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STEVE WIEGAND

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NAME: Steve Wiegand

A/K/A "Micetrap"

HOME BASE: Maple Shade, NJ

Note: This entry has not been updated in over ten years, and will be in the next few weeks.

This guy has been talking shit for sometime now and got a bit of noteriety for it. An old Atlantic City Bonehead, he had a page called "New Jersey Skinheads" which was loaded--and I mean loaded--with white power bullshit. Our thing is this: have the balls to back up what you are about. People who know him say he is just some computer nerd who thinks he is hard, but his hardness only goes as far as his computer, and apparently so does he. This is bad enough, but this guy has been targeting certain people in the NJ scene, saying he is going to fuck them up at some show or whatever, but never shows up.

Micetrap, who has his own white-power distro online, was supposed to run 14 Word Press, which has originally run by Katja Lane, wife of David "14 Words" Lane, who sits in jail for the rest of his life because of his activities with the racist terrorist outfit the Order. Micetrap posted the first 14 Words website years ago, but for some reason he is not taking it over as was announced late 2001.

Stevie might not be in the favor of those who are of the white racist scene as things may suggest. He joined the National Alliance in January, 2000, but by the end of the year, a message from Billy Roper listed Micetrap Distribution and Steve Wiegland as "enemies" of National Alliance. This may stem from the accusation that Micetrap sent a computer virus to NA headquarters. It is possible that when this news came out NA might have raised concerns about him running 14 Word Press, but this is just speculation on our part.


STEVE LONEGAN

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NAME: Steve Lonegan

DOB: 04/27/1956

HOME BASE: Larch Ave. Bogota, NJ

We needed to profile Bogota, NJ Mayor Steve Lonegan for a long time, but this entry is expedited because there is no way in hell we can allow a mayor in our stomping grounds with ties to hate groups go on with his BS without a response. There's a reason why this misuse of the word man was not elected governor of New Jersey last year, let alone allowed to go past the Republican primary, but we will get to that in a minute. What prompted us to write this is his current campaign to get McDonald's to remove a billboard from his town that is written in Spanish. He is just beginning to get some airtime on national television over this, and he appeared on the Faux News Channel to explain how McDonald's is causing division in the community, of which 21% is Latino, with their sign advertising iced coffee. "You know, the McDonald's marketing plan they announced was to put these billboards up in the communities of Newark…West New York, Irvington and East Orange, all of whom have large illegal alien populations," He said on the morning show Fox and Friends. "Bogota does not. And I think that McDonald's was mistaken in coming into Bogota and assuming our Latino population didn't speak English…"

Now it isn't just for "their" Latino population that he is speaking for. "What they've done is they've successfully caused a division in our community where the non-His - some of the non-Hispanic population is offended that this group is no longer, it appears, willing to assimilate. But that's not the case."

Lonegan is absolutely right that is not the case. It is also not the case that he is speaking for the Hispanic population. Later he notes that the division McDonald's apparently caused is best demonstrated by the fact that "the first thing people are doing now is calling me a racist and a bigot." Of course, it doesn't help Lonegan's cause when he makes the comment that "I know my Latino population." That's pretty much the same thing that Southern segregationalists used to say about the Northerners during the Civil Rights Movement, and just like then when they declared "We know our Negroes", Lonegan doesn't know jack about his Latino population. It was them that alerted us to the crap he is pulling, and it is them that are calling him a racist and a bigot. What's more, this has been said about him before the billboard. Way before. In fact One People's Project has twice gone to Bogota, NJ to participate in counter-demonstrations against
Ron Bass' United Patriots of America (UPA) because Lonegan had repeatedly hosted them at the town's VFW hall. The UPA is shunned by other local anti-immigrant groups because they are cozy with anti-immigrant hate groups like the American Immigration Control Foundation (AICF). This organization is the one that came up with the phony reconquista conspiracy theory - a concentrated effort by Mexicans to take over the Southwest and reclaim it for Mexico by crossing the border - and who's leader John Vinson is a Council of Conservative Citizens member. Lonegan, who has had police try to discourage protests at these events, and at one time was able to get the cops to make people leave (hey, if he is going after a billboard, you think free speech is going to be his top priority?), has spoken at several of the UPA's meetings and events, and for someone who "knows" his Latino population well enough to speak for them, he should know better than to hang with this crowd if he is worried about division in his community, not to mention being called out as a bigot.

This is all happening because Steve Lonegan thinks he is going to be the guy who will force neo-conservatism down the throat of New Jersey. He has busied himself with making the state as right-wing as he is for a number of years now. When he ran for governor, he made it very clear that's what his intentions were, and to that end he must feel he has to shape himself into the biggest asshole going. To be honest, it looks like that for him it is more about being right-wing than it is about being for the people he is supposed to serve. The indie film
Anytown USA spotlighted his campaign for reelection in 2003, and in the movie you can see how much the people felt he was polarizing the community even then. Sadly, he was still able to win the election, but he went on, as we noted to get trashed in his run for governor in 2005. His next go around to reclaim his office for another four years is in 2007, and you can bet things will be heated.

There will be more in this entry about Lonegan in the near future, but as we said earlier, we needed to make sure this scumbag was noted in the Gallery. His hate routine for the past number of years has gone on long enough. Bottom line: he needs to go.

You know the funniest thing about all of this? Bogota doesn't even
have a McDonald's! 

PHILIPPE RUSHTON (DECEASED)

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NAME:Jean Philippe Rushton
A/K/A:Phillipe Rushton, Phillippe Rushton, Philip Rushton
HOME BASE:Possibly:
675 Richmond St. #907
London, Ontario (Canada)
Work Phone:519-661-3685

Date of Birth: 1943, Bournemouth, England
 
Death: Oct 2, 2012, London, Ontario

RELATED ITEMS:

 

J. Philippe Rushton was the father of the modern day scientific and intellectual racists. Deriving his resources from the pro-Nazi racist research program, the Pioneer Fund which he eventually headed up, Rushton carried the tradition of writing countless Nazi-style racist research works since the scientific racism days of Nazi Germany.
A professor in psychology in the University of Western Ontario, Rushton's earlier controversial history began when he presented a paper at the Symposium on Evolutionary Theory, Economics, and Political Science on 1989. He classified all human beings somewhere among the three major racial groups: Black (Negroid), White (Caucasoid), Asian (Mongoloid). He claimed to have scientific evidence of an inherited link between brain size, intelligence and race, where Blacks and Asians are on opposite ends and Whites are in between.

Blacks, according to Rushton, have larger genitals, making them more promiscuous, and smaller brains, making them less intelligent than whites and Asians. Using 60 different measures, Rushton ranked the races along an evolutionary scale with blacks at the bottom and Asians at the top. [1]

Rushton's racial research went far beyond noticing minor physical characteristics, such as why whites have lighter skin and blacks have darker skin. Rushton's agenda was to segregate the human sub-race groups as entirely separate races and beings, in order to portray his perceived genetic inferiority of Blacks to justify segregation and legalized racism. Rushton had become a scientific reference figure for many white supremacy and hate groups to justify their racism. Some noteable racists who embrace Rushton's ideology are:

  • Former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke.
  • Pseudo-scientific racist Steve Sailer. Rushton is a key member of Sailer's Human Biodiversity group.
  • Jared Taylor
    (Rushton has spoken at American Renaissance conferences since 1996 and contributed to the publication)
  • Sam Dickson. .
  • VDare, a white separatist group led by Peter Brimelow.
Rushton's key point was to segregate Blacks as an inferior race, declaring Africans having far less intelligence than white people. Therefore, by Rushton's theory, the evolutionary "survival strategy" of Africans does not rely on intelligence, but on promiscuous sexual breeding. This fraudulent analysis has led Rushton to claim that genetically inherited sexual promiscuity is responsible for single-parent families and the AIDS epidemic among Canadians and Americans of African descent, as well as increased crime rates among Blacks. [4]

What was especially dangerous about Rushton was his influence on mainstream public policy. His racist research to portray Blacks as genetically inferior in mental capacity has been used as a weapon to justify denying employment and equal education and economic status against Blacks. Instead of shouting out hateful racial slurs, Rushton disguised his racist propaganda in intellectual scientific terminology to carry out his agenda.

Beyond his close circle of right-wing racists, Rushton has been consistently rejected by scientists, educators, and the general public. Then Prime Minister of Ontario, David Peterson, declared Rushton's arguments 'offensive to the way Ontario thinks', and called for the University to dismiss him; a group of students lodged a complaint about him with the Ontario Human Rights Commission. He was not fired nor suspended, but when he tried to give classes, the students themselves howled him down. Poor Rushton was forced to lecture to the television cameras, safe from the howling mob (Berton, 1993). [2]

Even the Canadian police found interest in Rushton's works. Rushton was investigated several times by the Canadian police for possible violations of Canada's hate crime laws, for promoting hatred against any identifiable group. Eventually, in the words of attorney-general Ian Scott, the police decided that Rushton's theories were 'loony but not criminal' and therefore dropped all criminal charges. [3]

Because Rushton was consistently rejected by the scientific community for his faulty empirical data and unscientific research methods, his sole source to fund his racist research program was the fascist group, the Pioneer Fund. The Pioneer Fund was established in 1937 by the American white supremacist multimillionaire Wickliffe Draper and others who were supportive of Nazi race policies in Germany. The incorporation papers of the Fund states its policy to support the "procreation of the white colonial stock" and to finance research into "problems of race betterment" and "problems of heredity and eugenics in the human race." [4]

Among the projects supported by the Pioneer Fund: [4]

  1. Pay for the distribution of a Nazi propaganda film, "Hereditary Defective" to high schools, colleges, and churches across the US. The film was produced by the Racial Political Office of the Nazi Party, and had been authorized directly by Adolf Hitler.
  2. In the 1950s and 60s, the Fund aligned itself with white racist factions opposed to the desegregation of education.
  3. Since the mid-1960s, Pioneer Fund money in the millions of dollars has bankrolled numerous racist and fascist psychologists - Rushton, Jensen, Cattell, Shuey, Eysenck, and many others - as well as William Shockley's scheme to pay African-Americans to have themselves "voluntarily" sterilized.
  4. In the early 1970s, the Pioneer Fund paid the Foundation of Human Understanding to distribute hundreds of free copies of pamphlets by white supremacist psychologists Richard Herrnstein and Arthur Jensen to the registrars' offices of universities across the US in a blatant attempt to influence administration policies against the admittance of African-American students.
  5. In 1994, longtime Pioneer fund recipients Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray wrote the book, The Bell Curve, denouncing blacks as genetically inferior because of IQ test scores. A lot of right-wing racists organizations like the Pioneer Fund, the Bradley Foundation, and the Manhattan Institute had close involvement in funding the research and marketing of the Bell Curve.
  6. In 1998, Arthur Jensen (professor at the University of California at Berkeley) received another massive grant for his book, the g Factor. A mirror copy of ex-professor Chris Brand in Scotland who got fired in 1996 for writing the g Factor, the book is a Bell Curve imitation.
Being a primary recipient of the Pioneer fund for over 20 years and receiving over a cumulative half-a-million dollars, Rushton became the new leader of the Pioneer Fund in January 2003 to help spread the cause of Nazi-style racist research. He held that position until 2012 when Rushton, suffering from a long illness, died on the same day Jared Taylor was at Towson University speaking to a majority black audience and pretending he never said blacks were inferior to whites.

 


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JASON W. NOAH

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NAME: Jason W. Noah

AKA: "Jay"  "ChicagoHass"

DOB: 03/17/1981

HOME BASE: 2715 122nd Pl Blue Island, IL 60406-1015

Works at Midwest Generation in Romeoville, IL
6'03", Brown eyes/Brown hair
Hate Crime/resisting arrest/inury to an officer
Last known plate number: 1243YN

From Southside Chicago Anti-Racist Action:

Update 3/01/13:  Since the initial post, Jason W Noah has attempted to remove this factual and public information from the internet. Since he has hassled us in the slightest way, we are now releasing the details of Jason Noah's hate crimes as well as his mug shot and other minor details. All of which are also public information.

Jason W Noah is a 31 year old White supremacist from Blue Island, IL. He has been involved with the WP scene since he was about 15 or 16 years old, claims to have been a skinhead since the 5th grade, and has been to several white supremacist rallies and white power concerts across the country. He attended Eisenhower High school in the late 90's. Jay used to be in a crew called T.C.B. led by former head of security for Skrewdriver Del O'Connor. This crew fizzled out and members went on to join Volksfront (VF). Jason also used to have ties to the white power band "confederate storm" who eventually went on to form the pop punk band known as Mest.

On August 21st, 1998, Jason was arrested with Paul Lira and Jason Brachens for a hate crime after Paul beat up a kid at Crescent Park for nothing other than being black (case number: 98CR30122). After the fight ended, all three retreated while yelling "white power". In the statement, Jason Noah states that "under his skinhead and white power beliefs, the white race is superior to the black race". Jason plead guilty and received 30 days in jail and 30 months probation. Later, on May 13th 2003, Jason and Paul were arrested together once again. This time they were charged with a hate crime and aggravated battery on a police officer (case number: 2003CR1167401) after Jason swerved his vehicle towards officer Bouie on Maplewood Ave while yelling out racial slurs. After the officer pulled into the parking lane to avoid being hit, Jason pulled into an alley and made a three point turn to come where the officer was pulled over. Long story short Jason and Paul struck officer Bouie and officer Christopher Trenton in the head and body. Jason was facing about 2 years and was eventually convicted and sentenced with "time served".

Although Jason is mostly tied up with family nowadays, him and his neo-nazi wife (Hida1979) are still attempting to network via Jason Heicke's new social networking site known as the Advanced White Society(AWS), a second rate Facebook for white supremacists. Jay used to work at a power plant at Cermak and Halsted until mid September. He now works at Will County's Midwest generation (529 E. 135TH St) in Romeoville, IL.

ROBERT HUBER

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NAME: Robert Huber

AKA: "Jay"  "ChicagoHass"

DOB: 03/17/1981

HOME BASE: Old Address - 131 Thorn Lane, Apt. 3
Newark, DE 19711
Old Phone (might still work)- 302.292.8413

In 2003 the white power band Blue Eyed Devils played their last show. Formed out of an earlier group called Nordic Thunder (whose lead singer Joe Rowan was deprived of his useless life courtesy of a bullet on his 22nd birthday), they took all their Earth Crisis/One Life Crew/Ignite influences and reinvented themselves into a white power hardcore band that sucked even more than the band they all came from. Regardless of their lack of talent, they were able to saunter on for a few years, enduring repeated lineup changes and beatdowns in the street (well, that was mostly their lead singer Drew), until their drummer Ryan Huber, picked up and left for Houston, Texas. His brother is Robert Huber and he played guitar for the band. Now he is trying to live a nice quiet life in Newark, Delaware with his Polish national wife, who he met at a show when his band toured her country and reportedly married when she came here and lived as an illegal immigrant until they tied the knot. Since he left the band he grew his hair out and always wears long sleeves so no one sees his neo-Nazi tattoos and pegs him. He also gets very nervous talking to strangers on the street about his extracurricular activities, and that is understandable. He may be concerned he would end up on website like this. We can understand that concern all too well. Pity.

Robert Huber, left, playing with his brother Ryan, on drums, in a Blue Eyed Devil Performance.
Huber, who started playing guitar when he was 15, along his brother Ryan and a few friends formed Nordic Thunder and was one of the first bands on Resistance Records when it was still owned by George Burdi, then of the band Rahowa and currently reported to be a reformed racist. On October 1, 1994, the band was in Wisconsin for a tribute show for the late, unlameted Ian Stuart Donaldson of the band Skrewdriver. After the show Nordic Thunder singer Joe Rowan and a few of his bonehead friends went to a convenience store and got into a scuffle with three black patrons. One of them allegedly shot and killed Rowan, but according to reports he was never charged with the crime because the prosecutor could not find credible witnesses. We can understand that. The only witnesses were boneheads. Would you trust the word of a bonehead?

From this Nordic Thunder came back as Blue Eyed Devils and released their first CD on Tri-State Terror Records, a label formed by Ryan Huber. The band and Tri-State Terror built a huge following in their circles, especially on the East Coast, and it is said that they are the ones who brought hardcore to the White Power scene. In the end Ryan decided it was time to break away not only from the band, but the label as well. "Ryan was always the one to be on the cutting edge of the music scene, so I think he's still doing projects and so on, but, I think that he really got sick of the backstabbing and shitty ways of the WP 'business'," Robert said in an interview found on the White Revolution website. "I think he had his fill of the bullshit, and decided to just do his own thing. But, that's all just speculation. I don't know for sure the exact reasons stopped."

From what we were told, the bullshit Ryan didn't like might not have stopped with the WP scene. He keeps his distance from his old friends and even his family. Robert has reportedly said that Ryan doesn't even come out to family get-togethers. 

Robert tried to saunter on, although with a lowered and in some aspects more mainstream profile. The last Blue Eyed Devils CD was put out by Final Stand Records, which is owned by Robert. He also owns a second label. Fire Forged Records is devoid of any neo-Nazi material and is pure mainstream hardcore. When he books shows for these bands, they would often be billed with known anti-racist bands. Huber called himself a non-practicing Nazi for awhile. He has a Physics degree from Penn State and is currently working on his PhD at the University of Delaware. He reportedly works doing research but it isn't really paying the bills. Short on cash, he once had to cancel a tattoo appointment with Terry Manning at Wild Card Studios in Wilmington, Delaware, who does most of his white power tats. We bet that just chokes you up, but before you start donating to the "Save the Robert Huber Fund," you should know that he didn't really leave the WP limelight, but simply downplayed his involvement.

 

Teardown

In November of 2003 Robert and his old B.E.D. lead singer Drew started another WP hardcore band called Teardown (not to be confused with a metal band by the same name from Finland, or the metal band from Brazil who also has the name). The original lineup didn't last too long before members were replaced and Robert found himself the only original member of this band. The band's website does not mention any of the past bands the members past or present belonged to, saying instead that they were formed "by a couple of friends that had played together in a few local bands over the past several years", and that "Bob has played in variety of local hardcore bands, and has traveled extensively in America and Europe to play shows." Apparently they didn't count on folks from the hardcore scene to pay attention, but they did. This was apparent by a few posts to the East Coast Hardcore website. "Nothing is worse than a band that is white power that has to fuckin' use the hardcore scene as a stepping stone to promote their music and beliefs," one post read. "They claim they are not racist, but they are on a WP record label and open up for hatecore bands. I fuckin' hate fencewalkers who are too afraid of their own beliefs." On the board for Hatebreed, an anti-racist but pretty apolitical band that Teardown rips off, there is mention of when Teardown does attempt to play non-WP shows, they are "well known for getting booed and shitted on." Nice track record for a band that has been around for just over a year! No doubt Huber & Co. will see a little more shit in the near future.

DOUG CHRISTIE (DECEASED)

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NAME: Douglas Hewson Christie, Jr.

DOB: 4/1946

DOD: 3/11/2013

HOME BASE: 10 Courtney St. Victoria, B.C. V8W 1C4 Canada

RELATED ITEMS: Sources Used and Cited: Kinsella, Warren. Webo of Hate: Inside Canada?s Far Right Network. Harper Collins. Toronto. 1994. (Rupert Murdoch owns Harper Collins, by the way)

Christie Sues Martlett http://www.uv.es/~pla/alteritat/sacar.html

Douglas Hewson Christie Jr. has been a fixture on the Canadian right for well over two decades. As a lawyer, Christie has taken on the defence of some of Canada?s most notorious racists and Holocaust deniers. While he cannot necessarily be faulted for defending his clients, as everyone is certainly entitled to a fair trail, his own deeds and words place him squarely in the camp of those he defends in court. 

Christie was born on April 1946 in Winnipeg, MB. The eldest of three children, Christie graduated from the University of British Columbia?s law school in 1970. Opinions about his legal skills vary depending upon who one speaks to. Some journalists describe him as disorganized and often not prepared for his cases. However some of his counterparts in the legal profession, including those who do not consider him to be a friend, describe him as a skilled attorney. (Kinsella, 86) 

By the early 1980s, Christie had become involved with politics, founding a party he named the Western Canada Concept Party (WCC) which opposed bilingualism, the metric system, ?Big Brotherism,? and was in favour of restoring the British Union Jack as the national flag of Canada. This party eventually became a separatist party that favoured separation of the four western provinces (BC, AB, SK, and MB) from the rest of Canada. The early 80s, because of disputes between Alberta and Ottawa, was the high point for the WCC. On November 20, 1980, Christie and his ally Elmer Knutson (leader of the Western Federation Association) drew 3000 Edmonton, AB residents to a rally which demanded a referendum on separation. The Christie/Knutson alliance eventually collapsed, and the two parties lost ground primarily because they drew into their midst anti-Semites, fascists, and white supremacists. Among the early members and/or supporters of the WCC were Jim Keegstra, Aryan Nations associate Jim Harding, and Terry Long (president of the Christian Defence League and eventual leader of the Canadian Aryan Nations). Long ran as a WCC candidate in the riding of Lacombe, AB in 1983. 

Although the WCC quickly lost any support amongst mainstream voters, it remained a vehicle for the racist right for several years. In 1990, for instance, Terry Long had members of the Final Solution Skinheads provide security at a WCC meeting where Christie was scheduled to speak. One of these, Daryl Rivest, admitted that "The WCC was a political front for the Ku Klux Klan here in Canada."

Christie's first high profile case came when he became the attorney for Jim Keegstra. In January 1983, Keegstra, who as a Social Studies teacher (and former Eckville, AB mayor), taught his students that the Holocaust was a hoax and that there was a Jewish conspiracy to destroy Christianity, was formally charged with wilfully promoting hatred towards an identifiable group. Christie was paid for his services using monies donated for his defence through Terry Long's Christian Defence League. 

One of the early court room spectators during the Keegstra preliminary hearings was Ernst Zundel. Though Christie was considered rude, sarcastic, and often interrupted witnesses (the judge ordered him to cease his theatrics), Zundel was impressed by Christie whom he described as a ?tough, principled, and learned attorney.? In September of 1984, Zundel retained Christie as his own lawyer to defend him against charges of spreading false news about the Holocaust; on his flight to Toronto to defend Zundel, Keegstra was accompanied by his ?bodyguard? Edgar Foth, a former member of Bob Matthews? Silent Brotherhood (i.e. The Order). (Kinsella, 92) 

While Christie lost both the Keegstra and Zundel trial (he was more successful in Zundel?s case where he won his appeal to the Supreme Court), Doug Christie became a fixture in the far-right movement. His clients include: 

- Jim Keegstra. 

- Ernst Zundel (1984-present). 

- John Ross Taylor (Western Guard). 

- Bill Harcus and Theron Skryba of the Manitoba KKK. 

- Malcolm Ross (another teacher, this one in New Brunswick, who was fired for his ant-Semetic writings). 

- Imre Finta (charged under Canada?s crimes against humanity laws for his actions during World War II). 

- The Canadian Free Speech League. 

- Edgar Foth (former Silent Brotherhood ["The Order"] member). 

- Tony McAleer (operator of the Canadian Liberty Net, a white supremacist telephone hate line). 

- Lady Jane Birdwood of England (a woman who has run for the fascist British Nationalist Party and who was convicted of distributing and possessing thousands of antisemitic leaflets). 

- Eileen Pressler (Founder and leader of the Council On Public Affairs: for more on this case click onhttp://www.uv.es/~pla/alteritat/sacar.html). 

- Murray Gauvreau, an associate of the racist Canadian League of Rights. 

- Rudy Stanko of the Church of the Creator. 

- British Holocaust denier David Irving. 

- Paul Fromm. 

- The Northern Alliance (Not the US-sponsored Afghan rebels, but a racist group led by Jason Ouwendyk out of London, Ontario). 

- Michael Seifert (Accused Nazi war criminal facing extradition to Italy where he was convicted in abstentia two years ago for the murder and torture of 11 people in a fascist prison camp in Bolzano, Italy. 

It is clear that Christie, by his deeds and words, also shares the ideology of his clients. He's a contributor to Paul Fromm?s anti-immigration, anti-Semetic, C-FAR and the Heritage Front?s ?UpFront?. Christie is the founder of the Canadian Free Speech League, a front for an anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi agenda. This group has given an annual reward to those that it claims are courageous supporters of freedom. Past recipients of the award include Lady Jane Birdwood, Ron Gostick (Canadian League of Rights leader), Paul Fromm, Malcolm Ross, and David Irving. 

During the Imre Finta trial, Christie made a distinction between Jewish eyewitnesses, "most of whom affirmed before giving evidence, and jurors who swore on the Bible [his client and witnesses] upon taking their oath." The judge criticized Christie for "appealing to religious prejudice." (Kinsella, 99) 

On March 29, 1990 during a fundraiser for Finta, Christie was tapped saying: 

This is war. A war without violence, but a war even more insidious than a violent war. With a violent war you can see the enemy. You can hear their guns. You can see their injuries. In this war, we don?t see the enemy. They shoot their silent media bullets into the heart of the matter, and they willingly turn on those like us who speak out. (Kinsella, 100)


Later in the same speech, Christie relates to his audience how Jewish children would come to the trial: 

"If you want to notice what is really going on, you have got to be there courtroom 403. You see, we have Jewish classes coming in for theatre or entertainment, but I haven?t seen too many people I could recognize as non-Jewish? They are all there, it seems to me, to see vengeance. That?s really what it's about." 

From the WCC website, Christie penned an article in which he goes on to make the following statement: 

"Recently we have seen the emergence of a strange new phenomenon. East Indian young men gathered together as a sort of ethnic tribe, have beaten to death a young Filipino man. The media, the Vancouver city police, Mary Wu Sims, the former human rights commissioner of British Columbia, and all the politically correct elected officials are very quick to deny that there is such a thing as an East Indian gang. This would imply that racism is not just a white phenomenon. 

The only people who are ever considered racists have to be by definition white. The term "white supremacist? was designed to silence the majority of people who question Canada's immigration policy. This term of course would be applied to any Western separatists who talked about our culture."

Christie also made frequent trips to the United States to meet with prominent holocaust deniers. OPP members ran into him when he attended the Real History, USA conference at a Mariott just over the Kentucky border in Cincinnati on August 31 - September 3 2001. It included British revisionist David Irving, Institute for Historical Review head Mark Weber, Paul Fromm, Joseph Sobran, and Tony Martin as other speakers. 

Christie initially took on Ernst Zundel's deportation case currently before the Canadian courts. At last report, Zundel had dropped the case due to the pressures related to traveling, however he was till supportive of Zundel and offers assistance whenever possible. Doug Christie remained a fixture on the right until that great day when he was diagnosed with with prostate cancer in 2011 and died of metastatic liver disease in Victoria's Royal Jubilee Hospital in 2013.

 

JOHN STORTSTOM

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NAME: John Stortstrom

DOB: 1985

HOME BASE:Germantown, MD

In recent months, we have been dealing with a group white supremacist gloryhounds out of Maryland led by Matthew Heimbach, who in addition to a number of other organizations has been notable as the guy who started what he called a "White Student Union" on the campus of Towson University. While not recognized by the school, this White Student Union crowd still manages to get some media posturing time in via stunts like announcing anti-crime patrols on campus, harassing black conservatives during their CPAC workshop, or protesting May Day celebrations in Washington DC, the latter resulting in a rather comical altercation with this crew between them and the May Day participants. Now of this crew, Heimbach, his girlfriend the ironically-last-named Theresa Braun, Scott Terry and Shane Long are the only ones who publicly identify themselves. Others in the group prefer not to bask in the media glow and stand behind them, lending their support in the background. One of them, a guy named John Stortstrom, might have a pretty good reason for that, but its also the reason why we better not Let him stay in the shadows. See, not only is he vice-president of a Republican Party club that curiously was comfortable enough with Heimbach that he was invited to speak at one of their meetings, but his job - his actual bread winning profession - is making things that explode! What’s more, that job is with the part of the US Military that works with chemical weapons!

Shall we begin?

The Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC) is a part of the U.S. Army and it’s Wikipedia entry calls it “the United States’s principal research and development resource for non-medical chemical and biological (CB) defense.” In addition to protecting the nation from the threat of chemical and biological weapons, they also assist in the development of chemical warfare defense technology. After graduating first from Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, MD in 2003 and then from the University of Maryland in 2008, Stortstrom started working for the Army in April of 2009, and he currently works in the Obscuration and Nonlethal Engineering Branch of the ECBC. In a video posted in 2012, he explained one of the projects he was working on at the time.

Now when it comes to his politics, what you will see on the internet is him playing it strictly mainstream. He was the Executive Director of the Maryland Federation of College Republicans in 2009, as evidenced by a comment from him in an article about Romney on the Huffington Post. Currently, he is the Vice-President of the Route 40 Republican Club in Maryland which has brought national GOP figures to their meetings and among its current activities include raffling off AR-15s at gun rallies. And then this month, they invite Heimbach to speak and call for the Republican Party to stand up for white interests. Of course everyone on the racist right say this is the greatest thing in the world for them, but when you talk to the mainstreamers, that might be a different story. Before the speaking engagement, one Maryland blogger voiced his displeasure with the invite to the group’s president Frank Mullis, who responded by noting he was of the “Hebrew Faith”, that Heimbach “does not have a hate for anyone” and that the blogger has “such dislike for yourself”. It sounds like if RNC Chairman Reince Priebus is going to do that outreach to communities of color, he has his work cut out for him if clowns like Mullis are representing the party.

Stortstrom and HeimbachBut let’s not forget about Stortstrom. We said earlier that he plays it mainstream on the internet, and he does play it cool with his public displays of affection for Heimbach and the White Student Union. So if you want to see him involved with that crowd, you actually have to go to where that crowd is. Stortstrom officially got on the radar when he showed up at the Jared Taylor appearance at Towson University. He not only asked a question of the aging White supremacist, but when a student that asked Taylor about where he fit in as an Italian, given the long-held dispute of the ethnicity of some Italians. Stortstrom upon hearing that shouted out to that student, “You were always white!” from the audience. And lest we think this was some onetime experience with Taylor, in April, Stortstrom attended the white supremacist American Renaissance Conference just outside Nashville, pretty much making his connections with that crowd solid. A few weeks later, he was participating in the pro-gun rally where he was raffling off the AR-15.

In 1995, it was noted in one study that terrorist elements may have established themselves within the United States Armed Forces. That concern came just after Tim McVeigh’s horrific bombing in Oklahoma City. In 2013, we are not even allowing people on planes just because they have Muslim names, so you can imagine what we are thinking when we see a guy who is a military contractor who job it is to develop bombs (albeit in his professional capacity non-lethal munitions) associating himself with the same element that has more than a passing association with racist domestic terrorists such as McVeigh. Add to that his political pull via his position with the Republican Club, and we have someone who is playing a very serious game. If the authorities are looking at this the same way we are, John Stortstrom might be getting himself an immediate career change. That may be why at press time he is suspended by the ECBC pending an investigation.

Faces of American Renaissance (Stortstrom is identified here)

Jared Taylor at Towson University

Stortstrom can be found at 35:36 of this video.

ALAN COLMES

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NAME:Alan Colmes
A/K/A:"The Lone Washington General", "The Doormat" "LTBD"
HOME BASE: New York, NY
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Sellouts. They are everywhere in our culture. They can be conservatives of color, they can be women who fight against women's rights, and they can be Log Cabin Republicans. Now when we are talking of sellouts that share political beliefs, one often means someone who concedes and capitulates to the other side to benefit themselves or otherwise keep themselves from being hurt. We are tempted to put Alan Colmes in this category, but if we did we might be just short of the reason why this guy is such a dick. Cartoonist Ted Rall might have it right however. Appearing on Air America last summer and discussing his appearances on the Faux News Channel's Hannity and Colmes, he calls Colmes a "faker". That may be the best way to characterize the onetime so-called liberal counterpart to Sean Hannity's conservatism. Colmes isn't just someone who makes concessions and allows Hannity to run roughshod over him during their alleged debate program. Alan Colmes may not be what they paint him to be. Either that or he is just the epitome of milquetoast. 
Consider this: There aren't too many people out there on the left or right that are politically astute enough to score a nationally televised talk show that hasn?t been active in the field fighting for their beliefs and causes, especially if they do score such a forum. Hannity has been to his share of right wing rallies and functions, even speaking at many of them. One would be hard pressed to find a function, conference, rally - anything that Colmes might have participated in. That would make Rall?s characterization of him as a faker spot on, so who the fuck is he and where did he come from?  

Well for starters, Colmes is basically a radio personality. He started doing talk radio in 1979, just as Iran took over the US Embassy in Tehran. This is where Colmes did something the Alan Colmes of today probably would never do; he called the embassy and scored an interview with "Z", one of the Iranian students that took the place over. Shortly after this, the U.S. State Department banned all calls to Iran. Sadly, this is as good as it gets with Colmes. He bounced around the New York City and Boston radio dial over the next decade,  earning a place in music trivia in the process. He is the radio host that can be heard on Public Enemy's "Incident at 66.6 FM", which can be found on their album Fear of a Black Planet. "Chuck D of Public Enemy took an interview we did on (Howard Stern's former and now-defunct radio station) WNBC and sampled it," Colmes said in an interview. "I was upset that I hadn't been asked permission and felt I was taken out of context and made to sound smarmy. I wanted to sue but WNBC was Emmis Broadcasting and then Infinity, and they owned the material and didn't want to proceed. Chuck and I now laugh about it. He claims he made me internationally famous."

Somewhere in the midst of this Colmes tries his hand as a stand-up comedian, failing miserably, but then came a chance to really make people laugh. In 1996, the Faux News Channel started up and they had an idea to do a program that would basically rip off CNN?s Crossfire. Being right-wing it wasn?t hard for Faux to find the conservative voice for the show. That would be Sean Hannity whom they brought in from Atlanta?s WGST-AM, and soon after would find himself taking up Bob Grant's time slot at WABC-AM in New York after Grant was fired for wishing that former Commerce Secretary Ron Brown was killed in a then-recent plane crash (he was). Despite the fact that they were part of a media that conservatives constantly charge with being full of liberals, they could not find a liberal voice to "counter" Hannity, and the working title of the show was Hannity and Liberal to be Determined (LTBD) After auditioning a number of prospects, Colmes got the job after Hannity expressed his preference for him, and for the first few months Colmes' nickname at Fox was "LTBD". Soon after, Colmes scored a radio slot at WEVD-AM, a station named for famed socialist leader Eugene V. Debs. He would stay there from 1998 to 2001, when the station was sold to ABC/Disney for its ESPN sports format.  
Immediately the conservative agenda of the Faux News Channel was apparent to viewers of the fledgling station, and Colmes was not seen as someone who balanced things out as station execs try to suggest. Indeed in a USA Today article a year before he went to Faux, Colmes said ?I think I?m quite moderate?. We should note that this was published in February, 1995, when the Republicans were just coming into power in Congress. Colmes would later clarify this quote by saying this was meant to say that he thinks his views would be considered moderate if not for the nation's rightward shift in recent years.

Colmes' main thing on almost every program is to begin with a disclaimer that would distance him from whatever positions the liberals took on a topic. If the liberal or progressive guest is particularly strong in their defense of that position, Colmes will chastise that guest on the air, often interrupting them while they are making their point. They would often be framed as asking if it is "appropriate" to approach a position a certain way, or if it is the "right time" for those positions to be expressed. In an article on their website featuring Colmes, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) noted that one gem of his was to concur with Hannity and their guest, anti-feminist lesbian writer Tammy Bruce (i.e., a good definition of a sellout), when they blamed the left for declining values. "Rather than putting up some kind of resistance to this left-bashing--as one might expect a left-of-center host to do," FAIR noted, "Colmes instead concurred: 'I think in some respects you're right. And you and I have talked about this before.'"

There was also the time he complained to Leslie Cagan of the anti-war group United for Peace and Justice about her role in organizing protests against the then-upcoming Republican National Convention, but demonstrations from the left of any kind are going to be met by Colmes with this kind of response, him saying that it makes "our side" look bad. To be real, what makes "our side" look bad is when you stand down and then boast about standing down to those you are standing down on. That is what he did when he appeared as a guest on Bill O'Reilly's show in April, 2003 on the occasion of the Iraq War. According to the FAIR article, O'Reilly (who Colmes cited in his book as one of the other liberals at Faux in an attempt to defend himself against the charge of him being the only one) gave him praise for not criticizing the White House during the Iraq war. "I put forth that once the shelling starts--and you did this--you kept quiet, OK," FAIR quotes O'Reilly as saying. Colmes responded like a little lap dog: "Well, look, I've kept quiet. My choice has been--I have not criticized the administration or this war effort while there are men and women in harm's way, and I will not, and that is my --that's a choice I make." This stance wouldn?t be so much of a problem were it not for how he treated Nathan Britton of California Peace Action when he came on the show to discuss his opposition to the war. After being grilled heavily by Hannity, Colmes joined in the attack asking him under what circumstances, if any, would he support military action against Iraq. Britton was a pacifist and would never support war, but Colmes persisted with the same kind of grilling Hannity gave him. To viewers it was as if Colmes supported the war but didn't want to say so.

He really didn't like how the aforementioned Ted Rall made "our side" look when ex-President Ronald Reagan became worm food. On the show broadcast June 8, 2004, he went after Rall for not showing any traditional signs of respect and instead taking the opportunity to call Reagan out on the crimes conservatives took the opportunity of his death to either whitewash or ignore by painting him as the God of America. To Colmes, Rall was wrong because his position ?make those on my side look bad by showing know grace, no compassion, no sense of humanity for a man who served this country, whether or not you agree with the things he stood for.? Rall was not moved. ?I have more sympathy for the 290 million Americans who are living worse lives under a worse economy, being paid less with worse health care, with more homelessness and more poverty than there would have been, had Ronald Reagan never become president.? Rall said. ?So for me, you're right, I don't have much sympathy for him.? 

Now to be fair, how to deal with not only the death of someone not worthy of praise but was getting it anyway is subject to debate, and has been (of course, we are on Rall's side, considering we have buttons and t-shirts for sale that say "Ronald Reagan Rots in Hell"), but Colmes didn't stop there. Rall mentioned also how President Bush should not be given tribute in death because he was not legitimately elected and Colmes was not happy with that. "That's where I have problems with my fellow liberals who can't get over the election of 2000," he told Rall. "They should be focusing on winning 2004." This is not the first time he has tried to distance himself from the contentions raised about the 2000 Election. In the FAIR article, it was noted that in 2003, when New York City council member Charles Barron called George W. Bush a "selected" president on the show, Colmes scolded him with almost the exact same line. Look, my problem with my fellow liberals is they keep arguing the election of 2000," he said. "Let's move forward. If you want to win in the future, stop talking about the past. "Sorry Alan, but when the man who wasn't elected is the one that occupies the office, that's a little hard to get over without a resolution, and if there isn't one, you can't move forward without worrying about seeing the same screwy results. 

Now that the Democrats indeed lost 2004, Colmes joins his conservative friends that frequent the program in the sentiment that it was due to the left being so mean-spirited towards Bush. In December 2004, he had a guest on the show to discuss the protests that will be held during the inauguration - which he predictably does not support. He also did not support the guest's work in contesting how 2004's election was conducted, and Colmes did not like that. He also did not like the guest calling him out at that point for being soft of progressive issues to begin with and being nothing more than a parrot for the Faux News Channel. Upon that, he proceeded to admonish the guest for dissing Faux which gave him a forum that to be real about it, this guest had in other, less biased outlets in the past. In contrast to all of this. Hannity does not concede anything on the air to his opponents, let alone admonish fellow conservatives. 

As soft as he is on defending what he (no one else except maybe the conservatives who use him) calls his "fellow liberals", the flip side of that makes him even more pathetic. He has a nasty habit of giving glowing praise to those on the right, even when they fuck up so badly. There is his praise of Condoleeza Rice, saying she was "credible and articulate" after her testimony before the 9-11 Commission.  There was his declaration of a ?political masterstroke" regarding Bosh's surprise Thanksgiving 2003 dinner at the Baghdad airport, further asking if the trip will make it harder for Democrats to criticize him on the mess in Iraq. There was also him saying one night that he was happy to do all he could to help Sean Hannity sell as many copies of his book as possible, "Deliver Us from Evil : Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism". If Hannity was half as charitable when Colmes was when his book Red, White and Liberal came out, this would have made sense. Hannity wasn?t however, not that it would have done much good. No one wanted to buy Colmes book anyway, liberal or otherwise. 

According to FAIR, Colmes tries to gain GOP cred by making it known that he voted for New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who despite all of the accolades he received after Sept. 11, is still remembered as one of the most divisive and racist mayors in recent times. "Reminding Fox viewers that he voted for Giuliani is a sort of Colmes on-air mantra," FAIR reports. "According to the show's transcripts, he's done it at least eight times since 1998.?"
FAIR noted another pathetic defense - that of Trent Lott when he was called out for praising Sen. Strom Thurmond?s racist 1948 presidential campaign at Thurmond?s 100th birthday party. "Oliver North appeared on the show to defend Lott," FAIR reported. "When North blamed 'Alan and all of his colleagues' for Lott's downfall, Colmes corrected him: 'By the way, Ollie, I defended Lott and said he should not have had to step down.' When North responded, 'Because you wanted him there so you could continue to kick him around,' Colmes cited his own pattern of defending Lott: 'Absolutely not. Absolutely untrue. You haven't been watching our show.'" FAIR notes that he also made his defense of Lott clear a month later when Laura Ingrham came on the program.  When Lott himself appeared on the show to complain about Democrats conducting a filibuster to stall confirmation of Bush judicial nominees, Colmes again played the "this makes 'our side' look bad" card again. "I agree with you,? he told Sen. Lott. ?I don't think the Democrats should be doing that. I think they're viewed as obstructionist when they do that."
For the record, when it comes to racial politics and those connected to the Faux News Channel, don?t look for Colmes to call them out. We see that with Lott, who is a frequent guest on the show. We also see that when he defended radio talk-shit host Rush Limbaugh when he left ESPN behind his remarks that a Philadelphia Eagles Quarterback Donovan McNabb African-American football star was overrated by the media because he was black, saying he was commenting on the media not McNabb?s race. "We in talk radio owe Rush a debt of gratitude, no matter what side we're on, because he made it possible for us to do what we do, liberal or conservative, because he paved the way for so many of us." Rush Limbaugh is a friend of both Sean Hannity and Faux News president Roger Ailes, who was also the executive producer of Rush?s now-defunct television show.
Bottom line: Colmes knows what side his bread is buttered on. He defended Ailes, who was (some may argue still is) a Republican operative and strategist that worked with Nixon and Reagan. "So what if my boss is a Republican?" he asks in his book Red, White and Liberal, further pointing out others such as Michael Eisner and Richard Parsons give money to the GOP. While it is good that he points this out - indicating that the media is not as liberal as conservatives try to paint it " it's a hell of a stretch to say that someone who throws money at a party trumps a party strategist. But again, Colmes knows what side his bread is buttered on. He also knows who he has to go home to. He is married to the sister of conservative talk-shit host Monica Crowley. That brings us to something real curious. So far in this entry, we have only mentioned a relationship with only one other person that is on the left, Chuck D, and he originally wanted to sue him! Everyone that surrounds Colmes is right of center, or just flat out as far right as they come. It's just as well, because judging from the sentiment expressed by many from the left side of life, they would rather him not be anywhere near them. One anti-Colmes website has sprung up featuring a blog where people express their displeasure with Colmes? spineless approach to his alleged beliefs.  Salon called him "unbelievably toothless." Sen. Al Franken, who in his book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them puts Colmes's name in tiny typeface in every reference to the show, called him a number of names in the book: "a moderate milquetoast", a "liberal on-air punching bag", and the "Lone Washington General", a reference to the team that always plays the Harlem Globetrotters and loses, and one reference that comes up often as it stands with Colmes. There are those who praise him however, and almost all of them are conservatives. Word to the wise: If you are on the left and you are getting props from corrupt Republican House Whip Tom DeLay, Rev.  James Dobson of Focus on the Family, Watergate thug and overall fascist G. Gordon Liddy and Sen. Trent Lott, you are doing something very wrong.

Apparently the critics got to Colmes just a bit, because during the election season, one could see a rather slight uptick in his involvement. The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth for example did not slide by easy with their bullshit about how John Kerry wasn't a real war hero. At least one website, Al Giordano's Big, Left, Outside, credited Al Franken's attack for making Colmes think about how he comes off. "Al Franken is, among other things, a surgeon," Giordano wrote. ?He transplanted a backbone into Alan Colmes, long distance. And put FOX News on the defensive to the point where it has to give Colmes more maneuvering room.?"

Again, too little too late. The only way Colmes helps people get an understanding of the political scene is by showing just how craven the right is. In Colmes they found a way to promote their ideals, disparage ideals they disagree with, and pretend to be fair and balanced while doing it. No one has bought this stunt however. Most people tune into Faux because it is provocative and sensationalist, pretty much the same reasons why they tune into Jerry Springer. If they are looking to be informed, they pretty much get just as much information as they would with Jerry Springer. If Colmes wants to be a party to that, let him, but he should stop saying he speaks for "our side". He has nothing to do with it. 

 


CRAIG COBB

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NAME: Craig Paul Cobb

DOB: 10/9/1951

HOME BASE: New: Leith, ND

Old: Craig Cobb RR 2, Box 103 Marlinton, West Virginia 24954 (Physical, i.e. non-U.S. postal address= the small village of Frost at the corner of highways 92 and 84) Telephone: 304-799-2223

We like the fact that Dick Butler and William Pierce is dead and that Matt Hale is out of commission for the next 40 years. These were WPs who at the very least had some sort of academic integrity, even if their moral integrity was in the crapper. Now that they are gone, however, WPs needed something to fill the void, and that has been a little hard to do. No, strike that - VERY hard to do! We didn't know how much we could appreciate Butler, Pierce and Hale out of the picture until we witnessed what misfits were taking the top spots over the past year. None of them, unlike Pierce and Butler, were even around during the days of segregation, all of them are so incredibly screwed in the head that even other WPs do their best to stay away from them, and none of them are expected to last long. Now if the current leaders are second, third - no that's being too generous - 400th rate, then you can imagine how laughable the also-rans have to be.

That brings us to Craig Cobb, a net Nazi who is the guy at the time of his posting getting a lot of noteriety with his attempt to turn the small town of Leith, North Dakota into a whites-only community. In 2012 he moved to the small town with a population of 19 - all but one of them white - after he purchased properties there. Within a few months his intentions spread like wildfire in the media, which meant that people in town and in the surrounding areas began working to oppose his efforts while other white supremacists began making plans to relocate there. Regardless of his efforts, the idea of a white enclave is still a pipe dream. Even neo-Nazi veteran Tom Metzger, who is among those that Cobb sold properties to, is not all that optimistic and will not move to Leith. "I wouldn't go into a town pushing my weight around," he said.

Cobb should have learned that by now. He's good for trying to screw with people and more often than not they screw with him back. It's pretty much the story with this guy.  Originally from Hawaii, he moved to Marlinton, West Virginia sometime in 2003 (we know at one time he was driving a gray Mercedes with Hawaii tags). Even though he is was involved heavily with the WCOTC, he wanted to be close to the National Alliance as well, and Marlton is just north of Hillsboro, where the National Alliance is based. He was close with Rich Lindstrom who bolted National Alliance to help form National Vanguard, but we don't know at this time if they are still tight. He did leave West Virginia for Missouri for a spell, but apparently he went back to Marlton. We know he owned a small grocery store in 2003, and in October, 2004 a business was registered in his name in Marlton called Gray's Store, Aryan Autographs and 14 Words, L.L.C. According to some information found around the internet, he made neo-Nazi literature available in his store, and in 2004 he was one of those few morons that distributed Panzerfaust's Project Schoolyard CD, which was an attempt by that neo-Nazi record label to recruit schoolkids through music. Of course that all stopped after Panzerfaust fell apart  the white power record label's owner Anthony Pierpont was busted on drug charges then busted again with the confirmation that he was actually Mexican.

Cobb did other kinds of local activism, including leafleting at local public events advocating the boycott of a local school Christmas production. All of this made him no more than a local oddity than anything else. In fact, "oddity" is the best way to describe him. Completely obsessed with being online, when once attending a Klan rally in Arkansas, He was more concerned with taking pictures and recording things for his website than anything. In fact, he reportedly barricaded himself in the computer room of two members of the now defunct hate group White Revolution for something like two days, drinking coffee grounds mixed with water and claiming he was uploading videos. Other oddities are the facts that he is known to carry around genuine silver coins in case the banks crash because he says that if that happens the coins will be real money, how he slaps himself for excersise and how he won't wear socks and he's paranoid that his feet stink. Why we have that bit of info we don't know, but we ask for any and all information on these guys to give back to the public, so screw it.

And yes, as is often the casehe has his problems with others in the WP scene. He used to post regularly on Stormfront under the name "No 1965 Chain Immigrants" until he was banned for some reason. And it is curious that his nickname is "Krusty" Yes, as in Krusty the Clown from the Simpsons. His comrades nicknamed him that because to be honest, he looks like him, but the fact that Krusty is Jewish - and a clown - is not lost on us.

Apparently Cobb also had problems with the feds. He has been under investigation by federal law-enforcement for quite sometime because when Judge Joan Lefkow ruled against Matt Hale in the trademark case with the Oregon-based TE-TA-MA Truth Foundation, Cobb, concluding that the Judge was either Jewish or married to someone Jewish, decided to post her personal information on message boards throughout cyberspace. Later Hale was convicted for soliciting Lefkow's murder and is currently serving forty years in a maximum security prison, something Cobb didn't take too well. According to Nicole Nichols, when Joan Lefkow's mother and husband were both killed in their Chicago home, Cobb continued to provide the racist right with information and "suggestions." Not long after someone, shot and killed Lefkow's mother and husband in their home. Although it was believed that white supremacists had something to do with the case, it was learned that the shooter was unrelated to the events surrounding Hale or Cobb. We are curious however to see if the TE-TA-MA Truth Foundation had or will have words with Cobb. They are currently trying to collect a $200,000 judgment against the Creativity Movement for infringing on their name "Church of the Creator". To do that, they need to find people who were members of the Creativity Movement at the time they were using their name. Cobb has been down with Matt Hale's so-called church for years.

In years past, his thing has been to go around rallies and other events with a video camera, mingle with people WPs don't like (people with lives, basically), and make stupid comments to them. He made a particular mark for himself at the Nov. 19, 2005 rally in Kingston, NY, according to Nichole Nicols of Citizens Against Hate who wrote this in her blog:

"With camera in hand at the Kingston rally he infiltrated the press section and proceeded to badger and intimidate a seventeen year old girl bringing her to tears. Claiming to be a reporter for Vanguard News Network, Cobb attempted to stir the bystanders into action. Obviously, not one of the mainstream media, he failed to adhere to any of the ethical standards of generally acceptable behaviors. But, what else is new."

He has been at other events too. He was at the National Socialist Movement (NSM) rally in Yorktown, VA screwing with cops, and he harassed people at the Rosa Parks viewing at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, DC. He won't bother with people who know him though, especially antifa. Let us just say that he is quite aware of the zero-tolerance policy they have with his nonsense, not to mention their strict enforcement guidelines.__

2005 was also when Cobb received an inheritance of $85,000, and he took that money to Tallinn, Estonia, where he set up shop, establishing the now-defunct video aggregator Podblanc, which was supposed to be a neo-Nazi response to You Tube. This was where he first tried to set up a whites only homeland (he even called it "Whiteland"), purchasing land thirty miles south of the capital where he hoped to establish an "International Office of White Diaspora". In 2007 he was issued a temporary living permit and an ID card, but was reportedly denied entry into Estonia in 2007 as an "extremist" who provokes "racism and national hatred". Two years later, he became the first U.S. citizen to be deported from the country, earning a ten-year ban for "endangering state security, public order, public safety, moral standards, health, other public interests" and promoting racism. It took a physical altercation with a neighbor for that to happen though.

He did not return to the US, however. Apparently he had dual citizenship with both the United States and Canada, and he chose to be deported to Canada. He took a job in Vancover, but it wasn't long before the local antifa came a'callin'. See, the job he took was as a telemarketer, and the concern was that he had database access to personal information through that job. The company eventually canned his ass, but there were mounting problems for him, because he was still operating Podblanc, and in Canada promoting white power BS can get you thrown in jail. In June 2010, he was arrested at the Vancouver Public Library when a six-month investigation by the British Columbia Hate Crime Team revealed that he allegedly was operating the website from various locations within Vancouver. He was released after ten hours, and it is believed immediately after, he fled for the U.S. A warrant has been out for him ever since, and Podblanc hasn't been back online. Upon news that he was fleeing the law, a Spokane resident named Kevin Harpham under the screen name "Joe Snuffy" posted an invitation to Cobb on the Vanguard News Network discussion board to hide out at his place. "Craig, if you read this and you need a place to stay for the winter I have an empty basement with a couple rooms, a bed and bathroom you can live in till spring," Harpham posted. "I live in Washington not too far from Kalispell."

Kalispell, Montana, which was where white supremacist April Gaede moved to in an attempt to create her own base for whites only, was where Cobb, who wrote that there was little chance that he would take Harpham up on his offer, ended up going. Good thing too because Harpham's invite became null and void after the National Alliance member was busted a few days later for trying to bomb the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Parade route in Spokane.  While in Kalispell, he got himself into some silly feud with Aryan Nations member Karl Gharst, to the point that he signed out a restraining order against him. In 2011, he moved again to Wyoming, and then to Leith where he is today.

As noted before, Cobb doesn't stand much of a chance in seeing his vision come to reality. The efforts by the town of Leith to oppose him (among the possibilites being dissolving the town and giving the county control) as well as the whole country keeping an eye on Cobb are pretty much ensuring that. The other thing that ensures this is Cobb himself. He's not the sharpest tack in the box and hardly someone that can maintain himself, let alone a community. Those that are headed out to join him are far worse off than he is. Still, the annoyance that is Craig Cobb is still there, so until the inevitable comuppance happens, we have to deal with that at the very least.

 

 

STEVE WIEGAND

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NAME: Steve Wiegand

A/K/A "Micetrap"

HOME BASE: Maple Shade, NJ

Note: This entry has not been updated in over ten years, and will be in the next few weeks.

This guy has been talking shit for sometime now and got a bit of noteriety for it. An old Atlantic City Bonehead, he had a page called "New Jersey Skinheads" which was loaded--and I mean loaded--with white power bullshit. Our thing is this: have the balls to back up what you are about. People who know him say he is just some computer nerd who thinks he is hard, but his hardness only goes as far as his computer, and apparently so does he. This is bad enough, but this guy has been targeting certain people in the NJ scene, saying he is going to fuck them up at some show or whatever, but never shows up.

Micetrap, who has his own white-power distro online, was supposed to run 14 Word Press, which has originally run by Katja Lane, wife of David "14 Words" Lane, who sits in jail for the rest of his life because of his activities with the racist terrorist outfit the Order. Micetrap posted the first 14 Words website years ago, but for some reason he is not taking it over as was announced late 2001.

Stevie might not be in the favor of those who are of the white racist scene as things may suggest. He joined the National Alliance in January, 2000, but by the end of the year, a message from Billy Roper listed Micetrap Distribution and Steve Wiegland as "enemies" of National Alliance. This may stem from the accusation that Micetrap sent a computer virus to NA headquarters. It is possible that when this news came out NA might have raised concerns about him running 14 Word Press, but this is just speculation on our part.

RON SHEEHY

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NAME: Ronald Sheehy

AKA: Tremley (on Stormfront and Twitter)

HOME BASE: Tremley Point, Linden, NJ

In the interest of full disclosure, we need to note something. On the day we wrote this bio, a tweet from a guy with the Twitter name “Tremley” posted the following:

Twitter from Tremley

Now we should make clear that Daryle Lamont Jenkins doesn't have kids and that tweet comes from some weird belief that stems from something found about ANOTHER Daryl Jenkins online. But we thought it would be nice for folks to know who this rather notorious internet troll just might be. The clue comes from the Tremley name, which he also uses on Stormfront. Tremley Point is a section of Linden, NJ and that's where a guy named Ron Sheehy calls home. We met him in 2010 at a pro-Arizona rally sponsored by the anti-immigration group New Yorkers for Immigration Control and Enforcement (NY ICE). There is a bit of irony in that  NY ICE president Joanna Marzullo had at one point attempted to accuse those opposing her efforts as racists by shouting the charge at them. At the time she was confronted with the fact that members of the white supremacist board Stormfront was participating in her rallies around New York City, but she never dealt with that issue. In the case of Sheehy, we will do it for her.

 Ron Sheehy with David Duke, left photo, and NJ Gov. Chris Christie. We know we are letting an opportunity for a cheap political shot go by, but we are just going to assume that Christie doesn't know what Sheehy is about.

Sheehy is pretty well documented on the intenet. As noted, he is a regular poster on Stormfront as well as a regular tweeter. When he is not posting articles that he thinks will support his opinion on things, much of his posts are particularly crass like when he tweets back to Oprah Winfrey calling her a “big fat nappy head sheboon” or when he talks on Stormfront about being “nauseose (sic) thinking about how bad the stench of blacks were that I went to School with”. His thing has often been to directly contact those he hates so much and try to give them shit, but the people he goes after can give as good as he gets. When the antifa known as the Tinley Park 5 were awaiting trial and were moved to other prisons, he taunted supporters with a post to the Hoosier Anti-Racist Movement (H.A.R.M.) website that read, “They are getting removed b/c they keep on getting ass raped by all the negroes there.” The obsession was not lost on H.A.R.M. that returned the shot. “What does it say about our State, if it’s forced to use violence and rape (real or perceived) in order to control the population?” Their response read. “I have to wonder if all the white nationalist internet shit-talkers are kept from acting on their beliefs because they fear 'ass-rape by all the negroes there' as fail troll Ron Tremley (@tremley) tried taunting us with.”

We should note that when he posts comments on various website from his Facebook account he uses his real name, so he doesn't keep too much hidden, which is good for us. Also for the record, he tries to post on the One People's Project website, but as we prefer intelligent conversation, we do not allow neo-Nazis on unless they prove our point far better than we can.

Sheehy, second from left, in a group photo at an April 2013 neo-Nazi rally in Jersey City. In the back row fourth from left is longtime white supremacist activist Erick Weigel. Right click to enlarge.

Sheehy does get out, as well. He associates himself with groups like former National Socialist Movement member Jason Heicke's new organization the Advanced White Society and makes sure he attends whatever white power conferences are put on. He was also seen at the neo-Nazi rally put on in April 2013 by some outfit called the  Autonomous Nationalist East Coast and also attended by the Keystone State “Skinheads” , the Council of Conservative Citizens and others. Again in the interest of full disclosure, he tried to warn with a link on Stormfront to this site that antifa might come by to oppose their event, but no plans were ever made to do so.

Now when you are this involved and so few know who you are, chances are you are going to be just as involved in mainstream political activities as well. We have already seen Sheehy involved in the anti-immigration campaigns, but he is also in our circles as well, and that we don't like. A pipefitter, Sheehy is a member of Sprinkler Fitters Local 696. He is noted in a 2009 article where he defended the building of a coal plant at a meeting of the Linden town council that voted down the project. Later, when the project was approved he spoke again in support. “My house is the first house that you see when you leave the DuPont property,” he said of the area where the plant was to be built. “Out of the 1.8 million people in a 10-mile radius, I should be concerned the most. But after doing the research, I think doing coal gasification is the way to go.” Now, Sprinkler Fitters is part of the AFL-CIO, which on its website says they are “Working for the freedom from employment discrimination and the right of working families to fair pay, job safety, secure retirements and affordable health care have been goals fundamental to the union movement, which has long partnered with the civil rights and women’s movements and, more recently, with the LGBTQ community.” Sheehy kind of flies in the face of that.

Sheehy is one of those guys who functions best when no one knows who he is, but is too stupid to figure out that he has been leading himself to anyone with half a brain to figure things out online. Maybe he will think twice about trying to hassle people on the internet, but don't hold your breath. That thinking part of thinking twice is one of those things he has yet to master.

Meet Ron Sheehy!

HK EDGERTON

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NAME:H.K. Edgerton

HOME BASE:Asheville, NC

When you are a Black Republican, it is rather questionable. If you are a full on Black Conservative, you are sad. If you a Black Conservative that makes a lot of apologies for white racism while attacking what is seen as black racism, you are pathetic. If you are a Black Conservative that not only makes apologies for white racism but actually endorses it, you are downright despicable and need to be especially routed. Now if you are a Black man, encourage white racists, and even pose with a picture with two white supremacists that you call your friends, the three of you wearing dinner napkins on your head jokingly pretending them to be Klan hoods, you should never be allowed any influence among any people ever again in life. That is why we need to give H.K. Edgerton a place here. The Ku Klux Klan and their neo-confederate/white supremacist brethren are responsible for the hatred and bloodshed among African Americans that have put us in the conditions we are in today, conditions that after 400 years we are just beginning to change. Here we have a black man who disregards that legacy and will count among his friends those that want to further it. Calling him scum is disrespectful to scum.

It is important to know this guy for another reason. Although he is pretty much shunned by black people who he comes in contact with, he tries to work amongst the African American community considering himself "very much a part of the NAACP," according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. In fact he is the former president of the Asheville, N.C. branch of the NAACP! It was in this capacity that he has supported neo-Confederate beliefs and ideals. He has spoken and demonstrated at rallies supporting the Confederate flag, giving the more traditional (read: white) pro-Confederate supporters a good token to hide behind when they try to promote the idea that their stance is not racist. Sadly even though some of those supporters are known Klan members, Edgerton will stand with them. One rally in Stone Mountain, Ga. had him shaking hands and conversing with some of these Klansmen, Edgerton saying later he did not know they were. That excuse does not work however, when we speak of Houston lawyer Kirk Lyons, who has been identified as a member of the National Alliance and was even married by Aryan Nations founder Dick Butler at the former AN compound in Couer d'Ilene, Idaho. Despite Lyons activities as a white supremacist, Edgerton praises him as "someone who's defended more Africans than any other civil rights attorney." Edgerton even joined the Southern Legal Resource Center, the neo-Confederate organization Lyons helped start up, and became chairman of the board. It was with Lyons and SLRC Associate Director and noted white supremacist Neill Payne that he posed for that infamous picture. It was while he was sharing lunch with the two racists in 1998 at the Blue Rooster brew club in Asheville, a meeting he dismissed by saying, "I break bread with the devil every day."

 
White supremacists Kirk Lyons, left and Neill Payne, right pretend they are Klansmen along with Edgerton, who is giving the term handkerchief head whole new meaning.

 

That is not the problem, H.K. The problem stems from wearing the devil's clothes, calling him a friend and sharing his beliefs, one of them a pro-slavery stance, saying slavery served as an "institution for learning" and romanticizing it touting a "sense of family" between master and slave. The problem is compounded further by an incident the same year of the luncheon where two Klansmen shot up his cousin's home, which Edgerton believed that it stemmed from his then-position at the NAACP. Despite this, he continues to be an apologist for them, although not as a NAACP member. He was suspended also in December 1998 for non-compliance with NAACP rules when his branch fell into debt, and voted out of office by the membership one month later. After he was bounced out, the state NAACP stepped and Asheville NAACP went from being next to nothing to one of the most active and vibrant chapters in North Carolina.

Edgerton has had a number of failed political campaigns for Asheville mayor and councilman, and he has reportedly been accosted by African Americans while he stood outside a high school with his flag. He has been ostracized so effectively that it seems the only place anyone can find information on him via the internet is from the neo-Confederate sites. Nevertheless, he is still out there, and people might see him on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day somewhere in Asheville. He will be standing where celebrations will be taking place waving his Confederate flag. That will be the same flag that South Carolina raised in 1964 to protest the Civil Rights bill King fought and gave his life for. Edgerton is the epitome of fool.

TONY PERKINS

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Tony Perkins

NAME: Anthony Richard Perkins
A/K/A: Bob Grant
DOB: 3/20/63
HOME BASE: 4646 Groom Rd., Baker, LA 7-714

 

Politics and religion have always produced an unholy mix of theocratic fascism, racism, bigotry, corruption, and lies. The first amendment guarantees the freedom of religion, but it guarantees which religion we can freely choose or decide not to chose, including the right not to choose a religion. Unfortunately, these right-wing theocrats from the Christian Right never give up on their quest to trample on our religious and constitutional rights by making their church the sole religion. Old theocrats like Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and James Dobson have been around for many decades, but a newer and younger face from the Christian Right is notoriously making his rounds.

 

His name is Tony Perkins and he is the President of the Family Research Council group. He was born March 20, 1963 and is married to Lawana and has four children. Living in Louisiana most of his life, he was heavily active with the Republican party and served on the Louisiana House of Representatives in East Baton Rouge from 1996-2004. Tony Perkins became the president of FRC in 2003; the FRC is a copy of the Christian Coalition formed by a controversial right-wing fundamentalist preacher named James Dobson. The FRC claims they are a non-partisan, not-profit group based on innocent Christian values, but the reality is Tony Perkins and the FRC have been actively using manipulative media tactics, hypocrisy, lies, and right-wing extremist tactics to lure people into giving money to their group so they can help Republicans get elected into power and let their fundamentalist churches rule the government. With the deceptive charisma of Tony, he has managed to carry out an effective agenda of bigotry, intolerance, lies, and theocratic fascism.

Tony Perkins has close ties to white supremacist hate groups from the bayou. In the April 26, 2005 issue of The Nation magazine, journalist Max Blumenthal writes of Perkins' racist ties. In 2002, Tony Perkins addressed the Louisiana chapter of the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC). In a 1996 election, Tony Perkins paid former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke $82,000 for his mailing list of white supremacist hate group members, resulting in a $3000 fine by the Federal Election Commission for this illegal transaction.

His audience is overwhelmingly of white European descent, but there is another group of people than the non-whites Tony hates even more; he adamantly hates homosexuals with a passion. His relentless political campaign against homosexuals has firmly earned his FRC group as a homophobic hate group.

Some examples of his homophobic stance is his relentless quest to outlaw same-sex marriages, exclude homosexuals from civil rights and hate crime victims legislation, and spreading demagogy and lies to the public to hate gays.

He applauded the decision of several African American bishops to reject aid to African AIDS victims from churches that allow gay clergy. In 2005, when the House of Representatives passed a hate crime bill which would include gays as victims, he denounced the bill as a "bill designed to protect children from sexual predators is now being used to protect the sexual preference of homosexuals". Actually, the typical profile of a child sexual predator is a heterosexual white male like himself, but don't rely on lying hypocrites like Tony to tell you the truth.

If his bigotry against gays and non-whites wasn't enough, Tony continues his campaign against non-fundamentalist Christians, women, scientists, and the overwhelming majority of Americans who do not share his extremist viewpoints. He vigorously fights for open Christian prayer for school and amendments guaranteeing Christian prayer, but he continuously attacks and intimidates other religions. Tony may use his manipulative demagoguery to fool the public into believing the Muslims/Jews/Catholics/Hindus/Buddhists/etc... are in an active conspiracy to eliminate Christianity from public schools, but the reality is that non-partisan groups such as the ACLU and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State have been entering the public school prayer debate so religious wingnuts like Tony Perkins won't gain a significant advantage and belittle other religions.

Another more than annoying and dangerous aspect with Tony Perkins' lies and bigotry is the supposed moral war he is imposing against scientists and medical advancement at the cost of the health of the general public. Tony and the FRC has done an incredible disservice by misinforming the public and the politicians about certain medical research projects. He and FRC were active to ban stem cell research by spreading rumors and lies the embryos come from aborted fetuses. Nevertheless, President Bush vetoed stem sell research in 2006 with much help from Tony's hysteria. When a vaccine for cervical cancer was in development in 2006, the FRC were at it again, claiming this cure was immoral because it deals with the female sex organs and may led to sexual immorality (what's next, oppose breast cancer research because breasts led to sexual immorality?). But why would he care about truth, science, and education, when he is actively seeking to eliminate the Department of Education.

Unlike many of the older hypocritical preachers, Tony Perkins is relatively young and will be around for years ahead. But just as the right-wing extremist hypocritical preachers have wisened up, so has the rest of the public to see through their manipulative tactics. Tony Perkins carries the sign of the bigot and we will do our part to expose this sign as he goes more and more public.

 

WILLIAM PIERCE (DECEASED)

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William Pierce

NAME: William Luther Pierce
A/K/A: Bob Grant
DOB: 9/11/33

DOD: 7/23/02
HOME BASE: Hillsboro, WV

 

This is the man that most white racist idiots swore by. If it is on a white racist bent, chances are it has a William Pierce connection. Pierce was the head of the National Alliance, a white supremacist group based in West Virginia. Pierce, under the pen name Andrew MacDonald, was also the author of The Turner Diaries, a racist novel that many say inspired Tim McVeigh in his bombing of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City. Pierce's influence is felt all over the country in every facet of white supremacist activism, whether it is David Duke's work (Duke's right hand man Bruce Alan Breeding, a/k/a Vince Edwards, runs the National Alliance in Tampa FL), music (Pierce bought Resistance Records from former RaHoWa lead singer George Burdi when he was facing legal troubles) and even mainstream politics (National Alliance members are among those of the Council of Conservative Citizens, a group that Rep. Bob Barr spoke before and who Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott and other politicians have strong ties to). It is said that Pierce was also a member of a prestigious country club in the Washington DC area called the University Club, however that has not been confirmed, and it may be possible that the Club has since expelled Pierce.

Pierce started his career in hate politics while he was an assistant professor of physics at Oregon State University in the early 1960s. There he briefly joins the John Birch Society, a popular group at the time for fascists.

By 1966 he was ready to join the American Nazi Party headed up by George Lincoln Rockwell, leaving a job as a senior research scientist at a aerospace firm in Connecticut to do so. It is at this time he started a rag called the National Socialist World as some sort of newspaper for the Nazis. The following year, Rockwell dismisses one of his lieutenants, John C. Patler after accusing him of pitting light-skinned whites against dark-skinned whites. In response, Patler puts an end to Rockwell's miserable life in an Arlington, Virginia as he was driving out of a shopping center parking lot. This is an opportunity for Pierce, who starts moving up the ranks. In 1968 he joins Youth for Wallace, and organization that supports George Wallace's run for the presidency. Along with Pierce is Liberty Lobby's Willis Carto, and together they change Youth for Wallace into the National Youth Alliance in 1970, working under the mantra "Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free." They apparently felt that neither of them were each other's equal because a rift forms over who is going to be the leader, causing them to split. Pierce gains control of the group and the rift becomes a full-on feud, Carto accusing Pierce of stealing a Liberty Lobby mailing list, and Pierce writing those on the list to attack Liberty Lobby leaders.

By 1974, Pierce wants to expand the National Youth Alliance, whose membership is limited to people under 30 and whose activities are focused on college campuses. Pierce reorganizes the National Youth Alliance to the National Alliance, and the organizations goal is to be a vanguard party leading the "lemmings" to revolutionary victory. His self-termed "handbook for white victory", The Turner Diaries is published in 1978 which goes on to be the white racist's bible of sorts. It is so much so that a lumberjack named Robert Matthews, who is Pierce's Pacific Northwest leader, forms a group called the Order, which is based on the group of racist guerillas of the same name in The Turner Diaries. This group goes on to rob $4 million from armored cars (which many believe but have never proved went into Pierce's pockets) and to killed Alan Berg, a popular Jewish-talk show host in Denver. Matthews is later killed in a shootout with FBI agents in Washington State, but the controversy never slows down Pierce.

Soon Pierce was looking for more legitimate way to make his group turn a profit. In 1987 the National Alliance purchases 100 shares of AT&T stock. With this they do fun things like make stockholder proposals calling for an end to business ties with Israel. The proposal go on to be voted down every year it comes up. Over the next few years, The National Alliance becomes a propaganda publishing mill, Pierce writing a second novel called Hunter which is about a racist assassin, and making cassette tapes of racist speeches. In December, 1991, American Dissident Voices, the National Alliance shortwave radio show begins, and in 1993 the group starts publishing New World Order Comix.

It was not all roses and glory for Pierce, however. In 1996 the Southern Poverty Law Center win an $85,000 judgment against him for his role in a scheme to keep Church of the Creator assets from the family of a murdered sailor named Harold Mansfield. The COTC tried to keep the family from collecting a $1 million judgment by transferring its assets to Pierce, and it did not work. It is also only a matter of time before hate crimes are directly tied to the National Alliance, and Pierce suffers the same fate as Richard Butler and Tom Metzger. Pierce still remained to the end just as much the racist moron he had always been, and considering how much money it has made him over the past few decades, there was no reason for him to quit. On July 23, 2002, the devil said Pierce has done enough and called him home to Hell at 12:00 Noon.

HOWARD PHILLIPS (DECEASED)

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NAME: Howard Philips
A/K/A: Bob Grant
DOB: 2/3/41

DOD: 4/20/13
HOME BASE: Washington, DC

Founder of the US Taxpayers Alliance and president of the Conservative Caucus Research, Analysis & Education Foundation. Has been chairman of the Conservative Caucus since 1974. Phillips is a Christian Rightist who has railled against the woman's right to choose, homosexuals and ran as the nominee for president for the US Taxpayers Party (USTP, now known as the Constitution Party) in 1996. The USTP is a organization that hides behind the guise of rights and freedoms to promote a facist agendathat curtails the rights of Americans they disagree with. Take their stance on AIDS: "Under no circumstances should the Federal government continue to subsidize activities which have the effect of encouraging homosexual conduct. Criminal penalties should apply to those whose willful acts of omission or commission place members of the public at toxic risk." Their platform on individual rights, is the stance racists used to justify their actions: "Each and every citizen should be free to choose his friends and associates to offer, seek or refuse employment, and to rent or sell his property to whom he wishes." Their stance on crime makes that stance clearer: "We are opposed to the so-called 'Racial Justice Act,' which seeks to provide criminals convicted in capital cases with a racial basis for appeal...We oppose the establishment of police review boards which seek to put on trial the peace officer rather than the law breaker...We oppose the concept of so-called 'hate crimes,' recognizing that all crimes of violence are now punishable under other statutes," Incidentially, the USTP has been tied to militant anti-abortion groups and the militia movement. Philips died on Hitler's birthday.


BRADLEY DUNLAP

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Bradley Dunlap

NAME: Bradley M Dunlap
AKA: Bradsterious (on Stormfront)
DOB: 10/17/71
HOME BASE: 2509 Grand Fir Dr
                      Greenwood, IN 46143
                           317-530-2378
                           dunlapbr@aol.com

From South Side Anti-Racist Action:

Bradley Dunlap is a white nationalist living in Greenwood Indiana. He joined Stormfront, the worlds largest white supremacist internet forum, in November of 2012 where he is known as "Bradsterious". Bradleys main goal at the moment is to organize an American Freedom Party (AFP) chapter in Indiana. AFP, formerly known as American Third Postion (A3P),  is a third positionist American political party which promotes white supremacy. The first AFP state party meeting is supposed to be held on January 26th in Indianapolis. The meeting is supposed to be a place where they plan events, hear speakers, organize regions, distribute literature, and sign up new members, however, Dunlap just had his first son on January 22nd and it is unclear if the event will still be taking place.

Bradley Works as a salesman at East Gate Chrysler jeep Dodge and is married to Rebekah Dunlap, a law student at IU school of law. She works as a paralegal doing bankruptcy work at Redman-Ludwig. Brad declares himself a "proud white Nationalist" on  stormfront, though his wife has many african american facebook freinds and a mixed race nephew. Brad did time in Hamilton county in 98 for operating a vehicle while intoxicated.

Brad

 

DOUG CHRISTIE (DECEASED)

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NAME: Douglas Hewson Christie, Jr.

DOB: 4/1946

DOD: 3/11/2013

HOME BASE: 10 Courtney St. Victoria, B.C. V8W 1C4 Canada

RELATED ITEMS: Sources Used and Cited: Kinsella, Warren. Webo of Hate: Inside Canada?s Far Right Network. Harper Collins. Toronto. 1994. (Rupert Murdoch owns Harper Collins, by the way)

Christie Sues Martlett http://www.uv.es/~pla/alteritat/sacar.html

Douglas Hewson Christie Jr. has been a fixture on the Canadian right for well over two decades. As a lawyer, Christie has taken on the defence of some of Canada?s most notorious racists and Holocaust deniers. While he cannot necessarily be faulted for defending his clients, as everyone is certainly entitled to a fair trail, his own deeds and words place him squarely in the camp of those he defends in court. 

Christie was born on April 1946 in Winnipeg, MB. The eldest of three children, Christie graduated from the University of British Columbia?s law school in 1970. Opinions about his legal skills vary depending upon who one speaks to. Some journalists describe him as disorganized and often not prepared for his cases. However some of his counterparts in the legal profession, including those who do not consider him to be a friend, describe him as a skilled attorney. (Kinsella, 86) 

By the early 1980s, Christie had become involved with politics, founding a party he named the Western Canada Concept Party (WCC) which opposed bilingualism, the metric system, ?Big Brotherism,? and was in favour of restoring the British Union Jack as the national flag of Canada. This party eventually became a separatist party that favoured separation of the four western provinces (BC, AB, SK, and MB) from the rest of Canada. The early 80s, because of disputes between Alberta and Ottawa, was the high point for the WCC. On November 20, 1980, Christie and his ally Elmer Knutson (leader of the Western Federation Association) drew 3000 Edmonton, AB residents to a rally which demanded a referendum on separation. The Christie/Knutson alliance eventually collapsed, and the two parties lost ground primarily because they drew into their midst anti-Semites, fascists, and white supremacists. Among the early members and/or supporters of the WCC were Jim Keegstra, Aryan Nations associate Jim Harding, and Terry Long (president of the Christian Defence League and eventual leader of the Canadian Aryan Nations). Long ran as a WCC candidate in the riding of Lacombe, AB in 1983. 

Although the WCC quickly lost any support amongst mainstream voters, it remained a vehicle for the racist right for several years. In 1990, for instance, Terry Long had members of the Final Solution Skinheads provide security at a WCC meeting where Christie was scheduled to speak. One of these, Daryl Rivest, admitted that "The WCC was a political front for the Ku Klux Klan here in Canada."

Christie's first high profile case came when he became the attorney for Jim Keegstra. In January 1983, Keegstra, who as a Social Studies teacher (and former Eckville, AB mayor), taught his students that the Holocaust was a hoax and that there was a Jewish conspiracy to destroy Christianity, was formally charged with wilfully promoting hatred towards an identifiable group. Christie was paid for his services using monies donated for his defence through Terry Long's Christian Defence League. 

One of the early court room spectators during the Keegstra preliminary hearings was Ernst Zundel. Though Christie was considered rude, sarcastic, and often interrupted witnesses (the judge ordered him to cease his theatrics), Zundel was impressed by Christie whom he described as a ?tough, principled, and learned attorney.? In September of 1984, Zundel retained Christie as his own lawyer to defend him against charges of spreading false news about the Holocaust; on his flight to Toronto to defend Zundel, Keegstra was accompanied by his ?bodyguard? Edgar Foth, a former member of Bob Matthews? Silent Brotherhood (i.e. The Order). (Kinsella, 92) 

While Christie lost both the Keegstra and Zundel trial (he was more successful in Zundel?s case where he won his appeal to the Supreme Court), Doug Christie became a fixture in the far-right movement. His clients include: 

- Jim Keegstra. 

- Ernst Zundel (1984-present). 

- John Ross Taylor (Western Guard). 

- Bill Harcus and Theron Skryba of the Manitoba KKK. 

- Malcolm Ross (another teacher, this one in New Brunswick, who was fired for his ant-Semetic writings). 

- Imre Finta (charged under Canada?s crimes against humanity laws for his actions during World War II). 

- The Canadian Free Speech League. 

- Edgar Foth (former Silent Brotherhood ["The Order"] member). 

- Tony McAleer (operator of the Canadian Liberty Net, a white supremacist telephone hate line). 

- Lady Jane Birdwood of England (a woman who has run for the fascist British Nationalist Party and who was convicted of distributing and possessing thousands of antisemitic leaflets). 

- Eileen Pressler (Founder and leader of the Council On Public Affairs: for more on this case click onhttp://www.uv.es/~pla/alteritat/sacar.html). 

- Murray Gauvreau, an associate of the racist Canadian League of Rights. 

- Rudy Stanko of the Church of the Creator. 

- British Holocaust denier David Irving. 

- Paul Fromm. 

- The Northern Alliance (Not the US-sponsored Afghan rebels, but a racist group led by Jason Ouwendyk out of London, Ontario). 

- Michael Seifert (Accused Nazi war criminal facing extradition to Italy where he was convicted in abstentia two years ago for the murder and torture of 11 people in a fascist prison camp in Bolzano, Italy. 

It is clear that Christie, by his deeds and words, also shares the ideology of his clients. He's a contributor to Paul Fromm?s anti-immigration, anti-Semetic, C-FAR and the Heritage Front?s ?UpFront?. Christie is the founder of the Canadian Free Speech League, a front for an anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi agenda. This group has given an annual reward to those that it claims are courageous supporters of freedom. Past recipients of the award include Lady Jane Birdwood, Ron Gostick (Canadian League of Rights leader), Paul Fromm, Malcolm Ross, and David Irving. 

During the Imre Finta trial, Christie made a distinction between Jewish eyewitnesses, "most of whom affirmed before giving evidence, and jurors who swore on the Bible [his client and witnesses] upon taking their oath." The judge criticized Christie for "appealing to religious prejudice." (Kinsella, 99) 

On March 29, 1990 during a fundraiser for Finta, Christie was tapped saying: 

This is war. A war without violence, but a war even more insidious than a violent war. With a violent war you can see the enemy. You can hear their guns. You can see their injuries. In this war, we don?t see the enemy. They shoot their silent media bullets into the heart of the matter, and they willingly turn on those like us who speak out. (Kinsella, 100)


Later in the same speech, Christie relates to his audience how Jewish children would come to the trial: 

"If you want to notice what is really going on, you have got to be there courtroom 403. You see, we have Jewish classes coming in for theatre or entertainment, but I haven?t seen too many people I could recognize as non-Jewish? They are all there, it seems to me, to see vengeance. That?s really what it's about." 

From the WCC website, Christie penned an article in which he goes on to make the following statement: 

"Recently we have seen the emergence of a strange new phenomenon. East Indian young men gathered together as a sort of ethnic tribe, have beaten to death a young Filipino man. The media, the Vancouver city police, Mary Wu Sims, the former human rights commissioner of British Columbia, and all the politically correct elected officials are very quick to deny that there is such a thing as an East Indian gang. This would imply that racism is not just a white phenomenon. 

The only people who are ever considered racists have to be by definition white. The term "white supremacist? was designed to silence the majority of people who question Canada's immigration policy. This term of course would be applied to any Western separatists who talked about our culture."

Christie also made frequent trips to the United States to meet with prominent holocaust deniers. OPP members ran into him when he attended the Real History, USA conference at a Mariott just over the Kentucky border in Cincinnati on August 31 - September 3 2001. It included British revisionist David Irving, Institute for Historical Review head Mark Weber, Paul Fromm, Joseph Sobran, and Tony Martin as other speakers. 

Christie initially took on Ernst Zundel's deportation case currently before the Canadian courts. At last report, Zundel had dropped the case due to the pressures related to traveling, however he was till supportive of Zundel and offers assistance whenever possible. Doug Christie remained a fixture on the right until that great day when he was diagnosed with with prostate cancer in 2011 and died of metastatic liver disease in Victoria's Royal Jubilee Hospital in 2013.

 

JAMES MEREDITH

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DOB: 6/25/1933

 

We wonder what the hell James Meredith was buying to sell his soul to the devil as much as he did. For those who know the history of the Civil Rights Movement and recognize that name, yes it is the same James Meredith that thirty years ago became the first black student at the University of Mississippi, one of the more pivotal moments in the movement. Yes, it is the same James Meredith that marched with Martin Luther King, Jr., was shot and almost killed for standing up for his civil and human rights, and who said the objective for all of us is "complete freedom, complete rights and privileges for each citizen in this democracy." Why is he here? Meredith rejects all of this now, to the point of one time working for Jesse Helms and endorsing David Duke when he ran for the US Senate in Louisiana. It is a sad, sad fall that breaks a lot of hearts, but the insult that is James Meredith will not go on any further without a response.

Born June 25, 1933, in Kosciusko, Mississippi, Meredith served in the Air Force from 1951 to 1960, including a tour of duty in Japan. He then attended Jackson State College for two years before attempting to transfer to the University of Mississippi, After being twice rejected, Meredith, with the help of the NAACP'S Medgar Evers and NAACP attorney Constance Baker Motley from New York City, filed a complaint with the district court in May 1961. Meredith's allegations that he been denied admission because of his color was rejected by the district court. However, on appeal, the Fifth Judicial Circuit Court reversed this ruling. By a 2 to 1 decision the judges decided that Meredith had indeed been refused admission solely because of his race and that Mississippi was maintaining a policy of educational segregation. The court ordered the university to desegregate and admit Meredith.

This did not go unopposed by whites in Mississippi, most notably then-governor Ross Barnett. By accounts, Barnett's actions and his demagogically climactic stadium speech at a football game at Jackson at the end of September 1962, were deliberately designed to foment racist mob violence, an account that is supported by the fact Barnett was a White Citizen Council member. The next day, thousands of heavily armed white Mississippians milling around downtown Jackson in a huge sea of Confederate flags -- many of the armed people, six and eight abreast, surrounding the Governor's Mansion in order to "protect" the Governor from the US marshals who were rumored to be coming to arrest him on contempt charges for multiple violations of US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals and US Supreme Court orders (The US marshals never came). White Citizens Council leaders were haranguing the huge crowd with bull-horns from the Plaza Building, right across from the Gov's Mansion. That night, all hell broke loose at the University's Oxford Campus, Meredith's first night there. Things got to the point that US Attorney General, Robert Kennedy sent federal marshals to protect Meredith from threats of being lynched. When the smoke cleared, 160 marshals were wounded (28 by gunfire) and two bystanders were killed. Bob Dylan would later write the song "Oxford Town" about this day.

The first semester was tough, Meredith saying that he was not made to feel like a student at the school, but he did return the following semester. "I (went) back for a second semester because I saw signs that gave me hope that I will be able to go to school in the future under adequate, if not ideal, conditions," he said at the time. "No student should have to be subjected to the sort of fanfare I underwent during the first semester. Though no price is too high to pay for liberation, I am convinced that you can pay a price for one piece of freedom that is greater than the benefits you get." Meredith successfully graduated in 1964, and his account of this experience, Three Years in Mississippi was published in 1966. Of that book, a reviewer for Newsweek wrote, "Seldom is a piece of violent history so dispassionately dissected by one of its participants as it has been by James Meredith in this three-years-later study of his breakthrough at the University of Mississippi. Part report and part legal brief, part manifesto, part tract, it is a valuable and fascinating account."

1966 was also the year that Meredith organized the "Walk Against Fear," a one-man march from Memphis to Jackson against the physical violence faced by African-Americans exercising their voting rights. While on that march, Meredith was shot by a sniper hiding in a grove of trees. He took a month to recover from that attack and when he was physically able to resume the march, he did so, joined this time by the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and other prominent civil rights leaders of the day.

His one other milestone in this era was an unsuccessful run for Congress in 1972. As the years went on he had written several books and has spoken at numerous colleges. Then he started to lose it.

Shockwave No. 1 came in 1989 when he signed on for a stint on the staff of arch-conservative (read: racist) Senator Jesse Helms during his re-election campaign against Charlotte Mayor Harvey B. Gantt, himself the first black man to enroll at Clemson University in 1963. This was the campaign that Helms was almost certain to lose until he came out with an ad campaign weeks before the election that played on the fears of whites in North Carolina of African Americans taking their jobs away from them with affirmative action. Helms went on to win that, cheered on by Meredith who started to feel the heat from those who felt he abandoned him. The heat got turned up a notch when in 1991, Meredith endorsed David Duke in his bid for US Senate "The difference between James Meredith and other civil rights leaders is that Meredith came to realize that forced integration was not a good thing for black people or for white people," Duke said at the time. "He thinks that integration has really beheaded the black community. It has hurt the integrity of the black community. It's hurt the educational standards for blacks. It's really brought about a lot of racial tension. Integration has produced things in this country like skinheads. There are massive numbers of white young people with intense dislike of minorities."

Now folks were pissed and wanted to know what was going on.

Meredith had by this time explained himself in a 1990 interview published in the neo-Confederate Southern Partisan. In the interview, he said that he had always been on the right and that the liberals through the media kept the population thinking he was one of them. "The white liberals were the ones who concocted the scheme of the so-called civil rights movement, and their principal objective was to establish the black as a second class of citizenship," he said. "That's something that had never been attempted before."

Never been attempted? What the hell would he call him being denied admission to Ole Miss? "Well as far as I'm concerned, (whites) would have been crazy not to fight against me, because I went there to fight them," he said. "I went there to take their good thing away from them." Years later on CSPAN, he even defended Gov. Barnett's actions in Oxford, saying that they, including his speech at the football game, were intended to protect blacks by focusing the white reaction towards Kennedy and the US Government!"

He didn't stop there. In the Southern Partisan interview he railed against virtually everything and everyone that fought and died for him. Even Martin Luther King, Jr. was blasted. "There's no question in my mind but that his philosophy was damaging to the black race," he said. "No citizen should ever give up his rights. To give up your rights is un-American." Meredith is referring to King's philosophy of non-violence, which he says acceding to is "giving up your manhood."

In 1998, Meredith went back to his alma mater to lecture students during his "Black Man's March for Education," which was part of an effort to raise awareness about the problems of black illiteracy. It was there that Meredith dropped a bomb saying that he was did not consider himself African American but rather native American! "In the Choctaw Nation, just like in England still, you have aristocratic nations," Meredith said. "The people who govern society belong to specific families. I'm in that line. If the Choctaw Nation was still in existence, my father would have been the leader."

He continued by saying that white leaders began enslaving Native Americans and calling them "blacks" during the 1830's. Meredith said that most black Mississippians were probably descendents of the Choctaw Indians. "That's the last time I'm hearing Afro-American without straightening it out," he corrected one student. "I'm not Afro-American; I'm Native American. Afro-American is a politically-correct term."

Not content with insulting the assembled black student body that much, he then went on to say he believed blacks should be taught English as a second language to insure that they can read, write and spell proper English. "The black students here do not know the basic rules of the language," Meredith said. "Whether any of you learn it or not, I feel like it is my responsibility to tell you that. I don't care if you get mad as long as you correct the problem."

And mad is what they got. Many of the black students knew they did not deserve that, and certainly did not consider themselves a part of the problem that needed to be corrected. One freshman shouted at him in tears before leaving saying, "I will honor what you did in 1962, and I will honor you for taking that bullet for your cause. I came here expecting to hear what you went through, but today you have disgraced me and made me feel ignorant." There were more outbursts of anger before the lecture was cut after a heated exchange between Meredith and the head of the Black Student Union.

Meredith's account of his lineage had been questioned on a discussion board recently. One particular post correctly noted that almost all Southern Blacks have some Indian ancestry, and with the exception of the Eastern Cherokee, located in the NC mountain country, almost all Southern Indians have some African ancestry. The post also notes that the Mississippi Band of Choctaws is and always has been very much intact and have they handily survived various efforts to do away with them as a tribe. Most importantly, there is no way whatsoever that Meredith's father could have become a Choctaw chief. Even with some Indian ancestry, he was not an Indian -- and another family has had the Choctaw chiefdom sewn up down there for a hell of long time!

In 1991 Meredith went back to Mississippi after working with Helms and staged more political campaigns, once again for Congress and another for Mayor of Jackson, Miss. Both were unsuccessful as they should be. That discussion board poster said it best: "Jim Meredith is a human tragedy. He went through an incredibly challenging crucible -- stood up extraordinarily well. And then, over time, he began to crumble. The pieces are now widely scattered. Not all Movement casualties have come from bullets and clubs and dynamite and rigged auto wrecks."

BARBARA COE (DECEASED)

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NAME: Barbara Coe

DOD: 8/31/2013

HOME BASE: Huntingdon Beach, CA

December 8, 2001 was a busy day for fascists. In Philly, police attacked a rally to support Mumia Abu-Jamal, injuring some ralliers. In Anaheim, California, the California Coalition for Immigration Reform and American Patrol, two rabidly anti-Hispanic organizations, clashed with counter-demonstrators to their "Defend our Homeland" Rally outside City Hall. The CCIR is headed up by Barbara Coe, and this group played a leading role in California's Proposition 187 as well as maintaining alliances in both mainstream politics and white supremacist circles. Given this attack, as well as an attack on her home a few weeks later, it seems some folks are getting damned sick of her.

When we began this entry we had just one question: Why in the hell did it take so long to do this on her? For that we apologize, because this she and her contemporary, Voices of Citizens Together's Glenn Spencer, are way too influential to ignore. According to the Center for New Community, Coe has personally unleashed numerous venomous bigoted attacks on Latinos, blaming them for ills ranging from pollution to disease to destruction of the education system. For example, she told the Washington Times, "Are we shocked by the demands that Latinos be given instant citizenship privileges... These are the same legal and illegal immigrants who bleed our welfare and medical care programs dry for benefits that citizens are denied, destroy our educational system, and laugh at our judicial system while they grab their welfare checks with one hand, deal drugs with the other, and their gangs savagely murder our citizens." (Washington Times, October 13, 1996, reprinted in 9*1*1, October, 1996)

Coe also supports the stupid notion bandied about among white supremacists of a "Reconquista." This is a theory that suggests that Hispanics are trying to reclaim the Southwestern US for Mexico via immigration. Coe outlines this theory as follows:

"The ultimate goals of the Mexican government are...:

1. Reconquest/reclaim all the southwestern states for Mexico as the 'NATION OF AZTLAN;'

2. Take over & control the United States government;

3. Establish communism in the United States...

Based on the premise that nothing happens without a 'reason', ask yourself why our gov't refused to secure our borders & deport all illegal aliens... Many believe this reveals a 'master plan' designed by the "NEW WORLD ORDER" advocates and that IMMIGRANTS are being "used" to achieve their goal. After all, what better way to control a government than. . . overwhelm a free people by sheer numbers of those who easily accept tyranny and then, "using their vote" attain the positions of power needed to enslave us all?... Regardless of our own conclusion, can there be any doubt our gov't has us on the "fast track" toward abolishment of our sovereignty, rights & freedoms AND all loyal, law-abiding citizens are the VICTIMS of the 'immigration invasion?"'

Coe gets tagged!Now with links to the white supremacist movement and mainstream politics, guess which group in particular group has their hand in Coe's dealings? Enter the Council of Conservative Citizens! The Center for New Community notes that in December 1995, Coe and another CCIR leader, Stan Hess, appeared a Birmingham conference of the white supremacist group. Coe also wrote a cover story for the Fall 1996 issue of the Citizens Informeralong with longtime C of CC leader Earl Holt. The article described pro-immigrant demonstrators as "cockroaches" and noted, "many Americans opposed to current U.S. immigration policy cite the perception that they have become 'second class citizens' in their own country."

The Center also notes that three years later, Coe was again in Alabama for a rally in Cullman. Hess was arrested with Alabama anti-immigrant activists James Floyd and William Burchfield, former state leader for Thom Robb's National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, after the three burned a Mexican flag, a United Nations flag and a flag bearing a hammer and sickle. One month later, in its newsletter, 9*1 *1, CCIR praised Floyd and Burchfield, dubbing them, "patriots of the highest caliber who are seeing their state, Birmingham & their own home town of Cullman being destroyed by the deluge of illegal aliens who are being imported to work for the 'cheap labor' poultry corporations."

Three months later. Burchfield was group leader of Alabama Christians for Immigration Reform, and that they were a member group of CCIR. "Having met many of the people during our recent trip to Cullman, Alabama, it was apparent they are true loyal American patriots who will not stand idly by and allow the 'immigration invasion' to destroy THEIR state!" The CCIR announcement read.

Coe later involved herself in the Minuteman Project in 2005 becoming a board member, and would later be a part of infighting that sought to fire Jim Gilchrist for mismanagement. After she resigned from the board in 2007, Barb went off the radar for a number of years, even as the immigration issue heated up more and more. Of course, with the first black president in office, it wasn't like she was laying low. She joined the ranks of the pathological Obama haters, as noted by her response to Obama taking out Osama bin Laden:

"HE LIES! We hope, we pray that you did NOT believe him. OBAMA is a proven, radical pro-Islamic Muslim BUT will do/say ANYTHING to get re-elected. OBAMA has illustrated that he complies with Sharia Law - which demands Misleading or Lying (TAQIYYA) to promote the Koran's mandate to "torture, kill ALL non-Muslim 'infidels'. DUMP OBAMA (and his fellow-TRAITORS) or DIE! YOUR CALL!"
There might have been something to that, however. On Aug. 31, 2013, about nine and a half months after Obama was not dumped but in fact reelected, Barbara Coe died of lung cancer at her home at the age of 79. Now sadly because she fell off our radar at the time (read: we didn't give a shit about her anymore), we didn't do our regular Rot in Hell "tribute" to her. Still, we don't think we could beat the celebratory sendoff that OC Weekly did for her at the time, where they note, "The world is a far-better place with Babs in Hell. And, yes: Coe is in hell because there's no way she would ever want to be in heaven, the domain of that swarthy illegal alien savage named Jesús."

 

HEATHER MacDONALD

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Heather MacDonald

 


NAME
Heather MacDonald
DOB
1956
HOME BASE

New York, NY

 

When Heather MacDonald was on a call-in program on C-SPAN during the Book Expo in Los Angeles recently, one caller, a black man from Houston, had a particular problem with her. "Every time I see this young lady on television she always talks about black people and the privileges we get, and I'm wondering what is her agenda," he said. "Where does that contempt for black people come from?" That question was a long time coming. Heather MacDonald is best - some would argue only - known as a protagonist writer against people of color and an advocate for the dissolution of civil rights. She is a mainstream conservative however, so this characterization may be contested by her. In fact she will definitely tell you that her efforts are done in the interest of preserving our freedoms. Of course, that is like when conservatives fought the civil rights movement and the anti-apartheid efforts in South Africa in the name of fighting communism. In other words, it's a crock of shit.

In the past twenty years there has been no greater success story for racists than their ascension in New York City politics. During that time conservatives used every opportunity to diminish the strength of people of color in the Big Apple, and to a great deal they have succeeded. Rudolph Giuliani became mayor due to his courting these racist elements and spent his tenure directly engaged in a war with African Americans. For the past nine years, a white supremacist named Frank Borzolierri has sat on a school board in Queens, a school board that once helped oust the Hispanic schools chancellor Jose Fernandez because of him including a curriculum that teaches tolerance of gays. The New York Post has used its pages to race-bait, featuring articles and columns by writers that are also found in white supremacist publications. 77 WABC has also been a part of the hatemongering, with their roster including Bob Grant, who has even allowed white supremacist groups to leave their contact information on the air, and Sean Hannity who once promoted a bid for Congress by his friend Hal Turner.

While the black/white war in NYC wasn't one-sided, it most certainly was a boon for the right-wingers who have been trying to find new ways to undercut the African American community across the country. A non-practicing lawyer fresh from stints at the EPA and as a clerk for a Judge Stephen Reinhardt in California, Heather MacDonald moved to the city from Los Angeles in 1987 and jumped into the racial tensions going on there at the time. She found herself at a conservative think tank called the Manhattan Institute (MI) This lovely place was founded by former CIA director William Casey and in the past was funded by far right eugenics advocates such as the Pioneer Fund and others, Many of those other backers also backed Hitler's rise to power. One of them, Chase Bank, has publicly apologized for its support of Hitler, but where today's hate politics are concerned, MI does not seem so forgiving. They have sponsored eugenics projects, most notably the pro-eugenics book The Bell Curve, a best-selling book that proposed the idea that blacks are mentally inferior. On one website, it is noted that while the Manhattan Institute does not publicly advocate mass extermination or mass relocation of minorities the policies it does promote are mostly about targeting black and Latino inner city populations in such a way as to make relocation an attractive option and elimination a day to day reality. It should be noted that they were responsible for Rudolph Giuliani's campaign for mayor, and his abandoned senatorial campaign, both of which faced strong opposition by the African American community. They were also involved with President Bosh's 2000 presidential bid, which also found itself on the bad side of African Americans, especially at the end.

This was fertile ground for MacDonald, who said she started writing by addressing what she saw were "academic problems". In particular, she was pissed about what she saw as universities being overrun by a "know-nothing" attack on western culture. "You have now students refusing to read the great books if their authors don't match their own ethnicity or gender?and their professors that they have are often fueling the stupid identity politics," she said, bringing in the common tactic among conservatives of indirectly attacking a group or individual by blaming the universities, media, government, etc. for a given problem. In fact, this is a tactic she leans on like a crutch. By the way, MacDonald served on Mayor Giuliani's task force on CUNY.

On the aforementioned C-SPAN program she was on, one caller noted another tactic common among your more far right figures. MacDonald is taking her ideology and passing it off as social science. It is why her conclusions on various issues never seem to correspond with reality. For one thing, she does not believe that racial profiling exists, a theme she began in 2001 just after the Cincinnati uprising after Timothy Thomas, a 19-year-old African American boy with no criminal record and no weapon was murdered by a police officer. Her contention is that "civil libertarians" are furthering the notion that police should arrest based on the population ratio, and they have concocted this notion of racial profiling. As every conservative must, she also blames the press for creating the notion as well. Never mind the fact that it was the police officers themselves that have been saying they practiced it, particularly former New Jersey State Police Chief Carl Williams who lost his job after he gave an interview to a newspaper and said that they did. She not only forgets this, but basically ignores the number of complaints that African Americans have filed regarding this, some even calling the C-SPAN program. One of those callers was stopped 31 times. On a Fox News program in 2001 when she first mentioned her so-called "study" on the issue, the person she was debating correctly slammed it as "junk science". Here's the funny part: MacDonald supports racial profiling. She says she does, not for African Americans, who have made it an unpopular stance to take, but for dealing with terrorists, an area where racial profiling has had a lot of support.

Then there are her columns. To read them, one would have to conclude that she is a) in complete denial of the truth, b) a hopeless fanatic who needs to spin the truth to conform to her worldview, c) incredibly stupid, or d) all of the above. There are way too many examples of this to list here, but in doing this entry and looking at her columns, one just leaped out at us. In referring to the INS detainees that have been rounded up and held in jails across the country without any charges filed against them, MacDonald said that it was only "a mere 1,200 men?a minute fraction of the Muslim and Arab population in America". Those detentions do not bother MacDonald because she feels it "may have averted at least two more attacks" according to someone she says is an "expert" on Al Queda at St. Andrews University. We bet that if 1,200 white men were rounded up the same way, the argument that it might have averted bombings of abortion clinics might not work with her. She would even probably call that racist. Food for thought, Heather.

Given the above, it should not be any surprise that MacDonald is a supporter of the Patriot Act. She received more than an earful when at the 13th annual Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference in New York in April 2003, she defended the Pentagon's proposed Total Information Awareness System, which would be a massive database of information on every American including credit card, medical school and travel records.

Of course given what we at OPP do here, it is in many ways quite welcome that MacDonald feels this way. On the website Slashdot, a poster suggested this to her:

I say if Ms. MacDonald believes concerns about privacy are outdated and only the concern of Luddites, then I say she ought to lead by example. I hearby make a public calling to Ms. MacDonald to immediately do all of the following to prove to us that privacy shouldn't be an issue:

* Make available all her credit card numbers, PINs, bank account numbers, and all personal financial information, including bank statements and both personal and professional tax information.

* Make available to the public all financial statements, receipts and information concerning purchases she has made.

* Make available for public viewing all personal correspondences via all mediums (i.e., email, written, phone, etc.)

* Make available all passwords to her Internet accounts and online services.

* Make available all professional exchanges between herself and her clients as well as those of others in her field and those with whom she does other business.

* Make available for public viewing all personal journals and/or diaries as well as any personal records pertaining to herself or her family members (i.e., birth certificates, medical records, etc.)

* Install 24-hour Web cams in her home, business or place or work and in any other places she spends significant time; of course, we expect that since privacy is not a concern, all personal moments in the bedroom and bathrooms will be freely available in an uncensored form.

* Leave the locks on the doors of her home, car, business and elsewhere (including safes and other contained personal belongings) unlocked and available to the general public.

I'm sure there are other items and areas I have forgotten, but since Ms. MacDonald seems to willing to give up privacy in favor of protection from a world full of terrorists, I bet she will happily accommodate any further requests in the future.

So, Ms. MacDonald... lead the way. Lead by example. Show us poor, befuddled, unwashed Luddites the way out of our backward thinking about privacy and basic human rights, We'll be right behind you too because it's painfully obvious to us that an attorney with links to a conservative think-tank who feels the need to swipe aside the our basic rights could have nothing but the best of intentions for us.

Oh, how we agree!

MacDonald's book quickly fell off the radar screen and after the Book Expo, not much of it or her was heard from. In fact, this revision was done on Halloween, 2004, and she has been pretty much nonexistant on the scene. She will be back however. The Faux News Channel in particular likes to trot her out whenever it is time to attack African-Americans, so it is probably best to wait until that moment arises again.

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