Columbus, Ohio is hosting a unity of hate groups on the 17th and 18th of
Feburary 2007 and we intend to shut them down. Central to organizing
this national hate conference is the National Socialist Movement, which is
the largest neo-nazi group in the United States according to the
Anti-Defamation League.
The NSM have invited other white supremacist organizations to attend,
including "Klansmen, Skinheads, National Socialists, Aryan Nations and
World Creators". Every one of these groups is associated with a history
of violence and brutality against people of color and all people opposed
to nazi and fascist power. Some of their membership have endorsed the
attacking and/or killing of people at random, lynchings and other acts of
violence against people with the intention of enforcing a malevolent world
order of white supremacy.
Their History of Violence
Aryan Nations was founded as the political wing of Church of Jesus
Christ-Christian in 1974. They quickly took advantage of the church and
religious status of the parent organization which drove them into the top
ranks of white supremacist organizations. They started by spreading
literature to white supremacist prisoners, but soon developed a group
known as "the Order" which conducted acts of terror against people,
bombing theaters and synagogues and assassinating Alan Berg, a liberal,
Jewish radio talk show host in Denver, Colorado on the evening of June 18,
1984 in front of his home as he was exiting his car.
Besides the Order, Aryan Nations members participate in the "Phineas
Priesthood" a male exclusive priesthood, which uses Christian identity to
justify murder and brutality against transgressors of a white supremacist
christian interpretation of god. Starting in 1963 with the murder of civil
rights worker Medger Everts, the Phineas Priesthood can be linked to the
murder of 11 people involved in interracial relationships, 3 men in a
homosexual bookstore, a doctor out of anti-abortion extremism and a
Filipino American postal worker in 1999. Besides murder and mass
shootings, the priesthood peforms robberies and have committed a number of
abortion clinic bombings. All of this is done supposedly without anyone
giving orders to the participants, who usually act as loners.
The Klu Klux Klan stand as the United States oldest white supremacist
group and though direct links to the original group are few at best to
today's white supremacist group, they still accept the history of violence
the KKK has imposed on the nation and continue to support. The amount of
attacks, murders and bombings this group has imposed is unknown but since
the 1950s various factions of the KKK are responsible for at least 15
reported assassinations and bombings, not counting the amount of terror
they imposed since their foundation. Today they are a sidenote to the
modern expressions of national socialism.
The Creativity Movement, known until 2002 as the Church of the Creator
(1973-1996) or World Church of the Creator (1996-2002), it resently lost
its name to another religious group of the same name. Though its leader
Matt Hale has gone to jail for plotting to kill the judge that forced the
group to change its name, they are still responsible for several murders,
including Harold Mansfield Jr, an African-American Gulf War veteran and a
shooting spree that left 2 dead and 9 wounded. To further expose how
heinous they are, one of their members killed their girlfriend and is
regarded as a hero among their movement.
Besides these groups there are other small groups, many of them
nazi-skinheads. And then there are the organizers, the NSM. The National
Socialist Movement has stolen the thunder of other groups preceding them
and are perhaps the biggest joke of them all. Wearing the garb of World
War II nazis (sometimes called "Hollywood Nazis") they hardly can be taken
seriously, but they are by the main stream white supremacists who have
swelled their ranks. This increase can be attributed to filling the gap
after National Alliance fell into decline following the death of William
Pierce and the arrest of their following leader. These nazis are all
wanting to rally and organize. They have been beaten off the streets many
times and yet they still hope they can take the streets without community
resistance.
These attitudes should not be allowed to organize in any community. We
are asking for solidarity from all people opposed to racism and fascism to
come to Columbus, Ohio and shut down this "unity" conference and ensure
that these nazis aren't given any any ground for furthering their ideology
of racial hatred. They cannot be given ground to organize. Their history
of violence can only be stopped by confrontation.
Details will be released the week of the event. Please email:
ara@arawakcity.org for directions or housing arrangements.
Sources:
"National Socialist Movement Raises Profile To Become America's Largest
Neo-Nazi Group"
http://www.adl.org/PresRele/Extremism_72/4837_72.htm
Wikipedia: Aryan Nations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_Nations
Wikipedia: the Order
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Order_%28group%29
Wikipedia: the Phineas Priesthood
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Priesthood
"Killers for God: the Phineas Priesthood"
http://bethuneinstitute.org/documents/killers.html
Wikipedia: Buford O. Furrow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buford_O._Furrow%2C_Jr.
Wikipedia: Creativity Movement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Church_of_the_Creator
ADL Extremism in America: National Alliance
http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/N_Alliance.asp?
