republican and American Third group so extreme that even the groups from to the Bowling Green Daily News, Paul also Position (A3P) which it cribbed its name – the Minuteman criticized the Fair Housing Act, explaining RESULTS Primary: Finished last among five Project and the Minuteman Civil Defense that “a free society will abide unofficial, pri- candidates for three seats, securing 11.3% Corps – wanted nothing to do with it. vate discrimination, even when that means (296 votes) of the 2,623 votes cast. Schwilk’s SDMM members accosted allowing hate-filled groups to exclude peo- EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY White supremacist and physically intimidated migrants and ple based on skin color.” After winning the Murdough is the New Hampshire would-be day-labor employers. Republican primary and being subjected state chairman of A3P (see also Harry to national criticism, Paul issued a press Bertram, above), a white supremacist release declaring “unequivocally” that political party whose leader, William Norm Olson he would not support any effort to repeal Daniel Johnson, advocates the deporta- OFFICE SOUGHT Lieutenant governor, Alaska the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that he had tion of all non-whites, even U.S. citizens, PARTY Alaskan Independence criticized just days earlier. This January, including anyone with any “ascertain- RESULTS Withdrew before election. Paul sent out a fundraising letter declar- able trace of Negro blood.” Another A3P EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Antigovernment ing that Hillary Clinton and the “global ) UL leader, Kevin B. MacDonald, has claimed “Patriot” militia, conspiracy theorist gun-grabbers” at the United Nations are that Jews are genetically programmed to Olson in the early 1990s founded the trying “finally strip you and me of ALL undermine Gentile societies. Murdough Michigan Militia, which was thrust into the our freedoms” by signing a treaty that

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ED hate people of other races. “I just don’t City bombing. Olson told reporters then to “CONFISCATE and DESTROY” all E); L want to live around areas that are heavily, that conspirators Terry Nichols and “unauthorized” civilian firearms. (In fact, predominantly non-white,” he told the Timothy McVeigh had attended a meet- the treaty being discussed has nothing to Concord Monitor. However, according ing but were not encouraged to return. do with regulating guns in the U.S., some- to writer Mark Berman on the Opposing Olson was booted out of the Michigan thing that would be impossible in any event Views website, Murdough once tweeted, Militia after offering the bizarre theory that under the Constitution.) Paul added that EFORGOVERNOR.COM (NIGHTENGA EFORGOVERNOR.COM

L “In celebration of Black History month, I the Japanese government was behind the “the United Nations has been hell-bent am going to recognize what they do best, McVeigh bombing — a statement he later on bringing the United States to its knees” commit crime, get AIDS/STD’s, blame said he should have “fully corroborated.” since its founding in 1945. Last fall, he said

FROM NIGHTINGA FROM whitey, cry racism.” By 2005, Olson had moved to Alaska, where he wanted to abolish the U.S. Department

spring 2011 27 of Education so it couldn’t, for instance, secure the existence of our people and whom to mate with.” Russell quoted T.S. mandate teaching kindergartners “that a future for our children by creating the Eliot’s formula for the ideal society: “The Susie has two mommies,” a reference opportunity for the establishment of a population should be homogeneous. to same-sex couples with children. On government which has only the interests What is still more important is unity of immigration, Paul wants to erect a phys- of our group [white people] in mind.” In religious background, and reasons of race ical or electronic fence along all U.S. land an E-mail to members of the neo-Nazi and culture combine to make any large borders, complete with “satellite sur- National Alliance (of which he was then number of free-thinking Jews undesir- veillance” and “helicopter stations,” and deputy membership coordinator) imme- able.” The New York Republican Party deploy “any unnecessary foreign units” diately after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist withdrew its support of Russell after of the American military to the border. attacks, Roper said, “The enemy of our news organizations wrote about the arti- enemy is, for now at least, our friends. cle during his campaign. …[A]nyone who is willing to drive a Jim Rizoli plane into a building to kill jews [sic] is OFFICE SOUGHT alright [sic] by me. I wish our members Daniel B. Schruender Massachusetts House of had half as much testicular fortitude.” In OFFICE SOUGHT Representatives, 6th a 2005 interview, Roper added: “Every Unified School District board, Rialto, Calif. Middlesex District non-White on the planet has to become PARTY Unspecified PARTY Unspecified extinct. We need to remove these minor- RESULTS General election: Finished last RESULTS General election: league amateur races out of the game, among six candidates for two open seats, Finished last of three can- and refine the playoff brackets a bit, if receiving 9.6% (2,290 votes) of the 23,756 didates, receiving 8.8% (1,226 votes) of the you get my meaning. The whole world is votes cast. 14,009 votes cast. ours, and the only part of the earth that EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Neo-Nazi EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Anti-immigrant, non-Whites should inherit is however Schruender formerly headed the Holocaust denier much it requires to cover them.” California chapter of the neo-Nazi Rizoli, along with his twin brother Joe, Aryan Nations, which broke up into has used his public-access cable television weak and small factions around the show — “Illegal Immigration Chat” — to James C. “Jim” Russell country after being financially crip- spout relentless and vicious attacks on the OFFICE SOUGHT U.S. House of pled by a Southern Poverty Law Center “criminaliens” who make up the Brazilian Representatives, New York District 18 lawsuit in 2000 and the 2004 death of community of Framingham, Mass., which PARTY Republican founder Richard Butler. Schruender’s comprises about 20% of the town’s popu- RESULTS Primary: Unopposed. General elec- personal blog, “Sense and Sensibility” lation. “Framingham has been turned into tion: Received 37.6% (70,413 votes) of the carries a sub-headline describing the a Brazilian slave camp,” Jim Rizoli told 187,364 votes cast. site as “now affiliated with the American reporters in 2006. Rizoli, who run a nativ- EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY White supremacist, Nazi Party,” and Schruender describes ist extremist group with his brother called anti-Semitic himself there as an “official supporter” Concerned Citizens and Friends of Illegal Russell is on the editorial advisory board of the group. The blog is replete with Immigration Law Enforcement, has also of The Occidental Quarterly, a white swastikas, attacks on Jews, a reference repeatedly suggested that the Holocaust did nationalist publication. He denounces to President Obama as “King Kongo not occur or has been greatly exaggerated. interracial marriage and has written Obongo,” and a photograph of Adolf favorably of eugenics, the long-discred- Hitler — “our REAL commander,” as ited pseudo-science of race breeding. In the shot is captioned. As media scru- EL

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of the 781,381 votes cast. liberals and universalists constantly yam- S Je!rey Stankiewicz . H O EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY White supremacist, mer about ‘bringing us all together,’ and OFFICE SOUGHT Tax assessor, Boundary LL OWAY/ neo-Nazi how ‘diversity is our strength,’ it may be County, Idaho G After a long career with other neo-Nazi suggested that … culture in human soci- PARTY Constitution ETTY I MAGES (ROPER) (ROPER) MAGES groups, Roper founded his own white eties … must establish a sense of group RESULTS General election: Received 19.6% supremacist White Revolution (WR) in identity so that the individual knows (654 votes) of the 3,330 votes cast. 2002. Its mission statement: “We seek to whom to act altruistically toward and EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Antigovernment militia

28 splc intelligence report Stankiewicz serves as major of the 21st National Council of La Raza, the nation’s published the grossly exaggerated claim Battalion of the North Idaho Light Foot largest Hispanic civil rights organiza- that undocumented immigrants killed Militia. “We have our enemies,” he tion, a “Latino KKK without the hoods an average of 25 Americans per day – told the Bonners Ferry Herald in 2009. or the noose.” either by murder or by illegal activities “China and Russia are both building up such as driving drunk. If true, that would military and flexing their muscles.” His be the equivalent of more than half of battalion, he said, is preparing for an James A. Traficant Jr. all homicides nationwide in most years. economic collapse. “We don’t want this OFFICE SOUGHT King has also warned that if marriage to happen, we hope it doesn’t happen, U.S. House of is not restricted to one man and one but we want to be prepared for it if it Representatives, Ohio woman, children could be taken away does,” he said, sounding themes familiar District 17. and raised collectively in “warehouses.” in the antigovernment “Patriot” move- PARTY Independent King extolled Sen. Joseph McCarthy ment. “When the truck stops delivering RESULTS General election: of 1950s communist-hunting infamy as food and people’s federal checks stop Received 16% (30,556 a “hero for America.” For a time, King coming there could be rioting in cit- votes) of the 190,666 votes cast. publicly questioned details of President ies.” The militia’s “standards” include EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Anti-Semitic, conspir- Obama’s birth certificate, although not only repelling foreign aggression acy theorist he later backed away from extreme and invasions but also “encouraging Traficant served nine years in Congress “birther” rhetoric. and showing reason why all citizens before being convicted of bribery, rack- should stand stoutly against socialism, eteering and other charges and serving fascism, communism, humanism and seven years in prison. He told Fox News: Russell Pearce REELECTED all forms of tyranny.” Stankiewicz has “I believe that Israel has a powerful OFFICE SOUGHT called President Obama a socialist. stranglehold on the American govern- Arizona Senate, District 18 ment. … They control both members of PARTY Republican the House and the Senate. They have us RESULTS Primary: Tom Tancredo involved in wars in which we have lit- Unopposed. General elec- OFFICE SOUGHT tle or no interest. … They [Jews] control tion: Won with 56.6% Governor, Colorado. much of the media, they control much (17,552 votes) of the PARTY American of the commerce of the country, and … 31,023 votes cast. Constitution they own the Congress.” Traficant gave a EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Anti-immigrant RESULTS General elec- lengthy interview to American Free Press, Pearce gained national prominence MAGES (PEARCE) MAGES I tion: Finished second in a newspaper founded and run by long- as the principal sponsor and nom- ETTY G a three-way race with time racist, anti-Semite and Christian inal author of Arizona’s S.B. 1070,

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J votes cast. (See Dan Maes, above.) in this country as an undocumented EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Anti-immigration, con- immigrant. A federal judge enjoined spiracy theorist parts of that bill, and the Obama MAGES (KING); MAGES I Tancredo promotes a hard-line “deport — INCUMBENTS— administration has challenged its ETTY G ’em all” stance on immigration. As a constitutionality. But numerous ONG/

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AL virtually choke off all immigration. In anti-immigrant fever, have vowed to 2005, he declared – inaccurately – that U.S. Rep. Steve King REELECTED pursue similar laws. Pearce’s profile is federal prisons were overflowing with OFFICE SOUGHT spangled with associations with right- undocumented immigrants. “They’re U.S. House of wing extremists, including neo-Nazi MAGES (TRAFICANT); (TRAFICANT); MAGES I coming here to kill you, and you, and Representatives, Iowa J.T. Ready, a former member of the ETTY G me, and my grandchildren,” he said. District 5 National Socialist Movement. Pearce IAMS/ LL I In 2006, Tancredo addressed a crowd PARTY Republican once endorsed Ready (and described W OM

T that included many members of the RESULTS Primary: him as “a true patriot”) when Ready O); D neo-Confederate League of the South Unopposed. General elec- ran for the Mesa City Council in 2006. (see Loy Mauch, above) from a podium tion: Won with 63.9% (128,363 votes) of A former deputy sheriff, Pearce also draped in a Confederate battle flag and the 200,812 votes cast. forwarded an anti-Semitic article from MAGES (TANCRE MAGES I joined in the singing of “Dixie,” a favorite EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Anti-immigrant, anti-gay the neo-Nazi National Alliance to sup- ETTY G anthem of white supremacists. Tancredo King has a long record of inflammatory porters in October 2005. When the SON/

OL in 2006 referred to Miami as a “Third and inaccurate statements about undoc- matter became public, Pearce claimed COTT S World country.” In 2009, he called the umented immigrants. In May 2006, he he hadn’t fully read it. L

spring 2011 29 Tainted Thule How would you describe the makeup and identity of the White Order of A leading member of a now-defunct ‘esoteric’ Thule? neo-Nazi group describes its unusual beliefs They were a very motley crew of eccen- tric people that weren’t satisfied or and how he came to reject them didn’t fit in with [more traditional neo- Nazi groups like] the Hammerskins Espousing highbrow “Aryan” ideas, the White Order of Thule or the American Front or the National Alliance. It was this pseudo-intellec- (WOT) was a neo-Nazi spiritualist group in the closing years of tual group, guys who were smarter than the 1990s (the name Thule refers to the northernmost habitable some of the knucklehead skinheads I knew. The group catered to people who regions known to ancient Greek geographers). Founded by impris- felt that they wanted something a lit- oned cocaine dealer Peter Georgacarakos, art student Michael tle smarter, more professional, and a little bit more elitist. But it was really Lujan and new age occultist Joseph Kerrick — eccentrics who a prison-run fascist book club, more considered themselves the intellectual vanguard of the white or less. I say that because most of the supremacy movement — WOT required inductees to advance members hadn’t met each other. through “degrees of membership,” studying German philosopher What were the group’s core beliefs? The more intellectual people would deny Friedrich Nietzsche, Adolf Hitler and others. The group’s belief it, but it’s all the same crap [as in less system promoted “Nietzschean notions of the Superman against pretentious parts of the white suprema- cist movement] in hindsight for me. Judeo-Christian religion,” as well as the darker sides of pagan- They would combine theosophy [a ism, scholar Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke wrote in Black Sun: Aryan mystical religious philosophy founded in the 19th century that also influ- Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity, a semi- enced some German Nazis] with nal 2003 work on what’s often called “esoteric Nazism.” Among pagan beliefs, primarily more Greco-Roman, which is differ- the White Order’s core beliefs was the idea of Aryan superior- ent than most of the other ity as supposedly embodied in Greco-Roman culture. While WOT racist groups obsessed with the Nordic thing. avoided overt acts of violence in promoting an all-white nation in They rejected that in North America, one of its more prominent members, Leo Felton, favor of this more Mediterranean, right- went to prison for plotting to bomb Jewish and black landmarks wing, pagan mindset. and incite a race war. (After his arrest, to the shock of his com- And as you got more into what rades and his skinhead girlfriend, it emerged that Felton’s father they called study, was black.) Nathan Pett, also known as Nate Zorn, was a member you started to find they also dab- of the group and worked on both of its publications — Crossing bled in things like the Abyss, a newsletter that claimed to shed “light on the murky Christian mysticism, but rejected main- area between cutting-edge Aryan pagan spirituality and revo- stream Christianity lutionary realpolitik,” and another called Fenris Wolf. Today an and Christian Identity [a racist variant of avowed critic of the white supremacy movement, Pett spoke with Christianity that says Jews the Southern Poverty Law Center about the White Order and his are biologically descended from Satan and people of own eventual dismissal of racist ideas. color do not have souls] as unsound. Now you might ask,

30 splc intelligence report Interview conducted by Laurie Wood and Ryan Lenz why? They’re all racist and they’re all Of course, I always felt bringing left- what you call a joiner and followed the same. But they don’t look at it that ist philosophy into this was just a front. Charles Manson for years. way. It was an alternative to the other I don’t really think you can be a neo- white separatist, white nationalist, Nazi and truly be a leftist thinker or a Was the group sizeable enough to be white supremacist groups. progressive or a liberal. Instead, it was divided into chapters? catering to people that were looking for The chapter thing is funny. Let’s face it Did that thinking draw a large base of fol- an alternative religion, people who felt — the White Order of Thule had such lowers when the group was most active? they wanted something supposedly a a small amount of people. The chap- We had a hard time getting a lot of little smarter. You’re dealing with a con ter in Virginia was just Michael Lujan followers because, as you know, the artist, after all. Peter Georgacarakos was and a P.O. box. The same with me in white power movement is very right the number one con artist you will ever Washington state. I was the only guy wing. That goes back to the John Birch deal with. I mean, let’s face it: the group there. I had one or two people I knew Society [that was founded in 1958], very is a cult. It was about getting people to who I tried to get interested, but it was anti-communist. But the White Order join and follow the leader, very similar so bizarre to most white supremacists would promote things like Stalin as a to Jim Jones’ People’s Temple. to do the weird mix of philosophy. Most good leader, and so forth. And that’s people just didn’t want to get into it, why the group never caught on — the A cult? What can you say about that? you know? It was so esoteric. People white supremacist movement will It was very much a cult of personality couldn’t understand what the hell it always be right wing. It will always be surrounding one man, Georgacarakos. meant, including me. anti-communist and xenophobic. He wanted to be the godhead of this group. It’s kind of why Lujan got tired So did you feel conned when you left of it, and why I got tired of it. Overall, the group? he’s a good example of why when you Something happened when I worked talk about any type of discrimination, at a fish market in Baton Rouge, near whether its discrimination against peo- the Louisiana State University cam- ple because of sexual orientation, pus. Louisiana is a strange place for a or their economic background, white supremacist [because of its mul- or their nationality, or ticultural population]. I still don’t their religion, or race, understand how David Duke can have there’s always a Hitler so much support. type that wants But this was a big market of about to be a figure- 50 to 100 employees. Everyone was head. And that’s Caucasian, except for a Hispanic Georgacarakos. woman and a black guy. And here is the The others ironic thing about that — the guy that wanted to fol- I identified with more than anybody low the leader else was the black guy. We had a simi- — Joseph lar sense of humor and we really hit it Kerrick was off, because we were basically forced to more or less have to work together. He was such a a former hip- good guy that it started to really make pie, new me doubt my own beliefs. I actually age kind of thought, “If I wasn’t a damn skinhead, cult person. this guy would have been a great friend.” He has been So it’s like living a double life, and in every new I started to get wise to the fact I was age cult that being lied to. And that puts a lot of you can think doubt in your mind. L of. Mike Lujan is another guy. He’s

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.

spring 2011 31 Shariah “understand that this is a war for the sur- vival 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 Shock Awad, a lawyer and executive director Oklahoma has forbidden Islamic religious of Oklahoma’s chapter of the Council code. But its new law is nothing more than on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), filed a lawsuit alleging that the amend- political posturing and Muslim-bashing ment violated his and other Muslims’ Legal experts say banning Shariah constitutional rights. U.S. District Judge BY LEAH NELSON law is superfluous; there is no mecha- Vicki Miles-LaGrange issued a prelimi- klahoma State Rep. Cory nism by which any foreign criminal or nary injunction on Nov. 29 to prevent the Williams is exasperated. He civil code can trump U.S. laws. Business vote from being certified. C was one of only 12 state leg- experts add that such a ban could hurt ORBIS/ R

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stampede to put before voters a refer- business overseas. Yet when Oklahoma Shariah law is derived from the Koran D

O CU endum to prohibit state judges from voters got the chance to vote on State and the teachings of Mohammed. Like MMINS (CAPITO considering Islamic Shariah or interna- Question 755, the so-called “Save Our other systems of religious law – Jewish tional law in their rulings. State Amendment,” 70% approved it. Halachic law, for instance – it estab- L ); S He derided his colleagues’ fervor as Rep. Rex Duncan, who authored and lishes guidelines for major life events like TEVE G

“irresponsible” and “pandering.” Voters, co-sponsored the House joint resolution marriage, birth and death, and outlines OOCH/AP IMAGES (AWA Williams said, “think that their legisla- that later was presented to voters as S.Q. conduct that is forbidden and required. tors are not screwing around and putting 755, said it was a “pre-emptive strike” that Interpretations of what the rules are and things on the ballot [just] to get a certain would stop “activist judges” from impos- precisely how they are to be followed D

electorate out there. They think that if ing the type of repressive justice found in vary among different branches of Islam ); AP IMAGES ( the legislators put it there, then there’s an the most oppressive Islamic regimes. and among Muslims as individuals. It also issue” that must be addressed, he told the Duncan made national news with varies among Muslim-majority countries, DU

Intelligence Report. “What they don’t pay his proposal. In June, he told MSNBC’s whose implementation of Shariah law NCAN) us to do is be political assholes.” Contessa Brewer that Oklahoma voters ranges from nominal to strict. In coun-

32 splc intelligence report very serious criminal law and they would for an injunction, his will could not be go to jail,” said Paul Finkelman, President carried out, violating his constitutional William McKinley Distinguished Professor right to freely exercise his religion. of Law and Public Policy at Albany (N.Y.) Awad has been outspoken in denounc- Law School and Editor-in-Chief of Religion ing the law as unconstitutional, bigoted, and American Law: An Encyclopedia. and prejudicial to Muslims. In return for his Joseph Thai, a professor of constitu- trouble, he’s received an avalanche of hate tional law at the University of Oklahoma, mail — some of it from beyond Oklahoma. agreed. “The reason that won’t happen is “The Muslims are so fucking stupid the same reason it has never happened. that they don’t realize southern people We have never had anyone’s hand cut off have our own brand of justice,” wrote a in Oklahoma because we have this back- man from Texas, who may or may not ground principle that states will not have realized the irony of his remark. enforce foreign laws that are contrary to “Again, muslim asshead(s), you are not the law of the states. … It is not just stuff welcome in The United States. Go fuck At loggerheads: State Rep. Rex Duncan (left) like cutting off hands and genital muti- camels and whatever else you do like says he pushed a legally meaningless ban on lation; Oklahoma will not enforce Texas worshipping devils in some other coun- using Shariah law in Oklahoma because “it’s a law if it’s contrary to Oklahoma law,” he try that will have you. Get out of America. war for survival of our country.” but for Muslim Muneer Awad, who wants to be buried accord- said. “We do not enforce foreign law that You are not welcome here!!!” ing to his religion’s custom, the ban feels more is contrary to state policy. We never have Wrote another: “[W]e will work like a war on him and other Muslims. and we never will.” together in this country Jews and That doesn’t mean certain Shariah Gentiles to destroy those mosques built tries like Saudi Arabia, where there is principles would never find application here, and cover them with the blood of little or no separation of secular and reli- in Oklahoma, which is home to an esti- swine, because you’re [sic] religion is gious authority, courts of law may mete mated 20,000-30,000 Muslims. Awad, nothing more than a superstition.” out punishments according to Shariah for instance, specifies in his will that And a third: “Take your Islamic laws, law as interpreted by imams. his body be prepared in accord with shove them up your ass and go back to Awad’s challenge to the Save Our Islamic law as described in “Shahih where you came from. You lice infested State Amendment got little visible sup- Bukhari, Volume 2, Book 23, Number bastards are not welcome and that goes, port from his fellow Oklahomans. 345.” Although there is no contradic- [sic] for that Black Bastard that sits in the Islamophobes, however, had a field day. tion between this Islamic tradition and White House.” Reposting an article titled “Taliban chops Oklahoma state law, the execution of off man’s hand for theft,” JihadWatch. wills is subject to court oversight — and if Rex Duncan’s ‘Enemy’ org’s Robert Spencer asked, “Isn’t it great Oklahoma courts were forbidden to heed Duncan, the resolution’s enthusias- that Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange has Shariah law, Awad argued in his petition tic author, told the media that he was made Oklahoma safe for Sharia?” inspired by a 2010 case in New Jersey That the punishment in question was family court, where a judge denied a meted out in an illegal court controlled Muslim woman’s request for a restrain- by a banned branch of the Taliban oper- ing order against her husband, who was ating in lawless northwest Pakistan raping and beating her. clearly didn’t matter to Spencer, a long- The New Jersey judge did not deny time Muslim-basher who co-heads Stop the woman’s allegations of abuse, but Islamization of America with blogger he ruled that the husband’s responsi- Pamela Geller of AtlasShrugs.com, a bility for his behavior was mitigated leader in condemning an Islamic center because his understanding of Shariah planned for lower Manhattan last year. law informed him that he was entitled Unlike Spencer, legal scholars do dis- to have intercourse with his wife when- tinguish between “law” as defined by ever he desired. Under New Jersey law, rogue Taliban thugs and law as it is used nonconsensual sex is rape even between American courtrooms — and they say a married couple. comparisons like the one Spencer made A state appeals court pointedly over- are baloney. turned the decision, saying it clearly “Oklahoma law, like the law of every violated the legal principal that no for- Muslim-basher Robert Spencer, whose Jihad other state in the country, prohibits peo- eign law can supplant U.S. law. But Watch website is quick to accuse groups of

WATCH.ORG ple from chopping other peoples’ hands the mere fact that the clearly errone- D links to terrorism, suggested falsely that an off. An imam cannot chop a hand off. Oklahoma judge was making the state a haven ous lower court ruling could happen in

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spring 2011 33 Duncan that Oklahoma was in desper- its growth was encouraged by a recent ness community to join Awad in his suit, ate need of protection – even though no mushrooming of Islamophobia across Price said, “Individual businesses would problems regarding Shariah law had ever America. Impassioned and hate-filled tend not to pick fights on hypothetical been reported in Oklahoma. reactions to last spring’s announcement matters. … [A]nd [the amendment] is still Duncan did not reply to repeated that a 13-story Muslim community center a hypothetical for our concerns.” requests for interviews from the and mosque would be going up several Hypothetical or not, businesses did Intelligence Report. In the interview blocks from New York City’s Ground foresee the amendment could cause with MSNBC’s Brewer, however, he said: Zero shifted into violence within months. problems, and while they preferred not “Oklahomans recognize that America In May, a pipe bomb went off at a to “pick fights” themselves, they had lit- was founded on Judeo-Christian values, Florida mosque while 60 people were tle hesitation asking Awad and CAIR to and we’re unapologetically grateful that inside. In August, a knife-wielding pas- fight on their behalf. “We had people in God has blessed America and blessed senger attacked his Muslim cab driver the business community calling and ask- Oklahoma. And State Question 755, the in New York City, and an arsonist dam- ing us to bring up the international law Save Our State Amendment, is just a sim- aged equipment at the site of a planned aspect in press conferences,” Awad told ple effort to ensure that our courts are mosque in Murfreesboro, Tenn. In the Report. “I think they hoped someone not used to undermine those founding September, it took a phone call from else would stand up because they didn’t principles and turn Oklahoma into some- Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to per- want to get muddied.” thing that our founding fathers and our suade Florida pastor Terry Jones to call Voters in other states may soon great-grandparents wouldn’t recognize.” off plans to lead “International Burn a have to decide where they stand on “Frankly, it’s the face of the enemy. It’s Koran Day” on the anniversary of the ter- the question of forbidding their judges the face of the enemy, and we need to call rorist attack on the World Trade Center. to consider to Shariah law. Lawmakers it what it is,” he added. “Oklahomans are (Undaunted, Jones has now designated in at least six states – Arizona, Florida, going to do that, and they’re going show March 20 as “International Judge a Louisiana, South Carolina, Tennessee other states what it looks like to take a lead- Koran Day.” You can “burn it! Drown it! and Utah – made campaign promises to ership role in saving their own future and Shred it! Shoot it!” his church’s website introduce similar proposals. Legislators the sanctity of their state court system.” proclaimed.) in Wyoming and Texas have already Joseph Thai, the Oklahoma law pro- Anti-Muslim activists helped S.Q. introduced anti-Shariah resolutions, and fessor, could hardly disagree more 755’s sponsors spread their message of the conservative American Center for strongly. “The repudiation of the New intolerance and fear. Brigitte Gabriel’s Law and Justice (ACLJ) has pledged its Jersey case by the New Jersey court of ACT! For America spent $45,000 to pro- support to states that need help writing appeals demonstrates that our legal sys- mote the amendment, targeting voters and defending anti-Shariah laws. Jordan tem works, that we do not allow foreign with radio ads and robo-calls voiced by Sekulow, director of ACLJ international law,” he said. “Why in the absence of 755 former CIA Director James Woolsey. By operations (his father, Jay, is the group’s has this never happened? It’s because fall, ACT chapters had begun to spring chief counsel), is soliciting signatures for American courts will not enforce foreign up across Oklahoma. an online petition to ban Shariah law in laws that are contrary to public policy.” Williams said the effect of his vote U.S. courts. According to The Christian As it happens, at least one matter against putting the “Save Our State” Century, Sekulow is also “advising” involving Shariah law has been adju- amendment on the ballot was “painful” Oklahoma State Sen. Anthony Sykes, who dicated in Oklahoma state court. The during campaign season. His Republican co-authored and co-sponsored the reso- outcome aligned precisely with what challenger sent out postcards with pic- lution that became S.Q. 755. Finkelman and Thai predicted. tures of shadowy, burqua-clad figures, While the ACLJ pursues its multi- The judge, who requested anonymity to claiming that Williams wanted Shariah platform anti-Muslim agenda, Awad avoid any possible impact on Awad’s law- to be the law of the land. Williams beat also is fighting the battle on more than suit, told the Report what happened when him anyway, but only by a slim margin one front. In the court of law, he is on a married Muslim couple brought a dispute — 280 votes out of 9,500 cast. the offense. But in the court of public over a premarital dowry agreement to the Likely fearing a similar backlash, the opinion, he must strike a careful balance courtroom. Oklahoma law does not recog- Oklahoma business community was between making his case against the law nize dowry rights, so the judge ruled that silent — even though the amendment and being sensitive to the plight of his co- the agreement was not enforceable under could directly affect its interests. “It is a religionists across the state. state law. Neither party appealed. regular part of our transactional practice When Awad first came to Oklahoma, “I’m not going to enforce anything to deal with the laws of other nations,” he believed that drawing attention to that is contrary to Oklahoma law,” the said lawyer Louis Price of Oklahoma people spouting anti-Muslim vitriol judge explained. City’s McAfee & Taft. “When you’re deal- would shame them into silence. But just ing with a global economy, it’s hard to say a few months in the state have shattered Islamophobia on Steroids ‘Yeah, you can do business with us, but that illusion, he told the Intelligence S.Q. 755 did not materialize in a vac- only if you use our laws.’” Report. “Some people,” he said, “can’t uum. Like fungus in a damp climate, Asked if he expected anyone in busi- be shamed.” L

34 splc intelligence report 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

wo major trends were evi- work sites or when they cross the bor- Toil and Trouble dent last year in the hard-line der — is up slightly, rising to 319 last As neo-Nazis like one-time National anti-immigration movement. year from 309 groups in 2009. Still, it is Socialist Movement member J.T. Ready Most worryingly, a cadre noteworthy that the movement’s rate of became more prominent on the nativ- Tof racial extremists began patrolling growth slowed considerably, with the ist scene this past year, one of the major Arizona for undocumented border-cross- three largest groups — the Minuteman early nativist leaders exited the scene ers. Led by neo-Nazi J.T. Ready, they Civil Defense Corps, the Minuteman ignominiously. In June, allegations sur- scour the deserts while armed with semi- Project, and the Federal Immigration faced in court documents that Chris automatic rifles and clad in fatigues, Reform and Enforcement (FIRE) Simcox — arguably the highest profile military-style helmets and Kevlar vests. Coalition — staying about the same size individual in the movement, a man who Pictures of their exploits show terrified as last year. In fact, without the activism co-founded of the Minuteman Project in migrants forced to the ground by gun- surrounding S.B. 1070, the movement 2005 and, later, founded the Minuteman toting captors. might well have shrunk in 2010. Civil Defense Corps (MCDC) — had At the same time, many nativist activ- The slowed growth of the movement threatened to kill his wife and family in ists expanded their alliances with other is a big change. Between 2008 and 2009, a 2009 domestic dispute. It turned out far-right political movements, a trend the groups skyrocketed nearly 80%, ris- that a restraining order had been issued that first began to take shape in 2009. In ing to 309 from 173. A year earlier, the against Simcox in April, when his third the past year, major nativist leaders have number of groups went up 20%, from wife, Alena, filed for divorce. This was allied their organizations with antigovern- 144 to 173. This slower growth is partly not the first time that Simcox had been ment “Patriot” groups or fringe Tea Party attributable to leadership battles that accused of violent behavior by a spouse. factions. In some cases, they have created have drained the energy of some groups. His second wife told the Intelligence new far-right hybrid entities of their own. It also reflects the relocation of some Report in 2005 that she filed for full cus- Nativists received a burst of energy nativists into other sectors of the far right tody of their teenage son because she with the signing last April of Arizona’s that have concerns beyond immigration. feared Simcox had suffered a mental S.B. 1070, a harsh anti-immigration breakdown, was sometimes violent and ordinance that makes the failure of seemed dangerous. non-citizens to carry immigration doc- In early July, after a short period uments a crime and obligates police to when Simcox disappeared from pub- check immigration status when there is lic view (prompting one bounty hunter “reasonable suspicion” that someone is working for his wife to issue a “Wanted” undocumented. Anti-immigrant groups poster), he released an E-newsletter, were highly active in pushing for the “The Simcox Report,” that defended his law, which is currently held up in federal actions. In it, Simcox accused his wife court. Legislators in several states are set of having been involved in an adulter- to introduce copycats, which may further ous relationship with Stacy O’Connell, inflame anti-immigrant sentiment. Even a former member of MCDC with whom so, the movement is no longer growing at Simcox had feuded for years (O’Connell the rapid pace of prior years. and Alena Simcox denied the allega- According to the Southern Poverty tions). The soap opera intensified when Law Center’s (SPLC) latest count, the it emerged that O’Connell ran the bounty number of what the SPLC characterizes hunting service that put up the “Wanted” OGSPOT.COM L as “nativist extremist” groups — organi- poster for Simcox. zations that do not limit themselves to Meanwhile, MCDC’s leadership pushing for legislative change or more As hard-line nativism has gone mainstream, the spent 2010 in complete disarray. When border patrols, but rather target sus- growth of anti-immigrant groups patrolling the Simcox announced in April 2009 that he

FROM WHITEREFERENCE.B FROM pected undocumented immigrants at border for crossing migrants has slowed. would run for the Arizona Senate seat

spring 2011 35 held by John McCain, MCDC was left “states’ rights” than a complaint about in the hands of his long-time lieutenant, immigration. Carmen Mercer. Mercer shut the organi- FIRE National Director Jeff Lewis is zation down in March 2010, after being active in several antigovernment groups, accused by Arizona’s attorney general of three of which he heads. Billing himself

involvement in a property scam. 319 as “a direct descendant of the origi- In a March 22 E-mail to supporters nal American Revolutionaries,” Lewis announcing the shutdown, Mercer nev- is listed as a delegate on the website of ertheless encouraged former MCDC 309 We the People (WTP), a federal gov- members to continue their work inde- ernment-hating outfit led by prominent pendently. “I predict Americans, on their tax protester Bob Schulz; he also par- own, will lock, load and do what the feck- ticipated in WTP’s 2009 “Continental less cowards in Washington refuse to do Congress” and is listed as a leader in the 173 — and frankly I hope Americans do take North Carolina chapter. (The congress up arms to defend this great nation,” she issued documents warning that any 144 wrote in her “urgent alert.” infringement on the people’s liberty as This missive came after Mercer sent a laid out in the Constitution is “an act of hot-blooded E-mail out the week before WAR” that “the People and their Militias urging supporters to bring their long 2007 2008 2009 2010 have the Right and Duty to repel.”) arms to the border and to “forcefully Another example of a nativist- engage” the “criminals” who try to cross NATIVIST EXTREMIST GROUPS turned-patriot is Al Garza, who was vice without documentation. president of MCDC until he quit the Despite having claimed MCDC was group in August 2009. Garza went on to no more, Mercer within a few months is not entirely surprising. Both cotton to form The Patriots Coalition, not to be was again posting on MCDC’s website Revolutionary War rhetoric and imag- confused with FIRE’s Patriot Coalition, as though nothing had happened. ery, and the first major nativist extremist another group that merges the ideas of Long an Arizona entity, MCDC now group, the Minuteman Project, branded the nativist movement with those of lists Herndon, Va., as its headquarters itself intentionally with a name right out the Patriots. Its website is filled with address and sends those wishing to of the American Revolution. images of Revolutionary War troops and contact it by mail to the far-right advo- The Federal Immigration Reform and the Constitution and laments, “God and cacy group, Declaration Alliance, that Enforcement Coalition (FIRE), which is country are being taken away each day.” is headed by conservative activist Alan the largest nativist extremist group with Garza was helped in this effort by Joanne Keyes. The alliance had long helped raise 136 chapters in 35 states (up one chapter Daley, his local Tea Party coordinator, money for MCDC. But earlier this year, from 2009), took up the antigovernment according to The Nation. Daley, who led Mercer reported that MCDC was going flag in 2009 when it launched The Patriot protests against Obama’s health care plan broke after breaking off relations with Coalition. FIRE is best known for a web- in Arizona and ran a Cochise County the group. Apparently, they have now site that allows individuals to inform on chapter of Glenn Beck’s 9.12 Project, is mended their rift. employers of undocumented workers on the group’s board. The turmoil had little effect on the and for aggressive protests aimed at the Arguably the most obnoxious nativist size of the group, which had 77 chapters undocumented. extremist, Jeff Schwilk, became a full-time in 30 states in 2010. That’s up by two In August, the group went one step antigovernment activist in 2010. Schwilk, chapters from last year. further down the Patriot road, co- founder of the San Diego Minutemen, has sponsoring a national conference in subsumed his anti-immigrant activities Building Bridges Pennsylvania that brought together a into a larger cause and now concentrates Certain nativist extremists are gain- motley crew of far-right activists, con- more on his Southern California Patriot ing political muscle by building bridges spiracy-minded groups like the John Coalition, or SoCal Patriots. Instead of to other kinds of far-right groups, with Birch Society and an array of other oppo- harassing migrant camps and pro-immi- many nativists morphing into Tea Party nents of the Obama Administration. grant activists, Schwilk now focuses on activists or redefining themselves more Patriot hero Richard Mack, a former gun rights and antigovernment issues. broadly as opposed to the federal govern- Arizona sheriff who believes that county “Our fight is all political now,” Schwilk ment’s authority in general. sheriffs are the highest authority and can told The Nation in October. “Our fight is This trend began in 2009, when nativ- ignore demands from the federal gov- in our cities, county and state, and federal ist extremist groups first began to find ernment, spoke to the conference. The governments.” common cause with the antigovern- event’s core theme — “demand [states’] ment Patriot movement, which includes sovereignty from the tyranny of the Sipping With the Tea Parties militias and similar groups. That the Federal government”— sounded more The Tea Party movement, too, has two movements dovetail in many ways like a paean to the Confederacy and become home to many nativist extrem-

36 splc intelligence report ists. These groups saw their interests American Defense (MAD) group, was ALABAMA (6) Yuma first align during the healthcare debate, scheduled to go on trial in Arizona for Federal Immigration ARKANSAS (1) as medical coverage for undocumented the murder of a Latino man and his Reform and Enforce- Federal Immigration immigrants became a flashpoint issue. 9-year-old daughter. Forde’s case is a ment (FIRE) Coalition Reform and Enforce- The lines between the movements have reminder of how anti-immigrant fervor Southeast Alabama ment (FIRE) Coalition become increasingly blurred, with lead- can explode into extreme violence. Pima Statewide Northwest Arkansas ers making official appearances at each County authorities allege that Forde and Minuteman Civil CALIFORNIA (61) other’s events. two accomplices, one of whom had ties Defense Corps Antelope Valley S.B. 1070, the Arizona law that to the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations, invaded (MCDC) Minutemen requires police to ask for proof of legal their victims’ home in search of drugs Arab Antelope Valley residency from people they believe could and cash to fund MAD border activities. Blountsville Border Patrol Auxiliary be undocumented immigrants, helped to That tragic and horrifying incident River Region Minute- San Diego deepen this relationship. Tea Party activ- makes the appearance of neo-Nazi J.T. men (MCDC) California State Uni- ists gathered thousands of signatures in Ready and his immigrant-hunting pals Millbrook versity Minuteman favor of the law and the Tea Party Nation, all the more worrisome. Until recently Tennessee Valley Min- Project Club (MMP) one of several Tea Party factions, co- a member of the National Socialist utemen (MCDC) Long Beach sponsored a rally in support of the law Movement (NSM), Ready and his U.S. Rogersville Campo Minutemen in Phoenix on June 5. Border Rangers, an armed group largely ALASKA (1) Campo Jim Gilchrist, who co-founded the peopled by other NSM members, have Minuteman Civil Carlsbad Citizens Minuteman Project with Simcox in detained a number of migrants. Last July, Defense Corps of Brigade 2005 and now runs his own outfit of Ready called a press conference in Pinal Alaska Carlsbad the same name, glommed on to the County’s Vekol Valley, known as a drug Homer Castro Valley Tea Party movement in the last year. trafficking and illegal immigration route, ARIZONA (18) Minutemen In late November, Gilchrist attended a where he paraded his heavily armed American Freedom Castro Valley “Minuteman Tea Party” event in Texas group for the news cameras. “This is the Riders Central Coast that his website claims had more than Minuteman Project on steroids. We’ve Phoenix Minutemen 2,000 attendees. Gilchrist hasn’t been to got people with assault weapons. … We Arizona-Maricopa Salinas the border in quite some time, preferring will use lawful, deadly force when appro- Patriots 1st Division Crispus Attucks to work the right-wing circuit and post priate,” Ready told a TV reporter. MMP (MMP) Brigade anti-immigration material on his web- One NSM member and avid patroller, Maricopa Los Angeles site. Reaching out to the right has helped Harry Hughes, posted to the Web plenty Federal Immigration Desert Cities Minute- Gilchrist’s Minuteman Project (MMP). It of photos of the migrants the group said Reform and Enforce- men (MCDC) had 38 chapters in 2010, up from 35 the it stopped. Hughes really doesn’t like ment (FIRE) Coalition Palm Desert year before. Mexicans, citing approvingly on his Green Valley East Bay Minutemen MMP Executive Director Stephen blog an article that says: “Mexican ille- North Phoenix (MCDC) Eichler joined his colleague Gilchrist in gal aliens are revolting. And they know Phoenix Walnut Creek the Tea Party movement. Eichler is now it. It is their purpose to disrupt us, inter- Pinal County Escondido Minutemen listed as the executive director (and fere with us and give us diseases that we Tucson Brigade “general trouble maker”) on TeaParty. haven’t had in this country for 100 years.” Minuteman Civil Escondido org. That Tea Party faction is led by Dale Hughes’ anger, by his own account, some- Defense Corps Federal Immigration Robertson, who gained some notori- times spills over into action. In July 2007, (MCDC) Reform and Enforce- ety for displaying arguably racist signs Hughes posted on a racist forum that he Cochise County ment (FIRE) Coalition during protests of Obama’s health care had shot a Mexican family’s dog. Hughes Green Valley Antelope Valley proposals. The anti-immigrant influence said the charges were later dropped and Lake Havasu City Coachella Valley at TeaParty.org is clear. The site lists as “the Mexicans [sic] home mysteriously La Paz County East San Francisco Bay part of its “non-negotiable core beliefs” burned down.” The NSM border outings Phoenix El Cajon that “Illegal Aliens Are Here illegally.” are slated to continue. Prescott Lake Elsinore The group also has issued E-mail alerts What follows is a state-by-state Tucson Long Beach that blame an “illegal alien putsch” and tally of the 319 groups that the SPLC lists Mohave County Marina del Rey “invasion” for “the pestilence of National as nativist extremist groups. In the case Minutemen Menifee Valley Socialism” that it claims is on the rise in of the three major formations — the Mohave County Moreno Valley America. Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, the Patriots Coalition North Edwards and Minuteman Project and the Federation Huachuca City Boron At the Extremes Immigration Reform and Enforcement Riders Against Illegal Northern California This January, Shawna Forde, formerly of Coalition — acronyms have been Aliens Oceanside the Gilchrist’s Minuteman Project and added to help identify their affiliated Phoenix Redlands then the leader of her own Minuteman chapters. >> Yuma Patriots Riverside

spring 2011 37 San Diego Ventura Minutemen (MCDC) (MCDC) Reform and Enforce- San Gabriel Valley Sonoma County Min- Old Town Athens Southern Indiana ment (FIRE) Coalition San Juan Capistrano utemen (MCDC) Federal Immigration Atlanta IOWA (10) Northeast Louisiana Santa Cruz County Sonoma Reform and Enforce- Augusta Cherokee County Southeast Louisiana Silicon Valley Southern California ment (FIRE) Coalition Minuteman Project Minutemen (MCDC) MCDC of Louisiana Sonoma County Minuteman Project Central Florida (MMP) Cherokee (MCDCC) South Coastal Orange (MMP) Lady Lake Atlanta Des Moines Minute- Leesville County Southern California Lee and Collier Northwest Georgia men (MCDC) MAINE (1) Southeast Riverside Southern California County Minutemen (MCDC) Des Moines Minuteman Civil County Patriot Coalition Pinellas County Dalton Harrison County Min- Defense Corps South Lake Tahoe Southern California Sarasota Southwest Georgia utemen (MCDC) (MCDC) Statewide Southern Sierra Min- South Palm Beach Minutemen (MCDC) Logan Hanover Ventura County uteman Project County Albany Minuteman Civil MARYLAND (17) Vista Chapter (MMP) Treasure Coast HAWAII (2) Defense Corps Help Save Maryland West Sacramento Bodfish Floridians for Immi- Federal Immigration (MCDC) Anne Arundel County Friends of the Border Ventura County Min- gration Enforcement, Reform and Enforce- Council Bluffs Baltimore Patrol utemen (MMP) Inc. ment (FIRE) Coalition Denison Baltimore County Covina Thousand Oaks Palm Beach Waikiki Griswold Calvert County Golden Gate Vista Citizens Brigade Legal Immigrants Hawaii Minuteman Iowa City Caroline County Minutemen Vista of Miami-A Minute- Project (MMP) Shelby County Min- Carroll County San Francisco WE THE PEOPLE Cali- man Project Chapter Oahu utemen (MCDC) Charles County Kern County Minute- fornia’s Crusader (MMP) IDAHO (1) Shelby County Frederick County men (MMP) Victorville Miami Federal Immigration Taylor County Min- Harford County Bakersfield COLORADO (4) The MinuteMan@FSU Reform and Enforce- utemen (MCDC) Howard County Los Angeles Minute- Colorado Minuteman (MMP) ment (FIRE) Coalition Taylor County Montgomery County men (MCDC) Project (MMP) Tallahassee Statewide Woodbury County Prince George’s Los Angeles Statewide Minuteman Civil ILLINOIS (6) Minutemen (MCDC) County Minuteman Civil Minuteman Civil Defense Corps Chicago Minuteman Woodbury County Queen Anne’s County Defense Corps Defense Corps (MCDC) Project (MMP) KANSAS (6) Rockville (MCDC) (MCDC) Haines City Lindenhurst Burlington Minute- St. Mary’s County Boulevard Denver Miami Federal Immigration men (MCDC) Talbot County Minuteman Project Grand Valley Report Illegals Reform and Enforce- Burlington Old Line State (MMP) Minuteman Project Pompano Beach ment (FIRE) Coalition Federal Immigration Minutemen - A Min- Ontario Statewide Space Coast Minute- Chicago Reform and Enforce- uteman Project San Clemente CONNECTICUT (3) men (MCDC) Lake County ment (FIRE) Coalition Chapter (MMP) Mountain Minutemen Federal Immigration Melbourne Statewide Statewide Jefferson Jacumba Reform and Enforce- GEORGIA (15) Illinois Minutemen - Heart of America MASSACHUSETTS (4) No Invaders.Org ment (FIRE) Coalition Cherokee Minutemen A Minuteman Project Minutemen (MCDC) Federal Immigration Running Springs Danbury Canton Chapter (MMP) Kansas City Reform and Enforce- North Bay Minutemen Prospect The Dustin Inman Dix Minuteman Civil ment (FIRE) Coalition San Francisco United States Citizens Society Minutemen Midwest Defense Corps Lancaster Northern California for Immigration Law Marietta Harvard (MCDC) Metro West Minutemen (MCDC) Enforcement Federal Immigration INDIANA (7) Emporia North Shores Napa West Redding Reform and Enforce- Federal Immigration Topeka Southeast Operation Generation DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ment (FIRE) Coalition Reform and Enforce- Wichita Massachusetts (MMP) (1) Atlanta ment (FIRE) Coalition KENTUCKY (3) MICHIGAN (3) Costa Mesa Defend DC Central Savannah Elkhart County Federal Immigration Federal Immigration Sacramento Region Washington River Area Fort Wayne Reform and Enforce- Reform and Enforce- Minutemen (MCDC) FLORIDA (17) Cobb County Northern Indiana ment (FIRE) Coalition ment (FIRE) Coalition Sacramento Central Florida Min- Gwinnett County Southeast Indiana Meade County Jackson County San Diego Citizen’s utemen (MCDC) North Georgia Southern Indiana Richmond Mid Michigan Brigade Orlando Statewide Indiana Federation for Minuteman Civil Western Michigan San Diego Central Florida Patri- Middle Georgia Min- Immigration Reform Defense Corps MINNESOTA (5) San Diego Minutemen ots Minuteman utemen (MCDC) and Enforcement (MCDC) Federal Immigration San Diego Project (MMP) Macon Valparaiso Lexington Reform and Enforce- San Fernando Valley Central Florida Minuteman Civil Minuteman Civil LOUISIANA (3) ment (FIRE) Coalition Minutemen (MMP) Dixie County Defense Corps Defense Corps Federal Immigration Statewide

38 splc intelligence report Twin Cities Federal Immigration Minuteman Project MCDC of Oregon North Charleston Layton Minnesota Minute- Reform and Enforce- (MMP) (MCDC) Horry County Minute- Ogden man Project (MMP) ment (FIRE) Coalition New York Salem men (MCDC) Southern Utah Statewide Las Vegas NORTH CAROLINA (9) Oregon Brigade Min- Surfside Beach South Salt Lake City Minnesota Minute- Northern Nevada Americans for uteman Project Low Country Minute- Statewide men (MCDC) Southern Nevada Legal Immigration (MMP) men (MCDC) Southern Utah Mound Statewide (ALIPAC) Statewide Charleston Minutemen (MCDC) Minnesotans Seeking Nevada Action Raleigh Oregonians for Immi- TENNESSEE (5) St. George Immigration Reform Coalition Federal Immigration gration Reform Federal Immigration Utah Minutemen Hanska Las Vegas Reform and Enforce- McMinville Reform and Enforce- Project (MMP) MISSISSIPPI (1) Nevada Las Vegas ment (FIRE) Coalition Oregon Minutemen ment (FIRE) Coalition Salt Lake City Minuteman Project of Minuteman Project North Central North (MMP) Knox County VIRGINIA (6) Mississippi (MMP) (MMP) Carolina Bend Lebanon Centreville Citizens Statewide Las Vegas Northwest North PENNSYLVANIA (9) Oak Ridge Coalition MISSOURI (4) Pahrump Minutemen Carolina Federal Immigration Rutherford County Centreville Federal Immigra- Pahrump Piedmont Region Reform and Enforce- Warren County Declaration Alliance tion Reform and NEW HAMPSHIRE (1) Piedmont Triad Area ment (FIRE) Coalition TEXAS (16) (MCDC) Enforcement (FIRE) Federal Immigration Statewide Albrightsville Federal Immigration Herndon CoalitionChristian Reform and Enforce- Triangle Region Berks County Reform and Enforce- Help Save Hampton County ment (FIRE) Coalition Western North Northeast ment (FIRE) Coalition Roads Minuteman Civil Statewide Carolina Pennsylvania Central Texas Hampton Roads Defense Corps NEW JERSEY (8) Triangle Minutemen Philadelphia Conroe Help Save Manassas (MCDC) Federal Immigration Patriots (MMP) Spring City Dallas/Ft. Worth Manassas Joplin Reform and Enforce- Pittsboro Great Lakes Minute- Metroplex Minuteman Civil Kansas City ment (FIRE) Coalition OHIO (9) man Project (MMP) HarrisCounty Defense Corps Springfield Minute- Bergen County Federal Immigration Union City Hidalgo County (MCDC) men (MCDC) Cape May County Reform and Enforce- Pennsylvania Minute- Hill Country Herndon Springfield Statewide ment (FIRE) Coalition man Project (MMP) San Antonio Save the Old MONTANA (3) MCDC of New Jersey Columbiana County Statewide Statewide Dominion Eastern Montana (MCDC) Darke County Pennsylvanians for Tarrant County Manassas Minutemen (MCDC) Bound Brook Dayton Immigration Control Minuteman Civil WASHINGTON (4) Ryegate Minuteman Project Northeast Ohio and Enforcement Defense Corps Federal Immigration MCDC of Montana (MMP) Statewide Warminster (MCDC) Reform and Enforce- (MCDC) Bergen County MCDC of Ohio Voice of the People Austin ment (FIRE) Coalition Missoula Trenton (MCDC) Shenandoah Minuteman Project Eastern Washington Minuteman Civil New Jersey Citi- Cincinnati RHODE ISLAND (4) (MMP) King County Defense Corps zens for Immigration Minuteman Civil Federal Immigration Lone Star Statewide (MCDC) Control Defense Corps Reform and Enforce- North Texas Minute- MCDC of Washington Western Montana Carlstadt (MCDC) ment (FIRE) Coalition man Project (MMP) Yakima NEBRASKA (4) United Patriots of Cleveland Statewide North Texas WISCONSIN (3) Federal Immigration America Columbus Rhode Island Minute- Texans for Immigra- Federal Immigration Reform and Enforce- Lindenhurst Northeast Ohio Stern men (MCDC) tion Reform Reform and Enforce- ment (FIRE) Coalition NEW MEXICO (1) Warning Chapter Providence Houston ment (FIRE) Coalition Omaha Federal Immigration (MMP) Rhode Island Minute- Texas Border Southeast Wisconsin Lincoln Minutemen Reform and Enforce- Northeast Ohio men (MMP) Volunteers MCDC of Wisconsin (MCDC) ment (FIRE) Coalition OKLAHOMA (3) Statewide Conroe Oconto Falls Lincoln El Paso Federal Immigration Rhode Islanders for Texas Minuteman Midwest Coalition MCDC of Nebraska NEW YORK (5) Reform and Enforce- Immigration Law Project (MMP) to Reduce (MCDC) Federal Immigration ment (FIRE) Coalition Enforcement (MMP) Arlington Immigration Omaha Reform and Enforce- Muskogee Central Falls U.S. Border Watch La Valle Minuteman Civil ment (FIRE) Coalition Minuteman Project SOUTH CAROLINA (6) Spring WYOMING (2) Defense Corps Nassau County (MMP) Federal Immigration UTAH (9) MCDC of (MCDC) Staten Island Tulsa Reform and Enforce- Federal Immigration Wyoming Grand Island Statewide Oklahoma Minute- ment (FIRE) Coalition Reform and Enforce- Casper NEVADA (8) MCDC of New York men (MCDC) Beaufort County ment (FIRE) Coalition New Castle Americans4America (MCDC) Oklahoma City Charleston Cache Valley Minutemen Las Vegas Freeport OREGON (4) Horry County Greater Salt Lake City Newcastle L

spring 2011 39 HATE GROUPS TOP 1000

40 splc intelligence report THEYEARINHATE &EXTREMISM Led by the antigovernment ‘Patriot’ movement, the American radical right is continuing to expand rapidly

BY MARK POTOK ILLUSTRATION BY SEAN MCCABE

or the second year in a row, What may be most remarkable is that period this January, a neo-Nazi was the radical right in America this growth of right-wing extremism came arrested headed for the Arizona border expanded explosively in 2010, even as politicians around the country, with a dozen homemade grenades; a ter- driven by resentment over blown by gusts from the Tea Parties and rorist bomb attack on a Martin Luther Fthe changing racial demographics of the other conservative formations, tacked King Jr. Day parade in Spokane, Wash., country, frustration over the government’s hard to the right, co-opting many of the was averted after police dismantled a handling of the economy, and the main- issues important to extremists. Last April, sophisticated anti-personnel weapon; streaming of conspiracy theories and for instance, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and a man who officials said had a long other demonizing propaganda aimed at signed S.B. 1070, the harshest anti-immi- history of antigovernment activities was various minorities. For many on the rad- grant law in memory, setting off a tsunami arrested outside a packed mosque in ical right, anger is focusing on President of proposals for similar laws across the Dearborn, Mich., and charged with pos- Obama, who is seen as embodying every- country. Continuing growth of the radical sessing explosives with unlawful intent. thing that’s wrong with the country. right could be curtailed as a result of this That’s in addition, the same month, to the Hate groups topped 1,000 for the first shift, especially since Republicans, many shooting of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords time since the Southern Poverty Law of them highly conservative, recaptured in Arizona, an attack that left six dead Center began counting such groups in the the U.S. House last fall. and may have had a political dimension. 1980s. Anti-immigrant vigilante groups, But despite those historic Republican It’s also clear that other kinds of radical despite having some of the political wind gains, the early signs suggest that even activity are on the rise. Since the mur- taken out of their sails by the adoption of as the more mainstream political right der last May 20 of two West Memphis, hard-line anti-immigration laws around strengthens, the radical right has Ark., police officers by two members of the country, continued to rise slowly. But remained highly energized. In an 11-day the so-called “sovereign citizens” move- by far the most dramatic growth came in ment, police from around the country the antigovernment “Patriot” movement HATE GROUPS 2000–2010 1002 have contacted the Southern Poverty Law — conspiracy-minded organizations that 926 932 Center (SPLC) to report what one detec- 888 see the federal government as their pri- 844 tive in Kentucky described as a “dramatic 803 mary enemy — which gained more than 751 762 increase” in sovereign activity. Sovereign 708 300 new groups, a jump of over 60%. 676 citizens, who, like militias, are part of the

Taken together, these three strands of 602 larger Patriot movement, believe that the the radical right — the hatemongers, the federal government has no right to tax or nativists and the antigovernment zealots regulate them and, as a result, often come — increased from 1,753 groups in 2009 to into conflict with police and tax author- 2,145 in 2010, a 22% rise. That followed a ities. Another sign of their increased 2008-2009 increase of 40%. 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 activity came early this year, when the

spring 2011 41 Treasury Department, in a report assessing 858 PATRIOT & MILITIA GROUPS 1995–2010 824 what the IRS faces in 2011, said its biggest 809 challenge will be the “attacks and threats against IRS employees and facilities [that] have risen steadily in recent years.” Extremist ideas have not been lim- 523 512 ited to the radical right; already this year, 435 state legislators have offered up a raft 441 of proposals influenced by such ideas. 370 In Arizona, the author of the S.B. 1070 330 law — a man who just became Senate 217 194 221 171 president on the basis of his harshly 158 152 147 149 171 143 132 131 nativist rhetoric — proposed a law this 127 January that would allow his state to 68 72 73 54 45 52 52 43 42 refuse to obey any federal law or reg- 35 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 ulation it cared to. In Virginia, a state legislator wants to pass a law aimed at lack of interest and furious opposition. But like the year before, it was the creating an alternative currency “in the “The worst E-mails I received about the antigovernment Patriot groups that grew event of the destruction of the Federal Civility Project were from conservatives most dramatically (see list, p. 57), at least Reserve System’s currency” — a long- with just unbelievable language about partly on the basis of furious rhetoric standing fear of right-wing extremists. communists and some words I wouldn’t from the right aimed at the nation’s first And in Montana, a state senator is work- use in this phone call,” director Mark black president — a man who has come ing to pass a statute called the “Sheriffs DeMoss told The New York Times. “This to represent to at least some Americans First Act” that would require federal law political divide has become so sharp that ongoing changes in the racial makeup of enforcement to ask local sheriffs’ per- everything is black and white, and too the country. The Patriot groups, which mission to act in their counties or face many conservatives can see no redeem- had risen and fallen once before dur- jail. All three laws are almost certainly ing value in any” opponent. ing the militia movement of the 1990s, unconstitutional, legal experts say, and A Washington Post/ABC News poll first came roaring back in 2009, when they all originate in ideas that first came this January captured the atmosphere they rose 244% to 512 from 149 a year from ideologues of the radical right. well. It found that 82% of Americans earlier. In 2010, they rose again sharply, There also are new attempts by saw their country’s political discourse adding 312 new groups to reach 824, a nativist forces to roll back birthright cit- as “negative.” Even more remarkably, 61% increase. The highest prior count of izenship, which makes all children born the poll determined that 49% thought Patriot groups came in 1996, when the in the U.S. citizens. Such laws have been that negative tone could or already had SPLC found 858 (see also chart, above). introduced this year in Congress, and a encouraged political violence. It’s hard to predict where this vola- coalition of state legislators is promising Last year’s rise in hate groups (see tile situation will lead. Conservatives to do the same in their states. And then map, p. 43, and list, p. 44) was the latest in last November made great gains and there’s Oklahoma, where 70% of voters a trend stretching all the way back to the some of them are championing a sur- last November approved a measure to year 2000, when the SPLC counted 602 prising number of the issues pushed by forbid judges to consider Islamic law in such groups. Since then, they have risen the radical right — a fact that could help the state’s courtrooms (see story, p. 32) steadily, mainly on the basis of exploiting deflate some of the even more extreme — a completely groundless fear, but one the issue of undocumented immigration political forces. But those GOP electoral pushed nonetheless by Islamophobes. from Mexico and Central America. Last advances also left the Congress divided Since then, lawmakers have promised year, the number of hate groups rose to and increasingly lined up against the to pass similar laws in Arizona, Florida, 1,002 from 932, a 7.5% increase over the Democratic president, which is likely to Louisiana, South Carolina, Tennessee previous year and a 66% rise since 2000. paralyze the country on such key issues and Utah. At the same time, what the SPLC as immigration reform. After the Giffords assassination defines as “nativist extremist” groups What seems certain is that President attempt, a kind of national dialogue — organizations that go beyond mere Obama will continue to serve as a light- began about the political vitriol that advocacy of restrictive immigration policy ning rod for many on the political right, increasingly passes for “mainstream” to actually confront or harass suspected a man who represents both the federal political debate. But it didn’t seem to get immigrants or their employers — rose government and the fact that the racial very far. Four days after the shooting, a slightly, despite the fact that most of their make-up of the United States is changing, campaign called the Civility Project — key issues had been taken up by main- something that upsets a significant num- a two-year effort led by an evangelical stream politicians (see story, p. 35, and ber of white Americans. And that suggests conservative tied to top Republicans — list, p. 37). There were 319 such groups in that the polarized politics of this country said it was shutting down because of a 2010, up 3% from 309 in 2009. could get worse before they get better. L

42 splc intelligence report Loy Mauch ELECTED [T]he South is the only part of America that supreme masters of manipulation and Intelligence OFFICE SOUGHT is still American to any degree,” McBerry deceit,” according to Metzger’s website. Report Arkansas House of states in a video. He refuses to salute the “They run and distort our foreign policy ACTIVEACTIVE HHAATETE GROUPSGROUPS Representatives, American flag. The League of the South’s because lazy and corrupt non-Jew lead- District 26 founder routinely attacks egalitarianism ers had previously found them valuable IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PARTY Republican as a radical-left “Ja c o b i n ” doctrine and as grifters.” Metzger’s 2010 race was a RESULTS Primary: opposes interracial marriage; its essayists far cry from his earlier, more successful Unopposed. General elec- have defended legal segregation as a doc- runs for public office. In 1980, he won A Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center tion: Won with 53.4% (4,041 votes) of the trine meant to ensure the racial integrity of the three-way Democratic primary for 7,561 votes cast. both white and black Americans. California’s 43rd Congressional District WASHINGTON EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Neo-Confederate, with 37.1% (33,071 votes) of the votes cast NORTH DAKOTA MONTANA white nationalist before going on to lose the general elec- Mauch is a member of the League of the Tom Metzger tion with 13.4% (46,361 votes). In 1982, MINNESOTA South (LOS), a neo-Confederate organi- OFFICE SOUGHT U.S. House Metzger ran in an 11-way Democratic MAINE zation formed in 1994 that advocates a of Representatives, primary for Senate in California, com-

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N second Southern secession and espouses Indiana District 3 ing in sixth with 2.8% (76,502 votes) of SOUTH DAKOTA E O R I M bitter hostility toward the United States PARTY Unspecified the votes cast. H R S E OREGON IDAHO P V RESULTS Received 0.005% W – an “alien occupier.” The LOS envisions M E MICHIGAN A WYOMING N

H (10 votes) of the 185,049 NEW YORK a Christian theocratic state run by an

“Anglo- Celtic” – that is, white – elite that votes cast. Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. IOWA would legally dominate both racial and EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Neo-Nazi, Ku Klux Klan, OFFICE SOUGHT U.S. Senate, Missouri NEBRASKA M religious minorities. In a 2008 interview, Christian Identity PARTY Unspecified R A C H SS O O A D C Mauch referred to the Confederate bat- A guttural racist, Metzger is a former RESULTS General election: Received PENNSYLVANIA N E H OHIO N I U E S S E C L A T T tle flag as “a symbol of Jesus Christ above California grand dragon of the Knights 0.0004% (7 votes) of the 1,943,899 ILLINOIS INDIANA N E T N S W J E I C D R S E Y U all else. It’s a symbol of Biblical govern- of the Ku Klux Klan. In the mid-1980s, votes cast. NEVADA T ment.” (The LOS also describes the battle he founded White Aryan Resistance EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY White supremacist, UTAH COLORADO N I A I RG I ST V D flag as the “antithesis” of the Stars and (WAR), one of the leading neo-Nazi anti-Semitic W E E KANSAS MISSOURI L AW A R E DANNY JOHNSTON/AP IMAGES (MAUCH); (MAUCH); IMAGES JOHNSTON/AP DANNY M Stripes.) For seven years, Mauch also was groups of the period. In a 2002 interview, Miller promised that if elected, he would A R Y L A N D a local unit “commander” with the Sons Metzger said, “My total concern is with “work … to expose the jewish [sic] dom- C A KENTUCKY VIRGINIA L I F of Confederate Veterans (SCV), step- the survival of the white European peo- ination of the US government, the mass O R ping down in 2009. Over the last decade, ple in North America.” He is an ordained media, the federal reserve bank [sic], and N I A A L I N the Southern heritage group has been minister of Christian Identity theol- the decadent American culture.” He has TENNESSEE A RO T H C wracked by a kind of internal civil war ogy, whose adherents typically believe advocated incentive payments to white OKLAHOMA N O R ARKANSAS between moderates and racial extremists. that Jews are the literal “seed of Satan,” Americans to produce white children. ARIZONA S NEW MEXICO

TEPHEN SO U T H C people of color are soulless “mud peo- Miller formerly headed the Carolina A RO L I N A ple,” and the Bible is the history of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which later M ORTON/AP IMAGES (MCBERRY); white race. He promotes a particularly morphed into the White Patriot Party. Ray McBerry Jr. MISSISSIPPI ALABAMA GEORGIA OFFICE SOUGHT nasty version of anti-Semitism. “Je w s are Miller went on the lam in 1986 after Governor, Georgia ACTIVE HATE GROUPS L 1002 O PARTY Republican U I TEXAS S I RESULTS Primary: Finished A “Every non-White on the planet has to B

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receiving 2.5% (17,171 votes) INTON/AP IMAGES (METZGER); DAVI NEO-NAZI 170 of the 680,499 votes cast. these minor-league amateur races out of EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Neo-Confederate, WHITE NATIONALIST 136 white nationalist the game, and refine the playo! brackets RACIST SKINHEAD 136 McBerry is a former member of the CHRISTIAN IDENTITY 26 Georgia chapter of the League of the South a bit, if you get my meaning. The whole ALASKA F LO R I DA D

BLACK SEPARATIST 149 (see Loy Mauch, above), and served as its S . H

world is ours, and the only part of the OLLOWAY/ chair before resigning in October. “We NEO-CONFEDERATE 42 H believe in the League of the South that earth that non-Whites should inherit is AW G A I for the most part, the South is inherently ETTY I GENERAL HATE 122 I however much it requires to cover them.” MAGES (ROPER) more conservative and more Christian in HATE GROUPS BY STATE our values and our political beliefs than — Billy Roper, Arkansas much of the other parts of America. … For specific details about hate groups in your state, go to www.splcenter.org/hatemap 0 20 40 60 80

26 splc intelligence report Warrenville, SC Pulaski, TN* Oregon THEYEARINHATE&EXTREMISM Brush Creek, TN Anderson, AL Pennsylvania KU KLUX KLAN Kanawha County, WV Cullman, AL North Providence, RI Original Knights of When the Klan was formed in 1865, it was a Toney, AL South Carolina ELECTED claims status as a sovereign entity not America Knights of Nashua, IA Kingsport, TN Tim Donnelly Je! Hall single, unitary organization. Today, there are OFFICE SOUGHT OFFICE SOUGHT Western subject to U.S. or state laws, and says the Ku Klux Klan Tennessee Texas 221 dozens of competing Klan groups. California State Assembly, Municipal Water District this list of 1002 active hate groups (map, p. 43), Philadelphia, MS* Brush Creek, TN Utah the 828,000-square-mile territory of up from the 932 groups listed a year before, is based Booneville, MS Estill Springs, TN Virginia District 59 Board of Directors, the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 was on information gathered by the Intelligence Project Aryan Nations Richmond, VA Klux Klan Supreme White Hohenwald, TN Gordonsville, VA PARTY Republican Division 2, Riverside, Calif. land stolen from the Washitaw, a pre- from hate group publications, citizen reports, law Knights of the Ku Vermont Knights of the Ku RESULTS Primary: Finished PARTY National Socialist dominantly black group, by the United enforcement agencies, field sources and news Harrison, AR* Robertson County, TN Washington ACTIVEACTIVE reports. Only organizations known to be active in Klux Klan West Virginia Newport, TN Klux Klan Whiteville, TN United Realms of first among six candi- Movement States. The group’s leader once filed an 2010, whether that activity included marches, ral- Ashland, AL* Wisconsin Knights of the South- Van Wert, OH* Woodbury, TN America Knights of dates, receiving 30.3% RESULTS General election: $80 quadrillion claim against the United lies, speeches, meetings, leafletting, publishing Sharpsburg, MD Wyoming ern Cross Soldiers of Illinois United Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (12,449 votes) of the 41,112 votes cast. Received 27.8% (8,139 votes) of the 29,243 States. State authorities have investi- literature or criminal acts, were counted in the list- Association of Georgia Dixie Rangers of the the Ku Klux Klan Bloomington, IN Tennessee Ku Klux Shelbina, MO* General election: Won with 57.3% (82,475 votes cast. gated allegations the group has engaged ing. Entities that appear to exist only in cyberspace Klans Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Powhatan, VA Kentucky Klan Ukiah, CA votes) of the 144,007 votes cast. EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Neo-Nazi in money laundering, offshore banking are not included because they are likely to be indi- Ku Klux Klan Walker, LA Ku Klux Klan LLC Missouri Morristown, TN United White Knights HATE EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY HATE Anti-immigration, anti- Hall is California director and south- fraud and other practices derived from vidual Web publishers who like to falsely portray Conyers, GA The Empire Knights of Compton, AR New York United Northern and of the Ku Klux Klan government “Patriot” west regional leader of the National its antigovernment “common law,” or themselves as powerful, organized groups. This Association of the Ku Klux Klan Mississippi White Texas Rebel Knights Southern Knights of Longview, TX* listing contains all known chapters of hate organi- Independent Klansmen Homosassa Springs, FL Knights of the Ku of the Ku Klux Klan the Ku Klux Klan South West Region, AR Donnelly in 2005 founded what became Socialist Movement (NSM) — currently “sovereign citizen,” ideology. Though zations. If the group has a known headquarters, it Knights Of The Ku Fraternal White Klux Klan Splendora, TX Fraser, MI* Illinois the largest anti-immigrant Minuteman the nation’s largest neo-Nazi group. The Hemingway-El invokes sovereign citizen appears first in the listing of the group’s chapters, GROUPSGROUPS Klux Klan Knights of the KKK Petal, MS* Traditional Christian Alabama Homer, LA chapter in California. He advocates a NSM is known for its swastika-waving, ideas, he told an interviewer he does not and is marked with an asterisk (*). IN THE UNITED STATES 2010 Maryland Charles City, IA Brookhaven, MS Knights of the Ku Arizona Monroe, LA California version of Arizona’s S.B. 1070, sieg-heiling rallies, many of them held in advocate defying the law. He complied Bayou Knights of the Imperial Klans of Jackson, MS Klux Klan California Sarepta, LA which makes it a state crime to be in this minority neighborhoods, and its Hitler with a state law requiring candidates Ku Klux Klan America Knights of Meridian, MS Carlsbad, TX Longmont, CO Shreveport, LA country illegally. Donnelly is prone to worship. Hall affirmed in a Los Angeles for public office to swear they are U.S. Homer, LA* the Ku Klux Klan Mize, MS North Carolina Connecticut South Louisiana exaggeration. In interviews, he claimed to Times interview his belief that all non- citizens. WA ND Smackover, AR Dawson Springs, KY* Pearl, MS Traditionalist Ameri- Delaware Region, LA have heard the screams of women being whites should be deported. “I want a MT NH 5 13 13 4 MN Brotherhood of Klans Johnstown, PA Philadelphia, MS can Knights of the Hampton, FL Tullos, LA raped in the Mexican desert near the bor- white nation,” he said. “I don’t hide what VT 2 ME Knights of the Ku International Keystone Ku Klux Klan 7 Ripley, MS Georgia Michigan der. According to LA Weekly, Donnelly I am, and I don’t water that down.” After SD WI 3 Klux Klan Knights of the Ku Shannon, MS Potosi, MO* Chicago, IL Detroit, MI Dan Maes OR ID once wrote that Muslim extremists were the election, Hall wrote, “It is a great vic- OFFICE SOUGHT 2 8 MI Marion, OH* Klux Klan 15 13 WY NY MA proselytizing to “so-called ‘innocent’ ille- tory when a National Socialist candidate Governor, Colorado 35 Alabama Colt, AR* 5 IA 31 10 WA MT ND NE 1 2 NH 1 gal aliens” with the aim of destroying the receives over a quarter of the votes for an PARTY Tea Party-backed Arkansas Headland, AL 1 MN ME 6 0 VT 2 8 PA 36 RI 2 Arizona Sheridan, AR SD WI 0 American Southwest. “It is not a stretch,” elected position in his district.” Republican IL IN OH OR ID NV CT 6 1 1 MI 29 24 32 California Young Harris, GA 1 1 WY NY he wrote, “to picture a revolt in Los RESULTS Primary: Won 15 UT CO NJ 47 3 IA 7 3 MA 1 KS MO WV Elwood, IN NE 2 RI 2 6 19 Colorado PA 5 Angeles, whose population is comprised with 50.7% (197,629 6 26 13 VA DE 5 2 IL IN OH CT 1 District of Columbia Cleveland, OH NV 6 7 9 NJ 2 votes) of the 390,108 KY 15 MD 17 1 UT CO DE 1 of [sic] over 50 percent illegal aliens. At Dwayne Hemingway-El CA 29 2 2 KS MO WV DC 12 Florida Knight Riders Knights 1 5 5 VA MD 5 the [current] rate of influx and births, it OFFICE SOUGHT Mayor, High Point, N.C. votes cast. General election: Finished third 68 OK CA KY 7 7 DC 1 TN 35 NC 28 Georgia of the Ku Klux Klan AR 3 OK TN 15 NC 5 will be 80 percent illegal alien within a PARTY Unspecified with 11.1% (199,034 votes) of the 1,787,730 AZ NM 23 9 AR 29 Idaho Ellijay, GA* AZ NM 9 22 3 SC 3 2 SC decade.” A more reliable estimate places RESULTS General election: Received 7.9% votes cast. (See also Tom Tancredo, below.) Illinois Live Oak, FL MS AL GA 4 MS AL GA 30 15 8 10 the number of undocumented immigrants (1,718 votes) of the 21,503 votes cast. EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY World-government Indiana Bainbridge, GA TX LA TX 40 33 39 23 12 in Los Angeles County at about 7.3% of EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY Antigovernment “sov- conspiracy theorist LA Kansas Brunswick, GA Monroe, MI 59 25 AK FL its population of 10.4 million. Donnelly ereign citizen” Maes interpreted a United Nations- Kentucky Byron, GA 0 5 New Mexico Louisiana Harrisburg, IL Ohio claimed undocumented immigrants Hemingway-El describes himself as sponsored program encouraging cities HI AK FL Maryland Pelham, NC 0 Dayton, OH accounted for “nearly one-third of our a member of the Louisiana-based to promote bicycle riding as being part 0 49 Michigan Abingdon, VA Oklahoma prison space” — a demonizing assertion, Washitaw De Dugdamoundwah, also of a plot to undermine American sover-

Knight Riders Knights (MAES) IMAGES RIESKI/AP Missouri Tupelo, MS Arkansas West College Corner, Atoka, OK D once also pushed by CNN’s Lou Dobbs, known as the Washitaw Moorish Nation eignty. “This is bigger than it looks like on N

HI A Montana of the Ku Klux Klan Mountain State Florida IN Henryetta, OK 0 ED with no basis in fact. and the Washitaw Empire. The group the surface, and it could threaten our per- 1002 Nebraska (W. Va.) Knights of the Ku Illinois Louisiana Holdenville, OK sonal freedoms,” Maes said, according to ACTIVE HATE Nevada Beckley, WV* Klux Klan Indiana Maryland Oklahoma City, OK the Denver Post. “At first, I thought, ‘Gosh, GROUP CHAPTERS New Jersey Montgomery Co., AL Hartford, KY* Kentucky Massachusetts Shawnee, OK public transportation, what’s wrong with Arkansas New York Delaware County, OH Louisiana Battle Creek, MI Tulsa, OK that, and what’s wrong with people park-

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Groups are categorized as Ku Klux Klan, Neo-Nazi, White Nationalist, Racist Skinhead, Christian Identity, Neo-Confederate, AN Oklahoma Kentucky Kanawha County, WV Ohio Missouri ArkLaTex Region, TX S Socialist candidate receives over a quar- if you do your homework and research, Black Separatist, and General Hate. Because skinheads are migratory and often not affiliated with groups, this listing understates their you realize ICLEI [the U.N.’s International

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D ter of the votes for an elected position in R Rhode Island Maryland the Ku Klux Klan Pennsylvania Mays Landing, NJ Buffalo, TX Council for Local Environmental

E whose ideologies include tenets of racially based hatred. Neo-Confederate groups seek to revive many of the racist principles of the South Carolina Mississippi South Bend, IN* Virginia New Mexico Corpus Christi, TX Initiatives] is part of a greater strategy to H MAGES ( MAGES antebellum South. White Nationalist groups espouse white supremacy or white separatism but generally avoid anti-Semitism. General I his district.” — Je! Hall, Riverside, California South Dakota Ohio Maricopa County, AZ West Virginia New York Dallas, TX rein in American cities under a United ETTY

Hate groups espouse ideologies of hatred and include the sub-categories of Anti-Gay groups, Anti-Immigrant groups, Holocaust Denial G Tennessee South Carolina Georgia True Invisible Empire North Carolina Forney, TX EW/ Nations treaty.” Denver is one of 600

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Texas Kentucky North Dakota Fort Worth, TX OPEN American member cities of ICLEI, which and Other (a variety of groups endorsing a hodge-podge of hate doctrines). D Knights of the Ku DETAILED MAP INSIDE DETAILED Utah New Hampshire Klux Klan Ohio Goose Creek, TX DAVI promotes sustainable development.

44 splc intelligence report spring 2011 25 Warrenville, SC Pulaski, TN* Oregon Brush Creek, TN Anderson, AL Pennsylvania KU KLUX KLAN Kanawha County, WV Cullman, AL North Providence, RI When the Klan was formed in 1865, it was a single, Original Knights of Toney, AL South Carolina unitary organization. Today, there are dozens of America Knights of Nashua, IA Kingsport, TN 221 competing Klan groups. the Ku Klux Klan Tennessee Texas Philadelphia, MS* Brush Creek, TN Utah Booneville, MS Estill Springs, TN Virginia Aryan Nations Richmond, VA Klux Klan Supreme White Hohenwald, TN Gordonsville, VA Knights of the Ku Vermont Harrison, AR* Knights of the Ku Robertson County, TN Washington Klux Klan West Virginia Newport, TN Klux Klan Whiteville, TN United Realms of Ashland, AL* Wisconsin Knights of the South- Van Wert, OH* Woodbury, TN America Knights of Sharpsburg, MD Wyoming ern Cross Soldiers of Illinois United Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Association of Georgia Dixie Rangers of the the Ku Klux Klan Bloomington, IN Tennessee Ku Klux Shelbina, MO* Klans Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Powhatan, VA Kentucky Klan Ukiah, CA Ku Klux Klan Walker, LA Ku Klux Klan LLC Missouri Morristown, TN United White Knights Conyers, GA The Empire Knights of Compton, AR New York United Northern and of the Ku Klux Klan Association of the Ku Klux Klan Mississippi White Texas Rebel Knights Southern Knights of Longview, TX* Independent Klansmen Homosassa Springs, FL Knights of the Ku of the Ku Klux Klan the Ku Klux Klan South West Region, AR Knights Of The Ku Fraternal White Klux Klan Splendora, TX Fraser, MI* Illinois Klux Klan Knights of the KKK Petal, MS* Traditional Christian Alabama Homer, LA Maryland Charles City, IA Brookhaven, MS Knights of the Ku Arizona Monroe, LA Bayou Knights of the Imperial Klans of Jackson, MS Klux Klan California Sarepta, LA Ku Klux Klan America Knights of Meridian, MS Carlsbad, TX Longmont, CO Shreveport, LA Homer, LA* the Ku Klux Klan Mize, MS North Carolina Connecticut South Louisiana Smackover, AR Dawson Springs, KY* Pearl, MS Traditionalist Ameri- Delaware Region, LA Brotherhood of Klans Johnstown, PA Philadelphia, MS can Knights of the Hampton, FL Tullos, LA Knights of the Ku International Keystone Ripley, MS Ku Klux Klan Georgia Michigan Klux Klan Knights of the Ku Shannon, MS Potosi, MO* Chicago, IL Detroit, MI Marion, OH* Klux Klan

Alabama Colt, AR* WA MT ND 1 2 NH 1 Arkansas Headland, AL 1 MN ME 0 VT 2 Arizona Sheridan, AR SD WI 0 OR ID 1 1 California Young Harris, GA 1 1 WY MI NY 3 IA 7 3 MA 1 NE 2 RI 2 Colorado Elwood, IN PA 5 2 IL IN OH CT 1 NV 6 7 9 NJ 2 District of Columbia Cleveland, OH 1 UT CO DE 1 2 2 KS MO WV Florida Knight Riders Knights 1 5 5 VA MD 5 CA KY 7 7 DC 1 Georgia of the Ku Klux Klan 3 OK TN 15 NC 5 9 AR Idaho Ellijay, GA* AZ NM 9 3 2 SC Illinois Live Oak, FL MS AL GA 4 TX LA 15 8 10 Indiana Bainbridge, GA 23 12 Kansas Brunswick, GA Monroe, MI AK FL Kentucky Byron, GA 0 5 New Mexico

Louisiana Harrisburg, IL HI Ohio Maryland Pelham, NC 0 Dayton, OH Michigan Abingdon, VA Oklahoma Missouri Knight Riders Knights Tupelo, MS Arkansas West College Corner, Atoka, OK Montana of the Ku Klux Klan Mountain State Florida IN Henryetta, OK Nebraska (W. Va.) Knights of the Ku Illinois Louisiana Holdenville, OK Nevada Beckley, WV* Klux Klan Indiana Maryland Oklahoma City, OK New Jersey Montgomery Co., AL Hartford, KY* Kentucky Massachusetts Shawnee, OK New York Arkansas Delaware County, OH Louisiana Battle Creek, MI Tulsa, OK North Carolina Georgia Davidson County, TN Mississippi Gladwin, MI Pennsylvania North Dakota Indiana Washington Co., VT North Carolina Mississippi KlanAbilene, TX Oklahoma Kentucky Kanawha County, WV Ohio Missouri ArkLaTex Region, TX Pennsylvania Louisiana National Knights of Oklahoma Nebraska Beaumont, TX Rhode Island Maryland the Ku Klux Klan Pennsylvania Mays Landing, NJ Buffalo, TX South Carolina Mississippi South Bend, IN* Virginia New Mexico Corpus Christi, TX South Dakota Ohio Maricopa County, AZ West Virginia New York Dallas, TX Tennessee South Carolina Georgia True Invisible Empire North Carolina Forney, TX Texas Tennessee Kentucky Knights of the Ku North Dakota Fort Worth, TX Utah Knights of the Ku New Hampshire Klux Klan Ohio Goose Creek, TX

44 splc intelligence report Houston, TX San Saba, TX Cheyenne, WY Movement Parma, OH South Georgia, GA Marshall, TX Vidor, TX Virgil White Knights Zion, IL* Dallas/Fort Worth, TX Schiller Park, IL Midlothian, TX Waco, TX of the Ku Klux Klan Denver County, CO Nationalist Coalition Wakarusa, IN Panhandle Region, TX Wichita Falls, TX Virginia L Connecticut St. Petersburg, FL* Haysville, KS San Antonio, TX Wyoming Maryland Mesa, AZ Lansing, KS Billings, MT Denver, CO Kentucky Bozeman, MT National Socialist Suffolk County, MA NEO-NAZI Helena, MT American Labor Party Elkridge, MD This listing of neo-Nazi groups does not include Kalispell, MT Burbank, CA* Wyoming, MI racist skinheads, although most of them hold Laurel, MT Florida Minneapolis, MN 170 neo-Nazi beliefs. Lockwood, MT Georgia Rochester, MN Miles City, MT Idaho Oak Grove, MO Missoula, MT New Castle, ME Tupelo, MS American National Tennessee Spencer, NC Chillicothe, OH New York Birmingham, NJ Socialist Party Aryan Nations North Bergen, NJ Texas Toledo, OH Browns Mills, NJ Chillicothe, OH* (offshoot) Nevada Wise, VA Texas Clifton, NJ Arizona St. Cloud, FL* North Dakota Mountain, WI Washington Nevada Corning, CA Lexington, SC Chillicothe, OH Laramie County, WY National Socialist Brooklyn, NY Colorado Aryan Nations 88 Oklahoma Gallows Tree Wotans- Aryan Order Oklahoma City, OK Bonita Springs, FL Calhoun, LA* Charleston, SC volk Alliance Davison, MI Oregon Iowa Ashland, AL Antioch, TN Grand Rapids, MI National Socialist Medford, OR Michigan Arizona Wills Point, TX Illinois National Freedom Movement Portland, OR Mississippi Arkansas Virginia Socialist Front Tulsa, OK Lehigh Valley, PA Montana Poway, CA Tacoma, WA Peoria, IL* National Social- Mather, PA Nevada Colorado Battalion 14 Palatine, IL ist German Workers Philadelphia, PA North Dakota Wilmington, DE Jackson, MI Knights of the Nordic Party South Carolina Oklahoma Bonita Springs, FL Christian Defense Order Lincoln, NE Greenville, SC Milton, WA Statesboro, GA League Cardiff, AL National Socialist Spartanburg, SC American Nazi Party Boise, ID Mandeville, LA Maryland National Movement Central Tennessee Westland, MI* Illinois The Creativity Socialist Party Detroit, MI* East Tennessee Aryan Nations Iowa Alliance Elkridge, MD Mesa, AZ Texas Coeur d’Alene, ID* Kansas Clovis, CA National Alliance Phoenix, AZ Lubbock, TX Arkansas Sharpsburg, MD Georgia Hillsboro, WV* Dulzura, CA Tyler, TX California Michigan Philadelphia, PA Sacramento, CA Riverside, CA Utah Colorado Isle, MN Mountain City, TN Columbus, GA Hudson, CO Vancouver, WA Wanaque, NJ Florissant, MO Draper, UT Raleigh, NC Connecticut Berlin, WI New York Mississippi Virginia Las Vegas, NV Delaware Green Bay, WI Oregon Montana The Creativity Cincinnati, OH Lake Worth, FL Kanawha County, WV Tampa Bay, FL Romney, WV Wyoming WA MT ND Nordwave 4 2 NH 0 10 MN ME Lake Worth, FL 3 VT 0 SD WI 1 SS Regalia OR ID 4 Edgewater, MD 0 MI NY 4 3 WY White Aryan 2 IA 8 3 MA 1 NE 2 RI 0 Resistance PA 4 4 IL IN OH CT 2 Warsaw, IN NV 6 2 6 NJ 5 White Brothers of 4 UT CO DE 2 2 6 KS MO WV America 3 2 3 VA MD 5 CA KY 1 3 DC 0 Canton, IL 9 OK TN 5 NC 3 White Knights of 4 AR America AZ NM 3 6 0 SC Tonopah, AZ* 5 MS AL GA Whitney, TX TX LA 3 2 6 White Revolution 8 2 Russellville, AR* Orange County, CA AK FL Loxahatchee, FL 0 9 Woodstock, GA HI Wilmington, NC 0 Omaha, NE Union Grove, WI L

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Neo Nazi WA MT ND 2 0 NH 2 Columbia, SC Institute Government Educa- 0 MN ME 1 VT 0 SD WI 0 Woodruff, SC Augusta, GA tion Foundation OR ID 0 1 1 2 WY MI NY 0 IA 2 7 MA 2 Memphis, TN New Century Raleigh, NC NE 0 RI 0 PA 2 0 IL IN OH CT 1 Dallas/Fort Worth, TX Productions Scott-Townsend NV 4 4 2 NJ 4 5 UT CO DE 0 0 1 KS MO WV Irving, TX Littleton, CO Publishers 0 4 2 VA MD 2 CA KY 0 8 DC 2 Richmond, VA North East White Washington, DC 10 OK TN 7 NC 5 2 AR AZ NM 1 European Americans Pride Sigrdrifa 2 0 SC MS AL GA 9 United Haverhill, MA* Vancouver, WA TX LA 11 8 6 3 4 Sacramento, CA Connecticut Stormfront AK FL Euro Pride Apparel New Hampshire West Palm Beach, FL 0 7 Summerville, SC New Jersey Temple 88 HI 0 The Fitzgerald Griffin Northern Voice Farmington, WV Foundation Bookstore Tip of the Spear Con- Vienna, VA Las Vegas, NV sulting Services WHITE NATIONALIST Folk and Faith Northwest Front Palm Beach Co., FL White nationalist groups espouse white suprema- Idaho Falls, ID Seattle, WA VDARE Foundation cist or white separatist ideologies, often focusing Free American Occidental Dissent Warrenton, VA on the alleged inferiority of nonwhites. Groups Tucson, AZ Birmingham, AL Voice of Reason listed in several other categories couldWhite also be FreedomNa tionalist14 Occidental Quar- Broadcast Network terly/Charles Martel 136 described as white nationalist. Orange County, CA Pasadena, CA Free Edgar Steele Society Washington Summit Sagle, ID Augusta, GA Publishers American National- Economic Studies Yadkinville, NC Heritage and Destiny Pacifica Forum Augusta, GA ist Union Washington, DC Fort Lee, NJ Falls Church, VA Eugene, OR White Boy Society Las Vegas, NV Council of Conserva- Las Vegas, NV Iron Rain Nationalists Patriotic Flags Illinois American Renais- tive Citizens New York, NY Utica, NY* Summerville, SC White Christian sance/New Century St. Louis, MO* Parishville, NY Chicago, IL Pioneer Fund Soldiers Foundation Anniston, AL Cleveland, OH The Kinist Institute New York, NY Lee’s Summit, MO Oakton, VA* Birmingham, AL Oklahoma City, OK Orlando, FL The Political Cesspool White Ethnic Preser- Southern California Cullman, AL Revere, PA The League of Ameri- Bartlett, TN vation Coalition Chicago, IL Florence, AL Charleston, SC can Patriots Proud Aryan Brothers Green Bay, WI Arlington, VA Huntsville, AL Greenville, SC Garfield, NJ Kokomo, IN Women for Aryan American Third Jasper, AL Saluda, SC Nationalist Racial Nationalist Unity Position Montgomery, AL Summerville, SC Movement Party of America Brooklyn, NY Westminster, CA* Little Rock, AR West Columbia, SC Learned, MS Lockport, NY WTM Enterprises Arizona San Francisco, CA Bartlett, TN National Policy Representative Roanoke, IN L San Diego, CA Southern California Erwin, TN Ashland, NH Citrus County, FL Franklin, TN WA MT ND 2 0 NH 0 0 MN ME 0 VT 0 Butler, NJ Jacksonville, FL Knoxville/ SD WI 2 OR ID 0 1 Nevada Tampa Bay, FL Chattanooga, TN 4 3 WY MI NY 0 IA 6 1 MA 1 NE 2 RI 0 New York East Georgia South Central PA 10 1 IL IN OH CT 1 NV UT CO 5 4 7 NJ 23 North Carolina Chicago, IL Tennessee 1 KS MO WV DE 0 0 2 VA 1 5 KY 2 0 MD 1 Pennsylvania Carmel, IN Southwest Virginia CA 5 DC 0 10 OK TN 2 NC 5 Monongalia Co., WV Indianapolis, IN Do Right Foundation 1 AR AZ NM 2 3 0 SC Aryan Wear Shreveport, LA Las Vegas, NV MS AL GA 0 TX LA 4 2 3 Keller, TX St. Amant, LA East Coast White 5 0

Bay Area National Silver Spring, MD Unity AK FL Anarchists Caledonia, MI Chelsea, MA 0 9 HI Dublin, CA Minneapolis/St. Paul, European American 0 British National Party MN Issues Forum Overseas Unit St. Louis, MO San Bruno, CA Berryville, VA Byram, MS European Ameri- Center for Perpetual Calhoun City, MS can Unity and Rights RACIST SKINHEAD Skinheads are migratory and often not af- Diversity Greenwood, MS Organization Gaithersburg, MD Holly Springs, MS Mandeville, LA* filiated with groups. This listing understates Charles Darwin Jackson, MS Jacksonville, FL 136 their numbers. Research Institute Mathiston, MS Columbus, GA Skinhead Port Huron, MI Pineywoods, MS Savannah, GA AC Skins Linwood, NJ Marlton, NJ Conservative Citizens Tupelo, MS Thibodaux, LA Absecon, NJ Little Egg Harbor Somers Point, NJ Foundation, Inc Vaiden, MS Ripley, MS Atlantic City, NJ City, NJ Wildwood, NJ St. Louis, MO Clemmons, NC Cleveland, OH Browns Mills, NJ Manchester Woodbine, NJ Council for Social and Forest City, NC Tulsa, OK Galloway, NJ Township, NJ American Front

46 splc intelligence report Sacramento, CA Crew 38 California Hammerskins Missouri Portland, OR* St. Cloud, FL Huntsville, AL Independent Skins Portland, OR New Jersey Phoenix, AZ Hackensack, NJ New Port Richey, FL Southwest Washington Nevada California Haledon, NJ Nampa, ID Cleburne, TX* Old Glory Skins North Carolina Pensacola, FL Roselle, NJ Detroit, MI Callahan, FL Georgia Texas Chicago, IL Aryan Terror Brigade Mississippi Keystone United North Carolina United Society of Iowa Flemington, NJ* North Carolina Harrisburg, PA* Virginia Aryan Skinheads Maine Arkansas Oregon Altoona, PA Retaliator Skinhead San Diego, CA Detroit, MI California Allentown, PA Philadelphia, PA Nation Vinlanders Mississippi Colorado Tennessee Wilkes Barre/ Gilmanton, WI* Mesa, AZ Bridgeton, MO Florida Virginia Scranton, PA Arizona Ft. Lauderdale, FL Nebraska Idaho Seattle, WA Maryland State Skinhead Illinois Cleveland, OH Illinois Firm 22 Skinheads Stormtroopers Knightstown, IN Pennsylvania Indiana Indiana* Baltimore, MD Portage, IN Michigan Tennessee Kentucky Georgia Midland Supreme White Missouri Norfolk, VA Massachusetts Michigan Hammerskins Alliance Cherry Hill, NJ Western Missouri Newark, OH Wichita, KS Ohio* Closter, NJ Hammerskins Fords, NJ Crum Lynne, PA Northern Georgia Pt. Pleasant Beach, NJ San Diego, CA New York Folkish Women Front Hammerskins Iowa Ohio White Power North Carolina Mississippi Illinois Idaho Oklahoma Skinheads Pennsylvania Golden State Detroit, MI Chicago, IL Pennsylvania Shelby, OH L Texas Skinheads Northwest Kentucky Volksfront Bergen County Hooligans ND Garfield, NJ WA MT 1 0 NH 0 0 MN ME Wallington, NJ 1 VT 0 Blood and Honour SD WI 0 OR ID 0 0 American Division 0 2 WY MI NY Portland, OR* 0 IA 2 0 MA 0 NE 0 RI 0 Arkansas PA 0 1 IL IN OH CT 0 Northern California NV 1 1 1 NJ 0 0 UT CO DE 0 Southern California 0 1 KS MO WV 0 3 0 VA MD 0 Lakeland, FL CA KY 2 1 DC 0 Maine 0 OK AR TN 1 NC 0 Michigan AZ NM 0 2 SC Lake St. Louis, MO 0 1 MS AL GA 0 Mississippi Ecclesiastical Coun- TX 0 1 1 LA cil for the Restoration Ohio 2 1 Pennsylvania of Covenant Israel Virginia AK FL (ECRCI) Blood and Honour 0 0 Chicago, IL U.S.A. Fellowship of God’s HI Littleton, CO 0 Covenant People Salem, OH Burlington, KY Flemington, NJ First Century Chris- Richardson, TX tian Ministries California Skinheads The Woodlands, TX Fresno, CA CHRISTIAN IDENTITY Kingdom Identity Confederate Christian Identity describes a religion that is fundamentally racist Ministries Hammerskins and anti-Semitic. Some groups listed in other categories, such as the Harrison, AR Orlando, FL* neo-Nazi Aryan Nations and several Klan groups, also hold Christian Kinsman Redeemer Ministries Huntsville, AL 26 Identity beliefs. Jacksonville, FL Alexandria, KY North Carolina Mission to Israel Dallas, TX 11th Hour Remnant Sandpoint, ID Nations Church of the Sons of Scottsbluff, NE Petersburg, VA Messenger By Yahweh’s Design Simms, TX Yhvh IdentityNon-Universal Connecticut White Santa Fe, NM Stevensville, MI Church of Jesus Christ Calhoun, LA Teaching Ministries Wolves Abundant Life Christ’s Gospel Bergman, AR Church of True Israel Fostoria, OH Stratford, CT Fellowship Fellowship The Church of Jesus Hayden, ID Reformed Church of Coors Family Morgantown, IN Spokane, WA Christ Christian / Covenant People’s Israel Skinheads America’s Promise Christian Identity Aryan Nations Ministry Schell City, MO Big Bear Lake, CA Ministries Church — Aryan Granby, MO Brooks, GA Scriptures for

spring 2011 47 America Ministries YHWH Study Group Tampa, FL Greensboro, NC Austin, TX Laporte, CO Lincoln, AL Wappapello, MO Atlanta, GA Atlantic City, NJ Dallas, TX The Shepherd’s Call Virginia Publishing Weisman Publications Columbus, GA Newark, NJ Fort Worth, TX Ministries Company Burnsville, MN Indianapolis, IN Plainfield, NJ Houston, TX New Tazewell, TN Lynchburg, VA Yahweh’s Truth Louisville, KY Willingboro, NJ Richmond, VA United Church of Watchmen Bible Linwood, MI L New Orleans, LA Las Vegas, NV Seattle, WA Shreveport, LA Brooklyn, NY Milwaukee, WI

WA MT ND Boston, MA Harlem, NY New Black Panther 2 0 NH 0 0 MN ME 1 VT 0 Baltimore, MD Rochester, NY Party SD WI 0 OR ID 0 1 Detroit, MI Akron, OH Washington, DC* 4 0 WY MI NY 0 IA 8 7 MA 2 Flint, MI Cincinnati, OH St. Louis, MO NE 0 RI 0 PA 9 2 IL IN OH CT 1 Grand, MI Columbus, OH Newark, NJ NV 2 2 5 NJ 12 2 UT CO DE 1 0 1 KS MO WV 0 5 0 VA MD 3 Jackson, MI Youngstown, OH Trenton, NJ CA KY 2 2 DC 4 14 OK TN 3 NC 8 St. Louis, MO Portland, OR Houston, TX 4 AR AZ NM 3 United Nuwaubian 3 0 SC Greenville, MS Philadelphia, PA 3 MS AL GA Greenwood, MS Pittsburgh, PA Nation of Moors/ TX LA 3 5 6 8 3 Southaven, MS Charleston, SC All Eyes on Egypt AK FL Charlotte, NC Columbia, SC Bookstore 0 10 Durham, NC Memphis, TN Milledgeville, GA* HI 0 Fayetteville, NC Nashville, TN Stone Mountain, GA L

BLACK SEPARATIST NEO-CONFEDERATE Black separatist groups are organizations whose Neo-Confederate groups seek to revive many of 149 ideologies include tenets of racially basedBlack hatred. Sep42 the racist principles of the antebellum South.

The Israelite Church Los Angeles, CA Knoxville, TN WA MT ND 0 0 NH 0 1 MN ME of God in Jesus Christ Oakland, CA Beaumont, TX 0 VT 0 SD WI 0 New York, NY* San Diego, CA Dallas, TX OR ID 0 0 0 0 WY MI NY Washington, DC Washington, DC Houston, TX 0 IA 0 0 MA 0 NE 0 RI 0 PA 0 0 IL IN OH CT 0 Fort Myers, FL Gainesville, FL Virginia Beach, VA NV NJ 0 UT CO 0 1 0 0 KS MO WV DE 0 North Miami, FL Jacksonville, FL Seattle, WA 0 0 VA MD 1 0 1 KY 1 0 Orlando, FL Atlanta, GA Nation of Islam CA 1 DC 0 1 OK TN 2 NC 1 2 AR West Palm Beach, FL Savannah, GA Chicago, IL* AZ NM 2 0 0 SC Baltimore, MD Chicago, IL Birmingham, AL MS AL GA 7 TX LA 2 7 5 North Minneapolis, MN Indiana Mobile, AL 1 1

Kansas City, MO Louisville, KY Montgomery, AL AK FL Fayetteville, NC Shreveport, LA Tuscaloosa, AL 0 5 HI Goldsboro, NC Boston, MA Little Rock, AR 0 Wilmington, NC Baltimore, MD Pine Bluff, AR Omaha, NE Detroit, MI Phoenix, AZ Brian Pace Trading Jacksonville, FL Laurens, SC Asbury Park, NJ Muskegon, MI Compton, CA Booneville, MS Key West, FL Lobelville, TN Camden, NJ Oak Park, MI Fresno, CA Dixie Republic Polk County, FL LaPorte, TX Jersey City, NJ Taylor, MI Inland Empire, CA Travelers Rest, SC Southeast Florida Marion, VA Vineland, NJ St. Joseph, MO Long Beach, CA Kingdom Treasure Barnesville, GA League of the South Lawton, OK St. Louis, MO Los Angeles, CA Ministries Macon, GA Institute Oklahoma City, OK Sanford, NC Oakland, CA Owasso, OK McDonough, GA Clemson, SCNeo Confed Tulsa, OK Omaha, NE Richmond, CA League of the South North Georgia League of the South/ Beaverton, OR New Jersey Sacramento, CA Killen, AL* Statesboro, GA Southern Patriot Shop Portland, OR Jersey City, NJ San Diego, CA Hackneyville, AL Lexington, KY Cayce, SC Allentown, PA Las Vegas, NV San Francisco, CA Montgomery, AL Monroe, LA League of the South/ Coatesville, PA New York Stockton, CA Selma, AL Prince Frederick, MD Southern Patriot Norristown, PA New Hartford, NY Aurora, CO Tuscaloosa, AL West Plains, MO Super Store Philadelphia, PA (2) Rochester, NY Bridgeport, CT Weogufka, AL Mendenhall, MS Abbeville, SC Pittsburgh, PA Cincinnati, OH Washington, DC Wetumpka, AL Big Fork, MT Livin’ the Legacy National Black Foot Ardmore, OK Wilmington, DE Hot Springs, AR Wilmington, NC Nashville, IN Soldier Network Portland, OR Fort Lauderdale, FL Mammoth Spring, AR Oklahoma Mary Noel Kershaw Mobile, AL Pennsylvania Miami, FL Scotts Valley, CA Abbeville, SC Foundation Little Rock, AR South Carolina Orlando, FL Goldenrod, FL Columbia, SC Lobelville, TN L

48 splc intelligence report late Heart of Mary Jewish Defense Richmond, NH League St. Joseph Forum Los Angeles, CA* GENERAL HATE South Bend, IN Arizona These organizations are subdivided into anti-gay, anti-immigrant, St. Michael’s Parish/ San Diego, CA Holocaust denial, racist music, and radical traditionalist Catholic Mount St. Michael Fort Lauderdale, FL groups. A final “other” sub-category includes groups espousing a Spokane, WA Skokie, IL 122 variety of hateful doctrines. Tradition in Action Louisiana Los Angeles, CA Michigan ANTI-GAY (17) Americans for Washington, DC Alliance for Catholic OTHER (47) South Carolina Abiding Truth Immigration Control Campaign for Radical Tradition a2z Publications Texas Ministries Monterey, VA Truth in History Pleasant Unity, PA Las Vegas, NV Jewish Task Force Springfield, MA American Patrol/ Coeur d’Alene, ID Catholic Apologetics American Free Press Fresh Meadows, NY America Forever Voice of Citizens Castle Hill Publishers International Publish- Washington, DC M.A.C.S. Klan Sandy, UT Together New York, NY ing, Inc. Artisan Publishers Merchandise American Family Sherman Oaks, CA Inconvenient History State Line, PA Muskogee, OK Louisiana Association Border Guardians San Ysidro, CA Tupelo, MS Livingston, TX Institute for WA MT ND 1 0 NH 2 1 MN ME 1 VT 0 Americans for Truth California Coalition for Historical Review SD WI 0 OR ID 1 0 About Homosexuality Immigration Reform 1 2 WY MI NY Fountain Valley, CA 0 IA 2 10 MA 3 NE 0 RI 0 PA 6 Naperville, IL Huntington Beach, CA Institute for Histori- 0 IL IN OH CT 0 NV NJ 1 UT CO 5 3 2 2 KS MO WV DE 1 American Vision Concerned Citizens cal Review Store 2 6 VA MD 0 1 1 KY 0 3 and Friends of CA 2 DC 5 Powder Springs, GA Newport Beach, CA 21 OK TN 0 NC 1 1 AR AZ NM 7 Bethesda Christian Illegal Immigration The International 7 0 SC MS AL GA 2 Institute Law Enforcement Conspiratological TX LA 2 0 2 9 2 San Antonio, TX Framingham, MA Association FL Biblical Family Emigration Party of Coeur d’Alene, ID AK 4 0 Advocate Nevada Noontide Press HI 0 San Diego, CA Henderson, NV Newport Beach, CA Chalcedon Foundation Federation for RACIST MUSIC (15) Bill Keller Ministries National Prayer Vallecito, CA American Immigra- Desastrious Records Catholic Counterpoint St. Petersburg, FL Network Faithful Word Baptist tion Reform Springtown, TX Broomall, PA Chick Publications Clackamas, OR Church Washington, DC Diehard Records Catholic Family News/ Ontario, CA National Vanguard Tempe, AZ Press 2 For English Chesapeake, OH Catholic Family Christian Books and Books Family Research Jackson, MS DJ GOR Ministries, Inc. Things Hillsboro,General WV Council Save Our State Bedford, PA Niagara Falls, NY Harrison, AR Ozark Craft LC Washington, DC San Bernardino, CA Fetch the Rope Culture Wars/ Cross Bearer Ministry Harrison,Hate AR Family Research Social Contract Press Bozeman, MT Fidelity Press Indianapolis, IN Power of Prophecy Institute Petoskey, MI Final Stand Records South Bend, IN Cultural Studies Press Austin, TX Colorado Springs, CO United for a Sover- Newark, DE The Fatima Crusader/ New York, NY The Redneck Shop Heterosexuals eign America (USA) Get Some 88 International Fatima Dove World Outreach Laurens, SC Organized for a Moral Phoenix, AZ Castaic, CA Rosary Crusade Center Sons of Aesir Environment US Border Guard & Heritage Connection Constable, NY Gainesville, FL Motorcycle Club Downers Grove, IL Border Rangers Harrison, AR IHM Media Freedom Defense Maricopa County, AZ Illinois Family Mesa, AZ ISD Records Richmond, NH Initiative (FDI) Tony Alamo Christian Institute ANTI-MUSLIM (5) Lancaster, OH IHS Press New York, NY Ministries Carol Stream, IL 9/11 Christian Center Life Rune Industries Odessa, TX Fundamentalist Latter Fouke, AR* Mass Resistance at Ground Zero North Highlands, CA In the Spirit of Day Saints Fort Smith, AR Waltham, MA New York, NY Micetrap Distribution Chartres Committee Hildale, UT* Canyon Country, CA Traditional Values Casa D’Ice Signs Maple Shade, NJ Suffolk, VA Colorado City, AZ New York, NY Coalition North Versailles, PA MSR Productions Legion of St. Louis Cotopaxi, CO Texarkana, TX Anaheim, CA* Christian Phalange Wheat Ridge, CO Odessa, TX Custer County, CO Truth Triumphant Washington, DC Newton, NC Poker Face Most Holy Family Florence, CO Eustis, FL Westboro Baptist Right Wing Extreme Allentown, PA Monastery Mancos, CO Vinland Folk Church Gainesville, GA Resistance Records Fillmore, NY Pringle, SD Resistance Topeka, KS Stop the Islamization Hillsboro, WV OMNI Christian Book Eldorado, TX Kingsburg, CA ANTI-IMMIGRANT (13) of America (SIOA) Tightrope Club Holy Nation of Odin Voz de Aztlan American Border New York, NY Calico Rock, AR Palmdale, CA Kingsburg, CA Whittier, CA Patrol HOLOCAUST DENIAL (8) Unholy Records The Remnant/The Illinois United White Pride Home Sierra Vista, AZ Barnes Review/ Marlinton, WV Remnant Press Palatine, IL School Resource American Immigration Foundation for RADICAL TRADITIONAL Forest Lake, MN Invictus Books Center Control Foundation/ Economic Liberty, Inc. CATHOLIC (17) Slaves of the Immacu- Wentzville, MO Bergman, AR L

spring 2011 49 Westland, MI Aryan Front aryan-front.com Aryan Nations* Hate Websites aryannationsrevival.org Coeur d’Alene, ID Aryan Nations (offshoot)* posse-comitatus.org aryan-nations.org in the U.S. Lexington, SC This list of 657 U.S.-based hate sites active on the World Wide Web in 2010 includes pages from Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations 88* Neo-Nazi, White Nationalist, Racist Skinhead, Christian Identity, Neo-Confederate, Black Separatist, and aryannations88information.blogspot.com General Hate groups. Web sites tend to move from server to server or shut down without notice, so they may be AryanNations88.com hard to locate. Sites marked with an asterisk (*) are organizations that actively promote hate beyond the mere Athol, ID publishing of Internet material (see also hate group listing, p. 44). Their locations are listed. Aryan Volk of Midgard Forum aryanvolkofmidgard.com Bowles For President KU KLUX KLAN (49) Knight Riders Knights of the Philadelphia, MS Aryan Nations Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (WV)* Rachel Pendergraft Blog bowlesblog.blogspot.com/index.html Ku Klux Klan* kkkknights.com rachelpendergraft.blogspot.com Christian Defense League* aryannationsknights.us/Home.html Beckley, WV Southern Alliance of Klans cdlreport.com Ashland, AL Knights of the Ku Klux Klan* sakkkk.com Mandeville, LA Association of Georgia Klans Knights arkpower-light.com Supreme White Knights of the Church of Jesus Christ Christian/ of the Ku Klux Klan* Concord, AR Ku Klux Klan* Aryan Nations National Headquarters associationofklanskkkk.weebly.com/ kkk.com supremewhiteknights.com aryannations88hq.blogspot.com index.html kkk.bz Van Wert, OH The Creativity Alliance* Conyers, GA Harrison, AR Texas Rebel Knights of the creativityalliance.com Association of Independent Klansmen newporttennessee.net Ku Klux Klan* sites.google.com/site/deseretcreators Knights of the Ku Klux Klan* Newport, TN texasrebelknightskkk.com Draper, UT independentklansmen.webs.com Knights of the Southern Cross Soldiers Splendora, TX rahowadirectory.com/georgia Maryland of the Ku Klux Klan* Thomas Robb Blog Georgia Brotherhood of Klans Knights of the knightsofthesoutherncrosssoldiersoft- tarobb.blogspot.com The Creativity Movement* Ku Klux Klan* hekukluxklan.com Traditional Christian Knights of the illinoiscreators.com knightskkk.com Powhatan, VA Ku Klux Klan* Zion, IL BrotherhoodofKlans.com Knights Party Veterans League nctckkkk.net rahowa.us/maryland KnightsKuKluxKlan.com knightspartyveteransleague.com/ North Carolina Maryland Marion, OH index-1.html tckkkk.org rahowa.us Church of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, LLC* Carlsbad, TX Emmet, MI Ku Klux Klan* kukluxklan.bz Traditionalist American Knights of the creativitymovement.com/ohio cnkkkk.net Compton, AR Ku Klux Klan* Ohio South Bend, IN Mississippi White Knights of the traditionalistamericanknights.com creativitymovement.com/virginia Dixie Rangers Knights of the Ku Klux Klan* Potosi, MO Virginia Ku Klux Klan* mwkkkk.com True Invisible Empire Knights of the ENationalist dixierangerskkk.com Petal, MS Ku Klux Klan* enationalist.com/portal/index Walker, LA Mountain State Knights of the tiekkkk.webs.com Friends of a New Dawn The Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan* Pulaski, TN friendsofanewdawm.proboards.com/ Ku klux Klan* mskkkk.tripod.com/index.html United Northern and Southern Knights index.cgi knights311.org Hartford, KY of the Ku Klux Klan* Gallows Tree Wotansvolk Alliance Homosassa Springs, FL National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan* unskkkk.com wotansvolk.com Fraternal White Knights* arizonacnkkkk.webs.com Fraser, MI wotansreich.webs.com fraternalwhiteknights.com Arizona United Realms of America Knights of Grand Rapids, MI Charles City, IA cnkkkkgeorgia.weebly.com the Ku Klux Klan* Illinois National Socialist Front* Imperial Klans of America* Georgia curakkkk.com illinoisnsf.com kkkk.net nationalknightsindiana.webs.com Ukiah, CA Peoria, IL realmofky.blogspot.com Indiana United White Knights of the Iron Will Radio Dawson Springs, KY cnksc.weebly.com/index.html Ku Klux Klan* ironwillradio.com kkkk.net/Realm%20Links%20Folder/ South Carolina uwkkkk.com Jew Crime RealmOfPennsylvania.html cnkkkktennessee.com/index.php/Home Midlothian, TX jew-crime.com Johnstown, PA Tennessee World Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Lebensborn Assembly Church International Keystone Knights of the cnkkkkwv.comuf.com worldknights.org lebensbornassemblychurch.com Ku Klux Klan Inc.* West Virginia NEO-NAZI (67) Libertarian National Socialist ikkkkk.org New Empire Knights of the Ku Klux 1488 Folk Green Party Colt, AR Klan International LLC* 1488folk.com nazi.org Jason Robb Blog theklan1865.com Adolf the Great Maryland National Socialist Party Blog* jasonrobb.blogspot.com Clemmons, NC adolfthegreat.com mdnaziparty.blogspot.com Knight Riders Knights of the Order of the Ku Klux Klan American National Socialist Eldridge, MD Ku Klux Klan* kkklan.com Policy Institute National Alliance* knightriderskkkk.com Original Knights of America Knights anspi.club.officelive.com natvan.com knightriderskkkk.org of the Ku Klux Klan* American Nazi Party* natall.com Ellijay, GA originalknightsofamerica.webs.com americannaziparty.com Hillsboro, WV 50 splc intelligence report National Alliance Earl Turners Blog whitehonor.com Little Rock, AR Maple Shade, NJ earlturneralliance.wordpress.com White Knights of America* northcalcofcc.wordpress.com Fallen Freedom National Alliance News whiteknightsofamerica.com California fallenfreedom.blogspot.com natallnews.com Tonopah, AZ scccc.wordpress.com The First Freedom National Socialist American Labor Party* White Pride MI Southern California gulftel.com/firstfreedom nsalp.org whitepridemi.webs.com hoosiernation.us The Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation* Burbank, CA White Revolution* Carmel, IN fgfbooks.com nsalpfl.blogspot.com whiterevolution.com lacofcc.wordpress.com Vienna, VA Florida Russellville, AR Louisiana Folk and Faith* National Socialist Aryan Order* whiterevolution-ne.org arklatexcofcc.webs.com/www.cofcc.org folkandfaith.com nsaryanorder.tripod.com Omaha, NE Shreveport, LA Idaho Falls, ID Davison, MI WHITE NATIONALIST (187) cofcc.org The Foremost Problem National Socialist Black Metal Access St. Louis! saintlouiscofcc.wordpress.com theforemostproblem.blogspot.com nsbm.org accessstlouis.blogspot.com countenance.wordpress.com Frank Roman’s Blog National Socialist German Age of Treason St. Louis, MO frankroman.wordpress.com Workers Party* age-of-treason.blogspot.com mississippicouncilofconservativeciti- Free American Magazine Online* nazi-lauck-nsdapao.com AlterMedia International zens.wordpress.com freeamerican.com Lincoln, NE altermedia.info Jackson, MS Tucson, AZ National Socialist Movement* Alternative Right cofccnc.wordpress.com Free Edgar Steele* webspawner.com/users/nsmmary- AlternativeRight.com North Carolina edgarsteele.blogspot.com land88/index.html American Italian White Separatist Front heritagelost.wordpress.com free-edgar-steele.com Maryland angelfire.com/rebellion2/aiwsf Charleston, SC Sagle, ID nsm88.org American National Conference midtncouncil.wordpress.com Future Generations whitepowerchat.com/nsmforum ancpage.com Franklin, TN eugenics.net Detroit, MI American Nationalist Union* Daughters of Boudica Get Some 88 nsm88nv.com anu.org daughtersofboudica.com getsome88.com Nevada anunews.net David Duke Online Guy White Making Sense On Race nukeisrael.com castefootball.us davidduke.com guywhite.wordpress.com Portland, OR Las Vegas, NV davidduke.org Honest Media Today nsmspartanburg.20fr.com American Renaissance/ David Lane’s Pyramid Prophecy honestmediatoday.com Enoree, SC New Century Foundation* freetheorder.org/DavidLane/ Iron Rain Nationalists * National Socialist Movement Radio chicagoamren.com whywotan.html irnnfchicago.tripod.com/index.html nsm88radio.com Chicago, IL Day of the Rope Blogspot Chicago, IL National Socialist Punk amren.com dayoftherope.blogspot.com irnnf.20.forumer.com nazipunk.8k.com nc-f.org Defensive Racism Utica, NY Nationalist Coalition* Oakton, VA defensiveracism.com Jamie Kelso’s Blog ncoal.com American Third Position* delray times stormfront.org/forum/blog.php?u=5122 St Petersburg, FL american3p.com delraytimes.blogspot.com Jared Taylor New Order* Los Angeles, CA Detroit is Crap jaredtaylor.org theneworder.org A Race Against Time detroitiscrap.com Jewish Tribal Review Milwaukee, WI araceagainsttime.blogspot.com Diversity is Chaos jewishtribalreview.org Nordwave* AryansBook diversityischaos.blogspot.com Jew Watch nordwave.net aryansbook.com Do Right Foundation* jewwatch.com Lake Worth, FL Aryan Wear* doright.org John De Nugent NSM 88 Records aryanwear.com Law Vegas, NV johndenugent.com nsm88records.com Keller, TX Dr. Virginia Deane Abernethy johndenugent.org NSM88 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The League of American Patriots* ssregalia.com Port Huron, MI Mandeville, LA leagueap.org Edgewater, MD Christian Legal Reformation Club European Caucasian Preservation Garfield, NJ Third Reich Books clrc.net University Lee in the Mountains third-reich-books.com The Color of Crime e-CPU.blogspot.com leeinthemountains.wordpress.com White Aryan Resistance* colorofcrime.com European Union Times Louis Beam resist.com Conspiracy Penpal eutimes.net louisbeam.com Warsaw, IN conspiracypenpal.com Euro Pride Apparel* Malevolent Freedom White Brothers of America* Council of Conservative Citizens* europeanpride.com malevolentfreedom.org whitebrothersofamerica.webs.com alcofcc.wordpress.com Summerville, SC The Mankind Quarterly Canton, IL Jasper, AL Faith, Folk, and Family* mankindquarterly.org White Honor arcofcc.freeservers.com/index.html odinist.com/othala/index.php March of the Titans A History of the

spring 2011 51 White Race orderofwhiteknights.org Stormfront* tworca.org white-history.com Original Dissent stormfront.org White Survival Merlin’s Castle originaldissent.com wpww.com whitesurvival.wordpress.com stormfront.org/forum/blog. OURGAZETTEER.ORG West Palm Beach, FL Why Blacks Suck php?u=30943 ourgazetteer.org/?page_id=2 Temple 88* whyblackssuck.blogspot.com Micetrap Radio Pacifica Forum* temple88.com WNTube aryanradio.com pacificaforum.org Farmington, WV wntube.net Nationalist Library Eugene, OR Thewhitechrist’s Weblog Women for Aryan Unity* nationalistlibrary.com Patriotic Flags* thewhitechrist.wordpress.com w-a-u.net Nationalist Movement* patriotic-flags.com Thoughtcrime — Harold Covington Brooklyn, NY nationalist.org Summerville, SC downwithjugears.blogspot.com W.O.T.A.N. Learned, MS Pioneer Fund* Tightrope allfatherwotan.org National Policy Institute* pioneerfund.org tightrope.cc WPWW — The Folk nationalpolicyinstitute.org New York, NY Tip of the Spear Consulting Services* wpww-thefolk.com Augusta, GA The Political Cesspool Blog* tipofthespear.tv WTM Enterprises* NationalSalvation.net thepoliticalcesspool.org Palm Beach County, FL thornwalker.com/ditch/index.html nationalsalvation.net thepoliticalcesspool.org/jamesedwards Tomislav Sunic (Tom Sunic) Roanoke, IN Nation of Cowards Bartlett, TN tomsunic.info Yggdrasil’s Library nationofcowards.us Political Soldier.net and Final Conflict Truck_Roy Blog whitenationalism.com Natural Consequences politicalsoldier.net stormfront.org/forum/blog. Young John’s Blog naturalconsequences.blogspot.com Professor Kevin MacDonald, CSULB, php?u=115496 yjohn.wordpress.com NeoEugenics Department of Psychology The Truth About Panzerfaust Records RACIST SKINHEAD (24) neoeugenics.com kevinmacdonald.net anthonypierpont.com American Front* New Century Productions* Proud Aryan Brothers* Vanguard News Network americanfront.org aconversationaboutrace.com proudaryanbrothers.webs.com vanguardnewsnetwork.com Sacramento, CA Littleton, CO Kokomo, IN govnn.com Aryan Terror Brigade* New Nation News Put Troops on the Border Vanguard News Network Forum atb8318.webs.com newnation.org puttroopsontheborder.com vnnforum.com Flemington, NJ New Nation News Reporters Forum Racial Compact Vanishing American Blood and Honour American newnation.vg/forums/index.php racialcompact.com vanishingamerican.blogspot.com Division Forum New Saxon Racial Nationalist Library VDARE.com: Blog Articles 28american.proboards.com newsaxon.com library.flawlesslogic.com blog.vdare.com Blood and Honour U.S.A.* NewsNet14 Racial Nationalist Party of America* VDARE Foundation* wix.com/bloodandhonourco/ 1488.net rnpaheadquarters.org vdare.com bloodandhonourcolorado newsnet14.com Lockport, NY Warrenton, VA Littleton, CO Nicholas Stix, Uncensored Radio Free Mississippi View From the Right bloodandhonour-usa.com nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com rebelarmy.com amnation.com/vfr kriegsberichter.com Noahide News Representative Government Vinland Folk Patriots Richardson, TX samliquidation.com/noahidenews30.htm Education Foundation* vinlandfolkresistance.com California Skinheads* No New World Order repgov.org Voice of Reason Broadcast Network* caskinhead.com nonwo.com Raleigh, NC reasonradionetwork.com Fresno, CA North East White Pride* Revilo Oliver Pasadena, CA Crew 38* newp.org revilo-oliver.com Wake Up or Die crew38.com Haverhill, MA robertsgriffin.com wakeupordie.com Florida Northern Voice Bookstore* robertsgriffin.com Washington Summit Publishers* Folkish Womens Front* northernvoicebookstore.com The Sam Francis Letter wspublishers.com folkishwomensfront.com Las Vegas, NV samfranciscolumn.blogspot.com Augusta, GA folkishwomensfronthomeschool. 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Mississippi Seattle, WA php?u=180274 php?u=110896 Hammerskin Nation Northwest Homeland Blogspot Scott-Townsend Publishers* Western Voices World News hammerskins.net northwestfront.org/blog scott-townsend.com wvwnews.net Hooligan Site No War for Israel Washington, DC Whitaker Online hooligansite.com nowarforisrael.com Shots Fired whitakeronline.org Independent Skins* Occidental Dissent* shotsfired.us White Boy Society* independentskins.com occidentaldissent.com Sigrdrifa Publications* localwhiteboy.com Cleburne, TX Birmingham, AL sigrdrifa.net whiteboysociety.net/news.php Keystone United* The Occidental Observer Vancouver, WA Illinois keystoneunited.com theoccidentalobserver.com SolarGeneral.com White Nationalist White Boy Society Blog kss88.com Occidental Origin News Portal whiteboysociety.blogspot.com Harrisburg, PA occidentalorigin.com solargeneral.com White Christian Heritage Festival Maryland State Skinheads* Occidental Quarterly/ Solutrean Liberation Front whitechristianheritagefestival.org marylandskinheads.com Charles Martel Society* solutreanliberationfront.blogspot.com White Christian Soldiers* Baltimore, MD theoccidentalquarterly.com Spirit Water Blood angelfire.com/ny2/Lansky2000/cda. 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52 splc intelligence report supreme-white-alliance.net angloisrael.com truthinhistory.org noiwest.com swa43.com The Woodlands, TX Owasso, OK Los Angeles, CA Central City, KY God Save America Again League of the South* muhammadmosque51.org Vinlanders Social Club* godsaveamericaagain.com auburnlos.20m.com Aurora, CO vinlanders.com Israel Elect Auburn, AL muhammadstempleofislam41.org Knightstown, IN israelect.com dixienet.org Bridgeport, CT Volksfront* Israelite Watchmen leagueofthesouth.net noidc.org volksfrontinternational.com israelitewatchmen.com Killen, AL Washington, DC Portland, OR Jesus Was Not a Jew arKSlos.org muhammadmosque15.org White Power Skinheads* jesuswasnotajew.com Mammoth Springs, AR Atlanta, GA whitepowerskinheads.com Kingdom Identity Ministries* freeflorida.org noicolumbusga.org/Local.htm Shelby, OH kingidentity.com Jacksonville, FL Columbus, GA Wolf Lair Radio Harrison, AR coolchange.net noi.org wolflairradio.com Kinsman Redeemer Ministries* Northeast Florida Chicago, IL CHRISTIAN IDENTITY (42) kinsmanredeemer.com southerncrescentlos.org noimm74.wordpress.com 11th Hour Remnant Messenger* Alexandria, KY Barnesville, GA Indianapolis, IN 11thhourremnantmessenger.vpweb.com Mission To Israel* georgialos.org noineworleans.org Santa Fe, NM missiontoisrael.org McDonough, GA New Orleans, LA Abundant Life Fellowship* Scottsbluff, NE georgials.org noishreveport.org abundant-life-fellowship.org Non-Universal Teaching Ministries* Statesboro, GA Shreveport, LA Morgantown, IN emahiser.christogenea.org/site louisiana.chapterlos.org noibaltimore.org Adam’s Bible Fostoria, OH Monroe, LA Baltimore, MD adamsbible.com Pastor Bill’s Christian Identity Page missourilos.org thenationspeaks.org America’s Promise Ministries* cichaplain.blogspot.com West Plains, MO Dorchester, MA amprom.org Philip Luger Blog northcarolina.chapterlos.org noidetroit.org Sandpoint, ID philipluger.blogspot.com Wilmington, NC Detroit, MI Aryan Nations Revival Reformed Church of Israel* abbevillecolos.wordpress.com noigrandrapids.com aryannationsrevival.org reformedchurchofisrael.com Abbeville, SC Grand Rapids, MI By Yahweh’s Design* Schell City, MO sclos.org noims.org blogtalkradio.com/byd Scriptures for America* Columbia, SC Southaven, MS Stevensville, MI scripturesforamerica.org freetennessee.org muhammadmosque28.org Children of Yahweh scripturesforamerica.com Lobelville, TN St. Louis, MO israelect.com/ChildrenOfYahweh Laporte, CO texaslos.org muhammad75.wordpress.com Christian Identity Serpent’s Seed LaPorte, TX Las Vegas, NV christian-identity.com serpentseed.com virginialos.org muhammadmosqueno25.com Christian Identity Church — The Shepherd’s Call Ministries* Marion, VA Newark, NJ Aryan Nations* oneyahweh.com League of the South/Southern Patriot mosque7.org christian-aryannations.webs.com New Tazewell, TN Super Store* New York, NY Simms, TX Skip Baker spsstore.com mosque36.com Christogenea skipbaker.com Abbeville, SC Charlotte, NC christogenea.org United Church of YHWH* Living Well is the Best Revenge mosque34.org Church of Jesus Christ — Aryan ucoy.christogenea.org bigchiefrevenge.blogspot.com Durham, NC aryanchurch.blogspot.com Lincoln, AL Livin’ the Legacy* noifayettevillenc.webs.com The Church of Jesus Christ Christian/ Virginia Publishing Company* livinthelegacy.com Fayetteville, NC Aryan Nations Blog* richardhoskins.com Nashville, IN noiakron37.com cjcc-an.blogspot.com Lynchburg, VA BLACK SEPARATIST (47) Akron, OH Granby, MO Watchmen Bible Study Group* Black Lawyers for Justice muhummadmosque9.org Church of Jesus Christ/ biblestudysite.com blfj.org Youngstown, OH Thomas Robb Ministries* Wappapello, MO Blacks and Jews Newspage muhammadstemple12.faithweb.com christianidentitychurch.net Weisman Publications* blacksandjews.com Philadelphia, PA Bergman, AR seek-info.com Final Call pghmosque22.org Church of the Sons of Yhvh* Burnsville, MN finalcall.com Pittsburgh, PA churchofthesonsofyhvh.org Yahweh’s Truth* The Israelite Church of God noicharlestonsc.org Calhoun, LA posse-comitatus-usa.blogspot.com In Jesus Christ* Charleston, SC Church of True Israel* Linwood, MI icgjcmd.org muhammadmosque55.com/index2.html churchoftrueisrael.com NEO-CONFEDERATE (27) Baltimore, MD Memphis, TN Hayden, ID Brian Pace Trading* icgjcpgh.org noinashville.org Covenant People’s Ministry* brianpacetrading.com Pittsburgh, PA Nashville, TN covenantpeoplesministry.com Booneville, MS The Last Crusade austinnoi.com/index.html cpm.noonhost.com Confederate American Pride thelastcrusade.org Austin, TX Brooks, GA confederateamericanpride.com National Black Foot Solider Network* noidallas.org/index2.html Dr. James P. Wickstrom Dixie Republic* nationalblackfootsoldiernetwork.word- Dallas, TX posse-comitatus-usa.blogspot.com dixieoutpost.net press.com noifortworth.ning.com doctorjamespwickstrom.blogspot.com dixierepublic.com California Fort Worth, TX Ecclesiastical Council for the Travelers Rest, SC Nation of Islam* noiswregion.org Restoration of Covenant Israel* Florida League of the South noituscaloosastudygroup.blogspot.com Houston, TX anglo-saxonisrael.com Online Store Tuscaloosa, AL muhammadmosque24.org Chicago, IL cafepress.com/freeflorida noipb.org Richmond, VA First Century Christian Ministries* Kingdom Treasure Ministries* Pine Bluff, AR mosque3.org

spring 2011 53 Milwaukee, WI godhatesfags.com 0CFQOenAodEzEHkQ RACIST MUSIC (23) New Black Panther Party* Topeka, KS 9/11 Christian Center at Ground Zero* Aryan 88 — The Official Johnny newblackpanther.com You Can Run, But You Cannot Hide, 911christiancenter.com Rebel Website Washington, DC International (Ministries) New York, NY aryan88.com/whiterider/officialjr United Nation of Moors/ youcanruninternational.com Atlas Shrugs Battlecry All Eyes on Egypt Online Bookstore* ANTI-IMMIGRANT (20) atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com battlecrymusic.com alleyesonegyptbookstore.com American Border Patrol* Casa D’Ice Signs* Desastrious.com* Milledgeville, GA americanborderpatrol.com casadice.com/signs/index.htm desastrious.com alleyesonegypt.net/page/ Sierra Vista, AZ North Versailles, PA Springtown, TX page/307358.htm American Immigration Control Christian Phalange* Diehard Records* Stone Mountain, GA Foundation/Americans for phalange.com diehardrecords.net GENERAL HATE (214) Immigration Control* Newton, NC Chesapeake, OH ANTI-GAY (21) aicfoundation.com Florida Security Council DJ GOR* Abiding Truth Ministries* immigrationcontrol.com floridasecuritycouncil.org djgor.com abidingtruth.com Monterey, VA Right Wing Extreme* Bedford, PA defendthefamily.com American Patrol/Voice of rightwingextreme.us Fetch the Rope* Springfield, MA Citizens Together* Gainesville, GA fetchtherope.com America Forever* americanpatrol.com Stop the Islamization of America (SIOA)* Bozeman, MT americaforever.com Sherman Oaks, CA sioaonline.com Final Stand Records* Sandy, UT Border Guardians* New York, NY finalstandrecords.com American Family Association* borderguardians.org HOLOCAUST DENIAL (18) Newark, DE afa.net Livingston, TX Barnes Review/Foundation for Get Some 88* Tupelo, MS California Coalition for Economic Liberty* getsome88.com Americans for Truth About Immigration Reform* barnesreview.org Castaic, CA Homosexuality* ccir.net Washington, DC Heritage Connection* americansfortruth.com Huntington 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spring 2011 55 Statewide Southern ARKANSAS (14) Second Amendment Committee Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Hanford Alarm Riders State of California Unorganized ‘Patriot’ Statewide Militia* Arkansas Militia* Monrovia Eastern Truth Radio Little Rock Delano Groups Northeast We Are Change South Central Chico The Intelligence Project identified 824 anti-government “Patriot” groups Southwest Oakland that were active in 2010. Of these groups, 330 were militias, marked Western Sacramento with an asterisk, and the remainder includes “common-law” courts, Constitution Party San Francisco Bay Area publishers, ministries and citizens’ groups. Generally, Patriot groups Fayetteville WorldNetDaily define themselves as opposed to the “New World Order,” engage in John Birch Society Long Beach groundless conspiracy theorizing, or advocate or adhere to extreme Statewide COLORADO (12) antigovernment doctrines. Listing here does not imply that the groups Liberty Tree Rangers* America First Party themselves advocate or engage in violence or other criminal activities, or Statewide Boulder are racist. The list was compiled from field reports, Patriot publications, Militia of Washington County* American Freedom Network the Internet, law enforcement sources and news reports. Groups are Fayetteville Johnstown identified by the city, county or region where they are located. Oath Keepers Constitution Party Statewide Arvada ALABAMA (13) Statewide We Are Change Discharge Debt 2nd Alabama Militia, Co. A* Oath Keepers Bentonville Broomfield Mobile Statewide Searcy eMilitary Manuals Alabama Shoals Badgers* Second Amendment Task Force CALIFORNIA (31) Montrose Tuscumbia Fairbanks Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day EZREMEDY4U Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day We the People Alarm Riders Arvada Alarm Riders Homer Statewide John Birch Society Statewide ARIZONA (18) American Armenian Militia* Aurora America Can Be Free Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Los Angeles/San Fernando Valley Oath Keepers Newton Alarm Riders Area Statewide Confederate States Home Guard* Statewide American Independent Party We Are Change Statewide American Grand Jury Vacaville Colorado Springs Constitution Party Nogales California State Militia — 31st Field Huerfano Montgomery American Patriot Friends Network Force Squad Alpha/SOG* Statewide Free Patriot Press Peoria Orange County We the People Birmingham Arizona Citizens Militia* Confederate States Home Guard* Gunnison Jefferson Rangers Douglas Statewide CONNECTICUT (8) Birmingham Maricopa County Constitution Party Committees of Safety John Birch Society Pima County Riverside Weston Statewide Arizona Militia* The Dorean Group Connecticut 51st Militia Oath Keepers Glendale Union City Statewide Statewide Cochise County Militia* Educate Yourself Connecticut Patriot Alliance Ordo Militis Gladius* Tombstone Costa Mesa Canterbury Robertsdale Committee of Safety Freedom Force International Connecticut Survivalist Alliance THREE%ER Mesa Thousand Oaks Middlefield Pinson Constitution Party Freedom Law School John Birch Society We the People Goodyear Phelan Statewide Madison County Hour of the Time Free Enterprise Society Oath Keepers ALASKA (10) Eagar Fresno Statewide Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day John Birch Society Guardians of the Free Republics We Are Change Alarm Riders Statewide Soquel Meriden Statewide Northern Arizona Militia* Northern California State Militia* We the People Alaska Citizens Militia* Flagstaff Butte County Statewide Delta Junction Oath Keepers Falcon Creek DELAWARE (3) Nikiski Statewide Sacramento Constitution Party Alaska Peacemakers Militia* Riders United for a Sovereign Solano County Bear Fairbanks America, Corp. Stockton Oath Keepers Confederate States Home Guard* Phoenix Sunnyvale Statewide Statewide Shadow Mountain Bank Tehama County We the People Constitution Party (Alaskan Ash Fork Oath Keepers Statewide Independence Party) UnitedStates.fm High Desert DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (4) Soldotna Golden Valley Northern Oath Keepers John Birch Society We Are Change San Diego Washington, DC

56 splc intelligence report We the People Paulding County Alarm Riders Floyd County Washington, DC Richmond County Statewide Grant County WorldNetDaily Statewide America First Party of Illinois Hamiliton County Washington, DC Stephens County Rolling Meadows Henry County WorldNetDaily Books It’s Over Camp FEMA Howard County Washington, DC Morganton Northbrook Johnson County FLORIDA (23) John Birch Society Constitution Party La Porte County Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Statewide East Peoria Miami County Alarm Riders Militia of Georgia* Illinois Sons of Liberty* Porter County Statewide Lawrenceville Cook County Scott County America First Party of Florida Militia Recruiting Command* Fulton County St. Joseph County Fort White Columbus Kane County Steuben County Confederate States Home Guard* The Moorish Science Temple of Knox County Tippecanoe County Ft. Lauderdale America 1928 Macon County Vigo County Raiford Atlanta McHenry County Wabash County Constitution Party Oath Keepers Statewide Wayne County West Palm Beach Statewide Will County Indiana State Militia 14th Florida Constitution Guard* Preamble Trust Winnebago County Regiment* Orlando Atlanta Illinois State Militia (Unorganized) Owen County Florida Free Militia* Society for American Sovereignty 167th Battalion, 21st FF* John Birch Society Palm Coast Marrietta Statewide Indianapolis Florida Preparedness Group* We Are Change Martial Law Survival National Organization for the Daytona Atlanta Thomson Repeal of the Federal Reserve Act Gainesville Columbus Oath Keepers (NORFED) Miami LaGrange Statewide Evansville Orlando Trenton Restore the Republic Oath Keepers Palm Beach County HAWAII (3) Northbrook Statewide St. Augustine Constitution Party We the People Sons of Liberty St. Lucie County Honolulu Statewide Columbus Statewide ISA (Spiritual Sovereignty) INDIANA (43) We the People Tampa Kapaa 4th Regiment Watchmen of Statewide North Florida Survival Group* Oath Keepers Indiana* IOWA (10) Statewide Statewide Clark County 2nd Iowa Colonial Marines* Oath Keepers IDAHO (13) Crawford County Statewide Statewide Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Dearborn County Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day We Are Change Alarm Riders Fortville Alarm Riders Fort Walton Beach Statewide Rush County Statewide Jacksonville Commercial Redemption Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Confederate States Home Guard* Orlando Boise Alarm Riders Mason City Tampa Constitution Party Statewide Constitution Party We the People Parma Constitution Party Eldon Statewide Idaho Observer Indianapolis Oskaloosa GEORGIA (34) Spirit Lake Indiana Citizens Volunteer Militia, Oath Keepers Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day National Center for Constitutional 3rd Brigade* Statewide Alarm Riders Studies Tippecanoe County We Are Change Statewide Malta Indiana Constitutional Militia* Cedar Falls Confederate States Home Guard* North Idaho Light Foot Militia* Statewide Des Moines Tate Bonner County Indiana Militia Corps* Quad Cities Constitution Party Boundary County Ingalls We the People Woodstock Kootenai County Northeast Statewide Georgia Militia* Oath Keepers Northwest KANSAS (8) Bartow County Statewide Pendleton Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Blairsville Police & Military Against the New Southeast Alarm Riders Bulloch County World Order Southwest Statewide Camden County Kamiah Indianapolis Baptist Temple Constitution Party Catoosa County Status Is Freedom Indianapolis Wichita Chatham County Boise Indiana Sedentary Militia — 29th The Freeman Perspective Cobb County (2) We Are Change Battalion* Lawrence Coweta County Statewide Southwest Indiana John Birch Society Douglas County We the People Indiana’s Greene County Militia* Statewide Franklin County Statewide Greene County Kansas State Militia* Fulton County ILLINOIS (19) Indiana Sons of Liberty* Wichita Gwinnett County 135th Illinois Volunteer Cavalry* Clay County Oath Keepers Jackson County Statewide Daviess County Statewide Meriwether County Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Elkart County We Are Change

spring 2011 57 Lawrence Berwick Michigan Militia Corps Wolverines Detroit Statewide Maine Sons of Liberty* 8th Division — 19th Brigade* Flint KENTUCKY (16) Cumberland County South Central Michigan Area Royal Oak 1st Joint Public Militia* Sanford Michigan Patriot Alliance* Schoolcraft Bowling Green Oath Keepers Arenac County Statewide Louisville Statewide Bay County West Central Michigan Volunteer Marshall County Sovereignty International, Inc. Cheboygan County Militia* Northern Bangor Clinton County Grand Rapids Statewide We Are Change Crawford County West Michigan Volunteer Militia* Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day New England Area Genessee County Muskegon County Alarm Riders Portland Jackson County MINNESOTA (8) Jefferson County We the People Lapeer County Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Confederate States Home Guard* Statewide Macomb County Alarm Riders Marion MARYLAND (5) Midland County Statewide Constitution Party America’s Survival, Inc. Oakland County Constitution Party Lexington Owings Oceana County Redwood Falls Great Registry Post Oath Keepers Saginaw County John Birch Society Simpsonville Statewide Sanilac County Statewide John Birch Society Save A Patriot Fellowship Shiawassee County Oath Keepers Statewide Westminster St. Clair County Statewide Kentucky Section 8 Militia* We Are Change Statewide We Are Change Central Statewide Tuscola County Duluth Kentucky State Militia — We the People MILITIA 5th Division MI* Minneapolis Ohio Valley Command* Statewide Clare County Statewide Louisville MASSACHUSETTS (6) Ionia County We the People Oath Keepers America First Party of Isabella County Statewide Statewide Massachusetts Kent County MISSISSIPPI (9) PatriotResistance.com New Bedford Lake County Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Lexington Constitution Party Mason County Alarm Riders Take Back Kentucky Amesbury Mecosta County Statewide Clarkson Oath Keepers Montcalm County America First Party of Mississippi We the People Statewide Muskegon County Greenwood Statewide We Are Change Newaygo County Constitution Defense Militia of LOUISIANA (11) Boston Oceana County Attala County* Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Cape Cod Osceola County Attala County Alarm Riders We the People Ottawa County Constitution Party Statewide Statewide MILITIA 5th Division MI — Pontoc Constitution Party MICHIGAN (66) 9th Brigade Sniper School* East Central Mississippi Militia* Mandeville Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Mecosta County East Central Louisiana Militia* Alarm Riders Moorish Republic Trust Mississippi Militia* Statewide Statewide Oak Park Southaven Oath Keepers America First Party of Michigan Northern Michigan Backyard Oath Keepers Statewide Ypsilanti Protection Militia* Statewide Truth Attack Delta 5 Mobile Light Infantry Northern South Mississippi State Militia* Shreveport Militia* Oakland County Volunteers* South Washitaw Empire de Eaton County Oakland County We the People Dugdahmoundyah East-Central Volunteer Militia of Oath Keepers Statewide Monroe Michigan* Statewide MISSOURI (20) We Are Change Lapeer County Patriot Broadcasting Network America First Party of Missouri Arcadia The Heartland USA Dexter Imperial New Orleans Sagola Republic of the United States Confederate States Home Guard* Shreveport Hutaree Militia* Portage Rogersville Slidell Southern Michigan Area Southeast Michigan Volunteer Constitution Party We the People Jackson County Volunteers* Militia* Arnold Statewide Jackson County Livingston County Don’t Tread on Me MAINE (12) John Birch Society Macomb County Columbia Constitution Party Statewide Oakland County John Birch Society New Castle Lenawee County Free and Washtenaw County St. Peters John Birch Society Independent Militia* Wayne County Liberty Restoration Project Statewide Adrian Southwest Michigan Volunteer Kansas City Maine Constitutional Militia* Lost Horizons Militia* Springfield Statewide Commerce Township Southwest St. Louis Maine Highlands Defense Force* Michigan Militia* We Are Change Missouri Militia* Bangor Lansing Battlecreek Joplin (2) Maine Patriot Militia* Redford Clio Springfield

58 splc intelligence report St. Louis Northern We the People North Carolina Citizens Militia* West Central Southern Statewide Charlotte Oath Keepers Southern Nevada Militia* NEW YORK (34) Coastal Area Statewide Statewide Aboriginal Law Institute Sandhills Area Our Sammie Sovereign People’s Court for the New York Waynesville Statewide United States of America America First Party of New York North Carolina Regional Militia* Take Back Washington Las Vegas Lynbrook Coastal Chapter Versailles We Are Change Beneficiaries of Commerce Mountain Chapter United American Freedom Reno Clifton Park Piedmont Chapter Foundation We the People Constitution Party Oath Keepers Grandview Statewide New York Statewide We the People NEW HAMPSHIRE (5) Empire State Militia* Preamble Trust Statewide America First Party of New Northwestern Charlotte William Lewis Films Hampshire Oneida Area United Nations of Turtle Island Columbia Windham Staten Island Lumberton WorldNetDaily New Hampshire Patriot Militia* Statewide Washitaw Empire de Blue Springs Statewide Ulster County Area Dugdahmoundyah MONTANA (9) Oath Keepers Westchester Area High Point Celebrating Conservatism Statewide The Jekyll Island Project Washitaw Nation Missoula We the People Queensbury Greensboro Constitution Party Statewide New York Liberty Council We Are Change Great Falls What Really Happened Albany Mount Airy John Birch Society Concord Oath Keepers Statewide Statewide NEW JERSEY (9) Chatham We the People Lincoln County Watch Constitution Party We Are Change Statewide Bozeman Cinnaminson Hempstead NORTH DAKOTA (6) Militia of Montana* The Great Seal Moorish Science Ithaca Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Noxon Temple of America, Inc. Long Island Alarm Riders Oath Keepers Asbury Park New York Statewide Bozeman John Birch Society Northern Constitution Party We Are Change Ringwood Staten Island Mandan Billings New Jersey Militia* We The People John Birch Society Missoula Trenton Queensbury Statewide We the People Oath Keepers Statewide Little Shell Pembina Band of North Statewide Statewide West New York Patriots* America NEBRASKA (11) We Are Change Chautauqua County Pembina River Area Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Cape May Chemung County Oath Keepers Alarm Riders Statewide Erie County Statewide Statewide We the People Jefferson County We the People Constitution Party Statewide Livingston County Statewide Omaha Wolfpack Militia* Monroe County OHIO (27) John Birch Society Statewide Oneida County Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Statewide NEW MEXICO (17) Onondaga County Alarm Riders The Nebraska State Militia* Constitution Party Ontario County Statewide Statewide Albuquerque Southern America First Party of Ohio Nebraska State Militia — John Birch Society Statewide Cleveland Tall Grass Guard* Statewide Steuben County Clock of Destiny Moorish Interna- Douglas County New Mexico Citizen’s Militia* You Have Tread On Me tional Order of the Great Seal of 360 Oath Keepers Chaves County New York Cleveland Bellevue Dona Ana County NORTH CAROLINA (22) Confederate States Home Guard* Statewide Grant County Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Chillicothe We Are Change Los Lunas Alarm Riders Constitutional Militia of Clark Omaha Otero County Statewide County* South Sioux City Sandoval County Constitution Party Clark County Tri-Cities Area San Juan County Fuquay-Varina Constitution Party We the People Oath Keepers Cultural Freedom Delaware Statewide Statewide Norlina John Birch Society NEVADA (9) Southern New Mexico Militia* Cultural Freedom Bookstore Columbus America First Leadership Chaves County Fayetteville North Coast Citizens Militia* Las Vegas Curry County Granny Warriors Northwest Ohio/Southwest Center for Action Dona Ana County Leicester Pennsylvania Sandy Valley Hidalgo County John Birch Society Northeastern Ohio Defense Force Nevada Action Coalition Otero County Raleigh 3BN* Las Vegas We Are Change North Carolina American Republic Lisbon Oath Keepers Statewide Charlotte Northwestern Ohio Defense Force

spring 2011 59 4BN* Constitution Party We the Aboriginal People Alarm Riders Kenton Hubbard Philadelphia Statewide Oath Keepers Embassy of Heaven We the People Confederate States Home Guard* Statewide Stayton Statewide Greenville Willoughby Emissary Publications WING TV Constitution Party Ohio Defense Force State Clackamas State College Englewood Headquarters* Freedom Bound International Wolf Creek Rangers (100th) North The East Tennessee Militia* Zanesville Klamath Falls Liberty Militia* East Ohio Militia* The Intel Hub North Liberty Lawful Path Statewide La Pine RHODE ISLAND (4) Lynnville Ohio Minutemen Militia* John Birch Society Constitution Party Oath Keepers Central Region Statewide Middletown Statewide Northeast Region McCutcheons Ink. Oath Keepers The Order of Constitution Northwest Region Central Point Statewide Defenders Southwest Region Oath Keepers Patriot Freedom Chattanooga Statewide Statewide West Warwick Tennessee Sons of Liberty Ohio Patriot Guard* Oregon Militia Alliance* We the People Nashville Ashtabula County Statewide Statewide US Grand Jury Institute Ohio Valley Freedom Fighters — Oregon Militia Corps* SOUTH CAROLINA (16) Nolensville Northern Command* Statewide 1st Mountain Lightfoot Brigade* We Are Change Southeast Ohio Oregon Watchmen* Greenville Cookeville Richland County Citizens for the Statewide Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Johnson City 2nd Amendment Real Debt Elimination Alarm Riders Knoxville Ontario Cave Junction Myrtle Beach Memphis Southeastern Ohio Defense Force Southern Oregon Militia* Statewide Nashville 1BN ODF* Eagle Point Confederate State Home Guard* We the People Belmont County We Are Change Gray Court Statewide Zanesville Cave Junction Constitution Party TEXAS (80) Southwestern Ohio Defense Force Eugene Greenville AMARA Temple of Moorish Science 5BN* Florence John Birch Society Arlington Lebanon Portland Greenville The American Open Currency Unorganized Militia of Champaign Salem Long Cane Militia* Standard County* We the People Greenwood County Frisco Saint Paris Statewide Oath Keepers American Patriots for Freedom We the People WorldNetDaily Statewide Foundation* Statewide Medford The Patriot Network Spring OKLAHOMA (8) PENNSYLVANIA (20) Anderson Brave New Books Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day 2-4 MACHSA* South Carolina 1st BN Central Austin Alarm Riders Hanover Midlands* Buffalo Creek Press Statewide America First Party of Pennsylvania Statewide Cleburne Billy Hill Militia* Ridgway South Carolina Civilian Militia* Central Texas Militia* Statewide Berks County Tea Party Lower State Central Confederate States Home Guard* Reading Middle State Church of God Evangelistic Stillwater Confederate States Home Guard* Washitaw Empire de Association Constitution Party Grove City Dugdahmoundyah Waxahachie Chandler Constitution Party Columbia Concho Valley Volunteer Militia* John Birch Society Blawnox We Are Change San Angelo Statewide Keystone Freedom Fighters* Columbia Confederate States Home Guard* Oath Keepers Gettysburg Greenville Port Lavaca Statewide Oath Keepers We the People Constitution Party OK SAFE, Inc. (Oklahomans for Kutztown Statewide Cleburne Sovereignty and Free Enterprise) Statewide SOUTH DAKOTA (4) Constitution Society Tulsa Pennsylvania 1st Rifle* Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Austin We the People Philadelphia Alarm Riders Dallas City Troop (DCT)* Statewide Pennsylvania Citizens Militia* Statewide Carrollton OREGON (24) Statewide Constitution Party Freedom School America is Crying Tyranny: Created Pennsylvania Unorganized Militia* Brandon Austin by NMC Services Ford City Oath Keepers The Freemen Project* Beaverton Sisyphus Press Statewide Houston American Patriot Party State College We the People John Birch Society Ashland We Are Change Statewide Corpus Christi The American’s Sovereign Bulletin Harrisburg TENNESSEE (16) The Liberty Regulators* Central Point Philadelphia 1st Tennessee Rifles UMIT* Houston Basileia Ouranous Pittsburgh Lafayette North Central Texas Patriots* Summer Lake Scranton Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Dallas

60 splc intelligence report Oath Keepers Wichita Falls Vienna We Are Change Statewide Winnsboro Oath Keepers Bellingham The Order of Constitution Texas Patriot’s Militia* Statewide Seattle Defenders Statewide U.S. National Party Spokane Houston Texas Well Regulated Militia* Oakton We the People PatrioticSpace Edwards County Virginia Citizens Militia* Statewide Waco We Are Change Roanoke WEST VIRGINIA (7) Republic Broadcasting Austin We Are Change Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Round Rock Dallas Shenandoah Alarm Riders Republic of Texas Fort Worth Statewide Kanawha County Bastrop County Pasadena We the People Constitution Party Bexar County San Antonio Statewide Martinsburg Bowie County San Marcos WorldNetDaily Oath Keepers Brazos County Tyler Catharpin Statewide Colorado County We the People WASHINGTON (27) Ohio Valley Minutemen CVM* Fayette County Statewide Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Statewide Galveston County UTAH (13) Alarm Riders We Are Change Goliad County Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Statewide Huntington Harris County Alarm Riders Church of Sovereigns: Sacred Family Statewide Harrison County Statewide Temple of the Living Saint We the People Houston County Confederate States Home Guard* Satsop Statewide Jackson County Salt Lake City Confederate States Home Guard* WISCONSIN (18) Jasper County Constitution Party Lakewood Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Jefferson County Layton Constitution Party Alarm Riders Lamar County Hutaree Militia* Kent Statewide Liberty County Statewide Debt Free Sovereign Trust America First Party of Wisconsin Matagorda County JoelSkousen.com Blaine Muscoda Milam County Orem Eastern Washington Lightfoot American Opinion Publishing Montgomery County Liberty News Radio Militia — 63rd Lightfoot Btn* Appleton Nacogdoches County Highland Spokane County Confederate States Home Guard* Red River County Oath Keepers Grant County Militia* Somerset Refugio County Statewide Grant County Constitution Party Robertson County Remnant Saints International Grays Harbor Civilian Defense Ripon Rusk County Patriot Alliance Force* John Birch Society Sabine County Ephraim Grays Harbor County Appleton Shelby County We Are Change John Birch Society John Birch Society Shop Travis County Orem Puyallup Appleton Victoria County Salt Lake City Kissata* Oath Keepers Washington County West Valley City Statewide Statewide Southeast Texas Patriots* We the People Kitsap County WA Militia* People’s Awareness Coalition Sugar Land Statewide Kitsap County Kieler Southwest Desert Militia* Winston Shrout — Solutions in National Association of Rural Land Southeast Wisconsin Volunteers* West Texas Commerce Owners Southeast Wisconsin Texas Central — District 14 Santa Clara Fall City We Are Change Patriots* VERMONT (3) Northwest Washington Recon — Green Bay Lockhart Constitution Party 73rd BN 42nd FF* Kenosha Texas Militia* Williston Grant Madison Huntington Oath Keepers Oath Keepers Milwaukee The Texas Militia* Statewide Statewide Oshkosh Austin We the People Peoples’ Patriot Coalition Militia* Racine College Station Statewide Western Stockbridge Conroe VIRGINIA (12) Sovereign-Citizenship We the People Corpus Christi Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Satsop Statewide Dallas Alarm Riders Sovereign Trust WYOMING (4) Fort Worth Statewide Blaine Constitution Party Houston The Autonomous Authchthon Inter- Washington State Civil Defense* Afton Katy national Muurish Gansul Northwest John Birch Society Killeen Norfolk Washington State Militia* Statewide Laredo Confederate States Home Guard* Kalama Oath Keepers New Braunfels Salem Longview Statewide San Antonio Constitution Party Ridgefield We the People Statewide Vienna Statewide Statewide L Waco NAU WAR ROOM Woodland

spring 2011 61 East-Central Volunteer Militia Kansas State Militia* of Michigan* kansasstatemilitia.webs.com michiganmilitia.com Wichita Area, KS ‘Patriot’ Lapeer County, MI Kentucky’s Section 8 Militia* Eastern Washington Lightfoot freewebs.com/section8militia Militia-63rd Lightfoot Btn* Central Kentucky wa63lightfoot.us Kentucky State Militia* Websites Spokane County, WA freewebs.com/privatecitizensofky This list of 484 sites on the World Wide Web includes pages linked to The East Tennessee Militia* Louisville, KY the anti-government “Patriot” movement, which generally defines itself freewebs.com/easttennesseemilitia/ Kissata* as opposed to the “New World Order,” engages in groundless conspiracy index.htm kissata.homestead.com theorizing, or advocates or adheres to extreme antigovernment doctrines. Eastern Tennessee Washington Pages were current in 2010, but sites tend to move from server to server Florida Free Militia* Kitsap County WA Militia* or shut down without notice, so they may be hard to locate. Of the sites, floridafreemilitia.com militias.ning.com/profile/ 110 were connected to militias or militia ideology; the rest, grouped in Palm Coast, FL KitsapCountyWAMilitia?xg_ the Other Patriot category, include sites associated with “common-law The Freemen Project* source=activity courts,” publishers, ministries and citizens’ groups. Listing here does not thefreemenproject.com Kitsap County, WA imply that the individuals or groups with websites advocate or engage in Houston, TX Lenawee County Free and violence or other criminal activity or are racist. Listings indicated with Georgia Militia* Independent Militia* an asterisk (*) belong to actual groups that promote Patriot doctrine georgiamilitia.net lenaweemilitia.com beyond the mere publishing of their Internet material. Lawrenceville, GA Adrian, MI MILITIA (110) arizonamilitia.com/20090514.htm gamilitia.com Maine Constitutional Militia* 1st Joint Public Militia — Glendale, AZ Georgia mainepatriot.741.com/aboutmcm.htm 105th Blue Guard* Arkansas Militia* Grant County Militia* Maine nkymilitia.weebly.com arkansasmilitia.us grantcountymililtia.com Maine Highlands Defense Force* Northern Kentucky Little Rock, AR Grant County, WA mainepatriot.net 1st Joint Public Militia — Ohio Billy Hill Militia* Grays Harbor Civilian Defense Bangor, ME Valley Freedom Fighters* billyhillmilitia.com Force* The Maine Patriot Board ovfreedomfighters.com/index.html Oklahoma graysharborciviliandefenseforce. frost.bbboy.net/themainepatriotboard Louisville, KY California State Militia — 31st Field weebly.com Maine Patriot Militia* 1st Tennessee Rifles UMIT* Force Squad Alpha/SOG* militias.ning.com/group/GraysHarb mainepatriotmilitia.webs.com 1sttnrifles.net californiastatemilitia.yolasite.com orCivilianDefenseForce?comment Berwick, ME Lafayette, TN Orange County, CA Id=3567481%3AComment%3A83 Maine Sons of Liberty* 2-4 MACHSA* Cochise County Militia* 053&xg_source=activity unitedmilitiasofmaine.webs.com/ machsa.org cochisecountymilitia.org Grays Harbor County, WA mainesonsofliberty.htm Hanover, PA Tombstone, AZ Hutaree Militia* Sanford, ME 2nd Alabama Militia, Co. A* Confederate States Home Guard* hutaree.com Michigan Militia* freewebs.com/alabamamilitia/index. confederateamericanpride.com/ Utah michiganmilitia.com/capcity.htm htm CSM.html Illinois Sons of Liberty* Lansing, MI Mobile, AL Tate, GA illinoissonsofliberty.com michiganmilitia.com 4th Regiment Watchmen of Indiana* confederatestatesguard.ning.com Illinois Redford, MI patriotresistance.com/ Rogersville, MO Illinois State Militia (Unorganized) Michigan Militia Corps Wolverines MILITIAPAGE-4thReg-Watchme- Constitution Defense Militia of 167th Battalion, 21st FF* 8th Division* nOfIndiana.html Attala County* ilstm.bravehost.com mmcw8thdiv.22web.net Dearborn County, IN attalamilitia.webs.com Illinois South Central Michigan A Well Regulated Militia Attala County, MS Indiana Militia Corps* Michigan Patriot Alliance* awrm.org Constitutional Militia of Clark Co.* IndianaMilitia.org michiganpatriotalliance.com Alaska Citizens Militia* ccsg0.tripod.com Pendleton, IN Michigan centralasaskamilitia.com Clark County, OH Indiana State Militia 14th MILITIA 5th Division MI* Delta Junction, AK Dallas City Troop* Regiment* oocities.com/mecostacountymichi- alaskacitizensmilitia.com dallascitytroop.org 14thregofism.tripod.com gan/headquarters.html Nikiski, AK Carrollton, TX Owen County, IN Mecosta County, MI American Armenian Militia* Delta 5 Mobile Light Infantry Indiana’s Greene County Militia* Militia of Montana* americanarmenianmilitia.com Militia* fortunecity.com/victorian/ militiaofmontana.com Los Angeles, CA delta5mlim.webs.com crayon/881/gcm.html Noxon, MT Arizona Citizens Militia* South Central Michigan Greene County, IN Militia of Washington County* arizonamilitia.com East Central Mississippi Militia* Jackson County Volunteers* arkansasmilitia.org Douglas, AZ mississippimilitia.com jacksonccm.org Fayetteville, AR Arizona Militia* East Central Mississippi Jackson County, MI Militia Recruiting Command*

62 splc intelligence report gomilitia.com North Idaho Light Foot Militia* Texas Militia* Liberty News Radio* Columbus, GA northidaho21lightfoot.org texasmilitia.info libertynewsradio.com Mississippi Militia* Boundary County, ID Huntington, TX Highland, UT mississippimilitia.us Northwest Washington Recon — The Texas Militia* Liberty Tree Radio Southaven, MS 73rd BN 42nd FF* texasmilitia.org libertytreeradio.4mg.com/index.html Missouri Militia* angelfire.com/wa3/nwwr1 Texas The New American missourimilitia.com Grant, WA Texas Patriot’s Militia* thenewamerican.com St. Louis, MO Ohio Defense Force Home Guard* texaspatriotmilitia.org Patriot Broadcasting Network* Missouri Militia — 1st Battalion/ sodf.org Texas pbn.4mg.com 3rd Brigade* Zanesville, OH Unorganized Militia of Dexter, MI 3rdbrigade.missourimilitia.com Ohio Minutemen Militia* Champaign County* The Power Hour Joplin, MO ohiominutemen.webs.com champaigncounty.tripod.com thepowerhour.com Missouri Militia — 4th Battalion/ Ohio Saint Paris, OH Radio Liberty 8th Brigade* Ohio Valley Freedom Fighters — Virginia Citizens Militia* radioliberty.com 8thbrigade.missourimilitia.com Northern Command* virginiamilitia.org Republic Broadcasting* Springfield, MO ovff-nc.blogspot.com Roanoke, VA republicbroadcasting.org Modern Minuteman Southeast Ohio Washington State Civil Defense* Round Rock, TX modernminuteman.net Ohio Valley Minutemen CVM* wacivildefense.com Truth Radio Network* MrLockandload.com ovmcpg.blogspot.com Northwest Washington truthradio.com mrlockandload.com West Virginia Washington State Militia* Delano, CA The Nebraska State Militia* Oregon Militia Alliance* wastatemilitia.com MINISTRIES (3) nebraskamilitia.com countryrebel118174.webs.com wsmswbattalion.weebly.com Church of God Evangelistic Associa- Nebraska Oregon 15thwsm.weebly.com tion (Newswatch Magazine)* Nebraska State Militia — Oregon Militia Corps* Washington newswatchmagazine.org Tall Grass Guard* oregonmilitia.homestead.com The Well Regulated American Waxahachie, TX tallgrassguard.tripod.com Oregon Militias Iahushua Douglas County, NE Oregon Watchmen* wellregulatedamericanmilitias.com iahushua.com New Hampshire Patriot Militia* oregonwatchmen.org West Central Michigan Volunteer Indianapolis Baptist Temple* nhmilitia.com Oregon Militia* indianapolisbaptisttemple.com New Hampshire Pennsylvania Unorganized Militia* volunteermilitia.com Indianapolis, IN New Jersey Militia* 1stpa-militia.net Grand Rapids, MI PUBLISHING (5) njmilitia.org Ford City, PA West Michigan Volunteer Militia* American Opinion Publishing* Trenton, NJ Peoples’ Patriot Coalition Militia* freewebs.com/westmivolunteermilitia aobs-store.com New Mexico Citizen’s Militia* ppcmilitia.com West Michigan Appleton, WI newmexicomilitia.tripod.com Western Washington Wolf Creek Rangers (100th) North Buffalo Creek Press* Los Lunas, NM SOCAL 1st PATRIOT UNIT Liberty Militia* buffalo-creek-press.com North Carolina Citizens Militia* socal1stmilitia.webs.com wolfcreekrangers.yolasite.com/ Cleburne, TX ncmilitia.org Southeast Michigan 100th-western-pennsylvania.php Emissary Publications Midnight Waynesville, NC Volunteer Militia* North Liberty, PA Messenger* North Carolina Citizens Militia michiganmilitia.com/SMVM/smvm. Wolfpack Militia* midnight-emissary.com Mecklenburg County Militia* htm 3sog.org/COCORNER.html Clackamas, OR mcmilitia.org Detroit, MI New Jersey The Freeman Perspective* Mecklenburg County, NC Southern Nevada Militia* MEDIA (15) thefreemanperspective.blogspot.com North Carolina Regional Militia* snmilitia.webs.com America News Network (American Lawrence, KS ncregionalmilitia.org/Home.html Southern Nevada Freedom Network)* Shop JBS* Piedmont Region, NC Southern New Mexico Militia* americanewsnet.com shopjbs.org Northeast Ohio Defense Force* snmmilitia.tripod.com Johnstown, CO Outagamie County, WI neodf.org Dona Ana County, NM American Resistance Radio SUPPORT (183) Lisbon, OH Southern Oregon Militia* americanresistanceradio.com The 10th Amendment on the Northern California State Militia* inlibertyandfreedom.com/index.htm freedomfighterradio.net 7th of August cal-militia.com Eagle Point, OR The Federal Observer 10thonthe7th.org Sunnyvale, CA Southwest Desert Militia* federalobserver.com Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Northern Michigan Backyard southwestdesertmilitia.com Freedom’s Phoenix Alarm Riders* Protection Militia* sdm.cogia.net freedomsphoenix.com alarmandmuster.com nmbpm.webs.com West Texas Genesis Communication Network Myrtle Beach, SC Northern Michigan State of California gcnlive.com America First Leadership* North Florida Survival Group* Unorganized Militia* Idaho Observer* afleadership.org northfloridasurvival.webs.com californiamilitia.com proliberty.com/observer Las Vegas, NV North Florida Monrovia, CA Spirit Lake, ID America First Party*

spring 2011 63 americafirstparty.org David Wynn Miller Orem, UT The Resistance — Mark Dice’s Boulder, CO dwmlc.com LewRockwell.com Official Website The American Open Currency Dprogram.net lewrockwell.com markdice.com Standard* dprogram.net Liberty Dollar of Chambersburg Restore the Republic* opencurrency.com Educate Yourself* chambersburglibertydollar.com restoretherepublic.com Frisco, TX educate-yourself.org Liberty Restoration Project* Northbrook, IL American Patriot Friends Network* Costa Mesa, CA libertyrestorationproject.org Richard T. Osborne apfn.org Extremum Spiritum St. Louis, MO richard-t-osborne.com Peoria, AZ extremumspiritum.com LizMichael.com Riders United for a Sovereign American Patriot Network Flyover Press lizmichael.com America, Corp.* civil-liberties.com flyoverpress.com The Mental Militia Forums ridersusa.net American Patriot Party* Freedom Fighters for America thementalmilitiaforums.com/forums Phoenix, AZ americanpatriotparty.cc freedomfightersforamerica.com Minuteman Patriot Save A Patriot Fellowship* Ashland, OR Freedom Force International* MinutemanPatriot.homestead.com save-a-patriot.org American Sons of Liberty Freedom-Force.org National Association of Westminster, MD americansonsofliberty.com Thousand Oaks, CA Rural Land Owners* Second Amendment Committee* America’s Survival, Inc.* Freedom Law School* narlo.org libertygunrights.com usasurvival.org livefreenow.org Fall City, WA Hanford, CA Owings, MD Phelan, CA National Organization to Repeal the Second Amendment Task Force* The Amero Currency Freedom Underground Federal Reserve Act (NORFED)* secondamendmenttaskforce.com amerocurrency.com freedomunderground.org LibertyDollar.org Fairbanks, AK AssaultWeb.Net Free Enterprise Society* Evansville, IN SheriffMack.com Assaultweb.net freeenterprisesociety.com NAU WAR ROOM* sheriffmack.com Barefoot’s World Fresno, CA nauwarroom.com Sovereignty International, Inc.* barefootsworld.net The Freeman Perspective* nauwarroom.org sovereignty.net Berks County Tea Party* freemantv.whynotnews.eu Vienna, VA Bangor, ME berksteaparty.org Lawrence, KS Nevada Action Coalition* Stop the North American Union Reading, PA Free Patriot Press* nvaction.com stopthenorthamericanunion.com Celebrating Conservatism* freepatriot-press.com Las Vegas, NV Take Back Kentucky* montanaconservative.wordpress. Birmingham, AL New World Order News takebackkentucky.com com/?ref=spelling Free Republic newworldordernews.com Clarkson, KY Missoula, MT freerepublic.com NWOTruth Take Back Washington* Center for Action* Got Freedom? nwotruth.com takebackwashington.com bogritz.com gotfreedom.org OK SAFE, Inc. (Oklahomans for Versailles, MO Sandy Valley, NV Granny Warriors* Sovereignty and Free Enterprise)* Tennessee Sons of Liberty* Citizens for a Constitutional grannywarriors.com ok-safe.com tennesseesonsofliberty.com Republic Firebase For Freedom Leicester, NC Tulsa, OK tnsonsofliberty.typepad.com citizensforaconstitutionalrepublic.com The Heartland USA* Outpost of Freedom Nashville, TN Committee of Safety* theheartlandusa.com outpost-of-freedom.com/blog THC Ministries of Arizona committee.org Sagola, MI Patriot Freedom* thcministriesofarizona.com Mesa, AZ Hour of the Time* patriotfreedom.org THREE%ER* Committees of Safety* hourofthetime.com West Warwick, RI threepercenter.org committeesofsafety.org Eagar, AZ Patrioticspace* Pinson, AL Weston, CT Infowars.com patrioticspace.com TNSONSOFLIBERTY* Connecticut 51st Militia* infowars.com Waco, TX tnsonsofliberty.blogspot.com ctmilitia.homestead.com/home.html The Intel Hub* PatriotResistance.com* Nashville, TN Connecticut theintelhub.com patriotresistance.com Township News Connecticut Patriot Alliance* La Pine, OR Lexington, KY townshipnews.org ctpatriotalliance.com Jack McLamb — Police & Military Patriots of America (Richland Co. The Truth as I see it Canterbury, CT Against the New World Order* Citizens for 2nd Amendment)* usavsus.info Connecticut Survivalist Alliance* jackmclamb.us patriotsofamerica.org Truth Attack* digivill.net/~iirg/csa.html Kamiah, ID Richland County, OH truthattack.org/jml/index.php Middlefield, CT The JAG Hunter Remnant Saints International Shreveport, LA Constitution Society* thejaghunter.wordpress.com Patriot Alliance* United American Freedom constitution.org The Jekyll Island Project* rsicc.org Foundation* Austin, TX jekyllislandproject.com Ephraim, UT uaff.info The C.R.E.S.T. (The Constitutional Queensbury, NY Republic of Texas* Grandview, MO Rights Enforcement & Support Team) JoelSkousen.com* texasrepublic.info United States.fm* thecrest.ws joelskousen.com Bastrop County, TX zanna.us

64 splc intelligence report Golden Valley, AZ Reno, NV Region.aspx?state=ID givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ U. S. National Party* wearechangepgh.org Idaho Region.aspx?state=NM nationalparty.us Pittsburgh, PA givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ New Mexico Oakton, VA wearechangenepa.blogspot.com Region.aspx?state=IL cc2009.us U.S.A. The Republic: Scranton, PA Illinois givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ How you Lost It wearechange-memphis.webs.com givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=NY usa-the-republic.com Nashville, TN Region.aspx?state=IN Queensbury, NY The Voice of Freedom (Freedom sanantoniotruth.org Indiana givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Bound International)* San Antonio, TX givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=NV freedomradio.us/Joomla wacut.org Region.aspx?state=IA Nevada Klamath Falls, OR Salt Lake City, UT Iowa givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ We Are Change* utahwearechange.org givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=OH wearechangearizona.com West Valley City, UT Region.aspx?state=KS Ohio Arizona wearechangevirginia.org/main. Kansas givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ wearechangecolorado.org php?page=home.php givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=OK Colorado Virginia Region.aspx?state=KY Oklahoma wearechangecoloradosprings.org wearechangeseattle.org Kentucky givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Colorado Springs, CO Seattle, WA givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=OR wearechangehuerfano.us wearechangekenosha.webs.com Region.aspx?state=LA Oregon Huerfano County, CO Kenosha, WI Louisiana givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ wearechangeatlanta.com/Site/ We the People* givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=PA Home.html givemeliberty.org Region.aspx?state=ME Pennsylvania Atlanta, GA Queensbury, NY Maine givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ waccolumbusga.com We the People — Continental givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=RI Columbus, GA Congress 2009* Region.aspx?state=MD Rhode Island wearechangega.bappy.com givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Maryland givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ LaGrange, GA Region.aspx?state=AK givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=SC wearechange.org Homer, AK Region.aspx?state=MA South Carolina Cedar Falls, IA givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Massachusetts givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ wearechangeidaho.org Region.aspx?state=AL givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=SD Idaho Madison County, AL Region.aspx?state=MI South Dakota freewebs.com/wearechangeks givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Michigan givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Wichita, KS Region.aspx?state=AZ givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=TN truthla.blogspot.com Arizona Region.aspx?state=MN Tennessee Shreveport, LA givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Minnesota givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ wearechangeboston.org Region.aspx?state=ca givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=TX Boston, MA San Diego, CA Region.aspx?state=MS Texas somethingmustbreak.net givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Mississippi givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Maine Region.aspx?state=CT givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=UT wacmd.weebly.com Connecticut Region.aspx?state=MO Utah Maryland givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Missouri givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ wacmichigan.wordpress.com Region.aspx?state=CO givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=VT Michigan Gunnison, CO Region.aspx?state=MT Vermont mnchange.org givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Montana givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Minnesota Region.aspx?state=DC givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=VA battleforjustice.com/social-change. Washington, DC Region.aspx?state=NC Virginia html givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ North Carolina givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Missoula, MT Region.aspx?state=DE givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=WA wacnewengland.org Delaware Region.aspx?state=ND Washington New England Area givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ North Dakota givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ wearechangenc.com Region.aspx?state=FL givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=WV North Carolina Florida Region.aspx?state=NE West Virginia wearechangemountairy.webs.com givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Nebraska givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Mt. Airy, NC Region.aspx?state=GA givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=WI wearechangenewjersey.org Georgia Region.aspx?state=NH Wisconsin New Jersey givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ New Hampshire givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ capemaychange.com Region.aspx?state=HI givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ Region.aspx?state=WY Cape May, NJ Hawaii Region.aspx?state=NJ Wyoming wearechangereno.org givemeliberty.org/user/congress/ New Jersey We the People Foundation*

spring 2011 65 wethepeoplefoundation.org WING TV* scconstitutionparty.com Hawaii Queensbury, NY wingtv.net Greenville, SC oathkeepers.ning.com/group/idaho What Really Happened* State College, PA sdakcp.org Idaho whatreallyhappened.com POLITICAL/CITIZEN Brandon, SD oathkeepers.ning.com/group/illinois Concord, NH GROUPS (95) constitutionpartyoftennessee.com Illinois WorldNetDaily* American Independent Party* Englewood, TN oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ wnd.com aipca.org utah-constitution-party.org indiana Washington, DC Lemon Grove, CA Layton, UT Indiana WorldNetDaily Books* Christian Exodus constitutionpartyvt.com oathkeepers.ning.com/group/iowa wndbooks.wnd.com christianexodus.com Williston, VT Iowa Washington, DC Constitution Party* constitutionpartyofwa.com oathkeepers.ning.com/group/kansas You Have Tread On Me* alconstitutionparty.org Tacoma, WA Kansas youhavetreadonme.com Cullman, AL cpwv.org oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ New York, NY cparkansas.org Martinsburg, WV kentucky Zion’s Camp Fayetteville, AR Constitution Party — Kentucky zionscamp.yuku.com azconstitutionparty.com The Conservative Caucus* oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ VENDOR (14) Golden, AZ conservativeusa.org louisiana Brave New Books* AIPCalif.blogspot.com Vienna, VA Louisiana bravenewbookstore.com Riverside, CA John Birch Society* oathkeepers.ning.com/group/maine Austin, TX americanconstitutionparty.com jbs.org Maine Camp FEMA* Arvada, CO Appleton, WI oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ campfema.com cpflorida.com Lincoln County Watch* maryland Northbrook, IL Jupiter, FL lincolncountywatch.org Maryland Don’t Tread on Me* gaconstitutionparty.org Bozeman, MT oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ donttreadonmemovie.com Woodstock, GA Oath Keepers* massachusetts Columbia, MO cpiowa.org oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ Massachusetts eMilitary Manuals* Oskaloosa, IA alabama oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ emilitarymanuals.com/orgmilitia.htm cpidaho.org Alabama michigan Montrose, CO Parma, ID oathkeepers.ning.com/group/alaska Michigan Frugal Squirrel’s Homepage for constitutionpartyil.com Alaska oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ Patriots, Survivalists, and Gun East Peoria, IL oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ minnesota Owners kansasconstitutionparty.org arkansas Minnesota frugalsquirrels.com Wichita, KS Arkansas oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ It’s Over* kyconstitutionparty.com/index.php oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ mississippi its-over.info Louisville, KY arizona Mississippi Morganton, GA CPofLA.org Arizona oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ Lawful Path* Mandeville, LA oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ missouri lawfulpath.com constitutionalview.org northerncalifornia Missouri Lynnville, TN Amesbury, MA Northern California oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ Martial Law Survival* cpmn.org oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ montana martiallawsurvival.com St. Cloud, MN southerncalifornia Montana Thomson, IL constitutionpartymo.org Southern California oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ National Center for Fenton, MO oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ nebraska Constitutional Studies* constitutionpartync.com colorado Nebraska nccs.net Fuquay-Varina, NC Colorado oathkeepers.ning.com/profile/ Malta, ID constitutionparty-nj.org oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ StevenNickerson New York Liberty Council* Cinnaminson, NJ connecticut Bellevue, NE nylibertycouncil.com cpnm.us Connecticut oathkeepers.org/oath Albany, NY Albuquerque, NM oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ Las Vegas, NV The Order of Constitution constitutionpartyny.com delaware oathkeepers.ning.com/group/nnv Defenders.com* Albany, NY Delaware Northern Nevada constitutiondefender.com freewebs.com/cpoklahoma oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ Chattanooga, TN Chandler, OK washingtondc southernnevada Sons of Liberty* constitutionpartyoregon.net Washington, DC Southern Nevada sons-of-liberty.net Hubbard, OR oathkeepers.ning.com/group/florida oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ Columbus, IN constitutionpartypa.com Florida newhampshire William Lewis Films* Lancaster, PA oathkeepers.ning.com/group/georgia New Hampshire williamlewisfilms.com cpri.weebly.com/news.html Georgia oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ Columbia, MO Middletown, RI oathkeepers.ning.com/group/hawaii newjersey

66 splc intelligence report New Jersey OK4TROOPS.com sovereigncopwatch.ning.com Moorish Republic Trust* oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ ok4troops.com sovereign-citizenship.net/home.html moorishrepublic.com newmexico The Patriot Network* title4flag.ning.com Oak Park, MI New Mexico patriotnetwork.info Satsop, WA The Moorish Science Temple of oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ Anderson, SC Commercial Redemption* America 1928* newyork The Sheriff Project commercialredemption.com themoorishsciencetempleofamer- Chatham, NY usa1911.com Boise, ID ica.org oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ SOVEREIGN/COMMON LAW/ Cultural Freedom* Atlanta, GA northcarolina JURAL (59) cultural-freedom.com Our Sammie* North Carolina Aboriginal Law Institute* Norlina, NC oursammie.net oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ knowtheledgemedia.ning.com/ Cultural Freedom Bookstore* Missouri northdakota group/aboriginallawfirm freewebs.com/cultural_freedom Preamble Trust* North Dakota New York, NY Fayetteville, NC preambletrust.com oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ohio AMARA Temple of Moorish Debt Free Sovereign Trust* Charlotte, NC Ohio Science* freewebs.com/debtfreesovereign Private Bankers Forum oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ amexm.com debtfreesovereign.webs.com privatebankersforum.com oklahoma Arlington, TX Blaine, WA Real Debt Elimination* Oklahoma America Can Be Free* Discharge Debt* real-debt-elimination.com oathkeepers.ning.com/group/oregon americacanbefree.com discharge-debt.com/id155.htm Cave Junction, OR Oregon Newton, AL Bloomfield, CO The Redemption Service (TM) oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ America is Crying Tyranny: Dixieland Law Journal redemptionservice.com pennsylvania Created by NMC Services* fly.hiwaay.net/~becraft Republic of the United States of Pennsylvania mncservices.net The Dorean Group* America* oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ Beaverton, OR thedoreangroup.blogspot.com republicoftheunitedstates.org rhodeisland American Grand Jury* Union City, CA Portage, MI Rhode Island americangrandjury.org Embassy of Heaven* Save Our Sheriff oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ agjnow.org EmbassyOfHeaven.com saveoursheriff.com southcarolina Nogales, AZ Stayton, OR Shadow Mountain Bank* South Carolina American Militia EZREMEDY4U* shadowmountainbank.org oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ msmilitia.ning.com hallelu-yah.org/ezremedy4u.com- Ash Fork, AZ southdakota The American’s Sovereign new/ucc.html Sovereign-Citizenship.Net* South Dakota Bulletin* Arvada, CO sovereign-citizenship.net oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ theamericansbulletin.org FAMILY GUARDIAN Satsop, WA tennessee Central Point, OR famguardian.org Sovereign Trust* Tennessee Ancient Order of Free Asiatics famguardian1.org sovereigntrust.info oathkeepers.ning.com/group/texas ancientorderoffreeasiatics.com familyguardian.tax-tactics.com Blaine, WA Texas The Autonomous Authchthon For the Entity of This Vessel State Citizens Service Center oathkeepers.ning.com/group/utah International Muurish Gansul* lawfortherecord.blogspot.com Research Headquarters Utah muurishgansul.com Great Registry Post* state-citizen.org oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ Norfolk, VA greatregistrypost.org Status is Freedom* vermont The Azizan Moorish Nation of Simpsonville, KY StatusIsFreedom.com Vermont North Amexem Guardians of the Free Republics* Boise, ID oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ azizan_moors.tripod.com guardiansofthefreerepublics.com Team Law virginia Basileia Ouranous* gotfr.org teamlaw.org Virginia govid.org Soquel, CA United Nations of Turtle Island* oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ Summer Lake, OR ISA (Spiritual Sovereignty)* unitednationsofturtleisland.com washington Beneficiaries of Commerce* spiritualsovereignty.com Lumberton, NC Washington bicforum.org Kapaa, HI US Grand Jury Institute* oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ Clifton Park, NY Little Shell Pembina Band of usgrandjury.org westvirginia The Brothers for Mercy North America* Nolensville, TN West Virginia reocities.com/CapitolHill/Sen- officialpnlsbna.org/membershipup- Washitaw Empire de oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ ate/2987/index.html date.html Dugdahmoundyah* wisconsin Christian National Pembina River Area, ND EmpireWashitaw.org Wisconsin Common-Law Court Lost Horizons* Columbia, SC oathkeepers.ning.com/group/ christiancommonlaw-gov.org losthorizons.com We the Aboriginal People* wyoming Church of Sovereigns: Sacred Commerce Township, MI wetheaboriginalpeople.com Wyoming Family Temple of the Living Saint McCutcheons Ink.* Philadelphia, PA L Oath Keepers Blog (Copwatch TV)* mccutcheons.info oath-keepers.blogspot.com copwatch.tv Central Point, OR

spring 2011 67 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 inscribed on them was left in while punching her in the face and San Francisco • Nov. 29, 2010 Bloomington • Oct. 31, 2010 an eighth-grade black student’s trying to hit her son. A Muslim cab driver was allegedly Eight Asian students at Indiana locker by a white student. OHIO attacked by a passenger who alleg- University were allegedly attacked NEBRASKA Cincinnati • Dec. 14, 2010 edly robbed him while making and robbed by a group of black Lincoln • Oct. 25, 2010 An E-mail was sent to the Islamic references to Osama Bin Laden. men and women who used anti- Thod T. Kuaygong, a native of Association of Cincinnati that Westminster • Oct. 22, 2010 Asian slurs during the incident. Africa, was charged with com- stated, “You should know that you John DeLoach, a 20-year-old KENTUCKY mitting a hate crime assault after are not wanted in Cincinnati … We white man, pled guilty to one fel- Louisville • Dec. 6, 2010 allegedly yelling he was a rac- don’t want you here. Mohammad ony count of hate crime battery White supremacist Johnny Logan ist and hated white people. is a joke. Go back to your desert. causing injury and one felony Spencer, 28, was sentenced to 33 He then punched a white man Beware. We may just declare jihad count of hate crime assault caus- months in prison for writing a who attempted to intervene as on you.” ing injury in connection with poem depicting the fatal shooting Kuaygong was trying to convince OREGON a September incident where of President Obama. a 19-year-old woman, who is also Portland • Nov. 8, 2010 he yelled racial slurs at a black LOUISIANA a native of Africa, to come home Daniel Lee Jones, former regional woman and her white male friend Baton Rouge • Dec. 11, 2010 with him because she needed to be director of the neo-Nazi American and then punched the man. Racially charged text messages, “with her people.” National Socialist Workers Party, DeLoach was sentenced to four including one containing a picture NEW JERSEY was sentenced to 18 months in years in prison. of a black man hanging from a tree, Sparta • Oct. 13, 2010 prison for mailing a noose to an FLORIDA were sent to several black female Paul Rinaldi, 24, a former instruc- Ohio NAACP chapter president Jacksonville • Dec. 8, 2010 city council members. tor at a school for people with in 2008. Eric Francis Sandefur, 17, was MAINE developmental disabilities, was PENNSYLVANIA charged with attempted murder Portland • Nov. 11, 2010 charged with bias intimidation Dover • Dec. 22, 2010 after he allegedly stabbed a home- A group of teens allegedly beat and and endangering the welfare of A 14-year-old student faces less man. kicked a 17-year-old black youth an incompetent person after he, juvenile charges of ethnic intim- New Port Richey • Dec. 16, 2010 and bit off part of his ear. while still an instructor at the idation, criminal mischief, Neo-Nazi John Ditullio Jr., 24, MASSACHUSETTS school, allegedly punched an institutional vandalism, dis- was sentenced to life in prison Dartmouth • Nov. 6, 2010 autistic black woman in the stom- orderly conduct and terrorist after being convicted of first- An anti-gay slur was spray- ach on Sept. 22 while calling her a threats after he allegedly scrib- degree murder and attempted painted on the car of an openly racial slur and asking an onlooking bled the letters “KKK,” the words second-degree murder after he gay student at the University of staff member, “Do you want to see “white power” and a swastika in attacked a white neighbor with Massachusetts-Dartmouth. a gorilla cry?” an intermediation school rest- a knife for having a black friend Springfield • Nov. 1, 2010 NEW YORK room and then left a message on and a gay son in 2006. Ditullio Benjamin Haskell, 24, was sen- Long Island • Nov. 2, 2010 a 12-year-old black student’s cell then stabbed to death 17-year-old tenced to nine years in prison and Richard Vitale, a retired New phone in which he threatened to Kristopher King, a friend of the ordered to pay $1.7 million in res- York City police officer, his sons hang and burn the victim. woman’s son. titution for setting afire a church Richard Jr. and Gregory, and TENNESSEE IDAHO being built for a predominantly Christopher Makmaltchi and Jackson • Oct. 22, 2010 Twin Falls • Dec. 22, 2010 black congregation in November Nicholas Lazarus were charged Daniel Cowart, 22, a former proba- A Muslim woman shopping with 2008 because he was angry over with assault after they allegedly tionary member with the Supreme her two children was allegedly Barack Obama’s presidential vic- beat a Turkish immigrant with White Alliance skinhead group, threatened by a man who claimed tory hours earlier. American flags while telling him was sentenced to 14 years in prison he had killed Muslims and MICHIGAN to get out of their country. for his role in plotting multiple planned to kill more and that he Saginaw • Nov. 17, 2010 New York • Oct. 14, 2010 robberies, the killing of dozens of had a concealed weapon. The man A note with the words “All shall A Muslim woman and her 4-year- black people and the assassina- was charged with felony mali- perish” and three tombstones old son were allegedly attacked by tion of then-presidential candidate cious harassment. with three black students’ names a man who called her “a terrorist” Barack Obama in 2008. L

68 splc intelligence report THE LAST WORD Star Dreck Anti-Semitic ‘radical traditionalist’ Catholics insist the universe revolves around the Earth. The devil reportedly disagrees BY ROBERT STEINBACK south bend, ind. — it took some 350 sitting still? That’s tougher than it cial church condemnation and have years for the Roman Catholic Church to sounds: Even though astrophysicists tell rendered him unwelcome in most main- finally admit it was wrong to have found us that every body in the universe is in stream Catholic circles. pioneering astronomer Galileo Galilei motion, it will always appear that the E. Michael Jones, who also was “vehemently suspect of heresy” in 1633 thing you’re on is standing still relative at the gathering, has used his South for affirming Nicolaus Copernicus’ to everything else. Bend-based magazine Culture Wars groundbreaking 1543 theory that the to viciously earth and planets revolve around the denounce the sun. But there remains a strain of “rad- “Jewish world ical traditionalist” Catholics who view” and has basically tore up Pope John Paul II’s expressed enthusi- 1992 acknowledgement and is still ada- asm for many core mant that the Bible’s accounts of an Nazi ideas about earth-centered universe are literal truth Jews (a sampling — and that the church was right to con- of his magazine’s vict the old stargazer all those years ago. cover stories: Eight of the world’s leading pro- “Judaizing: Then ponents of neo-Dark Ages cosmology and Now,” “The (with one token dinosaur-age conspir- Judaism of Hitler” acy theorist thrown in) met here on and “Shylock A “geocentrist” conference held in Indiana used the same name as a book Nov. 6 for the First Annual Catholic (above) co-authored by one of its main participants, Robert Sungenis. Comes to Notre Conference on Geocentrism — the the- Sungenis rejects modern Catholic teachings on both the motion of the Dame”). Martin G. ory that the earth sits motionless at planets and toleration of the Jews. Selbrede, who also the center of the universe. The one- spoke, is vice-pres- day seminar was entitled, “Galileo Was “If we’re saying that the earth is in ident of the Chalcedon Foundation, the Wrong: The Church Was Right.” the center of the universe and it’s not leading think tank of the Bible-literalist “Seminar” might be generous moving, that means Someone, with a Christian Reconstruction theology; the phrasing: The presentation was a mind- capital S, put it there,” said the confer- foundation has never renounced the rac- numbing, 15-hour-long sermon-cum-pep ence’s principal speaker and emcee, ist, homophobic and anti-Semitic views rally for radical traditionalist Catholic Robert Sungenis, founder of Catholic of its late founder, R.J. Rushdoony. apologists desperate to debunk any sci- Apologetics International. “You can’t Except for some of Jones’ anti-Jew- ence that suggests the Bible shouldn’t have the earth at the center of the ish books being offered for sale, there be interpreted literally. Numerous bibli- universe by chance. … The devil is a pow- was little evidence of these unsavory cal passages describe the earth as at rest, erful foe and he will use something like connections at the conference. with the sun in transit around it. [the model of a sun-centered solar sys- The best moments of the gather- About 90 mostly Catholic devotees, tem] to win his battle. If [scientists] have ing came when 15 or so bright college curious skeptics and feisty college stu- to admit that the earth is in the center of students finally got to confront the pur- dents who converged on South Bend the universe, where does the power shift ported experts at the end of the long endured a series of one-sided mono- back to? It shifts back to the church.” day. The panel struggled with and occa- logues declaring that theorists from Some of the South Bend present- sionally mocked their questions and

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