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Friday. June 27. 1986 Volum* IE. Mo. 39 >5 PnSE WEEKLY WHITE, RIGia AND LOOKING FOR A FIGHT Has Chicago been targeted by o new alliance of white supremacists?

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By groups, but the marchers surged to• As the 150 aniiracisi marchers ward the eight young men wearmg turned the corner onto Belmont last armbands. The police tried Saturday they couldn't hear the ca• to push the crowd away. Scuffles broke dence that was being called in gruff out. Arrests were made from among mihtary fashion, but they could see a the angry, chanting demonstrators. line of eight camouflage-clad neo- The poHce escorted the Nazis safely Nazis marching up the opposite side• back to their station wagon. walk. It wasn't the first time this type of A handful of police, far too few to confrontation has taken place on Chi• adeauately control the tense situation, cago's Streets. Last fall, the first "Paint continued on positioned themselves between the two Out Racist Graffiti" demonstration page 22 Council on Urban Affairs, the Chicago Adam —and that white Christian Covenant, and the American Jewish Aryans are the 'lost sheep of the house Congress, have held meetings to dis• of Israel'— God's chosen people— cuss the growth of organized racist and therefore America is the biblical and anti-Jewish activity in the Chicago promised land," explains Lenny Zes- area. A report on hate groups kind, research director of the Center by the traditionally cautious Anti- for Democratic Renewal (CDR). Defamation League of B'nai B'rith The center, known formerly as the warns of "new disturbing develop• National Anti-Klan Network, is based ments and linkaees." in Atlanta, but Zeskind lives and Lorenzo Chew, director of the Chi• works out of Kansas City, Missouri. cago Police Department's Neighbor• "Some Identity members have begun hood RQlations Division, is watching to collect weapons and ammunition in the Situation with concern. He, too, is expectation that the biblical 'end- keeping a growing list of violent, times' arc near," warns Zcskind. Identity Qdnerjints t^eiieup jews,. go. He 15 aware that a new coalition of blacks, Communists, homosexuals, and white eupremaoict groupc ic targeting "race-traitors" have seized control of Chicago area teenagers. He recently the United States. They refer to told an audience at a north-shore Washington, D,C,, as ti^e Zionist Occu• temple that "not enough is being done pational Government (ZOG). They to counter these groups. Ihey are read William Pierce's novel The Turner prcacbing violence to 16-year-olds Aarzes—published by the National who are watching movies like Ranibo. Alliance, which Pierce heads—in One of these days their fantasies are which an underground white army going to carry them away.. leads a revolution against ZOG. * • A "Identity theology binds together a This weekend, Chicago's new coali• number of previously isolated groups," tion of white racists is preparing to says Zeskind. "Important sections of test its theories of grass-roots support the , the neo-Nazi and media manipulation. The Illinois movement, the Posse Comitatus, the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and the , and other groups have America First Committee have mail• adopted Identity theology." ed to their constituents a flier an• Built around notions of white supre• nouncing the "1986 Klan Krosstown macy, a loosely knit network of organ• Klassic." Scheduled arc two rallies: izations and individuals in the Chicago "A While Pride Rally on the south area has developed into what we at side of Chicago in historic Marquette Midwest Research —the place where I Park on Saturday, June 28th at 71st work, it's a small, independent re• and Sacramento... at 2:00 PM. search foundation devoted to monitor• "An Anti-queer Rally on the north ing —call the "white racist side of Chicago in to alliance." This alliance coordinates its protest Gay Pride Week on Sunday, activities with other racist groups in June 29th at 2:00 PM." Illinois and throughout the midwest, The flier is emblazoned with an as well as parts of the south, west, and American flag waving: over the head• Pacific northwest. ing "Knights of the Ku Klux Klan." Identity is the glue. Cualiiiun is the The bottom bears a heading "Klan on process. It's a new phase for the Klan the March!" The slogan is "Racial and Nazis^ they talk of learning from Purity IS Americans Security." their mistakes and reaching out with An ironic footnote reads; "The new taeties and slogans. Zeskind and WHITERIGHT Illinois Knights of the Ku Klux Klan others from rhe Center for Democratic IS a White Christian and Patriotic Fra• Renewal have visited Chicago several ternal Order of the Fifth Era, which is times in the past year. They've come tunllnucd from pajc I Committee Against Racist Violence not anti-Catholic." to study Identity, because Identity called hy rhe John Brown Anri-Klan placed a full-page ad in the Reader The rallies are being buili by a has come to Chicago—Identity sup• Committee was attacl^cd by another announcing last weekend's march to coalition with direct ties to the militant porters are organizing in Chicago high racibt group-a coalition of ttie 'btamp out racist graffiti" ana a plan and racial Aryan Nation^ network, sehuuk, among siicci gangs, and in Klu?( Klan and ngo-Nazis that is to "oppose the Klan & Nazis on Cay based in Hayden Lake, Idaho. Coali- newly integrated neighborhoods. planning two dcmonatrations this Pride nay" June 29 in Lincoln Pafk, tiow membm mtti regularly around These new racist Ideologues think weekend in Chicago. where a Klanaponaored antigay rally Chicago and Dcrcral timcD a year at Chicago io a good plocc to organizjc The popular view is that these are has been scheduled. Police say they regional white-supremacist gatherings the white revolution. They have said just hostile "extremist" grgups battling will be better prepared for the Lincoln in Cohoctah, Michigan, where tactics as much in their regional meetings, it out on the streets of Chicago. Few Park confrontation, and for another arc discussed. The retooled or "fifth where they have discussed their plans people pay any attention to the charges Klan-sponsored rally in Marquette era" Klan, along with many other in detail. The public campaign to win by John Brown spokespersons that for Park on June 28. white racist groups, has embraced a the hearts and minds of white Chica- the past year a wave of racist and anti- While most Chicago media report philosophy of hate built around a goans starts Saturday in Marquette Jewivh intidentv has swept Chicago. ihe clashes between aniiracisi demon• pseudoreligion called Christian Iden• Park. The racists have been laying the The militancy of the John Brown strators and white supremacist groups tity. groundwork for over a year. Almost Committee is used as an excuse to as sports events, a number of main• "Identity is based on the premise no one has paid any attention. ignore their detailed press releases stream grouDS, such as the Chicago that the Jews are literally children of * • • listing attacks, firebombings, and even Commission on Human Relations, the Satan—the seed of Cain—that people Not long ago, there would be no murders. Last week the John Brown American Jewish Committee, the Na- of color are 'pre-Adamic' mud people more than one or two racial incidents Anti-Klan Committee and the Ad Hoc -lional Lawyers Guild, the Jewish — God's failures before perfecting a year in and around Chicago involv-

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It RIGHT 12,000 people meet them at different start taking back the streets of Chicago times. And these people were looking worked beyond my wildest imagina• for the white person. I was against it; I for leadership; they were looking for tion." thought it would never work. But we radical leadership. And we couldn't Now someone else read aloud the rs* tried. Wc put out Q caU and 200 people even provide all that leadership be• triumphant leaflet; prejudice they exalted did. showed up. We were surprised. We cause wc weren't qualified to do it. It We are coming. Many whit a Ameri• in tne summer or 1975, coiiin was started to march through the black got beyond our means. cans who have followed our movement arrested on dieorderiy conduct ctiargec area; we stopped. So we tried it again "After that the people in Ghicaco, tmer ifie years m dism$S^4 that we about Q month later. This lime about ivr sifigins a park dscnoneiration mtK higUer autuorities, tney saiU, Hey, have confined our activities to Chicago's out a permit. Collin enlisted ttie aid of 1,000 p§vpi9 Showed up. The idea was this is getting out of hand.' So what fay savTfi sid^ and southern suburbs, tk« Am«r*««tn ^trtl LiVfrtife Vniyn rrc TTcrc tulnj: to zo in there and show ihcy did is they went in ihe Fart in getting a pork demonstration permit the blacks who we were. The idea was Difvirict—and we l^nnw this because the Marquette Park area and in suburbs without hoYing lo po3i ihc massive to push mem DacK in Lake MicniHan. DeoDie in me Park District were sort hbe Park Pnrcst. Uut re/'/>Mt]y th^v^ hmii Uui iht fjity and Park [ADDIQUSC.I of friendij/; ihey told UK. And tUey hav^ biiti strong indications that wc I>isirici refused lo waive ihc insurance "On the second march we got to the came up with the idea that we had to might do wdl to concentrate our efforts rcauircmcnt, and in March of 1977 tiorderline and the police wouldn't let have g million and a half dollars of in areas previously deemed unsuiluble Colhn announced he would stage a us go through. It was like a cat-and- insurance for every rally we held. for their development. Added to this rally in Shokic. whose Innc Jewish mouse game, and tne eKiaDliEnmynt Tnere was no way m cduid ever get consideration is the fuci that we kuve DODulation includes many survivors of just did noi want UK cauKing trouble. that iUftd of money. And we sat around been effectively banned from holding both Nazi concentration camps. So we thought about it and decided and sat around; we wasted time and public speeches and demons tr at ton. Collin candidly admitted the threat that the heet way to deal with it is to we lost time. We were loaing people, Since we have been so banned, we have of a Skokie rally was a nloy to force take cnnrrnl of the situation." we were losing momentum, And noth• decided to relocate in areas heamly the ChlPQgn Parlz Dietriet to allow According to Goodwin* Collin's ing seemed to work." populated hy tft^ mpyyiy — J m^^*i the him access to Marquette Park. But it neo-Nazis started trying to provoke Then, said Goodwin, they thought Jews. Where one finds the most jfews was a marvelous organizing tactic. some black group into coming out. of marching in Skokle. there also shall one find the most Jew At last fall's white racist alliance Thsy tfi«d to lure Jesse Jackson and "Now ia there anyone in here in haiors. With this basic truth tn mtnd we meeting in Michigan* a person intro PUSH, who refused to take the bail. 1977-7S did not hear of when the arc now planning a number of street duccd >as "Tom Goodwin" and de- "We tried almost every group we Nazis tried to march in Skokie? Is demonstrations and speeches in Evans- Bcrilsed as: Q member of a national could. W© finally got a little group there anyone who didn't hear of that? tim north ahor^, Morton Grove, socialist group in Chicago Irom 1971 called the Martin Luther King [Move• OK. It was something that pretty Skokie^ etc. This leaflet is but the first of to '78, explained how Collin and his ment] at a little storefront church. much attracted worldwide attention. a number now being designed and printed suppprt^rs developed their campaign. And they tried to march in, and the These are just some clippings. I don't for eventual mass distribution, A beau• Goodwin'a rcmarka arc taken from a first time rhcy tried the police stopped know if you can see them too well. tiful full-color poster 18 inches by 30 transcript of a tape recording of the them. And right away all the different The headlines on the papers, and TV inches with nonremovable adhesive on meeting made by someone there. What radical groups, the leftists* jumped on interviews, etc, etc. The publicity, the back ts already in the works. The he said Is ahhreviated here, but no their bandwagon and said, Tou can't roughly for two years, going straight poster shows three rabbis involved in the words have been changed. do that.' The next thing you know, through on papers throughout the ritual murder of an innocent gentile boy "Ths gfoup I was with was getting they got a permit to march. Exactly world. OK. during the hatefest of Purim. Our propa• 3omc very good success in reaching what we wanted. Because what we did "NOW all the things that happened ganda will he large, with an expose after people. Pm very much in favor of then, was... we went door-to-door in this thing in Skokie started with exttose nf the Talmud^ ProtoMh nf ^/nw, reaching the younger generation. If knocking on doors and wc organized a one leaflet^ and one leaflet only. It was and manv nmer hpfnrn prsftdnted awy- won raa/'nofl TMA v\igh 6/»HAAI ifi/4e m Q Tcry aimply done Item. But the ooiiii mhvfv. ...m mm, m^l wc have done y^arc agA, we would have many mtsr^ ''Vluti

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30 READER-Settlon I calling for its residents to join in the chanted the crowd. More boots, then long-awaited Frank Collin demonstra• march to confront the Nazis. The pro• fists, and as the black youth struggled, tion in Marquette Park was now KITE cession swelled to over 1,500, but as his shirt was reduced to shreds. Blood history. Ironically, the event was soon the chanting crowd turned west onto trickled from his nose, and the corner followed by the near-collapse of the 71st Street to head for Marquette of his mouth was split. Collin organization. Park, they were stopped by police A middle-aged white man rushed • • * RIGHT who formed a three-deep human wall into the mob and grabbed the black In the fall of 1979, Collin tried to at the railroad underpass some ten youth protectively. He, too, became a regroup his forces. Signs appeared in blocks east of the park. target of attack, but other whites our neighborhood overnight. "White continued from page 29 The antl-Nazi protesters were told joined him. I stopped laiung pictures Power Rally" said red type in inch- Nazis. they would be allowed no further. and jumped in. we formed a tight high letters. "Time 2:00, Sunday, With pohoe reinforcementc standing Police barricades blocked off every knot of bodies, with the dazed black Scot. 30ih - Place: Gage Park, 55th & byj {jolhn "nrao led to the plazia Tria the Olds Dtreet leading toward the park yovith at its «*r«, and ^wsh^d way Weerapn." basement of the Klucrzynski Federal from Western Avenue. A hundred- through the screaming crowd toward Gaee Park High School had been Buildingi TyrsntT fiTf brvTrn^hirt© s«|u«r?-Vlvfk 9t-«^ w^s «^fd^n«d ^ii' ft lin4 f^iif^ whA hft/l haan wntf^hing the ceene of violent racial incidentK escorted him to Q tiny plattorm. His Persons entering it from the cast were the incident indifferently from several dufiflg lu 7U§, in ig79, wsstsfh spccth was drowned out by iht roar of asked for identification and proof of hundred feet awoy. Avenue, whieh hiseets the park, still the croTrdi Ecco and tomatoco rained rsoidfin&yi Whtn thf tU^dmg ywth f«a«h#d eeparated hlaokc from whitec Another down on the Nazis. 5oon followed t)y In Marquette Park, some 2,000 the police, they grabbed him and white-power rally promised more vio• rocks and bottles. The Hasia scurried people gathered to hear Collin make pushed him into a squad ear. The car lence, especially given the recent ulti• back into the Klucziynski Building as his familiar speech of racial hatred. sped off toward Western Avenue. "I matum by the then Department of police began dispersing the counter- Cohin stood behind rank after rank of didn't think about it I iuot did it I Htalth, Education and W«lfar« ord«r demonstrators. There were a dozen helmeted police. A few counter- had to," said the older man, who said ing widespread busing to desegregate arrests. demonstrators made it into the park he attended the only synagogue in the Chicago's schools. The Gounter-demonstrators were and several scuffles ensued. Dozens of neighborhood. "I had to be here to The poster was keyed to the busing phningraphed and videotaDed by DOI- nlaincloihes Dolice descended upon oroiest the Nazis, too." he shrugged. order. The text asked; "Is k fair to bus $fa«4iftg i« tl** e^^AR^-flflflr eaoh of them and led the scufflers out We shook hands. He walked off. white kids far from their homes into window of the Dirkscn Federal Build- of the park. There were 72 arrcsta. A few moments later, the unruly biaci? schools, where they arc physi• D4^i'b*i'tt $.m^T. Although After the rally was over, roving crowd surrounded a small group of cally abused—all in the name of 'inte• §0m5 0^ the aounter-demonGirators bands of young whites started attack• protesters from the same synagogue. gration? How can blacks live m luxury were members of the Jewish Defense ing the counter-demonstrators who "Go back to Skokie, Jew bitch," on welfare without working, while League, most were from civil rights, had managed to get into the area and yelled one white youth at a young white workers can bcarly isicl make pacifist^ r^ligiougj fadical^ eo

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This was especially true in North Carolina, for a deadly assault Posse Comitatus. rhe park with a earful of Ngzis, took a the rural eouth. The new Christian on an anti-Klan rally on November 3, The Posse began in the late 1960a. look, and decided to skip it. Without Identity movement, however, is open• 197Q. Five members and supporters In 196Q, Posse charters were issued by media hoopla stirring up the public, ly hostile to most law enforcement of the Communist Workers Party were H.L. "Mike" Beach in Portland, Ore• Collin seemed to be a paper tiger. officers: they are seen as collaborating killed in the shootout. gon. The same theories were pro• Finally a rival group of Naiis from with the Zionist Occupational Oov- Two days alter a trial in which all mulgated at the same time by one the National Socialist White People's crnmcnt. But given the Klan's legacy, the aefeiiuants were acquitted, one of William rotter Qaie, a retired Army Party "barracks" in Cicero walked into many black and radical groups remain them, Virgil Griffin, told the Charlotte colonel in California. Shortly after I tie park foUawed hy a ornuud of young Hujipioinui! that in Mnffflntfltiane be• Qh^^^v^r^ "tvftfy m«mber ot ths ^eft«h began issuing "Sheriff's Posoc teenage boys, some on bicycles. These tween racists and antiracists* as the Communist Party should be tried for Comitatus" charters and handbooks, MaiiK m mufti walked up tho oounter- chant goec^ "Ttie oopc and the Klon^ ff^^s^n And ^ut iii fr^nt «f a firing Qa14 b^gatt UdUing eharters and a demonBiratore and a hrm Ai"gUitt4iit wofU hattd itt hand." squad and shot, or else sent to Russia handbook called the "Guide tor Vol• ^nsu^d. Aft J«^n«s, th«n with ths The best evidence of past law cn- to occ how they like it there." unteer Christian Posses." TVlWFFj ujQuod Q iiiiiiui or iiriijjr;! rnroomant Miiahafariflh with tha icia« TK« t^n« that tn^l was ett -when The early 70s were marked by fact• Power newspapers as the Na^i§ thr^at- was recently revealed in two separate one defense attorney* Roy Hall, based ionalism, but by 1974 the Beach and &:Vi&A Violence. C^rlpads pf police ma- covirt actions in which the U.S. gov- his argument for aequhtal on a twisted Gale forces in the Posse had formed tsrializsd fr^m sidi streets and the ernnA6nt was ordered to pay $25,000 analysis of history. Hall told the jury an informal political and religious ftn*i~N^si dtm^ttttf^t^rt k«i?t th«ir ^nd f ^^,QQO rtepiitirtly to siril riihto hio client waa "a patriotic citizen, iust moyemcnt that began to grow. A cool. The police let the debate con- activists Jim Peck and Walter Berg• like the Germans were. manifesto was issued in booklet form. tinw« isjv a Trhik «nd then aiiiiounwtd man* Peck and Dcrgman rrcrc beaten "The Germans gambled cycrything In late 1974, 200 to 300 persons the rally Dermii had expired. The by me Ku Klux Klan in May of I96l and lost all in opposition to commun• attended an early Posse convention in H»oio kft ths pftrh whantinsi "White Trhcn buDCD tarrying freedom ridcra ism. Aren't they a lot more attractive Wisconsin. Power! White Power!" and were fol• were ambushed in Anniston and Rir- now than they were 40 years ago at rhe The moet visible and active branch lowed by most of tho toonagerQ. mingham^ Alaban\a. eftd of the war? These defendants are of the Posse for many years was in Some of the local youth remained The suits were filed in the wake of patriotic citizens just like the German Wisconsin. The press gave much behind to talk auietiy with the anti- the 1975 Senate testimony of former citizens. That's why they went to attention to Wisconsin leader James Nazi residents and protesters, how• Kiansman Gary ihotwae Rowe Jr., Greensboro—to stop communists," Wickstrom, although his claims of ever, and afterward we all agreed the who as an FBI informant had warned said Hall. holding some vague national leader• response to the rally had been a sue- local police and federal agents that the While the Klan and Nazis were ship post were flatly contradicted by amnucn wouid tai?e place. beginning to wofk together, primarily the autonomous and anarchistic nature Shortly thereafter, Frank Collin was But neither local police nor federal in the south, another racist and anti- of the Posse itself. made a guest of the state of Illinois— agents intervened, and in fact, accord• Jewish phenomenon was growing in The most violent Posse confronta• imprifioned not tor hie Nasi activities ing to an FBI memo, the Birmingham the west and midwest. This was the tion inyolvcd the mishandled 1983 but for engaging in proscribed sexual Police Department informally agreed Posse Comitatus (Latin for "power of attempt to serve legal papers on Posse activities with young males, to allow the Klansmen 20 minutes for the county"), which brought to the activist Gordon Kahl in North Dako• m October of 1980, the new leader assaulting the freedom riders before rightist fringe the constitutional theory ta. Two federal marshals were killed of the Chicago neo-Nazi movement, police would arrive on the scene. that all governmental power beyond and several persons wounded. Kahl Mlehaei Allen^ arr^mpted to lead a P^ek Was beaten unqonsciou? out- the county level is illegitimate. The fled underground and was later killed mar^h trom Mflfqu$tt$ Pafk into the Sid5 the Hil^mingham bus station and Posse also helped popularize among in another mishandled attempt to aajaceni Diack community or west Bergman was assaulted in Anniston, organized racists an alluring and flush him from a iortified bunker. EdeIcwooU. LucKilv fur him. DOlice where one uf the buses was desirtived heretical tneningy. ihis is cznriemn Kahl has £itt£^^ become a martyr to hiiLiLLUiLd ihh suicide mlwitin. Allen by a fitchnmb. netcman. now m, ik idemiiy it c nucad an a ttifn-flf-ihe- PMCCS fl^hai«a«Ta »A many .?th«r led a handfiil nf cunftorr^M ii^ q mar^h ^Onfin^d ro a Wh^^lehair, m part oenhiry oonf'ept ralleJ Britick Terael- arnnnd Mar^nertd Park that &nA&A in hdMUCd of injUriDO from the heating. After the Gordon Kahl incident, Ll«ejM*4 mjvms, B«<-ginskn bshsreo Chriotian Identity; in identifying many Poaac members decided to carry Ua« -fY>f^f^ r«Uy t» ts hsld in liif Fartistpation in the freedom ridco God'o true choDcn people na white out nciivitica in sccici or ttirough from Muruucttc Park. «n3 wurihwhilc, and conulbuicd lu Americaiii. and lUe United Staiyt; ay groups^. $(?me memuers Began Ruying opening up rne eoufh ro rwd tMUdi fhd fi^e promieed lan^j dwmiSStS JsWS large quantities of graino, canned n K w eV P4*frU all ras«o." QO the dcviro Qccnta and blacka na liooda^ and vltaininx hi anilcipaiiGn of Tho UJHita M?i?f fltUftftii lUm«is TUP reiariuy miyuoiisjei! nf tha ^iuu faaie fh4 J4W§. Hfit^s, in a etroks, the economic and pohtical collapse li Drimarily a Loaliilnn oetween tno riihia moycmcni belled the laeim was Ihe answer in the eunirudHiiiun iney w&m proaif^trng ana mivifAhU rcmnanto and ncTT rccrulii of the ideology of while supremacy tUi Klan mat nad lorment^a (and undermined) Illinois iico^Hail movement and ele* raei&i tmu. articulated. But ua the auuth hconrn the Kliii and tiihcr nld"fai;niDUPd TliB roctu huu uimmptod tu POi'PUii mfnia ul thi Ku Klun Klani build a new society bas^d on mutual raciets! it biaeke are Gtupi^i^ why ar^ ^ufp^nt f^^rmer msn^bsra of tho The Ku Klux Klan has a long rciapcct, virulent luciTit groups began they succeeding^ why 1^ OUS msyor variouK Klans and Nazi parties, but niDtory of armed terror in America, of Chicago? Blacks, it seemed, were 10 forge a new coalition built around has also ranced further afield' ap• and its exploits need no retelling here. EcalouD hate. It la thia new develop" advancing because clever Jews iiiaiiip- proaching supporters or the National Mortharn llhnoiQ hoo hiatorically con manr that liae K^hiA/fi the Chi<.ag

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In rural America, the growth united by Identity..." and their solemn duty is to spread the of the white racist alliance marks a The impetus for the establishment alarm across the land. period of crisis. of the Klan/Aryan Nation computer WHITE More specifically, "alien conspira• Unfair produce- and stock-pricing network was the opportunity to spread tors" haye seized control of America Structures, mortgage foreclosures, ex• the Identity message, and the contro• cessive loan rates, disruptive commod• versy over the Kansas radio station RIGHT away from "white" or "Aryan" Chris• tian patriots. "Aryan" is given a myth• ities speculation, and inequitable fed• that broadcast anti Jewish and anti- ological reality, referring to persons of eral agricultural policies have all torn black programs started when the sta• northern European (or at the very least, at the social and economic fabric of tion began playing records of Identity continued from page 31 middk European) stock. Alien con• rural America. Desperate people have leaders William Gale and James Wick• National Caucus of Labor CommitteeSj spirators include Jews, blacks, Latin• listened to desperate solutions. strom. rhe latter is the spokesperson both grouos Isd by Lyndon La- os, Asians. Indians, all other non- The growth of Christian Identity for the Posse Comitatus in Wisconsin, Rouchc, organirationa formed tu resist Aryans., elecieU poUiii^iaiis, aOove the paralleled the growth of the Posse Organizers for Christian Identity tATSts and farm f<^f#«lo&urd&i and ths county IcycL lawcnforccmcnt officiala Comitatus and other paranoid ourvi- and groups such as the Posse Comita• recently formed and milliani Ameri• above the level nf munty sheriff, valisi movements, and generally the tus have auempted to gain recruits in can Acricuhural Mnvemeni and rhe pnhri^ianc^ gom^ ward^nc^ Tntp^rnol armed naranoid right wing in America the farm heli since ihe late 1960s. Bui Older Naiional Farm organization. Revenue agents, government emolov- has adODied mentiiy as irs religion/ 11 was not until the devastation of folic jctiyiijr hai been rcooricd in the aaCj ludgutj luwyurL^ juurnuliErt;^ net• philttvophji of choice. On [he common Americans rural economy that angry last few years in Pennsylvanm, IllinoiK, work television employees, unionists^ ground of Chrigtian Identity, tradi• and desperate rural families began to and 10 other states west and northwest leftiGts, Gocialists, communists, the tionally hostile and competing ele• pay serious attention to the scapegoat- of Illinois. Rockefellers, the Trilateral Comn^ie- ments of the armed right wing have ing theories being peddled. In the Following the Qmmmw snwi- sian, fhd Bildfef bfei'^si* Gtmti, the council found unity. Here such groups as the past few years, Ideniiiy philosophy ingc tiy tUQ Klanemen and NQ2iej and on Forsign Rslations, Federal Reserve American Nazi Party^ Pocse Comita• and anti-Jewish conspiracy theories the death of Gordon Kahh a number Bank officials, and all other bankers. tus, units of the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan have gained a disturbing level of of previously afttagoftistie fAijist gfout>s Persona who mamtain these enemies Nations, the Christian Patriots De- acceptance in rural America. in AmmM hAgd« TA MaiiA fi&M&fit ^xstomardyi bfh^vt in bU«h g^n^tit; fenee League^ and the Covenant, the Not everyone is anxious. The Anti- iTft\U fHfh vthfrj and btgun to fstab iiifcrioiityt ooaacaa romantlclEcd no• Sword and the Arm of the Lord hare Defamation League of B'nai BVith, Ibh informal means of communication tions of Aryan culture; are virulently met and discussed ideology and alli• in a report researched out of the and mformation sharing. anticommunist; manifest a iingoistic ances. Chicago office titled The American Not all Klan grouns accented the natriotism: sec media coycragc of non- The members of the group yarious- Farmer and the hutremistss takes the new ggalltign^ those that did began to Aryans as a Jewish-communist plot; ly called the Order, White American position that "the overwhelming ma• call tnemseives the "fifth era" Klan, to resent black job gams; think black Bggtion^ or the Silent Brotherhood, jority of America's farmers are, at demark what th?y hpped WQuld be the politicians arc pawns of Tews, bdicyc who were recently convicted in Seattle present, not buying what the extrem• fifth period of growth by the Klan black activism is directed from Mos• for staging armed robberies and mur• ists are selling. sin«« its in««ption, Fifth «ra Kkn cow or Tel Avivj and practice armed dering Denver talk show host Alan "Many farmers feel desperation over adhcrcms sought to forge ties with survivalism as a defensive necessity. Berg in 1984, are predominantly ad• their economic plight, to be sure, and other racict groupe acrocc the nation. ThiG paranoid worldview wae nicely herents of Identity. The name "Silent understandably so, but neither the This mov$ toward cooperation was described by historian Richard Hof- Brotherhood" is drawn from one used effusive self-puffery of the far-right enhanced by the catabliahmcnt of the atndtcr in hia book The Paranoid Scvlc internally by membera of Hitler's proDaEondiata nor the shrill cries of oomputQriaed bulletin board system }'» Amm'cafi Polhics. Waffen SS. certain alarmists can gainsay the lack (BBS). Groups began to work more "The central preconception of the According to the Klanwatch In- of evidence of any truly significant C1O3C1Y and staEc ioint actiyitics, some• Dflianoid style." wrote Hofstadtcr, is ccllimicc Rcvon of the Southern Poy- mass radicalization of rural America times built around "survivalisi" en• the belief in "the existence of a vast, erty Law Center: at the present time." campments. As this cooperation bc- insidious, preternaiurally effective "A look at the backgrounds of some But Leonard Zeskind of the Center «am9 mor« formalised^ rrhat emerged international eonopiratorial network of th« 27 Ord«r m^mb«f$ ^r«dt«ut«d f^r Democratic Uenewal disagrees. He TTBO o Trhitc raoiDt allmncoi doounod to porpotuato acto of the moot in Seattle illuotrfitfo the eooperation oeknoTrlcdiOD that moot farmcro arc ficndioh character." bctrrccn radicolo that noTr pormcatoo not turning into Haijiot but he thinka Tht olliantt b not entirely homo• Paranoia haa cniuycd a niche in the cAircmisi rlEhi: five had Klan tics, there is a larecr oroblcm of growing geneous, and nui crcryuiic 3harc3 all American political life since lUc 5alcm one had been a Naxi party member, a bigotry that results from leiiiiig far- me reiaieo Delists, aiany are wiueiy wiicn inai!, und tny uiiii-M.m.vii ny^- tiuir-dyiyn wyry Aryyn nrytiynv, yuy ngnt ragi^ig speaK out wiinout opposi• new, nc^WcVcr.^A^ UpUai, the world tenp of the lYWs. &mdl, paranoid was a yeteran tax protester, tour CSA's tion— and a physical danger posed by huQ been dirided uitu '''UD" and Doliiitol erouoa hare formed and dia- [the CoYcnant, the Sword and the armed clandestine grouos. 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It was at According to DiLeonardi, an officer seven and ten sympathisers for each ican Bastion." this point, after the attackers had been observed a Nazi removing a jack activist. . . .Stockpiling of weapons and Rosenfeld explained that the White assaulting the demonstrators for a from his car to protect himself, and ammunition is an increasing phenom• American Bastion, also known as the reported ten minutes, that police ar• that at no time was this jack used as a enon/' Order, was "rendered inactive by the rived. weapon. The videotape clearly shows Zeskind thinks the racist and anti- arrest of almost all of its members on The police failed to arrest Novak, Klan leader Ed Novak with the jack Semitic organizations that are attempt• charges of armed robbery, arson, rack- despite his deadly weapon. Police raised over his head running forward ing to win a following among farmers eteeringj and murder. But the report explained that no arrests were made for dozens of yards across Aetna Plaza. h^v« l?««n ir«lat»v«iy v«ia£i9«t«d by th« vr^rns thai the loose alliance of groups because no complaint was filed. No The same group of neo-Nazis and arrests and convictions among crimi• that gave rise to itie Order is aliv^ and complaint is necessary under such Ku Klux Klan members involved in nal r^viet grvuRQ suvH »9 th« Urd^rt w^ll." circurnDtancca, according to acycral the Aetna flaza assaults staged two "Inotead," says Zesiund, "their growth Federal prosecutors In the Seattle civil and criminal attorneys. oiher demonstrationK with a clear po- b more heavily affcttcd by their own trial \ji the Order members charged Several organizations, including the temial for violence two days before FvliiifHl DHTTT and ths isonumy and thftt ths Order "funnclcd money taken National Lawyers Guild and Ameri• the Aetna Plaza assault. They picketed of the farm protest moyemcnt in robberies to the Aryan Nations, the can Jewish Committee, asked that the a meeting of several hundred individ• ao a whole. For cjiamplci the aucccaa Ku KluA Klan, and other hate groups police handling of the Aetna Flaza uals concerned about the rige of neo- of democratic organiBQtiona who hare around the country," wrote Rosenfeld. incident be reviewed by either the Nazi activity in the Uptown area; and oionccrcd efforts to combat the racists, Other law enforcement officials mayor's office or the superintendent earlier that same day, they staged a like the Prairicfirc-Iowa Farm Unity have voiced similar concerns regarding of police. Instead, the commander of counter-demonstration in support of Coalition and the North American the potential for violence of such the district where the incident took South Africa in front of that country's Farm Alliance, has provided distressed groups as we see In the white rooiet place bruohed acide eriti^»ifimfi. TK^ consulate, where antiapartheid farmers with teal alipiiiyilu« lu the alliance. ueri:lon of euenrc eummafitied m writ• demonstrators had gathered for rametQ and anti-Semitee." Laet fan a p^ae^ful demonstration ing by Commander Joseph months. Lfit unshidlfingfidi tht Idfntity by Chisago citiscnQ who organised to DiLconardi is flatly contradicted by a Other racially motivated incidents mouomont oould leave a legacy of paint out racist graffiti was atta^l^^d Videotape aired by WMAQ TV. in the Chicago area arc part of this hQtrod in rural America that would by a group of noo-Nazis and m^mb^rs According to DiLeonardi's letter to pattern of escalating racist activity that take generations to combat. What wc of the Ku Klux Klan led by Ed Novak. the American Jewish Committee, only the neo-Nazis thrive on. From the are seeing in Chicago is the emergence The demonstration had been called two groups were involved in the Aetna beginning, the Marquette Park Klan of an ufban ^ampon^nt M th^ fUfal by th4 John Brown Anti-Klan Com- Plaza incident, the "John Brown So• rally has been tactically designed to Identity phsnomenoni niittect which has been keeping: tabs ciety" and the "Neo-Nazis," with no force a confrontation with counter- dcmonstrators. The confrontation will * * * on the growth of organized and ran• involvement of the Ku Klun Klan. In be used to build support for a racist Last fall, reporter Seth Rosenfeld of dom racist violence in the Chicago fact, while the John Brown Anti-Klan organizing drive in Chicago, with the the San Francisco Examiner obtained a area for several years. Committee sponsored the graffiti confidential rcnon on white suprema• goal of launching a racist campaign The volatile situation ar Aerna Piasa paint-out, many other groups and in• cists prepared by th§ Califwnia Ds- dividuals were involved in the anti- against Mayor Harold Washington in matiy ways paralleled the incident nartment of Ju?«ticc. The rcoort warn• raoisi demonstration. nest year, This is not supposition. in GreenshorOj North Carolina^ where ed that "a loose coaUiion of 'ultracon- Persons aligned with the American This is what the Klan and its allies armed neo-Nazis and Klan members Qorvfltivij' orgamsati^ns a«tivv in C«li Nazi Party apparently did DartlclDate have discussed exnllcitlv at meetings left Dtrcral antiracist dcmonairaiors forma could spawn a new wayw of in the assaults, but ihe counter- of the white raci<:t alliance. dead. white supremacist violence." demvnsiraiion was sponsored by the True to form, last week Bishop Both incidents occurred in a period II ma. Therp ic a nariflnwridd Mdh- lUinoiG Knights of the Ku Klyji Klan, C.H. Turner, president of the Rever• nf inoreaQod a^iriv^tlfS ty raClSt atld iinn ..uinion ID ongflgM m A wAjAii with additional Darticioation by ounk end P)r. Mariin Luther King Jr. conepiraey toward tke <>v^r^hl'^W *v^A-JMft??» gr«MFti B«ih iimf Oi an imtifil rockcra aaaociatcd with romantic vio• Movement, ainiDuiiLPd nlanji for an U*^>*«d §iat«s g«T«rnm«nti lik assault was followed by the Qttachcro lence. The WMAQ vldeuiaop, whicn anil-Klan maren inrn Marqu^w Pa**!?. returning to their ears to obtain weap• m«ntB of ths soalition liari: DIIUWII an was maUB available tor viewing by continued on page 34 ons. In GrtcnsUoro guns were uscU. I I DIVERSEY I BOOTERY presentI s The Big Shoe Sale" I I Starring shoGS & handbags

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If they do, they will demand an increased police presence out there actively campaigning for become part of a conscious plan by in the neighborhood before patrols continued from page 33 Brady—not as Klansmen. but as resi• white racists to drive a wedge between were increased and a police car assign• Turner's tiny group is tlie one Tom dents of the ward. the predominantly while working- ed to the alley behind rhe building. Goodwin mentioned at last fall's meet• "We're hoping for the best. And if class community of Marquette Park Even then, police refused to respond ing of racists in Michigan, the one It happens that we wind up with a and the predominantly black working- to reporiB that carg with removed or Daitea into crossing western Avenue black alderman, we're stni going to class community of West Englewood. concealed license plates were repeated• back in the 703. have our rally at Marquette Park. And In general the media^ civic groups^ ly circling the block where the apart• rn§ i§at]§r or tne Murquuiie FQFU if the wayflf fi&mM and A&MA&d ie and fiity official? play into tk^ hands ment building was located. In some Klan rall^f^ Fd Novak^ die^ncced thic QAing to kftv^ ftri b bflrb««u« alongside of th« n«o~Nasis and th« Klan. Th« easeO) oeeupanto of the ears were Saturday's rally and other plane nf the aur K^lan rally—that's fine with ue. . . . media have an obligation to report on shouting racial epithets. Some con• iinnuit Knignic ui my it.u it,iux Klan racially motivated confrontations, but cerned residents who organized night• at Q regional meeting Af whit^ i«a/?iete wm SUf4 that the t^e6i^le ct Mar- when they do QO to the eftclusion of ly vigils after the firebombing were hdd last April Ot\ the Michigan farm c[M«tt« Park will giY« him a Y«ry warm more analytical and thoughtful cover• told by police they were "trouble• M Whi!^ suj>r€macist leader "Pastor" reception. . . . [l^aughtcr.j age of Chicago's racial problems they makers." Robert M.lc3. "ihe tollowing day kicks oft the perpetuate racism here. Community In another Marquette Park incident, A taps recording of Novak^s remarks lesbian and gay pride week in Chicago. and religious groups that should be an individual shouting racial epithets waa provided by an investigator with [Laughter.] Wc arc going to have an intervening more aggressively in situa• at 2 AM in a recently integrated neigh• th« Public Eye Network^ a national antiqueer rally in Chicago's Lincoln tions where racial tensions arc high borhood and daring blacks to come KTVvp ui rsofiarchcro rrho attend Park." (Applause.) ^ tend to look the other way, consigning out and fighi him was reporied to meetlnra of far-riEhi orKanliaiionx. According: to Mike Flannery, who mov;e ienv;kinv; lo me ineviratile con• police Although ceveral (?alle w^re NovQlc wac introduced ae "Md Maicon- interviewed Novak, "Kleagle Novak frontations that the police will handle. made and the man strolled up and lan," but Novak told WBBM TV mad« it clear that they think they will On ttie days gf confrontations, the down an alley for more than 20 min- rcDortcr Mike blnnncry that he was In tiQVQ Q lot to gain from next year's police protect the racists' rights^ the uies, no police cars arrived on the fact the speaker. clcciion for mayor ihai ihcy think will rest of the time the racists arc per• scene. According tc Novak, the Klan in be racially tense. I hey think they can ceived as being allowed to threaten Community leaders in Maruuettc Ghlcara recently decided "to KU Duhlic 3tir the pot this aummcr, and they and Inrimidarc. assault Auii firebomb. Fark kifly ihe diKirlci commander there 10 reach tne people... to cpread a rhinlc it win aU help rheni reLTuii new News Of the few arrests are buried on has been helpful and cooperative, but message of white unity and ultimately members." the back pages of the newspapers. privately they complain that vome in• white victory. The key to the future ie Flanncry also interviewed the Pub• And in Chicago, the police response dividual police officers have been less to reach our young people," said lic Eye researcher who recorded the to racial incidents can depend on who enthusiastic about enforcing the law Novak. Novak speech. "My impression," said is answering the call. Is it really the when racial ingi^^nig oggur, Ths gOOd NnvQk recounted deiQilc of flue the researcher, who wants to remain "Official" position of the Chicago intentions of Mayor Washington and Chicago dcinonoiialionj toordinoicd unidentified for security reaQons, "is Police Dgpanmtni thai antlraeisi Folicc Superiniendeni Fred Kice and by the TUinois Knights, including the that ihcy believe that this is going to d^monetratore "are the trouble^ not even sympathetic district commanders k9\lv^ riu/u mcitiyni My men lurnad cr^ar^ aftef laet dA «At ^fiekle dAW« f/s ev^i«y ihc Illinoia Knizhta. Connicr-dcmonstratoti arc asaln Saturday's confrontation? If this is nni Uh»mat$ly, It is a question of "On Tunc 2fiih, in r.hicairn'k whirr •me ball—bni unlike a decade auu in the ufflLlal nniiililnn, why have there percenrionK and orioritiey neen riu umor yiuiurnyuiu luuued tjy power arcui" MurnLiPiie rurlc—me Marquerre Furu^ nuu; dttiyiii; uf tUucUK cniL'uuu pullet^ win proieci Ed Nn- liv^ w«t At W^et^rn Av^nu^. 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