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NAME: Peter Mitchell GaughenbaughDOB: 03/16/1981HOME BASE: 9910 NE 33rd Ave Anthony, FL 32617-3415 |
This one is stupid.
Seriously, real stupid.
Even we have even the slightest sympathy for the Hammerskin Nation, this is enough to just say to hell with them. With the running tally of sex offenders, and especially child-sex offenders groups like ours have on the neo-Nazis in this country and abroad, why in hell’s name would the Hammerskins employ a convicted and registered sex offender to run the Crew 38 website. Seriously, and we ask this question semi-rhetorical, what the hell is wrong with these people?
The latest in “this is why we call them boneheads” lore is a guy named Pete Gaughenbaugh, who is the webmaster of www.Crew38.com, the website for the Hammerskin Nation support group. He regularly posts there as “38florida”, although “hatemonger” was his original screen name before they revamped it. On Stormfront, he is “White Racialist”, and he posts there pretty frequently. On Twitter, he posts a lot under the screen name Pete 838. It is believed he is the new representative for the Confederate Hammerskins in Florida.
Now apparently Pete is concerned about what is out there online. A lot of the more curious stuff has been scrubbed from his Twitter page but not only the people he is following still includes people from the Hammerskins circles, as well as David Duke and other white racists, it really wasn’t worth it for him to scrub his more racist tweets when Twtrland.com is caching his page, enabling us to see things that used to be there, such as the Hammerskin logo that used to be his avatar and the more racist tweets. His Linkedin page has vanished completely from the internet, and that’s due to some folks out there have been alerting his bosses over at his job at Gainesville, Florida-based property management firm AMJ, Inc., where he works as a construction superintendent.
In any case, those internet outlets that he doesn’t have control over still exist, most notably his State of Florida sex offender page . That lists an arrest and conviction in August 2005 for possession of child porn in Alachua, FL.
This wasn’t his first arrest. According to one report, he was arrested in 2001 and was on probation for drug charges, but three years later, Gaughenbaugh, then a National Alliance member, was nabbed when police searched his home and found 739 rounds of ammunition, knives and several loaded handguns. In addition to the probation violation however, he ended up with a child abuse charge. Seems his live-in girlfriend was underage, so he caught a two-year sentence for all this. Judging from the timeline, we are assuming the child porn charge he is listed with might be in relation to the one for child abuse, but the story behind the charge isn’t available just yet.
Ironically, Pete felt the need in 2010 to alert the folks on Stormfront about an alleged rapist within the WP circles in a thread he titled “Public Service Announcement – Rapist and Snitch”. He eventually posts that the charges were dismissed, saying that evidence was “misplaced”, leading him to conclude that the alleged rapist was talking to the feds and, revisiting the thread two years later, note that the prosecutor that in his words “blew this case” was Angela Corey, who is currently prosecuting George Zimmerman for the murder of Trayvon Martin. We do have to chuckle at an more ironic thing found on this thread, when one person there made this plea: “Anyone with proof of a snitch/rapist/ped. who has been involved in the movement needs to make others aware of such a person.” Done and done.
The Hammerskin Nation is in the news lately because one of their number, Wade Page, went to a Sikh temple in Wisconsin and shot and killed six people before turning the gun on himself. These particular boneheads think that after that they can go through life like business as usual, which is why Gaughenbaugh is promoting this year’s Hammerfest in Boise, Idaho as if nothing has changed. The last Hammerfest, which was held in its usual spot in Florida, featured two of the bands the Page played in, Definite Hate and 13 Knots. This year, another one of the bands Page was in, Max Resist, will be in Boise, and Gaughenbaugh is on hand to promote it. But you can’t be too surprised the Hammerskins don’t care about how bad this looks. If they don’t have a problem with a drug addict child sex offender running their website, what is it to them if you don’t like them working with the bands of a murderer?